Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May editorials editor John 6977044 clinging to the jets stretching everybody to the limit was the Only Way the jets could survive in that is what we Are witnessing City on in Lloyd Axworthy office and in the boardrooms and Coffee shops around the City and throughout the the outcome of this communal outburst is not yet but Manitoban know one thing for the jets leave town it wont be because nobody cared enough to save if there is As much Cash As there is the jets will be As secure As the new York the Deal has been neatly divided into two equal parts governments will be responsible for building a new Arena the Community and its business leaders will attempt to raise enough Money to buy the jets and cover its losses until the reve nue picture for the nil it is still a Longshot for the two efforts to unite by thurs Day the taxpayers must be protected against ongo ing there is no Public appetite for subsidizing millionaire Sala Ries into the 21st cent if Israel Asper and his friends can raise the million they need to buy the team and cover its the politicians can be More generous when it comes time to Ante up for the new Premier Gary Filmon has agreed to commit million As the provinces contribution to a that is More than three times what he committed during the election if the City and the Federal govern ment can match that then the owners of the hockey team could be guaranteed a facility that might generate enough Revenue to keep the team operating Here and Manitoba will have a state theart the key is for governments to protect the taxpayer against funding a White elephant if the team is there will be plenty of creative budgeting and account ing going on As governments peer anxiously into tight Cor ners of the Public the definition of Job loan guarantees and regional economic development will All be neatly tailored to whatever definitions work to justify building an if there is no Long term risk to the taxpayer and if the private sector does its bringing Manitoban along will be the Effort that has brought Winni Eggers and Manito bans to a Point of frenzy trying to save their hockey team will succeed if enough people Are prepared to donate their Money to see it that has always been the Way this marginal Deal could if anybody can pull it it will be Winni Eggers tenacious people who just wont let lying abroad an we have been is an honest Man sent to lie abroad for his no one Ever imagined that an ambassador should be sent to lie abroad on behalf of the enemies of his coun try one that until Bernard Landry appeared on the scene to spread his strangely skewed version of Canadas political history and political since becoming Jacques Parizeau Deputy Premier in Quebec parti quebecois Landry has been broadcasting his version of history at Home and he offered one of his loonies examples last week in Landry denounced Canadas ambassador to the United Raymond for failing to explain to americans that Quebec is not a legitimate part of if Chretien had announced that it would have come As a great Surprise to the people of the United states and the people of it would have come As a special Surprise to the people of Quebec who demonstrate Day by Day that they do not Swallow Landry version of of after pay taxes to the Federal govern just like canadians in every other they accept services from the Federal government just like other they Cash Canadian pension cheques when times get they Cash Canadian unemployment insurance when by a huge Are Happy to describe themselves As canadians and agree with their neighbors in the other provinces that Canada is the Best country in the world to live when Landry parti quebecois wants to persuade Quebe cers to vote for Sov it promises them that they can continue to use Canadian Money and to qualify for Canadian in display none of the characteristics of the who have been brutally excluded from the Canadian Constitution that Landry describes on his excursions As chances of winning a referendum on sovereignty grow Ever More the pm resorts to Ever More fanciful rhetoric in an attempt to Stampede the voters the voters Are reacting to that rhetorical overkill with the scepticism it Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press est 1b72 Winnipeg Tribune est 1830 Rudy Redekop publisher Duncan Mcmonagle executive editor John Dafoe editorial Page editor directors Verne Paliciuk Luman resources Stepian Majorki operations Perry Glenn 01995 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson newspapers company limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain Manitoba r2x pm 6977000 a member of the Manitoba press Council rights and children last foreign relations minister Andre Ouellet formally severed Canadas traditional link Between Trade and human Earli at a United nations meeting on so Cial Canada had turned thumbs Down on the inclusion of a so Cial clause in International Trade a social clause imposes sanctions against the use of child prison la Bor and unsafe and exploitative work ing it also sets minimum human rights Ouellet says the Best Way to pro Mote democracy is through can Ada now will buy and sell with dictator ships and human rights free the liberals creates rights simply by boosting economic that idyllic idea May have been valid in the but no today globalization is different from progressive postwar initiatives like the Marshall globalization represses social advances where they exist and smothers them where they do As nip International Trade critic Bill Blaikie Points the effects of in vestment deregulation of currencies and Money markets and monetarist macroeconomic policies have combined to create chronic High unemployment and the polarization of societies Between a super wealthy i Frances Russell Jority and a growing just look at Dep Uty Federal finance minister David Dodge said that Ottawa May have to slash income taxes on High earners to stay internationally Gerry Canadas leverage buyout just awarded himself a lion bringing his yearly compensation up to even though publicly traded shares of his Onex have plummeted from in 1987 to Only Schwartz has nothing on Magna internationals Frank whose salary last year was the Federal government is pushing legislation through the com Mons that removes the social floor for poor the repeal of the can Ada assistance plan will mean prov inces will no longer be required to pro vide assistance to people in will no longer have to make that assistance adequate to their will be Able to Force people to work and will no longer have to provide an Appeal with countries like can Ada going backwards in social what likelihood is there that third world countries being recruited into free Trade will feel any obligation to improve the lot of their people the answer seems to be Only through serendipity the enormous personal courage of one individual the presence of an International Union Al lowing a single Story to be one such Story was related recently to the Senate labor subcommittee holding hearings on child Lesley Rodriguez is a 15yearold one of an estimated girls Between the Ages of 12 and 15 who Are employed in the maquiladora zones of her she works 12 hour Days at 38 cents an hour in a fac tory making High fashion Liz Claiborne sweaters that fetch and More in the North american her conditions of work Are she and her coworkers Are body searched every Are forbidden to talk to one have Only one half hour break and can Only go twice to the bathroom All Day and Are hit if they make mis Lesley led a Campaign to unionize the she and 35 other girls were the United Auto workers heard of her plight and flew her to washing the following is a portion of her testimony to the Senate committee they demand a production quota that is too High and we Are unable to Complete if we succeed in meeting the the next Day they increase it so that we Are always working under great some of the girls Are forced to take work Home with them since they can not meet the quota the company de mands sometimes they work to 1 and they do not get paid for the work they do at we have to get up at 5 to get to work on time at work we Are not allowed to if we get caught talking to each we Are punished up to three or four Days without pay the manag ers Are always Yelling at us to go fast sometimes they hit the girls on the head or in the Back there is a lot of dust in the air which makes you everyone has problems breathing like asthma or bronchitis the company does not provide health benefits or paid sick stung by the the Liz Clai borne company intervened with the honduran the Union was children Are now restricted to six hours work a Day in Stead of Only nato can save Sarajevo by Warren Zimmermann Washington Post after a years breathing serbian artillery is once again firing on the United nations has reacted in allot predict Able the in military com Mander recommended nato air strikes against the serbian gunners but was overruled by the Secretary generals civilian the aggression went the City of Sarajevo is the last major a achieved objective of the bosnian serbs military sooner or later the serbs will make an fallout Effort to take the they May try to starve it into or they May pummel it with artillery bosnian serb Leader Radovan Karadzic intends to make an ethnically mixed City with a Muslim the capital of his serbian Back in May he de scribed to me his intention of dividing the City into ethnic with Walls and so that serbs would not be contaminated by cohabitation with muslims and since Karadzic has never wavered in his plans for theres another reason for Karadzic obsession with since its 15th Century occupation by the ottoman the City has been a Haven for diverse ethnic groups and a Symbol of racial it has stood for precisely the values which the ser Bian policy of apartheid is intended to stamp there was a saying in medieval Europe that City air brings the civic benefits of medieval Sarajevo were so attractive that Many slavs converted to islam in order bet Ter to enjoy these converts were ancestors of the mainly secular muslims of today a the City was also a Refuge for jews expelled from Spain in in the late Rebecca West caught the atmosphere of Sarajevo in her Clas Black Lamb and Grey Falcon the air of luxury in Sarajevo has less to do without enlisting natos the in cannot save Sarajevo with material goods than with the peo they Greet Delight Here with untre Ductant and sturdy they Are even prudent about they will let no drop of pleasure run to Sarajevo before the War did have a special Appeal the splendid Chestnut Trees and minarets the streetcars trundling along the Miljack River and the tiny spicy the specially of outdoor stalls in the scanning 15th Century turkish mar Back in the 1 got to know two close Sarajean friends Pavle of serbian and hungarian Par and Adi a mus they were Good company and very talented an advertisement for Yugoslavia ethnic i Pavle later became the Princi pal organizer of the 1980 Sarajevo Winter olympics Adi Drew cartoons for the Sarajevo daily Oslebo Dienje and was the first yugoslav cartoonist who dared publish a caricature of Tito during the old dictators both Pavle and Adi died Young of cancer in the before the War through which Karadzic is seeking to make friendships such As theirs the last time 1 visited Sarajevo was on a air Force c130 from Italy in two weeks after the bosnian War had it was the first Relief flight bringing food to a City that was just getting used to being be today the minarets and the Market have been obliterated by serbian mor the streetcars have been running for a year but remain hostage to the in Tensity of the artillery Pavle and Adi Are but the spirit of their Friendship is stubbornly alive in Sara where croats and serbs continue to survive and resist Ogeth fifty thousand branded by Karadzic As remain in the City in Defiance of his segregationist Sarajevo has seen hard times it was decimated three times by and it endured two bloody world but this is its worst Travail in its 500 year it has met the tragic Fate of two other cities famous for their style Berlin and will it achieve the Renaissance of the former or suffer the misfortunes of the latter the answer depends significantly on nato and especially the United Only Resolute if continued nato air strikes against serbian artillery positions can end the siege and save the the one time the West credibly threatened air strikes in february 1994 the serbs pulled Back their now the guns Are and the West is again shelling a civilian population is Al ready a War crime even worse atrocities would accompany the fall of Sarajevo to Karadzic to prevent this is Worth the risk of a determined air Only the United through can match Karadz is Force with Superior yet the Clinton administration has limited it self to blaming the United nations and talking fast approaching for Sarajevo is Audens land Laid with All its Young men its women and its towns in Ter Warren Zimmerman wan ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to ;