Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 13, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october a3 Hydro not for Sale Duguid wont Rule out All privatization by Stevens wild City Hall reporter mayoral candidate Terry Duguid vowed yesterday not to sell the City owned Utility Winnipeg while promising not to sell a number of City assets at a news conference in front of Winnipeg Hydro on James the North Kildonan councillor did not totally reject the concept of i am Here today to Tell you that if i am elected we will not sell Winnipeg we will not sell our water we will not sell the heritage that our ancestors built for Duguid he accuses his major opponents for the mayors office Susan Thompson and Peter Kaufmann of wanting to sell the cites Susan in not sure wants to sell Winnipeg Duguid i think that if it she wants to privatize Duguid said that Thompson also wanted to sell the cites Golf courses and that he had heard City administrators talk about putting the water system up for he pointed out that Winnipeg Hydro makes More than Mil lion a most of which is returned to the cites general As he said any private com Pany purchasing Winnipeg Hydro would have to raise the Hydro rates to pay for the Thompson responded by Point ing out that she has never advocated the Sale of any Cit owned including Winnipeg Duguid is having a hard time Thompson i support the concept of privatize i dont know where Duguid has Thompson said she wanted to see a process put in place to examine privatizing we have costs coming along and we have to examine whether we should be in certain she said Winnipeg Hydro might be a candidate for privatization because the Utility is in need of an estimated million in upgrading Over the next 30 we have refurbishing Duguid the key is to explore Kaufmann said he was in favor of contracting out most of the works and operations and the Parks and recreation with downsizing coming through he said assets would be sold As contracting out made them sinking fund he rejected the concept of sell ing Winnipeg saying that the Money necessary for refurbishing could be collected Over time in a sinking but Duguid refused to Rule out the idea of arguing that the City has successfully used private companies in Fields such As recycling and where it makes sense you have to do Duguid you have to show on the Bottom line that it makes among the services he said he would never privatize were the water Winnipeg the Golf transit and fire and ambulance Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press Antipoverty activists protest in front of the Walker theatre before last nights Kaufmann touts free parking continued from a1 each candidate gave a five minute opening each was Given two minutes to respond to three questions drawn at random by Moderator Wally Fox decent from questions submitted by real estate news former cab let talk show Host Natalie Pollock repeatedly vowed to launch a constitutional Challenge to prevent the Sale of the Winnipeg jets to the United left Wing candidate Nick ter who failed 11 previous attempts to win Public said people need to be empowered in the political everyone should run at least he Michael Grieger said welfare mayor Calls tax freeze a not a pledge recipients need to be treated the same As working a working person does not get rewarded by his employer for hav ing an additional he Theresa Ducharme slammed Thompson for not promoting More downtown after the 15minute audience members were allowed about an hour to ask questions of the no new policies were unveiled by the with the exception of who promised to provide free two hour downtown parking in july and theres no traffic problem in july and said a Kaufmann also said he would do everything possible to locate offices from All three Levels of government in the downtown had the Royal Canadian Federal taxation and red River Community College been built on some of the 17 surface parking lots in the Core there would be far less talk of downtown he Duguid was on the same wave weve got to get people Back in the he adding he wants universities to expand their Cor Earea raising an idea Long touted by Nick Duguid said hed tear Down the pedestrian barriers at Portage and Trade Lone Agenda topic Filmon says no to Quebec talk tremier Gary Filmon on talking Trade and Only Trade when he lands in the Centre of the referendum maelstrom in que Bec the team Canada pre Miers will reunite Over a Din Ner in Montreal led by prime minister Chretien to revisit last years Trade Mission to but even though the 30 referendum will be on everyone minds especially since All premiers except Jacques Parizeau Are expected to attend Filmon insisted yesterday National Unity int on his wont discuss Quebec asked whether hell be Dis cussing the Quebec Filmon calmly and Curtly said in keeping with his prac Tice of doing As Little As pos sible to comment about the Filmon didst even have any thoughts about Reform Leader Preston mannings upcoming tour of Quebec that has raised the eyebrows of Filmon said Chretien appears to be handling the federalist Campaign i spoke with him Chretien last and i think the Campaign appears to be going positively for the no Side and i think that the Var ious comments and interventions have been appropriate for the Filmon the team Canada pre Miers will hold a Trade forum tomorrow morning and will also meet with chinese pre Mier i our motto is simple we sell for less More often by Tony Davis staff reporter mayor Susan Thompson was careful not to Call it a nor a this time Shes calling her goal of property tax freeze a a push to she As part of her election Thompson revealed her eight Point plan for once again try ing to freeze City property this time she figures she can do it by Winni Eggers deserve no said Over the past 15 they have endured tax increases As High As 15 per its about time Winni Eggers got some Good tax freeze though Thompson has pronounced her aim of a property tax freeze every year since she was elected on she has yet to achieve in the last three property taxes have increased per per cent and per despite those she con tends her stubborn vow still has credibility with voters in this elec Tion in the past three years weve taken enormous strides towards this despite enormous said speaking to reporters on the Sun dappled Back Yard Patio of Campaign manager Jim Ingebrigtsen River Heights she said the changes that have taken place at City Hall since she took Over the mayors office including a reduction in the Cost of civic government have put Zero per cent in reach by next Thompson eight Point plan among the Points in Thompsons plan is a pledge to continue cutting the Cost of civic government by consolidating More municipal i will also continue my hard look at civic wages and said adding several collective agreements Between the City and unionized employees will be negotiated in the next three Thompson said collective agreements that give Union workers 15 Days sick leave and three weeks Holiday in the first year of employment with the City Are luxury benefits taxpayers cant afford Terry who Hopes to replace Thompson As mayor on said while Zero per cent might be Thompson int the person who can do every year she has made this but she has never had a and it Doest sound like she has much of a plan now said Duguid North he said the relatively Low property tax increases Winnipeg did get in the past three years came in spite of not thanks to mayoral candidate Peter Kauf Mann could not be reached for in her third the mayor brought Forward a proposal with a per cent but with dra Matic cuts in things like child Den Tal libraries and transit but Council came in with a per cent and we restored Duguid we did better than she so who was the problem on Council other Points in Thompsons push for eliminating the duplication of ser vices Between the City and province in such areas As removing the school tax Levy from property which she says accounts for about 20 per cent of the City tax saying the City Doest have a monopoly on Good Thomp son promised to develop partner ships with other Levels of government and the private sector to look for ways to save the City the City will pursue regional Shar ing agreements with other municipalities in the capital in such areas As infrastructure devel implementation of the recommendations of the taxation fair Ness reinventing civic government along the lines of municipal governments in which have been Given More Power in recent 95 Ranger Al sport 95 escort la woman abducted in stabbed in Dryden a 19yearold woman abducted from a Calgary Street and stabbed near dry is being treated in win Nipges health sciences the North West Region of the Ontario provincial police reported that the Calgary woman was abducted from that City on she was driven in her own vehicle to an area near Dryden where she was police said last the woman was found and rushed to Hsc for Opp would not release the woman identity nor condition and nature of her Opp spotted the victims vehicle on 11 and a 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