Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 19, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba It Winnipeg free press i october 1995 the value of a Dollar after thinking about it for 48 bloc quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard announced that All people in Quebec Are equal citizens of he regret Ted on monday that he had used the term White races on saturday in discussing Quebec birth the clarification was Quebec wish ing to create a new Independent state to protect us against stumble too easily into Clumsy definitions of us and Bouchard reference to White races seemed to mean that his us had Only White that Point having been debate on Quebec future focussed once again on the practical consequences of Washington Trade lawyer Charles a former top Public servant now in Pri vate published his conclusion that Law would bar Quebec from automatic admission to the North american free Trade the Auto pact and the world Trade finance minister Paul Martin warned that Cana Dian dollars circulating in a newly separate Quebec would not be backed by the Canadian banking sys the sovereignty Bill that Quebe cers Are invited to ratify in the october 30 ballot declares that Sovereign Quebec will use the Canadian Dollar and will belong to Naftal and Canadas other Trade but the Mere saying does not make it As Roh and Martin the governments of the czech and slovak nations agreed in 1992 that they would separate into two republics but use a common the the czech Republic depleted its foreign currency reserves trying to defend an Exchange rate that was not sustain Able in Slovakia and soon cancelled the joint arrange Independent Quebec can theoretically declare that the Canadian Dollar is the National but holders of dollars in Quebec will want to know if they can present their dollars to a Canadian Bank and get 75 cents in Exchange and the Canadian banking system would have no reason to Honor such claims from a foreign coun try indefinitely at a uniform Exchange if Independent Quebec wanted Canadas guarantee for its currency As it has it would have to submit to Canadas management of the shared As it does Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau included promises of a Canadian Dollar and Trade Access to the in his Bill because he knows Quebe cers Are unwilling to lose these but he and Bouchard have spoken Little about these issues in the now that Bouchard has proved he is not a it is High time he proved that canadians will redeem his Quebec dollars at Par and americans will import his goods at Naftal lost Empire to former soviet president Mikhail in an Arti Cle distributed this week by the new York a strongly opposes any attempt by nato to embrace As new members the former soviet satellites that Are now free and Independent nations in Eastern most of these nations want membership in the Western nato has proceeded very carefully in consid ering their the first proposal that it offered was the partnership for peace in which coun tries such As the czech Republic would have a sort of association with nato but not have full membership nor be under the Protection of natos Russia protested even against nato is now moving closer to bringing the former soviet satellites into full the initial Steps were taken at a meeting in september and they May be advanced at another meeting scheduled for late novem that is Good news for the nations of Eastern Europe it is also a sensible move for nato to it How incensed the who regard it As an intrusion into their natural sphere of in his Gorbachev makes some reasonable arguments about Why nato should proceed very Cau he fears that this program could Lead to a renewal of the cold War Between the dominant West and a Russia that feels he proposes some alternatives that Are certainly Worth the West should consider but it should not abandon its intention to expand nato eastward to those nations which want to the reason for that lies in the undercurrent of Gor Baches and the arguments made by russian leaders the reluctance to recognize the end of the soviet Russia still lays a claim to influence Over the countries of Eastern it lays an even stronger claim to control Over the new nations that arose out of the former soviet such As Ukraine and it has no legitimate Russia is still a great a nuclear and it should be treated with but it must remember that the soviet Empire that it once ruled has Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Rudy email my Ca Duncan Mcmonagle executive editor Brian Cole editorial Page editor directors Calvin Verne Kalichuk human resources Stephan Majorki operations Perry Nixdorf advertising Glenn Williams finance 1995 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson Canada limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain Manitoba r2x pm 6977000 a member of the Manitoba press Council vol 123 no 315 Cahaba Posi sales agreement no 563395 t editorials Freedom of Trade religion Equality of civil rights Brian Cole 6977044 its a Small i swear there or so i am no equivalent to the word in ice you know the word i mean it cannot be repeated in a Friendly family newspaper such As but it in one of its various become the Universal exile adjective and adverb in North american so what do the icelanders say when they Are angry or want to be particularly poetic in their speech and they have no equivalent of the word i asked an icelander what was the worst expletive an icelander could use in the most vulgar conver he said a which i can not partly because modesty forbids but mostly because i cant remember icelandic is a very difficult language the vowels sound like jell0 and the consonants sound like they have been chipped out of so i asked him what the word he replied the that didst seem particularly outrageous to so i asked him what the Sec Ond most offensive word might he gave me another which i can also not i asked him what that meant and he replied that Means the icelanders have a Strong sense of but if what he was telling me is it Means that who created the greatest literature of medieval Are not Partick Tom Meson Early creative in their use of Profan there or at least there used to a journal called dedicated to the study of profanity in Dif Ferent with your you got a calling suggesting to the people you showed it in egyptian that you hoped that they would receive some attention from a Donkey of a nature that cannot be defined in this refined and genteel family newspaper but which is closely related to the one article that appeared in male dicta pointed out in most Lan profanity was defined either sexually or religiously that is that the cuss the forbidden Lan Guage in polite were either sexual or religious in their the main exception to this is the language of the which combines a Rich and unique combi nation of the sexual and the religious in a marvelous blend of but that is neither Here nor there May be some connection Between the fact that icelandic has no equivalent of the word and the fact that there Are Only about icelanders in existence around the world there May be some connection to that and the particular ele Gance of icelanders when they even in but the fact that they dont have a vulgar word for it Doest mean that they dont necessarily do they after keep producing icelanders on a Reg if a saturday night in downtown Reykjavik offers proof of on a saturday night in late september in downtown the capital i was out for a looking wondering what icelanders do on a night when i passed a place from which was emanating a loud so i went and found myself in a place that could have been Back in or min or or loud music Young people drink ing too everybody on the i was the oldest person in the bar and the object of some not sure quite How icelanders Are Friendly people at their worst they Are coldly polite but these Young people were Happy to talk to an aging foreign the Mes Sage they had was much the same message that you might get in any singles bar in Winnipeg get get get have a Good linguists Tell us that language determines the Way we that there Are thoughts that can be expressed in one language that can not be expressed in if that is and i suspect it it is some thing that diplomats should remember when they sit around the table negotiating with each they May in even be under standing each for an English speaking Canadian in Reykjavik on a saturday one thing was perfectly there May be language prob lems although almost All ice Landers speak English and there May be cultural but saturday night is saturday whether you Are in Reykjavik or in particularly when you Are your goals Are the your actions Are the your technique is the the language May be but the hormones run what also runs True and constant is human whether you Are in Reykjavik or in blondes or Beijing people really Are basically the same All and that is kind of a comforting Tom Oleson is a free press editor Ial his column appears on tuesdays and Wood Bison must be protected some 400 Kilometres Northwest of situated Between lakes Winnipeg and win lies a Lovely wilderness of Woods and its one of those Iso relatively Pristine areas that gives Manitoba great Promise and a scattering of smaller lakes reveal the Retreat of the ice age in their North South the zone is a mix of Aspen Parkland and boreal Northern for est with Jack Pine More than 100 years it is Rich in wildlife and rare in that it nourishes All the Manitoba ungulates hoofed White tailed Woodland add to this picture an even More dra Matic presence the Wood once almost extinct like its Cousin the Plains the Here Are a Herd of 31 Wood one of four wild herds remaining in the the three others Are in the Northwest territories and the but the raised by the water Hen first a Community of is under direct threat by Man again in the exploitation of forests for pulp and Recap wants to build an Al weather Road in the Chitek Lake Region where the Bison roam in an area until now unmolested by once the Road is it will open the tract to More and to other the Bison too would take to the Road from their it will irrevocably change the landscape of the Chitek Lake says chief Harvey Nep Inak in a sub Mission to the natural resources he says the Woods and wildlife along with the Wood makes this an area of International these he can not be ignored in order that Recap be permitted to Harvest in the easiest and cheapest the Wood Bison from Parks and zoos were introduced in a program Val Werier initiated by the provincial govern ment in it had two objectives a free ranging wild Herd and another for commercial use in a fenced the watermen Reserve has achieved these two the wild now numbering 31 has been successfully bred and established in a natural and there Are about 200 in the Domestic mainly being sold for Breeding Stock Harvey now a Consul Tant to the was with the project from its initiation when he worked for the wildlife Hes acknowledged As an authority of the Wood Ive been smitten by he the Wood Bison is taller and Darker than the Plains a male May stand two metres tall and weigh one they Are Swift and agile and can Pivot on Hind or front the Reserve looks to some eco nomic return in an area of few oppor As Well As a return to some traditional skills As in the tanning of they show respect for the for they agreed the Wood Bison of watermen Are one of four herds in the r to restrict traditional Hunting of Moose because of a decline in popu since then the population has doubled at a recent first International Bison the Reserve made this Point the develop including Clear cutting and a network of roads will mean the end of this project and the Moose and Elk the Industry and the government attest that Clear Cut logging will rejuvenate the the forestry policies which Are More aggressive on the landscape than Ever before Are advanced under the Guise of integrated and sustainable resource management the in is on the exploitation of forests mainly for pulp and the forestry and natural resources divisions will be examining the issues raised by the and next month the watermen Reserve will meet with Recap on the Harvey a Stalwart of an environmental Organiza says Recap has always been open to aggravating the situation is that Recap has not yet come out with a 10year forestry management required under provincial the province has allowed the company to proceed in the past four years Only with annual the proposal to build an All weather Road should be put on hold by the government until the whole picture is asks Peter also a Lead ing Light in tree if such out standing values Here do not Merit then what does unquestionably such a rare Retreat should be protected and along with it the magnificent Wood the largest mammal in North where Are our standards if we reduce Canadian forests to their Worth in paper towels Val Werier is a Winnipeg his column appears every ;