Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 21, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba A10 Bouchard delusion Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard has once again tangled himself in the twisted logic of Quebec sep investors unwillingness to invest in his politically unstable he told an economic policy is very much More psychological than the problem will be solved if the business Community recognizes that sovereignty is a fixed part of the Quebec political this is a discourse of at variance with Politi Cal and economic Bouchard cannot Hope to restore business Confidence in his province until he shows a greater willingness to face Quebec sovereignty is a dream and not a it is a dream that has been twice rejected by Quebec peo ple in organized by separatist Quebec at times of their choosing and with rigged questions written by the separatists once in once again five months the dream editorials Brian Cole 6977044 remains alive Only because Bouchard and his Fol Lowers refuse to draw the reasonable conclusion from those two the problem is More real than it is real because a prudent investor naturally prefers to operate in a jurisdiction where the rules Jire Likely to remain As they Are now or to be changed Only by an orderly process within the Bouchard and his party propose a wild Experiment in breaking up Canada and making Quebec a new Sovereign nation with some unspecified relationship to the other parts of Why would investors tie Down their wealth in such a province when other Canadian provinces Beckon Why would they invest in a place where the government intends to separate even though the people have said repeatedly that they do not want to the problem does not lie in the minds of it lies in Bouchard refusal to take no for an the Premier has More or less conceded that he will not hold another sovereignty referendum in the next three he has that he will seek re election about three years hence with a Promise to hold a new this puts All Quebec employers and investors on notice that Bouchard Hopes to put them through the same turmoil that former Premier Jacques Parizeau put them through last the sooner Bouchard and his supporters accept the futility of the separatist the sooner they can Promise political stability and Harvest the fruits of employment there is no harm in dreaming great but Bouchard inability to Tell fact from fancy threatens continuing damage to Quebec and to All of grits give in Max Yalden never did pull any the straight talking Boss of the Canadian human rights commission submitted his last report to parliament this week and chose to fire a few parting shots at the liberals while he was at Yalden is unhappy about a Campaign Promise not yet delivered to the country Gay Justice ministers dating Back to tory John Crosbie have argued that the words sexual orientation should be written into the Canadian human rights the inclusion of those two words would guarantee Legal Protection for Gays against the same Way that the handicapped and visible and religious minorities Are seven including have similar provisions in their human rights Equality under the Law is a simple but political complexities have paralysed Federal opposition to the amendment among those who believe such Protection endorses a certain lifestyle or promotes same sex marriages or threatens the healthy development of the nations children Strong enough to nudge the liberals off a Campaign the delay results from two things prime minister Chretien reluctance to proceed and an Alliance of anti Gay and Antigua control members of the government mostly from who Are either homophobic or anxious to Cash in on their reluctant support for rocks gun control Bill or the government is too easily if it is worried about the bigoted then rational people will con clude that irrational arguments hold Sway in the Liberal if Rock or the prime minister have changed their minds for reasons they believe can be then they should say what those reasons rather than sort for letting the Promise kind More than offering a certain Legal Amend ing the human rights act sends a signal to Gays and Les and to All canadians who care about Equality that no person should be denied fair treatment under Canadian the liberals Are paying too much attention to the zealots in their caucus and not enough attention to Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press esl 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Rudy Emiil Nib cd Duncan Mcmonagle executive editor Brian Cole editorial Page Edilio directors Laurie Calvin James circulation Verne Kalichuk Husum resources Stephan Majorki operations Glenn Williams finance 1996 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 124 no 100 were anxious for summer Ive have a Way of getting into summer in a More i than other we Start poring Over gardening books and seed catalogues in midwinter to dispel the Arctic blasts and to dream one Friend has been immersed in Garden manuals since the beginning of the trying to obliterate one of the coldest Winters on its a manifestation of a Manitoba trait forged by the we Are in an extreme zone in certain of All Manitoba has the greatest temperature difference Between summer and described As enormous by Dave Federal climatologist and we play it hot and Manitoban boast they have the Best Summers in the a claim no doubt reinforced by thoughts of in inclined to agree our Summers Are the finest because we have All the qualities for a great combination Bright refreshing clean air and Cool we also have a remarkable Range of i am reminded by perusing Garden the 57th edition of the Prairie Gar Val Werier Western Canadas Only Gar Dening annual published by the Winnipeg horticultural this year focuses on themes in also catching my attention is the fascinating variety of food offered by native plants around hardly known As an area of located near the end of the tree the Choice of teas would be intriguing in an upscale the Range includes Willow a traditional drink used to cure headaches leaves and flowering tops of the Lapland Rose a wild Rhododendron narrow Leaf Dwarf Labrador seed Cones of the Juniper shrubby cinquefoil wild mint prickly Rose a Plant also rubbed on the skin by aboriginals to alleviate insect Gary a provincial Plant makes mention of these teas in an article on the edible plants of which he studied in it is astonishing what turns up in the foolishly called Barren lands or nature does not create Only Man the Tundra has a wealth of plants adapted to the another Tea can be brewed from which also offers shoots in Spring that taste like a lunch by the says could include Marsh rag wort which tastes like lettuce seashore san wort As a boiled Green Tea from Sweet Gale which can also be used As a substitute for hops in making in the Tundra Are a variety of including the Deli Cious Mil Cap an assortment of such As the Crow Berry used for jellies and wine scurvy Rich in Vitamin in another Shirley Froelich discusses purple Prairie so Beautiful with 30 to 40 blossoms on each Plant that she wonders Why it has not entered the horticultural a close relative is the White Prairie used by Early settlers As Tea to cure both native perennial Are versatile the Tough resilient stems were bundled to make the roots were also chewed for their pleasant writes our first chewing gum i browsed through another sum Mer the enchanting illustrated Canadian wild Flowers by a reprint of the original published in extravagant and unproven claims were made in those such As that the juice of the Indian boiled in was a remedy for our native Flowers have wonder Ful the nodding called smiling says the seems to be associated with the coming of the cheerful chorister of so i have already enjoyed summer by the real thing when it comes will be a Marvel of just we have a City of unusual greenery so described by no less an authority than the landscape architect of the National capital commis Sion now emerging from a heavy White the transformation Here is the most pronounced and dramatic of Canadian Summers Here Are very Val Werier is a Winnipeg his column appears lets put Little thumped in the pot a few years ago a woman at work brought her pet Rabbit into the dont ask me i suppose that we were meant to Admire and a lot of people they gathered round and cooed and clucked Over As they would have if she had brought her baby in for Dis the words cute and cuddly were frequently i looked upon the it was cute and cuddly rabbits almost always Are but the word that came to my mind when i saw it was rabbits May or May not have other merits Ive never actually met a Rabbit that i didst like but their chief Merit is that they make Excel Lent browned in a frying simmered for some time and served up with a Good win based there is hardly a better and a no matter How it might enjoy being cooed about and clucked can serve no nobler i doubt that in alone when i look upon a Rabbit and see the cute and cuddly makings of a Fine Stew but i am finding fewer supporters these not everyone agrees with my View of the rabbits intended Pur the last time i went to a Good restaurant with my i asked her if she would object if i ordered the she rather go ahead and eat thumped if you want Walt Disney has a lot to answer a lot of people when they see a Deer think of Bambi Walt Disney really does have a lot to answer i can Admire the Grace and Beauty of a Deer As but the Prospect of Venison also usually crosses my a Bear always conjures up for me the image of a Rug in front of a chickens Are not particularly cute or cuddly and have Little Grace or Beauty their saving Quality is that they give one cause to think of drumsticks or Fried eggs and Bacon extracted from the equally unattractive cows Are much the hardly anyone actually likes there is almost nothing you can do with a cow except to use it As a metaphor for the More stupid peo ple that you cows Are Good for Only two things making milk and Tom Oleson roast in that they Are eminently admirable Ani the idea that animals have rights is relatively it is probably not a Good to look on a Rab bit and not be Able to see a potential that represents a kind of silly Peter after Doest really but if he did i would cheerfully Cook him up and invite Reddy Fox Over for these sort of opinions Are particularly unpopular with vegetarians and animal rights two of gods sillier creations if you two of evolutions oddest vegetarians dont think that we should eat most vegetarians think this for health while i dont agree with i wont quarrel with their right to put a Plant through screaming agony to make a vegetable if they Are really strict they wont even approve of eating eggs or after Are the products of a consenting they kind of overlap with the animal rights animal rights activists make the news a lot these when they Are not actually trying to blow their Fel Low human beings to Smithereens Peoples rights Are apparently expendable they espouse strange the Seal Hunt has been in the news this is not the baby Seal Hunt of Brigitte Bardot but a cull of the eve increasing Seal population on Canadas Eastern animal rights groups dont like it and thumped and Bambi provide some food for want sanctions imposed on Canada they would rather let the seals run wild than save the fish must rank somewhere lower on their these groups Are also passionately pushing for sanctions against Canadian most of Canadas trappers Are natives and make a use Ful living out of the prudent har vesting of forbearing that we Are indians and inuit apparently also rank lower on the scale and we without let them some Manitoba Farmers want to raise Elk and sell both the Antlers and the this poses no threat to the Elk population of the province and would provide a useful source of income for animal rights activists say no Way they have used violent and illegal Means to make their Point that it is better to let the Elk Over Breed and starve in National Parks than to put them to a useful apparently Farmers also rank lower on their the ultimate Absurdity stems from something that seems absurd in itself at first glance Emu ranch emus Are Ostrich like Birds that live in aus in Manitoba and elsewhere in North ranchers have begun raising they Are the meat of the one enthusiastic breeder animal rights activists dont much like this even though the Breeding of like the Breed ing of Elk or any other Means they will never be they Are not farm harrumph a a British animal rights they Are exotic ancient this has got to be stamped its just a different taste for in too old my too poor to be a Yuppie but i really wish these peo ple would give us a i Haven tried it but i Welcome the arrival of the exotic ancient Bird on my Din Ner i will look upon it with and As Well aged Tow Oleson la a free press editor Ial his column appears Days and ;