Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 22, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1 Winnipeg from May 1997 Brian Cole 6977044 editorials in Idem of Yacc Liberty Odril dividing Canada Preston Manning is not the most television Friendly political party Leader on the Campaign even after doffing his glasses and adopt ing a new hair the Reform party Leader still lacks the telegenic qualities Good easy speaking style that work so Well for a Jean Charest or a Bill Manning has demonstrated Over the last week or so that he definitely understands the medium More that knows How to use in doing he has elevated the Black Art of demagoguery to a new and appalling level in Cana one that has serious implications for the practice of politics As Well As the future of the Manning knows that television is a hot a term first coined by Marshall Mcluhan More than 30 years he under stands that the television camera is attracted to conflict and emotion More than reason and that the truth or logic behind a statement int As important As the act of making the state ment that is Why he is so anxious to have a televised debate on National Unity with Only tory Leader Jean Charest and prime minister Jean Chretien joining he knows the National Unity file is a hot one where emotion will Likely override he also knows the logic behind the various party positions will be secondary to the primary message the image of a party Leader from the West standing alone against two politicians from that is Why he didst invite nip Leader Alexa Mcdonough to his proposed having a mar timer stand alongside Chretien and Charest on the question of National Unity would Only confuse mannings message of Manning also understands that the Best defence is a Good he knows that by attack ing the party leaders and their he can deflect attention away from his own party Short sighted and destructive one that would further balk Anize the country and hasten the Day when Quebec is no longer part of this is particularly True in the debate on National time and again the Reform party Leader is shown criticizing the liberals and tories for supporting programs that try to accommodate Quebec and unify the suggesting instead that National Unity can Only be achieved through treating the provinces equally and give them jurisdiction Over culture and Lan in doing Manning never defines what he Means by treat ing provinces equally or what the practical implication of such a policy would he How misrepresent the premise of the distinct society which is intended to strengthen Canada by ensuring that Quebec feels secure about its place As the Only province with a pre dominantly French speaking he also ignores the fact that no other province is asking for similar Pri Marily because the remaining provinces already share the same language and the question must be asked Why is Manning intent on giving provinces exclusive Powers they do not want the answer is because Manning is not opposed to Quebec As a distinct society so much As he is opposed to the notion of Canada As a country with a National government capable among other making language and cultural the truth is Manning wants to strip Canadas nation Al government of most of its important particularly in areas of social language and Quebec and its demand for distinct society status merely provide him with a convenient excuse to reduce the role of the National govern ment in the life of the but perhaps the most offensive aspect of Man rings National Unity pitch has been the Sleazy Way in which he refers to Charest and Chretien As Quebec As though they Are somehow less less patriotic canadians because they were born in Quebec instead of this repugnant attempt to Foster ant Quebec sen along with his reference to Quebe cers As their has no place in Canadian it reveal Manning for what he is a mean spirited and narrow minded politician who will Stop at nothing to achieve his political ambition even if he has to destroy the country to do Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press esl 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 rub re Nicholas by Iii Coll old tonal Paye Edif i directors Harry Bogwn circulation sales and marketing technology i a Hilf Vlf ii h alici1uk res juices Mill Liams i menu and 9 1997 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 Vii a Iju 1 a the Way to had Ashville absolutely nothing in what you Are about to read should be taken As a suggestion that my employers have no Hope of Ever becoming familiar with or that in Spiri Tual circles they Are looked upon More like a boil on the nose than a it is the heavens that Are unfamiliar with my employers and the stars that Are strangers to my this conclusion results from Reading my Horo scope for i for the a Pisces a intellectual Paragon envied by All other signs of the according to the better As others would have a Limp my Horoscope for today suggests that i can use my spiritual Side to create allies at hav ing Long ago purged my flesh of All temptation i is the common expression for it i am now spiritual to a in the words of the old you cant be a Beacon if your Light dont so i try to Aid in the spiritual development of others in my work their Charity could use some for so i offer my col leagues opportunities to make Small Loans or donations and offer myself to my employers As an object of Large but they close their eyes no spiritual Tom Oleson allies there is a for this kind of wanting to share it with i went to the encyclopedia to look it but to use an encyclopedia or a dictionary you have to know what you want to look up before you can find for in the would you find information about the fossilized flatulence of a topic much in the news this week that is a major but As serious a fail ing As the fact that the ency clo pudists now often leave the Best parts this tendency gets More pronounced As encyclopedias get technically the new Britannica will Tell you what you need to know about one of the More roman but it wont give you the intriguing information that the 1910 eleventh Edi Tion will that the debauched emperor was hauled by soldiers from his miserable hiding place and his last pathetic words being but i was once your information like this about depraved emperors or cockroaches is useful in Many such As drawing analogies with contemporary As encyclopedias get More they can also get less in they Are like a map showing the precise location will be of interest Only to people who live in had Ashville or who want to get in or out of a How that shows the general Loca Tion of had Ashville As a Blank area marked Terra incognito even Here be dragons will interest almost every this obsession with accuracy or most of our sources of information these even some this is not an entirely bad it can occasionally be More use Ful if your information is based on fact rather than Many historians think now that Vitel lius was not so bad As All a revision that offers some Hope for Brian Mulroney and any one of us might some Day have a reason to go to a Nice town by All about the Only place where there is no sign of this trend is this becomes particularly apparent during election unlike enc Clope lists or politicians dont seem to want us to know whats going on or where precisely we there is not a Diderot nor a Mercator among an opponents political plat form is not explored in but set out As a Blank spot with the warning Here be territory in which Wise men would not their own platforms Are equally Blank but instead of being honestly marked Terra they Are attractively decorated with alluring water sprites and wholesome cherubim to Lead us on into the they carefully Tell us the medieval mapmakers who decorated their work with Fanci Ful drawings and warnings really didst know what was the Encyl pudists really wrote what they believed to be As they Learned they replaced fancy with politicians at the same time turned their attention from facts to which makes them about As useful to voters in an election Campaign As my astrologer is to me in my career the curious result of it All is that while everyone wants to go to no one seems to know How to get there Tom Oleson is a free press editorial his column appears on Manitoba Pickerel in decline the Story has connotations of the disappearance of the cod on the Atlantic coast and the Salmon on the Pacific too Many Pickerel and Sauger Are being caught in Lake win our great Prairie and the government is taking Steps to maintain the stocks in cooperation with commercial Fisher the government uses a euphemism in describing the it Calls it Harvest pres this Means Joe director of fish says the decline is about 65 to 70 per cent due to overfishing and the remainder due to environmental conditions such As Low water in recent average catch Over the past 15 years has been million it has now dropped by 30 per cent to million Peak was million kilograms in some critics dont think the government is going far enough to maintain the the main thrust is to make certain most spawning is completed before the season opens restriction of licences to retirees changes in net mesh sizes and at a Cost estimated at of quotas to reduce the number of licensed but Are these Steps sufficient do we really know whats Hap pening to the Lake Lake Manitoba is approaching the decline recorded in Lake Lake Winnipegosis is an example of How overfishing resulted in the collapse of the Pickerel Stock Long before the cod crisis in at one time Lake Winnipegosis produced kilograms of pick Erel and now it has dwindled to ironically the flood that has inflicted heavy damage in South Val Werier Ern turns out to be a Benefit to the High water will extend spawning grounds in Rivers and streams and provide More time for hatchling to one fascinating development has Pickerel in the South Basin Are maturing in two and on half years to three years compared to six to seven and on half years Twenty years it is explained As a response to More one biologist compares the depletion of Pickerel to a savings we Are dipping into the principal and so there is less about 850 fishermen Are chasing a diminishing sup the wide Range of net mesh says one allows the catch of immature As Well As big Ger surprisingly in View of the threat to the fishery there is less monitoring of the Lake today than 15 years samples of fish were taken in about 35 today three areas Are sampled in the North Softli Basin and in the we know Little about the movement of the Pickerel and How they interact with other says one overfishing is reducing fish stocks on Lake for a Lake of this size Lith largest in the world and import it has been subject to comparatively few Lake Winnipeg is a major feature of our plays a Pivotal role in hydroelectric is a prime recreation and fishing source in the it deserves More we live in a global Economy and Lake Winnipeg is part of it illustrates How the world Market is irresponsible in exploiting resources and Fosters enormous in Lake Winnipeg hundreds of thousands of kilograms of White fish As Well As numbers of Mullet and Talibee Are thrown away annually because Low prices make it unprofitable to Send to the factory trawler ships of the Alaska Fleet scoop up Bil lion kilograms of Pollock which compete with our and our Whitefish is a great bargain for at the same time off the alas Kaas reported for the year 340 million kilograms of edible generally dead or were tossed Back into the Why because they were not of the right to process in the factory or for such Rea sons that Only females were wanted for their absolutely we must protect our natural and Here in Manitoba we have such magnificent resources to the Pickerel season should open in the last week in May in the South Basin when so per cent Are finished says what a treat to look Forward to lets make certain it is always Viil Werier is u Winnipeg his column appears on 7 i uts v ;