Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 2, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a h h june f i i canadians could give americans a lesson in Brevity Short Campaign easier on voters by David Shrybman special to the free press the Canadian election will end today As voters go to the polls to elect a new govern the Campaign lasted 36 last months congressional Dis Pute of the budget is universally regarded As the beginning of the next american presidential elec our Campaign will last More than Canada spans More territory than the United it has More major its politics Are More com and the stakes in this years election whether there even will be a United Canada in the 21st Cen or whether it will be torn apart by Quebec secession Are bigger than anything weve confronted since the eve of the civil War in Canada is managing to have a Crisp political debate in a fraction of the time we take and voter turnout on june 2 is almost sure to be substantially greater than ours was last when about one american in two trundled to polling the two systems Are completely of Canada has a parliamentary system so voters Are choosing both a prime minister and a but a trip across the 49th parallel still reveals a lot about american mostly it under lines How the United states has spawned a political system that constantly in a permanent Campaign where seeking office and performing in office Are virtually we Stop working and we Campaign and then we go to work prime minister Jean Chretien told me in Winnipeg the other in your you Guys Campaign for 24 hours for two you politics is one but we have to run a govern in this years five week Campaign Here is the shortest Ever 10 Days briefer than the one in the result of technological improvements that have seeded voter registration and of More than passing interest in where the entire by Stefis in convulsions Over the role of Money in politics an Effort to make politics campaigns Overall Are far least and More frugal parliamentary candidates Are restricted to spending about the major National parties Are permitted to spend less than you could clean up a lot of corruption in american elections if campaigns we rent so says Charles director of the Cen tre of Canadian studies at Johns Hopkins you need As much Money and you sure need so much questionable so much of what we do in american especially in Dull is and though americans like to think of their Northern Neighbours As Bland and regard Canadian poli tics As televised the Short campaigns tend to make for livelier the English for was evocative of the new York kicks and the Miami who staged a court Side Brawl in the mid dle of their Aba basketball playoff there were some moments when the leaders screamed at each other so loudly and raucously that it was impossible to divine what was being the language was colourful As Preston the redoubtable Leader of the Reform compared prime minister Chretien Liberal plat form to the prospectus for the Canadian mining firm with the phantom when its they get Down to it right off the says lawyer Ray you dont have to spend months and months worrying about it like the americans not that Short elections Are with out their As Jean the conservative is the problem is that people like Charest have very Little time to get known by the says Patrick who was for Mer prime minister Pierre Trudeau press he has five weeks and that not with More time he might have a better Chance of solidifying the inroads he is making in Chretien Home and to sow tory ideas in the where regional parties have seriously undermined a Power base that provided the conservatives with three prime ministers in the past four and gome of Haven noticed that theres a Campaign you go door to door and people Arent says Annamaria who is canvassing for foreign affairs minis Ter Lloyd Axworthy Here in in the United the Candi dates Campaign for and the Public begins to pay Atten Tion in the last two in Cana the candidates Campaign for a few and the Public begins to pay attention in the last two this sure seems More says Don who was Deputy prime minister in the last conservative government in its easier on the Peoples theres something to be said for David Shribman is the washing ton Bureau chief of the Boston letters to the editor Cable rate Rise benefits Moffat i fully concur with the letter to the editor by Fred Stevens free May 23 regarding the Videon Price Videon is a wholly owned subsidiary of Moffat communications that has contributed More than handsomely to the Overall financial picture of sky also owned by is by no Means a Money Many a Quarter Over the past 20 years was in the red and Many More quarters would have been had it not been for profits made by Videon which offset sky Videon itself has a stated previously that it would finance Fibre optic installations itself without a rate increase and b produces constantly More than generous profits that thus subsidize Why Videon sub scribers have to be gouged to keep sky in business Only Randy of fat or Davis might be Able to Eri Clansky Norbert Canada loves forces called to duty in last sundays free press was a poignant account on the flooding of the red River by Reserve Captain and free press reporter Doug it was superbly written and deeply moving a he describes in detail Many of the heartbreaks that a lot of Manitoban had to desperately trying to save their the tremendous help from our soldiers working in dikes for Long week after in icy cold was a tremendous inspiration for All it was a Long and difficult fight to hold Back the raging red but eventually the great Manitoba flood was under Canada does love you and the Canadian brigade group and we will never forget the enormous help you gave us when we needed it Winnipeg exercise your rights by voting we Are a privileged and fortunate multicultural proudly envied by Many although we Are somewhat reserved and canadians Are Gener ally a very caring and compassionate people As evidenced by our latest Dis we canadians exercised our democratic we helped each other through our Heads and thereby casting no doubt As to our indomitable please exercise your democratic right to cast your vote one one vote please show you Cameron Caldwell Winnipeg nip fiscal plan is coherent Allen Mills editorial Canadian left still lives in fiscal past free May 24 suggests that Mills him self is trapped in some sort of time the Canadian left has spent the last How to reach us the free press letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone three years developing a coherent Fis Cal in the form of the alter native Federal this head the question of debt and it reduces the deficit to Zero in less time than is planned by the Liber als and reduces the debt Burden to less than 60 per cent of Gap within five it is Able to do All this because it puts canadians Back to a grow ing Economy providing most of the financing needed for Job creation and the strengthening of social a fair tax policy reduces taxes for Low income imposes additional taxes Only on the very Rich and closes tax loopholes for the budget adds up and is full of innovative not least for strengthen ing National Unity and reducing this for the first the nip appears to have adopted much of the alternative Federal budget in its eco nomic How could highly respected for his earlier work on the possibly have missed this development even if it were True in the past that the Federal nip has regarded deficits and debts As of Little which i am sure they would this is certainly not the Case now As any cursory examination of their election platform would con to suggest that the nip favours running endless budgetary deficits is startlingly and irresponsibly Ina Ccu even if it is consistent with the prejudices of the free press it is time the free press editorial writers gave the Dps current fiscal platform a More serious and More Hon est John Loxley Winnipeg Reform snubbed disability forum there Are five parties with parliamentary standing contesting the fed eral election four Are running a full slate of candidates in and first and Are All about ones we make and the ones we have to live when the Reform party chose to turn its nose up at an invitation from the Manitoba coalition of Federal provincial Dis ability issues to attend an Al party forum on issues devoted to its Choice provided us with a Little food for you can hold whatever opinion you like about grassroots democratic Orga and you can even pretend to some kind of higher order of moral purpose in doing that hardly Nairne and a Homeowner Survey the extent of the flood damage from the roof of a serves the citizenship needs of the Well Over mostly disabled Folk who attended last monday evenings orderly whatever message Reform thought it was delivering by the the subliminal one received was we remain marginalized in relation to Public concerns our though some Are life an death for Are unimportant in the great scheme of things we dont really represent a political fac Tor Worth bothering though such a thought might Cross our minds out of old i think everyone connected with the coalition knows the real reason Reform didst show up they calculated that if their absence represented an Embarrass their participation in the and its Frank discussion of the con Cerns of Manitoban with would have created a far greater hats off to the old line parties me Lgraham Winnipeg land cannot be claimed Canada is a land mass containing people who reside in provinces and territories and who Are governed by a parliament and a Central these inhabitants Are composed of individuals from various ethnic Back grounds and Are called they May Purchase portions of land to reside or do business but they May not claim it for themselves or a foreign whether Singu As a group or As a provincial gov its time the politicians understood Ronald Phillips Winnipeg does Filmon Back aboriginal rights in Premier Gary Filmon endorsed the Meech Lake Accord that would have Given Quebec virtual Polit ical sovereignty under the economic umbrella of in Premier Filmon endorsed the Charlottetown Accord which would have turned Canada into a Bunch of contending Satra pies based on Premier Filmon endorsed progressive conservative National Leader Jean does this mean he also As Charest constitutional Declara Tion of Quebec As a distinct society that would Force both parliament and the courts to tailor future statutes and judicial decisions on the basis of what Ever Quebec deems necessary to pre serve its distinctiveness since the aboriginals were Here before the is Premier Filmon prepared to Grant the same rights to the aboriginals As demanded by Eli Jah Harper when he single Anderly destroyed the Meech Lake Accord Herbert Schulz Winnipeg cup bases policies on Bible principles people appear to be fed up with politics because they say All politicians Are the this sentiment is often encouraged by the Media because the Only political parties they report on Are the populous parties that will say what Ever they think the Public wants to hear so they can get the votes to get the Public is hearing the same thing from All the populous Par it is refreshing to know that there is one major political party that is Dif this party is the Christian heritage party we base our policies on biblical principles which do not change according to which lobby group is the most powerful at the for we believe that innocent life is to be protected All the not just when it is convenient to another another major difference Between the cup and the other parties is that we believe in the preamble to the Canadian Constitution which says that Canada is built on belief in the supremacy of god and the Rule of the other parties do Robert Scott Winnipeg nip tackles jobs Issue our National Media wanted and now they got a big debate on the never ending Issue of National sparked by Preston Manning with vol Leys Back by Jean Chretien and Jean its too bad these Guys Are avoiding the Issue most canadians want to talk about jobs the nip is the Only party discussing the Economy and the need to get canadians Back to work meaningful work the to its is hammering away at this important of Surprise prime minister Chretien record on Job creation is defenceless and Charest and Manning Are in favour of More cuts and Russ Wyatt Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau ;