Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, June 17, 1997

Issue date: Tuesday, June 17, 1997
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Previous edition: Monday, June 16, 1997

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 17, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free june 1997 a11 fire fighters gaining on major blazes Canadian press two major Forest fires in Northern Ontario were still burning out of control yester Day but prospects looked Good for get Ting them under two fires near were in Good said Grahame Gor provincial fire duty adding theres still a lot of work to be carried the province was hopeful As Many As 26 fire Crews would be released in the next few Days and Crews from other provinces sent Home by the end of the there were 54 new fires erupting Over the but most were held to less than a Square about the size of a City Block thanks to Ini tial attack by firefighters and water said scattered rain sunday and yester Day dampened flames and helped firefighters trying to control 48 fires burning from the Manitoba Boundary to near Pembroke in Eastern officials say human carelessness accounts for nearly 80 per cent of fires in which has lost about 35 Square Kilometres of forests so far this Jacquie of Manitoba fire said of 163 fires in the province to 128 have been caused by barroom mentality prescribed for Unity liberals set in 77 to fight records show by Luann Lasalle Canadian press i Xebec Jean Chretien would have known that the Federal Cabinet discussed the partition of Quebec after the parti quebecois was first elected in says the provinces intergovernmental affairs previously secret documents show former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and his which included the cur rent prime discussed strategy to Deal with the pm win and the Prospect of a sovereignty then minister of Trade and did not attend the but Jacques first elected As a pm member in said yester Day that Chretien would have been told what in convinced he was aware of the tone of the the prevailing Cli mate within the government of Brassard said outside the a number of elements of today so called plan the Tough constitutional line against separatism adopted by Chretien government since the Nar Row federalist win in the 1995 refer can be found in the the documents also show the Trudeau Cabinet discussed on Mckenna decries Lack of passion in Canada by Chris Morris Canadian press if Premier m Frank Mckenna int hearing any passionate voices speaking for Maude Barlow says he should listen to the voices of the country Dis the new Brunswick Premier complained yesterday theres no passion ate spokesman who could transform Canada from a nation of whiners into a land of proud we be feeling so bad about living in a country that so Mckenna said after delivering an offt Decuff speech to educators in whatever Small slights we May have in our they Are very Small compared to what the rest of the world i guess in trying to make a Case for More National but Mckennas claim that canadians Lack passion and a passionate spokesman irritated the Volunteer National chairwoman of the Council of Barlow said she hears in Mckennas complaint a lament for the lost credibility of partisan politics a reality that was she by the fractured results of the Federal elec she said the Region ligation of Cana the emphasis on the global Economy at the expense of Domestic jobs and political allegiance to corporate Power brokers has produced a terrible antipathy among canadians toward we need to Start listening to the voices of the powerless in this coun try because that where the Leader ship is going to come Barlow its not coming from elected Politi its not coming from the Church its not coming from Academia its not coming from the places it used to come its a whole new we Call it the citizens Agenda and we say this is going to be the emerging politics of the new Barlow said Canadas passionate voices include those fighting child poverty and High 1 think its coming from Young peo i think its coming from seniors fighting for i think its com ing from the passionate voices on the she i think its groups like ours that Are carrying the Torch because i think the politicians failed us and i think that was the lesson of the last Mckenna said he cant understand Why canadians dont feel better about yet for some reason we dont seem to have passion or a passionate spokesman who can talk about Canada in such a Way that it excites us and makes us have goosebumps about the the Liberal Premier the use of the military to defend Federal the real father of plan b is Pierre Brassard its not something Trudeau want available for com ment in several including Romeo then minister of state for fisheries and now governor Gen told Cabinet it needed a War room mentality to Deal with the the real father of plan b is Pierre its not something Jacques Brassard Brassard said Chretien would have been aware of what Leblanc said Dur ing the meeting when he named him to the in naming Leblanc As Gover nor i presume that Chretien knew perfectly Well the position and the vision of the minutes of the Cabinet meeting and a memorandum outlining a nation Al Unity strategy were obtained by the Ottawa citizen under the Access to information Brassard said the Hartline approach has reemerged with More Force since the 1995 after the Sovereign lists lost the 1980 the Hartline approach gave Way to constitutional he noting the Patria Tion of the Constitution has never been accepted by Warren who was an Anglo phone my from Montreal at the Cabi net first brought up the need to take a hard line with Ottawa setting the according to the in an Allmand told the Ottawa citizen its the Federal govern ments duty to maintain Law and the if somebody starts acting illegally or violently to violate the then we have to enforce the Law and use whatever is necessary to enforce the including the but who now Heads the Montrea based International Centre for human rights and democratic stressed the military would be used Only to defend Federal property and not to cause a Quebec Liberal party comment on the Mario Dumont of 1action Democrat Tique do Quebec said both sides should focus on issues that Are 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