Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press Al 1 4 june 1997 m i i rights work Laws increase after tax income its hard to argue with Freedom it seems hard to look ing that Canadas biggest social and eco nomic almost became an Issue in the Federal election Campaign earlier this two parties offered tax cuts to Stim ulate consumer spending and unburden business As a Means of easing but jobs gave Way to jabs during dubious debate about the alleged Unity had work for million unemployed canadians stayed a instead of jobs for 301 Dis Cussion might have developed and voters would have understood that although tax reductions Are not sufficient for papers presented last month at a Fraser Institute forum on unemployment showed we would have been better off focusing the state of Canadian unions than the state of the Canadian Canadian unlike their inter National continue to enjoy extraordinary privileges from collectivist Laws like the 1946 Rand Quebec lawyer Roger president of that provinces John Collison right to work argues that the Rand and other pro Union Laws passed in Canada Are per versions of English common Law and principles of French civil code that violate our fundamental right to free Dom of Bedard maintains this is unconstitutional and a principle cause of Cana Das per cent and Quebec per cent unemployment according to More than four million workers across Canada Are regimented into unions and forced to pay dues a private tax totalling billion at a time when Angus Reid polls say 90 per cent of canadians oppose the Bedard wonders How it is in the late 20th Century that a country like Cana which helped bring Down National socialism and still sub mits to a form of collectivist tyranny through its labour the year after Canada bestowed the Rand privilege on the restored workers rights with the Taf Hartley act and 21 states now have rights work Britain followed suit with several similar acts Between 1980 and 1991 and today 104 countries worldwide have pro worker legislation and Are reaping the consider the unemployment rates in rights work jurisdictions per cent in the 21 states per cent in Japan one per cent in Switzer great new zealand and the Netherlands Are also seeing their unemployment rates plummet to or below five per tolerates 10 per Germany endures 11 per and the remainder of the an unnecessary seven per but even As rights work advocates Point out the affront to constitutional freedoms and the negative Impact on employment caused by labour Union elites respond by saying unionized workers make More Money than their nonunion and that All rights work legislation Means is a right to work for they Are partly but James director of the John Olin Institute for employ ment at George Mason University in introduces some intriguing explanations after an exhaustive Survey of eco nomic studies on unions and it turns out that wages affect unionization to a greater degree than unionization influences in other unions go where the Money organizing industries that would pay More anyway teachers Are unionized while food court work ers Are other studies cited by Ben Nett show that even though Overall incomes in pro Union jurisdictions Are greater than in pro worker once adjusted for taxes and the Cost of rights work Laws actually create economic advantage for this is because taxation is progressive the More you the More government As unions place upward pres sure on the Price of goods and ser vices like health property taxes and College creating the need for the wage increases they Bennett found that on workers families in rights work states were about better off in terms of purchasing Power than they were in pro Union and the Gap is the average Gross family income in in 1996 was after taxes and adjusted for Cost of it was had a readjusted family income of but due to Union driven High taxes and Cost of it afterwards fell to the facts make it Tough to argue against Union privilege has created a High Cost Public High High Cost of living and High Federal and provincial govern ments cant give unemployed canadians they give them Back the right to John collision is the Manitoba Cor respondent for Western report mag letters to the editor too Many chances for criminals h Avent people enough to worry about keep your eyes open free june if it int your Job that is disappear then its your country breaking or the Ozone layer thinning Nowa theres a lot More to be concerned yet another sex offender has been released to prey upon the citizens have been warned to be on the Lookout for David George who May be moving in next door if you live in olsons record since 1971 lists Over 60 he has refused All has psychiatric has been known not to take his medication and has a history of drug and alcohol psychiatrists have determined that Olson is a High risk to re offend by sexually assaulting particularly teenage he has been released from jail Many times Only to sometimes even the same Day of his who is now on supervised pro Bation until must not be alone with children under 16 and is to avoid schools or any other place where Chil Dren How Many More chances does this who has Little respect for the need How Many More innocent female victims need there be when will the Justice system Start to consider the rights of the Public to be of equal importance to those of the violent criminal until dangerous repeat offenders Are permanently removed from How is the Public to protect itself a warning in this newspaper is not nearly Joh Kosowski Winnipeg poll pleasure unwarranted i was amazed to read your self con grate Latorya article pollsters Are Smil ing at election results free june Why did you omit mentioning that your last published May incorrectly projected the winners in five of the 14 Manitoba constituencies your projections were even less informative than this suggests since in four of the South and East Winnipeg constituencies no poll was needed to confirm that the incumbents would win by huge in your polling predicted correctly Only half of those in George Sisler Winnipeg compensation should be same permit me a Brief comment on the article Bridge closing brings bid for funds free june in Long before the Advent of the Carman Boyne River there was a devastating flood which inundated 90 per cent of the business Section of the town of for nine premiered at that was very Quick to announce that there would be no compensation for just residential True to his there was 1 lost about in 1970 probably at least twice As Many in 1997 and 1 had to eat the year after that they nationalized my school bus business and paid How to reach us the free press welcomes 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 and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x 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Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone me peanuts for my which Cost me another in 1971 i did definitely not vote nip then or Ever now the merchants on Provencher Boulevard seek compensation for business lost due to the closing of the Provencher they did not have five feet of water in their premises and did not have to discard 90 per cent of their we will see whether the conservatives will give in to their if Premier Gary Filmon does Cave he must be More of a socialist than Schreyer was a Eri Clansky Norbert so called wit insensitive i was quite saddened to see Stu Art Kayes mocking letter try ancient Fonee free june Kaye feels that the Chi Nese practice of Feng Shui is useful Only As a foil for his narrow minded form of perhaps Kaye could show a Little More tolerance to the beliefs of other especially ones which comprise a significant percentage of the student population at the Institute he teaches As someone who works at a pos Sec Mondary educational i hear Many theories proffered for the decline of University government student and fewer jobs for new graduates Are often cited As reasons for our fading for i cant help but if insensitive attitudes such As Kayes help to turn students away from our Scott la leaves Winnipeg Knowles earned his stillness Stanley lying in forty years of forty years of his stillness his work now his legacy our proud David Boyes Winnipeg Uncle Stanley a rare Breed it was with great sadness that Ive Only just heard of Stanley Knowless passing sometimes news is slow to i Provencher Bridge Provencher Boulevard businesses want compensation for lost income due to the Bridge reach us up those of us who were Lucky and Young enough to look to him for guidance during the 31st and 32nd parliament affectionately called him Uncle like Jack another Winnipeg great i was Lucky to the Stanley Knowles was the kindest and most compassionate Man i had Ever his is a rare Breed these Peter Itti Nuar Rankin Inlet reporter gets for evasion if there is a National or International journalistic award for effective Selec Tion and out context twisting of parts of an interview to suit the reporters i would be very honoured to nominate Andrew Maxwell of the free i am referring to maxwells recent interview of myself on the Occa Sion of the Winnipeg gasoline Price jumping to cents a in Hind i should have recalled he had done this once this time last and i should have required the gentleman to take an oath to report on a the b the whole inter and c nothing but the but my Many and excellent experiences with other free press reporters did not Lead me to think that such a courtroom like requirement was Nec Maxwell was left free to Side step most of my and to make me appear As if i were a watch dog sleeping at the so to when i actually was complaining against an unjustifiably High gasoline Price which costs Winni Eggers and Manitoban millions of dollars per i would not have written this letter if i did not have a number of either angry or puzzled Calls from some of your readers regarding this if there is no such journalistic Maxwell might be pleased to know that he gets an from for and High selectivity regarding this Winnipeg where Are we now As an Armstrong Point Homeowner who returned from an out town trip to find you had used a photograph of his House to Point up certain contrasts Between life on the Point and life else where in the West Broadway i had great difficulty recognizing the affluent life of dinner parties you attributed to our neighbourhood in your june 8 but that difficulty was nothing com pared to the problem i had adjusting to the free press placement of the red River where the Assiniboine has always flowed on the map of the there Are two Rivers in downtown win does free press research Stop Short of asking which is which or is this a Subtle indication that the piece is largely not social commen tary gee where do you suppose we Are now re Skene Winnipeg gun control Liberal Albatross regarding Anne Mclellant state ments in gun lobby says albertan May listen free june the elec Tion has determined issues like gun control and the Canadian Public knew what the issues were and returned a Liberal majority govern youre deluding yourself if you believe Only which has the Lions share of the country supported and lots of those rid Ings were the liberals were rejected by every Region in Canada except and the Liberal party has been reduced to a regional party representing Only you no longer speak for the Canadian Public and you no longer have the moral right to speak for the regions that have out right rejected c68 is bad you even have several provinces and territories refusing to administer and they Are taking you to court Over even the who throughout the election Campaign said gun control was not an have conceded that the gun con tool Issue was responsible for Many lost Liberal it will Only take replacing four or five More of you to reduce the Liberal party to a my prediction is that this will happen rather than if you persist in trying to implement c68 Over the wishes of the rest of Roger Mattice Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau onpk1nci sch ;