Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A Winnipeg free july my Brian Cole 6977044 editorials Liberty of religion bin actg of civil rights reason for worry North Dakota senator Byron dorgans concern about rising Canadian wheat exports is understand after the sales staff at the Winnipeg based Canadian wheat Board Are grabbing an Ever grow ing share of the american the of is that like so Many other american fails to under stand or chooses to ignore the underlying Rea son for the problem he has Canadian Grain sales to the South have jumped from negligible amounts just Over a decade ago to a projected 2 million tonnes this that still is a fraction of the entire at roughly a tonne for top Grade it represents a fair amount of Cash for Western Canad an Grain Dorgan believes this dramatic combined with the inability of americans to make similar inroads into is due to the North american free Trade the senator told reporters the Market is wide open for Canadian Grain but that Ameri cans cant even get a grocery sack of wheat across the this is not Naftal does provide Access to Canada As Long As subsidies Are not higher than Canadian with the reduction in Grain subsidies Over the last few the Border has been opened to american product for some the truth is our exports to the have risen Over the years because american processors have come to appreciate something that is known to Grain buyers the world Over Canada is a steady supplier of top Quality Grain at competitive in other an increasing number of american processors simply prefer Canadian part of the reason for that can be attributed to the nature of the Canadian Grain unlike the United Canada has a Federal Agency the Canadian Grain commission which maintains stringent licensing requirements for Domestic this allows the Canadian wheat Board to guarantee customers they will be getting the Best product Money can which often results in higher prices from buyers and More Money in the pock ets of Prairie there is no reason to believe that will change in the near or that the Cwb wont continue to win new no won Der Dorgan is reforms message the Effort to run a Reform party candidate in the upcoming provincial by election in Portage la Prairie is a Strong rebuke to Premier Gary it is also a reminder of How badly former prime minister Brian Mulroney Hurt the Federal conservative party in Manitoba and raises new questions about whether Jean Charest is the person to heal the the drive to nominate a reformer to replace for Mer provincial tory Cabinet minister and Defeated Federal conservative candidate Brian Pallister is being spearheaded by members of the Reform party Portage Lisgar Federal Riding most of whom Are lifelong provincial conservatives who have faithfully supported indeed the interesting thing about All of this is that it has very Little to do with provincial politics or the Mani Toba governments it have everything to do with Hilmons support for the Federal conservative party and its As a Filmon naturally Felt compelled to support his Federal Leader in the last elec he believes it is important to have a Strong National party positioned to the and that the conservative party under the leadership of Charest is the Best vehicle to achieve that he is learning that a number of his supporters do reformers like Portage Lisgar Riding association president Bill Linden left the Federal tories because of the former Mulroney govern ments perceived indifference to Western Best symbolized by the 1986 decision to award the cf18 Jet fighter maintenance contract to a Quebec firm instead of a Winnipeg they Are con Vinced Charest is Cut from the same cloth As hence their support for Reform Leader Preston Manning and their resentment of Fil Mons endorsement for the Federal tory there is Only a slim Chance the Federal Reform party will Sanction the running of party candidates in provincial the Portage la Prairie action sends two Clear messages the first is that Western tory leaders who support the Federal party do so at the risk of alienating their own provincial the second is that Charest has a lot More work ahead of him if he is going to revive the Federal conservative particularly in the Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press est 1979 Winnipeg Tribune est 1990 Rudy email Nicholas editor Brian Cole editorial Page editor directors Harry Brown circulation sales and marketing Laurie advertising Verne Kalichuk human resources Glenn Williams finance and administration 1997 Winnipeg free Divi Jpn i division Ejof Caen Canada limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain 4 member of thy Mwaba press Coyne vol 125 n0187 t pm ranching faulted an inhouse report on Manitoba controversial pregnant mares urine Industry still raises doubts about the horses Wel pm ranching involves upwards of mares in three Prairie provinces and North More than half Are in it has been the target not just of animal rights activists but also of prestigious International animal welfare organizations such As the United nations sponsored world society for the Protection of spa participated in a tour of selected pm ranches organized by Tom Hughes of the Canadian farm animal care since the Ameri can drug company that manufactures the menopausal has upgraded inspections and set up a research farm near ayerst to allow spa or the Winnipeg humane society Access to the requests from both spa and the humane society to Agri culture minister Harry Enns to help them gain entry have received no the commissioned by ayerst and the pm Farmers Public relations the North american Equine ranching information was authored by Arthur Frances Russell president of the Ontario Eques Trian federation Nat mess chairman of the Equine welfare committee of the Amer ican association of Equine practitioners and Colin senior veterinary adviser to the International league for the Protection of while they offered general Praise for the level of health and welfare of the horses on pm the three Equine specialists had this to say notwithstanding the Progress that has been made since the 1995 two areas of water and exer should continue to be Given priority to evaluate to what extent modifications to existing practices May be they went on to suggest six science based research Initia Tives that might be undertaken by Ayerss Linwood included among them Are investigating optimal exercise requirements the stall and floor designs needed to minimize lower limb edema swelling and injury the optimal fre Quency for watering the need for and Range of grooming and a free movement urine col Lection animal welfare organizations Flag the same problems but Are just More they say the stalls Are often too Small and the tethers too Short mares to lie the mares May be kept in these stalls without exercise for up to six horses Are athletic animals whose nature is to play and they contrary to an ayerst spokespersons claim that horses sleep standing horses Only doze in that position and need to sleep lying Down at least three hours out of every the mares Are denied water to increase the concentration of oestrogen in the pm farm ers Are paid according to the amount of oestrogen they a veterinary inspection team found that some of the automatic watering used in North Dakota provided the mares with less than half their minimum daily the mares often do not receive adequate grooming or veterinary animal welfare specialists and they believe the majority of the foals born each year Are sent to the Winnipeg humane society Vicki Burns says she still has Many chief among them Are Why animal welfare groups like the humane society Are denied Access to pm farms when they Are allowed into poultry and Dairy operations and also Why there is no verifiable information on the Fate of the there is something inherently wrong when a Large Industry that makes profit off of animals has the Power to deny Access to their facilities to the local animal welfare Burns the humane society head says she still has not heard a Well though tout argument As to Why the horses cannot be Given Reg ular what i have heard is theres no research to prove How much is i think that common sense would Tell us that any horse would not suffer by having Freedom from being tied up at least once a what is happening to All the foals we deserve accurate sweep ing statements that Arent backed up really Arent acceptable for women who want to make a Well informed decision about Post menopausal Frances Russell covers politics for the free her column appears wednesdays and mysteries of the military mind understanding the military mind has never been that is Why those who do it Best often explain it to the rest of us through come As did the British team of Gilbert and Sullivan More than a Century ago and As does Mort Walker through his comic strip Beetle Bailey the military mind resists what was strange More than a Hundred years ago remains strange military ways Are Only last month were the maps used at Dieppe the military mind tends to ignore this is a commend Able asset when you Are fighting a War and have to do illogical but when there is no War the Lack of logic is and often consider the actions of the act ing chief of Canadas defence vice Admiral Larry Mur he invited reporters to talk with the troops to see How much support he was getting for his Contention despite the scism levelled at him for inc inv Pete Nee by the somali inquiry he should remain chief of staff and the word act ing should be removed from his perhaps Admiral Murray had forgotten that he had personally issued a gag order on All Mem Bers of the Canadian forces Days specifically prohibiting them from making any comment whatsoever on the inquiry or its the inquiry mentioned Admiral Mur the Admiral ordered his troops to be silent on what the inquiry then invited reporters to ask the troops questions which would require if they to ignore his first perhaps he Only for got perhaps be again slipped into the same for Fred Cleverley Gotful approach he took to the inquiry questions about his per Sonal involvement in in any Admiral Murray demonstrated to everyone that the military mind today is As strange As it was when Gilbert and Sullivan had another Admi sir Joseph sing in the musical has Pinafore in 1878 that a Good memory and Clear thinking were not required in order to become the ruler of the Queens sir Joseph said that he got his Start by polishing up the handle of the big front today it is called paying attention to what the current minister is sir Joseph said he became head of the Navy by carefully copying letters nothing said about alter ing and voting the party sir Joseph was both an Admiral and a perhaps this is Admiral Murray Ambi Tion sir Joseph told his would be successors to stick close to your desks and never go to and you All May be rulers of the Queens the current Buzz word is the military when prop Erly controlled and can serve a nation Well in and do Little harm in Mort Walker keeps his bumbling general Hal track safely penned up in about ill Quiry Camp it is Clear that two successive Canadian governments not Only promoted the poorest examples of military but then lost what resulted were the incidents in Somalia and the sub sequent inquiry which has smeared the real those thousands of Canadian men and women who have served their country honorable and and who have never dishonoured the legacy they inherited from the generations of sailors and airmen who went with the Benefit of it is easy to say what should have the advice of those officers who recommended against sending the airborne regiment to Somalia should have been the cers making the recommendations were the unacceptable behaviour of Indi including the officers should have been dealt with the problem was not Somalia was not an incident waiting to happen it happened and was then allowed to spread through the system like a nearly everyone it the tragedy is that there is to laugh we got an military command More interested in protecting its own than the then an inquiry equally out of control whose commissioners demonstrated their inability to manage or the Laek of respect they what do we do now a Good Start would be to get so pet with a Clear purpose to head our it would not Hurt if they had Good memories As Fred Steve Frey is s Winnipeg column appears on ;