Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 16, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A i n m in Winnipeg free july 199 Brian 6977044 editorials Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion bpm tits of Oil rights striking a Deal a Winnipeg promoter and a group of local bus Ness people Are attempting to do something that is if not in this City build a baseball largely with their own that is something members of executive policy committee should think Long and hard about when they sit Down with Sam Katz today to discuss the proposed a new baseball Park would be a Welcome addition to the located next to the Exchange it would provide a perfect venue for the Winnipeg Gold eyes and the upcoming Panama stimulate business by drawing people to the area and pro vide a much needed lift to our civic katzes proposed Ball Park would Cost about million would come from private with the rest coming from the the Federal government and the Panama games com the Park May Cost As much As the additional funding made up by private investors or the two senior Levels of either the private sector contribution to the project is sub the cites contribution to make the project Katz has asked for some including a 50year lease on the land and an exemption from the cites property and amusement the City should have no trouble granting an exemption on the amusement just As it has to other professional both should be prepared to negotiate on other As Well As the question of who pays for reconstruction of Pioneer the for should be prepared to cover the costs of the Street project provided Katz agrees to pay the appropriate business and property for his Katz is prepared to continue negotiating with the the problem is some councillors on pc May not be As eager to there Are reports that some including some on Are ready to kill the not for eco nomic but because they dont want to see the land used for a baseball sources say that a number of councillors Are hoping to use a counter offer by Katz to justify pulling the in doing these councillors Are Over looking an important fact there Are no other viable projects lined up for the nor Are there Likely to be in the near Katz has pitched the City a Chance to obtain a Public amenity without having to foot the entire councillors should take care not to foul paying the Price it says a Good Deal about the International com munits enthusiasm in pursuing War criminals that the trial of a Dusan by an inter National tribunal at the Hague this week was the first such event since the Nuremburg and Tokyo Tri als after the second world nine other alleged War criminals await trial at the Hague and More than 60 accused of committing crimes against humanity in Bosnia remain at the whereabouts of most of them Are including the two men most responsible former bosnian serb president Radovan Karadzic and Mili tary commander Ratip both of whom Are still powerful Public figures in serbian no Steps had been taken beyond issuing warrants to apprehend most of these people until last when the nato Force in Bosnia finally arrested three suspects and killed these two events should have been Welcome news to everyone who believes that the torture and mass murder of defenceless people have no part in modern they were greeted in some circles with misgivings such actions might anger the War criminals and their there is something absurd about natos trem bling before the imagined Wrath of the bosnian that the Overall failure to pursue the bosnian War criminals raises an important in bringing them to consideration must be Given to the effects on the uneasy peace in Bosnia and to timing and but the continuing presence of the War criminals stands in the Way of a lasting the timing will never be and Opportunity is better created than simply and there is the overriding moral it comes Down to this when All things have been con if it is important to pursue the prosecution of War criminals and it is then we must be pre pared to pay the Price that Pursuit May entail but if we do not think it is Worth the then we should Stop this shameful Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press est 187 Winnipeg Tribune est 1990 Rudy email Nicholas editor Brian Cole editorial Page editor directors Harry Brown circulation sales and marketing Laurie Verne Kalichuk human resources Glenn Williams and administration f 1997 Winnipeg free a div listen of newspapers Canada lated published seven Days 9 week at 1355 us niacin want Ofca re m 6970qfi a member i Tae Kari Sta pms Council vol 125 no 189 pollution Clouds Paradise by Thomas l Friedman new York times Indonesia so i was visiting a businessman in downtown Jakarta the other Day and i asked him for directions to my next appoint his exact instructions were go to the building with the Armani Emporium upstairs you just above the hard Rock then turn right at i just looked at him and where am i where i was was in one of the worlds hottest emerging mar youve heard about emerging your pension fund probably owns some shares in the billion Jakarta Stock and thanks to your pension fund and global companies like Freeport and thousands of japanese and Kore an firms that have moved their smokestack manufacturing Here to tap the cheap labour and lax regulatory standards Indonesia is a Boom theres just one Little Down Side the environment All Over this remarkably Beautiful Archi Pelago is being pick your Poison according to the world wide fund for 44 per cent of the original natural habitats of Indonesia have been converted to other uses and even larger portions of its Lowland tropical rain forests have been several key Coral reefs have been decimated by dynamite and cyanide fishing stun the fish Here today sell them fresh in Hong Kong precisely because it is Home to so Many Indonesia today has More animals threatened with extinction 600 than any coun try in the All the Rivers in Jakarta Are choked by alcohol and and a thick smog Cloud envelops the environmental due to mining in outer Java islands and quarrying for building materials in is constantly exposing indonesians to a recent Forest fire the size of and the North Ern whole been Pollut ing for have no right to lecture now that there trying to develop it is hard not to feel a sense of a tragedy in the and those indonesians who have reached an income and education level where they can afford to think about the environment share this sense of being Over whelmed by global for a developing country like plugging into the glob Al Market often Means a brutal ultimatum jobs or Trees you cant have this is globalization dark i asked Agus who Heads the world wide fund for nature in what its like to Bari environmentalist in an emerging Market we Are in a constant race with develop he before we even have a Chance to convince the wider audience Here that environmentally sound develop ment is a viable Way to do plans build factories by Power plants Are moving we have a problem Here with so any Developer who can sell promises of employment will get when that we get labelled As against employment and get treated As there Are environmental Laws but they Are rarely enforced and polluters can easily bribe Zabiel Makarem Heads Indonesia infant environmental Protection he knows that real enforcement is impossible so he has opted instead for embarrassment creating Public awards for cities and companies that achieve standards of environmental Protection and spot lighting those that Makarem is a realist the Power base for environmentalism is still very he Indonesia is now in a the same growth that is polluting its environment is also producing a Middle class with an Environ mental As happened in the will that Middle class reach critical mass before the environmental degradation Here does you lose a you lose it you cant regrow if you Cut the you can grow them but you lose the biodiversity the the in worried that in a Well All be environmentally but therell be nothing left to Thomas Friedman is a Colum nist with the new York globalization can Cut two ways Ottawa its Odd that now 130 years is facing its greatest threats and opportunities since its founding in the threats and opportunities come not problems which we have been occupied for most of our 130 years but from the worldwide move towards Freer Trade in investment and comm globalization represents a dilemma for Canada As a Trad ing nation about 40 per cent of our wealth comes from foreign Freer Trade could bring us but each International treaty and understanding limits our free Dom of action and May harm our the Impact of globalization on Canada is not just a concern of nationalists and for Sylvia a distinguished research fellow at the University of Toronto Centre for International also has some one of Canadas brightest was Canadian ambassador to the Uruguay round of Trade negotiations that ended in one of Ottys chief fears is that globalization has gone beyond the simple lowering of tariffs and could now undermine the diversity of the worlds Cul homogenizing cultures May make it for multinationals to develop global but some fundamental human values May also be in a recent speech at the University of of Ostry said it will take patience and skill to negotiate rules that spell out the lines Between efficiency and Sov and it will require considerable reinforcement of the world Trade the new institution by the Uruguay and seriously ill equipped to govern a global sin Gle said is presenters m unstoppable Force and it no doubt How creates winners and the search for some set of policy options that would seek to maximize its undoubted Ben but also mitigate its equally undoubted damaging effects on losers has not really another Canada needs to debate the threats and opportunities posed by and decide where we should draw the lines among homogeneity and Between efficiency and no such discussions among politicians have been held in pub Lic in All we get Are politicians rating about the benefits of free Trade and at the same our leaders have been lining up free Trade pacts with the Zeal of a kid signing up customers for a new paper after last months meeting of jew Chretien May h toe gut Etc off the Marc the g7 Industrial countries and Russia in prime minis Ter Jean Chretien arranged a joint study with the european Union on reducing or eliminating Tariff and no Tariff barriers Between Canada and the and he signed a pact with British prime minister Tony Blair to encourage the two Way flow of services and investment earlier this Chiles sen ate approved a free Trade agree ment with the agreement is unusual in that 80 per cent of the Tariff reductions take place in the first this Cana Achile agreement is supposed to Lead to a free Trade Accord Between the North Amer ican free Trade area Naftal and Many latin american this in Quebec the first parliamentary con Ference of its kind in the Ameri Cas will discuss Freer Trade and economic about 600 delegates will represent ing the 775 million people living in the in Canada will Host the leaders of the Asia Pacific economic cooperation spec forum in in 69 including agreed to open their communications markets to More officials have also been working on a eral agreement on investment that would limit a governments ability to discriminate in favour of Canadian other experts Are working on an agree under the auspices of the world Trade to open up banking and financial sectors to and so agreements May Well give Canada some Ben but what some of us would like to know is what the government intends to put on globalization to preserve key parts our sovereignty and culture Tom Ford is my Adios editor of issues ;