Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 16, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A10 Winnipeg free october Brian Cole 6977044 editorials Freedom of Trade magic formula a after years of canadians seem to have stumbled on to the magic formula for it seems to be the one that was always reason for optimism can be found if a con ducted by end ironic research group for the Mon trea based Centre for research and information on concerning the so called Calgary Declara it shows a majority of canadians support the principles contained in the including recognition of Quebec unique character and the concept of Equality of the poll found 27 per cent of Quebe cers who sup ported sovereignty in the last referendum said they would vote no in the next referendum if the other provinces adopted legislative resolutions recognizing Quebec unique More a proposal to Amend the Constitution to recognize Quebec unique character As Long As any Powers received by that province were available to All was supported by More than 70 per cent in Saskatchewan and Alberta and by 68 per cent of British reasons for the apparent evolution in the attitudes of canadians concerning recognition of Quebec Are hard to a lot has happened since the birth of the Meech Lake Accord in 1987 to shape and reshape what canadians think about Quebec role in con it would that much of the change can be attributed to the emphasis on Equality of previous efforts to recognize Quebec also tried to respect the concept of Equality of in the failed to pass Muster with the there was always a suspicion Quebec was being offered Powers the other provinces were even though this was not the this the framers of the Calgary declaration took a More positive stipulating that if any new pow ers Are conferred upon they will be Avail Able to other Given that the Calgary declaration does not explicitly Confer new Powers on such a development is people concerned about such Are Able to rest easier knowing that if Quebec should receive new other provinces wont be it is premature to read too much into polling results this Early in the process the declaration must be scrutinized in Public hearings in most provinces before it is turned into a suitable resold let alone a proposed constitutional the numbers suggest a wide degree of support for the the magic wont predictable result Many canadians believe that parole officers routinely make mistakes when deciding which prisoners to release the Evi Dence for this is More anecdotal than but an anecdote is Worth a thousand especially when Many canadians subscribe to the argument that if even one person on parole commits a then that is reason to deny parole to every it now appears the parole Board is also incompetent at determining which prisoners should not have their jail time in in response to con Cern Over crimes committed by people released Early from Ottawa passed a Law making it easier to deny Early prisoners were subject to continued detention if correctional service officials told the parole Board that they were a continuing the results were entirely predictable Over the five the number of referrals Rose dramatically and the number of referred prisoners who were denied Early release Rose from so per cent to 90 per what was not so predictable is that the parole Board would get things exactly according to a Survey done by the recidivism rates for both groups indicate that those released were More Likely to re offend than those whichever Way you look at there would seem to be an argument against but the fact that parole boards appear to routinely fail in their judg ments is More of an argument against parole boards than it is against Early release it should be no Surprise that convicts can con the the Surprise is that More of them do not that most parolees abide by the terms of their Early release encourages prisoners to behave to take part in rehabilitation even if most of them do not need those or do not care about those there is lot to be said for the argument that if Only one prisoner is helped by these incentives towards genuine it makes up for the Small risk that others released on parole pose to Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free 197 Winnipeg trinum 1990 Rudy publisher Nicholas editor Brian Cole editorial Page editor directors Harry Brown circulation sates and marketing Laurie advertising Verne Kalichuk human resources Perry techno ology Glenn Williams finance and Elm neglect scandalous How strange and wonderful it is Here on the Flat Winnipeg has the distinction of being a pre eminent City of Winnipeg has been judged the National win Ner in the communities in Bloom Competition As a capital with the Best Urban Winnipeg has the largest known population of elms on the continent because it was determined to contain dutch Elm disease which decimated elms Gerald chief land scape architect of the National capital commission in says his City is envious of win Nipges he says of earlier Days in Ottawa we used to have Elm treeline i grew up on but we have watched them All Here you have the largest number of Elm Trees in North How did Winnipeg achieve this great distinction by funding and pursuing a program with the Aid of the province to keep Trees healthy to fight off the it is that the City and province Are slashing funds for the dutch Elm disease Val Werier ded the civic ded budget includes a Grant of from the now the cites portion for this year is Only less than half what it was three years the consequences Are discs because of inadequate the incidence of ded has risen More than 70 per cent the past two unless the program is restored the forestry Branch says ded will quickly grow to to elms each year for the next five devastating Large areas of Winnipeg irreplaceable residential tree it is foolish and destructive of the cites charac Ter to allow this to it costs much More to remove Dis eased Trees than it does to main Tain says the provincial natural resources department in a 1990 cos Benefit analysis in simple economic terms it makes Finan Cial sense to manage dutch Elm disease in the province is ignoring this advice and its neglect is Assum ing scandalous because ded can spread rapidly it is essential to keep close watch for symptoms of Dis ease and immediately remove stricken la safeguard win the province is committed to do this in a Buffer or protective zone around but it has failed to do natural own figures reveal that about diseased elms have been left standing in the Buffer i am indebted to the research of the nonprofit coalition to save the i am also proud of my which i should readers frequently ask me whether i am related to Judy the executive she is my Daugh Ter and i am proud of her and her role in protecting the Environ the Elm is part of our a tree of splendour and a Symbol of our ability to thrive in extremes of it is indigenous to the latest strains coming to us following the last glacial age More than years ded is the big enemy but there Are individual elms that have built up an the Good news is that vaccine developed from these immune Trees has been tested successfully for the second the sup ported has been led by Martin retired pro Fessor of Forest University of further tests have to be made on this patented City Council will Deal with a motion on 22 to restore cuts to the forestry budget and there is every indication it will do How can it do for it will assure the survival of one of the cites finest a source of Pride to the citizenry the great attraction is the pre dominance of the Row after gracing streets with umbrellas of it is this elegant observes Mike City that gives tone to the Val Werier is a Winnipeg his column appears on economists provide thin Gruel vol 126 1x0277 the Nobel prize for 609 comics was awarded this it Doest attract As much Public attention As the other Nobel perhaps because it is not a real not having been set by Alfred Nobel but instead established by the Nobel committee follow ing a huge bribe from Sweden Central we should not neglect the professional economists we All of us in our own Jar economists of sorts and by paying attention we might learn useful for generations of readers have reacted with ror to the scene in Dickens liver twist where the Young and hungry Oliver pleads for a Little More Gruel and is cruelly denied it by that reaction Only shows that while generations of readers May be hearted they know nothing about real when George Bush was com Peting with Ronald Reagan for the Republican presidential Illarion in the United states in be dismissed reagans Trieste Down theory As voodoo reagans idea was that it is a useful thing to give people who Are already Rich even More As they spend a few a few May eventually trickle Down to the rest of us who feed on the torn of the economic to this it is not a useful thing to because there is below poverty for it to trickle it is alter for things to trickle so if you give a pm person More than a few they might Start to even to toe Point where they might make a White this might lighten it does no Good my Money in the tads of Rich people is Ful that Way and it is selfish of the poor to ask for id that tight a rumbles outrage at olivers request a for More mates perfect sense society would find no More profit in a plump Oliver than a thin trickle Down is Only one school of there Are Many others and they can differ greatly in every respect save one most of us mostly dont under stand most of for economics As Ordinary Folk understand it we must turn to Dickens where Micawber informs us annual income Twenty annual expenditure Nineteen Nineteen result annual income Twenty annual expenditure Twenty pounds ought and result that seems to make a certain amount of sense and Many peo ple make some sort of Effort to follow it in their own most of us do not Fol Low it very faithfully because it is stuff and nonsense if every one civilization As we know it would come to an the world Economy depends absolutely on everybody owing everybody else a fact which i am continually trying to impress upon my the last of the to subscribe to Micawber or the Market As it is known is we Are by something called derivatives and the Trade in economists can explain it better than i but this Trade produces nothing it in trading in but it can be hugely this years Nobel prise went to two economists for their work in this derivatives Are a fancy form of High stakes sort of like pork belly futures but better the practice was most compellingly brought to Public attention in when a renegade trader in Singapore made a bad lost billion and brought Down Britain Ings Bank and in 1994 when Orange vials guessed wrong about inter est rates and bankrupted the county with a Dollar Manitoba lotteries officials can Only another recent Nobel prize was awarded for a theory on unequal which is when one party to a Deal knows something that the other party Doest done on a High enough this is called economics done on the Street its a scam in has been likened to a ponzi scheme in a which a Borrower makes a Suc cession of Loans to pay the inter est on previous ones until he rum out of lenders or gets developed in Las vegas or at the Crystal these Theo Ries would be called a system for beating the Odds and the barred developed m they Are called economics and the theorists get Nobel this bears i pet that in i could figure it i could leave Micawber hew until i cling to the simple Beauty of the corollary to i casters Law something will turn up or trickle ;