Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A10 Winnipeg free May 2000 editorials Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights aboriginal old guard chief Louis one of Manitoba longest serving aboriginal has been charged with a series of weapons offences Fol lowing an incident last week at a Winnipeg Stevenson is expected to announce next week if he will stay on As chief of pegu is first whatever his and regardless of the out come of his Stevenson personal and the futures of reserves across the province and the Are at a Stevenson has served As chief for 19 and is part of the old guard of Canadian aboriginal As native canadians continue Down the path of self government and they will look to a new generation of a new generation of Community leaders with new ideas about economic and social development on the More aboriginals Are attending running businesses and achieving renown in the Young raised to take Pride in their language and Are Likely to have their own ideas about democracy on the reserves and openness and accountability in band govern As the old guard the new leaders will need to address concerns expressed on some reserves about How band councils spend the Money they receive from the Federal government to provide services and programs to the people who live on the there have been allegations in some communities that people do not feel free to Challenge the chief and band councillors for fear of losing Access to jobs or education funding and cannot easily obtain information on the Community collective Federal policy has aimed to Foster Strong native leaders who would be Able to where decades of Effort by Indian agents in encouraging aboriginal communities to find direction and purpose that could Lead eventually toward improved social and economic conditions in band the results have been parliament and the Canadian Public cannot ignore aboriginals who complain of corrupt practice and bullying by chiefs and but native leaders cannot Lead if they Are constantly second guessed and monitored by the chiefs and councils will perform Best when they Are regularly called to account by articulate band members with incomes Independent of the if pegu is becomes a vigorous local democracy in which no resident pays a penalty for criticizing the that will be chief Louis Stevenson richest avoiding a fiasco Canadas ambassador to the United Robert was a lonely voice of reason at a United nations Security Council debate this week on a subject of which Canada is perhaps better qualified than any other nation to speak peace Fowler argued against the Quick deployment of a in peacekeeping Force to the democratic Republic of As the peacekeeping disaster in Sierra Leone the in seems determined to create what promises to be an even greater fiasco in the the situation in Sierra Leone is pretty simple by african standards an elected government and a rebel army involved in a civil War but in troops there have been unable to maintain any the situation in Congo is complicated even by the standards of the where the in has been involved for years and almost certainly will remain involved for years to there is civil War in the but there Are also at least four other african nations supporting one or another of the Many factions involved in the violence the Security Council Hopes to solve that problem with less than half the troops involved in Sierra fowlers objections to this Are straight Forward before a in Force goes there must be intelligence from the ground that will inform it it must be Well trained and Well equipped it must have a Clear and useful mandate everything that the in did not have in Sierra Canada comes to this debate with a wealth of the Security Council should listen to its if it does Ottawa should decline to play any role in a Congo Bank on it the United states Federal Reserve on tuesday raised its interest rate by half a percentage Point to per cent in order to slow growth of demand and keep inflation in on the Bank of Canada raised its key lending rate a half Point to six per prices in Canada Rose per cent in the last at the Low end of the Banks target there was no Domestic reason for the Bank to fear but when the Federal Reserve makes a move in the North american credit the Bank of Canada must the Bank of Canada is proud of its Independent monetary when the moves on Canada does not follow until t in a perfect two tiers will make it worse in just a decade 85 per cent of canadians were telling pollsters medicare was their most cherished National social almost 47 per Are prepared to see medicare evolve into a competing Public private 50 per cent support Albertas controversial new legislation under the North Ameri can free Trade agree opens the door to two tier health care right across what accounts for the shift right up to today witness Premier Ralph kleins bluster and Federal health min ister Allan rocks timid Ity governments knew it would be political suicide to be seen repealing medicare they also knew it want by far the easier route was to starve the sys tem and refuse to take the difficult Steps required to Reform All they had to do was wait until the awash medicare horror finally in tune with the Privati Zers and that no Canada can afford Universal Public health that it has three sep Arate new polls by the Angus Reid released to last weeks Blu ribbon forum on the future of medicare sponsored by the Cana Dian medical indicate As Many canadians Are ready to throw in the Towel As Are still committed to in her Book caring for profit How corporations Are taking Over Canadas health care Colleen Fuller states the former conservative government of Brian Mulroney extracted billion from health care during its term in the Chretien liberals maintained that Cut in piled on an additional billion a beginning in it restored billion in addition to these massive funding reduce governments have refused to address the conflict at the Core of while it is Public and Universal on the demand patient it is private and free Market on the Supply practitioner a new study released by Alberta health finds routine visits to the doctor for minor ail ments like flus and sprains Cost More than High technology testing and major Surg eries yet politicians Bob and weave rather than change a system that makes the highest Cost the the Gate keeper for All by the Schreyer government in Manitoba in the 1970s for to establish Community clinics with a wide array of frontline health practitioners and social workers As Well As were hooted Down As As cutbacks depressed physician remuneration across the Many began a ninety work Rule this meant the after hours flus and sprains now flood the emergency wards of the system is under but the answer is not two tiers and they will intensify the stress and dysfunction for All but those with Theodore professor of Public policy at the Yale school of pleads with canadians to realize medicare int critically just in need of targeted adjust As an academic observer of Canadian and american medical care for a Quarter of a Cen i want to say to canadians despite the strains of the last you dont know How Lucky you Marmor writes in a article published this week in the Globe and it is precisely because Canada has Good value for Money through medicare that it represents an ideological threat to medical and pharmaceutical interest Marmor Points to a seeming Paradox in Public attitudes about a Paradox picked up in the Reid polling while 78 per cent of respondents in the Reid Survey thought health care was in crisis in their 71 per cent said they were still confident of getting the services they needed and 64 per cent agreed Canadas medicare remains one of the Best in the Marmor blames this contradiction on the dramatic and political treatment medicare receives in the Canadian and Amer ican canadians be losing Faith in but they should be furious at the politicians who surreptitiously sold out our Public Trust and the National Frances Russell is a Winnipeg political her column appears on experts have not certainty runners should not have to if they must most of the runners i know would accept a death like Serge a researcher with the Canadian Forest ser vice and an experienced died of a heart attack last sunday at the finish line of the National capital his time of was a personal though Well behind the winning time of achieved by Bruce Deacon of Victo had pre pared he trained for three years with a running club under the direction of a running he finished the Quebec City Marathon last in As it another runner collapsed at the finish line and Legare also finished a 10kilometre race two weeks before this years National capital he was in Good physical shape and was setting his sights on the Boston i am eagerly awaiting the explanation of Legates death from the fitness promoters who preach that All canadians should increase their level of somewhere in Ottawa there is an office of the Federal health department that sends motivational speakers out around the country to Tell the citizens to get off their backsides and run or dance or do aerobic exercises or climb most i take it As self evident that their patients should increase their level of Legare and his three children Are now without a i used to run a Little bit myself at the Kins men refit Centre and i could see the Delight in the the clearly measurable i recognized signs that i had improved my own health by system Atic training under the Eye of a first rate run Ning some of the folks i ran with clearly did damage their health by one col lapsing on the track with a heart attack from which he mercifully others Retreat ing to the sports Medicine clinic with excruciating aches and when i developed my own muscle pains and saw my runner friends collapsing around it seemed to me that the fitness promoters and the doctors had not told us the whole Legates death drove the Point but what exactly does Legates death prove that i should not run does it prove anything i believe you can prove that people who do regular physical workouts with proper supervision will have fewer fatal heart attacks than people who never work some of the Active people will have fatal heart attacks and most of the people in both groups will not have fatal heart attacks but an observer interested mainly in statistics for Large groups will be interested in the fact that activity appears in some the risk of heart the Federal health department feels a need to reduce demand on the health system and this is done by dealing with the big numbers and asking the people to do the things that will produce a Good result for Many of Good advice for the May be bad advice for the the Pur pose of the Federal health administrators is accomplished if they reduce the frequency of fatal heart if a few people follow their advice and die of that is just too those few deaths Are outweighed by the others who did not but Serge May he rest in is not just statistically a Little less he is 100 per cent the statisticians and the epidemiologists knew nothing about him and were not there to lend a hand As he Felt his heart failing within the Point May be this that the epidemiologists do know something but the something they know has no bearing on what i should they have their i have my it is still my we Are All surrounded by people who Are anxious to Tell us How to live our most of them have Good a few Are merely mischievous none of them will be there to pick up the pieces when their advice proves none of them is living my i Hope Serge Legare ran marathons for the love of that would be Worth dying i Hope he did not run trying to carry out wishes of others who were preaching a line of Patter about fitness for the population at that would be no Way to live and no Way to Terence Moore is a free press editorial his column appears on Winnipeg free press Winnipeg to presses 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 by vq11281m1s7 Jyoo Winn jag free a division Yew prs division of 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