Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 14, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus a15 win Nicici flu Ili 2000 by Paul Earl on the world was made a slightly poorer place than it had been after the death of former United Grain growers ugg president Alexander Mcinnes Mac Mac was one of those outstanding leaders who come along All too rarely and even More Are found in the Arenas where their gifts Are most Mac was Best known As president and chief executive officer of ugg from 1961 to but he filled Many other roles both in Industry and in Community in the Grain he was the founding president of the canola Council of Canada and was invited by the Federal government to become the first chairman of the Canada grains company director he was a director of several Large Canadian including Canad an Pacific the Royal Bank of Canada and greatest he also gave himself unstinting by to Public filling several roles with Victoria Gen eral Hospital in after retiring from chairing the University of Manitoba Board of among the Many honours he received were appointments to the agricultural Halls of Fame for both Saskatchewan and and to the order of his presidency of ugg encompassed one of the most turbulent eras in the his tory of Western it was a time when the Grain handling and transportation system almost ground to a total halt because of the insidious effects of the crows nest pass freight in the Federal government was forced to buy railway Hopper cars just to keep Grain and the next decade saw a seemingly endless series of com missions of inquiry and studies by consultants and Grain Industry committees on the transportation Mac was among the first in the Grain Industry to and to publicly that the Root of the transportation problem Lay in the Grain freight and that changes had to be made to Canadas transportation policies in order to preserve our ability to ser vice world Gram the debate Over freight rates was bit Ter and pitting those who saw the problems in purely economic terms against others who saw Only social and Community macs at a time when criticizing the Crow was Tanta mount to social and political was a courageous and principled and was characteristic of the kind of leadership that he showed throughout his in Over 20 years in the Grain that courage and leadership earned him the respect and admiration of virtually everyone in Canadian regardless of which Side of the ideological debates they were macs enduring lies less in his honours and accomplish than in the position he holds in the hearts of those who were privileged to work directly with him and to know him As the the awards and the recognition Mac himself never could quite believe that he deserved it Long after he retired he said of his presidency of ugg that he always had a funny sort of feeling that this cant be me i cant be doing he always he As if i were a substitute a custodian who was filling an interregnum Between former ugg president John and whoever was going to come along in never went to macs and it showed in his relationship with whether you were a company a Provin Cial Premier or a Mai room you were treated the same Way by Mac Runciman with with humility and with intolerant of injustice if Mac was accepting and respectful of people As he was intolerant and unforgiving of injustice and abuse of Power or key to what Drew him into an Active role with ugg was a Strong feeling that Farmers had to control their own Mac had absorbed a Strong sense of Justice and fair play from his and he saw these values reflected in the Early farm movement in Western he said of himself that it seems awfully self righteous to say i built a whole life times philosophy on a basis of fair and equitable but the More i look at the More it seems to be the great leaders come along As do great but these larger Hanife types Are often great egotist who Are not terribly pleasant to be it was stature balanced by and Wisdom combined with a Downto Earth attitude that set Mac Paul Earl is policy manager for Western Canadian wheat growers and author of a biography of Mac v 7 reach out supreme court decision comes at Cost to Public Trust the new York times said in an editorial on 13 the supreme court has brought the presidential election to a conclusion in favour of George but its decision to bar a recount in Florida comes at considerable Cost to the Public Trust and the tradition of fair our nation Al history bears the comforting lesson that the american Peoples Confidence in the Rule of Law and the stability of their institutions will not be dam aged in the Long it is incumbent on citizens and elected officials alike to respect the authority of the ruling and the legitimacy of the new presidency whether or not they agree with the courts Legal in the Short Bush and Vic Epresi Dent Al Gore Bear great responsibility for bring ing the nation together in spirit if not in immediate political Bush needs to be gracious and unifying in and Gore must master the difficult task of placing the National need for continuity ahead of any bitterness he May conservative supreme court the five weeks since the election have seen the writing of an entirely unexpected chapter in the nations political this will Long be remembered As an election decided by a conservative supreme court in favour of a conservative Candi Date while the ballots that could have brought a Dif Ferent outcome went uncounted in the court overruled the Florida supreme court by say ing the recount it ordered was inconsistent with the equal Protection and due process provisions of the Federal Constitution and that state election Laws afforded no More time to conduct a full recount under uniform these Days will also be recorded As a time of struggle Between the nations highest Federal court and a Southern state supreme court in a reversal of the old states rights Rou showed the greater sensitivity to protecting the these will be remembered As Days of bitterness Between republicans and we will not know for some time whether that bitterness will usher in a period of ruinous conflict capable of tying up Congress and hobbling a new the Resolution depends greatly on what the nation Bush must speak Healing words to a nation that cast More popular votes for his sees As it begins to examine the Man who upon the stroke of a court ruling from an ideologically divided court now stands to become its 43rd Bush faces first the task of speaking Healing words to a nation that cast More popular votes for his he must define himself in full Public View with a fast track transition and with efforts to soothe the wounds of an election that tested both the nations patience and its in there is nothing in the Texas governors Public record to guarantee that he can unite an electorate and a con Gress so evenly divided Between two parties that have not fully shed their Battle but the grand theme of presidential history has to do with Ordinary men exceeding quite often by curbing the vengeful or triumphalist elements within their own just As John Kennedy carried a piece of note paper reminding him of the narrowness of his Vic tory in Bush should keep in mind the More complicated numbers of this Gore got More popular votes nationally and probably in Florida As Bush title to the office comes through the electoral count and through appropriate Legal procedures that settled in his favour the official result of a Messy Florida diehards May want to keep arguing this outcome for four and that makes it doubly important for Bush to reach out to the broader to i till full Iffla Preus letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone i m8 letters May be letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email Sinclair logic is perverse Gordon Sinclair column run Ning vehicle at Centre of free 9 totally enraged after having spoken to a number of people saturday night at a Christmas i can say that everyone at that get together Felt the sin Clair attempted to Contact the owner of a car that was stolen to see How the individual Felt that his stolen vehicle ended up killing an innocent the logic that Sinclair used to write this article is he is attempting to make the victim of a crime feel guilty that someone stole his it must be Nice to sit Back As Sinclair does and pass judgment on we live in a bitterly cold Winter climate and every one of us has been guilty of running their vehicle when it is bitterly As Sinclair Points it is not illegal to run your car when it gets extremely cold therefore the basis of his column was not Only off but extremely hurtful toward a victim of a Hope Sinclair shakes his head before writing his next Patrick Roger Winnipeg dumbfounded Gordon Sinclair article run Ning vehicle at Centre of tragedy left me instead of blaming his usual target the police for the death of Jovita he has decided to raise the question that maybe the owner of the truck involved in the incident is to heaven for bid we would actually blame the person who performed the Rene Vincent Winnipeg blame thieves what is really tragic about this is that this innocent woman was killed during a police which is a whole other that i wont get into at this Sinclair seems to be placing the responsibility on the owner of the by stating if it was More difficult to break then Jovita Ominga would be if the truck was not she would have been this is but the blame lies not on the owner of the but on the thieves and the Way our criminal system deals with Sandra Stupak Winnipeg weve allowed ads to become gods i would like to commend Catherine Mitchell for her excellent editorial on the medical chicanery evident in health there is a word for medically caused harm the Only thing Catherine did not address is the Root cause of All this iatrogenic that would be canadians willingness to absolve themselves of their responsibility to doctors have become godlike Sim ply because we allowed them med by Force of has come to occupy the position of esteem formerly reserved for the the col lege of physicians and surgeons act empowers doctors to practise medi the question that never gets asked is Cui Bono the ancient roman question of who benefits from protecting Medicine and its practitioners there is another term canadians ought to apply to that term is our willingness to submit to authority without the doctor said so i did there is a cure for All Sepa ration of state and in the competitive marketplace of doctors would have no More authority than then they would have to explain their intentions in order to compete for your you can bet they would have ready references to offer As proof of their Chris buoys Winnipeg review my licensing policies in this weeks throne speech the Manitoba government promised that it would soon announce a new physician recruitment and retention the government has also planned an increase in admissions to the faculty of this is to be one Hopes that As part of its recruitment and retention the Manitoba govern ment intends to take Steps to facilitate the licensing of doctors who received their training outside of in inappropriate and Short sighted licensing policies prevent Over 100 International medical Doc tors from providing care to the people of this the human rights commission recently advised the College of physicians and surgeons that mediation with the association of foreign med ical graduates is warranted to resolve their complaint that International medical school graduates have been treated in a discriminatory the announcement of a new recruitment policy is the Ideal Opportunity for the Manitoba government to bring All unfair and inappropriate practices to an end and allow these doctors to provide medical care to the people of this Romeo my president association of foreign medical graduates Winnipeg Neville said it All i invite Russ and others who feel Many wasted their votes on the pc no candidate in Winnipeg to read William Nevilles column alliances refusal to Bend limits Chance to free Neville provides an excellent explanation Why and voted As Neville states though far from a the election nonetheless vindicated Clarks View that there is a conservative option that is not represented by the i do not feel disenfranchised any More than do those who voted nip in Winnipeg we knew our candidate would not yet we made our preference and our vote was is this not the very essence of a democratic election Steve Nieuwenburg Winnipeg a perversion of Public policy i was dismayed to while watch ing the documentary captured american Canadian water aired by cd ctr on 5 despite assurances to the contrary then prime minister Brian Canadas water is not protected under the provisions of the North american free Trade canadians have every right to feel indignant Over having been deceived on this and other issues concerning that Brian As Well As some key members of his Cabinet have been honoured with appointments to the order of after they virtually signed away Canadas Sovereign control Over our natural can Only be viewed As a perversion of Canadian Public William Wascavich trying to find the right Traill we Are having no Success in trying to find anyone who might know who Robert Traill might we were sent a xeroxed letter dated from it is written on the stationery of Silver the far estate of lord Traill identifies him self As the farm manager and his let Ter is written to railroader Jim Hill in Minnesota on a matter of a cattle is there anyone in Winnipeg that is descended from Robert Traill that would be willing to help us we Are completing our research on the sons of Catharine Parr the famous Early Pioneer Canadian author and As Well As other family Gordon Young editor for Lakefield heritage research doonesbury by Garry Trudeau 0ush wins if this Pur we instant it Bush won with out oms Oha Only p8an0an spa res i ;