Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 22, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A14 local Winnith fair March 2001 nip to Issue paper on Access issues by Helen falling Manitoban will be asked How much Access they want to government information and How they want their privacy protected when culture minister Ron Lemieux circulates a discussion paper in the next few Access advocates thought the Issue had fallen off the Dps Agenda after hearing nothing since a review of the Freedom of information and Protection of privacy act was announced last but who took Over the Cul Ture portfolio in said a Dis Cussion paper will be circulated within the first half of the its later than we had but its still on he Lemieux stressed that he wants to see greater Protection of personal information held by the he is also seeking clarification about what information provided to Cabinet ministers should be considered confidential and what should be released to the Public As but he repeated the concern of for Mer culture minister Diane Mcgifford that government staff Are spending too much time researching requests for its very Lemieux we have to balance Public Access with the resources we Elizabeth Fleming of the provincial Council of women of Manitoba is Dis Turbed about the Prospect of Lemieux further restricting an act that is already considered one of the worst in the she said she is having difficulty get Ting routine information released before municipal Board librarian Paul Nielson said people waiting for information get so frustrated by delays and appeals that they give up in Access when when the cows come Home or when you need it he wants the province to appoint an Access commissioner with the Power to order release of documents a sys tem used in several Good father Goodfella help fund aboriginal nip told trustees want Aid for course materials by Nick Martin movie and associated names and logos Are trademarks of Corus Premium Ltd a crust the is a service Mark of time Warner entertainment company Winnipeg one trustees want the province to pay a big chunk of their Cost for aboriginal curriculum materials but not too lest the division no longer get credit for its and if the doer government wont they want to sell the materials above Cost to recover some of their trustees voted this week to ask Edu cation minister Drew Caldwell to dig into his Wallet to reimburse Winnipeg school division for about in staff costs spent developing aboriginal learning materials the division claims the former conservative government and there asking Caldwell to help distribute those materials to other Divi Sions a printing chore that trustee Mike Babinsky said would bring the Overall Bill to but they also want to cover enough of the costs themselves that Winnipeg school division continues to be lauded for the developed Here it is an extremely proud thing that Winnipeg school division has copyright of these that they were devel oped declared trustee Lori John if Caldwell wont she i do not think there is anything ethically wrong about making these materials available for a spokeswoman said Caldwell would not comment until he has seen and reviewed Winnipeg ones our mandate int to develop cur i Hope there will be some sort of Babinsky we made a commitment because the province do said trustee Mario i want to continue to be a partner in which he said wont Hap pen if the province takes full responsibility for the trustee John Orlikov was a Lone hold out he urged the Board to simply give the materials away to whomever can use it makes us look a Little Money my intention is to break the trend of i have talked to Many aboriginal groups that Are Short of said Babinsky said that either the division or province should charge once you put on a user people Arent so into grabbing a truckload of Johnson pointed out that theres Noth ing new in divisions developing and sell ing curriculum and warned that the provinces upcoming new guide lines for a physical education and health curriculum will probably require Winnipeg one to again develop its own mate ;