Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 11, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 Winnie pc Jini 2001 comment editor Terence Moore 6977044 editorials Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights civilized Harmony the need to improve flood Protection works for Winnipeg is like a dark Cloud Over Manito until that Cloud is Winnipeg is at risk of being destroyed by any flood slightly greater than the flood experienced four years removing the is the 1 priority facing nothing can be allowed to divert attention from efforts to improve Protection As expeditiously and comprehensively As is Possi no one would advocate that the dark Cloud May have a Silver every the red River potentially can destroy Winnipeg with a flood slightly greater than the 1997 once that risk is the River continues to Rise and fall depending on the ups and Downs of River Levels have made All but impossible the development of waterfront property in changing lev Els also cause River Banks to become with the result that the City faces More than million Worth of work to stabilize the need to better flood proof Winnipeg is not an undertaking any one it simply is an impera Tive that no one can tackling the flood proof ing creates an Opportunity to regulate River Levels so As to reduce the need to stabilize Banks and allow for greater amounts of waterfront such As the River walk at the the problem of insufficient flood Protection was apparent four years but the prob Lem of not being Able to control water Levels has been apparent every year although the red posed no risk of catastrophe this its Levels due to rainfall remain so High that the River walk today remains flooded two months after the flood Crest has one of three proposals to flood proof a proposal by hydrologist Caspar Booy published on these pages would both flood proof Winnipeg to Levels greater than Levels announced for the other two and it alone would allow for proper regulation of River Levels within books proposal is to raise the West Dike so As to Block any flood up to the and to deepen the Flop Dway in stages so As to carry away water up to the on at it appears to be a flood roofing solution that is Superior to the other two under the propos als under study Are to rather than the flood Way so As to carry away water up to a 500 year or to raise a Dike across the red River Valley at Agathe that would hold Back water up to the the weakness of both these latter proposals is that they cause unnatural increases in water Levels upstream from in other they protect Winnipeg by shifting risk from the City and into the they have the of being cheaper than what Caspar Booy but books deeper Chan Nel has the advantage of allowing water to flow past Winnipeg without causing it to Rise unnaturally and to control in order for that to Booy proposes that a control Structure be built at the Down end of a deeper flood Way the Structure is required in order to keep the flood Way Channel wet in the existing flood Way and the wider proposed flood Way Are designed to be dry so that vegetation can grow and cover the Channel to help prevent the slows the flow of water in the Booy believes Channel erosion is a lesser priority than is greater velocity of flow so that flood Waters escape past Winnipeg As quickly As is Pru Dent each but especially those Springs when flooding is of a threatening by digging the flood Way velocity of flow by keeping the flood Way vegetation is eliminated and with it the drag it but to keep the flood Way a control Structure is needed so that after the flood Crest has Gates can be lowered to maintain water in the flood Way the new the deeper the existing Gates at Norbert and the Lockport Howe can also be used together to not simply better protect but to control River Levels within when the red starts to Rise As a result of the Gates at Norbert could be raised or the new Gates could be lowered to divert water into the deeper flood Way Channel so that the River Levels inside Winnipeg do not increase above a desired say one foot below the when the rainfall effect has less water would be diverted into the flood Way to maintain the desired level in if the level of the red Falls say in a drought the existing dam at Lockport could be used to raise water Levels in Winnipeg up to the desired the need to improve flood Protection has presented Winnipeg and Manitoba with an not Only to make Winnipeg safer but to also make it More on at books proposal allows Winnipeg to at last live in civilized Harmony with its jc6clakkis joint custody proven failure imagine that you Are Lisa Dillman and a judge has ordered you to take your two youngest Ages five and to visit their father in an Alberta fathers have rights and Saskatchewan court of Queens Bench Justice Gene Maurice has determined that John Schneeberger is entitled to what do you do if you Are is you refuse to comply with the court ordered Visita is Dillman was fined for refusing to Send her daughters on a Sleepover at their fathers the night before he was convicted of sexual she has been unable to find a court to overturn his for the time Schneeberger has voluntarily agreed not to require the girls to visit you might think that this Case is the perfect example of Why judges must put the interests of children you might think that Justice department officials would be scrambling to make sure it Doest happen but youd be in women groups predict that the process underway to re Engineer family Law in Canada will make cases like is Dill mans the Rule rather than the a new Justice department putting childrens interest Access and child support in Canada hints that Ottawa is preparing to draft legislation to move to a system of automatic joint or shared for the vast majority of parents nearly 90 per cent who reach agreements on Access and support without set Ting foot in a the changes May be taken As a the documents suggested reforms stand to put victims of Domestic violence at greater risk and under mine child support the National association of women and the Law Nawl is so angry that it joined a Boycott of an Ottawa round table consultation last Bonnie executive director of says that the deck is being stacked against women and Ottawa is considering changes that would undermine Progress made in family Law in the last 20 there were More mens rights organizations on the list of invitees than women says is the Dejavu goes Back to the 1998 hearings held by the joint committee on child custody and where women were verbally admonished by mens rights supporters in the audience and on the committee for explaining Why victims of abuse need improved Legal the women concerns didst Register in the committees final report and there absent from the it pays no heed to the fact that violence and threats against women and children often Esca late upon putting childrens inter ests first neglects to give parents guidance on what they should do to protect children if they Are emotionally or sexual it Calls them High conflict parents and says they May have serious underlying such As mental health or substance abuse surely the Justice department is aware that women leaving violent husbands need Legal including the right to seek a court order for but its document turns the tables on the Lisa Dillman asking whether noncompliant parents should be imprisoned continuously or it hints that wife abuse May not be floating the idea that judges should Only con Sider past conduct that is relevant to Parent ing abilities to determine whether the shared parenting Rule what Rule one proposal is to redefine child custody As the responsibility to maintain a other sections refer Only to paying parents and nonpaying the document appears to have been written to address a problem that Doest really Ever since the government passed its guidelines for child support in Canadian parents have had less to fight about when it comes to child support no sooner were the guidelines embedded in than mens rights supporters cried with no research to Back their they charged that the system the judges and government is biased against fathers and forces Many into putting the childrens interests first asks whether full child support should be paid if the paying Parent has their kids for 40 per cent about Days or More per it seems to ignore that the bulk of child related costs Are not incurred making supper two nights a but that child support is Essen tial to pay the very real costs of hockey piano eyeglasses and birthday Washington and Australia All tried joint they found that when there is a history of joint custody becomes a Way to engage in More protracted More More explains is Dia its been a resounding so Why is Ottawa opening discussion on it beats Eek there Are warriors in the army it must be the silly when it comes to political no one can be As silly As the brass at National defence at last More than Young canadians boys and girls 12to18 years of age belonged to the armed forces air and army Cadet the number is significant As things we have More cadets than regu Lar cadets have been part of Canadas military for More than 125 they were originally organized by militia units As a source of future recruits and even today 15 per cent of cadets go on to join the military when they reach most cadets Are proud of their association with the Many like the uniforms and value the Cadet sponsors such As the militia the legions and the schools that organize affiliated Cadet corps have no problem with the association who does have a problem Canadas military that colonel Rick the director of Canadas says cadets wont be permitted to participate in the Warrior Day parades at the Canadian National exhibition in Toronto and the West Ern fair in unless the name of the parades is the name delivers the wrong the colonel Canada opposes child he and to have cadets March in a warriors Parade makes them child it is indeed the silly colonel Hardy says we dont want that name associated with children and cadets seen As warriors or Warrior certainly no youth group in this country respects and under stands the military traditions like the cadets but they Are not and they Are not child soldiers and that a perception we want to get rid the colonels solution change the name of the he would find it quite acceptable for the cadets to Parade in uniform along with regular Force units and veterans so Long As the name of the Parade is changed from a warriors Day Parade to a veterans Day that just do not mention the word Warrior and colonel Hardy will order the cadets into the keep the word which has been the name of the Parade in London for 80 and our mod Ern army has a cadets would be permitted to assist in the and carry signs or but they would not be allowed to March in we should not be surprised by the reaction from Veter ans who consider the description Warrior to be More of a tribute to those canadians who fought and those who died for their country than a word to be deleted from our vocabulary in the Pursuit of political de who is a member of the warriors Day committee in has written defence minister Art asking him to explain How Canada became a nation without her warriors in those wars were not fought by girl guides or but by War rior what jackass is responsible for this latest Effort to convert our once proud Mil itary into some boy scout movement i have nothing against but they Are not fight ing organizing military cadets in Canada has always been a bit years when i served on the Cadet committee for there were some parents who objected to what we were the air Force could teach a Cadet to and the parents thought it was won the Navy could take him aboard a War ship we still had some then to the Caribbean and the parents were when we suggested a Cadet go to army some parents accused us of turning their sons into this attitude has now become entrenched in our military Toronto is continuing with its Parade this the cadets will participate but will not March with other branches of the London has agreed to change the name of the mainly because the committee believes it will need the cadets in future whether there will be cadets is in they Are not politically and political correctness is today after our Only world military leadership is the design of our combat uniform for pregnant we Are delivers a deadly fashion at that was the defence departments initial comment on the by now some one has probably decided that the word deadly is no longer militarily Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free presses 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 vol 129 n0181 2001 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson Canada limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain Manitoba r2x pm 6977000 a member Fol the Manitoba Prew Council Rudy email Nicholas Patrick Flynn Depue editor ;