US. expected to push for Kitimat cm =”

BY DONNA VALLIERES

The U.S. government is
expected to endorse Kitimat
as the port of entry for
Alakan oil within the next
month, according to
speculations.

Tony Pearse, co-ordinator
of the coilition of groups
opposing Kitimat as a future
coilition of groups opposing
omit top parg

Tony Pearse, co-ordinator
of the coiltition of groups
opposing Kitimat as a future
pipleine and tanker route,

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said that the Washington
state legislature will
probably reject | both
alternate locations and

xecomamend Kitimat as the

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Trans-Mountain Pipelines
proposal to make Cherry

oint the site of the terminal
has already been rejected
by the state legislature
because of. too many' ob-
sticles which would take two
or four years to overcome.

Port Angeles, the location

roposed by the Northern

ier company, will probalby

be rejected for the same
reasons, Pearse sald.

This leaves Kitimat which
‘looks good. from the
American point of view"

because they would need
only National Energy Board
approval for the project.

earse, who is  ¢o-

ordinating 20 opposition

groups In teh West Coast oil
port inquiry, said
e Government will
not make any statements on
Kitimat as a possible site

*

until the Thompson inquiry
is completed.

It would be ‘foolish

politically,’ Pearse said, for
the government to support

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How many bugged

_ We don't know

By DOUG SMALL

OTTAWA (CP) ~
SoliciterGeneral Francis
Fox conceded Thursday that
he can't be sure how many
MPs may have been
unknowing victims of
RCMP wiretaps before new

electronic surveillance

restrictions were ordered in
“All that can be said at the
moment is that there is at
least one,” Fox said, con-
firming a statement by
RCMPCommissioner
Robert Simmons that one
MP was secretly bugged
during a criminal in-
vestigation sometime before
the it restrictions were

ased.
“It is impossible to con-
clude that there are no other

The —solicitor-general,
minister responsible for the
RCMP, said he is satisfied
there have been no such
incidents since Parliament
imposed bugging controls in
its 1974
Privacy Act.

“Tt is quite possible that in
the exercise of an in-
vestigation there may have
been, prior. to 1974, bu:
that. would not' have

me rec
e forte,” itor ind.
DENIED CHARGE
Last month, former
RCMP commissioner
Maurice Nadon denied that
the RCMP used secret
listening devices on any MP
since 147, when Communist
MP Fred Rose was con-
victed of espionage
following revelations about
a Soviet spy ring in Canada.
On Tuesday, however
Simmons said. Nadon had
been wrong. -
“On at least one occasion,
a member of Parliament
was subject toa short period
of electronic surveillance
during a criminal in-
vestigation,”’ Simmons said.
Fox explained that Nadon

and ‘sentor force officers -

searched their records last
month and could find no
evidence that MPs had been
bugged. Later, however,
Simmons discovered a case
that had not been recorded:
and, after consulting with

Fox, released his statement. -

Fox said he knew the
identity of the MP, but
declined to name him.
ASKED QUESTIONS

In 1973, Conservative MP
Erik Nielsen (Yukon) com-
plained in the Commons that

is telephone had been
tapped. He had asked a
number of detailed
questions about a new: se-
curity operation in the
solicitorgeneral’s | depart-
ment at the Ume..

Fox's comments came a
day after NDP Leader Ed
Broadbent called for’ the
establishment of an all-
‘party committee to monitor
and direct RCMP security
services.

“Broadbent said the fact

that Nadon did not know
about the secret sur-
veillance of an MP “‘stralns
credibility pimoat to the

Fox's statements also
follow new charges—made

rotection of -

ords of *

onthe CBC-TV program The

Fifth Estate—that the
RCMP routinely conducts

ill break-ins. .
solicitor -gener.

challenged the CBC Wed-
nesday to produce evidence
to back up its charges or
apologize to the force.

Thursday, he complained
that the program did

nothing to make clear that

secret wiretapping was not #

illegal before 1974. Now,

police can only conduct
wiretaps with a judge's per-
mission. .

Mountie gets
full discharge

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
former RCMP drug squad
officer was granted an
absolute discharge Thur-
sday after being convicted

in county court of stealing |.

$11,000 seized in 1968 during
a or drug conspiracy
investigation.

Judge J. B. MacKinnon
said, in convicting James
Hunt, that he could not

Ive:

Allmand

Ky ALLAN SWIFT

MONTREAL (CP) —
Warren .Allmand said
Thursday he was “‘shafted”
in being switched from
federal Indian affairs min-
ister to the consumer and
corporate affairs portfolio.

e change of jobs came
about partly because he de-
fended Indian and Eskimo
interests against that of
mining and hydro-electric
developers, he said.

“7 think I was shafted,”
Allmand said in an in-
terview after appearing ona
CBC television panel debate
on Quebec separation.

*T decided I would fight on
the Indians’ side—you make
some friends, ‘and you make
some enemies,”

He said his move to freeze
some mining and hydro-
electric development plans
“made some developers
unhappy. ‘Some people are
used to having their own
ay

Indian and Inuit groups
sent telexes to Prime
Minister Trudeau urging
him to keep Allmand as
Indian affairs minister
shortly before the recent
shuffle, the minister said.
‘But Allmand added he
was happy with his new
position and that the- new
minister of Indian affairs
and northern development,
Hugh Faulkner, “‘holds the
same ideas as I."

Allmand also denied pub-
lished reports that he and
‘Trudeau had split on the
question of supporting
northern Quebec Inuit
against e Quebec
povernment’s language
egislation.

believe that Hunt honestly
held the opinion that he wr
entitled to use the money,
which was subsequently
returned.

Defence lawyer James
Hogan said that Hunt had
suffered enough through the
end of his 16-year career in
the RCMP and it would be a
form of double jeopardy to
cause Hunt to lose his new
career as operations
manager with a security
firm in Toronto.

The discharge means that
Huntis not given a criminal

Judge MacKinnon said

- thattaking the position Hunt
uae “entitied’ to use : the” §

money ‘would, 1 am sure
be shocking to members o
our community.”

‘He noted, quoting from

Hunt’s testimony, that .
“‘things were fast and easy”

drug squad.

on the
During the trial Hogan ar-

gued that no crime was .

committed because the law
did not prevent police of-
ficers from using exhibit
money for thelr own gaingi
said Hunt returned the
money when asked to do so
by a superior.

USED MONEY

Hunt told the court that
drug squad officers had
cfenused exhibit money for

eir own purposes, even
Playin g@ poker with it.

e testified no charges
wore laid when a aqua
miember, who had left the
force, was found with drug
exhibits.

Hunt said he mixed
exhibit money with his own
funds and saw nothing
wrong with using it-for his
own stock investments.

He said it was very
possible that the $11,000 was
used in his own stock
transactions, and that he
was only one of several drug
squad members who gave

‘money to businessman

George Burden for in-
vestment in the stock
market.
He agreed he had
session of the money
tween November, . 1970,
and April 11, 1973 and might
have also used it to finance

police operations, such as
hying drug

unt said in April 1973
when Chief Superintendent
Gordon Dalton ordered the
return of the $11,000 under
threat of arrest, he
telephoned Burden to ask
for the money in the exact

denominations Hunt had

specified on police forms.
Hunt was dismissed from
the RCMP later that year.

Irene Davis everything that’s going on in town, because that’ hat she’ |
paid for. She's oe of oe eteoard operators on alternating shitts at
ferrace Answering Bureau that keep the town posted. ‘a: i
y furnishing the medig ‘with weekly. nla cient Beis

véekly lsts of coming event.

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and other groups can phone 638-8195 and be sure of getting free advertising.

telling you what thne it is whenever

the U.S. recommendation at
this time, even though they
may have already made up
their minds.

Earlier this month it was
reported that the depart-
ment of energy, mines and
resources was carrying out
a coast oil port study similar
to Thompson’s inquiry, Bur
Pearse said this may be
standard procedure. ,

Mike Gillan, executive
assistant to ALLISTAIR
Gillespie, said he did not
know of any reports the
department of energy,

Other work done by the bureau includes compiling a community services
directory, monitoring the crisi ne, giving free-wake-up services and
hat’s Hola on, -lelling you what time‘it ts w! ar you-call.. Much of the work.is paid by’
Service clubs Canada Works graft that runs oyt in March.

be

mines and resources is
conducting on the pipeline,
but any government studied
- would not be comparabie to
THOMPSON'S.

The Thompson inquiry

was set up last March to
assess a proposal to biuld an
oil port at, Kitimat, but
since been broadened to
include propsals for Cherry
Point and Port Angeles.

Formal hearings begin

Monday and Thompson viil
be holding formal talks at
various communities, in- —
cluding Kitimat.

4

Beaufort drill deadline extended

OTTAWA (CP) —_ The
federal cabinet gave Dome
Fetroleum permission
Thursday to extend fall
drilling at a promising
Beaufort Sea well, but
denied the company's. bid
for extensions at two others.

Dome will have to stop
drilling at its Kopanoar an
Ukalerk sites Sunday,
Sept. 25, the deadline set by
cabinet last spring, Ewan

minister, told ‘a news con-

ference.

Cotterill said drilling can
continue past Sunday for ‘“‘a
limited period’' at the
Nektoralik site. The extra
time would allow the
company to drilées4 s8$g r
gas zone and to seat pipe
casing in another zone.

This would ensure
maximum security for the
well during the winter, he

said. .

The Sept. 25 deadline was
established to allow the
company 30 days to move
drill ships off the sites
before the Arctic ice pack
moves in. Environmental-
ists have said the ice pack
could trap the ships, pus
them off the wells an
leaving the drill holes open
to spew out any gas or oll.

Cotterill said cabinet
allowed the Nektoralik
extension because of con-
cern that the hole be
properly cased and because
it wants to know more about

_ how much gas is there.

Gordon Harrison,
president of Canadian

arine Drilling Ltd., said
the weather is good over the
Beaufort and Dome thinks it

would be useful to continue
drilling on all three wells.
In Tuktoyaktuk, a hamlet
on the Beaufort Sea coast,
Dome officials said they
hope they can keep drilling
beyond the Sunday deadline.
They said ice formations
are 160 kilometres (100
miles) north of the drilling
rigs and longrange weather
forecasts indicate it will be a
month before ice presents a
Cotterill, assistant deputy ~ dang 7
‘northern development

mayor

two,”

a
OPPOSES DECISION
Jack Heath, assistant

Quebec to model
after Belgium

POINTE-AU-PIC,
Premier Rene

Levesque said Thursday |
that the Belgian

uropean countries will
serve as model for Quebec
in its search for a new
relationship with the rest of
Canada.

The premier made the re-

,bonor of Belgium
couple, King Baudouin and
Queen Fabiola, currently
visiting Quebec.

“In 1980, your country will
celebrate its 150th an:
niversary as an autonomous
and prosperous
associated with its
neighbors,’ Levesque said,
hinting at the analogy with
an independent Quebec
economically associated

chairman of the Beaufort
Sea community advisory
committee and deputy
of the nearby
Mackenzie delta community
of Inuvik, said he thinks the
cabinet. decision is
politically motivated.

“] just can’t see how they
can justify a
allow drilling to continue on
one rig but not the other

e said following a
meeting of the 14-member
advisory committee, which
has two members each from

with Canada.

He paid tribute to the Bel-
ians’ ‘tenacity’ and
‘dymanism” in overcoming
obstacles lying in the path of
increased co-operation with

other countries.

“You are, therefore, Your
Majesties, naturally in-
clined to discern the
legitimate desire which is
also cherished by Quebec's
five million francophones to
and = prosper
although — the are
surrounded on all sides by
an anglophone population
almost 50 times as
numerous,” Levesque said.

Earlier in Quebec City,
Baudouin and Queen
Fabiola received a warm
welcome from a crowd of
about 400 as they walked
through the narrow streets
of the provincial capital’s

survive

historic district.

decision to

Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvik, Ak-
lavik, Sachs Harbor,
Holman Island, Paulatuk
and Coppermine.

“We want to see the
drilling continue, and we're
goin to make our views
elt,” Heath said.

William Nasogaluak,
chairman of the
Tuktoyaktuk hamlet
council, said the council
supports continued drilling
“provided the same
precautions are taken that
were taken all along.”

. He sald allowing an ex-
‘tension at Nektoralik
represents ‘‘the same
gamble as the other holes.”

Frank Pokiak, a member
of the executive of
Tuktoyaktuk Hunters and
Trappers Association
which expressed early

osition the drilling,
said the drilling has “not
been goed for us.”

“ But they've been drilling
all summer, and I don’t see
any harm,” Pokiak said.

Canadian Marine Drilling is
& Dome subsidiary.

Harrison refused to
comment on how much
natural fs might be in the
area of the wells, but he said
that to be commercial, any
natural gas find in the
Beaufort would have to be
considerably more ex-
tensive than one in Alberta.

This is Dome’s second
season of drilling in
Beaufort and it is the first
company to use drill ships in
that sea. Last year's dee
drilling deadline was Sept.
15 and the cabinet granted a
10-day extension. Some
shallow drilling was allowed
into October.

Security
takeover
feared

TORONTO (CP) —
Canada’s expanding private
security industry might fall
prey to an underworld
takeover, says the president
of the Canadian Police
Association.

“The concern has been
raised by our members that
legitimate companies could
sell out to, or be taken over
by fronts for lessthan-
desirable elements,” said
Cpl. Phil Jamieson, head of
the association which
represents almost 17,000

cemen and Po-
cewomen,

“The potential for in-
dustrial espionage or black-
mail is tremendous,’
Jamieson said in an in-
terview at the association’s
23th annual meeting
Wednesday.

Jamieson, from Saanich,
B.C., said police are upset
about minimal training of
security guards, misuse of
lie detectors, hiring of aliens
and persons with criminal
records, and the use of
guard dogs and weapons.

SELLS STUFFED AUK

LONDON (Reuter) — A
rare stuffed great auk, a
seabird extinct for more
than 130 years, was soldata
Sotheby's auction Wed-
nesday toa London gift shop
owner for about §7,000.

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