PAGE A2, THE HERALD, Thursday, May 12, 1977

P.C. Conference d

TORONTO (CP) —
Governments at. various
levels came under attack
Wednesday when critics
from the public and private
sectors set out to analyse
‘Canada’s economic ills.

Nearly 30 speakers from
across Canada and abroad
presented their views at
group discussions and “in
speeches at a one-day
economic conference titled
Window On Tomorrow and
sponsored by the
Progressive Conservative
Party of Canada.

W, 0. Twaits, former
chairman of Imperial Oli
Lid., said government
bureaucracies complicate
economic issues,

He said Canadians have
been increasingly reminded

they are living beyond their
means, but a more realistic
description would be that
governments at all levels
“have been living beyond
the means of Canadians.”

Noting that Canada has
the largest foreign debt—
$48.5 billion—of any coun-
try, Twaits said taxpayers
are faced with enormous
rates of repayments.

“This is a debt that
requires the repayment in
principle and. interest
charges of nine-to 10-per-
cent a year.

“At these rates, for every
$100 borrowed, you are
paying back $200 in interest
and principle over the
normal term.”

Neil Reimer, national
director of the Oil, Chemical

OVER PIPELINE

_and Atomic Workers in-
‘ ternational Union, said it is

a national disgrace that one
million people in Canada are
unemployed.

Reimer, chairman of the
Canadian Labor Congress,
said the public has become
critical of institutions that
normally are relied upon to
provide jobs,

He said a particular
concern’ of the labor
movement is the slow
growth in spending on
housing.

He also criticized the
government for not setting
up a national energy policy
which he described as the
corner stone to producing

jobs.
“The federal government
has failed dismally—as

Gas Companies Clash

WHITEHORSE, Yukon
(CP) — The two companies
competing for federal

permission to build a nor-
thern natural gas pipeline
clashed Wednesday at the
opening of a public inquiry
into the proposed Alaska
Highway line.

Jack Marshall, Canadian
Aretic Gas Pipeline Ltd.
lawyer, immediately
jumped on a Foothills Pine
Lines Ltd. statement that it
has applied to construct only

one express pipeline
through the Yukon.
He suggested that

Foothills might be planning
two lines and said its. in-
tentions should be clarified
before the three person
inquiry, established by
Ottawa last month to study
the social and economic
aspects of the line, proceeds
any farther.

would follow the route of the
Alaska Highway.

Marshall said there is evi-
dence that Foothills might
wish to connect this line. with
one from the Mackenzie
Delta as an alternative to
building a. Mackenzie Valley
line. Such a line would
traverse a large part of the
Yuken and would follow the
yet-to-be-completed
Dempster Highway that
eventually will connect
Whitehorse with Inuvik in
the Northwest Territories.
ONE APPLICATION:

Alan Hollingworth,
Foothilis lawyer, said the
company has only one ap-
plication before the energy
board and has no intention
of applying for connecting
lines, There was nothing to be
gained at the inquiry by
speculating what lines
might be considered in the

Arctic Gas has applied to future,

the National Energy Board
te build a Mackenzie Valley
gas pipeline that would have
an Alaskan gas connection
through the northern Yukon.
That plan received a set-
back Monday when the Ber-
Zer,.. Mackenzie Valley
pipeline inquiry recom-
mended no construction in
the northern Yukon and said
the valley line should be
delayed 10 years.

Foothills has proposed a
Mackenzie Valley line with
no Alaska connection and a
separate line to carry
Alaskan gas south via the
southern Yukon. The latter

CANADA |
NO DUMP

LONDON (CP) — Canada,
is determined not to become
the nuclear garbage dump
of the world, says External
Affairs Minister Don
Jamieson. .

Jamieson told reporters’

Wednesday that some
countries have suggested
the wide open spaces of
Canada and the U.S. would
be “a nice place to bury”
atomic wastes that might
otherwise be used‘ to
produce explosives.

He did not name the
countries which had made
the suggestion.

On the general question of
Canadian uranium exports,
Jamieson said he wants to
obtain interim safeguard
agreements with Britain,
West Germany, Italy and
Japan to ensure that such
shipments will not be used to
produce nuclear weapons.

The interim
arrangements would cover
the period until such time as
the seven-country summit

leaders can agree on per:

manent _noen-proliferation
controls.

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Elections
VANCOUVER (CP) —
Elections held by a

province-wide mail ballot
have named three Van-
couver nurses to top offices
of the 19,000-member Regis-
tered Nurses’ Association of
British Columbia.

Holding office for two
years will be: president Sue
Rothwell, a University of
B.C. assistant professor of
nursing; first vicepresident
Stephany Grasset, a Van-
couver public health nurse;
and second vice-president
Lois Blais, a head nurse at
St. Paul's Hospital in
Vancouver.

He said he might well ask
if Arctic Gas is planning any
new proposals considering its
“recent setbacks.”

Inguiry lawyer Stephen
Gondge said it is relevant
for the inquiry to get what

-evidence it'<can ‘about
“possible: lines down -the

Dempster and Klondike high-

ways,

The Klondike Highway
connects Whitehorse with
Dawson City innthe west-
central Yukon and is a
possible alternative to the
more southerly Alaska
Highway route.

Inquiry chairman Ken

Lysyk made a preliminary
ruling that information on
possible Dempster and
Klondike routes will be
pertinen e@ inquiry.

The inquiry will hold
almost three months of
public hearings in the Yukon
to gather evidence of the
pipeline implications,
possible deficiencies in the
Foothills proposal, and the
views of residents.

ROUTE DECISION

Itis to submitits report b
Aug. 1, about one mont
before Ottawa is expected to
tell the United States which
route will be followed.

There has been some
criticism that the inquiry

_ was hastily thrown together

and that it will not have
enough time to do a proper
job. However, Northern
Affairs Minister Warren Al-
Imand has said it is a
preliminary investigation
and a second one will be held
if the Foothills application is
approved in principal.

The Berger inquiry lasted
two years and held com-
munity hearings throughout
the valley and in the far
northern Yukon, The Yukon
inquiry will hold formal
hearings here and informal
meetings in communities
that might be affected by
the pipeline.

Lysyk is dean of law at the
University of British

‘Columbia and is fornier

deputy attorneygeneral of
Saskatchewan.

EN FRANCAIS?

Parisian parley

PARIS (CP) — Prime
Minister Trudeau arrived
here Wednesday for an
informal twoday visit
during which he has but one
official funection—lunching
with President Valery Gis-
card d’Estaing.

He flew here from London
where he attended two
summit meetings and‘ in
keeping with the informality
of the trip he was greeted
only by France’s chief of
protocol and his old friend
Gerard Pelletier, Canadian
ambassador to France. |

Friday, he will have |
working lunch with Giscard
d’Estaing and hold a news
conference. Other than a
couple of interviews, those
are the only things he will do
before flying home to Ot-
tawa on Saturday.

The visit draws more than
usual interest because it
follows closely what ob-
servers have called red-
carpet treatment afforded
Claude Morin, minister of
intergovernmental affairs
in the separatist Quebec
government,

Trudeau and his aides
have rejected any
suggestion that the object of
the visit is to make sure that
France does not swing

support behind the
separatists or even give that
impression.

Trudeau says he is here
for informal talks as part of
a longstanding arrangement
with Giscard d’Estaing that
each would drop in on the
other if they happened to be
in the neighborhood.

At a news conference in
London, Trudeau questioned
whether Morin got red-
carpet treatment or whether
he even wanted it. For
himself, he did not want it.

Just before Trudeau leit
Ottawa for a trip that took
him to Iceland beiore

London, he toldsome British
newspaper men that the late
French president Charles de
Gaulle was’ an obnoxious
tellow.

The president soured
CanadaFrance relations for
years by shouting Vive le
‘Quebec Libre-- a separatist
‘slogan—from the balcony of
Montreal. city hall in 1967.

The prime minister took
another punch at the late
president in a BBC in-
terview just before he left
London, He said as late as
the weekend he and Giscard
d’Estaing had talked of the
general feelings in Quebec
and Canada—but not about
separatism. He said Giscard
d'Eestaing is more in-
terested in understanding
the Canadian situation in-
stead of “judging or making
political forecasts of
prophecies a la de Gaulle.”

Trudeau said he likes per:

sonal exchanges, as he had
had with U.S. President
Carter and former president
Nixon, and with various
British prime ministers, He
had not had the chance to
have such conversations
with French leaders,

Trudeau said this is not
the type of trip that calls for
him to visit the mayor of
Paris. The mayor, Gaullist
Jacques Chirac, came out
strongly in favor of the alms
of the Quebec government
when Morin was here.

Trudeau was to attend the
theatre Wednesday night
with Pelletier, a former
cabinet minister.

SHEFFIELD, England
OP) — An Irishman
recenily was caught
stealing a parcel at the
railway station here. When
the package was opencd it
contained 85 copies of the
megazine Police Review.

have most provincial
governments—in  es-
tablishing a national energy
policy.”

In another address,
William Rees-Mogg, editor
of The London Times,
cautioned Canadians
against making the same
mistakes that Britain made
when it restructured its
post-war economy.

Rees-Mogg said Britain’s
approach to the creation of
wealth has been wrong and
the country should have
followed the example of
Germany and Japan in
strengthening its economy.

“We did not settle down to
create wealth,” Rees-Mogg
said. ‘We believed we could
do it part-time.”

Britain's slow produc-

If the children in Mrs.
Gough’s grade one Sunday
School class at’ Knox United
Church look worried, it is
because. they are. running

$4.85 BILLION DEBT |
raws anti government

tivity growth aiso was
reflected at the university
level where fewer than one
of 20 students are interested
in industry.

In addition, ‘‘the level of
investment in plants and
machinery is no higher now
than it was in 1963,” ‘

Another problem was that
governments have allowed
their overhead to grow,
although the present

d-
ministration is doing better.

than most of its prede-
cessors. ;
Rees-Mogg said heavy
taxation and extensive
nationalization of. industry
have tended to reduce
productivity.

“T have four warnings for
Canadians, Don’t let trade
unions dominate’ the

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is holding a carnival on
Saturday, May 14, from it
am to-2 pm at 4907 Lazelle

economy. Don't inflate the
money supply. Don’t let

your governments build an

army of bureaucrats, and
don’t tax people to the
degree that their incentive
to work is destroyed,”
Robert Stanfield, former
national leader of the
Progressive Conservatives,
called on the federal and
provincial ‘government to.

co-ordinate their efforts in

dealing with regional prob-
lems.

Stanfield said an effective
program should involve
more than the federal
department of regional
economic expansion
(DREE), which he said deals
wth problems on a
provincial basis.
“DREE, with

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IN QUEBEC

Even the paving

done in

QUEBEC (CP) — The
Quebec human rights

_ commission has rapped the

provincial government and
Transport Minister Lucien
Lessard for issuing a di-
rective requiring that road
workers huve a knowledge
of French.

In a scatement Wed-
nesday, the commission
said the language order was
discriminatory because the
‘jobs involved generally do
not require that a person
speak French.

The order, issued last
month by Lessard, affects
7,500 summer employees
who cut hay, fill potholes,
paint signs and perform
dozens of other maintenance
tasks along the province's
highways. .

“As drafted, the directive
may be applied in such a
way that Quebecers of
different ethnic origin¢ and
immigrants not speaking
French can find themselves
denied jobs for which
knowledge of French is not
essential,” the commission
said. ;

Lessard had said it was
normal for a government to
demand that its employees
speak the language of the
majority— French.

FOR CERTAIN JOBS

The seven-member rights.
commission said it accepts
that ‘people involved in
public administration
needed to know French but
argued that ‘for certain jobs,
the use of a language is not
essential or = even
necessary.”

But it is usually sufficient
to understand signs to
execute raad jobs, the
commission said.

The commission also

_ noted that 14.5 per cent of

Quebec residents use

English on a daily basis and

another five per cent use

neither English nor French,

including many ' native
ople.

“The state must therefore

make sure that immigrants,
Quebecers of different
ethnic origins and native

French

people have access to
mporary jobs where the
French language is not es-
sential or even necessary...
BE DISCRIMINATORY

“To proceed otherwise
would be to practise
discrimination against an
important part of Quebec’s
population.”

Lessard’s directive has
caused anxiety among
Englishspeaking Quebecers
in the Gaspe and western
regions of -the province
where men who had worked
for years on road gangs
have been denied jobs: he-
cause they did not speak
French.

The commission said it is.
pursuing inquiries into
particular cases referred to
it.

Commission vice-
president Maurice Cham-
pagne has already criticized
the government for
exempting the proposed lan-
guage charter from sections
of the provincia! human
rights charter banning
discrimination according to
nationality, race and
language.

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VANCOUVER (CP) — Dr,
Bob Evans of the British Co-
lumbia Energy Commission
says that schools and
colleges offer a “great
potential area for energy
conservation in B.C. be-
cause they account for a
third of the commercial
floor space in the province.

Evans told the Northwest
Prospectors and Developers
convention
Tuesday that many studies
had shown energy savings of
20 per cent or $15 million
annually are possible
simply by changing the way
in which school and college
heating systems are
operated.

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its patchwork

SHOE HUT

of provincial and sectional
agreements, may be faced

politically that existing separate
tructures of regional economic association could
developmentare inadequate be developed which would
meet the needs of all with no
real problems.”

8

and the approaches are not

coherent.’

He said particular efforts

f ire
Quebec wants to go its own
separate way in its own

interests, an

Nothing could be further

should be directecd toward from the truth, he said. .

the ‘Atlantic provinces and

“In my opinion, we should

eastern’ Quebec, where start from the simple
economic conditions are premise that there will be no

relatively weak.
John Robarts, former

winner in this game,”

Robarts said Quebec’s

Ontario premier, said he was committed intention to

disheartened by, such

- separation

means that

suggestions and by what he Canada will never be the
had heard recently about sameagain, as various sides
minimizing the economic bargain for better positions,

results of Quebee’s proposed

“There is no turning

separation from Canada. back,’ he said. ‘We arenow

“Tt must say that I am committed to some form of
somewhat appalled by the different Canada than we
easy assumption that if have known so far.”

NATIONALLY
Socreds split.

OTTAWA (CP) — Social

Credit Leader Andre Fortin reports suggesting h

tried to dispell impressions
Wednesday that his party is
split on the estion of
Quehec independence.

The party's 10 MPs, all
from Quebec, believe in
preserving Confederation,
Fortin said at a news con-
ference. |

However, he conceded

for Bellechasse, said news

negotiating with the
Liberals to join that party
were false.

ASKS FOR RULE n
Lambert asked Commons
Speaker James Jerome to
rule on a motion asking the
government-owned CBC to
clarify its news reports on
Lambert’s alleged Liberal

that Rene Matte, member for courtship.

Champlain, believes that
Quebec should he in-
dependent.

Fortin said he respected
Matte’s views but at the
same time said separatists
could not be part of the
Social Credit party.

Matte’s views have been
known for several years,
Fortin said.

He said the party believed
the current constitution is
unacceptable and must be
changed. The party would

Jerome promised to rule
on the motion later.

Other Social Credit MPs
have also denied reports
.they want to join the Libera:
party because of Fortin's
alleged move towards pro-
separatist sentiments.

Jean-Pierre Goyer,
supply and services
minister, said Tuesday tha
half of the Social Credit
members had approached
the Liberal party. ;

Fortin said he asked his

remain in Parliament to work colleagues about their

towards that goal. WOULD
VOTE YES

Earlier this week Fortin
said he favored a sovereign
Quebec in economic union

-with .Canada. and that -he
‘would “vote “yes”’ in” the
Quebec government’s prom-

ised referendsm on in-
dependence unless a more
attractive alternative than
the status quo is offered to
Quebec.

Speaking Wednesday,

‘Fortin said he hopes Quebec

is not placed. in the position
of choosing between the
status quo and in-
dependence. But he refused
to clarify his position on
what action should be taken
if only those two alter-
natives were before the
Quebec people.

Fortin said his position is
the same as former leader
Real Caouette, who died last
December.

Caouette sought seif-
determination for all
provinces within a federalist
system, Fortin said. .

Earlier in the Commons
Wednesday, Adrian Lam-
bert, Social Credit member

SHOE HUT SHOF

possible defection and they
all said they planned to
remain in the Social Credit

rty.
Leonel Beaudoin, member

: fer Richmond, said he plans t

stay in the party although
about half of the members:
do not share his federalist
views. .

ANTIGONISH, N.S. (CP)
— Dr. Yves Brunelle, a St.
Francis Xavier University
professor, has translated an
_anthology of French-
Canadianliterature that will
be published next fall, He
has edited, translated and
written the Introduction for
French Canadian Prose-
Masters: The Nineteenth
Century. The edition is com-
posed of 20 selections by 15
authors,

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