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PAGE 14, THE HERALD, Tuesday, April 18, 1978

Behind the scenes

QUEBEC (CP) — For
newlyelected Quebec
Liberal party ieader
Claude Ryan, "the great
discovery of the cam-
paign” was his wife

Madeleine.

A tall woman with a
shock of white hair
combed straight back,
Madeleine Ryan was sin-
gled out by her husband

Gov’t. should plan
three years ahead

OTTAWA (CP) — The
povernment should bring
down an annual white
paper that sets out
detailed spending plans
three years ahead of
time, says a paper
prepared for the Rideau
Public Policy Research
Group Limited, a private
institution.

Bruce Doern, director
of Carleton University’s
School of Public Ad-
ministration, says the
paper would serve as a

_ focus for public scrutiny

of proposed spending by
the government.

A white paper,
published by the treasury
board, might yield
“useful results in im-
proving public  un-
derstanding of, govern-
ment,” Doern says.

The publication of a
white paper should be
accompanied by. the
creation of a
parliamentary com.
mittee on the budget and
the economy. The
committee could study
the paper and invite
briefs and testimony
from business and labor
groups, he adds.

There should be a full
parliamentary debate on
the white paper and the
committee’s evaluation

uf il, he says.

In the last two years,
federal spending has
become an issue of major
concern both to the
private sector and to
governments.

Federal authorities
have been casting about
for ways to make inroads
against an expansion of
spending that has seen
the federal outlay rise to
ahout $50 billion in 1978-
79,nmore than four times
the level when the
Trudeau government
took office a decade ago.
LOSENG CONTROL

Auditor-General J.J.
Macdonell said in his
annual report to
Parliament in 1976 that
the government had lost,
or was close to losing,
control over its spending.

Earlier, this month the
government sought to
improve its financial
management procedures
by appointing a comp-
traller-general at the
deputy minister level.

And in February, the
premiers of the provinces
and Prime Minister
Trudeau agreed that
trends in government
spending growth should
be held, on average, to
less than the growth rate
of the economy as a
whole

Swedish autos
U.S. cleanest

— iawo swedish-built
cars—the four-cylinder
Volvo and the Saab 99—
have been named by the
California Air Resources
Board as the cleanest-
running cars sold in the
United States,

The ratings were based
.on pollution tests done in
1977 on 7,269 cars, board
chairman Tom Quinn told
a news conference
Saturday.

He said the two top-

rated cars, which were’

the only cars in the
outstanding category,
three-way
catalytic converters,
Heading the very clean
category and ranking
right behind the Volvo
and Saab 99 was the Ford
Fiesta, the best-ranking
U.S.-built car in terms of
air pollution, Quinn said.
MEETS STANDARDS
Quinn called the Lin-
caln Versailles, which
came in at the bottom of
the list, the dirtiest car in
terms of air pollution. But
he noted that the car
meets California's strict

anti-smog requirements, .

which are the toughest in
the US.

Quinnnsaid the anti-
smog device used by
Volvo made the car
almost four times cleaner
than required by state
law. .

The Volvo has a base
sticker price of almost
$7.000 while the Saab 99

sold for an average
$8,000. The eight-cylinder
Versailles has a base
sticker price of more than
$12,000. The Fiesta has a
base. sticker. price of
about $3,600.

Rounding out the
board’s top 10 cleanest
cars were the Toyota
Celica, Toyota Corona,

for special praise in his
vietory speech Saturday
night at the Liberal
leadership convention.

Her conservative
el6thes and almost-
austere look contrasted
with the elegant French
dresses and elaborate
makeup of other Liberal
wives in the Ryan camp.
but her easy smile and
talkative nature im-
pressed party supporters,

Originally . Claude
Ryan’s colleague at
work, for 20 years his
partner in marriage,
Madeleine Ryan has
taken on a new role as his
companion in politics. -
CAMPAIGNED HARD

Ever since her husband
left his job as publisher of
Le Devoir in early

January to run for. the.

leadership, Madeleine
Ryan has been criss-
crossing the province on
the campaign trail.

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Horizon, Volkswagen
Dasher, Datsun 200SX
and Datsun 510.

LISTS ‘DIRTIEST’

The 10 dirtiest cars, in
addition to the Lincoln
Versailles, were the AMC
Matador, Triumph TE-8,
Pontiac Sunbird, Old-
smobile Starfire, Mer-
cury Zephyr, Mercury
Bobcat, Ford Pinto, Ford
Mustang II and Ford
Fairmont.

A total of 72 cars
ranked in the very clean
calegory, while 170 were
in the clean range,
Twenty vehicles were
listed in the acceptable
category, which was the
lowest ranking. .

“If a car does not meet

our standards,” Quinn

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being sold (in Cali-
fornia),”’

The board's rankings
were based on three
major pollutants emitted
by automobiles—hydro-
carbons, carbon
monoxide, and nitrogen
oxides,

C.F.P. oil spill
hearing remanded

— The ‘federal fisheries

ease against Canadian
Forest Products Ltd.
resulting from an oil spill
last Sept, 14 at the
company’s Port Mellon,
B.C. pulp mill has been
reraanded to June 1 for
judgment. ‘

Provincial court Judge
J, S. P. Johnson Friday
gave the defence until
May 1 to present writter
arguments in the case.

The company is
charged with unlawfully
depositing harmful
substances in waters
frequented by fish.

Testimony revealed
thal a leak occurred in a
pipe at the plant Sepl. 14,
The pipe leaked for about
half an hour before it was
discovered and the oil
supply cut off.

A report about the pipe-
_ was received the same |

night, but Richard
Munro, a company em-
ployee, said emergency
action was not deemed
necessary.

He testified that he did
not know thal the heavy
bunker oil had make its
way into the main sewer
of the plant and into the
waters of Howe Sound.

Dr. Craig Walden,
associate director of the
B.C, Research Council,
taslified that a series of
experiments he  con-
ducted showed the oil had
no lethal effects on fish.

However, Wilfred
Hevert, of Environment
Canada, testified that his
experiments indicated
that certain con-
centrations of bunker C

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“Ii he's going to last in
this party it's important
that from the start I know
the people he has to work
with." she said in an
interview during the
campaign.

It is nat-the first time
she has travelled through
Quebec making contacts
and recruiting members.
Twenty-five years ago,
she did the same thing,
only not for the Liberal
party, but as national
president of Jeunesse
Independante Catholique
Feminine,“ a young
women’s Catholic action
group.

It was in this activist
lay religious group that
Madeleine Guay, second
eldest of a family of 10
children from St. Isidore
de Dorchester, south of

Quebec City, first met

Claude Ryan.
Ryan was national
secretary of Action

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the main Catholic action
group. and the two
worked together in
Catholic action and at the
Canadian Institute for
Adult Education. .

REACHED DECISION

The story goes that
Ryan, at 33. invited
Madeleine Guay, then 32.
to dinner at a Montreal
restaurant and suggested
that they consider
marriage. Six months
later, they became hus-
band and wife.

Mrs. Ryan says “It’s
more or less true—‘But
we had already known
each other for five years
at work.”

“We knew each other
much betler than we
would have by going to
movies or dancing.”

Mrs. Ryan says there

are advantages to late

marriage,
“Thad already. had my

independent life. 1 had
lived on my own before

getting married. [ didn't

pass fram the rule of my
parents to the rule o
children."

The Ryans sent the
three youngest of their
five children to public
schools in their neigh-
borhood of Outremont.
where at least half the
children are in private
schools; but Mrs. Ryan
disagrees with those in
the Parti Quebecois who
want to integrate private
schools into the public
system and cut off their
government grants.
BADLY TIMED

She also opposes the
PQ’s proposed unification
of separate Catholic and
Protestant school boards
on the Island of Montreal
into neutral boards.

“To try to make
anglaphones and fran-

cophones, Protestants

of Claude Ryan’s marriage

and Catholics, join
together al a time when
animosities are at their
strongest. would simply
exacerbate relations
among them,”’ Mrs. Ryan
said, “The time is badly
chosen."
Differences on
education policy are only

‘one of the reasons why

Madeleine Ryan says she
“eoutd never vate for the
Parti Quebecois." ;

“T have always been in
disagreement withe the
separation of the
province.”’ .

Her husband's new job
will mean her resignation
from the Pontifical
Commission on Justice
and Peace, a post she has
held since last spring.
HOUSE OF
TRADITIONS

Named by the Pope to
the 24-member com-
mission of lay and
religious members of the

‘.

Roman Catholie Church, .

Mrs. Ryan is the only

Canadian now in the .
group, which last met in —

Rome in December.

Religion has  con-
siderable importance in
the Ryan household. and
Mrs. Ryan hopes this and
other family traditions
will continue with as little
disruption. _.

But the life of a
politician has already
taken jls toll on family
privacy. She- described
the media as “intrusive.
while yet

another .

television crew traipsed .

through the modest hyron,

flat.

And as she locked -

around the living room,
locking sadly in need of

_ fresh paint. she re-

marked:
“I'm neglecting the
house. 1 can see that the

curtains could use some _

cleaning.”

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