Coroner’s jury wrong VANCOUVER (CP) — A Nanaimo, B.C., coroner's fury should not have at- tached blame in a Van- couver Island bus-truck collision which killed 10 per- sons, city coroner Glen McDonald said Saturday. . McDonald told a con- vention of the British Columbia Coroners Association that Nanaimo coroner Dr, Don Shea should have rejected the jury’s verdict in last month’s inquest, One of the jury's findings was that, although the evidence was inconclusive, “with normal care and attention it is probable the bus driver could have brought his bus to a stop out of the accident zone.” The verdict will com- plicate a civil claim for damages filed hy relatives of pe deceased, McDonald said, 4 Bus driver George Cecil. Dean, who was killed in the crash, is alleged in a writ filed iri B.C, Supreme Court to have been negligent in the operation of the Vancouver Island Coachlines bus. ty is “A coroner's jury's dul not to attach blame,” Mc- Donald said. ‘‘It’s duty is to find facts, not to draw conclusions as to liability or negligence.” SMART GUED Coroner Mike Smart, also of Nanaimo, argued that it was the duty of the jury to determine how Dean came to his death. ’ Part of a inquest’s job is to discover how the deceased's . actions contributed to his death, said Smart. “We specifically instruct juries not to blame someone unless he’s deceased,” he said, Deputy attorney-general Richard: Vogel, attending Stu Leggatt praises RCMP VANCOUVER (CP) — MP. Stu Leggatt, federal NDP justice critic, Sunday . praised the RCMP for doing a good job and said they are tired of seeing allegations of illegal activity on the front e of newspapers. PeeWhen history is written, it will show that senior RCMP felt they had a mandate to do what they did,” he said in an inter- view. Leggatt is one of the force's toughest critics. The praise was an about- face for Leggatt, who has contributed more ‘than many MPs to the national media coverage over the past four months of alleged Hlegal RCMP activity. Leggatt, member for New Westminster, now is placing the‘entire blame for RCMP breakins, arson and theft onto the government. “The responsibility lies with the government and not the RCMP,” he said. Leggatt said. if he: were sitting. as:a:judge, ‘hewould, have“real doubt!" about'the overnment’s denial of owledge of illegal RCMP activity when it occurred, but he admitted he had no evidence to prove that the government has been lying. He charged July 8 that the RCMP might have been in- volved in the January break-in of the Vancouver offices of an international education consortium. He called for an investigation into the break-in, noting that Solicitor-General Francis Fox had said the RCMP’s illegal 1972 break-in at the Agence de Presse Libre du Quebec, a left-wing news agency in Montreal, was an isolated incident. © OFFICIALS SATISFIED Officials of the education consortium said, however, - convention. that they were satisfied that © the break-in here was just a case of petty theft. Leggatt called Oct. 20 for an investigation into recent reports that the RCMP keeps files on up to 90 MPs who are in the news or have lodged a complaint against the force. On Oct. 31, he handed to Fox, during the emergency debate on illegal police activity, a copy of a memo alleging an RCMP in- vestigation of British Columbia labor figures and linked the memo to the recent week-long B.C. ferries strike. =, re od Leggatt hasn’t said much about illegal RCMP activity since Fox declared last week that the memo is a false document. and B.C. Labor Minister Allan Williams deseribed it as a sick joke. -He made. no mention whatsoever to the RCMP during a speech earlier Sunday at the Vancouver: Kingsway NDP nomination Instead, he focussed on the Canadian economy and unemi- ployment. Leggatt said the only real issue in Canada is unem- ployment and that the key in the unemployment question is secondary manufacturing and processing of our raw materials. ‘ Vancouver lawyer Ian Waddell, former assistant prosecutor for the city and counsel for the Berger Inquiry on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, . received the nomination...: Canada and . - Soviets clash BELGRADE (Reuter) — Canada and the Soviet Union clashed Monday on human rights issues at a conference here reviewing international pledges tc European security and co- operation made in Helsinki, inland, in 1975, diplomats said, - They said Canadian delegate Chris Anstis clashed with his Soviet counterpart Yuri Loganov . after suggesting that the "suppression of cultural work not in line with official Soviet thinking led to secretly-producted versions of . officially-banned news and literary works. Another Soviet delegate Sergei Kondrashov described Anstis’s statement as “outrageous,” and said such remarks not only go against progress in East-West detente but militates against it. Kondrashoy said the opinions of dissident Soviet authors would be whistled and booed off the Hoors of Soviet factory and state collective farms if they were uttered there, the diplomats said. Co, Anstis later was sup- ried by Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands. NOTICE OF POLL nation: ’ FORESEES PSS nN LSD AE the convention as an ob- server, noted that the new Coroners Act, passed in 1974 but not yet proclaimed, states that coroners must instruct their juries not to lay ‘blame, ; ‘The problem in getting the act proclaimed is gettin the cabinet’s time,” he said. “You can assist me by being patient. x with a warrent. appear in court, Motorists who are trying to ignore traffic tickets may answer the door one ofthese only seven persons ap- days and find a policeman peared. Ten persons were resummonsed and the rest Last week 39 warrents have been were issued in Terrace standing warrents. traffic ,court for mon- payment of fines or faillng being advised by RCMP to to pay the traffic fines or Out of 50 first ap arrange for a court date. Police crack down on’ traffic ticket dodgers pearances set for the period tween Sept. 1 and Nav. 4, issued out- Errant motorists are Nova Scotian premier Wants Quebec to stay By TOM McDOUGALL DARTMOUTH, N:S. (CP) — Premier Gerald Regan said Monday that the loss of Quebec would wreck ‘Canada’s economy and might cause the breakup of Confederation. ” . It.is up to the opposition - parties in Quebec to develop alternatives for giving the province what it wants without ‘separation, he said in a speech.to the chamber _ of commerce. The text of his address was released in advance of delivery. Since the Parti Quebecois government is committed to separation, it is up to the other Quebec parties— Liberals, Union National and Creditistes—to develop alternatives to separation and present them to Quebecers and the rest of Canada for approval, he said. ’ He rejected the argument that Canada should pay more attention to the economy and less to unity. “Our economy will be wrecked and jobs lost-if we do not preserve the unity of our country,” he said. English Canadians must dispose of two “dangerous illusions’—that Quebec Premier Rene Levesque is only playing games, looking for further concessions for Quebec, and that Canada can afford to let Quebec go, he said. LEVESQUE SERIOUS “Rene Levesque is deadly _ Serious about separating. To | ~ iim, separation is no -ploy. ‘Indeed, he and the group around him picture them- selves as junior George Washingtons their lace in history as the ounders of a new country.” - Separation would vastly change Canadian life, “and none of the changes would be for the good,” Regan said, The Maritimes would be physically separated from the rest of Canada, creating economic problems and inconveniences. He said the surviving part of Canada would be much more subject to the regional power pressures of Ontario and the eat. It would be a much more . decentralized country, with power moving to. Toronto and Edmonton and away from Ottawa. Such a overnment would have ‘ewer means of fighting re- gional economic disparity, even tf it had the inclination. He said separation would be disastrous for Ontario, . where the standard of living was based on tariff barriers that provided a captive market of 23 million people. Loss of seven million Quebecers from that market “would render many of those Ontario industries less competitive and drive some out of business.” CON- FRONTATION The confrontation bet- ween the West and Ontario vat se ees would become more direct alter being ‘somewhat blurred by the existence of Quebec as a third force.” Regan said he doubted Canada could survive such an intense confrontation. The West might appear able to survive alone on its. buoyant resource based economy, but economic circumstances mi change as they did in dust bowl of the 30s. The west's aspiration to diversify into manu- facturing would be thwarted if it did not have the central Canadian market. — ‘Canadians would have a ood deal. to lose if the country were absorbed into the United States, he said. . “We would be in a country in w wer is greatly centralized, in which the individual states have litile say. “We would lose those things that we take for ranted such as free ospitalization, fr medical care and a portable national pension plan. For the Maritime. provinces, there would no equalization and no national commitment to combatting “regional economic disparity on a regular basis.” MAKES COMPARISON He contrasted the many buildings erected in the HalifaxDartmouth area to - Portland, Me., where ‘‘there has scarcely been a single major downtown building .Bince the end of the Second. World War.” Saskatchewan would have about the same influence as Nebraska. Albert. would, ” The time to buy \ » like Texas, have absolutely no power to influence the price of oil, he said. Regan said it is unlikely that the Quebec young people and intellectuals who are in the forefront of separatist sentiment will set aside their desires, regardless of whether English Candians think the current ‘“constitutio arrangements are adequate. He said Quebec’s desire for special status” should’ not. be dismissed out of hand because other provinces already have various forms of special status. For in- stance, the western prov- inces have the Crow’s Nest Pass freight Tate agreement, Prince Edward Island is guaranteed four members of Parliament regardless of Population and Newfoundlan s its own terms of confederation. WON'T DISAPPEAR Even if Quebeckers reject separation in the referen- dum, separatism won't disappear if the status quo isn’t changed, Regan said. Levesque could be re- elected and call another re- fendum in several years time, while the problem continued to ‘affect economic growth. “Instead of having that occur, we should take the. bull by the horns and recognize that our con- stitution is not working ade- quately in a number of ways, including the need for some changes that don't relate to Quebec at all.” He also suggested the- Senate might be reformed into an elected body. aa J "HU CANAD _ THE HERALD, Tuesday, Novamber 8, 1977, PAGE 3 Inflation less next year OTTAWA (CP} — The chairman of the anti- inflation board predictec Monday that the inflation rate should be no more than six per cent next year. In a speech prepared for delivery. to the Vancouver Board of Trade and released here, Harold. Renouf said there is an trend ... towards a cooling of price pressures.” - The annual inflation rate, measured by changes in the consumer price index, was 8.4 per. cent in September. But Renouf questioned the index, saying that a better icture of underlying in- ationary trends is gained if the effect of changes in food prices is left out of the index. {The consumer price index measures a basket of - Bods used by a typical ousehold and assumes about 27 per cent of the family budget is used for good. Leaving out this com- ponent gives a measure of only 73 per cent of a family’s spending.) Leaving out food price changes, the inflation rate has fallen from 10 per cent in the final months of 1975, when wage and price con- trols were imposed, to 8.7 per cent by the end of 1076 and should be only slightly above seven per cent by the end of this year, Renouf said, FIGHT NOT LOST ; He said no one should be “misled by - temporary reversals in the antt- inflation fight”’ into thinking that the battle is being lost. The government missed its target of holding inflation to six per cent for the second year of controls that ended Oct, 13, But Renouf noted that government-approved __in- creases for energy prices of about 19 per cent in 1975, close to 12 per cent last year and another 12 per cent in 1977—-which are not under anti-inflation controls— have affected consumers greatly. No that the govern- ment will start eliminating controls next April 14, Renouf said the government will stili be able to. keép most workers and com- panies under mandatory re- straint for the full year. “underlying — Nonetheless, prices for commodities. should be stable next year and the outlook for food prices is “relatively bright” in 1978, he said. ; McDonald’s to answer to commitee RICHMOND, B.C. (CP) — The British Columbia food inquiry committee Monday ordered its lawyers to take steps to compel: the Mc- Donald's hamburger chain to answer committee questions on food supplies. The committee was told that although Ron Marcoux, : McDonald’s Western Canadian executive vice- president, had been sub- poenaed to appear before the committee he failed to do so. McDonald’s western purchasing manager, Robert Watters, read a letter to the committee from Marcoux saying he had to go to Europe and would return Novy. 22, Watters told the com- mittee he would attempt to find out whether Marcoux would answer the com- mittee’s questions on his return. The committee wants to know details of how much food the chain uses and _ where it gets it. + alah ar lela eiarrieieteiel alate taiebebaia Electrical Draftsperson Required by B.C. Hydro We require an Electrical Drafisperson for ap- proximately twe or three months, for work tn our Divisional Office in Terrace. Applicants must have suitable drafting training beyond Grade 12 and will preferably have some related electrical drafting experience. Salary for this position is $1136. per month. Qualified applicants should apply in writing to: Manager, Administrative Services BUY YOUR _ ADA SAVINGS BONDS BEFORE ISTH. Committee § member Gerry Strongman said he hoped McDonald's will reconsider its stand. “‘Itseems incredible tome that the largest buyer of food'in Canada has chosen not to participate," he said. INFORMATION VITAL Committee researcher Robin Smith said that McDonald's information was vital to the yearlong study into the cost of food in B.C, He said restaurants in B.C. received $667 million last year, $200 million more than B.C.’s total farm gate receipts. ‘ Smith said all othe restaurants have : cooperated fully with the committee, Marcoux, in his letter to the committee, said Mec- Donald’s bought as much as possible in Canada. He said 91 per cent of its supplies are from Canada, and 31.4 per cent are from The inquiry continues. B.C. 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