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Above maps show the extent of transit cuts proposed for
Vancouver by B.C. Hydro for late night runs. Top map shows
present lines. Bottom map shows proposed new network, which
would eliminate 50 percent of the runs. Cuts are also proposed
for some daytime routes in the city. These are a prelude to similar
transit cuts for surrounding municipalities.

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service on most transit lines during
the 1950’s, but the services have
deteriorated steadily since then.
“Tt took the clout of the provincial
government’s bureau of transit
services to have B.C. Hydro
restore late night services in 1974,”
he reminded the council, ‘“‘Council
must again express its disapproval
of the proposed reduction in ser-
vice and demand that Hydro start
planning for those who do not have
cars, as well as those who do, but
are prepared to use transit under
reasonable circumstances.”

COPE president Bruce Yorke
drew attention to the fact that
Hydro is planning to use the
savings from the cutbacks in
Vancouver elsewhere in the lower
mainland. ‘‘They. continually
refuse to recognize the entity of
Vancouver and\ use the system to
discriminate,”’ he said.

Thecutbacks should be viewed in
light of the 40 percent increase in
revenue that Hydro received less
thana year ago, Yorke noted, when
bus fares were increased to 35
cents.

Other speakers before council
opposing the cuts were Lloyd
Ingram of the Canadian Union of
Postal Workers; Elgin Ruddell of
the Conference of Local Area
Councils Traffic and Transit
Committee, Leslie Jackson ‘of the
Langara Student Society and Sara

New constitution urged

Unity issue aired at UBCM

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

The issue of Canadian unity was
scheduled to come up at the annual
convention of the Union of B.C.
Municipalities held in Vernon,
September 21, 22, 23, 1977. The two
resolutions on the subject, while
showing a commendable concern,
missed the point when it came to
finding a solution.

Emotional appeals for unity,
attacks on Rene Levesque and the
Parti Quebecois, even additional
French schools outside of Quebec
will not save Canadian unity. The
separatist movement in Quebec is
not the cause of our present con-
stitutional crisis, it is the result.
The crisis stems from one fun-
damental fact — the refusal and

failure of -every Canadian
government since Confederation to
recognize that French Canadians
must have national equality and
the right to decide their own
destiny, and that this right and this
national equality must be em-
bodied in a Canadian constitution

We have long ago passed the
point where amendments to or a
reform of the BNA Act will keep
Canada united. Nor will French
Canadians be satisfied with more
“provincial rights.’” We have
reached the stage in our history
when the antiquated British North
America Act must be discarded
andreplaced bya made-in-Canada
constitution, one that will enable
the two nations to live together ina

Zuken and Kardash run
in Winnipeg election

The Winnipeg Labor Election
Committee has nominated veteran
councillor Joe Zuken to run for re-
election as councillor for the new
Norquay Ward in the civic elec-
tions being held on October 26. The
new ward combines the Zuken’s
old Cathedral Ward with the Point
Douglas area.

Mary Kardash, who previously
served for six years on the school
board, has been nominated as a
school boardcandidate in the city’s
Ward 3. Both Zukan and Kardash
have been popular civic leaders in
Winnipeg for many years.

Councillor Zuken told the
nomination meeting on September
14 that ‘‘the new reduced council
has the responsibility of setting
priorities for the benefit of the
majority of the people and not for

the big developers.’ He, said
Winnipeg needs real tax reform
and the lifting of educational costs
from senior citizens and people on
moderate incomes.

Zuken also called for com-
prehensive policy on housing and
action against land speculators,
and for protection of neigh-
borhoods in the North End.

The Winnipeg civic election will
come two weeks after the
provincial election, set for October
11, in which the Schreyer NDP
government is seeking re-election.
The Communist Party of Manitoba
is running four candidates. They

are Charles Watson, Don
Plowman, Harold Dyck and
William Ross, Manitoba party
leader.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 30, 1977—Page 2

voluntary, equal and harmonious
partnership within a single state.

What’s so frustrating about the
whole matter is the complete lack
of any recognition of this fact from
Ottawa. Prime Minister Trudeau
would like us to believe that only he
can save Canada from being split
up, but the fact is that the failure of
his Liberal government to do
anything meaningful to meet the
national aspirations of French
Canadians half way (plus his ar-
med occupation of Quebec in
October 1970) contributed more
than anything else to the growth of
the separatist movement in
Quebec.

One way of drafting a new
constitution would be by calling a
constitutional conference with
representation from all three
levels of government, with the
provision of course that any
agreement reached must be ac-
ceptable to the delegates from
French Canada.

The convention did pass the
following resolutions almost
unanimously: :

“We call upon the Prime
Minister and: all _ provincial
Premiers to assemble a broadly
based constitutional conference at
which the terms of Confederation
can be debated with a view to
achieving the modifications
necessary to met the changing
needs of a nation now 110 years
old.

“And be it further resolved that
the Union of British Columbia
Municipalities urge that a new
constitution should incorporate as
fundamental principles, the
recognition of Canada’s two
national communities and a
universal declaration of human
rights.” i

While these concepts may not go
as far as we wish, it is obvious that
thereis agrowing sentiment in this
country to keep it united.

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SOL JACKSON... B.C. Hydro
transit service already inadequate.

Diamond from Women Against
Rape.

In voting to reject the service
cuts and take action to stop —
Hydro’s plans, council overturn
the recommendation of city
manager Fritz Bowers who ad-
vised that the city “concur” with
Hydro’s proposal. The decision is
also an embarassment to Warnet
Kennedy, whose transportation
committee allowed the notice of
the cutbacks to slip by without
protest.

Last week the Vancouver and
District Labor Council voted t0
back the ATU’s campaign to stop
the cuts. The union has warn
that the present cutbacks “are only
the beginning” of Hydro’s plans t0
reduce transportation services.

UFAWU representative
excluded from meeting

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fears of sellout in the latest round
of negotiations was the fact that a
central issue in contention — the
violations by the U.S. of the interim
one-year agreement concluded
earlier this year — was not even
included on the agenda.

“That question should head the
agenda if a new agreement is to
mean anything,’’ Hewison said.

“We can only conclude from the

fact that the government is.

ignoring the position paper
prepared by the advisory group
and excluding all except one ad-
visor from the new round of talks,
that it is preparing to concede all
major U.S. demands, just as it has

done on the Alcan gas pipeline.’’ -

Hewison reported that when

Frank Cox, named as the union’s >

representative to the talks,
telephoned from Ottawa to advise
him of the government’s action, ‘‘I
instructed him to return unless
LeBlanc responded to our protest
telegram by admitting him to the
meetings.

“This is the fourth occasion on
which union advisors have been
excluded and to accept the
government’s action any longer
means that we would be made
party to decisions in which we have
no voice,”’ he said.

‘Decisions affecting the future
of our fisheries are at issue and, as
Isaid in my telegram to LeBlanc,
our only recourse is to lay bare
what we consider to be a scan-
dalous situation and enlist public
opinion to correct it before it is too
late.”’

Although the federal government
has insisted that the current talks
are only ‘‘preliminary”’, the union

has countered that unless a firm.

stand is taken in preliminary talks
the way will be opened to major
concessions. Moreover, the record
of Canadian policy advanced in the
course of talks over the last few
years points ominously to sellout.

From a firm — and much ac-
claimed — stand taken in 1971 at
which time it declared that it was
working: towards establishment of
the principle that “salmon should
belong to the country that spawned
them,’”’ the federal government
has, in subsequent years, marked 4
steady retreat under pressure
from aggressive U.S. negotiators.

In 1974, the UFAWU was com-
pelled to launch a massive public
campaign to prevent what it saw aS
complete capitulation by the
federal government to the
demands pressed by the U.S. in
reciprocal talks.

Government officials charged
that the union was breaking
“confidentiality” in the talks but it
was clear that had fishermen not
waged a_ public campaign,
Canadian negotiators would have
acceded to the U.S. demand that

any imbalances in intercepted
salmon be written off — in favor of
the U.S.

With demonstrations, a “‘sail-in”
and an appeal distributed widely
throughout the trade unio”
movement, the UFAWU succeed
in forestalling a major sellout — —
but it again appears imminent.

“The salmon interception talks
are scheduled to resume,’
UFAWU secretary Hewison said i0
a statement in the Fishermen, “but
has Canada’s bargaining position
miraculously: improved? The
evidence suggests not. It suggests
that Canada’s salmon fishery is a5
much on the chopping block 45
every fishery, perhaps even a little
more so.

“The record is clear. The cap-in-
hand approach isa failure. It leads ~
to sell-out and destruction of our
national fishery interests,’’ he
said.

“Government officials should
spend time researching how (0

“strengthen our hand rather thal —

how to justify sellout treaties to the
fishing industry, hiding behind 4

facade of ‘confidentiality’.”’
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