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INL SNDON PROMOTING zr CISIR JOHN FORD | LO 4 , | LETTERS TO MORE AUTONOMY FOR 2 THE BRITISH HIGH \ THE EDITOR THE COUNTY OF A COMMISSIONER TO Sir: Pearson also suggests that YORKSHIRE: . THE C NAD, . I write in reponse to your salmon stocks have in- | [7] AN OLD. STUFFED, imposition of the, new Where are your figures Mr | TOOTHLESS LION THAT an { Sportfishing regulations, In Pearson? And even if this | BELONGS IN THE BRITISH ae : Pidrece the remarks of Mr. Se abtil Mr Pesrson | MUSEUM? AISUN 81 : Don Pearson. concedes that the salmonids a Says Pearson; “It is not offthe lower mainland are in \ : economical for sport- * fisherman to go fishing for : one fish.’” : [would submit that anyone . who buys a large boat, rent > moorage, buys the gas to * power it, purchases a trailer, = rods, reels, a depth sounder, : a down rigger, buys gas to _ drive to the dock and Lord : knows what attendant : paraphenalia, might - if, he * wishes to economize - be : better off buying his fish at : five dollars a. pound at his * favorite meat market. : Sport fisherman, at least : these worthy of the name : angler, fish for the ex- : perience that pursuit -provides. Thier (men) -people derive immense: pleasure from participating, albeit awkwardly, in the process of nature, They derive no joy from a freezer full of dead fish. “Except for fishing in this area there really isn’t any other kind of en- tertainment," This is a curious bit of anaiysis! Has, Mr. Pearson not heard of backpacking, hiking, photography, skiing and a pirthora of outdoor pursuits? Don't we have discoteques, restaurants, movie theatres and live theatre? ‘tough shape’. Why? Well, while offering great value for your entertainment dollar, Vancouver and its environs also give you degraded rivers. How are the salmon to spawn when the gravel from their spawning beds has been pilfered ta provide road building materials, when the water of their natural streams has been poisoned by industrial waste and their kind have been decimated by the commercial, native and sportfisheries? - Yes, these regulations are late comers but hopefully they will not be too late. The Salmon stocks throughout the world are in grave trouble. Once you eliminate the Chinook he will never return Mr. Pearson. Thal’s Final. Pardonme if I put the continuance of their race slightly above the fact that you will not make as much money next year or that many “Sportfishermen" will no longer have Large catches of salmon to bolster their egos and fill their larders. Robert Brown Secretary, Steelhead Society of B.C. Northwest Chapter _” cabinet ministers declared angrily that never, OTTAWA by RICHARD GWYN OTTAWA -- One way in which journalists are superior to ordinary mortats is that we can read upside-down. - Many of our best scoops come from scanning a letter or memorandum on the desk of some Great Person whom we -happen to be In- terviewing. {Great Persons know that we do this but feat that a too-clear desk will be Interpreted as proof that they really aren’t that Great.) ' The other day, Alberta Energy Minister Merv Leitch walked to a cabinet meeting holding a memorandum marked Confidential. Adrolitly, some. reporter engaged him In conversation while others peeked at the memo. The memo, as recounted that an oll company, Chieftain, had proposed that the Alberta cabinet advance Heritage Fund loans to oll companies so that | provision of Ottawa’s new energy policy, and so ‘|- could quallfy for federal exploration grants. | Questioned later about the memo, Alberta Glossing it over... During the now-historic Watergate years, a Richard Nixon press chief leaned into the teeth of the gale and denied he had lied. It was just that, during the 24 hours immediately past, the truth had “become inoperative.” Putting the best face possible upon the ui- palatable is one of the jobs generally left by politi- cians to hands hired for the job and, forgive them, it is not always an easy job. These are the men and women, forever faceless, who turn up in your daily newspaper identified a5 source, usually reliable source, reliable source, and — until Nixon obsoleted the term — unimpeachable source. And so it is that we may never know who it was on Parliament Hill who coined the word “dehiring’’ to soften the more disagreeable word ‘‘firing.’’ John LeBlanc of the Cape Breton Post, who collects such things, files that one away with London's “made redundant” and the Italian which translates “the unemployed” into “available manpower.” ; mh It ranks right up there with another British ex- pression for locking up the shop and sending home the workers — ‘demanaing.”’ There are those in politics, however, who don't feel the need for the services of someone to muddy up the waters — they do the job beautifully them- selves without outside assistance. One of these is Gen. Alexander Haig who honed the art of obfuscation as chief of staff to the zoo that was the White Howe during the declining days of the Nixon administration. The Guardian, of Manchester and London, watched in openmouthed awe as Haig dazzled his inlerrogators with footwork en route to his rein- carnation as secretary of state for the United States ; of America. . They had no words of their own for it, so they told it in Haig's words: “Haig paradozed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed, and adjectives adverbised,” the Guardian | gargled.” “He techniqued a new way of vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually im- plicationed.”’ The newspaper seemed to detect a method in Haig's apparent madness: “What Haig is doing,” ie reasoned, ‘is to decouple the Russians from everything they are moded to." ; An example of this was the way in which Haig booted the Soviet ambassador off the state department private elevator. se “Now he has to communal Jike everybody else,” . the paper reported. “Experts in the Kremlin thought they could recognition the word forms cf American diplomacy. Now they have lo afreshly language themselves up before they know what the Americans are sub- . Marshall McLuhan, where are you now that we need you? Three seeking low-profile job OTTAWA (CP) — While Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark struggles to save his leadership, three lawyers are fighting in his shadow for a top party job with a lower profile — the national presidency. Montreal's Peter Blaikie and two MPs — Patrick Nowlan of Nova Scotia and Ontario’s Chris Speyer — have spent the last few weeks crossing the country to gather support for the vote here this Sunday at the coa- clusion of the three-day party convention. The Friday night vote on whether the Tories should hold a jeadership convention has almost obscured the other party business to be attended to by about 2,000 delegates irom across the country. They wil) hold workshops to discuss party policies on energy pricing, pensions and the economy, amend the party's constitution and elect party officers. The winner of three-way battle for the tep spot will succeed Robert Coates, a veteran MP from Nava Scotia who is stepping down afier three years. A past critic of Clark’s leadership, the 52-year-old Coates has openly disagreed with his leader's policies including Clark's plan, when be became prime minister, to sell PetroCanada, the state-owned oll company. Coates, an MP since 1957. who now represents the riding of Cumberland- Colchester, said the question of party ieadership must be decided this weekend, a view that could undermine ar- gunents by Clark loyalists that he could be endorsed now but still replaced before the next election if he didn’t improve. and In no way, would they ever help oil com- panies to help Ottawa to implement Its oil policy. The political damage, though, already had been done. For the first time, It’s possible to spot signs of wavering in the phalanx of ol] companies who unti! now have charged, alongside Premier ‘Peter Lougheed, straigh? at Ottawa. . "There's going to be a perceptible movement foward a better balance In our criticism of governments -- plural,’ says a top ofl Industry spokesman in Calgary. ‘You're going to see the burden of oprobrium, as It were, spread more evenly.” Typically, this oll spokesman asked -- pleaded in fact -- not to identified. For a tong time, olf & types have been far more critical of Lougheed In private than they’ve cared to let on In public, because, aS one oil company president remarked, ‘We have to Iive here.” Ottawa remains Enemy Number One. “Alberta’s royalties have for years been exhorbitant,”’ explains an oll spokesman, ‘‘but remember It’s Ottawa which has [ust opened the door to ovr boardrooms and heaved In a : grenade.” . oo, : : The crucial difference is that the oil Industry is beginning to regard Lougheed as an enemy also, rather than as an automatic ally. By refusing to grant permits for the Cold Lake and Alsands tar sands projects, Lougheed Is costing the companies Involved money. He will cost more companies more money by his oll production cutbacks due on March 1. Certain companies -- the muitinationals Imperial, Texaco, Chevron, Aquitaine, Union and Canadian-owned Home -- will be particularly hard hit (and so will be particulariy angry at Lougheed) because ‘reservoir economics” dictate that the oil fields they happen to operate should be phased-down disproportionately. _ Lougheed also is caught In a Catch-22 by his need to revise his drilling incentive program the reporters best could reassemble it, Bf they ‘could comply with the Canadianization . However, Coates has not said publicly how he will vote on the question of a leadership review. The contest has lacked the fire of a 1966 contest when Dalton Camp, running with a commitment to dump the late John Diefenbaker as party leader, beat Diefen- baker-Joyalist Arthur Maloney. Perhaps remembering the messy split that battle caused, this year’s can- didates talk cautiously ‘around the leadership question, trying not to be seen hitching leadership aspirations to any one wagon. Speyer and Blaikie have said they will vote against holding a leadership con- vention. Nowlan has not said publicly how he will vote, but he does promise allegiance to Clark or any other leader. “I do not intend to tell delegates how | will vote on the leadership review," he said in an interview, “I certainly believe the func- tion of the president is to be loyal to the leader,” Each contestant believes the party needs to. be whipped into shape to take on the Liberals and New Democrats in the next federal election. Their remedies vary. _ Blaikie, 43, who ran unsuc- cessfully in two previous fed- eral elections in Montreal ridings is the only fluently bilingual candidate. He believes that would be a major asset to the party that failed to win a majority in 1979 when it formed the government after capturing only two of 75 seats in Quebec. Lo “We start every election 100 to 0 behind (the Liberals) inFrench-speaking ridings,” he said a telephone interview from Montreal. “We need someone to go into those ridings.” As a Tory outside the national caucus, Blaikie feels he has an advantage over his competitors. The. party needs to rely on local supporters and get fo know how the public feels about -issues, he says. “Had there been a real . input across the grassroots jeve] in 1979, we would never have been defeated on the budget," said Blaikie. Speyer, 39, — has represented the southern Ontario riding of Cambridge since 1978. The youngest of the three, Speyer says the Tories must make a strong effort to rebuild in Ontario where they dropped 20 seats in losing the 1960 election. “We're not going to win in Quebec where we gol 12 per cent of the vote (in 1980). We're going to win in On- tario.” Nowlan, 49, who has repre- sented Annapolis Valley- Hants for 16 years, says the Conservatives need a president in the caucus so “you're there with the front- line Tories.” ~ Nowlan agrees the unpaid job as party president wjelds little power in the political arena, but “the only potential power is in caucus.” if there is a disagreement between president and party leader, ‘‘the president can go to caucus and see how the members feel about it." One of the three will be in a hotter seat Sunday, especially if the outcome of the leadership review vote is close. But all dodge questidns on the subject — such matters should be dis- cussed behind closed party doors. ° . Gomer SEAN, SUSTWHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE LET ME See, I THINK ( BETWEEN A SMALL “L" LIBERAL AND || THE DIFFERENCE IS.» A BIG‘ LIBERAL, : ey ne nee ~ A Hosoon A YEAR GOVERNMENT | - JoB which expires In mid-March. Alberta’s in- centives are exceptionally generous {up to 100 per cent of drilling costs in some instances) and were designed to compensate the industry for the high provincial royalties. The result has been an_ ariificial and over-heated drililng boom, even though most discoveries were of gas for which no markets exist, To restore proper balance, Lougheed ought, logically, to tower both his royalties and his drilling Incentives. Lower royalties, though, would be Interpreted as weakness In the face of OHawa which thereby would acquire room to apply tts new taxes. But If Lougheed maintains his royalty rates he has fo, as compensation, maintain his generous drilling incentives even theugh these now mostly subsidize unneeded gas exploration. At the same time as Lougheed is beginning to come under pressure, Energy Minister Marc Lalonde Is beginning to slip out from under it. He's over his “'Canadianization’’ hump, as a result of the corporate shell game played by Dome and the Petrofina takeover by PeiroCanada. Oil companies are now scram- bling to Canadianize: Watch for an an. nouncement by Gulf Canada and for some ‘farm ouis’’ to new Canadian partners by Shell and Mobil. Indeed, since Canadian companies are increasing their exploration activities In the “Canada Lands’’ of the north and eastern off- shore -- PetroCanada, Dome, and most recently Norcen -- It’s entirely possible that total spending on oll exploration wiil be as high In 1981 as In 1980 Also, the current International oll glut means that Alberta’s oll production cutbacks won‘? pinch as much as they might have. The ‘spot’, or short-term contract, prices that Ottawa will have fo pay. for the extra imports have tumbled ta $40 a barrel. ; : in a speech to Calgary businessmen a week ago, Lougheed warned that, ‘It will be difficult. it will hurt, and some will bleed. But | am confident Albertans are up to the test.” None of that sounded like the rhetoric of a self- confident leader. It sounded, in fact, IIke an appeal by a leader who's beginning to feel the heat -- from ‘his’ olf industry. ome ane