PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Friday, July 21, 1978

Terrorists planned to
kidnap Que. premier

OTTAWA. (CP) —
‘Terrorists planned to kidnap
former Quebec premier
Robert Bourassa in 1971 to

ce, the royal com-
ke” te ROM
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wrongdoing was
Th

Chief Supt. Donald Cobb,
head of the RCMP's security
group in Quebec at the time,
told the commission ‘the
Mountles learned of the con-
apiracy tokidnap the former

' premier from another police
force, He did not identify the
force.

Cobb also produced a
document he prepared

ligting some: of the other
activities planned by the
terrorists,

They Included:

Plans to kidnap four or
five businessmen to finance
terrorist ‘activities.

—Plans for an ‘armed
robbery of a food market.
The conspirators were
revealed as the authors of a
1971 robbery of a Montreal
restaurant, said the
decuinent. | .

—A raid on the three
Quebec Civil Defence depots.
Communication,
and other equipment were
stolen and the theft was
assessed by the defence
department as a suggestion

camping.

of setting up a rural guerrilla

group.

—The armed robbery of a
caisse populaire in
Mascouche, Que. :

—A conspiracy to extort
$200,-000 to finance terrorist
Jacques Lanctot in Cuba by
Placing a bomb at Dorval

airport.

Cobb = produced —the
document in reply to Mr.
Justice David McDonald,
head of the royal com-
mission.

The commissioner had
asked for some examples of
the intelligence picked up by
the RCMP in their Quebec
work which is partly under
question by the commission,

Long term work
possible with UIC.

OTTAWA (CP) — Th

. loosening of unemploymer:t

insurance rules in 1971 made

it possible for the unem-

ployed to take longer to find

new long-term jobs, says a

report released by Statlatics
Canada

“Higher benefit levels, al-
though encouraging longer
periods of unemployment,
also permit more extensive
job search,” says the study.

“To the extent that this
leads to improved job-
worker matching, the
probability of subsequent!
unemployment is reduced.”

The study was based ona
comparison of statistics
compiled in 1964 and 1973.

The 1971 rule changes
shortened the qualifying
period for collection of
benefits to eight weeks out of
52, from 20 weeks,

The qualifying period was
changed again last vear,
requiring claimants to work
between 10 and 14 weeks out
of 52, depending on regional
unemployment levels, -

The study also said that
following the 1971 changes
the incidence of unem-
ployment among secondary

_earners, defined as young

persons or matried women
with another family income
torely on, sharply increased.

The jobless rate in June,
when .seasonal changes in
the work force were taken
into account, remained at a
post-Depression high of 6.6
per cent for the fourth
consecutive month,

The number of unemploy-
ment-Insurance claimants
has also increased and the
government has been under
growing.pressure to reduce
benefits,

Fed. gov't opposes rights
violations in Chile

OTTAWA (CP) — The
federal government has
expressed concern about
buman rights violations in
Chile and will continue to
speak out on the issue, says
Prime Minister Trudeau.

The prime minister said in
a letter to Quebec Premier
Rene Levesque the federal

ent has been ‘one of
the most generous in the
' Western world’? in helping
_ victims of the 1973 military
coup overthrowing Chilean
President Salvador Allende,
More than 6,700 Chileans
have been allowed to im-
migrate to Canada since the
coup, he said,

‘Secret
_ files
opened

OTTAWA (CP) ~— Health
Minister Monique Begin has
decided that 200,000
Canadians should be _per-
mitted to see most of the
contents of files in her
department dealing with
their use of illegal drugs.

A spokesman sald Thur-
sday the minister will
recommend to cabinet that a
prohibition on public viewing
of the files under the Human
Rights Act be lifted. The
minister expected to receive
the approval without trouble,

The spokesman added that
the minister has heard
protests over her decislon
from provincial and local
police forces and expects to
Fer more.

It will be the first time
since the department started
keeping these secret com-
puter files 15 years ago that
they will be open o scrutiny
by those mentvned in them.
They. contain information on
more than 200,000 Canadians
known or believed to have
used illegal drugs.

He was replying in a letter
dated Wednesday to
demands by Levesque and
members of the Quebec
National Assembly for
Canadian action on the Chil-
ean human rights issue.

The Quebec demands arise
from recent hunger strikes
by Chileans in Chile and
Canada calling for more
information on missing
persons in the South
American country,

The Chilean government
has promised to provide

more information on the
missirg persons and has
invited a delegation from the
United Nations commission
on human rights to visit
Chile and investigate.
Trudeau said Canada has
supported human rights. in
Chile and “has on many
occasions expressed to the
government of Chile its
anxiety over violations of
human rights’ in that
country, especially with
regard
since the events of 1973.”

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PQ decides to allow Exuglish at work

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Companies that may be
affected by changes in
Quebec’s French language
legisiation reacted
cautiously Wednesday to the
news they will be allowed to
retain English as the

working language of their
national or international
head offices in Quebec.

The Parti Quebecois
government had previously
prohibited the use of English
as the language of work at
company head offices in
Quebec under the provisions

US. posties strike

TORONTO CP - A
spokesman for the Canadian
post off says Canada's post
offices will continues to
accept mail adressed to the
United States even though
that country's 570,000 postal
workers might go on strike
at mignight Thursday night.

Ed Roworth, post office
public relations officer, said
foday mail will be accepted

and held: initially, but
because of the volume
between the two countries
“it piles up pretty quick,’
US. postal union
representatives are meeting
with federal officials today
to try to avert a strike.
Among the union's
requests is a wage increase
of about 14 per cent a year in
a two year contract,

of Bill 101

Some firms, such as Sun
Life Assurance Co., cited the
regulation as a reason for
deciding to move their head
offices or some of their
operations out of Quebec,

In Montreal, Jeffrey
Norman, senior corporate
relations officer of Sun Life,
said his firm does not wish to
comment immediately on
the new regulations.

Norman said in a
telephone interview the
Quebec government’s
language policy was not the
main reason for the com-
pany'’s plans to move its
head office to Toronto, Bul
he added that the new rules
are very important.

RECOGNIZE REALITIES

F.S. Burbidge, president of

Canadian Pacific Ltd.. said
he was mot surprised by the
regulations, and they

“represent a recognition of:

the realities of the business
world in Montreal.”

Paul Leman, vice chair-
an of Alcan Aluminum Ltd.
and director of Bell Canada,

both of which have their,

head offices in Montreal,
said the changes are a step in
the right direction because
they represent a more
flexible: approach.

Robert Scrivener,
chairman of Northern
Telecorn Ltd,, said the new
regulations are not only a
good idea,. bint 2 a
requirement. The changes
do not affect his company
because it is able to operate
bilingually in Quebec, he
said,

offices.

Reginald Groome, head ot
the Monreai Board of
Trade, said it is naive and
ludicrous for the government
to expect itcan contro] what
language people use for
business.

Groome said the new
regulations amount to
having companies ask for
permission to use English
and will lead to the depar-
ture of more head offices
from Montreal.

Ghislain Dufour, executive
director of Conseil du
Patronat du Quebec, the
province's largest em-
ployers’ group, said the
regulations did not tell him
anything new.

Dufour said Article 44 of
Bill 101 already provided for
special regulations for head

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