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QTTAWA.

BY

JACKSON’

OTTAWA — It’s been a long, lorig lane with
many a detour and.dead end, as everybody and
everybody suspect of being In any way Involved,

_ attempted to ellrninate all clues and any trails

which might lead to the truth of who — exactly
— was to blame for the astonishing defeat of the

December 13.

For elght embarrassing months now, good-
natured, popular Conservative House Leader
Walter Baker has been taking the rap...

With a rueful smile and a shrug, perhaps In
the Interests of unity not only of party but
particularly In the parliamentary caucus — he
has borne the burden of scorn and ridicule.

They've accused him of not being able to
count, even on his fingers, and gone so far as to.
suggest that sometimes he Isn’t sure on which
side of the House he sits. |

What was for sure — Impossible of refutation
—was that a Conservative House Leader he was
responsible for broadly, day to day, and*more
narrowly, minute by minute operations of the
Tories in the House. ‘

His was net the broad strategy In Parilament,
although of course, as House Leader, he was.
supposed to be very mut Gare’ dt it. BSSe
. But his was fhe hourrte hour, arid ‘event-by*
event party operation of the floor of the Com.
mons. ; no

Well, you'll recall that on the night the
recently elected Conservatives fell last

else In the party — well knew that the Tories
didn’t have the votes to turn back the fi rst want-
of-confidence test of their new budget. -
| They knew It at noon.
But sat fight ali afternoon. | -
And allowed the vote to be called In the
evening when they easily could have avoided it
by calling other House business.
Result: crushing defeat. _
On the basis of the known figures that day, It

_ to blame? -

now and Walter Baker has been butt of all the
bitter abuse and derisive cracks. =”
‘Then at last he caved in. Couldn’t take it any
more. Let it all out. At a closed Conservative
rally In Hamilton recently.
You'll remember that former Tory Finance

budget was tabled Dec. 11 and challenged at

fidence motions. . _ .

First vote, Baker told the Hamilton Torles,
scheduled for the nightof December 13, and that
noon Joe Clark was told at a cabinet strategy
conference that they could lose.

External Affairs Minister Flora MacDonald
was outofthe country. So were & couple of other.
Torles and Iliness caused other absenteeism. -

Not so strangely, because: Liberal. strategist
and Finance Minister Allan MacEachen had
planned It that way, all Liberals, including the
walking wounded, were up and about.

_Belng the long-time strategist and old friend

Knowles that he was, Allan MacEachen had
synchronized political watches with him, so the
socialists were all present and accounted for.
Regardless, says Walter ‘Baker, according to
another senlor Tory minister ‘that crucial
cabinet meeting, orders were given Farragut-
like; full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes.
The order came from, of all people, Senator-
come-lately and long-time Tory backroom
handyman Lowell Murray.
The good Senator and some other top Tory
’ strategists still too modest fo step out. and take
the raspberries argued that the numbers-be-

and even the NDP would chicken out of the
showdown, not wanting another election soo

soon. . ‘

But if they didn’t? “

Well, argued the Tory strategists-in-charge-
of-disasters, If the Opposition did stick its neck

_ outand defeat them, the Clark forces with thelr

new-won popularity could chop it off at the polls.

Conservative euphoria — or self-delusion —
was that high.

What makes It worse for bitter and frustrated
Tories is thet Lewell Murray !s safe In the
Senate from all reprisals.

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RICHARD.

_ CRICHARD GWYN _)

country — northern: British ‘Columbia. °
what got me Into politics.
south had everything, and
politics was to’change that
A feature of Canadian
“ministers go,
to having n
defeated in May,
_ kind of job you'd ex
a vice-president
Like the rest,

We had ‘nothing;
my only. interest. In»

lan polltics is that -ex-
abruptly, from having everything
othing. Of the 13 Liberal mini :
1979, only Otto..Lang’.go :
pect an ex-minister to get, as -
Ploneer Grain Ih Winnipeg. -
Campagnolo found herself with
time on-her hands. Back in Vancouver now, she
does 26 tv shows & year,
but ‘doesn’t. provide her w
challenge to.chew ori. tae
_Last February, a Toronto Star reporter,
se what’s-it-llke-when-the-telephone-stops-
ws, asked Campagnolo what she:
Ith herself now that she had sat.
1 election. She would like to do
something or other to

“OTTAWA — To put the question -Involyed
of getting stomped on. But
the trade of Investigative
uity. was too

“ risks. Such as that
that's a hazard of fh
“Journaligm. Also, the incongr
latant tobe ignored)
ona Campagnolo talking about:
so overcrowded that in one hut a
hed by being backed against .a-

new Conservative Joe Clark government last -
_ refugee camps
baby got score |
stove, and about having a viper cross her path,
ow -you - collect files, and about
Communist artillery: going “whomp, whomp,
der elght miles away.
_ lona Campagnolo. Ex-
Sports Minister. Liberal leadership: candidate —
ber had Plerre Trudeau not come.
Margaret Thatcher, but dishy.
Peaches and cream complexion; the plume of
‘sliver hair that Is her trade mark;: sliver
bracelet; lace blouse; flec
so much impeccable as adamantine. -
So that my peers wouldny
ped on, | had sense enovg
until the formal press conference was over and
La Campagnolo was moving about th
would be a better term,
; who'd suddenly thought of questions:
htto have asked earller
"We talked about the Cambodian r
in Thailand whose cause she has made her own,.
and where she. has‘ Just spent two weeks on
“the Canadian University . Service
(CUSO}. It’s called Kab Cherng, or
d: Feet" translated literally, anc:
ts 10,000 Inhabitants will allow no
beneath thelr feat until they. go

which buys the bacon

‘and about how -yo ith enough of a

whomp”, along the bor

- And there was, well, ‘ringing intervie

out ‘the federal
something Internatlonal,
do with foreign ald, she sald.
 ACUSOofficlal spotted
to Campagnolo the prop
would like to get some m
‘her mouth. Kab Ch
cusively by CUSO,
_ the International agencl
using the Thals themse
porting outside experts,
private Canadian donati
next shy months, 245
-§o-out went Campag
! ern boots, to sweat alot,
(it.was the monsoon),
‘to learn how you cat
cals to put them down (you pay
ts for each kilo’s worth they
and. then mlx up the files with rice as 4
teln diet for chickens} and to get totally

The best part,
the stoicism of the ref
.of: the peopl

last Decem
back.. Our -

he news item, 2
itlon that ‘maybe she
oney where she had put -
erng, which will be run ex-
and which, uniquely among
es there, will do this by
Ives rather than Im-
will need $400,000 In
ons to operate for the

nolo, In jeans and shirt! sate”
to get soaked
to hear the artillery fire,
ch files when you can’t.

k-free black sult. Not -

't watch me ge
h atleast to wait

‘gliding about

ifodo$0, >:
n refugee camp -

afford cheml

meaning that | children 25. cen

grass fo grow.

h .
Then I ask
Jane Fonda number,

December 13, Walter Baker — like everyone »

ed, er, um, well, wasn't she doing a |
a lady ‘beautiful being

Her lips pursed. Into a
lifted a centimetre.
' @¥ oy don't think | loo
ou? | was dressed like everyone. else, leans,
northern boots. And | sweated.a.
But, er, um, wasn’t this causiness,

that | grew.up- in a Third World

smait mou. Her chin:

In the barre

ked Hike this over there. or the ret

wasonly to be expected, but why? And who was

the culture shock.
at home. But back here,
o smug and self-satistled and self-:

Finger-pointing has gone on for eight months. ‘“Y ou forget

- Lower standard
hits classroom

could be schools,” getting
down to the busi

agnolo says she Is finished. with
politics, it is hard to belleve her. Two thoughts Inv:
e. Uniike most of her ex-colleagues,:
-politics cause. Also,
up the $400,000 she wants,
eserve to get stormpedon.

the meantim
she has found herself a post

Minister John Crosbie’s tough and realistic eve don’? cough

CUSO needs, wed

LETHBRIDGE (cP) —

once by New Democrats and Liberals In con-.
‘The problem of classroom

REPORT ©
| by FRANK HOWARD.

“There isno needto rec

ral government about:

tax, fisherles, railways,
even whether or not fade
‘can meet with Mr. Barrett
- Let's make Itclear. i 6 OF.
federal government. | am not a defender of
Liberal Party, But, | will defend this: cou

happened. But, all my fife Ihave known that olr. ..
politic have been controlled in Quebec end.our
economy controlled In Ontario. Ever since | waa
‘able to understand such matters -1. have-un-

derstood that the federal governme t (both.
.j Liberal and: Conservative) have sid more
attention to central Canada than to Weatern

plaining isn’t going to bring about, soy
| fottowed with some Interest ihe devel
of the separatist movement.In.| c. The.
movement had Its roots in the pre-confederation
period and-was emotional and cultural.
— However, In recent years, the escalation of
separatist thought In Quebec was on. negative.
base. The message the Part! Quebecols kept
spinning out to its followers was negative:ta the”
federal government. OM ee
Tsee that same direction being taken here In
B.C. with the recent whining and crying on the
part of the Social Credit government: There is

“4 or oe that they don’t themselves see...

an, no and what,the Sinal:ablect.of
1 frrican be. Bulsbelng-negative::2'

“negative - negative Is not going to soive things.

_ Sure, it’s great political stuff to paint oneself

_as being just a tiny, little provinclal government
standing up to the juggernaut that is the federal

- government. | understand that having, es | sald,

- been born In this-province. But, | also had the

honour tobe In the House of Commons in Ottawa

a, . . for a number of years. That was when | came to
she says, was belng moved by er
and by the idealism.
@ the three Dutch-

king on water-dyking projects up ~
n country of north-eastern Thailand, -
ired Canadian executive,
o In the same region has started a
_new cottage industry of knitting sweaters, which
© Hudson’s Bay. - ,
‘The worst part was
there: | felt
veryone Is $

Though Cam

gee the danger In being negative. That was when. -
_T.came fo understand the foundations of the: .
separailst movant ot ee
or tha sake of preserving our country, our .-
dignity, our integrity, and pur hopes fee ahe
future | do wish the Social Credit government:
would sit down: and assess what Its objectives’.
are. Or maybe If has already done that and. Is.

- just hiding those objectives from the citizens. of.

"this great province.

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Frank Tinordi, chairman
of the Catholic ‘Central
parentteacher council, says, F.
it’s ridiculous what some f-
children. get away with
because their parents don’t |
discipline them. — .

Diseipline a
must originate at home, he
. "You can't’ expec!
teachers to instil iLin them.”

Rocheleau says some
students lose their sense of
individuality in a class of 25
or 30 and use bad behavior to
attract attention. ;

But ivan Millar, principal
of Gilbert Peterson, school,
gays the problem may not be
80 much one of discipline as
one of passive resistance.

He says students don’t |.
seem to rebel against
auo7rity so much as simply

be done about |
the disci7ine problem? -
Tinord) says a slim]. -~

more discipling,
don't waht their TER awn,
i iplined at all PS wee
Teachers and sc! of. Fey

ficlals are caught in the |.

aggravated by a lowering of

- moral and ethical standards
In today’s society, says Stan
Sawicki, | principal . of
Catholic Central high schoo)
in this Alberta city. .
“In many ways the

is a mirror of society,”
Sawicki says. Young people

television, movies, and
literature that a strong and
violent response is an im-
mediate solution to a
of New Democratic House Leader. Stanley ve

weon, principal of
Hamilton Junior High
School, agrees. He feels
students reflect an Un-
disciplined society which
doesn’t establish many

goals.
But Edmond Rocheleau, @

senior high-school English

teacher, says he has seen

ly posing a real
discipline problem. °

And, although society's _
ng values do affect.
damnedsince, at the last minute, some Literals students, teachers are alto
‘Take a look at our values
as teachers,’’ Rocheleau
said. “I think they've
dropped.” .

. A stronger devotion to dis-
He added that another cipline and mor
problem facing today’s
teachers is that they are
expected to be curriculum along
-counsellors and

‘golution to the problem,
with a consistency in
discipline standards from
‘teacher to teacher and
school to school, :
The final. action, though,
must come from - teachers
thomeeives, Tinordi says.

rents took more

discipline, then ‘‘schools