Page 2, The Herald,Wednesday, November 21, 1979

Roy leaves Joe Clark wonderin

OTTAWA (CP) — A day
after federal byelections
made him even more
necessary to the minority
Conservative government,
Soclal Credit Leader Fabien
Roy has left Prime Minister
Joe Clark guessing about his
future,

Roy rose in the Commons

on Tuesday to denounce
gavernment legislation to
allow deductlon of home
mortgage interest and
Property taxes from taxable

income, joining the Liberal

and New Democratic Party
opposition.

He stopped short of saying
whether he will vote against

the legislation considered so
important that Finance
Minister John Crosbie has
said its defeat would cause a
general election,

“Tt is ill-conceived, it was
not given due consideration,
and it is not part of a series of
measures that a new
government should propose

to the Canadian population,"
said Roy.

He sald the plan would
help the Weat and Ontario
more than Quebec and the
Atlantle provinces because
of a difference in lifestyles,

Clark needs Roy’s five-
man Social Credit group to
survive a vote of non-

confidence in the Commons.
NDP and Liberal wins in the
Prince Albert, Sask, and
Hurin-St. George's, Nfld,
byelections Monday left the
Conservative-Socred com-
bination in the Commons
with only a  one-vote

majority.
Social Credit haa come to

Quebec strikers look at agreement

QUEBEC (CP) — A verbal
agreement in principle waa
reached late Tuesday night
between government
negotiators and the
Federation des Aftalres
Soclales which represents
atriking non-medical
hospital support staff,
federation president
Donatien Corriveau sald,

About 500 federation
delegates were meeting here
early today to study terma of
the agreement, which ap-
parently deals only with the
normative clauses, Salary is
atill under discussion at the
common front’s central
negotiating table.

The federatlon executive
has said it will recommend
acceptance of the

agreement, and if the
delegates vote accordingly,
it could mean an end to the
Hlegal walkouts that have hit
a number of Quebec
hospitals this week,

The hospital workers,
affiliated with the Con-
federation of National Trade
Unions, are the only group
that has resorted to strike
action, defying a special law
suspending the strike right
for 275,000 public employees
until the end of the month.

About 650,000 maintained
picket lines at more than 80
Quebec hogpltals for the
second straight day
Tueaday,

Their walkouts affected
services at hospitals, nur-
sing homes and community

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School District No. 68 (Terrace)

. Box 460
Terrace, B.C. V8G 4B5

clinics, limiting patient care
in moat cases to essential
services, At three hospitals,
essential services were not
maintained, a government
spokesman said,

In Montreal, the city Police
tactical squad clashed with
strikers at two hospitals,
arresting persons who
attempted to prevent non-
striking workers through
picket linea,

The arrests brought to five
the number of people taken
into custody since the illegal
walkout began at midnight
Sunday night,

Among those charged is
Norbert Rodrigue, prealdent
of the CNTU,

Crown prosecutors also
lald charges of violating the
emergency law against 11
hospital workers’ locale
Tuesday, bringing to 28 the
number filed for deflance of
the law. Individual violators
face finea of $100 a day,
unlons $1,000 a day.

Under the emergency anti-
strike law rushed through
the national assembly Nov.
12, the provincial govern-
ment must present its final
offers to the public sector
workers no later than today,

Finance Minister Jacques
Parizeau, who had said he
would make an “important
announcement" in the
national. assembly Tuesday
night, cancelled It at the last
minute, saying instead the
“absolutely final” offers

The minister said his new
salary formula would almost
meet the demands of the
200,000 workers who are
grouped In the so-called
common front,

The front wants an im-

mediate increase in the
minimum public sector wage
to $265 a week. Parizeau's
offer would raise the lowest
wage to $253 a week by the
end of the three-year agree-
ment.

Quebec Liberals
go ‘sovereignty’

By EDISON STEWART

MONTREAL (CP) -- The
Quebec Liberal party's
Proposals for renewed
federalism will emphasize
the “sovereignty” of federal
and provincial governments
in an effort to end “the very
imperfect type of feder-
allsm” the country now has.

Sovereignty ‘‘has got to be
emphasized,” said Claude
Forget in a telephone in-
terview from Quebee City,
“Tt's the nature of the
animal,’

Forget, a member of the
party's consitutional com:
mittee and a close adviser to
Quebec Liberal Leader
Claude Ryan, said the key to
the changes the party will
Propose next month is the
restoration of “true feder-
alism” in which each level of
government is “in no way
subordinate to the other,"

The vocabulary indicates .

both the Liberals and the
Parti Quebecols' will be

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Quebecers which brand of
“soverelgnty” is the best.

The PQ plan, called sover-
eignty-asseciation, was
unveiled earlier this month,
It would create two in-
dependent atates associated
economically.

The Quebec national
assetnbly would be the only
authority with legislative
power in the new Quebee
state.

Forget sald the Liberals,
who are putting the finishing
touches to thelr proposals
this week, “attach a great
deal of importance’ to the
reaction they will get from
premiers and other political
leaders across the country.

The party hopes to be able
lo contrast the premiers’
support for their plan with
the outright rejection of
sovereignty-association.

The committee consulted
political leaders closely to
tind proposals “ratistactory
to Quebec but feasible in
getting widespread support”
elsewhere,

Forget admitted, however,
that the degree of support
may vary from province to
province. “It's very difficult
to be nice with everyone,”

He said the most ticklish
problem could be language
rights. Ryan said in a
Magazine interview this
month the Liberals want to
constitutionally guarantee
access by both French-and
English-language groups to
educational, hospital and
social services across Can-

ada.
- Forget said he personally
believes an agreement on
education ‘‘is within reach,'*

Peven though when Premier

Rene Levesque tried to get
other provinces to sign
reciprocal agreements on
minority-language education
he was turned down fiat.

In Ontario and New Bruns-
wick, grouping moat*franco-
phones outside Quebec, both
provincial governments are
ready for constitutional
guarantees for education.

New Brunswick, where
francophones form a third of
the population, wants to go
further and have its official
languages act included in the |
constitution as well,

But Ontario does not, The
province ls only now nearing
the point where it can

| provide French-language

court vervices. It has also
gotten into battles with
gcoupspressing for separate
French-language schools to
replace. French-language
classes within English-
language schools, ;

.Don Stevenson,. deputy
rainisterofin-, |
tergovernmental affairs,
said in a telephone Interview
Tuesday that Ontario prefera
to- handle ‘the provision of
French-languaga services.
administratively because it
would be impossible to
legislate bilingual services
everywhere in Ontario.

The British Columbia posl-
tion, given at a constitutional
conference in February, |g
typical of most provinces,

“Broad constitutional Lan-
Guage guarantees are not
appropriate to all of
Canada,” said the B.C.
government, adding “the
answer must lie in atep-hy-
step positive developments
on matters of language in
each of the provinces aa
changing needs dictate,”

Forget added that the pro-
posal applies ta all natural
resources in the country.

the rescue twice this sesslon
when the Liberals and NDP
ganged up on the govern-
ment, ~

In the nom-confidence vote,

Noy. 6, the government sur- |

vived with a two-vote
majority after Roy
demanded and got as-
surances from Clark that

Quebec and the Atlantic .

provinces will have enough
fuel this winter,
Amendments are needed,
Roy sald, echoing arguments
used by Liberals and New
Democrats ever since the
plan was announced months
ago as part of the Con-
servative May 22 election

campaign.

Clark told Liberals earller
Tuesday the government will
consider reasonable amend-
ments to the scheme,

But he said the govern-
ment will resist efforta to
delay the legislation eo long

that 3.8 milllon home-owners-

have to wait ancther year to
Claim thelr firat benefits,

Crosbie sald Monday the
government might be willing
to go to the people if the
opposition wauld not pass the
legislation, by Christmas,

The Liberals and the NDP
have not sald whether they
will approve the bill in
principle soitcan gobefore a
Commons committee where
they can attempt to change
3

The legislation would
allow tax credits to be in-
troduced in stages over four
years, Maximum benefits
for this tax year, if the bill 1a
passed by Christmas, would
be $375. By 1982 they would
reach $1,500.

Robert Rae, New
Democrat financial critle,
said the legislation does
nothing for those who pay too
much of their Income in rent,
His party could support a
plan that would help renters
and home-owners.

John Evans (L-Oitawa
Centre) said it may be true
as the government saya 92
per cent of households will
benefit from the legislation,
but “100 per cent of the
householdera are golng to
pay for it.”

OTTAWA (CP)
Former health minister
Monique Begin and an
MP representing Health
Minister David Crombie
got into a shouting match
on the | steps. of
Parllament Tuesday over
whose administration is
responsible for the idea of
cutting family allowance’
payments. _

Mrs, Begin objected
when Stan Schellen-
berger, Crombie's
parliamentary secretary,
told a group of protesting
women studies on the
subject were started
while the Liberals were
the government. |

“T's a He,” she
shouted, 'T never started
a study on that and [
made a polnt of privilege
(explaining that) in the
House,"’

Schellenberger (PC .—
Wetaskiwin} said
Cromble was continuing

Studies. “that were
already going on."
It appeared = the

estimated 100 women
representing a coalition
of activist groups
preferred Mre, Begin's
explanation to
Schellenberger's.

“Get the hell ont of
here,” one woman
screamed at Schel-
lenberger after he
delivered his catcall-
punctuated speech to the

group.
Crombie has said no
changes In family
allowances wil! occur
until after studies are
complete and until 1991,
But the women are afrald
original stories of an end
to allowances for families
earning more than $35,000
a year are correct,
Spokesmen for the
women’s groupes
characterized the poa-
sible government move
as the thin end of a wedge.

A THANK YOU to the voters of Thornhill
who voted in the Saturday, November 17,
1979 election, and especially to the ones who
supported me.

| will do my best to live up to

the trust you have placed In me.

Les Watmough

Regional-District
Director for Thornhill

& | NEWS BRIEFS

OTTAWA (CP) — A senior
official of the Bank of
Canada said Tuesday that
high government spending
deficits are a major cause of
inflation in Canada.

R.W. Lawson, bank senior
deputy-governor, told a
Calgary audience “It ia very
hard to reconcile” enormous
cash deficits. and anti-
inflation goals of gov-
ernments,

Lawson was apparently
responding to recent
criticism of high bank prime
lending rates,

A text of his speech was re-
leased here,

“Tha .aize of government
deficits has certainly con-
tributed to the public ex-
pectation of continuing rapid
inflation,”” he told the

Financial Executives In-
stitute of Alberta.

The bank has come under
heavy crilicism from parlla-
mentary opposition partles
and private small business
spokesmen for its com-
mitment to higher Interest
rates as a solution to in-
flation.

In the first speech by a
bank officlal since governor
Gerald Bouey defended his
interest rate policies before
a parliamentary committee °
In October, Lawson said it Ls
wishful thinking to belleve
there is an alternative,

The Bank of Canada is re.
Sponsible for regulating
interest rates charged to
lending institutions as weil
as controlling the supply of
credit in the country.

Asking to let him stay

OTTAWA (CP) — Canada

‘has called on Israel to

reverse lts deportation order
against the Arab mayor of
Nablus, External Affairs
Minister Flora MacDonald
said Tuesday,

She told the Commons ex-
ternal affairs committee she
asked the Canadian am-
bassador in Israel to tell
Israeli authorities about
Canadian concern over the
arrest and deportation order
for Mayor Bassan: Shakaa of
Nablus on the Israell-
occupled West Bank,

The deportation order has

Quebec has

BRANDON (CP) — Lt.-
Gov. F.L, Jobin of Manitoba
has called on Western
Canadians to understand the
desire of Quebecers to
preserve their language and
enlture,

There are ‘two sides to the
current strife between
Quebee and the rest. of
Canada,”. Jobin said
Tuesday at the ‘annual ‘con-
vention of the Union of: Mani-
toba Municipalities,

“In Montreal, 20 years
ago, in some large depart-
mientstores, you could nat be
served unless you spoke
English,’ Jobin told 300
convention delegates and
‘guests from rural com-
munities around the
province,

He said the same was true

pravoked a storm of protest
around the world,

Mies MacDonald said
Canada voted for a United
Natlons resolution con--
demning the arrest and
deportation order. :

Several Arab mayors on
the West Bank resigned thelr
posts and the 70,000 residents
of Nablus launched a general
strike after Shakaa was.
arrested,

Shakaa was arrested for
allegedly making remarks
sympathetle to the Palestine
Liberation Organization, But
he has denied the allegation.

a supporter

then in hospitals and said
Quebecers who could not
speak English had difficulty
tinding work. .

“Ts it any wonder tha’
some French-Canadians
began to wonder about the
loss of their. language and
culture,” he said.

Jobin, a former mayar of
the northwestern Manitoba
town of Flin. Flon, sald
Western Canada, more than
any other part of the coun-
try, is “particularly anti
Quebec.”

He asked delegates to
support a national unity
petition being circulated
outside Quebec to show the
French-speaking majority
the rest of the country wanta
it ta stay in Canada.

' - +Storm kills seven -

* DENVER, Colo, (AP) — A
howling blizzard socked the
Colorado and Wyoming
Rockles with aa much as 100
centimetres of snow, closing
highways, schools, airports
and factories in the worst
November storm ever in
some areas,

Seven deaths were at-
bibuted to ine storm as it
wept.across the mountains ,
Ete ie plains. eee

Wyoming Gov, Ed Her-
schler called out the
National Guard Tuesday
night, dispatching a 22-ton
rotary snow plow, a tracked
personnel carrier and a
truck to rescue 50 motorists
reported stranded ‘on In-

terstate 25 of
Cheyenne. oo

The widespread storm
system produced drenching
rains in Oklahoma and
Kansas, flooding roads and
farmland,

As the storm moved east,
blizzard warnings remained
in effect in southeastern
Wyoming and northeastern
and east-central Colorado,
and heavy snow wa
were posted for parts of
Nebraska and Kansas,

The National Weather
Service said 100 centimetres
of snow fell at Poudre Park
in the mountains west of Fort
Collins, Colo., while other
mountain points reported up
to 60 centimetres.

south

Cambodian refugees cross

tT

BANGKOK (Reuter) — A
first group of sick Cam-
bodian refugees crossed into
Thailand today and were
loaded by rellef workers into
trucks fitted with mat-
tregees, diplomatic sources

They will be taken to a
camp being hastily prepared
mear the border town of
Aranyaprathet to contain
more than 200,000 refugees,

-An- estimated 430,000
refugees have massed ear
the border north of
Aranyaprathet, 270
kilometres from Bangkok. A
further 130,000 Cambodians

were believed to be along the
border south of the town,

The Cambodians, who fled
to the Thai frontler to escape
war and hunger in their own
country, are living in
sprawling settlements of
hata, relief agency sources
sald.

Under current plans, about
10,000 refugees a day will he
admitted to the new camp,
which will be the largest in
Thailand when completed.

The International Com-
mittee of the Red Cross has
set up a field hospital for
1,000 people at the site, about
12 kms inside Thailand.

Boos bring protests

MONTREAL (CP) — The
booing of a few French bars
of O Canada by Vancouver
hockey fans has been met
with indignation by twa
newspapers In Montreal,

The city’s four dally newa-
papers all mentioned the in-
cident at Sunday's National
Hockey League game bet-
ween the Canucks and
Montreal Canadiens in their
Monday editions, but The
Gazette, the only Engllsh-
language daily, and La
Presse, expressed further
comment Tuesday,

“It was a boorish, in-

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excusable thing to do,” said
columnist Glenn Cole, who
covers the hockey beat
regularly for The Gazette,
"Tt was sick,”

La Presse columnist
Rejean Tremblay, mean-
while, questioned the need to
continue to sing O Canada
prior to sporting events,
Listing a number of reasons
to support hia sentiments,
Tremblay said that ©
Canada is not an official
national anthem, and added
that it should be played only
before international com-
petition. .

tateabed, *,

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