Page 4, The Herald, Monday, October 2, 1978

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OTTAWA |
OFFBEAT

BY RICHARD JACKSON

OTTAWA. Fear not, English Canada has
found a defender.

And not before time.

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau may remain
discreetly silent over Quebec's restrictive
“French only’ language laws while imposing
bilingualism on the rest of the country.

Ontario Prmier William Davis may remain
unmoved when Quebec workmen are free to take
jobs in Ontario while Ontario tradesmen are
frozen aut of Quebec jabs.

Conservative Leader Joe Clark and New
Democratic Leader Ed Broadbent may be every’
bit as mindful - but by no wildest stretch of the
imagination as confidently hopeful as Pierre
Trudeau - of the Quebec vote, and so say as little
as possible about the language issue.

But former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald
Regan came cut clear and strang about what he
called “reverse discrimination’.

He put it this way:

"Sametimes it seams that every attempt to
preserve the French-Canadian culture is seen as
patriotism within Quebec and as a contribution
to national unity elsewhere, while efforts to
speak of an English-Canadian culture, let alone
protect its existence, are perceived as narrow
and reactionary bias.”

Mr. Regan left no doubt that by ‘‘English-
Canadian culture’ he means the British heritage
in Canada.

He said it is ‘‘no longer considered polite’ to
speak of the events that led to the introduction
and acceptance of British customs on Canadian
soil, and as an example pointed to the phasing
out of the patriotic song - once almost a national
anthem - “‘The Maple Leaf Forever’ from
schools and other areas of public life.

As you'll perhaps recall it opens:

“in days of yore from Britain’s shore

Wolfe the dauntless hero

And planted firm Britannia‘’s flag

On Canada’s fair domain.”

It’s history, said Mr. Regan, and what's wrong
with it.

What's wrong, obviously, in the current
political context is that it does not downgrade the
English. .

But the federai government is attending to that
amid the thundering silence of Premier Davis
and Conservative Leader Clark.

All across English Canada - fo the far outports
of Newfoundland and the coastal towns of-
Vancouver (sland, ail federal buildings carry
French and English designations.

But in Quebec City - capital and heart of
French Canada - federal buildings carry French
names exclusively,

Small thing? Perhaps. :

But on signs inside several of the chartered
banks in Ottawa - that’s Ottawa, Cntario, not
Ottawa-Hull, new national capital - French is
given priority over English,

Ever since the late Prime Minister Pearson
legislated billnguatism there has been’ govern-
ment bribery through grants, bonuses and other
inducements to upgrade French and what seems
a determination or at least an understanding
among politicians, the press, and now business In
Ottawa fo downgrade English,

Look at the careers” advertising pages in the
Ottawa newspapers and find bilingualism is
either an essential or “preferred” in federal
government job replacements.

Bilingualism, ever since Pearson proclaimed
it, has meant, for practical warking purposes,
French.

But oniy 28 percent of the Capital's population
is French, and that, as former Premier Regan
would say, is ‘reverse discrimination’, both a
puzzle and a cause of deep and spreading
resentment.

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Parent' theme sung inviting
lost or fearful children into
hemes displaying the ‘Block
Parent’ sign in their window.

The Block Parent concepl
is a useful and welcome

came

Dear Sir:

[have been listening to a
cute, toe-Lapping ditty on the
radio for a few weeks now.
Each time I heard it 1 was
disappointed that it was so
short and unintelligible, addition fo any society but

The other day my wife the message must gu beyond
informed me vf the content the idiom of the active
of the song. The next time il membership.
was playing I pot my i would suggest that if the
daughters, who are eight and message Is lo reach children
six, to listen and try to in- the emphasis must be on
terprel it. Al the end they clarity not melody.

shrugged and said they liked
it, bul that was all, Blake Barker
Well, it’s the ‘Block Terrace

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“This is just a catha

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is for Hubert — he had his heart set on booting someone out of office

this fall.”

FORMER CRIME-BUSTER
Drapeau now under attack

MONTREAL (CP} — Jean Drapeau,
who first swept into power as mayar of
Montreal 24 years ago with a reputation
asa crime-busting lawyer, is under fire
for his handling of the 1976 Olympic
Games as he campaigns fur a seventh
term in office.

But he has been insisting that
revelations al a current provincial
inquiry into the cust of the Games will
not have any effect on the outcome of
the municipal vote Nov, 12.

Drapeau announced his candidacy
this week in the same ublique manner
he has used since first bidding for
election in 1954. IL came as a foutnote
Tuesday night al the end of a speech to
the Union of Quebec Muncipalities.

“T offer myself tu the voters if they
want me,” he said.

Drapeau's only opposition so far is
Liberal MP Serge Joyal, representing
the newly-formed Montreal Action
Group. A second party, the Muntreal
Citizens’ Movement, is expected tu
chuuse their mayoralty candidate suon,

Drapeau first became mayor after
serving four years as Crown prusecul or
in a Quebec Superior Court inquiry into
crime and municipal corruption in

Montreal, He ran again in 1957, but lost.

In 1960, he returned with a newly-
formed Civic Party and has been
mayor ever since. In the 1970 electiuns,
his administraliun won a clean sweep of
every seat on (he council.

Drapeau doves nut let the public forget
his major achievements over the last 18
years— the city’s subway, Expu 67 and
the 1976 Olympic Games—and he
frequently refers to them with un-
disguised pride.

The subway recenily underwent its
secund extension. The Expv 67 site now
husts the annual Man and His World
summer exhibition and, this year, one
of the man-made islands in the St.
Lawrence River has been converted tu
the Canadian Grand Prix race track.

The Olympic presence alsu remains,
in the form of the huge stadium and
uther structures buill for the Games
and in the Quebec government inquiry
intu construction cost uverruns.

Drapeau’s critics accuse him of
having ‘‘ideas of grandeur,” of
neglecting the human aspects of the
cily, and of being an autucrat who runs
City Hall and Montreal itself as a une-
man show,

They say he is more interested in
grandiose projects than in housing and
point to the Olympics and its bdillion-
dollar deficit while raw sewage contin-
ues tu flow into the St. Lawrence River.

But despite the critics, he has cun-

siderable personal magnetism and has °

built up a faithful grass-ruuts support.

He and his Civie Party have seldom
had te mount any sort of election
campaign, at least until the last elec-
tion, when the reformist Montreal
Citizens-Movement eroded his hold on
city council,

Observers nate that Joyal has many
of the same characterislics as the
young Drapeau— ambitious,

‘charismatic, a legal background, and

firm nationalist but federalist

credentials.

Since becoming mayor, Drapeau has .

shown no interest in running for
provincial or federal office, although he
did try unsuccessfully in the 1940s. He
has made it evident, however, thal he
believes in Quebec as part of Canada.

His relations with the Parti
Quebecois government have been coul,
but the lwo seem to have reached a
tacit agreement to be polite, if not
cordial, 10 each other.

PROBLEMS IN ZAMBIA —
A troubled independence
since the British left

LUSAKA (AP) — Hours
before Tony Afendoulis
upens his Kabulonga
supermarket, crowds of
Zambian shoppers are
waiting outside.

When the supermarket,
in ‘a Lusaka suburb,
opened its doors on recent
morning, the crowd was
lucky: milk and sugar
had arrived. But there
wasn't any cooking ail,
bread, flour, soap,
delerent or beer,

Before all the
troubles—when Zambia's
borders were open and
when world prices uf cop-
per, the country’s prin-
cipal product, were
soaring—the = su-
permarket was crammed
with fresh food and im-
ported gocds.

Slothfullnessand
inefficiency are often
blamed for Zambia's
descent into poverly from
prosperity after in-
dependence from Britain
in 1964.

“It pains me that after
néarly 14 years after
independence we cannot
manufacture a box of

matches," = President
Kenneth Kaunda told a
group of while

businessmen eartier this
year.

Mainza Chuna,
secrelary-general of the
governing United
National Independence
party, complained at its
annual meeting last June
of sume civil servants
who are “inefficient, lazy,

arrogant and who are nul
committed lo the cause of
improving the country's
econumic wellbeing.”
But Zambian officials
claim, and fureign
diplomats -here cunfirm,
thal this is just part of the
picture. Kaunda himself
has said that just 20 per.
cent uf the problem is of
the country’s making.

Zambia, like other
landlocked countries,
depends on neighbors for

trade routes. Much of its .

imports and exports
fluwed through Rhodesia
on iis suuthern berder
wilil the frontier was
closed in 1975.

Zambia is one of the so-
called ‘“‘frontiine’ states
working for _ black-
majority rule in Rho-
desia, the former British
culuny headed by white
Prime Minister lan Smith
until he became part of a
bi-racial transilional gov-
ernment earlier this year.

Zambia allows its
lerrilory lo be used for
bases by the Zimbabwe
African People's Union,
one of two guerrilla-
backed Rhodesian
nationalist groups
fighting against the
Rhodesian government.

The country has had to
seck allernate routes—
moslly ihrough Tanzania
on the easi— and Zam-
bian government officials
claim that this rerouting
has cost $1.5 billion in
increased transport
charges since the border
was closed.

More basic ty Zambia's ,

crisis ‘is the price “uf
cupper, “which plunged
from
during. ‘the world
recession in 1974: Zambia
is the: world’s third

” largest copper producer

after ‘the Uniled States
and Canada, averaging

* 700,000 ions a year,

At ihe peak,'cupper was
selling fur about $3,000 a
metric ton. The price now
is half. that. While the

_ boom was on, there was

much talk but liltle action
lo diversify the Zambian
economy.

Cupper revenues were
used fo import what the
cuuntry did nol bother tv
produce. Zambia's swil is
fertile and 50 t» 60 per
cent of the land is arable.
But unly 10 per cent is
tilled.

, The low cupper prices,
coupled with Lhe strained
lransport system—it is
estimated that 20,000 ions
of copper are backed up
on Tanzanian docks—has
resulted in a critical
shortage of foreign ex-
change.

Imporis now have been
cui’ io the absulute
minimum.

The Zambian treasury

~ has abuul enough foreign
* exchange for six weeks of

imported goods at any
lime. The guvernment is
making a dedicated effort
lo pay its bills—ils credit
raling is slill respec-
lable—but it just can't
pay everything at once.

Zambia's present plight

all-time’: highs.

has even caused the

* government ta re-
‘, examine the economic as-
“pects of

Kaunda's
humanist philosophy of
government.

Keonomically,
Humanism means, ac-
cording 10 Kaunda: ‘‘Nut
mass production, but pro-
ductiot: by the masses."
Zambian domestic :
production is duminated
by a secure of staterun
industries called ‘‘para-
statals.”

The government is
moving ta lousen
bureaucratic contrals and
permit individual’
managers lo run the
industries in a more
business-like manner—in
olher wards, make a
profit.

And Zambia is working
with the Washinglon-
based International
Monetary Fund in a two-
year program to revive
Ihe economy. The fund is
to provide nearly $400
million in credit if
Zambia agrees to gu
along with austerity
measures, one of which is
a 10-per-cent devaluation
df the country's currency,

Qther condiliuns in-
clude = reduciiuns — in
government spending and
internal borruwing.

FinanceMinister
Mwunakatwe has given a
stark’ description of the
jund’s rescule efforts,
calling them “‘the last
hope for the ecunomic
recovery of our country."

Don Jamieson,
the salesman

By AL COLLETTI

(CP} — There is a good
deal of ‘the salesman
remaining in External
Affairs ‘Minister Don
Jamieson, and it paid off
last week as he mingled
with world leaders at a
Security Council con-
ference otherwise
devoted to human rights
and the fulure of the
African territory of

Namibia.
Jamieson, federal trade

Canada was one of eight
sponsurs of a resolution
creating a transitional
force to supervise elec-
tions leading to independ-
ence for Namibia, and
Jamieson was one of the
five Western foreign
ministers in ihe contact
group (hal formulated the
UN pla,

2 South” Africa has
rejected ‘thé plan, but
Jamieson made a_per-

J sonal! .plea.to the new

minister before taking
over the exlernal affairs
portfolio two years ago,
was able to announce the
sale of a paper-pulp mill
to Czechoslovakia, and
the prospects of increased
trade with China.

Human rights and
developments in southern
Alrica were major items
at the United Nations

session,

One of five

government of Prime
Minister Pieter Botha, lo
reconsider, and said he
was confident that suf-
ficient geodwill — still
existed on all sides for its
implementation.

Jamieson wound up his
official visit lo New York
un Saturday, returning to
Ottawa for the weekend
before leaving for
Newloundland and the
campaign for Liberals in
forthcoming by-elections.

~~. Wins contract

Las! Monday, Jamieson
disclosed ‘that Canada
had won a $180-million
contract fur: ihe paper-
pulp mill in’

Czechuslovakia. He also
discussed human rights |

fur Canadians with
Czechoslovakian  con-. -
nections during talks with *

Bohuslav Chinuupek, the”

‘Czechoslovak
minister.

foreign

Jamieson also held dis-
cussions with U.S. State
Secretary Cyrus Vance
and Foreign Minister
Huang Hua of China.
Vance is going to Ottawa,
probably before the end of

the year,

‘Talks with China

In an inteyview befure
his departure for home,
Jamieson said Canada is
sending a trade mission to
China,’ headed by in-
dustrialist Paul
Desmarais. The Chinese
have a special interest in
Canadian iechnology
relating to hydru-eleciric
power generalion and
long-range transmission,

He said he also
discussed with Hua the

Canadian decision to
accept 500 Chinese
students for training in
Canada, a program he
expects will begin in the
near future.

Hua was friendly but
nuncummittal on
Jamieson's suggestion
that China use its in-
fluence to ease human
rights” violations in
Democratic Kampuchea,
formerly Cambodia, the
minister said.

Polite refusal

The Canadian govern-
ment, in a report to the
Uniled Nations, had
appealed for action to
stop the violations. But
Jamieson sald Hua in-
dicated that China. cun-
siders human rights a
matter for jinternal

ampuchean policy,

The . Minister _ said
discussions with his
Porluguese counterpart,
Korria Gago, concerned
political and economic
problems in that country,

- He said Canada is con-

sidering new economic
assistance beyond the $7.5
million wheat aid already
provided.

Negoliations un a new
fisheries agreement with

Portugal have begun, and
Jamieson said he hopes to
develop both government-
tu-government and pri-
vate commercial co-
operalion contacts,
Jamieson said

discussions with Com-
monwealth Caribbean
foreign ministers in-
cluded the territorial
dispute belween Belize
and Guatemala. Canada
is a member uf a Com-
monwealth group trying
to solve the dispute,
which invotves Guale-
mala’s claim lo
sovereignty over Belize,
ktuwn as British Hon-
duras in Central America
inti its independence in