OTTAWA (CP) —
Former prime minister
John Diefenbaker has
denounced the federal
overnment's plan to give

bec more power over
immigration as “an
Outrageous proposition to
-balkanize Canada.”

In the Commons,
Diefenbaker said Monday
the concept of giving more
power over immigration to
any provincia] governments
“is a proposition which is a
denial of any concept of one
Canada,”’

He predicted the plan

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would lead to one province
ruling “‘that we do not want

‘French people migratin

into our province, we do no
want any English people
Migrating into another
province, we do not want
Jews in our province.”
Diefenbaker’s charge was
one of several criticisms
that Progressive Con-
servative MPs had for
power-sharing talks last
week between federal
Immigration Minister Bud
Cullen and Jacques Cour-
ture, Quebec immigration
minister. ;

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- . AGENCY SOUGHT

Paperwork suffocates
small businessmen

Progressive Corservati
ive Conservative
and New Democrat MPs
Monday proposed creation
of a government agency to
help small businessmen
survive in a world domi-
nated by bigness.
Otto Jelinek, the Con-
servative smail business
spokesman, said a small
business secretariat within
the industry department
could help small
businessmen cope with the
heavy pa rwork demands
of the federal government.
New Democrat Arnold
Peters, who represents the
Northern Ontario riding of
Timiskiming, Proposed an
office separate from any
povernment department to
p the smail businessman
deal with government.
Both spoke during debate
on a Conservative motion

condemning the govern-
ment for alleged failure to
respond to the needs of

small business.

The appointment of Len
Marchand last fall as the
minister of state for small
business and his promise to,
eut red tape brought a lot of
hope to the small
busifiessman, said Jelinek.

But little happened since,
showing that the govern-
ment wants to deal only with

Bg business and big labor,
Jelinek said.

“How can the government

continue to pretend to ‘be

interested in the small
business sector when it
doesn’t even know who it's
dea with?”

Small businesses are the
major employer in Canada
yet “the government con-
tinues to overlook the

potential of small business

when it wants to comba
unemployment.” .

Peters said that while the
government does little for
small business, the
businessmen are guilty as
well since they abandoned
the concept of competition
that helped build the
country. ‘ ;

He said that too many of
them accept the notion that
any worthwhile
developed by an owner-
Managed business should be
taken over by a big cor-
poration.

Peters said several men in
the town of New Liskeard in-
his constituency had formed
a business but as secon as
they wanted to hire help,
they came under so much
hassle from federal bu-
reaucrats that they
dissolved their partnership.

Jelinek said Japan, West
Germany and the United
States provide profitable
examples of the kind of
growth that results from

licies that cater to small
usiness. These countries
have much less difficulty
with unemployment than
Canada. .

"QUEBEC ASSERTS CONTROL OF IMMIGRATION

Cullen defended the
federal stand in the Com-
mons, stressing that any
agreement with Quebee
contain a “common
denominator so that an
immigrant who was ac-
cepted by Quebec for
whatever reasons would be
able to move and settle in
Ontario or another province
if that would be his or her

Discussing Diefenbaker’s
charge with reporters,
Cullen said the former
prime minister had “very
effective rhetoric but is not

sey

Fe

ks Ottawa’s ‘

in accordance with the
facts.”

Cullen repeatedly
stressed that the basis of
federal-provincial power

on immigration lies
in the British North
America Act.

Section 95 of the act says
provincial governments
may make Jaws governing
immigration into their
provinces as long os they
are “not repugnan an
act of the parliament of
Canada.” |

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Outdoor Arts Festival Saturday.

“‘Small businesses are the
cortierstone of our country’s
economy,” he said. Without
them, everything would be
run by large government or
multinational corporations.

But the government fails
to encourage secondary
industry, preferring to
export raw materials to
countries such as Japan and
the United States and buy
hack at higher prices goods
produced from those
resources.
peared fron he tical

rom the
vocabulary of this Pountry
because the government hag
found big business can look
after itself,” he said. -.

idea .

P
Of 2,

”

federal government can
make immigration laws for
all or any of the provinces.

Cullen interprets this
section to mean ‘“‘there is a
very clear provision for co-
determination and each
government has a role to

ay.

He told reporters that Die-
fenbaker is off-base because
“ifa province comes up with
a strategy that is in-
consistent with the federal
policy, the primacy lies with

e federal government."
. Earlier in the Commons,
Arnold Malone (PC—Battle

PARIS (CP-AP)
Canada has offered to write
off $254-million worth of
foreign-aid debts others owe
it and the United States has
promised to play an active
role in helping the world’s
poor countries. ;

The Canadian offer was in
a prepared statement from
Allan MacEachen, goyern-
ment leader in. the Com-
mens, to the Conference on
International Economic Co-
operation (CIEC)—the so-
called North-South dialogue.
The conferetice acq the
label since many in-
dustrialized countries are in
the northern hemisphere,

_while poorer countries are

the south.
MacEachen’s statement
was read at-the conference
here Monday by Canadian

in

INFESTATION
OF CATERPILLARS ©

MOOSOMIN, Sask. (CP)
— Tent caterpillars have
infested this area about 120
miles east of Regina. —

They came in such hordes
that the surface of roads be-
came slippery and many
trees and shrubs were
stripped of their leaves.
le in this community

began noticing the
caterpillars about two

weeks ago. .

Bill Buckland, main-
tenance . supervisor at a
local camperound said six
families left the camp last
week because of uneasiness
about the pests. ;

The town has begun aerial
spraying to combat the

caterpillars and people are:

being asked to spray their
trees with insecticide bet-

ween now and the end of
June, Joe Pollock, the local
agricultural representative,
said.

“This is the third year
we've had caterpillars here,
but the first time we've
sprayed them, so it should
help somewhat.”

As well as the cater-
pillars, cankerworms are
infesting the area as well.
The worms favor maple,
elm and ash, as well as fruit

ees.

‘Pollock said the cater-
pillars have caused no
serious damage to trees this
year but a few more years of
infestations could weaken
the trees and make them
more vulnerable to other
insects and disease. .

SAHEL REGION

Huge international strategy
to re-vegetate desert area

OTTAWA (CP) — An»

international club designed
to save a number of African
countries from  heing
swallowed by. the Sahara
Desert opened a meetin;
Monday with the Uni
States making ‘clear. it is
wholly behind its efforts.
For the next three days,
members of the Club of
Sahel will study a strategy
designed to save the region
from drought. The Sahel is a
$,000-mile strip of Africa
just south of the Sahara.

Doctors’ study session
leaves clinics unmanned

SUDBURY, Ont, (CP) —
About 90 of the Sudbury re-
on's 120 physicians closed
eir offices Monday to
attenda meeting on doctors’
complaints about the On-
tarfo Health Insurance Plan
(OHIP). ‘
Dr. Ernie Lapchinski,
' president of the Sudbur
and = District Medica
Society, said in an interview
that the province's fee
schedule for medical ser-
vices and its prescription-
ey peogrnrn ‘Stesfere with
the dachers’ profedsianai
freedors
Ne said doctrrs

Ret

“almost being coerced’’ to
join OHEP’s billing
program.

e meeting, which has
been planned for about nine
months, was held because
doctors want to express
their concern “‘for the

uality of patient care under
é present health delivery
aystem,"’ Dr. Lapchinski

sald,

The Sudbury society had
invited other doctors in
northeastern Ontario—
District 9 of the Ontario
Medital Associlation—to
chee their offices and join
the protest, but none did.

There are about 500 doctors
_in the region. :

Spokegmen for the Por-
cupine District Medical
Society, in the Timmins
area, and the North
Cochrane Medical Society
expressed support for the
Sudbury action but ‘said
their -members were
working normally.

Dr. Lapehinski satd the
Sudbury doctors are using
longweekend procedures—
pe ents who call thelr of-

cea aré told where they can

'

reach a physician in case of .

an emergency,

The stra will cost up-
wards of $10 billion between
now and the year 2,000.

Club members include
most of the Western
countries, many — in-
ternationa] and United Na-
tions’ organizations and
some oil-producers. -

U.S. congressman Charles
Diggs said it is expected the
U.S. Senate will follow the
lead of the May 12 House of
Representatives move in
approving an ad-
ministration request for $200
million for aid to the Sahel.

He said $50 million of that
money will be for spending
aot ghout th

oughout the opening
session, which included a
speech by Jean-Pierre
Goyer, Canadian supply
minister and co-chairman of
the meeting, the recurring
theme was that the millions
poured into the area in the
years since the devasting
drought hit in 1973 will have
to be increased to deal with
new droughts and
development plans that will
help the area cope with new
expected sainless periods.
noted that Chad, a
Sahel country, is suffering
from a new drought as ba
as the one in 1973. He said
emergency food now is
being flown into the country,

It has been estimated that

the droughts of this decade

have cost hundreds of
thousands of lives plus loss
of land and livestock in Chad
and Cape Verde Islands;
Gambia, Mali, Mauritania,
Niger, Senegal and Upper
Volta, which are French-
speaking club members.
Twenty-one countries, the
European
Community (EEC) and
many organizations are
associated with the club.
They are here -to approve
strategy worked out in the

last year by a group headed:

by Development Minister
Boulama Manga of Niger,
co-chairman of the meeting
with Goyer.

The Sahel countries
already have approved the
strategy.

Maurice J. Williams,
chairman of the develop-
ment assistance committee
of the Organization of
Economic ration and
Development (OECD), said
assistance to the region
reached $3856 million last
year compared with $438
million in 1973.

“Some would point out
that the approximately $30

per ‘capita annual assistance .

e Sahel is one of the
highest in the world,” he
said,

Canada isin the midst of a
$230-million, five-year
assistance program to the
Sahel and Goyer

- tieular province,”

Economic

River) attacked Cullen for
holdin ‘unilateral
negotiations’ with Quebec
with consulting the other
nine provincial govern-
ments or Parliament.

‘Let me first say there is
no new deal with this ar
en
said of an agreement in
principle that both he and

uture announced Friday
after talking in Quebec City.

The only agreement
reached, he said, was to
establish a committee of
officials to study details of
power-sharing and come up

with a report by September,
The officials would
represent the immigration
department, the federal-
provincial relations office,
the privy council office and
the Quebec government.
Cullen was adamant about
kéeping a ‘common
denominator’ to ensure that
immigrants to one province
would not be prohibited
from moving to another.
While he stressed that
other provinces can have
similar negotiations and
agreements with the federal
government, he also said he

$254 MILLION —

Energy Minister Alastair
Gillespie.

The offer is part of an
international spectal-action

program to help under-

developed countries.

The statement maintained
that writing off the debts
‘would have an immediate
and positive impact on
countries concerned, and
will free funds for their
development which would
otherwise have been due to
Canada.”

Canadian officials here
said Ottawa also is prepared
to contribute to a British-
proposedn$i-billion fund
desi to relieve debt
burdens of some of the
world’s poorest countries.

The Canadian decision
will be discussed by the
Group of. Eight industrial

Bonjour,
for all
_ Canada

OTTAWA (CP)
“Nati unity, bonjour,’
That is the greeting
callers: receive when they
dial Paul Tellier, the man in
the privy council office in
charge of gathering am-
munitionnfor the federal
fight to save Confederation.
The unity crusade has led
to the opening of two
bureaucracies in‘ the privy
council office—Tellier’s and
another concerned with
constitutional change under
Donald Thorson, former
deput minister of justice.

t also has provided some
short-term work for Ber-
nard Ostry, deputy minister
of museums, and other
bureaucrats) who are
lanning a July. 1 ex-
iravaganza on Parliament

But Prime Minister
Trudeau has revived it since
the fall election of a
separatist government in
Quebec

To date, much of the
public service unity effort

s been devoted to plan-
ning. Tellier and his five top
helpers spent last Friday at
the government’s Meach
Lake retreat north of Ot-
tawa in the Gatineau Hills.

“Part of our job is
thinking about the problems
of national unity away from
telephone calls and the day-
to-day routine,’’ Tellier
explained in an interview
Monday.

The Meach Lake retreat
normally is used only by the
cabinet when it decides to
meet outside the capital for
planning sessions.

Tellier’s group includes
Richard Dicerni, former
sales manager for Loto-
Canada and unemployment
insurance commission

bureaucrat; Andre Gagnon, -

former compensation policy
head at the anti-inflation
board; Gilles Boyer, former
editor of Le Soleil and labor
department employee;
Pierre Lefebvre, Claude
Lemelin and George An-
derson from treasury board
and David Husband from
regional expansion,

Others are involved in
putting © together new
government language
proposals which will stress

e@ importance of second-
language instruction in
seThose al

Ose proposals are ex-
pected next month.

participants—Australia,
Canada, the European
Common Market (as one
unit), Japan, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland and
the United States—at the
final ministerial session of
the North-South talks.

U.S. State “Secretary
Cyrus Vance pledged that
his country would contribute
$375 million to the $1-billion
fund. A U.S. official said the
European Common Market
and the rest of the in-
dustrialized countries would
split the rest of the cost.

Ina speech he made made
at the’ 27-member CIEC
meeting, Vance promised
an activerole for the United
States. He, however,
warned that changes ben-
efitial to poor countries will
take time and cannot be
brought abeut by rich in-
dustrialized countries alone,

The warning appeared to.
ied 3

have disappoi delegates
from 19 underdeveloped
countries seeking im-
mediate changes in the
international economic

er.
The 19—also known com-
monly as Third World coun-
trces—said later they would
deliver a formal reply today
to Vance’s remarks. The
Third World delegates
represent Algeria,
Argentina, Brazil, Cam-
eroun, Egypt, India, In-
donesia, Iran, _ Iraq,
Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Peru, Saudi
Arabia, Venezuela,

AIB ©
cuts pact

OTTAWA (CP) — The
Antilnflation Board has
recommended a reduction
in compensation
agreements covering some
40,080 British Columbia and
‘Yukon construction work-

ers.

The board recommended
that increases of eight per
cent as provided in the one-
year apreements between
the Construction Labor
Relations Association of
British Columbia and the
B.C, and Yukon Territory
Building Trades Council be
reduced to the guides of six

per cent plus health and

welfare payments.

_The’ agreements, which
were to come into effect
May 1, 1977, cover most of
the trades in the con-
struction industry.

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‘palkanizing” plans

doubts many other
provinces are as interested
as Quebec in “getting in-
volved to that extent.’”..
The two main cptions
Cullen identified as under
study included: —
—Quebec’s proposal -to
administer 55 of 100 poirits
that the federal government
now is empower100 to enter
Canada. .
~—A system where the
federal - government would
give an immigrant extra
points if he were sponsored
or entry into Canada by a
provincial government, —

Canada writes off _
poor nations’ debts

Yugoslavia, Zaire and
ia.
Vance said a new
economic order “will not be
built here this week. Nor
will it be built without many
painful adjustments, ac-
commodations and
sacrifices by ‘all of us
present here ” .

State department officials

had said last Saturday when
Vance left Was n ‘for
Paris that the United States
favors transferring some of
the CIEC agenda to the
United Nations, the World

Bank and other existing.

international agencies,
Vance said Monday that
“as a first step ... I wish to
make clear that we believe
the NorthSouth dialogue
should continue.”
Vance’s call for the talks

to continue took
Washington’s partners in
the conference by s .

MacEachen said, “It will
need fresh examination by
all delegations. We have
always assumed the con-
ference would terminate”

today.
tom talks began 18 months
ago in the face of rising de-
mands from poor countries
for a
economic order.”

“new international ‘

- BLACK
LYNCHED

WINDHOEK (Reuter) —
A black convicted of the.
murder of four whites was
hanged Monday in South-
Weat Afrcian city, despite
appeals by the South West
African People’s Organ-
ization (SWAPO), ‘
‘Daniel Tjongarero,
SWAPO § information
secretary, said last week the
execution of Filemon
Nangolo would threaten to
“break down all possibilities
of an internal solution’ to
the problems of South-West
Africa (Namibia). - ,

He said his plea for help
had gone to UN Secretary-
General Kurt Waldheim,
Amnesty International,

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