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Dwarf Mistletoe on Ladgepole Pine in the
Houston ranger district gives the woods an

eerie look.

Spooky and destructive

‘Have you. ever, while
walking through the forests
of our province, noticed that
the branches of some trees
have, instead of the regular
geometrical formation, an
acute swelling with many
brittle branches growing aut

OTTAWA (CP) — RCMP
Cpl. Bernard Dubuc said
Tuesday he didn't believe he
was stealing dynamite when
he broke into a construction
shed and took some in 1972
because this lype of thing
was covered in his job
descrption.

“In my mind, I never stole
dynamite,” Dubite told Ross
Goodwin, counsel to a royal
commissimn on RCMP
wrongdoing, during a twu-
hour examination here. “... 1
was simply doing my duty.”’

Dubue said that under a
job description . drafted by
superiors for members of the. ,
G-4. unit in. 1972, he was
required to “obtain
materials” needed lo fight
terrorism. -

He told Goodwin he had
been ordered by Staff Set.
Donald McCleery, dismissed
from the force in 1973, to get
some dynamite.

McCleery had explained
that the dynamite would ‘be
given to an informer so that
he could make a bomb to
show to members of a
terrorist cell, The idea was
to convince them that the
informer was serious,

Dubuc said he was told by
‘McCleery that it would
“defeal the purpose" to get
the dynamite through nor-
mal channels.

So Dubue and Constable
Richard Daigle spent two
weeks poking through
conétruction siles at night
looking for sticks of
dynamite left lying around.
They found none.

Then Dubuc said he heard
a colleague, who didn't know
about the dynamite search,
telling ancther if was a
shame that so many police
worked night and day to
“stop bombings when places
like Richelieu Construction
leave explosives around.”

Dubue said he didn’t ask
for details because he didn’t

‘want to lip the other

Mountie, also a security
man, that he was looking for
ite,

Instead he and Daigle
found the Richelieu site
south of Montreal, in the
Iberville area, and learned
from signs that explosives
were stored in wooden sheds
there.

Dubuc said he used a tire
iron to snap a padiock on two
of the sheds, taking a box of
dynamite from one and a box
of detonator caps frum the
other.

The caps later were put in
the glove compartment of an
old unmarked RCMP car
and the dynamile in the
trunk. The car was left
overnight in the parking lot
of an abandoned shopping
centre in Ville LaSalle, west
of downtown Montreal,

The next day, acling un
McCleery's orders, Daigle
and Dubuc took the
dynamile to McCleery's
Bummer cotlage al Sl.
Faustin, in the Laurentians
north of Montreal.

Daigle testified last week
that the dynantite was stored
in cotlages during the
summer, then, in late Oc-
tober, drupped al a ruadside.

from it. This is called a
“witches' broom” and is
caused by a form of Dwarf
Mistletoe. Dwarf Mistletoe is
a green parasitic plant
common to all of our
evergreen lrees except the
Cedars.

‘Sut it wasn’t

Without identifying himself,
Daigle called Quebec
Provincial Police and told
them where the dynamite
could be fuund.-

Dubuc said that at one
puinl, McCleery said the
dynamite might be used “to
neutralize a terrorist called
Desormeaux.”

This would have been done
by planting the dynamile at
Desormeaux’s quarters,
then finding it and
threatening to arrest him
unless he informed RCMP of
criminal ‘acts planned by
uther terrorists. Dubuc said
that simply framing a
terrorist ‘and having him

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Dwar! Mistletoe deforms
the tree to the puint of
decreasing its cummercial
value and in the more ad-
vanced stages actually
weakens the tree at the point
of the swelling su that it
breaks off. Il alsu reduces

theft’

charged with illegal:
possession of dynamite had
not been discussed.

Dubuc, who earlier in
May, 1972, had engaged in a
barnburning operation,
testified that the G-4 unil had
“carte blanche” to do things
like this afler it was formed
in 1971. He said Sgt. Laurent
Hugu wanted terms of
reference however and
began working on a job
description in late 1971.

The job description tabled
before the royal commission
was Hugo's, Dubuc said, but

had come from his own
- personal papers.

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the gruwth rate of the tree,
reduces seed production and
quality, and increases
susceplibility to other
diseases arid parasiles.
Mistleioes are unique in
that the seed produced in a
female plant, when ripe, is
slot wut much like a cannon,
up to 12 metres from the
paren! plant, The sticky seed
must strike a susceplible
host tree to germinate and

_ survive.

The rate of spread of
Dwarf Mistletue is slow but
steady. [lt can and does infect
large areas of forest
radialing ever outward.
Control is achieved by clear-
cutting infected forest areas,
In the Prince Rupert Forest
District, Dwarf Mistletue
infestations are considered

when cutting and logging -

plans are being drawn up.
In the Prince Rupert
‘ores! District there is a
large infestation of Dwarf
Mistletoe in Hemluck stands
in the ‘Terrace, Kitimat and
Queen Charlatle Ranger
Districts and in Lodgepule
Pine stands in the Houstan
and: "Suuthbank, Rariger
Disuriels; ee at

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OTTAWA (CP) -
Canadian and United States
fishermen could return to
each other's waters next
year, especially on the West
Coast, bul it may Lake an-
uther three to four years to
get final settlement on
disputed maritime boun-
daries.

Negotiations to settle a

buundary and’ fishery
dispute between “tHe two
cuuntries have gine a las

far as they can and dources
said Tuesday they're op-
timistic about the chances uf
settling West Coast Issués.

But the Atlantic poses a
more intricate problem and
it appears likely that ad-
judication by the World
Court or thirdparty ar-

The weather forecast for
today continues to be cloudy

“and cool, with periods of

rain, as the current low
pressure zone continues to
hover over the area. The
extended outlook ls for more
af the same. Today’s high for
the Kitimat-Terrace area
should be around 14 degrees
Celsius, while tonight the
\hermometer should drop lu
aboul 10 degrees. Muderate
winds of 20 to 25 kilumelers
per hour in the Kitimat area
shuuld drop off sometime
this afiernuun to § tu 10
KMH.

If you were planning any
sort of guidoor activities for
tuday, you might be
somewhat disappuinted, bul
hopefully, though i's tou
early tu lel jusi yet, there
midght be sume im-
provement next week.

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vahagoca. hibies

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bitration will be needed to
decide un a boundary line for
Geurges Bank off southern
Nova Scotia.

That could take up to four
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it is likely the two countries
will work out a fisheries
agreement to alluw for a
resumption next year uf
reciprocal fishing on the
East Coast and to protect
fishing rights against any
adverse effects boundary
arbitration could bring.

The Heraid, Wednesday, September 20, 1978, Page 3

BUT DISPUTE NOT OVER
Fishing may resume

Canadian and American
fishermen were ordered out
of each other's waters in
dune because both sides said
the uther wasn't living up to
the terms of the exisiting
reciprocal agreement. No
major confrontations have
resulted.

The explusions renewed
public atlention un special
negoliations, started in
September, i977, lo settle
fuur maritime boundaries in
dispute since the

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