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_ ‘The Herald, Thursday, December 7, 1978, Pagé-®

U.S. wants thai oil

Bill Blackwater, president of Gitskan Gitksan-Carrie

GITKSAN-CARRIER

The ist Annual Gitksan-
Carrier Tribal Council
Convention will be held in
Kispiox on Thursday and
Friday.

Council President, Bill
Blackwater, said the con-
vention will be a celebration
of the meeting held one year
ago with Hugh Faulkner,

ee Se

Faulkner and Campagnolo
have been invited to attend
the convention and in.
vitations are going out to.
B.C.’s Minister of Labour,
Alan: Willlams, and his
assistant, Robert Exell,

“We are looking forward
to conducting a lot of
business and having a lot of

eared

| Native meetin

that will be our
slogan...Gitksan-Carrier —
Getting Stronger.”

Tho twoday program will
incl. =the president's
repurt, program reports,
committee reports, a
iraditional welcome feast,
election and a banquet.

The council represents

Minister of Indian Affairs, fun at the convention," said nearly 4,500 native Indians in
and Yona Campagnolo, Blackwater. “We want our the Upper Skeena River
Skeena MP, when the 22,000 guests from other tribal region from the Gitksan and

re mile land claim of the
Gitksan-Carrler people was
accepted by the federal
government for negotiation.
Blackwater says that

areas to participate in this.

Carrier villages of Kit-

fun. We will demonstrate*ywegukla, Hagwilget,

how our council is becoming
stronger and stronger with
support from the people arid

oricetQwn, Gitanmaax,
SiKadonk, Kispiox, Kitwanga
and ‘Kitwancool.

Monarchy supported

LONDON (Reuter) —
Canada has every intention
of remaining a.constitutional

rae tienesen iad

Wednesday, adding there ia
great love in Canada for the

er.

“T can't conceive of any
development in may country
that would change the
feeling for the monarchy,”
Jameson added in a speech
before the Royal Com-
monwealth Society.

Canadians have a great re-
spect, affection atid “indeed
love'' for the Queen, he sald.
In his native Newfoundland,

- Britain is described as “the.

mother country.”

Jamieson said he believes
that ‘despite Britain's
membership in the
European Common Market,
it remains the fountainhead
of the Commonwealth. He
hopes that Britain does not
become so preoccupied with
Europe that the Com-
monwealth ‘‘will bave to

’ play second fiddle.'*

Canada holds a strong
belief in the Commonwealth
and the need to keep sight of
moral values in world af-

fairs, Jamieson added. He
believes the Commonwealth
Sa eee at Arias the
problagis:0f”Afrits,..in-,
cluding 'Namibia,and ‘Rho-

Jamieson regretted that
Canada's relationship with
India is “‘not as good as I
would like it to be’’ because
of India’s hesitation over
signing a nuclear non-
proliferation treaty. “Our
relations would be far better

- if these nuclear tensions

were out of the way.”

As for the Queen, Canada’s
attitude toward the
sovereign remained un-
diminished despite talk of

new moves to: bring its .

constitution home . from
Westminster,

Touching’ on the situation
in Namibia .where South
Africansponsored elections
are under way, Jamieson
said that “if we fall in
Namibia,” the situation in
Africa might disintegrate.
Canada and other Western
countries are supporting
Proposals: for elections in
that territory under United
Nations supervision,

The Couth West African

Feople’s Organization
(SWAPO), one of the major
black groups in Namibia,
has refused to participate in
the current vote and police
have arrested some of their
leaders following bomb
explosions.

Jamieson told reporters it

was never the UN intention
that SWAPO should have a
unique role as sole
representative in Namibia.
He said South Africa has
made a “quite important
concessicn” in recent weeks
in agreeing to retain
responsibility for Namibia
pending UN elections which
may be held next year.
_ If South Africa does not
move toward the holding of
UN elections, some decisive
UN action may be taken,
Jamieson said, referring to
recurring demands for
sanctions against the Pre-
toria government.

Jamieson’ said he hopes
South Africa might prave its
good faith on Namibia within
weeks or months but added
that in referring to a
timetable, he is thinking of
the ‘dynamic of events” and
pot of an ultimatum.

Whelan slams his critics

OTTAWA (CP) _~
Agriculture Minister Eugene
Whelan says critics of farm
marketing boards are

Clark

names.
shadows

OTTAWA (CP) — Op
position Leader Joe Ciark
has given shadow cabinet
jobs to two of the party's 10
winners in October
byelections.

David Crombie, former
Toronto mayor and winner in
the Rosedale riding, has
been told to come up with a
party pollcy on the voluntary
sector—service clubs,
charitable organizations,
church groups and the Ilke.

Robert de Cotret, former
president of the Conference
Board in Canada and winner
in Ottawa Centre, has been
assigned to co-ordinate
development policy.

Clark also announced that
MP Perrin Beatty.
(Wellington-GreyDuflferin-
Waterloo) has been named
supply and service critle in

- the shadow cabinet. And Dan

McKenzie (PC—Winnipeg
South Centre) has been
named veterans affairs
critic, replacing Jack
Marshall who has been ap-
pointed to the Senate.

deliberately ignoring the
successes of supply man-
agement in food productlon
and would prefer to have
farmers reduced to the
peasants of centuries past.

Whelan told the annual
convention of the National
Farmers Union on Wed-
nesday that U.S. studies
reinforce his belief that
marketing boards are the
only way to protect the
family farm,

The -inarket system,
which showed its merit with
a sharp jump in turkey
prices in the last few months
even though farmers got
little from the Increase, was
“only a patchwork solution
and a dangerous one at
that.”’

The market system would
mean more imports from

‘gounries which spend

millions supporting their
farmers. ‘Once we start to
rely on other countries for
our staples we will see not
wo. the death of agriculture
but the death of Canada as
an independent nation.”
Wlielan said consumer
groups and editoriallsts
can't accept that farmers
should receive incomes such
as others earn for
complex enterprises. Far-
mers were expected to bear
all the costs of food
production and still get low

prices.
Critics continue to dredge

up the 26 million eggs the
Canadian Egg Marketing
Agency (CEMA) had to
destroy several years ago
because they had rotted in
storage, Whelan said.

“What they don't seem to
remember is farmers used to
throw out more eggs that
that before CEMA’ because
of overproduction or refusals
by processora ‘to take the
eggs because it would force
prices down.

Critics Ignore that egg
prices have been virtually
unchanged in the last two
years and dairy products,
another highly-regulated
farm commodity, increased
only seven per cent in price,
Whelan said. Food prices in
general had climbed 18 per

cent.

Whelan said marketing
boards can withstand
analysis by any group, The
calibre of their business
operations would match
those of large companies
such as automobile makers,

He was constantly blamed
for the growth in marketing
boards yet he had only
overseen the hatching of only
one—the Canadian Turkey
Marketing Agency.

He said the Progressive
Conservative governments
of Alberta and Ontario have
brough In much tougher
marketing boards than the
federally authorized
agencies,

r Tribal Council

OTTAWA (CP) —A United
States bid for an extension of
oil exports from Alberta will
be a key topic in energy talks
Friday.

Energy Minister Alastair
Gillespie and U.S. Energy
Secretary James
Schlesinger have scheduled
a day-long closed meeting to
discuss the exports as well as
a wide rariaf other energy
issues

Included will be proposals
for an oil pipeline across
Canada, sale to the U.S. of
surplus heavy fuel oil in
eastern provinces, oil
storage sites on the East
Coast and the security of
world oil supplies.

The Natlonal Energy -

Board said in a report in
September that crude oil
supplies had improved to the
point where it would be
reasonable to extend until
1983 the current daily export
from Alberta of 55,000 bar-
rels of valuable, light crude
oil. Policy now is to reduce
the exports to 20,000 barrels

next year and 1,000 barrels a

day in 1930.

Gillespie says the federal
government will decide
whether to accept the board
decision after he has had
talks with Schlesinger.

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