Page 2, The Herald, Thursday, June 5, 1980

Clark reluctant to take part |

By JOHN FERGUSON

OTTAWA (CP) — Op:
position Leader Joe Clark
said Wednesday he won't be
part of a federal delegation
at a new series of con-
stitutional talks to begin

Monday unless it appears

they are not making
progress. ~
Clark teld reporters

following a meeting with
Prime Minister Trudeau that
he wants to see ‘‘the

traditional method" of first
ministers’ meetings given
ancther try before he is pre-
pared to consider taking
part.

His remarks appeared to-

dash chances of quick for-

ye

mation of an all-party
delegation at constitutional
falks as proposed ‘by NDP
leader Ed Broadbent. ..
Broadbent, who met
earlier with Trudeau, -told
reporters he had urged that a

Lalonde wants oil pricing on the

OTTAWA (CP) — Negotia-
tions for a new oil, pricing
agreement should be
separate from constitutional
talks when the 10 premiers

meet Prime Minister
Trudeau Monday, says
Energy Minister Mare
Lalonde,

Latonde also told reporters
Wednesday he ‘hopes to
resume bargaining for a new
pricing arrangement bet-
ween Ottawa and the
provinces perhaps as early
as next week.

’ Alberta, the primary
producing province, has
balked at initial proposals
from the Liberal govern-
ment to replace the existing

agreement which expires
June 30, . pot
Lalonde said that despite
the current impasse there
will have to be some form of
understanding by ‘July 1,
even if it means a temporary
extension of the present
agreement. ;
The energy minister said
he has hopes that a new
petroleum pricing package
can be concluded, although
he conceded the talks are the
most difficult since domestic
prices were increased ‘in.
1974, Federal participation

in financing of oil sands ©

plants was also a contentious
issue at that time.

At issue is Ottawa’s

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determination to’ gain a
bigger alice of higher oil and
gas revenues and Alberta’s
conviction that it is entitled
to at least the same -net
benefits as those proposed by
the former Progressive Con-
servative government. .
Lalonde said talks now are
under way to set a date for
the next meeting with
Alberta, Saskatchewan and
the

producers of cil and natural
gas,

vata pricing

Later, during the daily
Commons question period,

‘Lalonde denied the govern-

ment intended to drag out
the talks.past June 30 and
then use federal powers to
impose an agreement on the
provinces, The government
was determined to gain a
negotiated settlement, he
said.

Bill Jarvis, Progressive
Conservative energy critic

. from the Ontario riding of :

Perth, asked if Lalonde had
proposed that the producing
provinces accept an increase
of $1 a barrel this year in
domestic oi} prices and a
new export tax on natural

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“Lalonde said fo . such’

proposals have been placed

on the bargaining table and
said he would not negotiate
from the floor of the Com-
mons. ‘

Sinclair Stevens (PC —
YorkPeel) asked whether
Alberta would be free to set
its own. price for oi] and
natural gas in the absence of
anew agreement by July 1 or
failure to agree to extend the
present arrangement.
Stevens noted Lalonde'’s
earlier reply that Ottawa

would not move unilaterally ~

to impose an agreement.
However, Lalonde refused
to speculate on the outcome

of the talks, saying only he
would soon continue the-
negotiations. :

Toronto . Conservatives
David Crombie (Rosedale)
and Michael. ° Wilson
(Etobicoke Centre) pressed
for assurances the, govern-
Ment was taking into ac-

table

deadline.of July, 1, 1981, be
set for the redrawing of the
British North America Act |
and that opposition parties

be made part of provincial as
well. as provincial |

delegations.

ment wants togather at least .
the same revenue proposed |
by the Conservatives,

The government has alsa

. said it intends to gradually
eliminate the costly subsidy

count job creation prospects: .

flowing, from billions of
dollars .in energy in-
vestment. ;

The government is com-
mitted to holding increases
this year to less than the $4 a
barrel proposed by the
Conservatives, Lalonde has

said repeatedly this pledge .

will be honored although he

.has ‘indicated the govern-

%

‘provided to pay the dif-
ference of about $20 a barrel
between imported oil and the
current domestic price of
$14.75, Cost of the subsidy is
estimated at $3.1 billion, for

’ the fiscal year ending March

31.

With the level of imports
slated to rise for the next
several years: as domestic
production declines, Ottawa
says. it cannot aiford to:
continue such massive

- payments. a

| Peckford proposing |

informal session first _

HALIFAX (CP) — New-
foundiland Premier Brian
Peckford's proposed in-
formal
provincial premiers ‘in ad-
vance of the Monday con-
stilutional conference. is ex-
pected to draw at least four.
of his nine counterparts, it
was learned Wednesday.

PECKFORD...
_ oo ftst a chat

A source said Premiers
Rene Levesque of Quebec,
Peter Lougheed of Alberta
and Allan Blakeney of
Saskatchewan have agreed
to attend the meeting,
scheduled for Sunday night,

Premier Angus MacLean
of Prince Edward Island
said publicly Wednesday he
will attend if the meeting is
held, .

However, Premier
Richard Hatfield of New
Brunswick, among those
who declined the invitation,

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‘said he doubted that enough

premiers would show up for

the gathering to go ahead.

gathering of .

~ Premiers William Davis of
Ontario and Bill Bennett of -
British Columbia also have
said they will not attend.

Premiers Sterling Lyon of
Manitoba and. John
Buchanan of Nova Scotia
have not said whether they
will be on hand.

Peckford's office has
emphasized. that — the
proposed meeting is not to be.
considered any kind of
premiers’ conspiracy ini ad-
vance of the constitutional
talks. .

“It’s just an informal get
together Sunday night —
maybe we can even do it at.
breakfast Monday — to see
whether we have ‘any
common ground,” a

spokesman for Peckford said

Wednesday.

The spokesman said the
success. of the proposed
meeting was “not a function
of whether everybody at-

Hatfield said he dlready
had an engagement Sunday
night. He added, however, -
that he felt ‘‘we should really -
start off with 11 governments
and maintain that as long a5
possible.” '

He said the proposed
meeting ‘might have given
the wrong impression.

“T don't think he (Peck-
ford) had any ulterior
motive whatever. But it
might have given the wrong
impression to have a
meeting of the premiers
first. .

“We're one country and I
think we shouid start off this:

new appreach or effort in
constitutional reform
- together.” ;

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But ‘he told ‘Trudeau: that
he would only participate if
Clark was there as well,”

__ Clark said he would look at
the resulta’ af the one-day,
closed-door: meeting: of first
ministers Monday as weil as
future ‘meetings before

"deciding if his participation

is necessary. :

"If the-traditional method
doesn't work it could welt be
worth: talking a look at
broadening. ~-the | -par-
ticipation,” “he. said. - "Not
simply in présence: !at ‘the
table but jn preparation of
what goes to the-table.”

~ A spokesman for Trudeau -
said the prime minister,

would have no. comment on
the discussions with the two
opposition leaders. _

The idea of the three
parties getting together on

the federal delegation at ~

renewed constitutional talks
was first put to Trudeau by
Broadbent the day after the
Quebec referendum in which
the pro-federalist forces won
a solid majority. .
Trudeau -said “he could
accept the idea if common
positions could.be developed.
‘But both -Broadbent and
Clark indicated following
their meeting with Trudeau
that there was little
discussion about ‘their po-

‘sitions on specific con-—

stitutional issues.

Clark said he discussed
with Trudeau the desire of
the premiers to make

- equalization payments a

part of the constitution and
other unspecified areas

where there might be agree--
_ ment found, “but not in any -

conclusive way.”

-He had also told Trudeau s
‘ $100,000.a year to keep a

-that he wanted the
representatives of the Yukon
and Northwest Territories to
take party in consititutional
talks — a position Trudeau
has rejected. © ,

‘Clark has said he .won't
have a firm package of
constitutional reform
proposals prepared until
early next year. Broadbent
expects to have a package

ready by the end of the

sumuiher..

'” However, Broadbent was
more specific at the meeting,

’ Setting down six conditions
for “his participation in the ~

federal delegation. :

“Broadbent said he'set six’
conditions — the first two |

were already supported by
Trudeau — for the NDP
leader's participation within
the federal delegation: -
—The continuation of the
federal system. .
—Entrenchment — of
language and human rights.
’ That both he and Clark
be allowed to participate.

—That the opposition.
leaders be allowed “‘to speak

our minds" on various issues
while not necessarily having
the right to vote.

—That representatives of
the native peoples and two
northern
permitted “as a minimum”
to convey their ideas to
constitutional conferences.

—That a majority, but not
necessarily all, con-
stitutional meetings be held
in public. ; .

provincial
Wednesday.

’ WINNIPEG (CP)}-— About
'1,-000‘ people — friends,
relatives and members of
the Canadian Union of Public
Employees on strike at 30
health facilities in Manitoba
z- paraded around the

legislature

Carrying placards and

chanting union slogans, the .
demonstrators.. tried to

persuade Premier Sterling

Lyon's Tory government to
‘intervene in the dispute,

“J. hope this shows - the
Manitoba Health
Organizations we have the
support of the membership,”

union spokésman. Eugene
Kostyra said...
As he. spoke CUPE .

- members marched “past ;

shouting: ©. ou
"Sterling is not.silver. in

our sights” and “Time heals ~~
all wounds, time and a-half. _ -

heais them faster." =.
Union members began
walking: off the | job ‘at

hospitals and nursing homes -

across the province May 27
to back contract demands,
About 3,200 are on strike.
CUPE negotiators have
revised their
demands slightly. They are

‘ geeking’a 16 per cent-pay:
one-year -

hike in a
agreement, one per cent less
than the inerease they
wanted just before contracts

talks broke off a week ago ..

Monday. .

Patients don’t complain

WINNIPEG (CP) — A-

chaplain pushes the vacuum |
cleaner and the executive
secretary works. overtime in’.
the kitchen at Concordia
Hospital where’ calm reigns
despite a provincewide--

strike of non-medical
workers. ee
.For the. 60 patients

remaining in the 132-hed
hospital, there are in-

conveniences bul none has -

serious complaints about
lack of care. .
“] haven't heard any com-
plaints and I haven't: been
neglected,” said frank
Gates, 63, recovering from a

mild heart attack...
“For..Doreen Martin,
confined to bed with a broken
leg, the hospital is a quieter
place. since the ‘strike of

. support staff, members of .

-the Canadian Union of Public
Employees, began May .27.

“There's nobody around,”
she said, “It’s very quiet,
espcially on Sundays when
everyone usually visita.” -

While supervisory staff
and volunteers are doing a
good job, she sald “there is a
difference in patient care.”

Bedding is straightened,
not changed. ‘

Cossitt strikes again

‘OTTAWA (CP) — The gov-
ernment is spending about

Canadian admiral living in

‘opulence in Brussels, a.

Conservative

MP said
Wednesday.. -

Tom Cossitt, told the Com- ~

mons the $9,200-a-menth rent’
paid for the home of Admiral
Robert’ Falls, chairman of
the NATO ‘military com-
mittee and former chief. of
the Canadian defence staff,
is an “outrageous example
of ripping off the taxpayer.”

Cossitt,, from Leeds-
Grenville in Ontario, in-

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' TORONTO (CP) — John
‘Black Aird, chancellor of

Wilfrid Laurier University

and a former Liberal

‘senator, was named by

Prime Minister Trudeau on
Wednesday .to succeed

Pauline ‘McGibbon as lleu-~’

tenant-governor of Ontario.

Aird once said; “I thrive
on activity.” lf that's the
case, he has landed a perfect
job. As Ontario’s new
lieutenant-governor, Aird,
57, will find himself busy for
the next five years.

The Toronto lawyer said in

territories .be

troduced a motion con-
demning the government for
“permitting Admiral Falls

to indulge lavishly in ap-'
parent lust for luxurious

living beyond the bounds of
common sense.”

He also demanded ‘‘a
government statement on
this opulent, elaborate self-
indulgence which makes a
literal lie of the gov-
ernment’s' pious, pompous
urging of restraint.”

The motion was greeted
with laughter and jeers and
did not get the unanimous
support required for
adoption.

2° RlewiLG in Ontario

an interview Wednesday he
will sever all business and

private practice relation- .

ships before taking over
from Mrs. MecGibbon on
Sept. 10. ; °

He was appointed to the

senate for life in 1964, a

. position he held until Nov. 28,

1974, when he resigned to
become chairman of the
Institute for Research on
Public Policy — often
described as a think tank to
prepare the Canadian

. government for the future.

Oil industry digs deep

CALGARY (CP) — The
Canadian petroleum in-
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own pockets and borrowed
heavily from others to
maintain a high level of
spending in 1979, the Cana-
dian Petroleum Association
said Wednesday.

‘The industry had $13
billion in ‘revenues from
sales of crude oil, natural
gas and gas byproducts, but
spent $13.55 billion exploring
for and producing those

products, association
chairman Jack MacLeod’
said, . :

The spending, which in-

' cludes royalties, taxes,

operating costs and ex-
ploration and capital ex-

penditures, was up 24 ‘per.
- cent from 1978.

Revenues and exp 3 vin
refining and marketingime
not included in the gigures.

Sex killer
charged

TORONTO (CP) — A-

cousin of Elizabeth Jane
Tomlinson was -charged

Wednesday with first-degree ~
murder In the sexslaying of

the six-year-old girl,
Gregory Russell Guerin,
26, who lives only a few doors
away from the girl’s family,
has been charged and is in
hospital under guard after

apparently taking. a drug

overdose, said Insp. James
Crawford, head of the
Toronto’ homicide squad.
Metropolitan Toronte Police,
were on the 10th day of an
exhaustive search for the

“killer of. the [little girl whose

body was found in brush near.
a railway track May 26.
_ Guerin, an unemployed Ia-
borer, lives with his parents,
The arrest — ended
thousands of hours of in-.
vestigation by scores of
policemen.

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