Page 2, The Herald, Thursday, September 20, 1979 Secrets Act to get revamped OTTAWA (CP) — The spring for the firat tLme in 40 years, an adviser to Privy uncll President Walter er says, Revision of the act, which has come under attack from civil libertarians, litielans newspa uring last year, be the second atage of Prime Minister Clark's plans create more open government, sald Tim Ralfe, adviser to Baker on treedom of information. A bill giving Canadians ac- cess to government In- formation collected at Parllament meeta next month, The Offintal Secrets Act, based on a 10913 British we ey was Giclee ar an ) a ho called it vague, am- ment's penchant for stam everything secret ‘was carried to the extreme a few years ago when the RCMP tranamitted a newspaper article fram Vancouver to Ottawa in biguous and unwieldy and code ed it be rewritten. Ithough aimed at eeplonage, the act is drafted ao broadly that it could be held to prohibit public ser- vants from telling the pu ; anything, a study done for the Law Reform Commis- sin of Canada said Jast month, The act makes ita crime to make public any document Ontario Judge Car) Wals-- berg, in throwing out charges under the Official Secreta Act agalnst the blic Toronto Sun last April, ruled that simply stamping a document top secret did not make it so. He rejected the govern- ment's contention that a document published by The culated to government departments, the document had been wed in a national television broadcast and had been discussed in the House of Commons on three days before The Sun article waa published. The government's clasal- fication -ayatem will be superzeded by the freedom- of-information bill to be introduced in tha Commons next month, Ralfe said in an mend that bill, a ju a would be able to Pi whether documents the government wishes to secret should be made with a confidential or secret taxpayers’ expense is stamp on lt. The govern- Clark's first priority when . Sun was top secret. Sixty- public. “The judge won't seven coples had been cir- care how it is classified, he ‘will care what itaaye,” Ralfe said When it revises the Official Secrets Act, the government is expected to remove a provision permitting secret The public was excluded from trlal last year of Montreal engineer Peter Treu, who was charged with having copies of documents ha himself had written in what is believed to be the first trial in Canada ever conducted entirely in secret. Treu's conviction was later overturned, but Clark vowed it would be the last trial of-that sort. “There will be no more secret trials in this country,” Clark. aaid in April. : The ireedom-of- information bill and a new secrets act would eliminate the phrase ‘‘natlonal security,” a term which Is used in dozens of federal laws, fithough it has never en d, Many civil libertarians say the term has emasculated the section of the Canadian Human Rights Act designed to let individuals look at federal government files on themselves. Under that law, 23 data banks, including those of the RCMP, are exempt from public scrutiny on grounds of national security, - _ BUSINESS DIRECTORY | aPlumbing - Heating - Commercial Servicing Realdential - Industriat - Spectalizing Gas Fitting and Sheet Metal Shop Charlie Belanger PLUMBING & HEATING LTD. ‘Unique Bathroom Boutique’ 444 LAKELSE AVENUE P.O. Box 534 " PHONE 6959319 TERRACE, 8.C. 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Starblanket said there are still “loopholes that require further explanation’’ but - said these will be dealt with Earlier this year, department officials sald Indian reserves will get one- tenth the new houses needed in the coming year, They said almost $40. million has been set aside to build 2,400 new houses and renovate another 5,000 on Indian reserves. ; Another 22,500 new holses still are needed and 30,000 houses on reserves require rehabllitation, department estimates showed. cautious ok by an Indian specialist slated to joln federal Health Minister David Crombie's staff shortly. He said more information is needed on the removal of h guidelines that forced ~ Indians to.pay for uninsured services that were previously free and the government's failure to ac- knowledge health care as a right of ail Indians. Investigations allowed OTTAWA (CP) — The federal goverment has decided to allow the Canadian: Human Rights Commission to investigate . . eomplaints * -‘of ‘racial discrimination against immigration officials and their practices, Immigration Minister Ron Atkey said : Wednesda Atkey also announced the government hag agreed to drop a court challenge of the commission's contention that It has the right to in- vestigate such charges of diserimination. ‘The former Liberal . government, which initiated the court action, argued at the time that the commission would be swamped by complaints from potential immigrants who want to delay deportation. Cut back but said better OTTAWA (CP) — Federal support for the travel budget of intercollegiate sports waa cut this year as part of a EARNINGS Algonquin Mercantile Corp., year ended June 30: 1979, §21,-201, three cente a ; share; 1978, $066,922, loss. Stampede International Re-sources Ltd,, year ended March 31: 1078, $582,434, 11 cents a share; 1978, $888,703, 16 cents. DOLLAR MONTREAL (CP) — U.S. dollar in terms of Canadian funds at 3:30 pm. EDT Wednesday was up 3-20 at $1.1660. Pound sterling was up 3-100 at $2,4993, In New York, the Canadian doliar was down 11-100 at 9.8576 and pound sterling was down 1-4 at $2.1435, general government spen- ding reduction but is still an improvement over two years ago, a spokesman for Sport Minister Steve Paproski said Wednesday. Sheila Bresalier said that Paproski added $100,000 to the original federal com- mitment of $100,000 after university officials told him of the hardships the cuts were causing. But she said she agrees with comments by Bus Phillips, athletic director at the University of British - Columbla, that some universities may have to- seex competition with U.S. schoola rather than other Canadian Institutions because of the budget cut. But that was often the case prior to the start of the federal support two years ago, she said, Last year, Ottawa provided the Canadian Inter- univeraity Athletic Union with $429,000 to help equalize travel costs for men's and women's university sport teams, Prior to that, schools in British Columbia, the Prairies and the Atlantic provinces complained that their athletic programs were hindered by the higher coats they faced travelling to competitions. . STOCKS © TORONTO (CP) — The Toronto stock market was moderately higher at the close of active trading aday. The TSE 300 index rose 2,61 to 1,721.87. Analysts sald gold remalned the big news, but the glod Index droppedidue to profit-taking, Volume was 7.47 milllon compared with 8.89 million Tuesday. Among industrials, Crown Trust was up 2 to $31, Cominco 1% to $444, Gulf Canada 144 to $174, Dome Pete 1% to $50% and Inter- City Gas 1 toa $10. Petrofina Canda fell 1% to $44%,, Bow Valley Industries 1% to $41%, Daon Development % to $17%, Budd Canada’ % to §7% and Villacentres % to 8%. McIntyre Mines gained 2% to $80, Gulfstream Resources $1.05 to $4,50, and Dome Mines % to $53%. United Keno Mines fell 3 to $204, and Campbell Red Lake Mines % to $28%. Amalgamaled -Bonanza Pete rose 3% to $244, Mountain States Resources 1 to $12 and Ranger Oil Canada % to $38%. Pan- Canadian Pete lost 1 to 61 and Canadian Superior Oll % to $1,600. VANCOUVER (CP) — Prices were mixed in another seasion of heavy trading Wednesday on the Vancouver Stock Exchange with a closing volume of §,021,-609 shares. In the industrials, British Columbia Resources In- vestment Corp, was up .20 at $7.70 on 260,063 shares and Great National Land was down .10 at $1.80 on 10,900, Taro Industries was up .05 at $8.40 on 3,000 and Okanagan Hellcopter was unchanged at 4160 on |= 2,900. Daon Development was down .01 at $16 and Austin Investment was unchanged at $1, Roamac Mines was down 00 at $1.40 on a turnover of 400,200 shares on the resource and development board, while Newcoast Silver was down .08 at 60 on 231,000. Action Resources Ws Up .13 at $2.35 on 76,000 and Mountaineer Mines was unchanged at .40 on 72,600. Groundstar Resources was up .21 at $1.07 and Agassiz Resmirees was up .01 at On the curb exchange, Gavex Gold Mines was down 03 at 34 on 547,000 shares and Beach Gold Mines was unchanged at .€3 on 63,900. Meri Resources was up 08 at .48 on 65,-500 and Weat Trend Resource Warrants Was up 16 al .¥5 on 35,400, Weat frend Resources was Up .23 at $1.88 and Quinto Mining was down oh cent at .45 1-2,