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OTTAWA (CP) — Premier
William Bennett of British
Columbia called today for a
new national economic
policy to help Canada fit into
a changing, more com-
petitive world.

Bennett, in his opening
statement to the federal-

rovincial premiers con-
Perence, said It is up to the
heads of government to
develop a national strategy.
Then the premiers should
meet twice a year to ensure
the program {s carried out.

Referring to earlier
remarks by some of the
premiers, Bennett said the
v :

“cannot just trot out regional
shopping lists, as I have
heard here today, but must
develop a national policy.”

He said the last time a na-
tional strategy had been
worked out was in 1879, when
the country’s first prime
minister, Sir John -A.
Macdonald, -devised a
program that protected and
helped develop industry in
Central Canada through
protective tariffs.

That policy had restricted
the ability of the Maritimes
and other regions of the
country to develop markets
beyond their boundaries,
Bennett added,
“Canada does not now fit
well into the world economy
and the only sectors in which
the country is competitive
internationally are some
resource industries, he said.

A comprehensive national.
economic policy could set cut
& program or a set of goals
thatthe people could rally
behind, Bennett said. ..
CRITICAL OF SPENDING

He also criticized the role
of government spending in

Bomb
found —

MONTREAL (€P).— Two
childrefi fond a homemade
bomb during the weekend at
the home of the production
manager of Commonwealth
Plywood Co. Ltd., which has
been troubled by a laborn-
dispute since last Sep-
lember.

Karine Nault and Caroline
Dagenais, both four,
discovered a plastic garbage
bag containing the bomb
Saturday near a basement
window at the home of
Benoit Verville in Blainville,
just north of Montreal.

Police said the girls, who
played with the ce for
some time without realizing
Its danger, apparently
jarred the wiring 50 that ihe
bomb could not go off, ~

Provincial police were in-
vestigating whether there
was a connection between
the bomb and the labor
dispute at the plywaod
factory in nearby Sle.
Therese.

Commonwealth Plywood
iaid off 118 employees last
September while the
workers were switching
their union affiliation: =

One week after the layoffs
the company signed a new
contract with the 90 workers
still on the job. But a few
days after that, the
provincial labor department
recognized the Con-
federation of National Trade
Unions (CNTU) as
bargaining agent for all un-
lonized workers at the plant.

The CNTU refuses to
recognize the signed con-
tract and has maintained

picket lines around the plant
since October.

Clement . Gaumont, a
CNTU spokesman,

denounced the planting of
the bomb, saying “the
strixers will be blamed for
Placing it even though it
could have been planted by
anyone,’

He said the. union has
asked Quebec Labor
M inister f

Johnson to name an in-
vestigator ta study the
dispute at the plant, a move
which would “put the brake
on violence, no matter what
its origin."

MANAGER NAMED
LONDON (Reuter) — Alan
Durban, a former Weleh
International, was named
Monday as manager of Stoke
Clty of soccer’s Englist
League, Durban, a key
member of Brian Clough’s
Derby County champlonship
team In 1972, had been
manager of third division
Shrewabury the last four
years. Stake, a second
division club, recently fired
manager George Eastham.

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tae TN hoy Bon Ser ara

the economy, saykbn

that unless governments
follow restraint, thelr share
of natlonal economy will rise
to 45 per cent by 1920 from
about 40 per cent now.
Government programs
and costs are beginning to
affect the ability of the over-
all economy to compete,

Bennett said.

“Rather than being a
savior, government Is one of
the villains ‘of the peace.”

Benriett also said govern-
menis shoud be careful in
Starting large
Projects to overcome
unemployment. Saskat-
chewan Premier Allan

* @mergy, to create

capital

Blakeney has suggested a
Start of capital projects,
especially those eS ne
bs now,
Such projects are at-
tractive in the short term,
said Bennett, but they result
in the movement of people
intoremote areas which then
require costly services.

Seminars on Native

Issues at NWCC

Programs in Aboriginal
Studies (Northwest Com-
munity College) announced
a series of six seminars
dealing with current Native
issues to be held in the north-
west, .
Beginning the week of Feb,
13, the sessions will be hdd
every two weeks in Prince
Barnagé Terrace and
Hi get jage .
(Hazelton). The seminars
are open to the public at
large and there ig no cost
associated with them. All
sessions begin at 7:30 in the
evening and will run for,
about two and.a half ‘hours.

In Prince Rupert,..ythe
meetings will be at the
College facility in the
Amante Building (6246054 for
information). on Monday
nights of the week in session;
in Terrace, they will take
place Tuesday in Room 20€
of: the ‘College :
ministration Building (635-
246t for information); -and in
the Hazelton area, they will
be held in the Hagwilge
Village Band Office ‘on
Wednesday evenings (call
Herb George, 942-6256 for
information). an
- ‘The scheduled speakers
are a5 follows: co

Session 2
Week of Feb. 27th.

Title: The RCMP story: Past
and Present, Stuart Rush.

Lawyer and Instructor in .

Ad

the Aboriginal Studies
Program, will talk about the
history of the RCMP and try
to determine what is myth
and what is reality about
Canada’s national police
force.

Session 3
Week of Mar. 13.
anit, ii, fe
ogist, teacher, for-
mer co-ordinator of the land
claims research center of the
Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs,
was an expert witness for the
tribes of Western
Washington in their land-
mark case which guaranteed
then a significant portion of

.the food and commercial

fishery on the American
rs anu i
relate to al t, the
history of Native fishing, and
the Boldt Decision referred
to above. -

Session 4.

Week of April 3.
The ‘‘Department” | —
Serving Whom?

Harold Cardinal, native
author (The Unjust Society,
The Rebirth of Canada’s
Indians), former Director-

‘General of the Alberta

branch of the Department of

‘Indian Affairs, recently

exposed widespread misuse
of funds in the economic
development division of the

Department. He will speak
on the directions pursued by

the federal government and
whether it really serves the
masses of Native people.
Joining him will be Don
Ryan, social worker at-
tached to Hazelton sub-—

office of the Department of
Indian Affairs, and one of the
original organizers of the
Aboriginal Studies Program.

Session 5

Week of April 17.

Using your First Language
in the Schools.

Emma Jean Crate, a Cree
educator from Saskat-
chewan, have been active in
promoting and using Cree as
a basic language of in-
struction in the schools
where Native children at-
tend. She will talk on the
importance of continuing the
use of Native language for
children to maintain their
cultural identity.

Session 6

Week of May 8.

Colonialism in Canada
Howard Adams, Native

author (Prison of Grass) and

professor at the University

of California, will discuss the

extent to which racism and

colonialism exist in

Canadian society.

The public is encouraged |

to participate in these
seminars with leaders who
are expert in their field. See
you all there!

-’. Immigrants deported for
false declarations -

TORONTO (CP) — Immi-
grant women whe falsely de-
clared on applications for
landed iramigrant statue
that they had no children are
belng deported bul federal
Immigration Minister Bud
Cullen denies that there has
been any increased action
against Jamaican im-
migrants working as do-
mestics in Canada.

In a recent interview,
Cullen said there is no in-
crease In the deportation of
women Who have been
coming to Canada. for sev-
eral years to work a5
domestics under an
arrangement with the
Jamaican government. The
program was discontinued in

To acquire landed = im-
m t status, the women
had ‘to state that they were
either single, widowed,
divorced, of had to
dependent children, Cullen

The minister said” high
unemployment in Canada Is
not the reason for.d Z
the women..He sald the
children left, behind In
Jamaica now would be of the
age where [he mother should
be reunited with them.

“These women are being
put into a : position where
they either have to go back,
or try to bring their children
into the country,” Cullen
said. “And when they. do
that, of course, they are
indicating they made a ialse
declaration when they came
into Canada.”

CAME SINCE 1955

David Jacobs, a member
of the local chapter of the
International Committee
Against Racism, said women
have been coming from the
West Indies to work 68
domestics since 1955 and that
it always has been known
that those coming from
places such as Jamaica
would have had children. .

“The government knew
about this and never did
anything about these cases
In the last 20 years,"’ said
Jacobs in an interview. “It is
only In the last two. years
they have slarted deport:

Cullen said he has me
with the National Black
Coalition of Canada, a group
representing many blac
organizations in the country,
about the problem. He said
the group wanted an am-

nesty granted but this was

rejected because of the
number ofwomen who might
be involved.

Each case is decided sepa-
ralely on the basis of its.

-merils and circumstance,

Cullen sald, adding that a

review by the immigration

department: takes into ac-
count the violation itself, the
reason behind it, the length
of residence in Canada, the
employment record and the
farnily circumstances,

Extended visits

for prisoners

VANCOUVER (CP) — An
experimental program is
planned. at the Lower
Mainland - '
Correctional -Centre in
nearby Burnaby, B.C.
whereby prisoners will be
able to have extended vislts
with their familles,

Ted Harrison, Vancouver
region director of the

ievi mak c or
french, sald Saturday
Tenovations are underway to
accommodate the program,
which could begin before the
summer. .

‘Harrison said if the
program. which will be

i

ed. to sentenced male |

mers, works out, it will
extended to offenders in
the women's wing of the
peovinclal jai] and to prison-
ers awaiting trtal,
’ “But, no, we don't call it a
conjugal visiting centre,’
said Harrison, ‘‘It’s a family
visiting centre which will be

“used initially for either

legitimate marriages or for
long-term or preexisting
common-law relationships
between a man and a
women.”

Harrison sald for a man
serving two years lesa a day,
who has a wife and familly on
the‘outslde, “‘that could be.a

very, very lengthy perlod of «

tithe ii terms of the growth
and development of the

“By providing. an op-
rlunity for them to meet
ere, under secure con:
ditlons,. ssezfather can

malntain some level of

relationship with his kids
and with his wife and the
kids can understand or
relate to the father a bit."
REDUCE TENSION.
“We might be able to
reduce some of the
frustration and tension he
feels in the area of -sex-
uality,” he said. “We might
be able io make the period of
ilme here more tolerable and

haps his behavior a little

tter if he knows thal good
behavior will result in him
being considered for family
visits."

The: building under
renovation—once a dor-
mitory for prisoners in a
drug treatment program—
will-have two separate
bedrooms and a combined
living room-dining room-
ketchen area. It is being
furnished--by government
funds and the prisoner
welfare fund.

"It will be staffed on an ex-
ternal security basis by
appropriate security officers
and we'll be taking steps to
make sure that alcohol and
drugs, et¢.,, are not con-
sumed within the building,”
Harrison said,

Hesald he envisaged visits
lasting 12 to 48 hours—week-
days as well as weekends—
and that the accommodation
would be available, for
example, not only to wives
and children but to out-of-

town parents of young
prisoners.
Linn said two — staff

members visited Regina to
look at a similar program in
the provincial jail there and
an away. en bressed,

ough recognizing that ‘the
‘Saskatoba’ farmer is a little
different to our sophisticated
offender."'

“We had our doubts here,
some of us, because we won-
dered about the contraband
and everything,” he said,
ging we're , nevertheless
going to try it. t flops,
we'll just stop doing Tih

“You can bet we're not
going to put some character
in there that's been banging
us over the head, or even one
we consider to be a Hazard,
So we have to be very cir-
cumspect in who we pick.

“One bad mistake and the
whole program could go
down the tube."

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