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Clark stops the; __
traffic with talk

TORONTO (CP) — Joe their signs “so others in'ihes
Clark caused a jam of audience can feel the
. pedestrians Tueday in a force of my charlama.”
downtown shopping contre,  Cigrk began his brief |

delighting an audience of at
lenat several hundred with dress oe nae ane a

attacks on Prime Minister 5 Conservative government

Trudeau, : co-opera
“Trudeau is a prim wat cei bund oa whl ;
calls the strength .An

minister for only seven days
MOTE” tne ETOreREIVO Giversity of the counlry. »oc;
The crowd responde

Conservative leader shouted
to the jostling crowd of party
supporters. and noon-time
shoppers which one yes, repeatedly
policeman estimated at. Said: “Trudeau has made a;

distinguished contributiga t¢
the country but his tins | a
over,” . ena

An unidentified wort”
sqeezed her way throu.
crowds to kiss Clark.

Flora MacDonald, Con-~~~"}
servative constitutional
affairs critic, joined Clark in

ha , baby-kissing

shouted support for Trudeau

that “Ef you Liberals wantto 4

hold a meeting, go out and tour of the shop centre.

lire a telephone booth.” “I already shook your
Placard-waving sup- hand,” one bewildered man

porters surrounded Clark, said as Miss MacDonald

hi him from the rest of approached *

paing bien “Well T will shake it

He asked them to lower again,” she sald.

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government: company that

helped fingnes the dis-.

covery.

Trudeau told an overflow
crowd of more than 1,080 in
this interlor Britlah
Columbia community that a
gas consortium financed by.
Petro-Canada
discovered more ‘than three
itrillion cubic feet of gas olf
‘Melville in the North.

“This would not have

‘taken place if Joe Clark had -

‘been prime minister because
ihé would have abolished
FetraCanada,” Trudeau

Trudeau reminded his au-
dience that Petro-Canada
was involved in the
discovery of one billion cubie

a off No

And he accused Clark of
incredible ignorance for
saying in a Sunday night
television debate that Petro-
Canada hadn't found a single
drop of oil or resources.

The Conservatives have
said they’ would turn over
some of Petro-Canada’s
functlons to the private
sector while existing
government agencies could
take over other Petro
Canada roles such ag pur-
chasing oll from foreign
suppliers.

The prime minister made
the comment as he began his
last swing through B.C. a
2e-seat province which may
help decide whether there is
a majority or minority
government after. next
Tuesday's election.

He elaborated on a theme
he brought up Monday night

.; Sable Jsland ani ‘Jgat 9,000
; Sable Pian apnounped as 13,000 supporters the-election

8
ment could hurt Canada’s
future energy supplies and
help fuel inflation.

Trudeau sald his Liberal
government set up Petro-
Canada five years ago to

’ make sure Canadians ‘have

a big say in. energy.” The
federal oil’ company was
involved in drilling 46 of 96
wells that were started in the
last three years.

The Melville Island find
was made by a consortium
including Pan-Arctic Gas
and Imperial Oil Ltd. which
will receive $15 milllon in
total spending of about $30
million on the project during
the next 40 years,

Trudeau noted what he

called the self-ohvious link .

between energy prices and

‘inflation and said his policies

would see that Canadians got
a break on energy prices In
the future.

Broadbent is backing
natives in their fight

THE PAS, Man. (CP) —
New Democratic Party
Leader Ed _ Broadbent

mised Tuesday to back a
t by local Indian leaders
against vernment-im-

posed hunting restrictions

they say breach native

CanCel
making
money

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Canadian Cellulose Co. Ltd,
reported today that net
earnings for the first three
months this year were
almost five times more than

the corresponding 1973 pe-
riod. m

treaty rights.

Net earnings were $2.7
‘million or 22 cents a share
this year, compared with
$581,000 or five cents a share
last year. '

The company said net
doles were $55.1 million in
the three months ended
Mrach 31 compared with
. $30.6 million a year earlier,

edge during a campailgt
Fee ster Indlan leaders
said some natives have
considered violence’ to
proteat the federal law which
mits hunting throughout
the year, — .

Chief Charlie Constant, of
the Swampy Cree Indlan
Band, and Nathan
MecGillvary, vice-president
of the Manitoba Indian
Brotherhood, sald Indians in:
northern Manitoba are being
prosecuted and fined for

nting birds on the reeerve,
That is a traditional native
right, the leaders said.

The law restricting their
hunting Is the Migratory
Birds Convention Act, an
agreement between Canada,
Mexico and the United States
almed at conservation,

“The government owes it
to the peerle of Canada to
honar the treatles by which
the nonindlan settlers
acquired title to the land on
which they now live,” the
Indian leaders said In their
presentation,

“Although the leaders are
able to contain the feelings
and frustration of their

eople, many af these
eadera are also becoming
frustrated.”

said there has been
talk of blowing up a bridge or

wrecking part of the railway
running through the area in
the northern riding of
Churchill, ‘

Broadbent promised to
hack thelr case whether his
party wins the May 22
riection or not, saying the
hunting rights should im-
mediately be reatored.

“It’s clear that the original
treaty rights should have su-
premacy,” he said.

The meeting was held ina
shopping. centre in this
community of 7,000, 40 per
cent of whom are Indlan. The
mall was built with funds
from the federal department
of Indian and northern af-
falrs. ;
Earller, at a high school
here, the NDP leader said
the latest unemployment
figures show government
measures to create jobs have
failed. ‘

Ata tlme of the year when
employment uauallly rises,
“the economy in terms of
jobs is virtually stagnant.”

Statlatics Canada reported
Tuesday’ the seasonally-
adjusted jobless rate for
April remained at 7.9 per
cent while 943,000 people
were out of work, The local
unemployment rate La about
11 per cent.

-Conservatives,. on, the.
“other hand, had :no long-:.:
" yange-

energy pricing
policies and would stimulate
inflation through a number
of tax breaks promised dur:
ing the campaign. .  -

Trudeau said his govern-
ment is committed to
restraint while Clark's
Tories were committed to
higher spending.

“The would increase the
deficit,*' Trudeau said.
They would stimulate the
economy more. Now is not
the time to stimulate the
economy unless you want to
push, inflation through the

He said he wants to claim
the country's basic con-

~ gtitutlonal Jaw from Britlain

because itis the only way to
put the human and ianguage
rights beyond the whims of
governments, ;

And he attacked Clark for
changing his mind on issues
ranging from Quebec in-
dependence to energy
pricing whenever he was
under pressure,

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