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There’s a great deal at stake in the
Supreme Court of Canada decision
about aboriginal rights of Indians.

The case, brought by the Nishga
Indians of northwestern B.C., is ex-
pected to be settled by the end of the
year,

Incredibly, a commissioner ap-
pointed by the federal government two
years ago to report on Indian land
claims has been unable to accomplish
anything because his terms of
reference did not cover aboriginal
rights.

The significance of a settlement
should not be lost on Canadians in the
light of recent developments in the U.S.

Legislation is on its way through
Congress to award compensation to the
Natives of Alaska — Indians, Eskimos

and Aleuts — 55,000 of whom claim title
to much of the state.

The total expenditure in public
funds would be astronomical: $500
million direct payments over 12 years
plus another $500 million in mineral
royalties. In addition the original
Alaskans would receive about 40
million acres in land grants.

President Richard Nixon has
blessed the scheme, and committee
approval has already been obtained in
the Senate, so the likelihood of a vast
settlement being made is very real.

Such a precedent could have a
remarkable effect on events in
Canada. It will be interesting to see
how Ottawa, which has never been able
to settle the most basic problems in
Indian affairs, reacts.

—The Vancouver Sun

“Search for a mandate”

Search for a Mandate, the
filth episode in CBC-TV's
Tenth Decade series on the
Diefenbaker-Pearson era,
covers the tumultuous time
between the general elections

of April 1963 and November -

1965 which began and ended
with Canadian voters choosing
Lester Pearson's Liberals to
form a minority government.

It was the time when the
Liberal government's ‘sixty
days of decision’ sputtered to
a disappointing conclusion,
when | fledgling Finance
Minister Walter Gordon's first
budget became the focal point
for a concerted Opposition
attack, when U.S. President
John F. Kennedy was
assassinated, and when a
series of political scandals
kept such names as Banks,
Minaudo and Rivard in the
headlines,

Search for a Mandate will be
telecast Wednesday, Dec. 1 at
9 p.m. on the CBC network.

The troubles that were to
plague the new Liberal
government began even before
the ‘sixty days of decision’
ended. Walter Gordon brought
down his first budget in June
— a budget that included a 30
per cent take-over tax on sales
of Canadian shares to non-
residents. The Opposition
reacted immediately, even
calling for the finance
minister's resignation. To add
to the Liberals’ woes, it was
revealed that Mr. Gordon had
used “outside help’? in draf-
ting the controversial budget.

The CBC documentary then

recalls the great flag debate
when, after 45 flag committee
meetings, the examination of
thousands of designs, and a
lengthy and often heated
debate in the Commons,
Canada finally adopted a
distinctively Canadian flag.

Prime Minister Pearson’s
success in fulfilling his
promise to give Canada a new
flag was marred by a series of
scandals that rocked the ship

of state. Perhaps the most”

IN SCHOOLS |

B.C. Teacher's Federation
president Adam Robertson
has said he had been informed
that six school districts are
contemplating reductions in
their teaching staffs at theend
of December as an economy
move, ,

The six districts are Bur-
naby, Trail, Kimberley, South
Peace, Burns Lake and Fort
Nelson.

Robertson and the BCTF is
strongly opposed to any staff
cuts at Christmas, and added
that there was no doubt in his
mind that the proposed cuts
arearesult, at least in part, of
the provincial government's
latest moves te curb spending
on education. :

He contended that the
reason given by some districts .
for the cuts — smaller
enrollments than expected —

complex affair was that in-
volving narcotics smuggler
Lucien Rivard who was in jail
awaiting extradition to the
United States. It was alleged
that attempts to get Rivard
out of jail came from mem-
bers of the Liberal Party,
close to the Cabinet. When an
inquiry under. Judge Dorion
ended, the career of a brilliant
Cabinet minister, Justice
Minister Guy Favreau, was
brought to an abrupt end, -

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was not in itself a justification
for the staff cuts. He said that
the harm done by the
disruption of classes would
outweigh any money saved by
school boards. ;

“A staff reduction in
December entails disruption
of on-going school programs.
It may entail cancellations of
one or more courses a school
had committed itself to offer
to some of its pupils. At the
very least it entails a change

’ of instructors for some
courses, transfers. of pupils
from class ‘to class; and in
some ‘cases transfers from
school to school. "

“This sort of disturbance of
the continuity of a program
that has been planned on a
school-year _— basis is
educationally harmful. Why
harm children just to save a

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few salaries?”

Robertson said school
boards should show more faith
in the people they represent.
They, should assume that the
people want good schools and

, good education, and should

: budget for the amount of
‘money actually needed rather

+. than “supinely accept. cut-
"backs the provincial govern-
ment is trying: te force on
-. them.” Jad rT

. The BCTF president also
*. said that terminating a
"teacher's appointment at the
end of December is unfair to
that teacher, “

“Teachers. accept  ap-
pointments: in school districts ©

.. in the normal expectation of
-. employiient for a full school
“year, Mid-year termination
leaves those : teachers - unex-
pectedly released at'a time
when so little hiring is being

_ done by. other “districts ’that

’ they are virtually assured of a. |
+.” sixemonth” period.“ of \unem-" .”

ployment.” ° oe
_. Robertson added that schoo
boards that reduce staff at any

time other than the.end of a

“., school. year violate moral |

parents and teachers, :

commitment. to'. pupils,”

. “Such,-betrayal of com-.

..  Iiltments’’ may in rare ‘in-

|, ) Bances. be: necessary,” but it

| Gainnot be condoned where any

cot Pet peagonable-«.. alternative
ton. exists.”

"Robertson ‘called on school’...

boards: to prepare -budgeta
based.on .the educational
needs of pupils, not ‘the short-
“sighted’ demand of ..the -

Minister: of. “Education ‘for...

arbitrary. ‘cutbacks on apen-

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* We need your ‘help,

As you are probably are
aware, our UNICEF Greeting
“Cards are being sold-in your

7 area; However, sales have not ©
De xpectations so far -
" “and we would jike to see them |

‘been.up to
a lot better, as every dollar
counts when millions - of

children in other countries -.

- need so much help.

Enclosed is a photoof-Nancy | -
Greene with her two sons, |

‘ looking over our. -latest |
selection of cards. Could you —

use this in your - columns?
Also, any further information
we can supply about the cards
and the great work dony by
UNICEF will be gladly sup-
plied. be

_H you do have an op-
portunity to run this photo, I
would very much apprectate
having a copy of the paper for
our files here. -

. -Thestore handling the cards

‘in Prince Rupert is Fraser

_ Stores Co, Ltd.,-210 ard
_ Avenue West and our UNICEF -
“worker is Mrs. D.A. Lattimer,

‘Lighter Side

’. Winter is that time when it's
too icy to drive on those roads
that were.torn up for repairs all
‘through the vacation. months.

. CHOOSING CARDS FOR CHRISTMAS .
Nancy Greene Raine and the twins choose their ©

‘UNICEF Greeting Cards for this year, while Paul
Ignatieff, Executive Director of UNICEF for

- Canada, looks on. It has been stated that the 1971 -

selection is the widest and most diversified ever

produced by UNICEF. Proceeds go to help children
all over the world. Each box of cards, for instance,
can provide enough. vaccine to protect 75 children’

_ Smallpox.

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Kitimat. - Loy

Many thanks for any help
you can give us. ;

Ss anise sa a SESS CRT ses
180 Atlin Avenue.
In Terrace, the represen-
tative is Della Thompson and
cards are on sale at the Super

G. Douglas Scott,
Chairman, B.C.
Public Infomation Committee.

| itall’’. God put

honor, oo
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‘MONDAY; NOVEMBER 2%, 1971 ; :
Bible today

"Where were you when I laid:

the fouridation of the earth?. .,
7 "JOR 38:4

‘What ‘majestic “irony! Job” Gin

had been acting like a “know-.
thing on the spot
with question after question, ..
until at last Job fell to his ‘
kneels in repentance and total _

Surrender before.his Maker: §

andSavior, 2°... -
And what about us? The-

point is clear: we must take:

our place beside Job. For we,

* boo, live’in God's world as_
. though it.were‘oura, We ex-

ploit creation unmercifully .
and rob the Creator. of His

it. God calls cur bluff. With:

_ Question ‘after question He

stops. us’ in- our tracks

. Until at ‘last the trath, gets

through ‘to us: “The earth is
the Lord's and the fulness
thereof.’’ (Psalm 24:1)

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