Compulsory drug treatment
_ termed dangerous to

VANCOUVER (CP) - The
British Columbia govyern-
ment’s proposed compulsory
treatment plan for drug
addicts is described in a bar
association document as “an
unprecedented and
dangerous attace’ on the
criminal justice system,

A critique of the plan was
prepared for the criminal
'. justice subsection of the
Canadian Bar Association by
lawyer Warren Standerwick,
_ In it, — Standerwick
’ analyses the proposal
prepared for Health Minister
Bob McClelland by the
Aleohol and Drug Com-
mission last year.

The brief was ordered by
the subsection after it met
last month and agreed the
treatment program
blatantly contravenes the

civil rights of Canadians.

Standerwick concludes the
commission paper is
“inaccurate and biased,"

Anput from those who
disagree with its approach
has not been sought but has
actually been discouraged
its recommendations should
be viewed with healthy
scepticism,’ says Stan-
derwick.

“Only the most gullible
reader would accept that the
primary aim of the proposed
plan is to treat individual
heroin users on medical or
compassionate grounds,

“Heroin users and, by
inference, heroin usage,
have been selected as
scapegoats on whom the
blame for the majority of all
crime in our society is
placed.”

Canoeist asks
“Why not”

VANCOUVER (CP)
Karin Lind, who set sail here
Sunday bound for Hawali in
a Haida war canoe, said “in
some ways I want to show
athers that adventures like
this are still very possible.”

“Tt wasn’t ever a question
of ‘why’,” she said. “It was
more like ‘why not.’

“None of us are what you
would call young,’’ the 34-
year-old anthropology
teacher from Vancouver
said of the three-person
expedition aboard the hand-
carved dugout which was 30
months in the making.

Technically, the voyage is
the obsession of Geordie
Tocher, 51, of West Van-
couver, tosupport the theory
that Haida Indians from
British Columbia paddled
their war cances to the
Hawatian Isiands 1,400 years
ago.

Also aboard is Gerhard
Kiesel, 54, a former North
Vancouver baker.

None of the three said they
felt jubilant; in fact, Tocher
admitted as he stepped
aboard his craft that leaving
was a sort of spiritual
collapse after the high-
strung euphoria of the past

two years: anticipating the.-

trip.
Tethered to the dock, the
12.6 metre Qrenda-an

Iroquois word meaning “in
harmony with nature'-
looked remarkably fragile.
The craft and ite intricate
Haida carvings were
chipped by hand from a
Douglas Fir log by Tocher, a
ilsherman, sculpto and
engineer who plugged $50,000
of his own money into the
project.

For the estimated alx-
week, 3,700- kilometre trip,
the canoe has been loaded
with 820 kilograms of canned

goods, including a long-
lasting bread, and 380 litres
of water. :

A smaller canoe on which
Tocher made a short trial
run three summers ago was
attached to the bow, forming
a kind of catamaran and
making the craft sturdier.

Tocher, who beached his
canoe near San Francisco in
an aborted attempt of the
same run seven years ago,
has researched the Haida
theory independently for 15
years.

Others, including famed
Norwegian adventurer Thor
Heyerdahl have reached the
same conclusions.

“It is believed that the
Haida families were swept
out to sea or left their
homeland out of fear of more
hostile warriors. There are
many similarities in
language, religion, blood
types, magic, social
structure and art work
between the two areas,”
explained Lind,

“There is a natural ocianic
flow from F.C.'s west coast
to Hawait. The Polynesians
knew this and waited up to
several decades for big
timbers which they used to
build their .cances, to. wash
up on shore,"

On this voyage, the crew
can keep in touch with the
mainland by a radio. Other
documentation of the trip
will come from a film by
Doug McKae, who will travel
with the group for the first
couple of days, and a book
written later by Ed Keats.

Before setting off for
Seattle, Wash,, on the first
leg of the trip, the three
accepted a scroll from Bill
Drinkwater of the Royal City
Society, which they are to
deliver to the Alcha Soolety
in Hawail,

$487 million
to support CBC

TORONTO (CP) - The Star
says Canadian taxpayers
pay three times as much as
the Japanese, twice as much
as Britons and 1% times as
much as Australians to
support thelr public
broadcasting system.

For their money,
Canadians get one of the
biggest oroadcasting
establiouments in the world,
the newspaper says, The
CBC has one staff member
for every 1,925 Canadians.

By comparison, The Star
says the Japaniese system
has one staff member for
every 6,642 people, the
British system has one staff
member for every 2,177, and
the Australian system has
one ataff member for every
2,096 people,

Canadians spent $487
million last year to support
the CBC. an

Spending estimates
recently tabled in the House
of Commons call fox an in-
crease of $55.4 million in the
federal subsidy to the CBC,
THe estimates now are
before. the |. Commons
broadcasting committee,

The proposed budget in-
crease would bring the cost
of subsidizing the CBC to
$22.32 for each Canadian
compared with $19.95 a
person jast year,

Latest figures available
show the cost of running the
Japanese system as $4.31 a
person while if costs $8.60 a
pereon to support the British

‘Broadcasting. Corp, and
$13.28 to run the Australian
system. :

Don MacPherson, CBC
vice-president and general
manager of the English

language division, is quoted
as saying the comparisons
4o not bother him.

“Tt makes me feel geod,"
MacPherson sald.

“Twenty dollars a year the
approximate cost of the CBC
subsidy for each Canadian is
pretty cheap.’

MacPherson said that the
geogrophy of Canada, the
necessisty of providing
programs in two languages,
and the regional nature’ of
the country result in higher
costs and greater need for
manpower than in other
countries. ; ;

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He says the proposal in the
paper to have addicts
committed to compulsory
treatment by a government
tribunal! circumbents the
judicial system and ignores
due process of law.

‘The hypocritical
recommendations of the
Alcohol and Drug Com-
mission are an attempt ot
pander to the fears of the
public and to convince the
government to pass
legislation based on an ‘end
justifies the means’
philosophy. Acceptance of

e t e
such a philosophy is always
the first step to
totalitarianism.”
Standerwick says no
legislation exists which
provides a precedent to the
proposed plan. But he likens
the proposal to the enact-
ment in the Second World
War that committed all
Japanese people in B.C. to
internment camps.
Legislation for the
proposed program is to be
introduced sometime during
the current legislative
session.

Can’t afford arms

NEW WESTMINSTER,
B.C. (CP) - Governments
cannot afford to funnel
billions of dollars into arms
while people are starving in
third-world countries, a
Canadian International
Development Agency
director said Saturday.

Speaking to about 70
delegates at the UNICEF
British Columbia annual
meeting, Romeo Maione,
director of CIDA’s non-
governmental organizations
division a federal govern-
ment agency providing
foreign aid, said “we will
never be able to build a
peaceful world until third-
world problems are solved.”

Tne rest of the world must
join the more affluent
countries ‘‘on the level of the
mountain” we have attained,

Alberta

will lose
- money

CALGARY (CP) - A
provincial government
agency may have jeopar-
dized substantia] govern-
ment revenue by ordering a
game farm operated by
Wildlife Film Ventures Ltd.
into receivership, says
company president Mickey

ey. ;

In an interview, he sald the
Alberta Opportunity | Co.
AOC, which provides loans to
smal] Alberta businesses, is
going to loge money because

he move.

The AOC ordered a
recelver to take over
management of the game
farm near Seebe, Alta., last
week after its shareholders
failed to raise additional
Investment ald to reduce an
outstanding debt of $30,947,
The AOC had loaned $134,000
to ald construction of the

rk.

The game farm was
opened to the public in 1976
ant provided facilities for
{liming wild-Hfe stories
using animals.

“| know of three feature
films with budgets over a
million dollars that now may
be shot in elther Colorado or
British Columbla,”’ Balley
sald. ;

Walt Disney Productions
cancelled a scheduled
filming session at the game
farm this month, he eald,
adding that he would have to
renegotiate other feature

Ima in the area,

Ed Clarke; ACC managing
director, said in'ag interview
the agency felt the-company
“suffered from lack of owner
investment from the
beginning.”

“They have suffered some
losses In their film ventures,
and inflationary cost rises
during construction have
taken their toll as well," he
sald,

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Third-world problems,
such as over-population and
scarcity of food, “are putting
pressure on us the change
our way of life’’ and
reconsider how resources
are being spent, said
Maione.

He said the main obstacle
to development is over-
population, but it has been a
mistake merely to provide
birth control without
acknowledging that people in
developing countries are
intelligent and should be
consulted. |

The attitude was that if
transportation networks wer
built and birth control
provided, “everything would
be solved, as if a society can
be changed easily," he said.
Maione also said poverty in
the third world often has
been portrayed wunrealisit-
cally inads showing starving
children that didn’t tell the
whoie story or place poverty
in a social context.

He said although they are
poor, people in developing
countries have “hope and
beauty,’’ad he has been
encouraged by “the
tremendous power of these
peopel who want something
better.”

U.S. fishermen could be

banned from Canadian waters

OTTAWA (CP) - Canada
has seta May 26 deadline for
the United States to clear up
fishing problems on both
coasts or risk having its
fishermen banned from
Canadian waters,. govern-
ment spokesmen said today.

“The bail is in the U.S.
court now," one spokesman
said, At stake is increased
access to U.S. coastal walers
for British Columbia salmon
{rollers versus important
groundfisheries for the
Americans off B.C, and Nova
Scotia.

The spokesmen said
Canada closed the Swiftsure
Bank off southern B.C. today
as the Americans had
requested under an interim
reciprocal fisheries
agreement for 1974 still
awaiting -approval by
Congress.

In return, Canada wants
its salmon trollers allowed to
fish in coastal waters off
Washington state as far
south as Carroll Island as
promised in the agreement.
It also wants the Americans
to slow down seallop, had-
dock, cod and pollock fishing
off the East Coast.

“We're holding bake our
fleet for conservation pur-
poses and they're not putting
any restrictions on theirs.”

The Canadian move could
appear as a Concession in the
short term, a spokesman
said, “We're going to take a
little heat now.’’ But the
American government will
feel the pressure ‘when the
situation dawns on the other
ishing interests in the U.S."

Special negotiators Marcel
Cadieux for Canada and
Lioyd Cutler for the U.S.
were to meet in Washington
May 26. The Americans
were to provide a response to
Canadian demands at that
time. if the answer wasn't
satisfactory, Canada would
consider the U.S, is not living
up to reciprocal fishing
commitments and move to
bar the U.S. fleet from
Canadian waters.

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’ she was always too busy to give her
customers the individual attention they
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Then she got together with

Lissa Chartier.

Lissa works five days a week.
She takes care of customers,

U.S. INFORMED

Cadieux informed Cutler
of Ottawa’s position at two-
day meeting here last week.
Cutler said then he could nat

creased

Washington State waters. At
the same time, Washington
state trollers gat a court
injunction, now stayed in-

mene ie

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Canadians until _the
reciprocal agreement was
approved by Congress.

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