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PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Tuesday, May 16, 1978

I happened to be in Yellowknife, in 1969, when
newspapers broke a story that some lands in the
Canadian Arctic were being shown on United
States maps as belonging to the United States
maps as belonging to the United States.

_Later on, an Argus aircraft bearing the in-
Signia of the Canadian Armed Forces stopped off
at Yellowknife on its first coast to coast sur-
veillance flight of the Canadian Arctic. These
flights were advertised as “sovereignty flights”
to emphasize Canada’s ownership of the Arctic
archipelago.

At that time, also, a northern headquarters for
the Canadian Armed Forces had just been
established at Yellowknife. Its temporary of-
fices were located on the ground floor of the
Northwest Territories Centennial Commission,
for which I worked, and we used to share cups of
coffee, over some of which the newly

inaugurated surveillance flights were discussed.

Until 1969, it seems, Canada had maintained no
routine or regular patrol of her vast coastline, of
which she has tens of thousands of miles. Ships
and submarines belonging to other powers not
infrequently sailed in and out of Canadian
territorial waters, openly or secretly--often
without the knowledge of Canada or Canadians.
Furthermore, there was good reason to believe
that electronic “‘spy” equipment, meteorological
and other types, had been set up on land bases on

Panadian territory in violation of international
Ww.

As one frequent visitor to the high Arctic told
me--you wouldn’t know Canada existed, in a lot
of places up there; Canadian planes have to
radio ahead to get permission to land at DEW-
line bases, and the bases have to wire
Washington, D.C. first before they can give an

There was a “hot”’story going round that on
one occasion Stu Hodgson, the Commissioner of
the N.W.T., himself, had been refused per-
mission to land by the U.S. commander of the
DEW-ione base at Hall Beach, and had had to
divert to an emergency strip nearby, to refuel.

The news, this week, following the bringing
down of the federal budget, that the armed
forces cannot “‘afford” to patrol the coastline
because of financial restrictions, is nothing short
of shocking. There were supposed to be no more
surveillance until the next fiscal year, until an

opposition member protested and Defence .

Minister announced there would be two sur-
veillance flights between now and the year’s end.

Lest anyone think, mistakenly, that these
flights are armed patrols, it should be mentioned
they are reconnaise flights only, and do not in-
volve weapons or armaments. The purpose is to
discover intruders from other countries who
It is a protective

have no right to be there.

Bell Canada hiring may restrict
Jews, women in Saudi Arabia

OTTAWA (CP) — Bell
Canada has just supplied
information on the com-
pany's controversial $1.1
billion contract with Saudi
Arabia to the Canadian
Human Rights Commission,
Human Rights Commis-
sioner Gordon Fairweather
said Friday.

Fairweather said in a tele--

phone interview he expects
to complete his investigation
early next week into com-
plaints the contract may
lead to restrictions on hiring
Jews and women to work on
the Saudi Arabian deal.

The company decision to
supply the information came
one week after Bell balked at
the commission's request.

Fairweather said last
week Bell offered several
reasons why the commission
should not investigate the
contract, The company said,
among other things, that the
commission has no cause to
investigate when a victim
has nat:complained,

The human rights com:
missioner replied the
Canadian Human Rights Act
gives him power to In-
vestigate even when no
victim has complained. The
Bell contract problem has
been raised in the Commons,
REVIEW CONTRACT

However, Fairweather
sald a commission lawyer
has since been allowed to
look at the contract.

The . commission is

“respecting the con-
fidentiality of the in-
formation which we are
bound to do by the Canadian
Human Rights Act,” he said.

The contract information
also has been given to the
Canadian Radio-television
and Telecommunications
Commission (CRTC} and the
U.S. Securities and Ex-
change Commission (SEC).
The CRTC is hearing a Bell
application for telephone
rate increases and the Saudi
contract has been raised by
intervenors.

Herb Gray, Liberal MP for
Windsor West, has said
Saudi restrictions on Jews
entering the country could
mean Bell will be
discriminating against Jews
when it hires workers.
RAISES SPECTRE

In the Commone on
Friday, Cyril Symes, New
Democratle com-
munications critic, said
Bell's agreement to pay a
Saudi firm $38 million for
work under the ccntract
raises ‘the spectre of illegal
kick-backs,”

Symes also unsuccessfully
presented a motion, calling
on Communications Minister
Jeanne Sauve to tell the
CRTC to Investigate and
make public details of the
$82-million payment.

But CRTC vice-chairman
Charles Dalfen said in an
interview detaila of the
payment already are belng

PM’s leadership
under attack

OTTAWA (CP) - Questions have been raised by the
opposition and some journalists about Prime Minister

udeau's leadership of the Liberal party in the wake
of his decision to bow to adverse opinion polls and back
away from a summer election. |

Talk that he may step down If his political fortunes

don’t improve has again surfaced as it

has

Sporadicaily during his 10 years as prime minister.
Liberal MP, Trudeau staff and party strategists

insist there is no foundation to the rumors.

And

Trudeau himself laughs off suggestions that he may
quit or be forced out by the party.
But political analysts and opposition spokesmen say

Trudeau's departure from

public life now must be

considered a rea] possibility.

“Liberals are

openly sniping” at ' Trudeau's

leadership, Opposition Leader Joe Clark said in a
memo to Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark
said in a memo to Progressive Conservative Mps

early this week.

“Bluntly, their problem is now Trudeau himself.” :

Trudeau, asked at his weekly news conference about
rumors of pressure within the Liberal party for his
resignation, said he would “probably be the Jast one to
hear” if the party wanted him out,

“But if there are such rumors, you will probably be
the first to tell me about them," he toldreporters.

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examined by the com-
mission,

Although Bell president
James Thackray refused
Thursday to tell reporters
wha would receive the
money, public information
filed earlier with the CRTC
shows that Bell has signed a
contract with a Saudi
company called Binladen.

Bell has said it has agreed
to pay Binladen and other
firms about eight per cent of
the gross proceeds of the

French Editorial

contract or about $88 million
for among ather things,
advice, introductions to local
officials where necessary,
translation services, help in
obtaining work permits for
non-Saudi workers and use of
office space and facilities.

Later a Bell spokesman
declined to name all the
firms involyed or to say
exactly how much each of
the firms, including
Binladen, is expected to
receive,

Political

- Dynamite

Following is a selection of
editorials on current topics,

translated by The Canadian .

Press from the French-lan-
guage press of Canada, |

Montreal Le Devolr: As we
expected, another case of
politica] dynamite has just
exploded at the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police.
The RCMP has organized a
surveillance system over
candidates ‘in federal,
provincial and municipal
elections on a vast scale
across every province,

With each revelation, the
public thought it had finally
seen the bottom of the barrel
of tricks. The barre] seems
eer inexhaustible a fhe

eat mysteries o
RCMP and its security
service, The documents
coming out are explosive.
You can imagine what the
reports that ‘‘disappear’’
ate no lm possible to

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speak of purely individual
abuses or of isolated acts
juatified by the context of a
particular era, Political
espionage by the federal
secret police has spread
right acroas Canada; no
government and no party es-
caper it. Since subversion {s
Hable to infiltrate
everywhere, everyone has to
be placed under aur-
velllance, so to speak. Even
the moods of the electorate
are the object of special
rr justif ch
to justify su
abuses and procedures, the
federal police authorities,
after f in their efforts
to make us believe they were
just isolated acts, are still
invoking two maln lines of
defence; Firat, the FLQ
crisis made it necessary that
such surprises be avoided in
the future, and in any case,
the present laws give the
police the authorization or
the grounds they want to
cover clandestine operations
which are judged
reprehensible ....

We would have to become
completely stupid to believe
that the FLQ crisis justified
going as far as watching
over municipal candidates in

. British Columbla or Prince

Edward Island, not to
mention thelr organizers,
thelr contributors and the
number of voters with sub-
veraive tendencies! .., Are
the apostles of national
security now golng to
peetend that disappearances
and leaks (of documents)
are the result of Russian or
Parti Quebecois infiltration?
The RCMP authorities
repeat that the mounted
police have nothing to do
with the leaks and the force
ia loyal to the elected
government ....

Lae Le

Let's take it for granted
the RCMP doesn't want to
embarraas the government
or certain politicians. Where
are these disappearances of,
documenta and leaks coming’
from? Is the security service
not even able to assure the
security of its most secret
manuals?..,

It ls fortunate in any case
that these revelations are
continuing.

The worst no doubt is yet to
come, Even if the RCMP al:
leges that it has the general
auppart of the people, to the
point of striking fear‘into'the
ranks of parllamentarlans in
starch of re-election, more
and more people are
becoming aware of the
Gangera of the development
ofa political secret police in
an shee thought oni:

ebecera thought only a
few marginal Marxists could
be victims: they have
learned that the Parti

Quebecois and other parties _

are submitted to a very
elaborate surveillance, Sim-
larly, Canadians who
believed that only ‘terrorist
separatists’ could scrape

‘the edges of natlonal

security have had to rec-
ognize that all political
leaderf In all provinces and
municipalities are passing
under the fine comb of the
RCMP computers. The joke
is becoming less and less
furmy.

When citizens and tax-
payers learn how many
agents, informers and
operations of
character are financed by
thelr taxes and given carte
blanche under legal cover,
maybe the polls will show
that liberty comes ahead of
the police in Canadian public
opinion. Unfortunately we
haven't Yet reached that
point.

Nat only do we not really
know the extent of the
police’s clandestine
operations against citizens
and democratic organ-
izations, but we have no
assurance that these
operations will be com-
pletely, exposed by the
government inquiries
Worse, nothing guarantees
thas these clandestine
programs won't continue to
catry on as though there
were nothing wrong with
them in the quiet Canadian
Confederation.—Jean-

Claude Lecl-ere (May 1)

148—The government an-
nounced that Japanese in-
eendiary balloons had been
found in Western Canada.

1972—Ceylon became the
republic of Srl Lanka with a
president, prime minister
and unicameral National
Assembly,

«, Who’s looking after “Our” Arctic?

measure of the highest moral right. It is akin to
operating a modified burglar alarm system to
notify the householder in case burglars try to
break in at night. .

Comparing the use of an orbiting ‘‘spy
satellite’’ to routine aerial and surface patrol for
defence purposes, is something akin to com-
paring the police car patrols to that of the cop on
the beat.

If Canada is going to command the respect for
her coastline and property from other nations

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erly and greedily eyeing her vast northern
renches, she erst not only maintain—but must
also step up her routine surveillance of the more
than one million square miles of icy but energy
rich and strategically valuable real estate.
if she does not, irreparable damage and
disaster may result, and Canada may find
herself with an unwanted foreign power sud.
denly squatting uncomfortably close, occupying
territory that belongs to her...with nothing shi

can do about it.

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BY Richard Jackson

Ottawa,- Forget unemployment, ‘never mind

inflation, ignore theOfficial Languages Act,
Quebec separation and all the rest, counsels
veteran Ontario Conservative MP George Hees,
“it was the dollar that did him in.'’

The evergreen George Hees, as vigorous and
enthusiastic now that he’s edging 68 as he was
when he first entered the House of Commons 28
years ago, is not cracking wise.

He’s only saying that the crash of Pierre
Trudeau in the political popularity polls was not
due to inflation or unemployment, but to the
debasement of the dollar,

You-can’t really forget unemployment,
especially if your’re among the million-plus
Unemployed.

Nor can you overlook inflatlon which is
financially bleeding everyone, employed and
unemployed alike,

Both are modern day records in disaster.

But so, too, is the 88-cent dollar.

The difference--politically--is, says George
Hees, that you can live with unemployment and
Inflation if you can't do anything about it.

And you can’t unless the government changes
Its economic ways or you change the govern-
ment.

But the discounted dollar is something else
again,

Its -trashing on the international money
markets gets us where it hurts.

Square in our pride.

Except during time of war, Canadians
genera y haven’t been a demonstrably patriotic

ople.

We don’t all stand, hands over hearts, and sing
“Oh Canada” and really mean it the way the
Americans do with their “Star Spangled
Banner.” .

And our new flag, the red maple leaf on 4 field
of white, still derided by the hard-core
traditionalists as ‘“Pearson’s Pennant,” doesn’t
seem to inspire the almost sacred devotion the
Americans have for The Stars and Stripes.

Nor do we regard Parliament Hill and the
Peace Tower as a sort of national shrine in quite
the manner the Americans revere the White
House and the Washington Monument.

Across the pond the Brits know and love pomp
and circumstance and how it stirs the heart and
mind of a nation. On this side we seem sort of
ashamed of wearing our national loyalty on our
sleeve and parading our pride and love of
country.

But, says George Hees, lack all the shining
symbols as sadly we do, we still have the dollar.

It is--or has been--our pride, almost our flag,
and the closest thing we have to a national
symbol.

Let governments defile it at their peril,

Demeaning and discounting it invites political
retribution at the polls.

Oh sure, admits George Hees, the cheap dollar
helps our resource exports, gives us a better
balance of trade and helps restore the com-
petitiveness we lost because of slothful un-
derwork and overpay.

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done it

Tf you-listen to the right kind of optimistic
bullish-type exonomists you might even allow
that the 88-cent dollar could buy us back the solid
100-cent dollar. The hard way. Eventually.

But none of that matters.

The government has defiled the one symbol of
our pride.

And the government must be punished.

This retribution started with the slow slippage
earlier in the year of the government on the
polls, that now has become an avalanche,

It’s just like old times, recalls George Hees,
harking back to 1962 when the “Dlefendollar,”' as
the Liberals scoffed, began doing in the
Diefenbaker Conservatives,

Tt was 92% cents then.

A better, sounder dollar by nearly five cents
than the soft and sinking ‘“Fuddlebuck"’ of today.

If 92% cents could cripple the Conservatives
for the kill, the 88-center should knock off the
Liberals instanter.

And maybe will.

Wood study
for Stewart

B.C, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.....

The Economic Development Committee of the
British Columbia Chamber of Commerce, under
the direction of First Vice-President, Jack
Greenwood, spearheaded discussions that
concluded with effective and fast action by the
provincial govenment. The Honourable Don
Phillips, Minister of Economic Development,
has advised that the Industrial, Development
Committee has approved a Regional Economic
Expansion (DREE) Grant of $106,000.00 for an
in-depth Wood Study of the timber resources in
the Stewart--Bel-Irving Public Sustained Yield
Unit. When completed,the information in the
study will provide a preliminary indication of the
viability of a plywood-veneer mill in Stewart.

In addition, the provincial government in
Victoria has now seen the wisdom of an alternate
industry in Stewart, due to the impending shut-
down of the Granduc Mine on June 30, 1978, and
they will now allow camnpartmental logging in
the area. Because of this action, there are
already at least two firms undertaking logging
OAD, Stath t, past

-D. Stothert, past president of the British
Columbia Chamber of Commerce, has been very
instrumental in the previous wood-use studies in
the Stewart area, and it is now hoped that a
renewed enthusiasm and viable industries will
soon be underway in this important northern
area, '

HE DIDN'T SLOW DOWN

Italian double-bass player
Domenico Dragonetti led the
double-bosses In the
Beethoven Festival at Bonn
in 1845 at the age of 82.

SET THOUGHTS
ATRAIGHT :

e@ Sacro Monte, above
the Italian town of Varallo
Segla, is reached by 9 path
that leads past 45 chapels,