DISARMAMENT

| _ ALiberal MP said Sunday that
the plans by the federal and pro-
Vincial governments to co-
sponsor a ‘“‘defence industry op-
Portunities seminar’ here later
this month showed an “‘incredible
insensitivity’’ to the growing de-
| mand for disarmament and urged
people to ‘‘make a strong protest
In a peaceful way.”
Paul McRae, Liberal MP for
_| Thunder Bay-Atikokan and one
| Of six signatories to the minority
-Tteport on Canadian foreign
policy, pledged to take the issue
‘| Up with external affairs minister
Allan MacEachen and defence
Minister Gilles Lamontagne.

to address the meeting Sunday,
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as part of the campaign to win an
' Overwhelming ‘‘yes”’ vote in the
upcoming referendum. on disar-
Mament, conducted as part of the
Municipal elections Nov. 20.

McRae, Saskatchewan NDP
MP Bob Ogle and John Fraser,
Conservative MP for Vancouver
South have been travelling across
_ the country speaking on disarma-
Ment in the various centres where
teferendums have been held.

As soon as the votes have been
completed, McRae said, he will
immediately press prime minister
Trudeau to cancel the proposed
Cruise missile testing. He added
that he already has the backing of
Some 20 to 25 members of the
Liberal caucus who are also op-
Posed to the Cruise tests.

“*We have no business being in-
. volved with the Cruise,”’ he told

4 the audience sunday, emphasiz-
hg that the manufacture and
deployment of the new missile ‘is
a qualitatively new development
i the arms race.”’

The Liberal MP warned that
there .was a new, heightened
| danger of nuclear war in this

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\McRae to press PM on Cruise ban

Allan Fotheringham (moderator) and Paul McRae.

decade ‘“‘because of the attitudes
of the superpowers but par-
ticularly because of the people
around the Reagan administra-
tion.”

He cited the leaks from the
Pentagon revealing defence
secretary Caspar Weinberger’s
comments about the U.S.
‘prevailing in a protracted
nuclear war’? and more recent
comments by Eugene Rostow,
the official responsible for arms
control in the U.S. government,
referring to the current period as
“a pre-war period.”

“Our governments are not tak-
ing disarmament seriously,’’ he
emphasized, ‘‘and the only way
we can make them take it serious-
ly is if the people organize.”

NDP MP Bob Ogle also
pointed to the Pentagon’s role in
the current build-up of tension,
calling the U.S. military institu-
tion “‘the patron of nuclear war.”’

He pointed to the overwhelm-
ing domination of American life
by the Pentagon, citing figures

showing that it is the largest con-
sumer of capital and technology
in the U.S., consumes one-third
of all research and development
funds, one-third of all engineer-
ing graduates from U.S. univer-
sities and is the single largest user
of energy in the world.

But if there is compelling
power in the military, he said,
‘there is also a powerful message
coming from the U.S. peace
movement’? which put one
million people in the streets last
June 12 in New York.

That peace movement is
“made up of the very broadest
spectrum of people,” he said,
echoing the comments from a
New York policeman who said as
he watched the demonstration
June 12, ‘‘the politicians are go-
ing to have to listen to these peo-
ple.”

Conservative John Fraser also
noted the dimensions of the
movement for disarmament and
challenged the statements made
by Reagan, former state secretary
Alexander Haig and others, that

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(chairman), John Fraser, Bob Ogle,

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advocates of nuclear freeze are
being ‘‘manipulated.”’

“‘Those who advocate the
freeze are accused of ‘capitulating

to tyranny’ and those who sayitis }

madness to continue making new
nuclear weapons are being
‘manipulated by the enemy,’”’
said Fraser, who was once posted
with the Canadian army in Ger-
many.

“But the arguments being used
against us are not intellectual,
they’re not intelligent — and deep
down, they’re not honest,’’ he
said.

The three MPs have spoken to
some 22 meetings across the
country during the referendum
debate, and are continuing the
campaign that began with the
release of the minority report for
a nuclear freeze, a ban on Cruise
testing and repudiation of first
use of nuclear weapons.

Ogle also urged the audience to
“vote with your ballot, vote with
your feet and do whatever you
can for peace.’

| Nuke war called ‘greatest public health risk’

h The head of the Vancouver
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; uc €ar war the number-one threat
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nuclear attack in the coming year.

Medical health officer Dr. David
Kinloch told city council in a report
Nov. 5 that “‘nuclear warfare must
rate as the greatest risk to public

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health,’ and advocated that coun-
cil ‘‘sponsor and support
widespread distribution of infor-
mation about the threat posed by
nuclear weapons, their prolifera-
tion, and their potential use.”’

Council agreed, and ordered
Kinloch to outline his plans for the
information program when the
council sits down to consider the
1983 budget.

In areport that echoed the warn-
ings of the international peace
organization, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, the medical officer
said hospitals and medical personel
would be destroyed in a nuclear
conflagration, and hence ‘“‘no
organized response would be possi-
ble.

‘Prevention is the only feasible
approach. And prevention in this
area means a major change in
defence policy. Public health
departments, in addition to their

accounting responsibilities, have
the obligation to help the com-
munity mobilize its response and its
initiative to the threats if faces,’’ he
urged.

Kinloch’s report, accompanied
by a map showing the explosion
and fallout range of a one-megaton
nuclear bomb on Vancouver, calls
nuclear explosion ‘‘a serious but
hidden risk...in the nuclear age, ob-
taining informed consent from the
community regarding its nuclear
risk might be appropriate and
sobering.

“The weapons of war have not
been customarily the subject mat-
ter of public health. But these are
not customary times. For public

‘health professionals to close their

eyes to nuclear reality would be to
abdicate intelligence, ethical posi-
tion and responsibility to protect
the public health,”’ said the medical
health officer.

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