- Dying Acadian culture feels

By JOHN SOOSAR

HALIFAX (CP) — The
Task Force on Canadian
Unity was told Thursday
about the decline of the
Acadian language and
culture in Nova Scotia, the
strain. of regional disparty
and the aspirations of young
people for a united country.

As the Task Force began a
series of cross-Canada
hearings, it was told by a
student spokesman from a
Sydney, N.S., high school

that if it manages to clear «

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the confusion ifacin;
ada, might become a
for unity.

But to succeed, the Task
Force will not have to solve
the problems of distance,
language, culture,
economics and diversity.
Instead, it will have to solve
the problems of recognition,
respect and understanding.
Spokesman for four
Acadian groups in Nova
Scotia told of “galloping
assimilation’? which has
resulted in 40,000 of 90,000
French-speaking residents,

‘Hydro
sells.
energy

‘vancouver CP-British
Columbia Hydro has sold
$15.4 million worth of power
during the ast nine months
to the states of Washington,
Oregon and montana, a
spokesman for
Washington’s Bonneville
Power Administration said
Wednesday. ;

Larry Dean said Cominco
Ltd., through its subsidiary
West Kootenay Power
andiight Co. Ltd., sold an
additional $6.3 million worth
of power during the same

period.

Dean said the sales were a
direct result of the drought
in the Pacific Northwest.

- Dean,Bonneville’s chiefof =

ower supply, said,.in’ an.
Interview at Hydro sold
693 million kilowatt hours of
power to the U.S. for $15
million between last
December arid August. He
said th ¢ power wa pur--
chased for industrial use.

Dean said the average
price charged by Hydro to \
its United States customers
was 22 mills per kilowatt
hour,

He said Hydro’s price to
industry started at 14 mills
per kilowatt hour last
December and reached a
peak of 26.3 mills in May. In

ugust, the price dropp
back to 23 mills,

But Dean said the highest
price charged by Hydro was
30 mills and the customer q
was a U.S. federal agency,
the Bureau of Reclamation.

He said Cominco sold 285
million kilowatt hours of
power for $6.3 million
making an average price of
22 mills per kilowatt hour.
“We would not normally
have to buy all this power,
but the problem was our low
water position,.. said Dean.
“jf we had had normal
precipitaion there would
nave been little if any
purchase of power from
B.C. Hydro.”

Merril Schultz, coor-
dinator of the Northwest
Power Pool, said in a
telephone interview from
Portland, Ore., that he
would describe Hydro’s
price to its U.S. cunstomers
as ‘fairly-steep,” and about
on a par with the cost of oil-
fired generation. He said
Hydro has also delivered
power to Bonneville for later
return to B.C.

“The main purpose was to
allow the Arrow Lakes
reservoir to be held at a
higher level for en-
vironmental reasons,” he
said, ‘The energy was the
equivalent of six feet or
‘water and it is slated for
return to B.C, Hydro by
Bonneville later this fall.”

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losing their first Language.
This assiriilation was the
result of a r economic
climate which forced many
to leave Acadian enclaves,
and the government’s lack
of concern over the French
language.

Acadian youth told the
Task Force that French-
language education in Nova
Scotia Is a “‘disaster.” The
education of young French-
speaking Canadians outside

bec in their own
language must become a
right rather than a
privilege, they said,
MAIN DETERRENT

Economic disparity and
the federal government’s
increasing encroachment on
provincial jurisdiction was
regarded by a group of Nova
Scotia businessmen as the
main deterrent to national
unity: They said there is a
need for greater decentrali-
zation.

-Jean-Luc Pepin, co-
chairman of the Task Force,
said the degree of decen-
tralization sought by the
provinces must be more
elarified.

“There {is a fogginess
about it that is dangerous,”’
he said.

The Nova Federation of
Labor ‘identified economic
disparity between regions
since Confederation as the
greatest challenge to a

reakup of Canada.

But language emerged as
the main area of dispute.

After repeatedly hearing
that French was being
English down | the throats of

peaking
Canadians, Reed Scowan;
executive director of the
Task Force, said there was
little evidence that this was
happening in Nova Scotia.
Instead, it appears
Acadians are aving
English rammed down their

strain of regional disparity

throats.

Peter Mettam, a Dart-
mouth, N,S., architect, said
a backlash has developed in
Canada since the French
language was ‘“‘rather
subversively’’ extended
across the country during
the last six or seven years..

Pepin was critical of
Mettam for his ‘extremely
loose language.”

SUPPORTS UNITY

Alexandre Boudreau of
Cheticamp, N.S5., president
of La Societe St. Pierre,
which he described as a
group formed to maintain
the Acadian language and
culture among Cape Bre-
ton’s 15,000 Acadians, said
Acadians support Canadian
unity, but hope the danger of
separation will finally wake
Canadians up.

Boudrreau said there has
been constant friendship be-
tween and their English-
speaking neighbors on
everything but language.

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Religion today :

Rebel leads flock
from church

TORONTO (CP) — While
thousands of Roman

Catholics worshipped in city

churches on a recent Sun-

several dozen
traditionalist
followers of the rebel
French prelate, Archbishop
Marcel Lefebyre, took part
ina mass in the living room
of a suburban home.

The service, conducted by
Rev. Yves Normandin, was
in Latin and the form of the
mass that of Pius X, used b
the Church from the 16
century until the sweeping
reforms of Vatican II were
implemented from 1962 to

FatherNormandin, .
evicted from his Montreal
rectory and church in 1975
for defying his bishop, said
Rev. Lefebvre plans to open
a seminary next month in
Shawinigan Que., almost
midway between Montreal

_and Quebec City, as a
‘ seminary and retreat centre

Catholics,

for his movement in
Canada.

The archbishop, who has
been threatened with ex-
communication by Pope
Paul for celebration of
Tridentine or Pius X mass,
will also visit Toronto in
October, he added. |

Father Normandin has
held services in Toranto,
London, Stratford, Win-

nipeg, Regina, Calgary, §

Edmonton, Kamloops and
Vancouver.

TORONTO (CP) — Rev.
Philip Potter, general
secretary of the World
Council of Churches, will
begin a Canadian tour Oct.
11 with a talk on Protestant
and Roman Catholic re-
lations at the University of
Torontoe’s Trinity College.

Rev. Potter then will go to
Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary
and Vancouver before
returning to Geneva Oct. 25.

THE HERALD, Friday, September 23, 1977, PAGE 5

Media criticized.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP)
~—Progressive Conservative
Leader Joe Clark criticized
the news media Thursday
for dwelling on what he
called the imaginary
problems of the party.

“All Conservatives share

ee we,

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exclusively on imagined
problems of the party and
not on our pr or on
our call for a new budget,’’
Clark said.

He said the Conservative
party is better united than
ever before and | there is na
question a
strong, united party into the
next feder tion.

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