a Western .. Canada: “Concept ’ 4 v organizing. meeting. in the. . © ~. southern: ‘Alberta. fown. of BOMONTON (CP). ~ Richard Oakes. "stands in " frontof abbptit 60 people’ at'y : Bassano and frowns. i -The- movemenit: -is- belng-- and. ‘misander stood misrepresented, he says. , - “Separatism is what they ~~ callit, independence i is what it Is.” Like Parti ‘Quebecois supporters’ in: ‘Quebec, - menbers of the Concept shy. pane “from the” word ‘atist, ole the Concept party’s Gord ‘Koster, during his. suc- “vesstul : ‘campnign in the Olds- -Didsbury - : Alberta byelection in February, told word because “jt was ‘ associated with radicalism and violence. Independence is a better word, he said: He associated that word with the-Boston TearParty and _ the American independence ‘movement. "> _ That movement had ‘dignity and purpose,” he would say, not mentioning the violent revalution that followed. . The Concept’s. stand | on separatism -has been’ un- * clear since last November " when ithe party decided at its Red Deer, Alta., ‘con-, vention it would “advocate’ independence. but leave the . dynasty and . - fegianal discontent,’ jof: sithmering ‘The! Parti’ "Quebéedis.. . ig... Sprang wp to: challenge. a solidly ; entrenched: Liberal. : ‘administration’: after’ the. collapse: of -thd’ provines’s: vacuum left . the. ‘faces a. Progressive. Conservative ~ “government which holds 73 ‘of the 79 seats In the Alberta legislature: we, : ~ Despite the similarities, the. western party _ often “Jooks like. some crazy mirror’ reflection’ af . the. Parti Quebecois. question up to the people in ~ a teferendum. The move opened the door ‘for thousands of Albertans who wanted to shake yp central Canada, leave the country. Comparisons with the Parti Quebecois’ decision to’ ‘work for -''sovereipnty- _ association” - and achieve . that end by a- reférendum were obvious. ; Like the PQ, the Concept iad “apeared” buddenty after’ but ‘hot - ‘separate,’’. ’ Edmonton ‘Anti-bilingualism which. ” used to be expressed as “we crowds he’ didn't like” the”’”"dan’t Waht-French ramried down our throats” has taken . on. .a’. more: Sophislicated _Ting.-The argument now is’. often based on Quebec's Bill 101, the language bill, “They: (Quebecers) don’t have’ any says: Clare Hawthorne, president of the Concept'’s constituency association in Grande Prairie, Alta. ‘ ’ “They've: got’ what they want., They’ re the only : bean province in. the country.” It's a theme repealed in © convarsations with' Concept _ supporters, If there is no. bilingualism in. Quebec, .. they gay, there certainly should be none in. Alberta. The associates with the Quebec movement are missing., Rather than articulate ex- _journalist Rene Levesque or dapper. economist’ Jacques Parizeau, there are -srealtor | Al Maygard,. the Concept's leader, .and.: oj] .scout- rancher-radeo |‘ rjder ioe Kes a River, the” Catholic church without: a priest CEDOUX, Sask. (CP) Six days: a week the tiny white church in this quiet .. hamlet, southeast . of Regina, is deserted —the doors closed, the lights out. °°" : But each Sunday morning about 20 families appear at ~ Roman Holy” ° Trinity Catholic © Church - to celebrate mass. They ‘have been conducting their own- service since 1980. . “We had two. choices when our priest was-tran;. sferred to another church in 65 kilometres — : August, 1980,"" said Judy” ‘Pohi,- ‘sipping: coffee -in- her -: - farm kitchen, five “kilometres south of Cedoux. “We could either ‘learn. to celebrate the miass.. our- selves or close our church and drive. into . Weyburn . every. Sunday.” . : Sheila ‘Schnelder, one of “seven women and two men ~ who” lead. the, celebration, ~ didn’ tlike either choice, bit: a accepted | the reality of the sityation. “almdst" ~ MIF you wanted to keep the church open,: you “had (io - Jearra how to conduct ‘the service,” ‘she chimed in, ~ “Someone had to.” ay _ Mary... Janeczko,... who... . emigrated with her family -, -from, Poland a. few years _ aga, felt inhibiléd about her ° ~ decént bit! volunteered to do © some of . the. _Seripture’. readings.” : . "SI the Ghureh closed, the: families ‘would have ta drive : “30°-kilometres: or -more. ‘lo, : ~ Weyburn;” “she” said, - “Tt” _would “be ‘all fight dn -the. “summer, ‘but. it could . ‘be. very difficult in the winter.” - Pohl; STt's - ao was terrified the first time [led the service,” Pohl . confessed, ‘‘Ishouldn’ thave been. They, were all. my — friends: and “neighbors., Besides, they wouldn't have _ known if t had made a mistake.” The Cedoux group has been told their tiny parish reflects changes -to take ‘place in the Catholic church __ in Sagkatchewan during the ’ next’ few years. With fewer priests available to serve the riumerous’ churches,...Pohl believes parishoners ~ will’ have to pitch in themselves or be forced té- -drive con- siderablé. distances ‘each . Sunday to celebrate mass, Ironically, services: in Holy “Trinity: implete” ‘circle: ~ When. it was dpéned in 1907, oa priest travelled - ‘to the: va The mass celébrated. in _ Cedqux each Sunday. is shorter.-than a service ~ * conducted in-other Catholic -churches. because some of ihe- prayers are omitted. However communion is still ' “given, ‘with ‘the. priest ” in - “ nearby Weyburn. blessirig _ the hosts once-a month and — sending: them ain: ‘bulk be Ledoux, Ltt or party's el ‘member: 0. 00866 » Phe : westerners have: * spent their. adult lives: working: with oi: and: ‘real ; estate rather’ than with’ ‘reason to intellectuals one | a" t ie persons on “the. ‘mags, » “ideas... “property -rights ‘have: a . collapsed ‘Social. "credit : ‘meaning -because their , working lives are based on’ the ownership of farmland. : - or oil and gas leases. The party's, intellectuals tend. to be borrowed. Much’ of. the economic “thinking ° has been done by University oy of. Calgary economial Warren Blackman, who has been careful not to bétome a party member... we > Even his work | has left ‘ gaps” “in the” “mental” une derpinnings of the movement. His. study concluding that the West : econorilcall ly - qualification. that he could” “be wrong. : » Instead of the. left ‘leaning’ policies of. cS - | Quebecois, ‘the Concept: Union - N§tlongledyngely. Many. of. their. supporters “offers. -an_unahashed right=:.. . part in Quebec. - The Concept is replacine the --are'similar people to whom ‘ wing view’ of -the world, ’ The - “catries-the “thee “Partl” tempered with a’ tinge’ of ~ populist - distrust of ‘large _ corporations. , _ The PQ bought into the’ - Quebec's asbestos industry; © just as the NDP bought into _ Saskatchewan's . potash mines: The Concept cam- paigns to get the Alberta government out of the.oil, gas, lumber . and airline _ businesses... ‘Election of. an NDP government in ‘Albérta,- Kesler-told voters would be a nightmare from which the people would never recover. - ‘western in- _dependéned rhavernent’ as: generally. been. ‘charac: “terized based n> --eeonomles while the Quebec Re mimovement:. was” based” ane . langi ei ‘and, ‘culture. “But: “economics: also. played a The ; rise of the PQ t has. been accompanied }oby pressure to..move French. * speaking Quebecers into the management. levels of that. province's industry, and to -deyelop self-sufficiency -.in areas such as agricultural production. . . 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