“-Qintaile Attorney Géneral Roy McMurtry: will recommend op 7 oo * -etatus of ‘the investigation into the! deaths between Jul . 3980cand March, 2961" - er ‘murdering four Infants in the hospital’s-cardiac ward. |: ~ with overdoses of the heart drug digoxin. Provincial court. | “English. - : Some 300 delegates will be. attending” * , the affair, which has ite roots. in an A "investigating 39 other unexpected, deaths at the hospital. Alllance. ‘membership... ‘drive in os ; hospital will not necessarily be a part of ‘the police in- - ‘ vestigation, he said. Some concerns have been expressed | ; that the hospital may have acted improperly in its handling te ‘Yeledae Nelles or proceed with a preferred indictment. ' _ does not control the government and is not an instrument. . we “et about: lhe father of Somi f 7 néaday ‘on what bellon they will take in the deaths, ‘ criminal justice system while at the same time maintaining ’ the integrity of the Higepital for Bick Children,” McMurtry ; #ononro: P- _ ‘patong: as police ne venta deaths of 43. infants Bt the Hospital. for . Sick" “Chil that’ public Inquiry concerning them not be held. “You don’t havea public inquiry while there ta an angolig. ‘erlajinal investigation," McMurlry'satd today following. meeting: with Crown officials and: police to ‘discuss’ th " «(Nurse Suzan Nelles was discharged Friday’ ‘on four count, 7 -Jitige’ David “Vanek ruled that evidence at. 44-day. preliminary hearing “‘pointed to a-differenit direction,” “A few hours later, McMurtry announced that police_aré _ ‘He said today he has been assured by ‘police and his ad- visers that the investigation is “clearly: warranted.) “It’s fair to say a large percentage could. turn out to be homieldes.”’ ‘ “Np aldin the gathering of evidence, he: may, be required to authorize further exhumations, hé. said, The body: of one infant was exhumed during Nelles's. preliminary hearing.’ McMurtry also said his ministry may lend “‘a little financial support” to police... i ‘Matters relating to procedures in the world-famous . of the deaths. | -»Ontario -olficials will probably’ decide. today or Wed- -MoMurtry aaid Monday he has been in daily contact with Health Minister Larry Grossman and Solicitor General George | Taylor about the beat way to pursue the case, ‘ko. emerge from, it'ag, the premier, noi partisan’ ‘platform for. Canada’a largest : : ‘minority - group - — the one: ‘millien - a Queb whieh i is ‘organizing the event = - hopes. Quebecers “whose. first’, Aanguinge is’ * “The dilemma.v -we face is maintaining the integrity’ ofthe - Said, ‘He noted that facts brought out at an Inquiry would make ifdifficult for anyone to get B fair trial if charges are laid in |. the future. newspapers last winter: which drew - 15,000 responsés, . _Membership has since swelled to . 50,000 — -with many. of. those - comlng _ through groups that decided to affiliate themselves: with . the fledgling. -' organization. .The federal government _ _ has also lent a-hand through & $500,000 , . grant. ‘Some of ‘the groupe, such as Par: . ticipation-Quebec, were formed Before Provincial Association of Catholic. Teachers: that -have encouraged | disobedience of. Quebec. language — legislation since Robert: Bourassa’s Liberals.pasaed Bill 22 in 1974, .The Alliance aspires to be the com- mon voice of all Quebecers who wish to .. express themselves in English and use has no ‘members th the: Parti chorale, The few hug ‘sovereignty: . i party whieh: | tienes Quek ee “t g. tre envh-Quebecerd have i, created Another Voice, a group’ which. -AUpports. French’ Unilingualism ; Many: anglophanis: are Gisitisioned ‘on angry with groupé. ihat: tiave claimed © té, represent them: in the past. Others ‘have’ tried. to’ adapt. to’ the evolving 4 Quebec in: a ‘practical and ‘Personal, - ‘ way: The Alliance thus has to prove itself a” ‘credible spokesman to those It wants. to. "represent as well as to ‘five million - French Quebecers. ‘ _ Tt-also needs a solid leadership. » As the deadline for riominations approached in early May, it appeared — that Erle Maldoff, a ‘young Montreal lawyer and the group's: interim president,’ ‘would be elected, the . Alliance's president by acclamation, But then Pat Curran, a marketing’ specialist and member of Alliance’s- ’ east-end Montreal chapter, entered the to fight for Canada” before, the - 1980 . referendum on -. association. Others, | like “Tcwnshippers “ Inc. in thé rural Eastern Townships; ‘‘eléeted “in ‘were non-partisan special” interest prom ‘groups. . Then there are those such as. the race.’ | 2 "Maldoft joined one of. the federalist _ . groups. founded after the PQ was. "1976 «and : ‘achieyed . prominence in organizations like the J Council] for Quebec’ Minorities, the : Alliance’s direct ancestor. Unlike Maldoff, Curran was inactive until: his’.wife Joanne, a bilingual nursing’ assistant working in French,’ lost ‘her job last. year after falling government language tests. ‘He organized a campaign that got her job. back while mocking the PQ govern- ment. *eormpanying. Howell ‘from the ‘tag Greek a