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set for Oct. 24

If Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
believed he had halted discussion on Cana-
dian participation in the U.S. Star Wars
program with his recent “‘no” decision, the
cross-Canada hearings on renewal of the
North American Aerospace Defence
(NORAD) agreement will change that.

Peace groups in Vancouver are preparing
statements to be presented to the House of
Commons standing committee on external
affairs and defence which will be in Van-
couver Oct. 24 at the Hotel Georgia to hear
submissions on renewal of the agreement
which expires in March, 1986.

Peace activists are concerned that the
agreement allows Canada to be part of an
anti-ballistic missile defence system, such as
Star Wars.

Prior to 1981, there was a clause in the
agreement stating: “Canadian participation
in the activities of NORAD’s aerospace
Warning systems does not involve any
commitment by the Canadian government
to take part in an active ballistic missile
defence arrangement.”

But that clause was dropped without
Notice to Parliament at the 1981 renewal of
the agreement.

The peace movement is alarmed that the
Tecent push to militarize the Canadian
North is linked to the Star Wars first-strike
Strategy. Of particular concern is a recent
Teport from a Senate defence committee
Which recommended renewal of the

NORAD agreement for an unprecedented

15-year term, rather than the usual five-year -

term.

Also of concern to peace activists is the
recent upgrading of the U.S. military com-
mand facility in Colorado Springs which
now co-ordinates all of the space communi-
cations, satellite surveillance and navigation
facilities the Unified Space Command. It is
assumed that this centre will also control the
Star Wars system.

The hearings,;which are set for Oct. 24 at
the Hotel Georgia, are following the format
of participation by invitation only with the
public invited to listen, established by the
Special Joint Committee on International
Relations which recently heard submissions
on Canada’s participation in Star Wars.

So far in Vancouver, End the Arms Race,
University of B.C. Students for Mutual
Peace and Disarmament and the United
Nations Association have been invited to
participate but all other groups which are
concerned about the renewal of the
NORAD agreement are being urged to con-
tact the committee to get on the agenda for
the hearings.

Submissions should be sent to:

Clerk of the External Affairs and

Defence Committee

William Corbett

House of Commons

Ottawa, K1A 0A6

No apology to trekkers

NDP MP Simon de Jong attempted to
et the Mulroney government Oct. 7 to red-
Tess a 50-year-old wrong but was rebuffed
by the Tory majority in the House of

‘ommons. ;

The Regina East MP submitted a private
Motion to the Commons, setting the record
Straight on the role the Conservative
80vernment of R.B. Bennett played in the
brutal attack on the On-to-Ottawa trekkers
On July 1, 1935\and demanding that the

ulroney government make an official
apology.

But the only response — from a Tory
backbencher — was that the government

Should be forward-looking, not backward-
looking,” De Jong told the Tribune in an
Interview. As a result, the motion died.

Trade union and unemployed leaders

had sought earlier to get an apology from

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the Tory government when the 1985 On-to-
Ottawa trekkers took their delegation to
Ottawa to place their demands for action on
unemployment before the cabinet. But
although Mulroney did agree to a last min-
ute meeting with the group, he made no
commitments on their demands.

Bob Jackson, a member of both the 1935
and 1985 On-to-Ottawa treks, was disap-
pointed that the government had refused to
issue the apology. “I expected the Mulro-
ney government would try to get out of any
form of responsibility,” he said. “But an
apology should be provided even if it’s late,
especially by this Tory government which
treats hungry people in the just the same
way the Bennett government did in 1935.”

And Jean Evans Shiels, daughter of
Arthur (Slim) Evans who led the 1935 trek,
and a participant in the 1985 trek said: “For
fifty years, we have only been able to mourn
on Canada’s birthday because of the events
in Regina — an apology from the govern-
ment could change that.”

The motion, presented to Parliament on
Oct. 7,-reads as follows:

“That on this fiftieth anniversary of the
“On-to-Ottawa” trek, the governmnent of
Canada does now extend to those who par-
ticipated its unequivocal and official apol-
ogy for the government of the day having
perpetuated the following:

1) Having caused by the use of violence
as administered by the combined police for-
ces of the Regina City Police and the RCMP
the termination of the trek in Regina, Sas-
katchewan on July 1, 1935 with attendant
loss-of life, and numerous trek and citizen
participants being injured and imprisoned;

“2) Having contributed to rather than
detracted from the plight of the unem-
ployed by: a) forcing many unemployed
young men into work camps; and b) abro-
gating its responsibilty of providing the
necessary leadership in a time of high
unemployment which would have created
decent and rewarding full-time employ-
ment;

“3) Displaying a total lack of policy initi-
atives which would have provided meaning-
ful work and wages for the unemployed and
for the violent attack on the participants of
the “On-to Ottawa” trek.”

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