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Colts lose pair, p. 6 | REE ENGLISH MINORITY “IS FULLY PROTECTED” ~ Laurin tells Ottawa to remain out of Quebec “MONTREAL cP - says the federal government would not have any right or reason to interfere on ty of Quebec minorities because cf the language legislation Bill 101, “There ig no possible collision over education,” Laurin said in an interview Sunday on CFCF radio “because Quebec has full jurisdiction in that field.” uniling FUN AT THE CARNIVAL - whether you're enjoying the fun. taste of cotton candy, eating popcorn or. just chatting with a friend there is always lots of. excitement ata Shriners show when. Ue comes to town, =~ who: have not seen what is going on among the Quebec people for the past 50 years. Cultural | Development - 4 Mato federal ity he 0 minori ts Minister Camille Laurin * Quah ity fie “ig fully protected,” and has “a whole ‘System education, kindergarten to university. ” Bill 101, a revised version of the Bill 1, was tabled in the national assembly Tuesday, Laurin said its ‘purpose was to make ‘institutionally wal,” . . resented no. e° continued existence of Quebec's English, who would have the right to their language their cultural life, private _life, and in some cages public life.” He added that most of the province’s economic: is still in the han “This fin rould be termed radicat only by those people a am a eigen for what the majori have heen wanting for'a long © KNOWS REACTION. He saw no danger against Bill 101, eventhough the bill owuld mean a loss to’ g ANDERS ON SAYS: them, “and as psychiatrist, I I know how people react to loss.” Laurin also denied a suggestion by Prime- Minister. Trudeau last week: that Quebec appeared t to be using children ‘ achess game” by ering (0 protect eminority langua: e rights if other provinces the same for their minorities. “But if the other sin. provinces want to come to Quebec and one agreements, weare ready t scuss with them.” In an interview Saturday on CFAD radio, Laurin described the proposed legislation as ‘generous and decent’’ to En irspeakin Quebecers. But sal more changes can be made if opposition parties present “reasonable and well- documented" propositions. He said five weeks of public hearings on Bills, the original version of the proposed law, did not. convince him to allow Canadians from other provinces to send their children to English- language schools, Under Bill 101, as in Bill1,. only children with at least on one parent educated in an Englieh elementary school in Quebec can attend English schools. . “The status grant to the English aki school Although Premier Rene Levesque has said he finds it “humiliating’’ to bar children rom __ other provinces from English schools, the cabinet apparently sided with Laurin. * B.C. running out _of Alberta crude West coast needs grow too quickly VANCOUVER (CP) — Al- berta oil may stop flowing to British Columbia refineries- within five years and ‘the best alternative supply would -be oil from a supertanker port near Port Angeles, Wash., says the @ former, leader, OF the: BE, ibeat Party David “Anerson, in a h to be delivered today the opening of the West Coast oil ports inquiry, says Alberta’s well and oil’ sand Supplies can’t continue to meet West Coast demand. He says a_ joint United Sta anadian deepwater terminal would receive oil from Alaska or overseas and would become vital when Alberta oil ceases flowing to B.C. The. Port' Angeles terminal falls within environmental”. policy guidelines in both B.C. and ‘Washington, and its location would be far safer than at Kitimat, B.C. or Cherry Point, Wash. where . other oposals would establish minals. ‘Anderson, wh is representing the’ B.C. Wildlife Federation, also eriticizes the inquiry for narrowing. its terms of reference to exclude US. Coast tanker and oi] trans- portation questions without adequate information or even adequate participation. ” He says the federation has “grave reservations” about the absence from the inquiry of Atlantic Richfield co. ue as sole control of the pe ed terminal at cherry Peepint, Wash., and Sout H1 Transportation Co, holly-owned subsidiary of Standard Oll of ‘Ohio, which wants to shi Alaskan oil to a terminal at Long” Beach Terrace man. charged. ; Catladian. . ener beeen nee teanttecge aie a Caen ity mee ‘One man has been. arrested and charged and another is being sought in connection with an incident ' Wednesday morning in which four men were held at. gun point and one beaten in a Prince Rupert ordered. ‘by: the federal government to study issues related to tanker movement ° on the West Coast. INADEQUATE — PARTICIPATION In an.interview, Anderson said Canadian civil servants may participate, but ‘‘civik servants don't make national energy policy. The inquiry must obtain partici pation of the federal department of energy, mines and resources along with the governments of B.C., Ontario and Alberta” he said, ‘The federation is concerned that we -are attempting to make an over- all examination of West apartment. William Richard Leon Turcotte, 27 27, Terrace, was scheduled to a appea pear in Prince Rupert Provincial Court this morning on charges rela the incident. . " An RCMP spokesman said two men, apparently Jooking for drugs, broke into a Prince Rupert house. — | Wher no drugs were found they reportedly took three —- occupants to an apartment where th again asked for _ drugs but were unsuccessful, At the ap eprine Fret! the two reportedly assaulted _Philon Alo: Police were called and the assailants escaped in a blue compact Ford car. Police are looking for the second suspect, Rupert, and a fight broke out,’ Special to the Herald, - Formal: hearings of the’ West Coast Oil Ports Inquiry — open in Vancouver today” with Commissioner Dr. andrew Thompson fresh ‘from a brief voyage abord a 360,000-ton super er of the coast of Nova Scotia. | His six-hour visit to the tanker Al Andulas, which brought a car rg0 of crude oil to Port Hawksbury, N.S., was one of a series of. marine and aerial tours the Universit of British Columbia law professor has taken in prepeauon for his one-man On Mon a Dr. Thompson will” begin relating the west. coast geo ra y he | has viewed by plane, helicopter and . small Thoat to the mounta of evidence to be accumulated by the Inquiry, Some time early next year, he will present a ‘report to the federal marine oil: terminals and ‘ tanker routes to be used in . Th fhe ns oil to refineries in evidence on other proposals “the north-central United which would involve the States; ‘ movement of Alaskan oil by ww Zhree n main ‘proposals are tanker down the BE: coast. SOHIO: Transportation Company has proposed nt receiving terminal at Beach, Calif. proposals involve shipments . s, bome of which ‘will Kitimat and. . Saupert will deal ain crude oil supply and ‘demand, marine operations, environmental and marine imped hazards, potential et on the coast fishin, ustry, and economic an ined ion nto these formal hearings the Inquiry community to be considered by Dr. on. Trans Mountain he Co. Ltd., in co- operation with Atlantic Company, and offshore oil at expended £ . terminal facilities at t Cherry. Point; Wash., and move ‘it through existing Edmonton, thence to the UN S. midwest. Kitimat Pipe. Line Ltd., (RPL) has proposed an oi port at Kitimat, and a new eline ‘from there to onton. KPL has asked the National Energy Board which must rule on the lan auiry will open on Monday with a statement by ‘Thompson and an Commission Counsel Russell Anthony. Then, the pipeline companies and representa ives environmental fishermen, native trade unions and other articipants will present rmal statements of th positions, including project pipeline. ine companies . eir respective: . thro This opening cted to take ; out the province. | these will enable Thompson to . hear local residents. Locations and timing of community hearings have not yet been Public participation in the Inquiry has been supported the provision of ' $380,000 in federal funding. Of this, $260, ‘made availab environmentalists, native Indians ‘trade unions and a municipalities ose. of conductin ‘application “in abeyance” ding the results of a NEB earing ofthe Trans in. Meantime, however, KPL will continue to par icipate session is’ ex from two to three days, genitrting in Vancouver on September 7, the “Inquiry. pmove into six phases, hase covering a ar aspect of the fnvestigation. Phase I will be devoted to evidence on existing Canadian and international legislation governing the constructlon and operation of facilities and the movement of oll tankers, - 000 is belng Ter Pipeliie Company ai end engi - government on the potent outline its proposal for an o ee ‘al, bert ronmental arid portat Port Angeles, Wash., Stonoiate impacts on the and a new pipeline running : ' B.C, coast of proposals for across the northern states to Clearbrook, Minn. quiry may also hear ‘studies and employ Another $40,000 ie allocated to two native Indian organizations to conduct marine resource studies in the Kitimat area . province, a and 000 has een made available to cover the costs of witnesses be called by the main nvyironmental and fishermen’ s groups. Ag well as providing funds to ensure evidence from ee participants, the is seekin oaler tao canes an documentary evidence from governments, universities, research centres and other sources throughout Canada and the U.S. and as far afield as the United Kingdom and Japan. ~ . This is the task of Commission Counsel and the three senior staff advisors. Capt, David Bremner, Senior Surveyor with the Canadian Ministry of Transport, is responsible for mafine aspects; John Millen, Senior . Engineer with the Environmental Protection Service of Environment Canada, looks after environmental aspecta; and. Dr. Marvin: Shaffer, a consulting economist, is responsible for socio-economic aspects. ' Since the Inquiry was instituted in March, this group has been gathering all: _ INQUIRY HEARINGS IN VANCOU VER hompson ready to hear all the evidence — Kitimat background, p. 3 ‘and in affected river -systems in other arts of the “available information relating to the is issues before the Inquiry. As part of this rocess, the Inquiry staff as been entifying potential expert witnesses to invited to give evidence. Witnesses are expected from the Canadian and U.S, Coast Guards, Fisheries and Environment Canada, the federal Department of Energy, ines and Resources, and similar agencies. The U.S. Federal Energy Administration state agencies and representatives of the academic and business sectors in the U.S., Britain and Japan may also be. invited Red fo" provide technical othe best f th e basic purpose of the information-gathering process now _ being conducted is to provide the staff advisors with a clear understanding of the issues and available information. A library has . been established in the Inquiry, office and shelves are slowly filling with the body of documentation required, including the complete applications of the pipeline com anies, some of which 0 eight volumes. The federal government has provided such items as a computer printout list of all relevant documentation in Ottawa’s files - a list which at last count ran to 174. panes. The Inquiry library open to participants and to eneral Bablic throughout the life of the Inquiry. Meantime, astaff of three persons - - Arthur Pape, John teeves, Nancy Hannum - have been organizing the community aspects of the Inquiry. This has involved numerous visits to coastal communities a to inform local oups on purpose an format of the Inquiry and to encourage participation. : This group is also organizing the means by which local. communities will be kept: informed of Inquiry proceedings on a regular basis Arrangements are being made tohave a digest of the evidence © ae pared by an independent research centre for distribution to interested parties by mail and = through schools, libraries and other community centres. Informational brochures, posters and __ similar ocal . materiai are also being planned White the Inquiry staff has’ been concentrating ‘on the Canadian aspects, the- presence of the Trans ountain and Morthern ler tener oponale has e need for a. belo understanding of the international aspects. Aside from the obvious interest of the U.S. pipeline companies and U.S. governments relating to the shipment of Alaskan oil, a number of ancillary questions - are likely to arise, For example, any action taken by the Canadian overnment on Dr. hompson's findings on marine navigation and safety could be expected to- reflect on joint Canada-U.S. agreements affecting oil lll cleanup operations and a marine tretiie contrel in — shared waterways. There is also a potential for some findings to a indirectly to other ‘ are ct ’ the world. For example, evernment ac actions flowing from the Thompson inquiry could be reflected in Canada's position before — such international bodies as: the Law of the Sea Conference. “Noo