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Canada

still shaky
about Quebec

Montreal Le Devoir: In English Canada, perhaps
more so than in Quebec—where one had already
grown accustomed to the idea in the weeks preceeding
the election—the Parti Quebecois victory Nov. 15,
1976, produced a shock, a veritable trauma from
which anglophones have not yet recovered.

They would have liked to believe that the victory

Pensions in jeopardy

Ottawa, — The “worst that can
happen” to pensioners, cautiously
allows Senator Keith Davey, is
that “we might try putting on the

Which means — to translate the
Ottawa jargon — that pensions
won’t be indexed against in-
flation.

So pensions simply won't keep
up with the cost of living, if, in
fact, despite the theory, they
have, .

Neither will family allowances.

Stanley Knowles, the New
Democrat who has fought the

Bood pension fight from the day
e entered the Commons back in
1942, agrees.

That’s the “‘worst,’’ no more
indexing.

Neither the good Senator
Davey, the Liberal party’s
election strategist, famed as the
“Rain Maker” — Ottawa buzz-
word for vote-tipper — nor Stan
Knowles believes the Cabinet
“stupid enough” with an election
coming up, to cut back on pen-
sions.

There are some “yahoos” in
Cabinet, as Stan calls them, who
would like to take some of the
government’s $10 billion deficit
out of the hides of pensioners.

But there aren’t enough of them
to pull it off, no matter how mucn

“pressure,” ag Welfare Minister

Monique Begin calls it, is put on
er

The pension threat was Public
Works Minister Judd Buchanan’s,
who, before he made it to the
Commons, was a_ reputed
member of “club Million,” in
London, insurance capital of the
country.

He wrote policies running into
seven figures and is recognized as
the industry’s man in Oltawa.

And the industry doesn't like
the idea of pensions being in-
dexed,

After all, if the government
indexes pensions, the pressure
intensifies on the insurance
companies to do the same.

It’s financially impossible. The
traffic simply wouldn't bear it.

But enough of Judd Buchanan,
the insurance and its “Club
Million.’’

Pensions are safe from a
government chop-back because

arliament suffers a guilt
complex over its own indexed
pensions.

And to cut the old age pen-
sioners while eaving
Parliament's own private in-
dexed pension grab intact wot'd
not only be politically un-
thinkable, but suicidal.

So when writing your MP — to
‘«t him or her know you are alert

to the peril of a cut, if Buchanan
and Begin are to be believed, and
opp even to any tinkering
with the indexing — be sure to
mention Parliament's private
plan of pension privilege.

You've got to hand it to this
government says Stan Knowles
to know how to hit the weak an
helpless groups.

uch as the old age pensioners.

But they don’t have to be weak
and helpless.

Then can more effectively
organize and put the wood to the
Trudeauites in a variety of ways.

Letters to the eidtor of your

paper.
lot line radio shows.
Letters to your MP and even the

PM,

Mention the pension scare and
tell them you won't stand for it.

Stop indexing MPs’ pensions
and making them future
millionaires, .

Clean out the party car-
petbaggers — the horde of
defeaicd and retired Liberal
candidates and MPs, the hagmen
and other leeches on the public
purse — and let the air out of the
public service balloon.

Grovr4 those cabinet executive
f28 om 1-*- the ministry to its

yriding -- with family and

uddies — on CP or Air Canada
economy sections.

was simply a condemnation of the previous (Liberal)

overnment. But the illusions were rapidly dispersed,

in the weeks—even the days—following the election.
The party which Quebecers voted into power was
really intent on independence. The future of Canada
was indeed jeopardized by the victory of Rene
Levesque.

Aside from developments within the province, this
reality was confi: med by two events of international
importance: Rene Levesque’s speech to the Economic
Club of New York (shortly after the election) and his
visit to Paris earlier this month.

That English Canada was upset ... shaken and
rendered uncertain ... ts ::-4re than evident, and one
perceives it clearly wvh:n one understands that,
among anglophone... lovc of country occupies a place
almost as imperta™t as divinity itself. ... It is im-
portant to measure the attitudes of English-language
citizens which have emerged from the developments
of the last 12 months. These have been, for the most
part, astonishingly realistic.

The day after the election, English Canada threw
itself into the arms of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. In the
months preceding the provincial election, the prime
minister’s popularity had dropped almost vertically.
As soon as the outcome of the election became known,
it shot up like an arrow.

Trudeau appeared then and now as the man most

“ apt; given both his position and his talents, to face

. Rene Levesque. és

But one noticed the relative impotence of the federal

lovernment when facing Quebec ... which had

eclared itself interested only in sovereignty-
association, (and) one has difficulty imagining what
kind of constructive program it ... could put forth to
maintain the unity of Canada.

In the last few months, attention turned to Quebec’s
home situation. Public opinion polls incessantly
reminded English Canada that a strong majority of
Quebecers was opposed to independence and looked
skeptically upon sovereignty-association. ...

Polls showed that the vast majority of English-
Canadians in other provinces wanted Quebec to
remain in Confederation, and that 15 per cent of them
would willingly see the armed forces intervene to keep
it that way.

Today
in History

The Women’s Christian
Temperance Union was
founded 103. years ago
today — in 1874 — at

Cleveland, Ohio. The,

WCTU was aie com-
paratively late arrival,
for temperance and
abolitionist groups had
flourished since the early
1800s. In Ireland in the
1840s, liquor consumption
was halved within three
years, largely by Rev.
‘ueobald Mathew of
Cork, The WCTU’s main
interest was teaching
temperance in schools,
and within one generation
this waS compulsory in
every U.S. state and all

fCRMAN

Canadian provinces
except Quebec and
Prince Edward Island.

1703-"The Man in the
Iron Mask" died in the
Estille prison in Paris.
1824-Franz Schubert,
German composer, died.
1850-Alfred Jord
Tennyson, was made poet
leureate of England.
1947-Lieut. Philip
Mountbatten was created
Duke of Edinburgh the
day before he married
Princess Elizabeth.
1951-The world’s first
atomic power-generating
plant started operating at
Harwell, England.

C107T Unneral Fae fedco

“I see your mother’s been here again.”

— : ; v

it, ews

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Women outnumber

HOUSTON, Tex.,
(Reuter) — The fact that
women outnumber men
by almost 1,000 to three at
the first U.S. National
Women’s Conference
here has not stopped six
men from coming as
delegates and several
more from milling
around as ovservers.

Some are here because
they are against women’s
rights, others because
they are for women’s
equality and some
because they want to
meet women.

“I wanted to be part of
the solution rather than
the problem,’’ one Texas
man said. “My friends
think that if a man
believes | in women’s

wality he's a whimp.”
“in fact, one of the
hottest-selling items here
is a button thal says: ‘'A
inan of guality is not
threatened by women’s
equality” — a sentiment
shared by anthropologist
Margaret Mead.

“T don’t think men are
threatened by women,”
Dr. Mead said at a news
conference,

“That's just silly
newspaper t k. Iam not
worried about men; I
think they’re just fine.”

But some of the 2,000
delegates might not be so
approving.

‘The six male delegates,
all of whom belong to the
Mississippi delegation,
were elected on an anti-
equality platform and are
widely rumored to be
connected with the Ku
Klux Klan — an aec-
cusation denied by one
organization.

Opposjtion gets
too much coverage

By JUDY
CREIGHTON

CP Family Editor

TORONTO (CP) — A
Canadian observer to the
National Women’s
Conference which ended
today in Houston, Tex.,
said in a telephone in-
terview that she is con-
cerned about the amount
of media attention paid to
persons opposed to the
equal rights amendment
in the United States.

Audrey Shepherd,
executive member of the
National Advisory
Council en the Status of
Women said that
“because of the per-
suasive nature of Ameri-
can television, Canadians
will have to live with the
fallout’? of the anti-
abortionists aid allegod
pro-family factions who
demonstrated their

distaste for the women's
movement.

Ms. Shepherd said the
advisory council ‘may
have to explain the dif-
ference between the U.S.
equal rights amendment
and the Canadian methed
of attempting to achieve
the same end.

“Tn Canada, the royal
commission on the status
of women makes
recommendations to the
federel government on an
onguing basis,” she said.
‘Here in the U.S. the
American congress is
foing to receive this
national plan of action all
at once.’

Ms. Shepherd — said
“there are pluses to the
American style.

“Attention is focussed
on the wornen's
movement in a very
hyper atmosphere. But

the wild excitement over
things like the equal
rights amendment and
{concerns of) minority
women which we saw
here tends to obscure the
fact that nothing has
really happened.”

She said*that “this is
especially true when the
voting for minority
women (concerns) re-
sulted in a massive
demonstration ending in
the singing of We Shall
Overcome for the first
and only time in the
conference.

“I was moved ta tears
by that, but nothing has
happened.”

Ms. Shepherd said that
“perhaps it will ac-
celerate the cause in the
long run, but it’s going to
be sobering for these
women to go home and
plan the next step.’’

“The rules say ‘per:
sons’ may attend and well
we're just persons,” he
said.

The delegate, who
asked not to be named,
said women's equality is
immoral
Equal Rights Amend-
ment, (ERA), to the U.S,
Constitution, whose
adption was supported
by the conference Sunday
night, would strip women
of their exalted place.

But another delegate
had more traditional
sentiments, ‘‘It’s hard
keeping my mind on
business with thousands
of pretty girls around
me,” he said.

Among the male ob-
servers at the conference
were two Roman Catholic
priests, one of whom
sported a prostitution
rights pin and a pro-ERA
button on his long robes,

The other clergy man
wore an. abortion-rights
pin on his clerical collar.

“It imay not be the
church position but I
changed my opinion after
counselling so many
impoverished families
and children who became
disturbed and desperate
because they were un:
wanted,” he said.

Carrying the religious
overtones in the other
direction was a
demonstrator outside the
hall. With a U.S. flag
emblazoned on his blue-
jean jumpsuit, he carried
a sign that said:
‘‘Women's Lib, Lesbians,
Repent and Read the
Bible While
Able.”

and that the

You're |

Sadat’s visit

comes

JERUSALEM (AP) —
Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat ended his
historic journey to Je-
rusalem today and flew to
Cairo after he and Israeli
Prime Minister
Menahem Begin pledged:
“No more war.’

“We've had enough—
four wars in 30 years,”
said Sadat, who risked his
political future and the
unity of the Arab world to
speak in the capital of his

Begin
sentiment: '‘We have
decided, no more war
between our nations. We
will establish peace and
live in peace.’

He then gave Sadat a
gift of nine ancient
candlesticks and said:
“From timeto time, have
a glimpse of it and
remember your friends in
Israel.” _

Escorted by Israeli jet
fighter planes, Sadat took
off for Cairo in his Boeing
707 jetliner, seen off as he
had been welcomed two

days earlier by the entire
Israeli cabinet and
political elite.

On his arrival back in
Cairo, Sadat was
welcomed as a “hero of
peace

At a final joint news
conference with Begin
earlier today here, Sadat
said there now is a ‘‘great
need for hard and drastic
decisions” by Israel.

‘T have already taken
my share of risk in my
decision to come here,”
he said, He repeated that
there can be no com-
promise on Arab
dernands for the return of
ali territory captured by
Israel in 1967,

‘REAL SUCCESS’

‘This visit is a real
success for both countries
and for the cause of
peace,” Begin declared.
He said he had agreed
with Sadat that there will
be “no more war, no
more bloodshed, no more
attacks and collaboration
to avoid any event which
may lead to such tragic
developments.”

Begin said that the
chief achievement of
Sadat’s visit was the start
of a “serious direct
dialogue ... not only be-
tween Israel and Egypt
but with all the other
states.”

to end

“The key word is
continuation,’’ said
Begin. “We agreed we
are going to continue our
dialogue, and ultimately
out of it will come

He read what he
described as an “agreed
communique” issued by
the Israeli government
“in response to the sin-
cere and courageous
move by President
Sadat.”

The communique

roposed ‘‘that this

opeful step be further
ursued through dialogue

tween the two coun-
tries concerned leading to
the signing of peace
treatles in Geneva with
all the neighboring Arab
states.’" In an in-
terview with NBC's John
Chancellor, broadeast on
the Today show, Begin
and Sadat said there is a
possibility that a Geneva
conference will be con-
vened before the end of
this year. Both men
stressed, however, that
adequate preparation is
needed.

“All the efforts now
should be directed toward
the convening of the
Geneva conference,” Sa-
dat said. ‘‘All the parties
concerned should sit
together in Geneva.”

Asked when such a
conference might take
place, Begin said:
“President Carter would
like to have it in
December. I don’t think
the hope is completely
abolished."
CHEEREDBY
ISRAELIS

Earlier, when Sadat
drove to President
Ephraim Katzir’s
residence, thousands of
Israelis cheered and sang
from behind barricades
as the motorcade ar-
rived.

Summing up his. visit,
Sadat told the gathering
of cabinet ministers at
Katzir's residence: ‘Let
us raise two slogans—no
war, and security. No
war. Let every girl, every
woman, every mother,
here and in my country,
know that we shall solve
all our problems through
negotiations around the
table rather than start
wars.

“We've had enough,”
said Sadat. “Four wars in
30 years.”

Canada’s tops

GENEVA (Reuter) —
Canada and Italy topped
the list of 55 countries in
time lost to strikes last
year—an average of
more than two days for
each worker, the In-
ternational Labor Organ-
ization (ILO) said teday.

The United States lost
about one day for each
worker to labor disputes,

The Geneva-based ILO, -

a United Nations
specialized agency
promoting better working
conditions throughout the
world, said strikes and
lock-outs cost an average
of 2.27 working days for
each worker in Canada.
In Italy the figure was 2,2
days.

The two countries were
well ahead of the third
country, Australia, which
lost an average of 15

days for each worker, the
organization said,

Finand, Ireland, New
Zealand and the United
States reported
“significant losses” of
about one day a year for
each worker.

‘More moderate losses
of less than half a day”
were reported from
Denmark, France, Japan
and Britain.

West Germany, the
Netherlands, Norway,
Sweden and Switzerland
reported negligible losses
of less than one-tenth of a
day for each worker, the
ILO said.

The 55 countries
reported 28,-500 disputes
last year, about 500 rewer
than in 1975. “They ac-
counted for about 109
million days lost, or about
10 per cent less than in

Bazaar a success

The Rebekah Lodge
held a most successful
tea and bazaar in the
Elks Hall, Saturday
November 5th.

Prize winners for the
raffle were: Rug — Mrs.
Darlene Genest, Cradle
and Doll — = Gail
Cameron, Door Prize —

Mrs. Judy Eisner, Fruit
Cake — Mr. W. Bailey,
Dressed Barbie Dolls —
Mrs. Luella Thomas.

We wish to thank all
those who in anyway
helped to make the tea
and bazaar a success.

The Rebekah Lodge

Winners list

There was a good at-
tendance at the tea and
bazaar held in the
Banquet Room at the
Arena under the uaspices
of the Old Age Pensioners
Organization on Satur-
day, November 12th,

There was a _ nice
selection of handwork
and baking,

Raffle winners were as
follows:

Rug — Mrs. E. McKay,
Afghan — M. Lambert,
Gift Certificate — Sharon
Basaraba, Ceramic Swan
— Lise Benoit, Cushion —

Mrs. Pearl Daughtery,
Crocheted Doily —
Ariene Goheen, Dressed
Doll -—- Sandra Baker,
Christmas Pudding —
Marianna Haits, Surprise
Package — M. Basaraha,
Crocheted Pineapple
Doily — Mrs. Anna
Normandeau, Door
Prize, Decorated Cake —
Mrs. Lottie Carter.

We wish to thank all
those who helped to make
the tea and bazaar a

success.
Old Age
Pensioners Organization