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wyers are expec
recommend this fall that,
without exception, in-
terception of mail be
prohibited.

The recommendation is
carried in a draft brief to a
royal commission on RCMP
wrongdoing.

The draft was prepared by
the civil liberties section of
Canadian Bar
Association.

Section chairman Sam
Filer of Toronto said
Tuesday the brief will be
further refined before being
presented, possibly in
November. :

The brief says tax officers
and RCMP contravened the
Income Tax Act under a 1972
agreement, approved by the
cabinet, that may itself be
illegal.

It says the Income Tax Act
should be amended to say
clearly who may be given
personal income tax data by
the revenve department,

The brief calls for more
muscle in laws to prolect
citizens against unjust action
by police at a time when the
state has extraordinary
powers.

“The courts are not acting
as an effective brake on
these powers,"the brief
says. “Indeed, our judges
seem to be adding to police
powers by decisions
(allowing) illegaily-obtained
evidence,

BILL MEANINGLESS

“In addition, our Bill of
Rights is largely a
meaningless document,” the
brief says, adding the Bill of
Rights should be entrenched
in the constitution.

“We must abandon the
policy presently exercised
by our courts that the
execution of the law seems to
be more important than the
protection of human rights.”

National security, used to
justify many incidents being
investigated by the royal
commission on the RCMP,
should at least be defined.

It should not be used as a

subterfuge by “any arm of
government—Parliament,
the administration, the
prosecution, the police, or
the courts—for denying
justice," the brief says.

“If there i5 to be security
surveillance of our members

of Parliament, farmers’ ;
groups, union leaders and |

student dissidents, then we
would like to see some very
strong justification for such
extraordinary powers and

procedures,”’
The _brief strongly
criticizes the Trudeau

government for “govern-
ment by cabinet” and for
“showing no sign of recog:
nizing the meaning of. and
acting upon the concept of
ministerial responsibility.”

STATEMENTS MI SLEAD,

it says Solicitor-General
JeanJacques Blais has made
statements to the Commons
“which are, at best, careless
if not misleading and when
he is caught out in these
statements, he does not
resign.”

The Official Secrets Act
was obsolete and unsuitable
and should be revised to
provide closer definitions of

who and what threatens’ ©

national security and what
national svcurity is.

The royal commission had
established that the RCMP
have unlawfully intercepted
mail, unlawiully
eavesdropped, iuilawfully
broken in to places, inter-
fered in political matters,
and committed arson, theft
and forgery.

Those involved should be
brought to justice, the brief
said. ;

Furthermore, the judicial,
administrative and
legislative systems shoud be
revised to make sure this did
not happen again.

The brief says that writs of
assistance, enabling
Mounties to enter any home
at any time legally, should
be abolished, and illegally
obtained evidence should not
be admissible in courts.

Corrections cuts

~~ Costs, staff

KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) —
The Canadian corrections
service will reduce costs by
eliminating 100 jobs in 1979-
and not going ahead with a
plan to increase its staff by
300, public affairs ad-
ministrator Claude Tessier
said Tuesday.

The corrections service,
which combines the federal
penitentiary and parole
services, is required to trim
$45 million from its budget
and 400 man-years from Its
staff plans for the fiscal year
beginning April 1, 1979,
Tessier said in a telephone
interview from Ottawa.

The corrections service is
to lose a total of $70 million
during the next 19 months.
The reduction is part of a $2-
billion cut in federal
government spending
proposed earlier this month
by Prime Minister Trudeau.

Tessier said resignations
and retirements will take
care of a major part of the
staff reduction. Term em-
ployees will go before full-
time workers, he said.
PUTS FREEZE ON HIRING

Tessier said there is a
freeze on hiring while the
staff reduction plan is
examined and that a study
group has been formed to
make proposals, It must re-
port te the federal treasury
poard by next week.

No estimate has been
made of how many jobs will
be lost in Ontario or any of
the services’ other four
regions.

The penitentlary service
had 8,000 full-time em-
ployees and 440 term em-
ployees, hired for a fixed
period rather than fulltime,
during the 1976 to 1977 year.
The national parole board
had 19 board members and
211 full-time staff.

Correction officials have
said most of the budget cut
can be achieved by delaying
construction projects.

Tessier said projects close
to completion will be carried
through.

He cited a new maximum-
security prison in Edmonton,
scheduied to open Sept. 6; a
corrections community
college centre in Calgary,
which opens Sept. 7; a new
parole service office in Leth-
bridge, Alta; and Kent In-
stitution in Agassiz, B.C.,
which opens in early No-
vember and will take 180
prisoners from the old
British Columbia peniten-
tiary.

MAY USE IN TREATMENT
He sald the newer sections
of the old penitentiary may

weber We ra an

be used as a reception centre

for a drug-treatment

program or to house

risoners who must be

protected from other
prisoners. '

Tessier said the service
could reduce costs by giving
parole officers larger case
Joads and by adding cells to
existing prisons instead of
building new prisons.

He _ said confirmed
criminals who have violated
parole with a major crime
could be sent directly to one
of the regular prisons in-
stead of being held tem-
porarily at a regional recep-
tion centre.

Donald Yeomans, com-
missioner of corrections,
said in an earlier interview
that budget reductions would
not result in prison over-
crowding.

Gangs.
take over

OTTAWA (CP) — Two
United States motorcycle
gangs are trying to take
control of Canadian
motorcycle gangs and their
illicit drug trade, Harold
Graham, Ontario Provincial
Police commissioner, said

today.

The Hell’s Angels and The
Outlaws are making
“concerted efforts to in-
filtrate and control existing
Canadian gangs,” he said.

“The traditional animosity
and extreme rivalry existing
between these two gangs,
which know no borders, can
be expected lo cause a
dramatic increase in levels
of violent criminal acts
across Canada.

“T wouldn't say they are
homicidal, but they are
known for being guilty of
assaults and rapes and
crimes of that nature.”

Graham said the violente
will be directed against other
criminals, not the public. At
stake is a highly profitable
drug trade.

He was speaking to
reporters at the 73rd annual
convention of the Canadian
Association of Chiefs of
Police.

Although the chiefs said
cooperation of the news
media is essential in com-
batting organized crime,
their session on the subject
was closed. This was
because names of known
organized crime figures and
new electronic surveillance
methods were discussed,
Graham said.

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Tnuits want way

’ OTTAWA (CP) —. The
Inuits' greatest hope is a new
constitution for Canada, but
it must guarantee protection
of the Eskimo Janguage and
way of life, an Inuit
delegation told the Senate-
Commons committee on the
constitution Wednesday.

Eric Tagoona, president of
Inuit Tapirisat of Canada
which represents the
country’s 22,000 Inuit—
Eskimos—said that unless
the Inuit way of life is pro-
tected they will not be able to
survive as a people,

Anamended constitution is
viewed by his people as their
greatest hope.

“Tt holds out to us the
opportunity to stop and
perhaps reverse the negative
political,
social processes to which we
are being subjected and to
establish our constitutional
right to exist as a- people
within this federation,” he
said.

But Tagoona said the Inuit
fear they will be left out of

discussions ‘to’ amend ‘the’

constitution. “He-~ said ~ the

timetable for constitutional
reform does not allow them
sufficient time to work out
their position and make
recommendations.
SEEK MORE TIME

“We cannot be prepared
within one or two months,”
he said, urging the com-
mittee to ask the govern-

economie and |

government’S*

of life protected

ment to relax its agenda so
the Inuit would have time to
work out their place in a
newly-constituted Canada.

Committee chairman
Mark MacGuigan attempted
to reassure the Inuit they
would have plenty of time to

' express their views, either

before his committee or
after the committee has
completed its investigation,
by addressing the federal
government directly. .

But the group's director of
land claims, John
Amagoalik, said history has
taught Canada's native
people not to trust ‘such
statements.

Hesaid the Tnuit cannot let
any opportunity to express
their views slip by because
this allows more and more of
their rights to disappear.

Tagoona said the biggest
threat the Inuit race is the
disappearance of their
language.

“The classroom, the work-
place, radio and television
programs all join together

iwhich is the very- backbone: ..

of our culture and the
mainstay of our uniqueness
among the world's people.”

He said the [nuit also
resent the intrusion of
government regulators into
their traditional livelihaod—
scientists with “second-hand
knowledge telling them how
and when to hunt and fish.”

Fishing fee
increase needed

POWELL RIVER, B.C.
(CP) — An increase in
fisheries licence fees is
needed to constrain the
growth of fleet capacity and
fishing casts, says Alex
Fraser, a ‘Vancouver
economist with the federal
fisheries ministry's salmon
enhancement program.

Fraser, in a paper
presented to a fisheries
symposium sponsored by the
University of British
Columbia (UBC) and the
federal fisheries ministry,
said current annual salmon
licence fees of $1 million
represent anly one per cent
of the $100 million landed
value of salmon in 1977.

He said excessive returns
to fishermen are largely
responsible for the huge
outlays for bigger and. better
fishing boats in an industry
that is already heavily
overcapitalized.

“The current licence fees
in the salmon fishery are
clearly inadequate,’’ he said.
“They are flat rate and have
remained unchanged since
972."

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In addition, Fraser said,
consideration should be
given to imposing a resource
value based fee, such as a
landings royalty.

CHANGES DIFFICULT

He said, however, that it
would be difficult to make
such changes because of the
lobbying power of the fishing
industry with the federal
government.

“It is unfortunate that the
most practical and long-
term solution to these
various problems is the least

politically attractive,” he .

said.

Fraser's recom-
mendations were countered
in @ comment paper
presented by Dr. Peter

Pearse, UBC economics —

professor, and James Wilen,
assistant professor in en-
vironmental studies at the
University of Washington.
They said restricting
tonnage of the fleet would not
halt other capital outlays
which would otherwise
dissipate returns, and that a
levy on the cateh is ad-
minstratively unfeasible.

MONTREAL (CP) — A
patehed-up union negotiating
team prepared today to
resume talks with Air
Canada, now in the sixth day
of a shutdown that has in-
convenienced thousands of
travellers.

Barry Shaw, chief
negotiator for 7,500 Air
Canada groundservice

employees belonging to the
International Association of
‘Machinisis and Aerospace
Workers (IAM), said “we
are always optimistic” about
possible progress in the
talks. :

But progress was delayed
during Tuesday's talks when
three members of the 13-
member union negotiating
team quit to protest what
they considered soft stands

by their colleagues on the
issues of beefed-up dis-
ciplinary suspensions and
revised job classifications
for some employees.

Shaw said Air Canada is
‘adamant on both issues, and
he hoped for concessions on
other points In exchange for
union acceptance.

The three dissidents all be-

- longed te the IAM's Montreal

lodge, which later named
three replacements. Both the
regular and. alternate
negotiators were elected by
the membership. —

The three new members
joined a meeting Tuesday
evening between the
negotiating team and the
union’s national. executive
board. Shaw said they would
be briefed today on the“
progress of talks, and added

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Confusion over
gas increases

OTTAWA (CF) — The
federal government's abrupt
about-face on natural gas
pricing has left the oil in-
dustry and seme of its own
energy officials confused
over what it means to the
companies. and consumers.

Energy Minister Alastair
Gillespie says the decision to
ease controls on the
domestic price of natural gas
is aimed at spreading the use
of gas in eastern markets,
lessening dependence on
imported oil, ‘

But the oil industry says
that at best it is a long-term
proposal and, adds one
senior company executive,
“it's impossible to try to
figure out just what the

’ government is doing."

Among the questions both-
ering energy planners are:

—Why Ottawa decided to
make the change only three
weeks, after signing an
agreement with Alberta, the
major producing province,
to keep the price tied tightly
to oil prices for another year,

—How Ottawa intends to
handle the mechanics of
allowing the market to set
prices for a fuel naw tightly

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regulated by the province
and the federal government.
—What impact lower
prices will have on ex-
ploration in Alberta and
proposals to move Canadian
gas from frontier areas to
southern markets.
—Whether it signals a

change in Ottawa's policy on §

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“United States

that this might cause a short .
delay in the scheduled 1 p.m.
EDT start of today's lalks.
CATTLE TAKE OFF

As the 40,000 passengers a
day who would normally fly
with Air Canada switched to
other airlines or other modes
of transport, a. special. Air
Canada flight was arranged
to carry 70 Swiss Holstein:
cattle from Toronto to Milan.

An Air Canada spokesman
termed it a mercy Hight and
said the cattle’s quarantine
period was about to expire.
On its return leg, the flight is
tocarry Canada's equestrian
team and their horses home
from competition in Europe.

Several regional air
carriers, temporarily
authorized to serve routes
normally held by Air
pointed toa bumper
business, Postal officials re-
ported -some delays in mail
shipment, but said there

were no serious problems.

Many airlines were adding
flights or switching to larger
aircraft on some routes.
carriers
serving Canadian cities were
helping travellers hopscotch
to their destinations through .
the U.S. |
Eastern Provincial Air-

exporting natual gas to the

United States.
OFFICIALS CONFUSED

Some energy officials,
confused over the change,
felt the decision to alter gas
policy came from the prime
minister’s office—which has
been behind the recent
moves to beef up the
economy.

But other sources say the
deputy energy minister,
Marshall Cohen, was
discussing the possibility of
freeing gas prices in July,
before the Alberta
agreement was signed.

That agreement sets the
price of gas at 85 per cent of
the price of crude oil. The
government now says it
proposes letling the market
set the price within an
agreed range, perhaps as
low as 50 per cent,

Air talks resume optimistically

ways joined some ‘other
airlines Tuesday In saying it
would continue to accept full-
fare Air Canada tickets on its
flights, but. travellers: with
reduced-fare excursion
tickets would have to cash in
their tickets and pay the
difference. .
$3 MILLION A DAY .
Air Canada says the shut-
down, which began as 4
lockout of IAM members.
following wildcat strikes at
many Canadian airports, is
costing it $3 million a day.
The JAM's Montreal lodge,
the biggést of its four
regional lodges, has been the
most vocal in its criticism of
the national negotiating
team after it twice reached
tentative agreements that
were rejected by members,.
and last'week called for the
team’s resignation,

_ QOneof the key issuesinthe —

dispute is the length of the
contract, with many
members. preferring a one-
year agreement to the 25-
month pact negotiated by the

‘union, That contract would.

have: - increased © weekly
wages of members of the
unit from an average of
about 400 a week to about.
$350 a week. —