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Peace remains elusive concept

- We're supposed to be at peace.

With the horrors of the Vietnam war fading into history, the armed struggles of liberation movements in Africa and the Activities of Middle East terrorists are the main threats to world stability. The fact that these mini-wars use fairly light and non-proliferating weapons curtails comewhat their potential for destruction.

“We do not minimize these struggles, nor do we say that anything less than total peace is the proper goal of all right-minded people. However, it seems that although we are at peace, expenditures are at an all-time high in most of the world,

- And how is there to be peace when the

armaments industry and the military of most countries - east and west - are engaged in a race that defies ali logic? —

Canada has just purchased 130 new fighter

’ aireraft for the largest defence expenditure in our

history and it is only the beginning. By 1981, it is estimated our defence bill for equipment for our armed forces will be at a minimum §$1.8 billion annually. Spending is now about $450,000,000.

In the United States, despite a president

- committed tonuclear disarmament, the Senate and

Congress still fear the old Communist bogey and, ably, the Russians build up their missiles

and bombers for similar concerns about |

capitalism, |

Surely disarmament is not a foolish Utopian dream. Surely we do not require the weapons of world destruction simply to handle terrorists or

_ jungle warfare. Surely to postpone the day of

wrath and carnage is a laudable effort.

Where then are the active and clamorous voices for peace? Where are the people who protested so vigorously the war in Vietnam? Where are the true peace parties, the parades for disarmament?

The people who took to the streets to stop war should now march for peace.

HeRAAN

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By MADELEINE DUBUC Montreal La Presse’ a

NEW. CARLISLE, Que CP - They share the same family name, of course, although there is no blood relationship. ;

But the similarities in background go deeper than a common name for Premier Rene Levesque and the head of his political opposition, Gerard D. Levesque, interim Quebec Liberal leader. 7

On the southern shores of the Gaspe Peninsula, overlooking the Bale des Chaleurs, the two men shared the same kind of bourgeois family background, the same

country roads, the same beaches, the same schools and —

knowledge of the same kind of people. probably still is said with the accents of Gaspe bantering, despite their political differences. And in the corridors of \the Quebec national assembly - where they were once cabinet colleagues under Liberal premier Jean Lesage - their mutual greetin 3 undoubtedly haye a special ring. Those who knew the two men as children agree that both Levesques were regarded within their families as little geniuses. ‘ Rene earned recognition as the province's best student orator, while: Gerard's Jesuit professors say their protege was nothing less than “brilliant.” The Parti Quebecois leader was born in New Carlisle

and the Liberal chief in Paspebiac, four miles away.

ey say to each other when their paths cross

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Similar pasts, different politics

New Carlisle, with a population of about 12,000 of which 60 percent is English - speaking is the largest town in the

area. - ;

Gerard Poirier, 60, a retired Canadian National Railways employee, remembers Rene as a boy who lived every day of his life to:the fullest... 2.0

-“‘T must have been five years old when I gan playing with Rene ard his brothers,” sald Poirier. . “At that age: he was living 25 hours a day. He appears to be doing

‘ much the same now.” j

“A scrapper he was, and he like to provoke people,”

Polrier said. '‘He earned some weil-deserved slaps because of some of the things he said and did and not neceszarily to the English but tous, hisbestfriends.” prune fearlessly owned up to his misdeeds, says - Poirier. - oe . ‘ “He always managed to get us into trouble but then he always got us out of it too.” ; so “As to his more serious fights, those with English kids for example, I don’t think they mean that much,’’

Poirier said. They were the normal, healthy fights of .

children.

Rumor has it that René was driven to school by his father because he inevitably came to blows with the kids .

from the English high sc

classes,

~~ But the rumof simply isn’t true, Poirier said. ‘‘We

didn’t even pass the English school on the way to ours.” Poirier said the community found Levesque’s victory

last November hard to believe. Townspeople wondered

ool he passed en route to

could now be premier: of Quebec

’ gommunity, Langevin sai

Po ee

how that bright and hyperactive child they remembered .

Gerard Levesque, who grew u in Paspebiac, has been “described as @ well-balanced child who iced his life an 2

with the right amounts of humor, discip! 0! 4 r ‘ 4 pote. oe Although the distance which separates the two towns is

" negligible, their characters offer a striking contrast.

While New Carlisle is the area’s industrial and. ‘commercial centre, aPaspebiac survived as 4 quiet fishing village until the Second World War. f

‘The war changed all that,” said Roy Langevin, former town mayor and one of Gerard Levesque’s closest

‘friends. . - ; ‘Although there isn’t a great deal of money in the fi life was comfortable and he remembers his youth with young Gerard and’ their fnutual friends with great warmth, —"_—s- In the local Jesuit school Gerard developed a keen interest in theatre and often played the title roles. Langevin also remembers Gerard’s frustration at not

, being ‘quite as good.a singer as he would have like to

gives one the impression of

“Gerard Levesque often He speaks

being something he is not," said Langevin. slowly, a little like a lawyer. . “He's not the type of guy who makes a definite plans buthe takes a stand when circumstances requireit.. “and he’s always there when you need ul would say he is a wise man.”

Voice of the readers. /—

defence -

©1977 Univertal Pesss Syndicoe iio

“The way we treat a headache here is to divert your attention to something else.”

Maybe it’s time you jumped into something more demanding

than acar pool.

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PORTICIPACTION

The Canadian movement lar personal fitness. Fitness, In your heart you know it’s right. .

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by GORDON HARDY i

Number 4 in a series of five

- columns, ’

In 1973 a_ bull-dozer working for the Stearns- Roger Engineering Company pushed part of the bank of the Thompson River into a fertile fish spawning

ground. ; Thousands of fish eggs were smothered by the silt. The company was charged under ‘the Canadian Fisheries ct, prohibits the dumping of damaging substances into waters frequented by fish. Incredibly, the judge dismissed the case because only fish eggs had been damaged, not fish. “This’, says Gre McDade of the West Coas Environmental Law Association, “Is a clear example of how judges and

‘government officials are

apparently -yeticent to enforce existing laws against pollution and polluters.”

Why is ‘pollution control only a “token effort" as claimed by a recent report of the B.C. Federation of Labour? The report submitted to the prov cial

overnment in April,

carges that, ‘our air, water, and land continue to suffer abuse .to_ the’ detriment of the quality of life in B.C.”

Certainly, the laws are there on the books, Apart from the common law which to some exten

rotects private property rom. environmental damage, there is a battery of federal and provincial statues which give

which ,

= Environmental Law/A Series

Judges slow in doling j

government agencies the power to haul offenders into court.

The Canada Water Act, the Canada Shipping Act, the Fisheries Act, the Ocean Dumping Control Act, and

pthers are desigied to —

protect our waters’ from organic. pollutants ‘like human sewage and forestry wastes, and from toxic pollutants like the metal compounds produced by industrial processes such as mining operations.

These laws also prohibit -

the addition of damaging mineral nutrients like common detergents , and

they

inorganic fertilizers. *:

threaten stiff penajties against ships that dischtrge garbage at sea. Pon

The air we breatld is protected by the Cleaif' Air Act, the Pollution Control Act, and others, on the books at least.

The Land Act, the Land Commission Act, and the Pollution Control Act are designed to protect wild-life and farm land, prevent undue erosion, and

uarantee the restoration of ands distrubed by logging and mining operations. ©

Finally, there are acts and by-laws which should

rotect us irom noise and itter.

Why then the “signs of serious environmental damage which has occured in the past dozen years as claimed b e B.C Federation of Labour?

According to the West Coast, Environmental Law Association,{ ‘‘Our legislation seems to be reacting to crisis situations...we ‘tend to legislate

“What's the headline say, dad?”

after the.

environmental problem has

occured, rather than anticipating and preventing i ”

A pouution _ handbook published by the association cites the case of the Fraser River, which has been so unnecessarily polluted by waste that it is not safe for drinking and swimming. The shellfish taken from the river are not fit toeat. —

“Legislation like the Pollution Control Act, 1967 has done little to reduce this pollution,’ says — the Association, ‘‘Rather it has set up a system where the government sells licences to pollute...It has not yet declared a moratorium on

ermits for the Fraser

iver”, a move suggested by the B.C; Federation of Labour.

“Sheer public relations, concerned as much vit covering up problems as it is with resolving them.” Vancouver lawyer and environmental activist Tim Mackenzie views government action on the

‘environment with a

skeptical eye. He says the much heralded creation of Environment Canada in Ottawa was “basically a reshuffling of federal offices under one heading.”

_ Sometimes the legislation

is just plain dumb. Under the Automotive Trade Pact signed with the United States, government requires Canadian drivers to bu:

cars that are fitted wit.

equipment designed to fight California smog conditions,

The Institute - of Environmental Science and Engineering at ithe University reports that the government made this decision as a result of economic pressure rather than environmental eoneern.

Much. government concern does seem to be little more than window- ‘dressing. Here, in'B.C., air

ilution provisions ‘were neluded in the Mator Vehicle prosecutions never take lace because the Motor

ehicle Branch has neither

h . the staff nor the equipment

to measure motor yehicle emissions.

Even government does take action against polluters, its

‘penalties are: so namby-

pamby that big companies simply pay the fine and keep right on befouling the countryside. .

Most. environmental

‘Skeena MP

the Canadian.

of Toronto .

Act, Yet .

when the *

. Vancouver

7 Barkerville crew o says “thank you”

vo EDITOR, TERRACE “HERALD me

On behalf of Fran Dowie, .

. -Artistie Director of the

Barkerville shows, for the st 16 years, may I express or sincere thanks, for the wonderful experience we all had, during our recent three-day engagement, at the . errace Arena,

commemorating your 50th

Anniversary.

1 speak not only on behalf of Fran Dowie, but the rest of the Barkerville Gang, in

- the show, which was 50

marvelously received by large audiences, on.each of the three nights, i.e., Louise Glennie, Sid Williams, Norman Long, accompanist, with “son Richard on percussions, Gillian Campbell, Graham Cook, “Robbie -Googel,:: four dancing - girls,--‘Kerry MacNeil, Nadia Etter,

_ Alison Nicolls, Karen Kerry,

and myself.

It was a delight to be with the people of Terrace, and to also take part in the

fabulous’ parade,

highlighting your big 50th

Anniversary.

It was good to meet . Tona

ustice

statutes have a maximum fine of only 500 dollars and even this is rarely applied.

* Recently a big company

provided to have committed © seventeen offences under the Pollution Control Act

‘was fined 200 dollars for the

offence on which they were.

. prosecuted, Even when the law calls -

for fines a little heavier, like the Canada Water Act, or the Canada Fisheries Act which allow for a ‘5,000 dollar fine, a peculiar charity often seems ‘to'stay - the land of justice. In 1971, for example, Finning Tractor was convicted of dumping oil in a lake. The company was fined 750 dollars, This after two previous warnings.

It often costs jess to pay the fines than to take. the necessar steps te safeguard the environment, When, in 1972, a pump broke down at the Columbia Cellulose plant at Prince Rupert, the company had to decide whether to shut down or spill the wastes into a bay. They spilled,

Costs to the company were 1500 dollars. Estimated costs had they shut down were about $100,000. '

Next: Some healthy signs, What can the citizen do, For a copy of the booklet Pollution & Environmental | Law please contact the People’s Law School, The booklets cost. fifty cents each, plus postage. Write to 2110-C West Twelfth Avenue, ' Vancouver V6K 2N2, or phone 734-1126,

‘and ‘those

‘production, in

Campagnilo, Skeena’ MLA Cyril - Shelford, Dave oney, Mayor of Terrace, wonder! members of the Lions Ciub, who sponsored this big extravaganza, headed by Frank Donahue, ‘President, Centennial Lions Club, Mike Rossiter, Wayne Muchowski, Ted. Taylor, Chairman 50th Anniversary Committee, and all the others, too numerous to mention. Te . We found the people of Terrace, to be terrific; friendly, and hospitable, which includes the staff at Rod Verstrate’s great Motor Hotel Lakelse, who couldn't do enough for us. The fact they all came to see our show is tribute enough. Same e's te great’ su en to” entire festivities, by the excellent coverage given to the people of Terrace, and District, by the Publisher of The Herald, Gordon W. Hamilton; Managing Editor Allan Krasnick, Reporters and Photographers, for a job well done, in which we also include, the tremendous job done by the News Advertiser, pal hed in Kitimat, - with their featured stories, and photographs of the big event; we extend our rateful thanks to Ron onk, and those associated with him, at the Newa Advertiser, os srerhal eeoport given Dy wonderful supp! ven by Debbie and her ccnerts at TV Station CFTK, who seemed to be everywhere with thelr personnel and ~ cameras. se We have returned to Vancouver, feeling greatly: rewarded ‘by. our visit to your lovely city a It was the first visit to Terrace for almost all of us, myself in particular, and a8 Thave been invited up to the Yukon, shortly, to be guest artist, with the ‘fabulous’ ‘Frantic. Follies’ — in Whitehorse, and ‘Gaslight Follies’ at the Palace Theatre, Dawson City, | shall be more than happy, to convey the best wishes of the people of Terrace, and | Lions Ciubs here, -to those great inhabitants of the Yukon, with their steady flow of tourists, visiting

-there from all parts of the

Wonthe closing niglit of our n the clos 0 show in Terrace, and: with the entire cast of Kn any on stage, we were a nymber of the members of the R.C.M.P. Musical Ride, and alsobe the entire cast in costume of the upcoming Terrace, ugust 12 & 13, of the Shakespearian tragedy, ‘MacBeth’. . as it was our’ last performance, everyone on stage joined in singing ‘Aulk Lang Syne’, a fitting climax to our first A ance lf Terrace, and the hope, we Bhall come again, = Best wishes to you all in: Terrace, and the Skeena District, from all of us. Sincerely,

, Signed) Garfleld White.

Fran Dowie Enterprises’