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OTTAWA | OFFBEAT

BY RICHARD JACKSON

OTTAWA. Fear not, English Canada has found a defender.

And not before time.

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau may remain discreetly silent over Quebec's restrictive “French only’ language laws while imposing bilingualism on the rest of the country.

Ontario Prmier William Davis may remain unmoved when Quebec workmen are free to take jobs in Ontario while Ontario tradesmen are frozen aut of Quebec jabs.

Conservative Leader Joe Clark and New Democratic Leader Ed Broadbent may be every’ bit as mindful - but by no wildest stretch of the imagination as confidently hopeful as Pierre Trudeau - of the Quebec vote, and so say as little as possible about the language issue.

But former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan came cut clear and strang about what he called “reverse discrimination’.

He put it this way:

"Sametimes it seams that every attempt to preserve the French-Canadian culture is seen as patriotism within Quebec and as a contribution to national unity elsewhere, while efforts to speak of an English-Canadian culture, let alone protect its existence, are perceived as narrow and reactionary bias.”

Mr. Regan left no doubt that by ‘‘English- Canadian culture’ he means the British heritage in Canada.

He said it is ‘‘no longer considered polite’ to speak of the events that led to the introduction and acceptance of British customs on Canadian soil, and as an example pointed to the phasing out of the patriotic song - once almost a national anthem - “‘The Maple Leaf Forever’ from schools and other areas of public life.

As you'll perhaps recall it opens:

“in days of yore from Britain’s shore

Wolfe the dauntless hero

And planted firm Britannia‘’s flag

On Canada’s fair domain.”

It’s history, said Mr. Regan, and what's wrong with it.

What's wrong, obviously, in the current political context is that it does not downgrade the English. .

But the federai government is attending to that amid the thundering silence of Premier Davis and Conservative Leader Clark.

All across English Canada - fo the far outports of Newfoundland and the coastal towns of- Vancouver (sland, ail federal buildings carry French and English designations.

But in Quebec City - capital and heart of French Canada - federal buildings carry French names exclusively,

Small thing? Perhaps. :

But on signs inside several of the chartered banks in Ottawa - that’s Ottawa, Cntario, not Ottawa-Hull, new national capital - French is given priority over English,

Ever since the late Prime Minister Pearson legislated billnguatism there has been’ govern- ment bribery through grants, bonuses and other inducements to upgrade French and what seems a determination or at least an understanding among politicians, the press, and now business In Ottawa fo downgrade English,

Look at the careers” advertising pages in the Ottawa newspapers and find bilingualism is either an essential or “preferred” in federal government job replacements.

Bilingualism, ever since Pearson proclaimed it, has meant, for practical warking purposes, French.

But oniy 28 percent of the Capital's population is French, and that, as former Premier Regan would say, is ‘reverse discrimination’, both a puzzle and a cause of deep and spreading resentment.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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FORMER CRIME-BUSTER Drapeau now under attack

MONTREAL (CP} — Jean Drapeau, who first swept into power as mayar of Montreal 24 years ago with a reputation asa crime-busting lawyer, is under fire for his handling of the 1976 Olympic Games as he campaigns fur a seventh term in office.

But he has been insisting that revelations al a current provincial inquiry into the cust of the Games will not have any effect on the outcome of the municipal vote Nov, 12.

Drapeau announced his candidacy this week in the same ublique manner he has used since first bidding for election in 1954. IL came as a foutnote Tuesday night al the end of a speech to the Union of Quebec Muncipalities.

“T offer myself tu the voters if they want me,” he said.

Drapeau's only opposition so far is Liberal MP Serge Joyal, representing the newly-formed Montreal Action Group. A second party, the Muntreal Citizens’ Movement, is expected tu chuuse their mayoralty candidate suon,

Drapeau first became mayor after serving four years as Crown prusecul or in a Quebec Superior Court inquiry into crime and municipal corruption in

Montreal, He ran again in 1957, but lost.

In 1960, he returned with a newly- formed Civic Party and has been mayor ever since. In the 1970 electiuns, his administraliun won a clean sweep of every seat on (he council.

Drapeau doves nut let the public forget his major achievements over the last 18 years— the city’s subway, Expu 67 and the 1976 Olympic Games—and he frequently refers to them with un- disguised pride.

The subway recenily underwent its secund extension. The Expv 67 site now husts the annual Man and His World summer exhibition and, this year, one of the man-made islands in the St. Lawrence River has been converted tu the Canadian Grand Prix race track.

The Olympic presence alsu remains, in the form of the huge stadium and uther structures buill for the Games and in the Quebec government inquiry intu construction cost uverruns.

Drapeau’s critics accuse him of having ‘‘ideas of grandeur,” of neglecting the human aspects of the cily, and of being an autucrat who runs City Hall and Montreal itself as a une- man show,

They say he is more interested in grandiose projects than in housing and point to the Olympics and its bdillion- dollar deficit while raw sewage contin- ues tu flow into the St. Lawrence River.

But despite the critics, he has cun-

siderable personal magnetism and has °

built up a faithful grass-ruuts support.

He and his Civie Party have seldom had te mount any sort of election campaign, at least until the last elec- tion, when the reformist Montreal Citizens-Movement eroded his hold on city council,

Observers nate that Joyal has many of the same characterislics as the young Drapeau— ambitious,

‘charismatic, a legal background, and

firm nationalist but federalist

credentials.

Since becoming mayor, Drapeau has .

shown no interest in running for provincial or federal office, although he did try unsuccessfully in the 1940s. He has made it evident, however, thal he believes in Quebec as part of Canada.

His relations with the Parti Quebecois government have been coul, but the lwo seem to have reached a tacit agreement to be polite, if not cordial, 10 each other.

PROBLEMS IN ZAMBIA — A troubled independence since the British left

LUSAKA (AP) — Hours before Tony Afendoulis upens his Kabulonga supermarket, crowds of Zambian shoppers are waiting outside.

When the supermarket, in ‘a Lusaka suburb, opened its doors on recent morning, the crowd was lucky: milk and sugar had arrived. But there wasn't any cooking ail, bread, flour, soap, delerent or beer,

Before all the troubles—when Zambia's borders were open and when world prices uf cop- per, the country’s prin- cipal product, were soaring—the = su- permarket was crammed with fresh food and im- ported gocds.

Slothfullnessand inefficiency are often blamed for Zambia's descent into poverly from prosperity after in- dependence from Britain in 1964.

“It pains me that after néarly 14 years after independence we cannot manufacture a box of

matches," = President Kenneth Kaunda told a group of while

businessmen eartier this year.

Mainza Chuna, secrelary-general of the governing United National Independence party, complained at its annual meeting last June of sume civil servants who are “inefficient, lazy,

arrogant and who are nul committed lo the cause of improving the country's econumic wellbeing.” But Zambian officials claim, and fureign diplomats -here cunfirm, thal this is just part of the picture. Kaunda himself has said that just 20 per. cent uf the problem is of the country’s making.

Zambia, like other landlocked countries, depends on neighbors for

trade routes. Much of its .

imports and exports fluwed through Rhodesia on iis suuthern berder wilil the frontier was closed in 1975.

Zambia is one of the so- called ‘“‘frontiine’ states working for _ black- majority rule in Rho- desia, the former British culuny headed by white Prime Minister lan Smith until he became part of a bi-racial transilional gov- ernment earlier this year.

Zambia allows its lerrilory lo be used for bases by the Zimbabwe African People's Union, one of two guerrilla- backed Rhodesian nationalist groups fighting against the Rhodesian government.

The country has had to seck allernate routes— moslly ihrough Tanzania on the easi— and Zam- bian government officials claim that this rerouting has cost $1.5 billion in increased transport charges since the border was closed.

More basic ty Zambia's ,

crisis ‘is the price “uf cupper, “which plunged from during. ‘the world recession in 1974: Zambia is the: world’s third

” largest copper producer

after ‘the Uniled States and Canada, averaging

* 700,000 ions a year,

At ihe peak,'cupper was selling fur about $3,000 a metric ton. The price now is half. that. While the

_ boom was on, there was

much talk but liltle action lo diversify the Zambian economy.

Cupper revenues were used fo import what the cuuntry did nol bother tv produce. Zambia's swil is fertile and 50 t» 60 per cent of the land is arable. But unly 10 per cent is tilled.

, The low cupper prices, coupled with Lhe strained lransport system—it is estimated that 20,000 ions of copper are backed up on Tanzanian docks—has resulted in a critical shortage of foreign ex- change.

Imporis now have been cui’ io the absulute minimum.

The Zambian treasury

~ has abuul enough foreign * exchange for six weeks of

imported goods at any lime. The guvernment is making a dedicated effort lo pay its bills—ils credit raling is slill respec- lable—but it just can't pay everything at once.

Zambia's present plight

all-time’: highs.

has even caused the

* government ta re- ‘, examine the economic as- “pects of

Kaunda's humanist philosophy of government.

Keonomically, Humanism means, ac- cording 10 Kaunda: ‘‘Nut mass production, but pro- ductiot: by the masses." Zambian domestic : production is duminated by a secure of staterun industries called ‘‘para- statals.”

The government is moving ta lousen bureaucratic contrals and permit individual’ managers lo run the industries in a more business-like manner—in olher wards, make a profit.

And Zambia is working with the Washinglon- based International Monetary Fund in a two- year program to revive Ihe economy. The fund is to provide nearly $400 million in credit if Zambia agrees to gu along with austerity measures, one of which is a 10-per-cent devaluation df the country's currency,

Qther condiliuns in- clude = reduciiuns — in government spending and internal borruwing.

FinanceMinister Mwunakatwe has given a stark’ description of the jund’s rescule efforts, calling them “‘the last hope for the ecunomic recovery of our country."

Don Jamieson, the salesman

By AL COLLETTI

(CP} — There is a good deal of ‘the salesman remaining in External Affairs ‘Minister Don Jamieson, and it paid off last week as he mingled with world leaders at a Security Council con- ference otherwise devoted to human rights and the fulure of the African territory of

Namibia. Jamieson, federal trade

Canada was one of eight sponsurs of a resolution creating a transitional force to supervise elec- tions leading to independ- ence for Namibia, and Jamieson was one of the five Western foreign ministers in ihe contact group (hal formulated the UN pla,

2 South” Africa has rejected ‘thé plan, but Jamieson made a_per-

J sonal! .plea.to the new

minister before taking over the exlernal affairs portfolio two years ago, was able to announce the sale of a paper-pulp mill to Czechoslovakia, and the prospects of increased trade with China.

Human rights and developments in southern Alrica were major items at the United Nations

session,

One of five

government of Prime Minister Pieter Botha, lo reconsider, and said he was confident that suf- ficient geodwill — still existed on all sides for its implementation.

Jamieson wound up his official visit lo New York un Saturday, returning to Ottawa for the weekend before leaving for Newloundland and the campaign for Liberals in forthcoming by-elections.

~~. Wins contract

Las! Monday, Jamieson disclosed ‘that Canada had won a $180-million contract fur: ihe paper- pulp mill in’

Czechuslovakia. He also discussed human rights |

fur Canadians with Czechoslovakian con-. - nections during talks with *

Bohuslav Chinuupek, the”

‘Czechoslovak minister.

foreign

Jamieson also held dis- cussions with U.S. State Secretary Cyrus Vance and Foreign Minister Huang Hua of China. Vance is going to Ottawa, probably before the end of

the year,

‘Talks with China

In an inteyview befure his departure for home, Jamieson said Canada is sending a trade mission to China,’ headed by in- dustrialist Paul Desmarais. The Chinese have a special interest in Canadian iechnology relating to hydru-eleciric power generalion and long-range transmission,

He said he also discussed with Hua the

Canadian decision to accept 500 Chinese students for training in Canada, a program he expects will begin in the near future.

Hua was friendly but nuncummittal on Jamieson's suggestion that China use its in- fluence to ease human rights” violations in Democratic Kampuchea, formerly Cambodia, the minister said.

Polite refusal

The Canadian govern- ment, in a report to the Uniled Nations, had appealed for action to stop the violations. But Jamieson sald Hua in- dicated that China. cun- siders human rights a matter for jinternal

ampuchean policy,

The . Minister _ said discussions with his Porluguese counterpart, Korria Gago, concerned political and economic problems in that country,

- He said Canada is con-

sidering new economic assistance beyond the $7.5 million wheat aid already provided.

Negoliations un a new fisheries agreement with

Portugal have begun, and Jamieson said he hopes to develop both government- tu-government and pri- vate commercial co- operalion contacts, Jamieson said

discussions with Com- monwealth Caribbean foreign ministers in- cluded the territorial dispute belween Belize and Guatemala. Canada is a member uf a Com- monwealth group trying to solve the dispute, which invotves Guale- mala’s claim lo sovereignty over Belize, ktuwn as British Hon- duras in Central America inti its independence in