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PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRON!ICLE, WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 16 For millions of sports fans in this free and prosperous nation of ours, the world came crashing to an end Sunday night. For the second time in three years, yet. ‘ With the bad taste of hockey humility barely erased from our mouths after the NHL allâ€"stars‘ fall from grace to the hustling Soviets in Challenge Cup ‘79, how ghastly that we be so soon subjected to the democratic disgrace of Canada Cup 1981. Oh balderdash â€" it‘s called losing fair and square. For weeks leading up to this overâ€"hyped frenzied fortnight of late summer shinny, media types across the land painted Team Canada as perhaps the best hockey team ever iced. Anywhere. “};.ut‘l'r; '(-);;e 'f;‘I-I"sv;m;p S;x'nvda):l;nghtm Montreal, where tradition formerly steeped in the colors of red, white and blue seems to be dropping that blue hue, our idols showed weakness that we have come to accept in our sociâ€" ety We are only human. . For two weeks our assembled best treated hockey fans to some of the most artistic passing, shooting and defence the game has known. Granted they also submitted some pookey play in piecing together a sixâ€"game win streak heading into Sunday‘s final, but by and large, Canada was the best over the long haul. Their defeat, albeit resounding, Sunday night at the hands of the wellâ€"oiled Red machine and more specifically goaltender Vladislay Tretiak, was indeed a bitter pill to swallow. As are many facts of life. But, as in 1979, the loss of the Canada Cup should not be regarded as the end of the world. The goal of the competition was to bring the best hockey players in the world together for an allâ€"tooâ€"rare showcase of the sport â€" and that it was. The Canada Cup is not to be equated with SALT summits, grain embargoes, and heavens not microcosmically as a triumph of Eastern Bloc civilization over the West. It was a hockey match, no more, no less. And this time we lost â€" less than a week after we won. Next time, who knows? In the meantime, we‘ll surâ€" vive. Câ€"48: the Canada Oil and Gas Act. This bill proposed to rush through dramatically different rules for vil exploration in what are known as the Canada Lands (the Northern Territories and their offshore regions), without first settling the outâ€" standing native land claims. Groups and individuals from across the country, joined with native organizations to force the Government to stop and listen. The reason for the public outcry was Bill The native organizations were allowed very little input at the committee hearings on Bill Câ€"48 because they were making Earlier: this summer, Canadians were shown a practical example of the way in which people can make a very real contribution to the way in which this country is run. Because enough concerned Canadians communicated their dissatisâ€" faction over the Government‘s plans for resource development in our North, the Government has been forced to put its illâ€"considered policies ‘on hold.‘ Aâ€"puckâ€"lapse Now? WALTER McLEAN , wpublished every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd.. owner 25 Fairway Rd. S.. Kitchener. Ont. Enday 9 0Q a m to 5 00 p m °_ address correspondence to Waterioo office \92 King St South. Waterioo. Ont.. telephone 886â€"2830 subscriptions | $14 a Year in Canada §16 a year in Ur‘ted States and Foreign Countries their important representations to the Constitutional Committee at the same time. In their letter to the Prime Minister, Jim Bourque, President of the Métis Association of the North West Territories, and Georges Erasmus, President of the Dene Nation, said: ‘"We understand the Government of Canada‘s desire to capture revenues from this project to help prop up a shaky economy. However, these factors are no reason to make a mockery of Aboriginal Rights which are a vital part of the human rights we must all be concerned with." It was in this spirit that many organizaâ€" tions, churches and individuals protested the Government‘s treatment of native people and their legitimate rights in Canada. In our area the Global Communiâ€" ty Centre, together with the Canadian Council of Catholic Bishops and the interâ€"church organization, Project North, organized a meeting on June 19 at St. Michael‘s Church. A speaker from the Publisher: Paul Winkler Manager: Bill Karges Editor: establisheqa 1854 Public outcry gets results Dene Nation and a churchâ€"worker who serves in the North urged the receptive gathering to write Hon. John Munro and Hon. Marc Lalonde calling on them to allow the people of the North a chance to have some say in their own future. The Centre has been asked to make a similar presentation to the Human Rights Comâ€" mittee of the Kâ€"W District Labour Council this fall. This sort of public pressure has met with considerable success. On July 30, Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minâ€" ister Munro announced an 18 month moratorium on the development of a $1 billion northern oilfield and pipeline which would carry Norman Wells oil to southern Canada. The Minister also announced a two year delay on exploration in the Mackenzie Valley, on land covered by 7 exploration agreements with Petroâ€"Canâ€" ada, the national oil company. The Progressive Conservative Party‘s position on this delay is yet to be finalized. While my colleagues and I are pleased to see that the Government can hear public opinion, we are eager to see that native people and all northerners are involved in, and benefitting from, any economic develâ€" opment and business opportunities which follow from this resource development. This development can and should go ahead, so long as land claims are settled, and proper consideration is given to the unique environment and special needs of northern people. The Official Opposition put amendments to this effect to the Natural Resources Committee when it was studying Bill Câ€"48. At that time the Government members on the Committee voted against those amendments. Now that the Government has been forced to listen, I hope that these changes will be made when the Bill is reintroduced to Parliament this fall. * â€" _ The same organizations which stopped the Government‘s rush thefirst time will be watching very closely....