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the tribune thursday july 8 19ts 15 shalimar beach is going to be fenced and managed by the churchill dr ratepayers ass in an effort to curb motorboats on musselmans lake the ratepayers are leasing the property from the owners of cedar beach who recently acquired all the shalimar acreage here ron robb president of the ratepayers ass and ian macvarish a cedar beach employee are digging post holes mp norm cafik falsehoods created in aviation issue as you are well aware the standstill in canadian civil aviation is causing serious economic damages to the country and great inconveniences to anyone who wishes to travel by air i have had many telephone calls and letters to my office in this matter asking for my views and i trust that the following will dispel many of the falsehoods that have been created some people believe that the shutdown in aviation is the result of a conflict between bilingualism and air safety in other words the publics perception is that there is conflict between the federal governments alleged desire to promote bilingualism at all costs and air traffic controllers need to resist the government in the in terest of preserving safety in the air i believe that such a distortion of the issues t makes finding a solution very difficult in an already emotionally charged situation the governments policy in this respect is clear and rational the federal government places the very highest priority on the safety and security of passengers crew members and general public no other goal of public policy has ever or will ever take precedence over the goal of preserving and im proving public safety in the air 1 if it could be shown that the use of both french and english in conversation between air traffic controllers and pilots in quebec air space is or could be a safety hazard the federal government would insist f that only the english language be usedat this point one could ask what is the fuss all about why are the air traffic con trollers opposing the use of french in addition to english and why is the government proposing such a policy firstly the exclusive use of english in air traffice control in quebec in the past has itself been a safety hazard the bulk of pilots who use quebec airports are french speaking quebecers who normally do not have occasion to fly outside quebec air space and some of them have only a limited command of the english language in order to provide greater safety we can do one of two things we can require all french speaking pilots to become fluent in english before flying or we can provide air traffice control ser vice in both languages where it is needed for safety reasons such a service is not needed outside of quebec and the ottawa area so there is no intention on the part of the- government to provide bilingual service right across the country now we come to the question which is at the very roots of canada and the bilingualism policy parliament has decided that both english and french speaking citizens of this country have the i right to be served by their government in their own language air traffic control in one- of the important services provided in both languages in quebec but only if this can be done without any threat to air safety the experiements which have been done in smaller airports in quebec have been suc cessful with bilingual air traffic control and have in part increased air safety in many cases this bilingual service was established at the request of quebec con- trollers and with the support of their national association and gives the pilots the choice of using whichever language they think is conducive to air safety there is and will be no requirement for english speaking pilots to learn french in order to fly anywhere in canada the government is now studying whether or not to expand this bilingual service to montreal airports i can assure you that until all safety standards are met ther- will be no movement towards implementing bilingual air traffic control at these airports as a point of interest europeans have had bilingual and even multilingual air traffic control procedures for years and have met all international safely standards the above makes me wonder as what exactly the air traffic controllers are protesting if they are protesting the idea of even looking at the possibilities of having safe bilingual control procedures provided in quebec they are not acting in the best interest of the travelling public lean assure you and the air traffic controllers that until such procedure for tbu muntreil ngion have been approved from an air safety point of view by both the federal department of transport and bythe independent commission of enquiry they will not be put into practice i u uit that my views on this subject are clear to you and that manynfyour fears have been eased famous recording star tom jones recently celebrated his tenth an niversary with tee vee records highlight of the occasion was an enor mous rosebedecked cake prepared by the stouffville bakery the celebration was held at the okeefe centre ftaiky creatures their next game will be in goodwood unusual occupat on are baseball players various community park on july 16 at 8 pm service clubs rent the donkeys in order to stage fund raising annenet lamure ball games inwhich all participantsare mounted on the