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10 The Barrie Examiner Monday January 1977 altss KIDNEY PATIEN Mike Leite and Robin Perry patients at kidney dialysis program at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland Ore where they met announced TS ENGAGED they will be married Sept 10 1977 AP Photo Entering 110th year with apprehension OTTAWA CP Ten years ago Canadians spent the holi lily season getting ready for tooth anniversary party that would bring the country to mother in yearlong nation alistic binge loday the country moves up irehensively into its 110th year uncertain whether it will sur yive the institutional and politi cal dismtegrations of 1976 Pierre Trudeau who rode wave of postCentennial eu phoria into the prime llillllSlelIS office eight years ago now leads badlyshaken lcderal government llis Liberal majority in Par tament has been diminished by clratlis departures and Con servative byelection gains llis jivernment is reeling trom wharges oi financial mis management and besieged by tvioviiicial governments deter mined to siphon increased power from the central admin istration His dedication to budding stronglyunited country dream that carried him through three successtul ll€lél electionshas been tarkened by the November election of separatist govern ment in Quebec Li SES POPULARITY And his personal popularity has plunged lhe swmger that captivated Canadians and the world in the wake of the Cen tennial is widely regarded now v45 an embattled professional iolitiCIan Even members of his own party privately court former ti llZillCC minister John Turner it ho in turn continues to court tllClllriaS an eventual replace ment for Mr Trudeau Mr lur ner qu1t Parliament early in the year thereby escaping the anti government wave that came Willi business anxieties about COHOITHC policy and mdcspread anger over contin unig wage and price controls Ins federal seatttawa turletonwas captured in an Oct 18 byelection by Con servative Jean Piggott an Ot tawa busmesswoman who over turned 100year Liberal grip on tile riding While Mr Turner plots his political future from Toronto law office Mr Trudeau is working to keep his party and himself at the countrys helm MAY CALL VOTE As the year turns there is in creasnig speculation that the prime minister may call an early general elec tionfiperhaps before the end of 3077 and well before he has to in 1979 in an attempt to rally Canadians in and outSide Quebec to the cause of keeping Confederation intact Quebec Premier Rene Le vcsque has pledged to set date for referendum on Quebec separatism and some au thorities suggest Mr lrudcau may go to the electorate asking or clear mandate to fight the Quebec independence move intht if he does hell be lacing the Progressive Conservatives un lm Joe Clark 37yeaiold Al bertan who captured the par tys leadership at February convention and has been struggling since to establish himself as public figure Mr Clark came out of the convention riding high Public popularity polls gave him substantial lead over Mr 1rudeaus Liberals during the late summer and early fall PQ IS OPPOSITION By the end oi the year how ever Mr Clarks advantage had been whittled down shar ply perhaps because Mr Levesque now is considered by many the real opposition to Mr lrudeau and also because the young Conservative leader has not excited the political imagi nation of Canadians The New Democratic Party meanwhile scarcely made an appreCiable dent in the 1976 po litical scene concentrating in stead on building party policies and strategy hoping to rebuild Like the parties political in stitutions took bulteting in 1976 SillFTlID POWER Opposition parties com plained that Mr Trudeau has shifted power away from Parliament by making major national decmions at private conferences with the 10 provm ces And they argued that Mr irudeau makes the Commons less relevant by making major policy statements on national telewsmn first The prime minister coopted prime time televiSIon twice during the yearonce to outline government policy during divisive dispute about use oi French at air traffic control towers in Quebec the second time to explain the govern ments reaction to the election of Quebec separatist govern ment The Commons meantime is taking steps to have its pro ceedings televised Govern ment officials say they are con fident television will be in troduced in the House by the end ol Iii7 Another political institution Mr lrudeaus 32member cabi netalso took it on the chin during the year CHARGES STUPIDITY in November government backbencher Hal Herbert Vau dreuil charged in an open let ter that ministerial stupidities are too frequent One cannot tire minister every time he goofswe might end up without cabinet Behind his discontent and that of other backbenchers were succession of damaging episodes Among them 1isclosure of Transport Minister Otto Langs $740000 bill for executive jet flights dur ing the last three years and later revelations that the minis ter tried to arrange free ar med forces flight home to Scotland for girl who served as nanny to his seven children Agriculture Minister lcju genc Whelans deCiSion to cut the amount oi federallyregu lated industrial milk farmers could producea shift that en raged dairy tarmers sparked Public Works Christmas Tree PickUp Christmas trees placed on boulevards will be picked up by the Public Works Department commencing Monday January llltli l977 the oOperation at all residents is requested in placing trees lor pickup on that date in positions that will not interfere with required snowplowing procedures The cooperation at all residents is appreciated Neil Fox CET Public Works Superintendent masswe unruly demonstration on Parliament Hill and even tually led the agriculture minis ter to fire the top brass of the Canadian Dairy Commission Urban Affairs Minister An dre Ouellefs action in asking cabinet colleague Drury to telephone Quebec judge concerning contemptoleourt case that eventually ended in an Ouellet conv1ction Mr Ouel let was taken to court for ques tioning judges decision in sugar company trial lormer defence minister James Richardsons deLision to leave the cabinet to light publi cly government language and constitutional policies Roof collapse WOODSTOCK Cli 17 000squareloot section oi root on General Motors of Canada Ltds national parts dlS tribution centre here collapsed Sunday but no one was injured the company said Nick Hall GM information officer said the collapse Wlll put about 300 workers temlt porarily out of work and it is not known when the plant Wlll reopen 1Z Cross Count free time on trails from Georgian College Tuesday Afternoons Start January II 1977 Weeks Included in Down Hill and Cross Country Package is ki sessions at Horseshoe Volley $5250 Fee in cludes one hour lessons trail fees complete rentals hours per day transportation Disasters marked 76 By ANDERSON The Canadian Press Canada endured year ol political and economic problems in 1976 while many other parts of the world suffered natural and manmade disasters There were bombs in the streets terror in the skies Seismologists recorded one of the worst years for earthquakes Western Europe had its most severe drought in more than century and storms at the start of the year caused many deaths and widespread damage it wasnt bad year for everybody of course Jimmy Carter recaptured the United States presidency for the Democrats Nov winning bare majority of 51 per cent of the popular vote but decisive 297 of the 538 electoral college votes to 241 ior Republican President Gerald Ford At home Canadians found themselves thinking about the un thinkable the possible breakup of their country Even Rene Levesque was stunned when his Parti Quebecois captured 69 of the 110 seats in the national assembly Nov 15 after campaign in which he soltpedalled the partys commit ment to lead the province out of Confederation but promised to hold referendum on the question within two years leSlS IS NOW The crisis is now and the challenge is immediate Prime Minister lrudcau said in television address to the country nine days later Canada could remain united only if its citizens wanted to live together in civil soc1ety The issue burst upon country preoccupied with inflation and the governments measures to combat it unemployment allegations of government mismanagement labor unrest and prison riots The 21st Olympic Games in Montreal offered temporary diverSion but controversy surrounded the Games as well Then July 17 opening appeared in Jeopardy when the Canadian government relused to permit Taiwan to compete as the Republic of China and more than 20 African countries withdrew when the international Olympic Committee refused to bar New Zealand which had maintained sports ties With South Africa The death at 82 of Communist Party Chairman Mao lsctuiig roused speculation as to the future of China under his relatively unknown successor Hua Kucieng w11OWAR1i1£S1El There was no turmoil among the people but the official Chinese news agency announced the arrest of Maos Widow Chiang Ching and three other radical leaders accused of trying to take over the government The Chinese had other things to worry about not the least be ing masswe earthquake that devastated large areas of the country including Peking July 28 No official casualty figures were released but some foreign diplomats put the death toll at about 100000 There were other lesser shocks later in the year It was bad year for earthquakes The Central American republic of Guatemala was hit lcb by the worst quake in its history More than 22000 persons died shock in northeastern ltaly claimed nearly 1000 lives May and two powerful quakes and tidal waves caused heavy loss ol life in the southern Philippines An earthquake in Turkey Nov 26 had casualty tigures as high as 000 lllltltltANlIS WRIMK llAVOt Mollier Nature also let go With storms The United States east coast suffered heavy damage and three deaths Aug from Hurricane Belle and MeXIcos Hajzi California peninsula was swept by Hurricane Liza Oct At least 630 persons were killed There was no end to strife in Northern lreland where Protes tant and Roman Catholic terrorists battled each other taking nearly 300 lives for the year The worst mcrdent of Violence was Jan when 10 Protestants were shot to death by gunmen apparently to avenge the shooting the lay before of live iitfiolics Bombs were used freely by terrorists in many places On March 13 bomb exploded on crowded London subway train injuring nine persons Three days later another bomb ex ploded in the subway wounding one person Worse was the explosmn March 17 of bomb at an exhibition in west London Eightylive persons were injured The illegal lrisfi Republican Army was blamed for till the incidents There also was terror in the skies On May hijacked Philippines airliner caught fire on the ground at Manila during gun battle between the six hijackers and soldiers lhirltcn persons including three of the hijackers were killed An Air France jelliner on flight from Tel Ave to 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