Barrie Examiner, 13 Jul 1977, p. 2

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ynafiM ta WW Language extra Trudeau angry Schreyer told of ob program OTTAWA CP Prime Minister Trudeau angrily suggested Tuesday that Manitoba Premier Ed Schreyer bmke confidence by releasing contents of written ex change in which Trudeau said new job creation program was close to completion As the Commons sparred over latest Statistics Canada figures showing Junes seasonallyadjusted Jobless rate rose to eight per cent and actual unemployed totals stood at 814000 Trudeau said it was the last time Will take him Schreyer into my confidence The exchange between Schreyer and Trudeau on job plans began last May when Schreyer proposed that federal provincial conference of premiers be held to discuss job programs In message to Schreyer dated June 22 Trudeau said such meeting should be held in the coming months The prime minister also suggested new federal programs were on the way Schreyer made the exchange public last Friday in news release but Trudeau appeared surprised when Ed Broad bent the federal New Democratic Party leader mentioned the correspondence in the Commons on Tuesday Broadbent said that if the federal government has new plans to deal with unemployment then Parliament is en titled toknow about them Trudeau admitted the government isconSideriiig new pro grams to deal with unemployment which has reached post lepression highs Kerr cans can tax for now TORONTO CP En vironment Minister George Kerr confirmed Tuesday that the provincial government will not proceed now with its controversial tax on soft drink cans But he told the legislature present government policy and will remain on the order paper for discussion again in the fall Regarding the fivecenta can tax proposal Kerr said he will in the meantime be seeking consultation with the opposition house leaders and appropriate critics as well as spokesmen for the soft drink and packaging industries in an effort to seek some con sensus The legislation as it now stands was doomed to failure because both opposition par ties in the minority legislature have said they would oppose it GEORGE KERR Synthetic seal for plant QUEBEC tCl Swiss group opposed to the annual seal hunt in the Gulf of St Lawrence said Tuesday it plans to build Silomillion synthetic seal fur plant at Blane Sablon Que near the Labrador border Frank Weber of the Weber Foundation told news confer ence the plant would empiy 400 workers but the main pur pose of the investment was to put an end to the annual seal hunt in the Gulf Weber said people have told him you have to be crazy to build plant in Blane Sablon but since French actress Bri gitte Bardot went there last winter to protest the hunt the remote settlement is almost as well known as Cannes Fishermen hired to work at the plant must agree as con dition of employment to stop hunting seals he said Not seeking separation SALLT STE MARIE Ont Pi Andrew Rickard president of Grand Council Treaty No said Tuesday that Ontario Indian leaders are not seeking political separation from Canada or Ontario Rickard was referring to presentation made to the On tario cabinet last week by Treaty No leaders The pre senation claimed Indian sovereignty over more than 200003 square miles of Ontario more than half the province Rickard said in an interview the presentation was mis interpreted Indians are seeking spiritual cultural and economic sov ereignty and the right to plan our destiny within the law and context of governments in this country he said Rickard said the claim of sovereignty was not demand but statement of fact He said there as sovereign nation of Ojibwa and Cree people inthc northern part of Ontario Reed auditors wont talk TORONTO C15 The auditors of Reed Paper Ltd To rtmto have refused comment on company investigation of an alleged unauthorized payment of 3100000 to Lord Ryder former chaimian and chief executive officer of parent Reed International Ltd of BIlLtllIl spokesman for auditors Peat Marwick Mitchell and Ltd of Toronto said the firm would not comment on the mat ter while Reed Iapcrs investigation is under way The money was paid to the British businessman in ltflfi by unidentified third party who was reimbursed by Reed Paper in 197 the parent company said in statement earlier this week Photos prints only rarely OTIAitA ItIi Senior govcmment officials told the ommons immigration committee lutsday that con troversial provisions to take fingerprints and photographs of visitors and immigrants to Canada would be used only in rare cases Jack Maniou deputy minister of immigration spoke in support of an amendment that would restrict application of the provisions to visitors requiring visas and to those con sidered threat to public safety or ordered deported Visas are required by persons coming to Canada to work or study those visiting for an extensive period and by all visitors from eastern European and some other countries UNLESS THIS EMBLEM IS ON YOUR CAR YOU PROBABLY PAID TOO MUCH Receive 50 gallons of gas FREE with the purchase of new car or truck from our large inventory othr expires July 204977 PontiacBulcltGMC 145 Bradford St 7261805 bill reaction MONTREAL CP Reac tion to the Quebec govern ments revised language bill Tuesday night ranged from bit ter disappointment to approval of changes softening some con troversial measures Several business leaders were pleased with the changes but said they thought they did not go far enough Labor leaders expressed support for government efforts to promote the use of French in the provin ce Reginald Groome president of the Montreal Board of Trade said the changes that have been made are all for the good and will be very encouraging for the business community Groome also president of Hilton Canada Ltd said the board is especially glad that Bill 101 appears to exempt businesses with less than 50 em ployees from the need to con duct their internal operations in French In addition Groome said he was gratified the revised bill would allow commercial signs to contain English as long as French is displayed with equal prominence Reaction from the English speaking community and ethnic group leaders was generally negative especially concerning the continued strict restrictions on entry into Englishlanguage schools HEARINGS FARCE Alex Paterson leader of the recentlyfanned Positive Ac tion Committee said as far as Im concerned the new bill shows the recent committee hearings were farce Either the government really does intend to take an at titude of vengeance with the anglophone community or else their attitude was one of politi cal cynicism Paterson said Theyve made changes where simplistically they want to accommodate business but what use will those changes be if people from out side Quebec who come here st ill have to send their children to French school What difference does it make that headoffice language can be English if foreigner to Quebec is forced to send his children to school in French George Bey president of the HellenicCanadian Commtuiity of Montreal representing 70000 Greeks said he found the new bill disappointing They had the opportunity to hear all briefs presented and yet they maintain their position on the language of education Bey said Michel Prupas president of Participation Quebeca group of Englishspeaking profes sionalssaid the government had not taken measures to en courage better understanding among linguistic communities in Quebec Rev Paul Chan of the Chi nese community said the new bill showed some hope particu larly with the casing of sign re st rict ions for the business com munity James Doyle president of the Quebec Chamber of Commerce said Bill 101 contains some very definite improvements over Bill Its very encouraging they are definitely exempting small businesses from Fraiicisation requirements Doyle said Its also very important to us that theyre going to be able to advertise in English Francine Lalonde vicepresi dent of the 155000member ontederation of National Trade Lnions said the legislation is step in the right direction for the govern ment Journalist is freed LONDON Router Ugan da has freed Canadian jour nalist Gerald lilting detained last month for arriving without an entry visa and he is on his way to Britain by aircraft Uganda Radio said today Utting 46 of the Toronto Star was anested on June 22 Illuminated Signs Artwork Posters Tiffin St WASTE SIMS CutOut letters Graphics Sheets Billboards Printing Gold Leaf etc etc Barrie 728971 Aint love grand load of bread jug of wine and she riding behind What better way to spend an unencumbered summer honeymoon This young couple is travelling along 175 about 60 miles north of the GeorgiaFlorida state line near Tifton At this point they had come long way from Iowa AP Photo Power hearing testimony Nuclear power has future in providing electricity TO ON TO Canadians will increasingly depend on electricity as other sources of energy become scar ce Ross Campbell chairman of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd AECL said Tuesday And nuclear power will cover big share of the increased de mand for electricity Campbell said during presentation of the AECLs Illpage brief to the Ontario royal commission on electric power planning Ontario is the only province using nuclear reactors to gener ate electricity and Campbell said selling Canadian nuclear reactors abroad was one way to ensure that technology keeps pace and is available when other provinces want to use atomic power AECL is Crown corporation responsible for developing Canadian nuclear industry Nick Teekman of Dynamo Genesis Corp asked whether AECL was selling Candu reac tors below cost to capture mar kets for future sales of Cana dian uranium at high rates ADMITS FAILLRE Naturally we dont deliber ately sell reactors abroad at loss Campbell said Weve had one bad experience in Ar gentina and were not proud of our failure in our first attempt to market the Candu system He was referring to the trans action in which the Crown cor poration lost $130 million selling reactor to Argentina and resulted in the firing of AECL president John Foster by Energy Minister Alastair Gil lespie last week Campbell said 99 per cent of Canadian uranium sold abroad was used to fuel reactors built by his corporations com petitors Ontario Ilydro has firm plans to get onethird of its electricity from nuclear sources by 1985 he said noting that the Picker ing plant east of Toronto was setting product ion records Pickering is gratifying performance record showing such stations can operate safely and with much less effect on the environment than other meth ods of generating energy the chairman said LISTS PROBLEMS He said however there were problems to be solved such as disposal of nuclear waste dan ger of radiation to public health transportation of nu clear fuel recycling nuclear fuel and getting rid of reactors when they wear out The AECL brief described possible ways of dealing with such difficulties Environmentalists again enter nuclear power plant TORONTO CP second unauthorized entry by environ mentalists into an Ontario nu clear power plant this week was revealed Tuesday during hearing of the royal com mission on electric power plan ning While questioning Atomic Energy of Canada officials Mi chael Bein 31 of Ottawa un veiled an Ontario Hydro no trespassing sign he said he took late Monday night from fence about half mile inside the grounds of the Pickering nuclear power plant just east of Toronto would like to enter this as an exhibit said Bein repre sentative of Ontario Peoples Energy Network as he held the yellow sign Ontario Hydro lawyer Bruce Campbell accepted the metal sign saying he would return it to the power company and see whether anyone had noticed it was missing Bein said in an interview he was on the grounds for 20 min utes and there was no security whatsoever Anyone could have gone in He said he removed the sign from zone where the public is excluded VERIFIES REPORTS could have easily cut the OUTDOOR ADVERTISING up inner fence and gone right into the reactors without anyone seeing me he said Every thing the Greenpeace people said was true Bein said he would not give details of his entry because he was worried that other people might use the information in dangerous way He is employed by the Com munity Energy Information Centre in Ottawa federally funded group whose aim is to distribute accurate energy iii DECISION Weve Moved Carlas Fruit Stand NOW AT Wurdens Fina Station Boyfield Street Open Thurs Fri Sat can to pm Formerly of Cundles and Buyfield formation to the public On Monday the Greenpeace Foundation said three of its members landed by canoe and breached security at the Bruce nuclear power development site on Lake Huron about 40 miles southwest of Owen Sound Later in the hearing Ross Campbell Atomic Energy of Canada chairman said there was nothing at the Pickering plant that terrorist could use without placing himself in great peril Ottawa July 1977 The Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission announces the following decision effective for thwith Decision CRTC 77390 BARRIE ONTARIO 7l0847500 75l581000 Barrie Cable TV Limited Applications to amend its cable television broadcasting un dertaking licence Ior Barrie Ontario as follows FM Service to add the reception and distribution of CJRTFM Toronto Ontario CFCAFM Kitchener Ontario CKLAFM Guelph Ontario CKDSFM Hamilton Ontario CFMPFM Peterborough Ontario CKQSFM Oshawa Ontario and CHSCFM St Cothorines Ontario to discontinue the reception and distribution of WHLDFM Niagara Falls New York WBENFM and WADVFM Buffalo New York Decision APPROVED Lise Ouimet Secretary General NI Commission Cariadan Radmtebwmon and Telecommuntcations Conseu to la mdlodlttusuon et des telecommunications canadiennis If no res onse TORONTO ttTI Robert Andras treasury board presi dent said Tuesday the federal government wll spend public funds to create jobs if the pri vate sector does not do so throughexpansion Home fraud convictions LONDON Ont CI county court jury convicted eight former employees of Rev len Building Products Ltd on Tuesday of conspiring to do fraud the public in home im provement scheme The jury deliberated for five days to end the sevenwcek trial that involved hearing hours of wiretap evidence gathered by police during an extensive investigation Xinvicted were former BeV len president Beven Leland Stewart vicepresident Ivan Con Waugh production man ager Clive Foster Benjamin James May Jack Sholtanuk John Sholtanuk James Weldon Dier all of London and Max Morenstein of Montreal County Judge Gordon Killeen odered all but Morenstein re leased from custody until sen tencing on Aug 16 Morenstein has been in cus tody since he was apprehended in Montreal last March Bruce Long assistant Crown attorney argued that May and Stewart had criminal records and should not have been re leased Government would spend money for job creation remain convinced that the best way to create jobs is through the private sector but if there is no response then it is pretty difficult for govemment to stand aloof Andras told the advisory council of the Cana dian Manufacturers Associ ation Andras said response fmm business to government urgings for expansion have not been satisfactory Andras related the unemploy ment problem to the issue of national unity Sustained chronic high unemployment is very hard and danger to social stability he said The next 12 to 18 months could be pretty diccy panicu larly on the unemployment side which unquestionably cx acerbates our critical unity problem MAY SAVE NATION By our collective action on the economy as well as on the emotional cultural and con stitut ional concerns we may be embarked during that period upon saving iiat ion Sydney Jackson president of the Manufacturers Life Insur ance to Toronto told the council that the federal govern ments proposal of consulting wide variety of interest groups on economic policy was win dowdressing and waste of time Association president JH 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