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65TH, AND LAST WITNESS Favreau Begins The Long Seige By DAVE McINTOSH OTTAWA (CP) --. Embattled Justice Minister Guy Favreau has begun what is expected to be a long siege in the witness box at the Dorion inquiry. He is the 65th and last sched- uled witness at the judicial hearings--in their 36th day to- day -- which are digging into allegatons by Montreal lawyer Pierre Lamontagne that he was subjected to attempted bribery and political coercion to agree to bail for Lucien Rivard--be- fore Rivard became an escape artist. The commission now is at the political apex of its probe: The conduct of the 47-year-old jus- tice minister in his handling of Mr. Lamontagne's accusations against four federal ministeral ades. RCMP Commissioner G. B. McClellan and his chief. dep- uty, J. R. Lemieux, have testi- fied that Mr. Favreau ordered suspension of the RCMP inves- tigation Sept. 18 and directed that the matter be dealt with by Postmaster - General Rene Tremblay, then immigration minister, as one of internal discipline. Raymond Denis, then execu- tive assistant to Mr. Tremblay, has been accused by Mr. La- montagne of offering him $20,- 000 to drop opposition to bail for Rivard, wanted in the United States as the master- mind behind a $56,000,000 dope- smuggling ring run for the profit of the Mafia crime syndi- cate. CHARGES PRESSURE Mr. Lamontagne has also accused Liberal MP Guy Rou- leau and Guy Lord and Andre Letendre, aides to Mr. Favreau of bringing political pressure to bear on him in favor of Rivard, who escaped from jail March 2. Mr. Rouleau resigned as par- liamentary secretary to Prime Minister Pearson Nov. 24, the day after Erik Nielsen, Con- servative MP for the Yukon, brought the case to public view in the Commons. Mr. Favreau made only a 20- minute appearance on the amounted to no more than a relatively minor skirmish with case in the Yukon. quiry in the first place as an illustration of how MPs of all political parties make rep- resentations to cabinet minis- ters about their constituents. Most of Wednesday's hearing was occupied with testimony by the affable Mr. Tremblay, 42. 15 PERSONS KNEW Mr. Tremblay's testimony showed that at least 15 persons knew about Mr. Lamontagne's accusation ageinst Denis before he (Tremblay) found out Aug. i. These 15 included: --Mr. Favreau. Denis, ques- tioned by the RCMP Aug. 19, said he went to Mr. Favreau immediately and asked him to tell Mr. Tremblay about the whole thing. Mr. Trem- blay said Mr. Favreau didn't until Denis himself told the immigration minister Aug. 31 about the "extraordnary cir- cumstances" he was in. --Claude Isbister, deputy im- migration minister. Mr. Tremblay said he found out later that about a week be- fore Aug. 31 Mr. Isbister had ordered that Denis be denied access to any confidential files in the department. j --Liberal organizer Guy Mas, son. Mr. Tremblay said he had ordered Denis never to see Masson in his office. Denis had testified that the weekend before Aug. 31 he and Masson went over a copy of the statement Denis had given the RCMP. --Two American officials. Mr. Lamontagne was work- ing for the U.S. justice de- partment in the Rivard ex, tradition hearings in Mont- real. | --At least nine members of the RCMP, one of them a constable who helped moni- tor a telephone call between Denis and Mr. Lamontagne Aug. 20. And Mr. Lamontagne him- self. stand Wednesday and it Mr. Tremblay said that when Denis told him his story Aug. whether Mr. F aware of what was going on. Mr. Tremblay had gone. im- mediately to Mr. Favreau, who/IS had told him he would have liked to have filled in his eol-\flouting of his instructions not * tte see Mr. Tremblay said he wished|sufficient reason for asking for he had been informed earlier|his resignation. league earlier. but hadn't expressed this view to Mr. Favreau. : He and the justice minister) had decided that Mr. Favreau| should inform Prime Minister Pearson of the Denis case. He had never been told by Mr.) Favreau -- nor had he ever| asked him--whether the justice minister had done so After Aug. 31, he had asked Mr. Favreau two or three times how the police investiga- | tion was going. He had been told merely that it was still in progress. As far as he was concerned, Mr. Tremblay said, happened until Sept. 18 when he had. a 75-minute meeting with Mr. Favreau, Commis- sioner McClellan and Deputy Commissioner Lemieux. LEARNED OF CALL There he had learned for the first time of the RCMP account of the Aug. 20 monitored Denis- @ Lamontagne telephone call in r which Denis was quoted as tell- ing Mr. Lamontagne that he| (Lamontagne) had. promised never to say anything to any-; one. | Mr. Tremblay said he thought the RCMP investigation was to continue after Sept. 18. He had asked Denis for his resignation, whereupon Denis had gone to see Mr. Favreau} to seek his: help in finding a new job. Denis had submitted his res- ignation Oct. 1 after being re- fused sick leave and his minis- ter had accepted it Oct. 9, ef- fective Oct. 15. VISIT braemor gardens (Stevenson Rd. N. and Annapolis Ave.) Community For Young Moderns and So-o-0-0 Convenient Denis that his resignation did 31, he asked no questions except/not exonerate him and that a avreau was|new witness might produce evi- dence which might result in criminal charges. nothing | Mr. Tremblay said -he told REASON ENOUGH Mr. Tremblay said that Denis' Masson in his office was Masson has described him- self as the "errand boy" be- tween Rivard's henchmen and Denis in seeking information about possible bail for Rivard. Masson has testified that $60,- 000 would be ready for the Lib- eral party if Rivard's extra- Mr. Nielsen concerning a legal This case came before the in- , |There were several smaller ex.| 'Does Mr. Favreau Know?" Tremblay Queried Denis OTTAWA (CP) -- The signa- tures of 76,000 women who say they want the Canadian Broad- casting Corporation to 'clean its television programs were presented to Prime Minis- ter Pearson Wednesday. A delegation of six women, led by Senator Jossie Quart of Sillery, Que., wheeled a super- market grocery cart stacked with bulky folders of petitions up to the prime minister's Par- liament Hill office. The signatures, which come from every province, support the declaration, a controver- sial document which first 'be- came public last spring. The declaration asks Parlia- ment to 'end the domination of a minority who misuse the CBC to spread propaganda for per- version, pornography, free love, blasphemy, dope, violence and crime." Among the women meeting the prime minister was Mrs. J. Ladies Lay Seige On 'Dirty Ol CBC' E. Houck of Toronto, a former member of the board of direc- tors of the publicly-owned CBC. SAYS SPONTANEOUS She said the support for the declaration was "a spontaneous effort" with information about it being passed by. word of mouth to women across the country. The women's brief to the prime minister said "the ob- jectionable features" of CBC programming described in the declaration might also exist in other media, "However, there is a funda- mental difference which makes the CBC unique. If you do not like what is published in a newspaper or magazine, you can cancel your subscription. Private broadcasting cannot af- ford audience reaction. But the CBC goes on regardless. We can shut it off, but we cannot stop paying for it." John Robarts said Wednesday changes will have to be made in the Canada Pension Plan in| three or four years to make it} work better. | He told a delegation from the} Ontario Federation of Labor that he was disappointed the |joint Senate - House of Com-) lmons committee which studied) ithe plan made no real changes) in j JUSTICE MINISTER GUY FAVREAU $1 Million Fire Guts Warehouse TORONTO (CP)--Fire Wed- | Ontario's proposed amend-| ments to the retirement scheme) jhad been brushed off, eel Ro i | i lled the com- nesay niRM destroyed a oe ee ane i Canadian National Rail-|time. ways roundhouse being used as| The Ontario government| a warehouse. Firemen said|made a number. of other pro- damage was expected to reach posals to the joint federal com- $1,000,000. | mittee, none of which were im- ic ; plemented. The most serious Firemen dived for safety) criticism was that no provision when a 6,500-gallon tank of die-|was made for the needs of per- sel fuel exploded, sending a|sons now retired, or those who s f would retire during the next 10 a i pongo . flame} '15, years after having been eng eet into the air.) able to contribute to the plan for one reason or another. plosions of propane gas tanks. | Mr. Robarts said, however, Several firms shared the|his government has no inten- warehouse including a plywood|tion of changing its decision to company and a glass manufac-|participate in the plan. turer. The huge stocks of ply-| An OFL bried to the cabinet wood inside burned furiously and|commended the premier for firemen could not save the|bringing Ontario into the retire- building. |ment scheme. There's Something Different Peri! About The Man Wearing The dition were blocked. NEED... FUEL OIL ? 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He said he hopes a_ national medical care plan will be es- tablished. Meanwhile, Ontario was looking for some method to protect the people in the im- mediate future. THE DAY IN OTTAWA By THE CANADIAN PRESS WEDNESDAY, March 24, 1965 Immigration Minister Ni- cholson reported on reasons why immigration officials re- fused entry to American Pro- fessor Mulford Q. Sibley at Winnipeg last Friday. Mr. Nicholson said there was a "doubt as to his admissi- bility, which legally we had to recognize' under the Im- migration Act; the act needed changing. -Opposition Leader Diefen- baker said he didn't know how one could "smear a per- son more with McCarthyism than by what was done in this case."' Both New Democratic Leader Douglas and Social Credit Leader Thompson said the government should apolo- gize to Prof. Sibley. Prime Minister Pearson outlined his hopes for the gov- ernment's program and Par- liament this year, making no mention of any plans for an election, THURSDAY, March 25 ! The Commons meets at 2:30 p.m. EST to debate the pen- sion plan. The Senate is ad- journed to March 30. Mine-Worker Dies In Slide | CALEDONIA, Ont. (CP)-- John Charles Blake, 23, of Port Dover died Wednesday about two hours after being caught in a slide in a gypsum mine here.; | Blake was working 100 feet) 'underground in the Canadian |Gypsum Company mine when the shaft collapsed about 4 p.m. He was taken to hospital in nearby Cayuga, where he died. An autopsy will be held today jin Hamilton, about 15 miles north of here. WINDSWEPT JOB One of the world's most dan- gerous jobs is done yearly by Dilson and Floriano Goncalves of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They clean the 125 - foot statue of Christ atop the 2,460-foot Corco- By GORDON GRANT TORONTO. (CP)--Two direc- tors of Windfall Mines and Oils Limited urged the company's president and his wife to re- lease the results of a core drill from the company's property near Timmins, last July when the stock was boo: Toronto Stock Exchange, a royal commission inquiry was told Wednesday. ' The Windfall stock rose to $5.60 from 56 cents on rumors that the company had struck ore, but later collapsed to 80 cents after it was announced no ore had been found. Mrs. Marjorie Humphrey, 4 Toronto personal advice col- umnist who writes under the the name Elizabeth Thompson in The Globe and Mail, was one of the directors appearing when hearings resumed in Toronto Wednesday. on the|Ha THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, March 25,1965 3 'We Urged MacMillans To Tell', - Directors Say fused to tell her the content of/Mrs. MacMillan's property for the core when she met the pres-|$200,000 and 300,000 si stock and ident's wife July 6. hares of certain royalties if "She had no official position| Windfall became a mine. with the company and you were a director, but she wouldn't tell you about the core?" asked 'Commission Counsel Patrick However, the w Stock Exchange. proposed deal by the Toronto 1 ee "That's right,' Mrs. Hum- phrey answered. IS FRIEND ; She said she is a 'close per- sonal friend of the MacMillans, has no knowledge of mining and had never been a director of a company until she joined Wind- fall. Mrs. Mac Millan had pur- chased a property near Tim- mins from three prospectors after Texas Gulf Sulphur Com- pany made its $2,000,000,000 cop- per-lead-zinc discovery in the area. Mrs. Humphrey said sie proposed that Windfall accept Special Weekly The royal commission was ap pointed last August to investi- gate the spectacular rise and fall in the price of Windfall Shares. Mrs. Humphrey said she felt __|information in the core result should have been released early in July, but George MacMillan, Windfall president, and his wife, Viola, the company promoter, refused to do this until July 30. |PRESSED THEM "After they pulled the core I pressed them to talk," she said. "I had heard rumors and as a director felt the pressure." Another Windfall director, Tom Cole, also urged the Mac- Millans to release news to shareholders, Mrs. Humphrey said. She said. the MacMillans "pointed out that it can be damaging to talk at the wrong time." 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