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some readers seen° feel l ri )G F
spineless 'capitulation to pressur
W French speaking Canada',
sametinre ado that;any'oneitni
lazy to turn' a cereal `box around
English , language 10hei
worth listening to when'they-comply r e
about "French being Trammed dow0,.'
throat"drew. the" strongest x�eaetion,..of
I have patiently sat through a,numbf;
of lecture§ about the cowardly. `frogs
running off . to the bush when it car ,e„;' time to defend Queerwoand'country, abc
how _ignorant and 'irnpolite,.tlrey ar
speak their own ` language when nn
unilingual Anglo -phone is in the room:
and how they are costing ;us all millions
by forcing politicians to recognize their'.
language drights througha program of
bilingualism in the civil service.
All such arguments I have heard were
narrowminded, not necessarily based
and to `.,1rnost case �;..
t{►lorly'infnr•med soured, '
though I,de believe that French
iadian language and cultural rights
he recognized if this country is to
ttve. I believe even more strongly in
right of both sides to express their
a. t+ ono.
t°'long ago I filled out an application
Ett? for the Alerted Canadian Alliance
art ,anti -French lobby) in the 'name of
ity f ictitionul character Henri Tar-
iniere and, in recognition- of his $2.00
lonation to the cause, he was accepted
is a`Member in good standing.
vet' ;since then Henri has, been
ccc ving,hterature from the•group. Last
yec he found some material in the mail
ihfeh reproduced'excerpts from letters
written by other group members to the --
organizers.
In. order to implement my belief that
both;sides must be heard, I present here
some 0f ,those excerpts.
" f''rr+''°hehind the A.C.A. completely.
ca
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"hp1Vt3A$Qll tb r!vayi�yrerea l.tl
gc$ rsd f P'reiroh }Send me r erythlin.g
ypu havecxn the deal. I'll"help' all z can,"
Winnipeg.•
"You know' for all the ^ different
nat onaiities, that came to Canadathere
is none so stubborn' as the French; all the
ethers did take the Enflishlanguage:"
Winnipeg.
"Please send details of reversing this
'situation of preference for French. It has
certainly gone too far!" - Winnipeg,.
"We are behind you 100 percent, and
fed up with this so-called one man
Trudeau government." --Wellwood,
Manitoba.
"One language for Canada, and it
must be English! I only wish we had
more M.P.'s in Ottawa who would stand
up and be counted as Mr. Richardson
did. The sooner we get the Trudeau
government out the happier all
,Sanadians will be." - Winnipeg.
"I have been fighting Trudeau and his
gangsters since day one in letters etc.
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fifth:^Fleas jr�i''likre
mg't inl uajs
anada I a n sf��d li ed, a
this country run by u SQi
chmen.'and of h ivinjto i ► and
Quebec. - Victoria, H B.f
"It is about :time that the se 1z`ti ei
than -thous seated in their ivaiyiltr
were made' aware that there is mile
more to Canada than justoneprovrnce:"
- Horsefly, B.C.
"This bilingualism is,an insult to all of
us. Who wants it?" Williarns,Lake, B.C.
By the ' way, for those of you who
support this stand, prospective mem-
bers may write to Allerted Canadian
Alliance, Box 66, Postal Station. C,.
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3M 3S3.
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INFORMATION, BACKGROUND AND OPINION
w energy in the form of Dennis
ell. has _ entered the* Health.
y, a hearing to decide the
e's right to close Clinton Public
al has been postponed until May 2,
Tinton Hospital Administrator
Coventry is gaining fuel for his
sm that the hospital will remain
Coventry told the Clinton News -
last week that the cabinet
which moved Frank Miller from
alth ministry to the ministry of
1 resources, insured Mr. Miller
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"It (the shuffle) was a way of keeping
him . in the cabinet. -He probably would
have resigned if he hadn't got the
backing of the cabinet," Mr. Coventry
observed.
Mr. Miller had announced earlier that
he—would resign' if the cabinet did,not
back him in a stand that would give the
health minister the authority to close
hospitals.
Mr. Coventry also said that he did not
think things have changed much with the
appointment of 30 year old Dennis
Timbrell as Health Minister., Mr.
Timbrell was moved from the energy
IN:HURDN
portfolio.
"We don't know Timbrell. and he
hasn't made any statements on what he
plans to do," Mr. Coventry said. He feels
however, that things have changed since.
last February when Mr. Miller came,to•
Clinton to announce the closing of the
hospital.
With the postponement in the
government's appeal from last Tuesday
to May 2, Mr. Coventry said the
government must be looking at things a
little differently than before.
He also said that the postponement
seemed to be dragging out a bit. When
- the ' appeal date does come -around
though, Mr. Coventry hopes the
hospital's lawyers will be armed with
statistics on the vital role the hospital
played during the recent snowstorms
that paralyzed the area for about six
days.
"We admitted some patients that just
couldn't have been admitted elsewhere
and there were times when, no am-
bulance could get through to them," he
said. "People had to be brought to
hospital with their own cars."
He said he felt as optimistic as ever
that things were going to come out all
right for the. hospital.
"I really can't see them closing," he
noted.
Meanwhile, the new Health Minister,
the MPP from Don Mills, steps into a
portfolio- that the 49 year old Miller• saw
through somevery tough months. He
imposed massive hospital bed and staff
cutbacks and even closed some
hospitals.' He felt the wrath of com-
munities who were losing their hospitals
and bore the criticism when his restraint
program last year achieved only half of
the planned savings. .
He' left the Ministry embroiled in a
court case over the ,closing of four
hospitals, Clinton, Chesley, Durham and
Doctors' Hospital in Toronto, and suf-
fered a `1 rt attack at the height of the-
controver y surrounding health care
spending cuts.
Mr. Miller, who was appointed health
minister in 1974, was a little reluctant to
leave his old post, saddened to think that
he would nbt be on hand to see the results
of the actions he had put in motion.
Of the health post he was leaving, M
Miller said that any man in the job,wod
never have an easy time of it.
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Ontario G vernment's 'Energy
ement Pro ram' has' released a
engineeri g study for an energy
which wo Id use wood waste and
pal refuse to generate electricity
steam.
tudy stems from initial research
ndicated that the use of wood and
pal wastes in- the northern-
com munity of Hearst for energy
on is both economically and
ally feasible.
ding to , the earlier feasibility
f the proposed Hearst energy
, 180,000 tons of wood Waste
•"!3:q'�•'S" '' - ,•• ,sib t,nfls .i ,..
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produced each year by the six area
sawmills and plywood plants could
provide enough electricity for all the
town's 5,000 residents with an equivalent
surplus capacity available to Ontario
Hydro.
Environment Minister George Kerr
said that the town's wood waste and
municipal refuse now posing disposal
problems to the community could also
generate steam for local industry
currently using natural gas:
"The proposed waste -powered boiler
would eliminate the odor and smoke
problems -caused by -the uncontrolled
burning of wood waste, the current
disposal method," he said.
The 130,000 study, expected , to be
completed this fall, will be funded jointly
by the Ontario Ministries of the
Environment, Natural Resources,
Energy and Treasury, Economics and
Intergovernmental Affairs, the town of
Hearst and the Hearst Lumbermen's
Association.
The study which will be undertaken by
Acres Shawinigan Limited and managed
by the Resources Recovery Branch of
the Ministry of the Environment will
examine optimum plant siting and
DINTS
design capacity.
"The forest products industry is
particularly susceptible to possible fuel
scarcities and the use of wood residues
as proposed in this study could provide
the type of solution particularlY suited to
the needs of northern Ontario," claims
the Honourable Rene Brunelle, Chair-
man of the Cabinet and MPP for
Cochrane North which encompasses the
Hearst area.
The Hearst study is one of 95 research
and demonstration projects being
carried out under Ontario's Energy
Management Program, which is aimed
at reducing the total demand for energy
in all sectors of the provinces economy.
Energy Minister Dennis Timbre!! says
that his Ministry is looking for a $1
billion reduction per year in energy
expendutires in the province by 1980, and
that information being provided by the
Energy,,,Management Program projects
will be invaluable in assisting to meeting
this goal.
The return to wood as, a means of
generating energy, be it heat or, as in
this case, even electricity, is becoming
more and more acceptable as the cost of
other fuels rise and it is recognized that
wood is a renewable resource. Areas cut
over for fuel wood can be reseeded and,
through proper woodland management,
produce new crops of fuel over and over
Once a gas or oil well is pumped dry,
that's the end of it. It is necessary to
simply find a new well or forget it.
For those interested in the question of
alternative energy sources the
preliminary feasibility study by SNC
Consultants Limited, called 'Hearst
Wood Wsste Energy Study', is available
from the Ontario Government Bookstore --
at 880 Bay Street,Toronto.
of
late
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tit
as
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question Of kickbacks, paid by
ian firms operating on an in-
onal scale, are in the news again.
1 inquiry into dealings by crown
ation and agencies is, being
ded by the Opposition after
entation of $4.8 million in kick -
to foreign customers by a sub -
of Polysar Ltd.. .
've got. to make sure than no
corporation, agency or subsidiary
lved in these fanny -money rebates
Is we've heard about," says Allan
nee (PC - 'Northumberland -
m).
cornments followed a special
CANADA IN
report into the selling practices of
Polysar, a giant petro -chemical com-
pany controlled by the government,
which says rebates to customers may
have been used by the purchasers to
avoid income taxes and foreign ex-
change controls and to defraud 'minority
also states that "windfall op-
portunities— provided one major
customer by the rebates on artifically
high bills could also have given similar
advantages to Polysar International SA
(PISA) employee?, but the report stops
short of suggesting "that such an op-
pOrtunity was taken advantage of".
The report documents more than a
ddzen specific cases of "13jectionable or
questionable practices" in sales !ly
PISA, Polysar's Swiss subsidiary, in-
volving $4.8 million in kickbacks bet-
ween January '1970 and Septembert„of
1970.
Produced by former Ontario Appeal
Court Judge John Aylesworth and David
Stanley, a Polysar director and vice-
-president of Wood Gundy Ltd., the report
claims one case PISA clearly knew a
customer was using rebates to evade
taxes in his home country.
However, it found "nothing to indicate
any actual or attempted bribery on the
SEVEN
part of any employee involved in
negotiating with or sales to customers."
Lawrence, head of the House of
Commons public accounts committee
which will examine the Polysar affair in
a few weeks, said that ."all the way
through, the report alleges illegalities.
We've got to find out if it's still going on
He said there should be an in-depth
examination of how government -related
companies are conducting their
finanbial affairs, adding that the Polysar
matter and the payment of unaccounted-
for agents' fees by Atomic Energy of
Canada Ltd. to promote overseas sales
of Candu reactors form a pattern.
"It all fits into a pattern of absolutely
unbelievable financial operations," he
Despite what Lawrence called
"chocking" contents of the report, it
says one company got $1.9 million in
rebates over two years, Lawrence and
his colleagues got virtually no where
questioning the government about the
matter.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said
he had not had time to read it.
Asked whether the government will
identify to foreign governments the
names of companies which broke the
law with the co-operation of a Canadian
Crown corporation, Trudeau said, "So
far as Canadian companies are con-
cerned, if they did not act illegally or
improperly I fail to see the connection
with thiA allegation about what would
happen in foreign countries and what
Canadian might do about it."
The Polysar report said it is difficult to
understand why the company auditors
did not raise the matter of the PISA
transactions in 1973 after the board's
audit committee changed and the
payments rose to $1.6 million compared
with $900,000 in 1.972.
gan appearing last week, Cuban CBS cort7espandent Moyers. , ,
aent
',‘Carter for a Carter's autobiography„ he said, and
glen in American policy toward admirecil "his-sense.of self --criticism and
arasjand `epe of Morals, a' Certain sense Of z'
y
tha, te tit't4,Tati .:lho Cuban head of state added, "We
41 not'gOing te draw the conelusion that
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41.111i.italliqirtnt1/464. ittieaoier .4iiitee;.' ,:Was the U.S.A.:, that.' declared
iinues their policy of peace and frien-
dship with Cuba, we will be receptive 10
that policy of peace and' friendship
toward Cyba."
The two countries broke ties in 1961
after American banks, industries and
land holdings were confiscatecl. Bet last
Week Secretary .of State 'Cyrus Vance
.Suid his goal Was ••te,,-,‘haVe normal
relation with `Cnba Without pre•
An attitude -c,,,,Oang)had been hoping
for from the.,.-,nemi American ad -
pleased thorn,.
Us, saying, •*1 admire Carter's Playboy
interview for its frankness and honesty.
It .courage to admit one's
huinanity and mistakes."
An summing up the televised in:
terView, Moyer described Castro as
be ng "clearly in a conciliatory mood".
' He wanted to see American
hI10,inessmen, goods and tinirists in Cuba
al4 personally wants to see the Cuban
lrOebtill team play the New York
Yhnk ties ."
,',.>...Kfter reports of that interview ap-
6,1 -a 'In, American papers, President
Ctlit. indicated that he looks
improving relations between the United
States and Cuba.
Carter's press secretary Jody Powell
said, "I dicto't discuss that with the
president but I think it is safe to say he
will consider that to be an interesting
and positive sort of development.
Powell though Carter like "the general
tone" of the televised interview in which
Castro sitid "both Cuba and'the-U.S.A.
will bier benefited by a commercial ex -
A warming of relatiOns between the
Americans and Cubans would be a
considerable' asset to better relations
Canadian government has maintained
relations with Havana over the years
even though that Stance has annoyed
Washington someWhat.
Canadian -Cuban relations becothe
somewhat stunned over the Cuban in-
volvement in Angola and prompted a
campaign in some quarters to Cut off aid
coming through the Canadian
national • Development Agen4Y,
late, however, as Cuba has regtioti