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-We rarely find ourselves in. agree- ment with Creditiste’ Leader Real Caouette, but we think he.was right
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1966. |
-in—saying that there are more |
important matters before Parliament than the rumpus that has developed «over a controversial CBC television program, and refusing to support a Conservative motion for a full-scale debate on the subject. In any case, the motion was ruled out of order as ir- relevant to the non-confidence motion
then before the House, and: the--
Speaker took the opportunity of point- ing out that the House had already taken action on the matter-by refer- . ring the estimates relating to the CBC to the standing committee on broad- casting. It was now before that com- mittee, and the appropriate witnesses could be examined.
Parliament may yet have to deal
with the long-festering feud between |
CBC. management and a group of pro- ducers supported by an elite group outside the corporation. As State
Secretary .Judy: LaMarsh stated the
other day, the current quarrel is but
___“the visible part” of an iceberg of
CBC problems. But in, the meantime there is a massive legislative program
_o-t,-t0...be...dealt...with..which.« includes,
7 ~~and British Columbia, a science eoun-~} >
among other things, a $500 ‘million |
fund for health grants during the next 15 years, higher university grants, a $50 million fund for rural development, a new agency to dis- tribute feed grain in Eastern Canada
cil, a revised Bank Act, new railway legislation, the Canada Assistance Plan, tighter bankruptcy controls, new immigration laws and goodness knows what else. It was hoped a real attempt would be made to get down _to business when the session resumed after 12 days of holidaying, but there is no sign of it materializing. :
Even during the holiday period, the Prime Minister ‘and the Opposition leader kept trading bitter words with each other—Mr. Diefenbaker charg- ing that the Munsinger inquiry re- sembled a “star chamber”’ set up by the Liberals to punish him, and Mr. Pearson replying that his arch op- ponent had ‘poisoned the atmos- phere”. And since the sittings resum- ed on Tuesday the old -wranglings over non-confidence motions have taken priority.
Did the Opposition really expect. to topple the government on_ these motions; and if so, did they think. the country would stand for another, gen- eral election at this time? The answer to that may lie in the fact,.as reported by the Canadian Press, that when the MPs returned from their holidays they divided their time Tuesday between the Commons and their tele- vision sets. TV sets were installed in both government and Opposition lob- bies-‘‘so- -that- the -members-~eould
" follow.the debate and the Stanley Cup semi-final game. between Chicago
“Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings,”
—again, of course, at the taxpayers’ expense. While the hockey game was a close_one, the vote in the Commons wasn't; nor apparently was it expect- ed to he. : z .
Language Difficulties
It is. now announced that the next report of the B and B Commission can be expected some time next fall, and that it will deal with. bilingual- ism in the public stagols, constitu- tional problems involving bilingual- ism, minority rights_and cultural _af- fairs generally Subsequent reports will contain detailed and more spec- ific recommendations relating to var- ious aspects of cultural relations. At my present. it is intimated, the commis- sion is busy compiling and analyzing “reams of factsand_ figures. about “Canadians never published before.” The more facts and figures we get,
of. course, ‘the beter. Meanwhile the commission will find some. at least. of its work done for it in the statistics
| inquiry, and should be studied by all
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| decapitated.
_ cent spoke English but not French;
‘
ed by the department of immigration, they represent the first detailed coverage of this important field of :|
concerned about our language dif-
ficulties.
These figures show that in 1964,
French but not English; 44.46 per
3.95 per cent spoke both English and French; 45.76 per cent spoke neither -English nor French. Despite efforts to promote French-speaking immigra- tion, and the official counselling of potential French-speaking immigrants that their best opportunities lay in areas of Canada with a substantial France-speaking population, the pro- portion of ‘those who spoke French but not English fell to 5.20 in 1965. Immigrants who spoke English but_ not French’ totalled 50.58 per cent; those who spoke both languages, 3.49 per cent; and those who spoke neither, 40.73 per. cent. Counting only those mho. gave Quebec as their province of destination last-year,19.15- percent spoke French but not English; 29.62 per cent spoke English but not French;—10 percent spoke. both languages; and 41.58. per cent spoke neither.
Nearly all the 40.73 per cent of im- migrants who arrived in Canada last year, unable to speak English or French, will learn one of these languages; but: with few- exceptions, not both. It can hardly be doubted | that the overwhelming’ choice will be English, although a greater propor- tion of those settling in Quebec may ' opt for French. The figures show, at any rate, that more than 79 per cent of last year’s immigrants gave prov- inces other than Quebec as their destination. It is also:intimated that a substantial ‘but: unknown proportion of immigrants reaching Canada, in- cluding those settling in Quebec, act- ually desire to move eventually to — English speaking United States.
This is just one phase of the pro- blem, of course. But it points up the | fact that with the best will-possible ‘on the part of all concerned, the job of making the nation proportionately more bilingual is going to be a tough one. :
_ London Brushes Up
_ Britain, reports a London news letter,-is suffering from World-Cup mania. But it’s quite a healthy disease: It-is expected to_bring in more than 100,000 soccer fans from ‘countries overseas who_are hoping to see their favorites win the big event in July. Meanwhile London is polish- ing itself for the occasion. St. Paul's Cathedral stands'gleaming. white on Ludgate-Hill, and-that-strange obelisk on the Thames Embankment—Cleo- patra’s Needle—is having its 68 feet 6 inches, 188 tons, cleaned up.
It is a single block of pink granite from the quarries of the Suwan (the modern Aswan), on the east bank of the Nile. Believed to have been first erected at Heliopolis: at about 1500 | B.C., it was presented to the British | people in 1819 and floated to the U.K. Why Cleopatra? No one seems to know, for there is nothing in its his- tory which has anything to do with: the gracious lady, apart from the fact that they came from the same_part of the world.
And a 13-ton, 13-foot-long lion in coade’ stone has been moved outside Waterloo Station to a new site on Westminister Bridge nearer the Grea- ter London Council headquarters, the County Hall, standing on the river- side nearly opposite the Houses of Parliament. Then, of course, there is Nelson’s-head from the statue in Dub- lin which;was blown up as a prelim: inary to the anniversary celebrations of the Dublin Easter Rising, 50 years ago. Why pick on Nelson? The Eng- lish don't know; but they claim. to have the head, in addition to the one on Nelson’s Column in London’s Traf-
; algar Square which hasn’t yet been
This hasn’t much‘to do with the World Cup mania, which already has
| shoved Prime Minister Harold Wilson
off the main news pages. But London- ers find it a good excuse for doing a real clean-up job. Almost everyone will want to stay there. and commute to—Liverpool, Sunderland—Sheffield,— or wherever the matches happen to be held. And a lot, of tourist money will flow into London coffers as a result.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Ani unpleasant but too accurate way of describing a modern motorist. notes the Ottaway Journal, is U.S. Senator Agraham Ribicoff's descrip- tion: ‘“‘a fugitive from :the law. of averages.”
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By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen dent Johnson's recent visit to {payments situation requires this
More than 85 per cent of those with recurrent headaches can be helped; regardless of cause. Since the majority stem from tension there usually .is a rela- tionship between a stressful per- jod and the onset. of pain. In
| Meki¢o City, his first to a for- | stipulation. ~ /eign capital since entering the , ‘ : \White House, appears to have |Americas met to draft a.new | been impromptu. P
It also was one that pleased | American States and wound up ithe president by all |because of the warmth of the | version and the 19 Latin-Ameri-
At Panama later, the
‘charter for the Organization of
accounts |with the. U.S. supporting one
these circumstances, the indivi- jpanie welcome. The president can nations another,
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THE SHARPSHOOTER
OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson
Here And There On Parliament Hill
Mr. Justice Wishart Flett®
Spence, the judge of the Supre- me court who is presiding over the Munsinger imvestigation, was criticised for holding his first: hearing not: only in camera but even in secrecy. It is being whispered on Parliament Hill that the reason for this was to preserve the incognito of seve- ral RCMP under-cover agents, who were called to give evid- ence that they were shadowing certain of the leading figures in
| the case over.a period of seve-
ral weeks. The need to protect the future ‘usefulness of such under-cover agents was suffi-
|-cient justification for the sec- | recy; but it makes one wonder | what sort of a Gestapo_we have
in Canada, and who operates it? REMEMBER YOUR TAXES —
The soaring annual costs of the CBC have been a source of
uneasiness - to....several_.govern-.
ments and to many MPs. It has recently become widely known here that the budgets for cer- tain programmes were being over spent, not once but repeat- edly, and this despite warnings and orders. Parliament appro- ves the CBC budget annually; if that budget is exceeded, Par- liament ‘must levy higher taxes from you to cover that excess spending: —
-« How come our MPs have per- mitted this to go on, without
raising every kind of rumpus?
stance of any MP questioning whether the management of the CBC was in fact maintaining this elementary financial disci- pline. over. the junior echelons. Certain~ producers now being blamed for overspénding their budgets may be the guilty of- fenders; but every nonchalant. MP is guilty as an accessory for condoning it. When will our highly paid MPs get around to policing the wanton ture of the monies of their high- ly taxed constituents? SELLING CENTENNIAL’ ~~ A correspondent in Quebec | City writés to remind me that the Centennial Council is spred- ing propaganda to urge private industry. to promote the 1967 Centenary. But the Govern- ment has overlooked the exam-
Commons uses a picture of the Parliament Building as_a_can- cellation mark on postage stamp on letters mailed there. Could- n’t this very headquarters of government: set an example by displaying the Expo 67 emblem or the Centennial emblem or even the Maple Leaf instead? YOUR’ SHRINKING
only 69 cents in Toronto. That is | the worst depreciation in pur-
expendi- |
I cannot recall one single in- | nities over the past 17 years.
| health care has risen most.
| costs.
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| Prices, caused in part by short- ple it could set, he points put. ages of labour The..Post. Office_in. the House of | but eaused more. by... pyramid- | ing taxes and high interest rates,
|
DOLLAR | The 1949 Dollar is today worth fought desperately against the
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| course” food have “all “marked
| sold for
| fied. needs including those of a
| with. meaning. In -children,
results are obtained. when. the |
tions or suffer the conseduene- es. Overambitious plans, crowd- ed -schedules, irregular eating habits, long auto. rides, exhaust- ing shopping tours, too many visitors, too little sleep, and striving for perfection in house- keeping and children's behavior should be avoided.
So many emotional and inhér- ent factors are involved in head- ache that it is sometimes diffi- cult to-. determine
| later.
has: closer personal ties with | |Mexico as a Texan t jany other foreign land. /
There were suggestions the being circulated. president, his mind temporarily at least-diverted from his trou- | Mexico proposed a Latin-Ameri- * | bles in Viet Nam; might ry- the {can summit conference, it was |foreign - travel formula again | interpreted—by Americans
the exact | rope and India.
The U.S. desires more general langua 1 ‘fa ; the 19 other nations. Both are when Johnson
However, in
at ‘least—as falling on more recep-
That ‘remains to be seen, with | tive ears. | Canada's invitation still on the }agenda as well as numbers of by the U.S. im February last | others from Latin-America, Eu- | year and met a mixed recep-
The same.idea was canvassed
tion’ Then came the Dominican
cause. Allergy is an example, | But what also is of signifi- | affair.
especially among those
late their . distress to certain | but independent Mexico—which | Latin-American recognizes
foods or inhalants. Discomfort | still
re- | cance is the visit to friendly |One factor perhaps making a
summit more Communist {desirable for all concerned is
varies from a dull ache to a |Cuba—came at a time when |the Communist meeting spon-
classie migraine.
food offenders and-dust, ‘pollens, orris root, and are the inhalants. These’ offend- unless--the.victim—.also—has— strong allergic back- ground and a.definite cause .and effect exists. Many of these persons also develop nasal congestion. Hostility is a common. cause; the same.can be said of unsatis-
“giant of
|
sexual] nature. Tension creates painful muscle spasm in_ the scalp and neck. ‘‘He gives me a pain in the neck’’ is a cliche the attacks may stem from depres- sion, guilt, or -stress about school.
Good ‘old_aspirin—is-the num- ber one headache remedy... Best
| Tent
| At Buenos
| gram
medicine is taken before the pain is fully established. Bed rest also is important as many find distress ‘disappears after a good ‘night’s sleep. Antihistamin-
jrathet than
Prices of every daily require- | ment, from housing to health | care, from recreation to food, | have. soared in that period. The | largest- increase among. our_ten | big cities has been a leap of 95 per cent in the cost of health care in Saint John, N. B. In Saskatoon - Regina that jumps has been “‘only’’ 55.5.per cent, by far the country’s lowest. Tobac- co and alcohol have held the line best; maybe that’s why
Récreation, ‘transport and of
above-average ‘increases’ in
As for life insurance, every. buck. of that cover Iwas “family. protection’ - twenty years ago is today worth a pathetic ‘‘five bits’. Rising
and materials
are. today the top beef of Cana- | dians writing to their MPs.
Our Yesterdays
es may help those with aller- gies and ergot or methylsergide helps those with migraine. sine
The number of headaches us- ually lessens after middle age. Be sure to consult-your physic- | ian when head pain persists and especially when it remains in | the same area.
PUBLIC HEA MATTER
Vv. D. write at is meant by-reportabl@/ diseases? ‘
REPLY.
These are the illnesses that the physician must report.to the | jealth department because they have an effect upon the com- | “munity as a whole. Smallpox and diptheria are examples and the list varies in different loca- tions, depending upon local rul-
es. i TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—
Reserve an evening or two away from-your brief case. iL
| United States Milk,’ wheat, egg ‘chocolate, ;Latin - America were showing
nuts, and-pork are the common (80me signs of stress. 98 These -conditions~ tend to’ be | er England (CP)
relations
animal dander | Chronic, abnormally so at times such as the U.S. intervention a ers are. difficult to incriminate | Year ago in the Dominican Re-
The cause is, simply Latin-_| American sensitivities about the : the north’’—senti- ments akin to periodic emer- gence of Canadian concern about being overshadowed by ithe big neighbor.
Two recent conferences gave ‘fresh evidence of the old _ ail- in hemisphere
and..the.other-American__states_ |reviewed five years of the Al ‘liance for Progress, the aid pro- launched by .President Kennedy which has been show- _ing signs of trouble.
One Latin -. American com- | plaint—U.S. aid tends to be’ tied to American - produced goods stimulating Latin- |American production. The U.S.
Annual Dinner Meeting P.E.1. Division Canadien Association . for. Retarded Children : . WED., APRIL 27th - 6.00 p.m.
1 Basilica | Recreation Centre Guest Speaker: Dr. Alan Roeher
Executive Director Canadian Association for Retarded Children
sereo4
(From The Guardian Files)
TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO. (April 23, 1941) British and Greek troops
Germans north of Athens after .
| chasing “power experienced in the entire northwest Greek arm- any of our ten largest commu- jes collapsed and King George |
PUBLIC
FORUM
SUPPORTS DEMANDS Sir,—The Civil Service Feder- ation of Canada
; sents some 80,000 classified civil
servants, prevailing rate em- ployees, ships’ officers and ships’ crew. employed in the Fe- deral Public’ Service™ strongly supports the current demands of local construction workers who are seeking nothing more than a wage scale which will permit them to provide their families with the necessities of life and to live in dignity in their respec- tive localities. This they cannot do on the wages presently paid by most of our local construc-
| tion firms. oi The Federation considers that —
wage rates in the Atlantic Re- gion are, generally speaking, far Insofar as the current rates for hourly. paid workers employed throughout *this- pro- ‘vince are concerned we feel they. are absolutely disgraceful. The Federation is very concern- this situation because the rates paid to local Federal Government employees, who are employed as labourers or: trades- men, are based on those which prevail locally. on
We have been advocating for some time that the Federal Government take the lead in es- tablishing adequate wage struc- tures for its hourly paid work- ers in depressed wage areas such as this. The introduction of the Canada Labour (Standards) Code on July 1, 1965, resulted in the establishment of a minimum
| rate of $1.25 for all Federal Go-
vernment employees. This ac- tion brought about a slight im- provement. in the situation inso- far as the lower paid classifita- tions were concerned but did absolutely nothing for our mem- bers who arqemployed in class- ifications where the rate was al- ready—above—this—minimum,—; It-is-becatise of situations-such as this that members of the Fe- deration have advocated the en- actment of appropriate legisla- tion which would permit rates of pay and working conditions with- in the Federal Public Service ‘to be established through the pro- cess of collective ‘bargaining. It appears that this long sought
f gent may now be, approved by
rliament during the current
| session. However, the fact that
we have not as yet been certi-
.fied as a ‘bargaining agent for
employees within the Federal.
Public Service has not prevent- |
which repre- -
ed us from making effective re- ‘presentation on their behalf.
It is noted that a representa- .
itive of the P.E.I. Builders Ex- | change has stated that they :
would be willing to negotiate |with the union concerned if it becomes certified in- accordance. with the Industrial | Act of this province. To suggest that the employees must first have their bargaining agent cer-
| Side Rotary Club, Others elect- ied were:
Relations |
| Daley, Dan Chan and John
tified under this Act is tanta- |
mount to saying that the question should remain solved until this is accomplished. The situation is, in my opinion, far too serious to consider this type of delay.
It should be noted that many employers enter into collective jlabour agreements with their employees without first requir- ing them to become certified un-
wage
| der the appropriate provincial or |
federal industrial relations leg- islation. In that it is quite evi- dent that the unions ‘concerned have the support of the majority |of the construction workers, “as good employers the various con- struction firms should, through the P.E.I. Builders. Exchange, nominate their representatives and instruct them to enter into negotiations with the appropriate union representatives imme- diately. The demands of the con- struction workers are modest when compared to rates. paid comparable classifications in other Maritime centres. None but the blind can say that no wage problems exist. This fact must. be realized and the sooner the legitimate grievances of the construction workers are acted upon the better it will be for all concerned. ».
If_ representatives of the con: struction industry and the con- struction trades cannot on their own come together and com- mence—negotiating in_good faith
unre- |
-then—it-is-time—forthe—Minister—}
of Welfare and Labour to take an active part in this dispute. ~The least he can do is call rep- resentatives of the ‘disputing parties together and through his good office develop ways and means wherehy ‘this impasse. can he resolved to the satisfaction of all concerned. The situation is far too serious for further inac- tion on the part of the Provincial Government. Yours truly, —
W. SINCLAIR MacLEOD
Field Representative, Civil Ser- vice Federation of Canada.
-+II and his Government abandon- |
ed Athens for the Island of | Crete. f By
Britain's second new battle. ship, the 35,000-ton Prince of Wales, was commissioned.
TEN YEARS AGO - (April 23, 1956)
Vaughan H. Groom was elect-
ed as president of the Summer-
R.L. Mollison, vice- president;Garnet Peck, secre- tary; Fred Davison, treasurer; and directors. Bill Young, Frank Cam- eron, .. : ; ;
Island members of the Legis- lature-barring those in the Cab- inet—went home’ $450 richer in extra sessional pay when the House prorogued last March 29, it was reported, but the windfall was kept a tight secret until the previous weekend.
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