4 UPEI News | The Cadre + 3 November 1995

Asecond by-election for | Students call for science students | release of *Continued from page 3 feels that the elections were not to vote at all. | censored APEC

Some students were not not publicized well enough. Some concerns about the aware that the elections were The polling station in voting atmosphere were also docu ments taking place. particular was not clearly raised. There was no screen to

The dates for the elec- identified, which Gaudette vote behind, making some stu- tions were publicized in only callsa“lapseof judgement.” dents concerned about their pri- one editionoftheCadre, along Hefeelsitcreatedconfusion vacy. | OTTAWA -- A University of British Columbia student i with the candidates' names. in the minds of students, es- Gaudette suggested that | asking the Federal Court to quash government attempts & Also, the dates for elections pecially since other groups even one polling station box, | Withholdcertain documents from the APEC inquiry in Vancow are required to be advertised were using the Breezeway much like the ones used during ver. in all campus media, but only during part of the elections. provincial or federal elections, |

By ALEX BUSTOS

Earlier this month, RCMP and government officials filed

the extension date was placed. Other students agree. would make a difference. Poll- | ceed dea a eerste Fee toa vat However, posters call- One second year arts ing boxes may draw attentionto | <mmit of 18 Pacific Rim leaders.

ing for nominations were student felt the elections the elections, he said. . In response, UBC post-graduate student Jonathas placed around campus earlier were “very downplayed.” “It would approve the ap- | Oppenheim -- one of the organizers of last year’s protest at the this year. Shealsocommentedthatthe pearance of professionality,” | Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit on the univers:

Chris Gaudette, newly platforms of the candidates added Gaudette. elected arts representative, were unclear, prompting her

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ty’s grounds -- last Friday signed a court application demanding | the full release of all the censored material. . “We're going before the Federal Court and asking fore | | judicial review,” Oppenheim said in an interview. But federal government officials insist the documents | question must be censored for reasons of national security oreign relations, third-party interests and cabinet confidence > “Releasing information of this nature could reasonab!) | be expected to have a chilling effect on the degree to which the representatives of Canada and foreign states may be forthright in their negotiations and relations,” wrote John Donaghy, ! director in the Department of Foreign Affairs, in an exemptio® certificate filed Oct. 9.

Full disclosure of the requested files, said Donagh) would reveal the identity of sources in the Indonesian gover ment, harming relations between the two countries.

Police authorities also joined their government counte parts in calling for the deletion of certain passages from th APEC-related documents

In an exemption certificate dated Oct. 13, Vancouve' RCMP Supt. C.R. Kary said the contested APEC materia contains RCMP secrets detailing the police force’s surve'! lance methods and identities of undercover agents.

“The release of information disclosing security arrang< ments, plans, confidential and secret (RCMP) methods o* techniques of protection would render them ineffective,” wrot¢

| Kary.

But Jaggi Singh, a former UBC student who was arrested without charge during the APEC protest, says it :

| absolutely necessary to disclose the kind of information Kar) wants to hide.

Prior and during last year’s APEC conference, say: Singh, members of the student-led group APEC Alert wer: spied on by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service.

“I was part of APEC Alert and I know it was never 2

| threat to the life of any Asian leader,” said Singh.

“What was CSIS saying about us? What was the nature

d b vt . 0 > of their surveillance?” he asked. “(And) why can’t we sec | these documents?

rop Y tetas In order to find out the answers to these questions, Singh

| argues, Ottawa must release all APEC-related material in its

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