The record, 17 octobre 1990, mercredi 17 octobre 1990

October 17,1990 Births, deaths .10 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Education .5 Farm & Business .7 Living .6 Sports .11 Townships .3 it / THl NDERSTORMS M AH A FL B ASSt.X SSI LENNOX VILLE ELEMENTARY SCMOIX 40 cents Canada’s future: PM considers task force Few march for FLQ on anniversary By Conway Daly MONTREAL (CP) — Quebecers marked the 20th anniversary of the October risis on Tuesday with loud shouts for independence and quiet prayers.The shouts filled the air as about 300 demonstrators marched through city streets, decrying the 1970 imposition of the War Measures Act and denouncing then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau for having invoked the law.The prayers came a few hours earlier when about 60 people attended a funeral mass in a chapel for Pierre Laporte, the labor minister who was kidnapped and slain in 1970 by a cell of the Front de liberation du Quebec.The slogan-chanting demonstrators gathered at Dominion Square in downtown Montreal, then trudged uphill for half an hour to Wes-tmount and Trudeau’s house.If Trudeau was at home, he wasn’t receiving any callers.Pierre Vallières, a leading FLQ figure and the author of White Niggers of America, a key book in the 1960s push for Quebec autonomy, urged Quebecers to keep struggling for their collective rights and for social justice.“The fight for independence is the fight for the most oppressed,” Vallières said through a loudspeaker, his long white hair blowing in the night wind as he stood on the street outside Trudeau’s home.WATCHED CRISIS The crowd, stirred up by drums and whistles, included many people in their 20s whose views on the FLQ efforts came through their own families.“I remember how my parents were jubilant,” Mireille Odette, 29, a social worker, told the demonstrators at the start of the march.She said the hopes of Quebec independence must not be stifled again two decades later.Others admitted they were too young to have any personal memory of the FLQ efforts for Quebec liberation but they still endorsed their cause.The police-escorted march ended outside Premier Robert Bou-rassa’s Montreal office where the protesters burned placards and Canadian flags.After the Montreal police riot squad showed up outside the office and got into a shoving match with demonstrators, the protesters dispersed.Vallières, now editor of a labor publication, said in an interview he could not explain the small turnout but was not disappointed.“I didn’t expect a huge crowd,” he said, noting that several thousand nationalists had marched through the streets of Montreal last June for St.Jean Baptiste Day, the feast of Quebec’s patron saint.Earlier, Laporte’s friends, relatives and ex-colleagues gathered without any publicity at a mass for him in a chapel at Notre Dame Basilica.“I’m the one who had the idea to remember Pierre,” said Gilles Houde, 58, a Liberal member of the legislature from 1966 to 1976 and former cabinet minister who was a friend of Laporte.Houde said Laporte was the real hero of the October Crisis and should not be forgotten while others such as Paul Rose, a member of the FLQ cell that killed Laporte, have recently called on Quebecers to regard the 1970 events as a proud chapter in their history.Houde noted in an interview that a funeral mass for Laporte was celebrated in 1970 at the basilica but the atmosphere was strained because of the tight security at the time, with troops in action after the War Measures Act had been invoked by Trudeau.Msgr.Fernard LeCavalier, parish priest at the basilica who conducted the commemorative service, recalled how soldiers searched rooms in the basilica prior to the 1970 service.“All the people were very excited and nervous,” LeCavalier, 69.said in an interview.“I prefer these days to 20 years ago." In a brief sermon, he stressed the fleeting nature of life on earth “Pray for Pierre," he urged the gathering in the small chapel.By Jim Coyle OTTAWA (CP) — They were not words to cheer the hearts of those Canadians fatigued by constitutional wrangling and national soul-searching.“It’s coming,” Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Tuesday about the federal government’s task force, royal commission or other creation for probing the national psyche.“It’s coming.” Since the messy demise in June of the Conservative government’s Meech Lake constitutional initiative, Mulroney has contemplated a device that would allow much wider public say in redefining Canada and its future He has declined to disclose timing.personnel or details of such a committee's mandate.But Justice Minister Kim Campbell said this week in an interview she expects the government to an nounce the format and players by the middle of next month."I would hope that by the end of the month we would have our proposal put forward,” she said.“It might be a week or two later than that.“As you can imagine, there are quite a number of things on the government agenda at the moment.“We re looking at personnel We re finalizing the notion of the terms of reference.What we want to do is something that has a natio- nal scope and is not simply a duplication of what the provinces are doing." Quebec’s commission on its future — matched by similar panels in Alberta and New Brunswick — began hearings last week Already it has provoked complaints.Julius Grey, president of a group promoting federalism, said Monday that Quebec politicians cannot be trusted to give ethnic and political minorities a fair hearing Ontario Premier Bob Rae.who took office at the start of this month, has said Quebec can hold whatever consultations it wants but must ultimately bargain with the rest of Canada over the fate of the federal system.Obesity is the number-one health problem among cats and dogs, as well as among the humans who over-feed them.And how much is that boa in the window?Don’t ask.You probably don 7 want even a cute snake for a pet, says veterinarian Dr.Richard Bourassa.This is Animal Health Week, and you can read all about it on page 3.ri.cord/jkan potvin Senators fail to compromise By Helen Branswell OTTAWA (CP) — Conservatives and Liberals labored without success Tuesday to negotiate an end to the stalemate in the Senate over debate on the goods and services tax.But both sides were to try again today to break the impasse which has paralysed the upper chamber for more than three weeks.“Nothing has been settled definitively yet,” said Conservative Senate leader Lowell Murray.“We’ve discussed all of the issues exhaustively and we’ll get together (today).” Allan MacEachen, the Liberal Senate leader, said he still thought the talks might conclude successfully.“I think we might do it in the morning.” The talks were aimed at bringing order to the upper house, which has been virtually paralysed since senators returned from their summer break Sept.25.Efforts by the Liberals to forestall — and by the Conservatives to force — debate of the GST have plunged the normally decorous red chamber into chaos.PULLS PLUG Speaker Guy Charbonneau pulled the plug Monday, asking the two leaders to meet him in his chamber to try to negotiate a truce.That followed two hours during which Liberal senators noisily resumed reading petitions — name by name — of people opposed to the GST while Murray and his troops tried to make a motion to move directly to report stage debate of the tax bill.Report stage is reached when a bill is returned for debate after a committee reports on it.On Tuesday, Charbonneau again suspended house business to allow the two sides further time to deal.Shuttle diplomacy was the order of the day, as Murray and his second, Senator Duff Roblin.and M a-cEachen and his deputy, Senator Royce Frith, moved from meeting to meeting, office to office.They emerged about 9 p.m.to say they would break for the night."Drafting or discussing new rules is always a delicate problem," Murray said to explain the length of the talks.“Then there’s the second problem — which is complex — of agreeing on a schedule to get on with the business of the house.” The talks began Sunday after a six-day, round-the-clock filibuster persuaded both sides that they were not going to solve their differences in the house.MacEachen made specific proposals on a number of items that, if accepted, would allow regular business to resume in the Senate for the first time since senators returned to Ottawa Sept.25 for the fall sitting.The proposals were refused Monday morning because they did not address the Conservatives' key demand — that the Liberals agree to set a date for a final vote on the GST bill.But after the chaotic sitting Monday, the Tories agreed to resume talks.The Liberals have offered a ti- OTTAWA (CP) — Liberal senators are acting like clowns as they stall government tax legislation and throwing them out of work is a good idea, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Tuesday.Mulroney, seeming frustrated by the raucous week of delaying tactics in the upper house, again urged Liberal MPs to tell senators to quit blocking the goods and services tax.Mulroney quoted a newspaper columnist who compared the activity in the Senate to a popular Quebec circus.“All you would need is a little bit of make-up and they would seem to be something out of the Cirque du Soleil," Mulroney told the Commons.Mulroney was responding to calls for the abolition of the Senate by the Bloc Québécois, a prosovereignty group of nine Quebec MPs, Gilles Rocheleau, MP for Hull-Aylmer, wrote to the prime minister to urge the Senate’s budget be metable that would allow a number of bills to clear the Senate, including changes to the unemployment insurance program and a bill authorizing federal assistance for the Hibernia offshore oil program.That would mean the Conservatives could no longer blame the Liberals for obstructing the business of Parliament.The timetable also promises a vote on report stage of the GST — the tax bill’s next-to-last vote in the Senate — would take place by Oct.30.But the Liberals refused all Tory demands for a date for the final vote.“That’s surrender, with only negotiating what day we re going to hoist the white flag," Frith said.“And we don’t intend to do that.” The Liberals, who don’t have the numbers to force a daily adjournment.also want regular sitting hours — no more all-nighters or weekends.axed completely to end an “appalling burlesque comedy” that has dragged on since last Tuesday.“They seem to be very good ideas,” Mulroney said.Outside the Commons, Mulroney reminded reporters he had publicly recommended abolition of the upper house in 1987 and said actions by Liberal senators are fuelling demands for abolition from the public.Liberal Leader Jean Chrétien said he warned Liberal senators three weeks ago that a full-fledged brawl against the GST could provoke a “complete transformation” of the Senate.“If he (Mulroney) comes to the conclusion that he has to abolish the Senate, he can start a procedure,” Chrétien said.“I warned the senators that they were running that risk.“They believed strongly enough that the people of Canada want us to fight the GST that they ’re willing to take the risk of losing their jobs." PM: Liberal clowns should be kicked out "There isn’t just one agenda out there," Rae said in a recent interview “There are going to be many." Rae’s presence alone over the next five years will alter the political equation, removing from the mix his Liberal predecessor David Peterson, w ho was a strong Mulro ney ally and backer of Quebec Pre mier Robert Bourassa on Meech Lake.Leading Quebecers have turned the generations-old question “What does Quebec want?" back on English Canada and urged a vigorous bout of self-examination.Senator Lowell Murray, minis ter for federal-provincial relations.praised the Quebec venture Tuesday as a laudable exercise in consensus building “I don't think they're wasting their time at all.” Murray, embroiled recently in upper-chamber unpleasantness over the GST.said it 's essential to achieve a national consensus be fore embarking on another round of constitutional reforms.“There is the importance of trying to achieve some consensus in the country which is lacking now.some consensus about the values we hold in common and the value of preserving Canada.“We don’t think that a constitutional initiative on the part of the government right now is the way to go.” Mohawk raid: Did Elkas know about it?By Daniel Sanger QUEBEC (CP) —An aide to former public security minister Sam Elkas knew provincial police were planning to storm Mohawk barricades at Oka on July 11 but never told her boss, the Quebec legislature was told Tuesday.As the legislature opened its fall sitting, Elkas’s replacement in the touchy portfolio, Claude Ryan, contradicted his predecessor’s frequent assertions that the government knew nothing about the planned raid.The bungled operation resulted in the death of a provincial police corporal and sparked a summer of native unrest in Quebec and across the country.“We operate on the basis that once a minister’s office is told about something, the minister has been informed,” Ryan told reporters after admitting to the opposition Parti Québécois the government had been informed of the imminent raid.But PQ Leader Jacques Parizeau later said the government’s version of events is “too simple” and “rather odd” and suggested the aide, lawyer Hélene Ménard, was being made into a convenient scapegoat.Ryan said that Ménard was informed by provincial police director Robert Lavigne of the planned assault on the afternoon of July 10.The mayor of Oka had been urging police action for several weeks to dismantle barricades that had been blocking a main road in the town since March.“She said, Thank you very much.We look forward to seeing what’s going to happen’,” Ryan reported.TOLD ELKAS Ménard, however, did not inform Elkas of the raid until about 7a.m.the next morning, after the raid had started but before Cpl.Marcel Lemay was slain.Elkas said Tuesday he is still not sure whether he would have called off the raid had he known about it in advance.“I’m not sure things would have changed at all (had I known),” he said.“I don’t now whether it would have been right to interfere with the process of the law.” But Elkas, who lost the public security portfolio because of his handling of the crisis, suggested he is somewhat bitter he wasn’t informed of the planned raid.“I had told my attache that I should be kept abreast.As far as Mr.Lavigne advising me or not — he undertook to go ahead without advising me.” Ryan also said that had Elkas known, it may not have made any difference.“Perhaps the minister would have said in perfect good faith, ‘Alright, be prudent, be realistic but go on, there’s got to be something taking place.’ I’m not sure the minister could have prevented the developments that followed.” He maintained that the police had to take some action to deal with the blockade.“Things were stagnant,” he said.“Some operation had to take place.There’s no doubt in my mind about that.As to the form of the operation, questions will always remain.” KEPT JOB Ménard has not been fired, Ryan said, and is still with the department helping with the transition from one minister to the other.But he said she won’t be staying on more than a few weeks.“No, no.She let me know that after five years she feels she needs a change of atmosphere." Menard was not returning phone calls Tuesday afternoon Parizeau said he was very surprised at the government’s account of what happened.“It’s been a weird episode in the house this afternoon," he told re- porters.“If it was that simple we should have known in the first three or four days.” Asked if Ménard was being made a scapegoat, he replied: “It’s quite possible .Maybe so, maybe so.” But Ryan reacted angrily to (he suggestion that Menard was being set up to take the heat.“If Mr.Parizeau wants to please himself with insinuation that’s his privilege.” Parizeau criticizes economy By Donald McKenzie QUEBEC (CP) — The last time the Quebec legislature sat on a regular basis, Parti Québécois Leader Jacques Parizeau was firing away at Premier Robert Bourassa on the eve of the death of the Meech Lake constitutional deal.Four months later, Parizeau came out shooting again — this time on the state of the provincial economy.“May I ask the premierif, according to him, we are in a recession in Quebec or not at the moment?” was the Opposition leader’s first question Tuesday as the legislature reconvened after its summer hiatus.Bourassa, needless to say, took a slight detour in answering.“When we lost 149,000 jobs in one year (back in the early 1980s), we were in a recession.“When you gain 42,000 jobs, like this year, 3Vi times more than Ontario, and consider that Quebec has 31 per cent of Canadian jobs but 25 per cent of the population, that it has created more jobs than last year, the answer isn’t as clear, even if there is surely an economic slowdown.” Parizeau, his hands clasped tight together as he stared Bourassa down, stormed back with a blast at Quebec’s unemployment rate, which in September rose 0.6 per cent to 10.5 per cent.“He (Parizeau) knows very well that a good reason for the jump in the number of unemployed in Quebec is the increase in the rate of (economic) activity, which in Ontario has gone down,” Bourassa retorted.KNOCKED PREMIER Outside the legislature, Parizeau criticized the premier for not committing himself to any concrete measures aimed at improving the economy.“The debate that starts tomor row (today) on the state of the economy I hope will bring everyone around Mr.Bourassa to say, ‘Please, please, just be realistic, we know you're premier but just be realistic, recognize that we're in a recession and that there are certain things that should be done in rather short order .” Parizeau said that although the current economic situation is not nearly as serious as the recession of 1981-82, the priee of $40 for a barrel of oil is “very dangerous” for inflation and employment 2—The RECORD—Wednesday, October 17, 1990 Baling-wire and bubblegum: Navy does its best with outdated equipment MANAMA, Bahrain (CP) — When Ottawa ordered the Canadian Forces to send three ships to the Middle East in August, officers hastily retrieved a Bofors anti-aircraft gun from a museum and bolted it to one of the ships.The old gun is sturdy and reliable but analysts say it is stark evidence of the depleted state of its warships."The politicians have refused to make the necessary investment over the years but they keep adding commitments,” says Dan Middlemiss, a strategic studies expert at Halifax's Dalhousie University.“The navy simply isn't ready for them.” Alex Morrison, executive director of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies in Toronto and a retired colonel, agrees.“When the navy has to go into warehouses and take equipment meant for frigates under construction — the frigates are long overdue and would have been welcome on this mission — something’s very wrong."This operation has brought into sharp focus the continual neglect of the Forces by successive Canadian governments.” CREWS COPING The men and women assigned to the naval task group have been resourceful — often ingenious — as they coped with the problems of old equipment and ironed out the kinks in new systems added for the mission.But the safety of the three grey ships plying the calm, green waters of the Persian Gulf depends largely on allied firepower around them and a canopy of air cover above.“The bottom line is — on their own in a conflict — our ships would be in trouble,” says Middlemiss.Among the complaints : • HMCS Protecteur, a supply and fuel ship, conducts regular patrols with the warships — something experts say would never happen in a well-equipped navy.CP news analysis By Paul Mooney • The Sea Sparrow anti-air system, one layer of defence, is more than 20 years old and a poor match for Iraqi missiles.• The 503 Marconi air warning radar used on one ship has been out of service more than it’s been functioning since the ships left Halifax.• The 27-year-old Sea King helicopters are well maintained but will need major repairs during the mis- sion Canada will have to ask the U.S.military for heavy transport aircraft to ferry in replacements because the Canadian Forces have no heavy airlift of their own.TIME LIMITED • The Forces’ Hercules and Boeing 707 transport aircraft have been overtaxed ferrying in tonnes of supplies to the Canadian CF-18 fighter base in Qatar.That leaves one flight a week for the naval task group — insufficient to transport the spare parts needed to keep the ships sailing “It’s the baling-wire and bubblegum scenario.” says one officer.“The government sends us and we do the best we can with what we have.“It’s the navy’s old can-do attitude.” Middlemiss is critical of several aspects of the operation."You don’t use an oiler like Protecteur for patrols."An oiler is supposed to stay out of harm's way while warships sail to it for fuel and supplies.It's a big target and carries a lot of gas.“But they had to go with what they had.” TRIALS TROUBLED Canada bought the Sea Sparrow system when Britain decided it no longer wanted it.In trials off Halifax in August, the system missed one rocket fired from shore.It then hit a second rocket just as the target was about to disappear into the ocean.“They should have bought Sea Wolf systems and put them on all three ships,” says one officer.“No serious navy uses Sea Sparrow any more — certainly not the model we have.” A technician from Marconi Canada sits in a Bahrain hotel room in case there’s more trouble with the radar on one ship.“It’s a piece c* garbage, absolute garbage.” says an officer.“It’s been down more than it’s been up since we sailed.” Where would that leave the vessel if not for its sister ships and the allies0 "A target.” comes the swift reply.“A blind target.” Morrison says the government has learned little from the experience."There will be more budget cuts and base closings,” he predicts."But governments do the Canadian Forces a severe injustice when they deny them the equipment they need for the jobs they’ve been asked to do for their country.” And what will the navy do to sustain this mission if it lasts into next year?"We’ll suck it up and say: ‘Aye, sir.Can do, sir.’ That’s the way we’vealwayscarriedon.Whatelse can we do?.” Independence: Is former hardliner Parizeau going soft?By Donald McKenzie QUEBEC (CP) — Parti Québécois Leader Jacques Parizeau must feel that the shoe’s on the other foot these days.An independence hardliner in the 1970s and early 1980s, when many of his colleagues preferred a more cautious approach, Parizeau is now considered a slowpoke by many of the PQ’s younger members.The PQ youth wing endorsed a resolution this summer calling on a PQ government to declare Quebec sovereignty immediately after the next election — even if the party doesn’t get 50 per cent of the popular support.The proposal urges the PQ, “af- ter it is elected democratically, with a majority of seats, to immediately declare Quebec’s sovereignty.Quebec, having become a State, will give Quebec laws priority over Canada’s laws.” As of this week, that position was supported by about one-third of the PQ’s riding associations although it has been rejected by Parizeau and the rest of the party executive.They want negotiations with Ottawa and then a referendum to follow an election victory But in a possible move to placate the youth, Parizeau toughened his position last week and shortened the time span for negotiations with Ottawa to a few months.“When people see what’s going on in Eastern Europe, there are a whole lot saying: ‘Hey, we thought it could take years but maybe if the PQ takes power, it could happen quite a bit quic ker ’, ” he told a ne ws conference.LABELLED GRADUALIST Parizeau laughed heartily when asked by a reporter if he thought it strange that in certain circles he is being called an etapiste—the term first coined in the ’70s to describe PQ members who wanted a gradual approach to independence.“Two years ago people thought I was going too fast.I haven’t changed position but with the idea of sovereignty going up fast in the polls, people think maybe we could go a bit faster and look at me and think ‘Isn’t he dragging his feet’.“I’ve seen this debate crop up periodically within the party since 1973.It’s not new.That’s part of political life.” Montreal Le Devoir publisher Lise Bissonnette had some harsh words for members of the youth wing in an editorial Tuesday, describing them as “masochists.who are willing to run the risk of losing the next election by making it a referendum.“There was a time when Jacques Parizeau hardly valued the step-by-step approach.If he appreciates it more since becoming party leader, it’s obviously because no other process meets the demands of democracy.” PQ faithful in the Quebec City-area riding of Chauveau have come up with yet another scenario, one which would force the party to call a referendum after the election and then discuss the transferring of powers.OFFERS COMPROMISE Raymond Brouillet, Chauveau riding president, believes his position might serve as a compromise between the youths’ position and that of the party executive.PQ whip Jacques Brassard said he doesn’t think the debate will force a rift in the party similar to the one in 1984-85, when several ca- binet ministers, including Parizeau, protested because of former premier Rene Levesque's decision to mothball independence as an election issue.“Back then there was a climate of passion, and very virulent confrontations between the various factions,” Brassard said.“That isn’t the case at the moment.” Brassard believes the youth’s position will be discussed openly, and defeated, at the party’s convention in late January.“I’m convinced that those in the minority will no doubt rally to the majority and that the party will emerge just as united as before.” Akwesasne: Mohawk reserve get $25 million for community improvements CORNWALL, Ont.(CP) — The Akwesasne reserve will receive $25 million from the Canadian, Ontario and Quebec governments for community improvements, says Akwesasne Grand Chief Mike Mitchell.The money will go toward the onstruction of nine different community facilities and into economic development funds, he said Monday.“We have worked on this major undertaking ever since the Mohawk council was elected in 1985,” he said.Mitchell said a tentative agreement was drafted some time ago by the Akwesasne Special Task Force, made up of members from the three governments that exist on the reserve, which straddles the Ontario, Quebec and New York State borders.However, the deal was not ratified until last Friday when Mitchell met with Quebec’s new native affairs minister, Christos Sirros.“The federal and Ontario governments have always gone along with it,” Mitchell said.“But then Quebec, with all the trouble there, didn't want to sign.“They told us they were going to sign it, but that it would have to wait.So when the new minister came in, I was really concerned that it would get swept under the rug.” Mitchell said that fear was one of the reasons he met with Sirros on Friday.“I came back with a signed document committed on behalf of Quebec, so we’re under way,” he said.The money will be used to build an arena, three recreation centres, an adult training centre, a health ALBANY, N.Y.(AP) — New York state should repeal the government it established almost 200 years ago on the St.Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation and allow residents of the violence-plagued reservation to decide their own future, a state legislator said Tuesday.“I unequivocally reject the idea that the state has the authority to unilaterally intervene in the internal affairs of the Mohawk people,” said Assemblyman Steven Sanders, chairman of the governmental operations committee and a Manhattan Democrat.“Our relations instead should be based on co-operation and mutual respect for each other and for the treaties which form the basis of our relationship,” he said.Sanders said he hopes his proposal would heal a longstanding rift between the state and federally authorized reservation government, the Tribal Council, and the reservation’s traditional chiefs, the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs.In May, two Mohawk men were shot to death as gun battles erupted between pro- and anti-gambling forces on the reservation that straddles the U.S.-Canadian border in northern New York.CASINOS CLOSED Following the shootings, state police occupied the reservation that Mohawks call Akwesasne and closed the casinos there.Nova Scotia SYDNEY, N.S.(CP) — A Micmac leader wants the Nova Scotia government to establish courts on the province’s two largest reserves, Eskasoni and Shubenaca-die.Historian Sakej Henderson, in a brief Tuesday to a provincial task force on court reform, also propo sed more education about natives for judges, lawyers and court workers.Henderson made the presentation on behalf of Grand Captain Alexander Denny, a Micmac spiritual leader.facility, a chronic care facility, a police station and a justice administration centre.Construction will begin in some cases as soon as this fall, Mitchell said.A home for seniors is already Gov.Mario Cuomo has asked the legislature to authorize negotiations on the reservation.Direct discussions between the Cuomo administration and the elected tribal chiefs broke down in August.Since then, the Mohawk leaders have gone to federal court, complaining that the state has refused to negotiate in good faith, as The task force was touring the province to hear submissions on how the province’s court system can be improved.The brief's seven recommendations reflect some of those made last January in a royal commission report on Donald Marshall, a Micmac who spent 11 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.“We’ve seen the recommendations of the Marshall inquiry, (but) we haven’t seen any implementation,” Henderson said in an interview.“And we haven’t seen anyone try being built in Snye, Que., and is due to open later this month.In addition, $1 million will be set aside for economic development and managed by a group called Simplicity in Obtaining Available Resources.The agreement means the Akwe- required by federal law, over gambling.Sanders said his committee will block Cuomo’s legislation.“There is no question that the public safety would be further jeopardized by legalizing casino gambling at this time,” he said.Sanders also rejected Cuomo’s proposal to establish an indigenous to figure out an educational system to create the next stage of integrating (Micmacs) into the court system.” The brief calls for a court-worker program at the University College of Cape Breton in Sydney that would train staff to deal with problems Micmacs experience in the courtroom Henderson said judges must be educated to understand how natives view the relationship between law and culture.By holding court on reserves, natives could see how courts function sasne community will finally get the community facilities it has desperately needed for years, said Mitchell.“I am especially proud of the focus on recreational facilities for our young people.” police force on the reservation, saying tensions are too high right now to remove the state troopers.Sanders proposed establishing a state police substation near the reservation.He also said the governor should appoint a special prosecutor to deal with crimes unique to the reservation, such as cigarette and petroleum smuggling.on a daily basis “instead of just when they’re charged with something,” he said.Panelist Doug Keefe, a senior policy and planning adviser in the Attorney General’s Department, agreed the court system must be changed to meet Micmac concerns.“That doesn’t necessarily imply you have to have a stand-alone justice system to address that,” he said.“In fact, our view is that if our justice system is adapted to meet their needs, they’d be satisfied with the system.” Mohawks angered by non-native police MONTREAL (CP) — Officers on the Kahnawake reserve’s native-run Peacekeeper police force are angry about the Quebec government’s decision to send non-native police to patrol highways on the reserve, south of Montreal.The Mohawk community’s 15 Peacekeepers intend to continue patrolling highways that criss-cross the territory — even though RCMP, provincial police and military police will also be on the job, assistant chief Peackeeper Warren White said Tuesday.“We are still assertingour jurisdiction over those roads,” White said in an interview “Those are going to be the best policed highways in the world.Don’t commit any violations, because somebody will be bound to see it.” He said that town councils of nearby municipalities have already expressed faith in the Peacekeepers’ ability to patrol the highways.Before the summer-long Mohawk crisis, many nearby town councils passed resolutions supporting the Peacekeepers’ efforts to obtain more financing for beefed up patrols, White said.The presence of outside police forces — who have not patrolled the community since 1979, when a provincial police officer fatally shot a reserve resident— will only create more tensions in Kahnawake, White said.“The community is angry — and the Peacekeepers are too,” he said.“We feel we re quite capable of doing the policing of those roads.” The Peacekeepers are proceeding with plans to hire more officers, despite the government’s decision to patrol the area with non-native forces. 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