The record, 18 mars 1991, lundi 18 mars 1991

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The game, billed as "Canada's most popular Government Lotte ry " paid out nearly $900 million in cash prizes last year, all free of Canadian taxes, said the notice.The advertisement, w hich included an order form for choosing six numbers on the 6-49 board, offered subscriptions ranging from 20 draws over 10 weeks to an entire year JUST LAY 2nmiN IN SOMB CHAR66S jup/nL.Am blow me ^TeeAe PAMAôe?UP' ' he is seeking to replace a fourth member who opposed the state of emergency — the representative of Kosovo, formerly another Serbian province.PARALYSIS II Milosevic succeeds, the presidency would be unable to draw a quorum and would be completely paralysed.The Defence Ministry, in a statement carried by Yugoslavia's Tan jug news agency, said Sunday the military is "completely united in the assessment of the very difficult situation in the country and the measures which need to be taken in connection with it.” But it did not indicate what those measures are.Opposition sources and news reports, however, said the armed forces remain divided on whether to back Milosevic.BY GARRY TRUDEAU HB MHl NEVTP we up powbpj.NEVER, I SAY' THEN WE \ must seize IT T0NI6HT.') THEY «/EPF.PRA66EP OFF LAST NI6HT.WE FEAR me WORST.I’LL TUL wrpim MYseir' Ft weseetATOBe ATTRACTIN6 A VERY IN TEPeSPNG amieie, sir./ Y BAH, TOO INTBRBSTm CASH ONLY, GOT IT?/ > » Thi- HKCOHI)—Moiulav.March l>.litMl The Townships —____ tsecara Landry: Bourassa heading both ways at once By Rita Legault FLEURIMONT — Even if Pre mier Robert Bourassa waits until next year before calling a referen dum on Quebec sovereignty, he will lose the battle to keep Quebec in Canada, says Parti Québécois vice-president Bernard Landry.Landry was in town Sunday tc launch the PQ fundraising campaign for the riding of St-François.The party hopes to raise $2.35 million across the province.In St-François.the goal is about $12,000.Landry said PQ fundraising won't be hurt by the Liberals' recent turn toward sovereigntist ideals and Bourassa’s speech last Sunday saw to that.At their convention last weekend the Liberals voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Allaire committee proposal by which Quebec would give Ottawa a strict deadline to hand over many powers or face a referendum on sovereignty by the fall of 1992.À DAMPER Landry, who sat in on the convention, said Bourassa s clo- Bernard Landry.Liberals 'Haven't a clue.' sing speech put a damper on the pro-sovereigntist stand and may have disappointed many Liberals — especially the youth wing."The Liberals became sovereigntist but that changed overnight." Landry said."Bourassa s speech had the effect of dropping tonnes of ice on the convention.'- Landry said the Liberals are turning toward sovereignty despite Bourassa s best efforts."The idea Bourassa has been fighting for the past 20 years has taken root in his party," Landry said, adding that the Allaire proposal hasn't a hope in a million of being accepted by the rest of Canada."It’s like the Byzantine arguments on what sex angels were.” he said, adding that the debate is "dividing Canada without building Quebec"."It will just humiliate Quebec again because they will say no,” Dunham standoff ends in peace DUNHAM (JMi — A long but patient police operation ended with no loss of life early Friday mornin The drama began on Loiselle Street, about 2 kilometres from the Cowansville Quebec Police Force détachement when 36-year-old Serge Goulier threatened to take his own life.Goulier allowed his wife and two young children to leave the house.They alerted police and a friend Denis Allard, who went to the home and attempted to reason with Goulier.who had recently been dismissed from his job in Cowansville.Goulier pointed a .12 gauge shotgun at his friend and told him to leave, police said.The area was sealed off by the QPF and a tactical squad was called from Montreal.During the afternoon, a school-bus containing the Goulier children pulled up at the entrance to the crescent-shaped street and was sent back to the QPF detachment, where parents were advised to pick up their children.ON THE NEWS A QPF officer who lives nearby told the Record his mother-in-law was upset when she saw his house on the 6 p.m.news.The stand-off continued for almost 16 hours until early Friday.Goulier surrendered at about 3:45 a m.to QPF Cpl.Réal Chateau-neuf.No shots were fired or tear gas used as reasoning prevailed.Goulier appeared in Cowansville court Friday afternoon on a criminal charge of illegally aiming a firearm at Denis Allard Goulier wanted to plead guilty, however lawyer Claude Hamann spoke to him.then opted for jury trail.Crown attorney Michel St-Cyr said he had no objection to Goulier being freed on the condition he live with his father in Ville Brossard.His preliminary hearing was delayed for the form to March 26.Bluto: The wife’s turn By John McCaghey COWANSVILLE — Following a bizarre chain of events earlier this year, the 44-year-old wife of recently convicted rapist Denis Vachon has been ordered back to jail pending dispositon of all her cases.Theresa Bluto appeared before a Justice of the Peace Thursday and was remanded pending a bail hearing Friday.Through defence lawyer Gerson Foisy.Bluto pleaded not guilty to a list of charges including theft of a $594 cheque from Lucie Rochon’s mailbox in Glen Sutton, counterfeiting, and uttering the cheque in Sutton, defrauding Jacqueline Cyr of an amount less than $ 1000 in Sutton Township, illegally aiming a firearm and threatening the life of Trevor Conniff, and illegally ai- ming a firemarm and’grievious assault on G ary Smith in Glen Sutton.Most of the crimes occured between Jan 21.and 27.Foisy elected jury trial on the criminal charges and proceedings on the summary conviction offences were delayed to March 22, the day of Bluto’s preliminary hearing.PHONEY NAMES Crown attorney Henry Key-serlingk called Quebec Police Force Det.Marcel Lachance as his only witness at the bail hearing.Lachance said Bluto had prior convictions for vagrancy in Quebec City and Montreal and she has used aliases, according to information obtained from the RCMP.Lachance told Foisy he didn't think Bluto was dangerous because the QPF had seized her .22 calibre rifle."She said she shot in the air to scare off a snowmobiler on her property, but the snowmobiler said the snow was flying around his seat.” the veteran polieman explained.Prosecutor Keyserlingk told Judge Jean-Pierre Bonin Bluto had earlier been freed on conditions pending her trial Oct.28 on trafficking of marijuana, extortion and assault, all allegedly in the Mansonville area during 1988.The Crown suggested she should be detained.Associate Chief Judge Bonin ruled Bluto was a danger to society, revoked her previous conditions of release and moved up the drug and extortion trial to May 13.Landry said.MINIMUM TO MAXIMUM Landry said Bourassa demanded the minimum w ith the Meech Lake accord and.when it was refused he got angry and demanded the maximum.He said Bourassa is changing the Liberal position without waiting for results of the Bélanger Campeau commission investigating Quebec's constitutional future, which he named himself.He said Bourassa has lost control of the commission and a majority of members are now p r o -sovereignty.Landry said Bourassa doesn't understand what the past 20 years have cost Quebec.He said 20 years ago Canada had very little public debt but if Quebec were to separate today it would have to pay its 25 per cent share of the $400 billion national debt.If he drags it out another 20 months.Quebec will lose even more." Landry said.UNEMPLOYMENT Landry said that Quebec's metropolis.Montreal, has an unemployment rate similar to those in N e w f o u n d 1 a n d and New Brunswick."When things go bad in Toronto they have an unemployment rate of 6.5 per cent." he said."In Mon- treal.when things are going well the unemployment rate is closer to 10 per cent, and when things aren't going well it climbs to 15." "That not just economic misery," Landry said."That's human misery.” “Quebec is being governed by people who haven't a clue of what they are doing." he said, adding that Bourassa has made the mistake of choosing "son parti avant sa patrie" — that is.the party before his homeland.Landry's visit will be followed by one from party leader Jacques Parizeau.who will attend a PQ benefit dinner at Le Baron hotel April 18.Early start: St-Pat rick's Day came early to Tom Leonard’s Sherbrooke office again this year as the popular notary closed down at noon and began fixing Irish coffee for all who dropped in.Leonard sampled the whipped cream as guests Jackie Blais, son Kevin Leonard, Ruth Bureau and Rev.RECORD,KITA LEGAULT Blair Ross await another of his famous shots, enjoyed with shamrock-shaped shortbread cookies.Guests confide that the secret to Leonard's potent coffee is to keep the Irishman busy so he forgets if he’s added the whiskey.Then he has to pour in a little more.One dead in Route 108 crash SHERBROOKE (DH) — A 19-year-old man died early Saturday after the car he w'as in went out of control and crashed outside Len-noxville.The Quebec native — w'ho police refuse to identify pending notification of next of kin — was ejected from the back seat of the car when it went off the road on a curve in Route 108 near Route 251.The man wras crushed to death when the car rolled over him.said Lennoxville-Ascot police chief Richard Tremblay.Driver Nancy Jelenic, 20, of Islington.Ont., apparently lost control after she entered the curve too fast.Tremblay said."It looked like they didn't slow down." said Tremblay, adding that Jelenic may have been unfamilar with the road.The accident occured at about 3:35 a.m.Saturday.There were three people in the car.Jelenic and passenger Shane Meagher, 20, of Thornhill, Ont.were slightly hurt."To date we have nothing to indicate alcohol was involved,” Tremblay said.Sgt.Peter Martin, w'ho was at the crash scene, said the speed limit in the area was 90 kilometres per hour and “there was no real brake marks, also." Det.Richard Collard is investigating the crash.Eyes and ears: Cabbies to work with city police By Rita Legaull SHERBROOKE — City police have 75 extra pairs of eyes and ears since they signed on the help of lo-ca1 taxi drivers.The new program, based on one in Gatineau, encourages closer links between the police station and taxis cruising city streets.The program is named TIPS for Taxi, Involvement, Prevention and Security.Cst.Marc Bérubé.Not a parallel force.According to project coordinator Cst.Marc Bérubé.the idea is to get cabbies to report accidents and fires, and even keep a lookout for missing people.Taxi drivers taking part in the program are given basic training in everything from first aid to reporting an incident to police.They also learn self-defence.TEN COMMANDMENTS To take part in the program drivers must undergo a security check and promise to obey ten taxi cab commandments, ranging from keeping their cabs clean and wearing neat uniforms to keeping their cars in good condition and posting a TIPS logo on their doors.Police chief Léon Paquin said the program will provide police with an additional 70 pairs of eyes on the watch for accidents and suspicious happenings.However the drivers won t be a parallel force.Bérubé said, and the police don't want cabbies to intervene in crimes, fires and accidents.They will report emergencies quickly to allow the proper authorities to act.Bérubé said police hope the cabbies will report not only crimes in progress but also situations which could put the public in danger such as open manholes missing road-signs and burned-out traffic lights, which they frequently notice dri ving around the city searching for and transporting customers QUIC K REPORTS "It's important that these things be reported as quickly as possible." Bérubé said.Bérubé said taxi drivers and police already co-operate but don't .î always communicate effectively.The new program will train the drivers to know what situations to report.when to report them and how.« I Gatineau policeman Jean Paul Dubois, originator of the taxi operation.was on hand for the announcement Dubois said the three-year-old program has been a huge success in Gatineau, a suburb of Hull.Last year one taxi company made 517 calls to Gatineau police, he said.Eleven were for fires and more than 100 for accidents with injuries.Some of the calls saved lives.Dubois said.He said thedrivers are given pictures of missing persons and composite sketches of violent criminals thought to be in the area.But he said the cabbies are rarely-involved directly so as not to endanger their safety.MORE RESPECT Dubois also said the program's image has improved since it began.He said most local cab companies are members of TIPS and insist that their drivers become members.Some passengers will only ride with TIPS taxis, he said."Local hotels and companies want TIPS service only,” he said."They refuse others.They prefer to wait " Since the program began, he said not a single driver has been accused in any criminal procedure In the meantime a Hull driver was accused of drug traf-ticking and an Ottawa cabbie has been charged with raping two customers.He said "bad" taxi drivers avoid Taxi owner Jacques Boucher is one of about 40 Sherbrooke cabbies already involved in the TIPS safety program.\ m,\m the program.“Those who don't want clean taxis — they don't come to us," he said."They hate the program.” Jacques Boucher, a taxi owner who drives for Sherbrooke Taxi, the city's only taxi company, said he likes the program He said about 40 local drivers have joined TIPS and others will follow soon.# Cst.Jean-Paul Dubois.More respect for cabbies. -The KKCOKI)—Monday.Marrh is.PHII #¦___ tcecora The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Use local papers to advertise civil service jobs A special committee studying ways to increase anglophone participation in the Quebec civil service has recommended that government departments use local English newspapers to advertise job openings.In making the recommendation, the committee acknowledges the importance of the community newspaper in delivering a personal message to readers.An ad placed in a local newspaper packs a wallop because it speaks directly to the reader through a vehicle as familiar to them as the pucker in the kitchen linoleum.Most subscribers will tell you the local paper is a regular fixture on the coffee table, and has been for generations.The only time it moves is when the next issue arrives.There’s a certain reverence associated with it.It’s unlikely anyone will peel the potatoes on the mayor’s face, or line the bird cage with the town’s oldest citizen.Yet this perfectly logical fact has eluded provincial money-spenders for nigh on a century.English-language newspapers like the Record, the Stanstead Journal, and the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph have been around for more than 100 years.And most publishers can count the number of times the Quebec government has spoken directly to their readership.To be kind, one could say Quebec inadvertently neglects to inform a quarter-of-a-million English Quebecers every week — many of whom rely solely on their local paper for important government information.The prevailing assumption in Quebec City appears to be that English Quebecers who don't subscribe to the Gazette don’t really need information about AIDS, the new provincial sales tax or where to buy a fishing license.And if they don’t live in Montreal or Quebec City, it’s assumed they wouldn’t be interested in working there.The total weekly circulation of English-language community newspapers represented by the Association of Quebec Regional English Media (AQREM) is 242,155.According to 1990 Presentation Measurement Bureau (PMB) figures, each issue of a community newspaper has 2.7 exposures, which means it gets looked at an average of 2.7 times.In English Quebec, that means an ad will receive about 650,000 exposures.The committee was right to alert the government to this powerf ul vehicle for transmitting messages to a targeted population.If the Quebec government is serious about increasing anglophone representation in the public service, it will act immediately on the recommendation.A personal message delivered to anglophones on their own turf udll go a long way toward making them feel comfortable enough to consider the offer.SHARON McCULLY Letters Wales Home: You’re the best Editor: I've worked 10 years for the Wales Home in Kichmond — due to a work accident (back operation), my services are no longer needed there.It saddens me when I see the Wales Home being ridiculed about the care.If only you could have been in my shoes and seen what goes on there.Everyday the nurses are run off their feet with work, the patients are well cared for.We mustn't forget the domestic staff.They too are to be praised for the cleaning of the Wales Home.The coroner should go down and give his time at the home for one day — then he may feel sorry for the garbage told in the Record.If we had a few more thoughtful people like the matron, Mrs.Marion Perkins (she truly cares for the elderly), all the homes would be a super nice place to live.Wales Home, you're the best.NANCY DUBOIS Richmond Miserable life endured by circus animals Dear Mr.Bury.Re: the article «March 6) about the school children s bus trip to see the circus in Montreal.I enclose a folder which draws attention to the miserable life endured by circus "wdld” animals.I am certain that if the public were made aware of what goes on behind the glamor of the ring, they would not enjoy watching animals being forced to perform unnatural, useless and de- WKIfe 5S>i, grading tricks.When not on stage, they are chained or confined in cages, denied the freedom they would have in the wild.They are subjected to long, weary hours of travel in all weather.Training and handling methods are often harsh and cruel.I urge parents and teachers to explain the above to their children and students, so that, watching elephants standing on their heads, tigers jumping through hoops, lions rolling over on command etc., the children will feel not admiration, but pity.Perhaps then, one day, every circus will be like our own Cirque du Soleil which, in spite of using no animals, has become such an outstanding success not only in Canada, but across the United States and in Europe.Yours sincerely, LORNA CASGRAIN N.Hatley Thanks m Dear Sir, Thanks again for the stamp you sent me.It helps to spend long winter days.Being a grandfather recently, my wife and I are preparing to go to church on St.Patrick's Day.for the baptism of little Vanessa.My son will drive us to church, because we have still bit of pain walking with my cane.The ceremony is in St.Hubert.Thanks once more of thinking of me.God bless you.YVON DONAIS Longueuil Have referendum this year, says Mouvement Quebec 1991 Government: acts of institutionalized racism Managing editor Ronald Barbour writing in Fehrua-ry'sedition o/Kahtou.a monthly newspaper of the Native Communications Society of British Columbia Within days of starting off the new year I received as a part of my incoming mail, a joint communique from both the federal and provincial governments announ cing the funding of wonderful new literacy projects.Gerry Weiner (minister of state for multiculturalism) is quoted as saying that the funding "affirms our commitment to making Canada a literate society." Noble words from someone who less than 11 months ago announced the federal funding cuts to the native communications programs.Sixteen per cent budget cuts were levied against the native broadcast media while the native print media received a whopping 10(1 per cent cut.Is this the same Gerry Weiner who made rather gran diose pronouncements before the House of Com rnons in May of last year boasting of Canada’s acknowledgment of 1990 being the International Year of Literacy and how this issue would be a priority area for the government?Does this mean Canada interprets their activities in dealing with literacy last year a roaring success?Or just another episode in the Canadian government’s at tempt at keeping us ignorant, uneducated “wards of the state" through their acts of institutionalized racism?— From "What Canada Thinks", a regular feature of The Canadian Press.Today in history.March 18 1091 Lord Stanley, then governor general, donated a cup 99 years ago today — in 1892 — as an award for the best hockey team in Canada.The Stanley Cup is the oldest trophy competed for by professional athletes in North America.Originally presented to the amateur hockey champions of Canada, it has been awarded to the top professional team since 1910.Also on this day in : 1850 —The American Express Co was set up in Buf falo.N Y 1907 The U S.oil tanker Torrey Canyon broke up on a reef near Land's End.England.Beaches were conta minated by oil along 480 kilometres of English coas tline By Sue Montgomery MONTREAL (CP) — Talking to Mouvement Quebec 1991 about the future of Canada is like talking about how" to save a doomed marriage.Lots of talk about needs, feelings, desires and misunderstandings.But not a heck of a lot of hope for reconciliation."It's a bit like a relationship where one of the two really wants out but the other one says, ‘but I can't see why because this is really working so nicely."' says Lucie Bcauchemin, the Mouvement s soft-spoken public relations officer.Everyone’s fed up — English Canada.Quebec, the rest of the world, she says.So it's time to get out.says the latest sovereigntist movement to join the ranks of commissions and groups with an opinion on the future of Quebec and Canada.And the sooner there's a referendum the better, says the Mouvement.Born on Valentine's Day, the group already boasts a 50,000-strong membership list with names of everyone from union leaders to artists to militant feminists.The group's only income is a $5 membership fee.it is opening 13 regional offices to recruit members and push the Liberal government of Premier Robert Bourassa to hold a referendum this year Come spring, they say, they'll take to the streets.MAKE IT WORSE’ "A decision has to be made now because if we delay it we re just going to make matters worse in the sense that the rest of the world is progressing," Bcauchemin said in an interview in the organization’s sparsely furnished office.Bourassa.however, says there will be no referendum until 1992 because he wants to negotiate with Ottawa first.Beauchemin, who has worked as a press aide for the Parti Québécois and more recently as a freelance public relations officer, says her experience of living and working outside Quebec and Canada has given her a well-rounded understanding of the problem.That includes knowing about the frustration in English Canada of constantly having to hear about Quebec."It has nothing to do with their lives ortheirproblems,’’ said the motherof four, leaning forward in her chair."The problem is not one of those things you can resolve through good will and understanding,” said Beauchemin.44.one of four full-time employees hired by the Mouvement.“It’s that the interests and aspirations are different.The only way to really function in terms of neighbors is for each one of us to be sovereign.” WILL BE PAINFUL She then goes back to the divorce analogy, explaining how painful the separation will be initially."There comes that point in the lives of communities and individuals where you can look at each other and say we like each other: we just can’t live under the same roof." The Mouvement keeps its eyes peeled for key Quebec personalities to woo to its ranks.At times, it seems, it has been a bit overzealous."I am very angry about this.I have never belonged to the Mouvement nor do I have any desire to join any movement like 1991.” said a bewildered Rhonda Mawhood.president of an association of Quebec graduate students.Mawhood.a student at McGill University.said she had presented a brief to the Bélanger-Campeau Commission in support of sovereignty and was approached by the Mouvement to join.She refused, but her name appears on the Mouvement’s membership list among a fçw other anglophones.Italian-born playwright Marco Mi-cone.on the other hand, supports the group wholeheartedly.He sings the praises of the benefits of capitalizing on an ever-expanding immigrant population.Micone, 46.came to Canada at 13 but didn’t realize until five years later that most people in Montreal were French.He studied for a BA and MA in French literature.He became politically active only in 1975 — after his divorce.GOT DIVORCED “I had been married for four years to an Italian who had been born here and I was very much surrounded by anglophones," he said in a soft, steady voice.“In 1974 I got divorced and found myself free.I found 1 could give way to my ideas without taking into consideration the opinions of anglophones and my wife.” Micone said he was the victim of a backlash from the tightly knit and then-federalist Italian community when he joined the Parti Québécois."They said I was selling out to the French, betraying my community, that I was crazy.I was a communist,” said the distinguished-looking Micone.who speaks fluent English, French and Italian.Micone.now a father of two and married to a francophone, divides his time teaching at a local college and writing about immigrants.He says there has been a real shift in the immigrant community towards accepting what sovereigntists want.“More and more the Quebec minorities accept that French is the norm here.So by accepting that, the step to independence is much shorter,” he said, sitting on the blue velvet couch in his home in northeast Montreal.The majority, however, aren’t yet ready to accept independence, he said.“But the main organizations representing these communities have spoken very publicly in favor of French and say they are ready to go along with whatever the majority of Quebecers decide.” END QUARREL Serge Demers, 46, director general of Quebec’s 4.(M)0-strong union of artists and president of Mouvement Quebec 1991, says it’s time to put an end to the 30-year quarrel with the rest of Canada.“There has always been tension between the federal government and Quebec,” says Demers in his posh sixth-floor office.“That’s a lot of wasted energy."Why should we Quebecers try to impose on the rest of Canada a decentralized government just to please the people of Quebec.It’s irrational.” The clean-cut father of an 18-year-old daughter has the Mouvement s symbol pinned on his chest — a white fleur-de-lis sprouting from a green stem and leaves.He seems to emanate the self-confidence he says the sovereigntist movement has developed since the 1980 referendum on sovereignty-association — except when asked what w'ill happen after a referendum."That has to be left to the political parties,” he said.“It’s like the Tower of Babel and no one knows how to solve the problem.” Will Acadians suffer discrimination if Quebec separates?By Chris Morris MONCTON, N.B.(CP) — The francophones of New Brunswick are worried history will repeat itself.The early Acadian experience in New Brunswick was one of isolation and prejudice and they’re concerned that a dismembered Canada would return them to much the same condition.A special committee has been struck by Acadian organizations in New Brunswick to review the options for the province's roughly 250,000 francophones in the event Quebec separates or there is a decentralization of power.Michel Doucct, a law professor at the I diversity of Moncton and one of the driving forces behind the committee.says that in a new Canada, there would have to be a radical rethinking of the relationship between French and English in officially bilingual New Brunswick.I certainly think the best thing to happen would be that the federal structure not change too dramatically aid Doucct.a past president of the New Brunswick Society of Acadians.But in the event of change, Doucct says Acadians will have to look out- side Canada for a new model.DIVIDED COUNTRY He cites Belgium as an example.There he says the two linguistic groups, the French and the Flemish, cohabit comfortably in a country they’ve divided between them He said a possible option for New Brunswick may be the creation of distinct French and English regions in the province and a dual system of institutions and government services.The worst scenario for the Maritimes in general and the Acadians in particular would be the separation of Quebec.‘‘Quebec has legitimized the French language in these parts of the country." says Paul Comeau, executive director of the Nova Scotia Aca dian Federation, the main lobby group for the province’s roughly 39,(MK) francophones."II Quebec had not been present over the past 25 years, our language situation would be much worse than it is today." However.Comeau and other Acadian leaders agree that a sovereign Quebec would not mean the end of Acadian culture.They believe Acadians will persevere, no matter what, as they have for centuries.It’s not just the possible separation of Quebec that has Acadians alarmed.Proposals for a decentralized federation pose equally worrying problems for the Maritimes.LESS MONEY If the regions are given more power.they’d probably have less federal money.Transfer payments to the poorer provinces are already being squeezed by Ottawa.Further cuts may force New Brunswick to reconsider expensive bilingual programs and services.“Let’s say the transfer payments are downgraded even further in a decentralized Canada,” speculates Rhéal Gervais.president of the New Brunswick Society of Acadians "How would that affect, say, health care for Acadians?” Gervais says looming changes in Canada are the reason Acadian groups are pushing from entrenchment of Acadian language and culture rights in the Canadian Constitution.Gervais wants a provincial law entrenched that would give the Acadians equal right to the same in.stitu lions as anglophones.It would also oblige the province to pay for institutions like separate schools, hospitals and cultural centres.The province has balked at entrenching such a potentially costly clause but Gervais said it’s essential."We know Canada is goihg through a great reform right now, and New Brunswick could be a leader," says Gervais."New Brunswick led the way in 1969 by adopting official bilingualism .it could be a leader again in 1991 by entrenching this bill and pushing for minority language rights, with or without Quebec." ANTI-FRENCH FEELING Acadian groups will have to act quickly.Anti French sentiment has re-surfaced in the Maritimes recently and may grow stronger as a result of Quebec's aspirations.Comeau hopes anglophone Mariti-mers will recognize the differences between Quebecers and Acadians.“It’s a question of trying to convince people that we re not responsible for whatever political decisions are taken in Ottawa and Quebec." says Comeau."We’ve been here for close to four centuries.We've made our contribution, we’ve helped build the nation.Can we be looked upon and treated for who we are, not for who we’re not — we're not Quebe cers." Farm and Business Thi* KKt'OKII—Mond»>.Manh 1H.I9HI- the* #1___«si iœcara Diamonds are the economy’s best friend OTTAWA (CPi — A diamond may well be a federalist’s best friend.The diamond in this case is the gem of wisdom in an influential theory espoused by American Michael Porter, a Harvard School of Business economic guru and author.CP News Analysis By Clyde Graham Porter was hired last fall by the powerful Business Council on National Issues and the federal government to head up a $l-million study of the Canadian economy.It’s just one of the major studies being drafted by the Industry Department.Economic Council of Canada, major companies and think tanks as Canada gets an economic going over.DIAMOND THEORY At the heart of Porter's work is his so-called diamond theory — a four-sided model that attempts to explain why countries have competitive advantages in different areas.Porter says the four facets of his diamond are strong competition, demanding consumers, supporting industries and training equipment and research.His 1990 best-selling book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations.is also based on the concept that business firms — not governments — compete on world markets.Porter says the role of government is to give home-grown companies fertile soil to grow in without sheltering them from global markets, competition and innovation.His study of Canada, scheduled for release this summer, is supposed to become a touchstone in a major debate on the future of the Canadian economy.COLLISON COURSE Big business groups, such as the Business Council, are increasingly worried about competition from Asia, Europe and even Latin America.“It will provide a focus for pu- blic discussions on the global challenges that will confront individual Canadian firms and their workers in the years ahead.” says a recent statment by Harry Rogers, deputy industry minister.The issue of competitiveness is now on a collision course with Keith Spicer and his road show review of Canadian unity.Just as Quebec and Ottawa are ready to haggle once again over the division of powers, a host of economic issues also turn on the relationship between Ottawa and the provinces.For example.Finance Minister | Michael Wilson has already launched discussions on giving the provinces more taxation powers at the same time he’s restricting transfer payments for health, education and welfare.RENEWED CONFERDERA-TION In the end.the best federalist argument against Quebec separation may well be that it is a cold competitive world out there and the best chance to prosper is in a renewed, competitive.Confederation.Donald Fullerton, chairman of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, made the link in a speech delived last week in Montreal.It was no coincidence that Fullerton, whose bank is a member of the BCNI.called his speech ‘‘Crafting the Diamond: Constitutional Change and Canadian Competitiveness.” Fullerton never mentioned Porter by name, but a diamond analogy ran through the speech at every turn.‘ ‘The effort under way to refashion Canada's Constitution is an operation every bit as delicate as the cutting and polishing of a fine gem,” said Fullerton.“I can see, probably as clearly as anyone, the potentially negative implications arising from separation or divisive change,” he said.Other countries will be making hay in Canadian export markets at Canada’s expense the longer and more difficult the constitutional debate, said FuUgrton.“The last thing we can afford then is to neglect the issue of competitiveness as we sort out our constitutional problems.” By Sylvia Strojek CALGARY (CP) — Ottawa’s argument in favor of the goods and services tax has no sound basis, the lawyer representing Alberta said Friday in wrapping up the province's opposition to the federal levy.“Canada’s constitutional argument is ground in the wrong soil., .quicksand,” John Hooke told the Alberta Court of Appeal in Calgary.“My friend has tried to dismiss this intrusion as a mere spillover, but it’s more like a tidal wave sweeping away much that is within provincial powers.” Rooke was referring to the argument put forth by federal lawyer Brad Smith, who said some matters of provincial and federal jurisdiction are so interwoven they cannot be separated.“You don’t have watertight compartments,” he told the five-member appeal court panel earlier in the week.“Provincial matters can spill over into federal matters sometimes and federal matters always spill into provincial matters." Alberta, the only province without a provincial sales tax, wants the appeal court to scrap the seven per cent tax on 'he grounds it is illegal.Ontario and British Columbia are also part of the chal- lenge.The judges reserved their decision.A large part of Rooke’s argument was based on a clause in Canada's Constitution which says one level of government cannot tax another.Rooke also argued the tax is unconstitutional because some phases of its collection are unnecessarily intrusive on a province’s property and civil rights.Smith countered by saying there is nothing in the Constitution to li mit the government on the kind of tax it can impose.He added the aim of the tax is valid and therefore the tax itself is valid even if there are serious effects on the province.The levy's effect on Alberta is to take money away from the province by taxing the sale of provincial goods and services such as natural gas, Rooke said.Ontario lawyer John Cavarzan argued the tax is illegal because the federal government used what he said was an unconstitutional procedure to pass it.The Mulroney government invoked closure upon second reading of the tax bill late last year to end debate and force a vote.That denied the opposition the constitutional guarantee of free speech, Cavarzan said.Reorganization keeps milk truckers trucking By Allan Swift MONTREAL (CP) — Every day of the week.700 big tank trucks head out on their Quebec routes to pick up fresh milk for processing plants that churn out butter, cheese, ice cream and bottled milk And every day.some of the trucks meet each other on the same lonely stretch of country road.In effect, they are competing against each other because they represent different owners.So beginning this month.Que bee's huge dairy industry is starting a major program to rationalize the trucking of milk.The goal is to have fewer and fuller milk trucks driving shorter distances.Leo McDuff, who works for the federation of milk producers, said in an interview.“In the end, everybody will save.” said McDuff.The program is part of a major reorganization of Quebec s dairy industry, which began a few years ago.mainly to deal with the fact that people are eating less butter and drinking less creamy milk.AVOID WASTE "The goal is to be as efficient as possible,” Claude Bergeron, who works for the agricultural marketing board, said in an interview."We have to eliminate needless transportation from the farm to the plant, and some transfers from one dairy to another.“You have truckers driving for the co-operatives and truckers for private producers, and these truckers meet each other constantly on the same routes," said Bergeron."That'sonefactor we want toeli-minate by rationalizing ’ Another goal of the agreement, signed in February after months of intense negotiations, is to set fixed transport rates for all milk producers.No matter what the distance between the farm and the dairy, producers all over Quebec will pay the same rate.Bergeron said.Getting all the interveners in the industry to agree on a plan was a challenge in itself Negotiations involved five sometimes-competing groups: dairy giant Agropur Inc.; a co-operative of five independent dairies which broke away from Agropur; the federation of milk producers; the as sociationof milktransporters; and another truckers' union which be longs to a group of producers.The Quebec Department of Agri culture was involved too.in a mediating role, through the marketing board.“When I arrived at the board in 1985 they were talking about this, and it has just been resolved." Bergeron said with a laugh "Well, at least they’ve agreed to sit at the same table." FACED FRICTION Rene Cormier, an economist with the Department of Agricul ture, said in an interview the nego tiations were difficult.“At first, there was a lot of friction : who does what, who represents who." Cormier said the agreement, which lasts for three years, is just the beginning It determines the rules of the game, and sets up the process, including arbitration.” The arrangement provides for two committees which will oversee the rationalization of milk routes, set rates for the truckers, and assure dairies of provisions.They can impose arbitration in cases, for example, where two trucking firms can t agree on whose truck gets dropped from a route.Quebec cow s produce 2.8 billion litres of milk a year.The province has 14.200 dairy farmers, but Cormier notes their number drops by 100 to 500each year, as demand for milk dries up.Quebec's markets are protected by a quota system, and Quebec gets 18 per cent of the country’s industrial milk quota.Constitutional argument ground in quicksand Bank-owned insurance companies — ‘a joke?’ TORONTO (CP) — The combination of growing competition, inflation and unemployment, and a decline in real estate values caused a 44 percent drop in profit for Manufacturers Life Insurance Co.last year.Now the company says it is threatened by changes in gover nment regulations that could hurt its position as a world leader.“A number of pressures collided to produce one tough market,” Thomas Di Giacomo, chairman, president and chief executive officer, said at Thursday's annual meeting ot the Toronto based life insurer But l!i!H may be no happier, he said, because of proposed changes to the federal legislation that regulates Canadian financial institutions.He said the proposed legislation would weaken his company in the domestic market, and make it far more difficult to compete abroad."Current proposed regulations .are.in etleet.a joke, he said, referring specifically to changes (hit) will allow banks to own insurance companies."What possible public good will he served if the banks end up domi nating all financial services?Where will be the competitiveness then?How will the consumer be served?" 3 Out of 10 Canadian Students Drop Out.And We Pay The Price.Every year, 3 out of 10 Canadian students drop out before finishing high school.And they realize all too soon that it isn't as easy as they thought.The fact is, over the next few years, the majority of new jobs will require a high school education as a minimum.Without it, young people simply won't have the Dropping out is no choices, the opportunities or freedom they're looking for.When 30% drop out.over 100,000 students a year.it affects everyone — parents, educators, employers, Canadian society as a whole.Making sure that young people stay in school is important for all of us.and more important today than ever before.way out.Let's do something about it.1+1 Government of Canada Minister of State for Youth Gouvernement du Canada Ministre d’État à la Jeunesse Canada «—The RECORD—Monday.Marc h IS.Living —__tel mam Social notes Sharon French Speaker at bridal shower Canadian Club Sharon French, a May bride, was the guest of honor at a shower held the afternoon of February 24 at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Aubrey French On arriv al Sharon was surprised to see her three bridesmaids, as she thought she was attending a birthday party for her aunt Muriel who was here from Beulah.Mich.Corsages were presented and pinned on Sharon, her mother Elizabeth and future mother-in-law Janice Brazel.by her aunts.Muriel and Carol.She was escorted to the living room which was decorated wdth pink balloons and ribbons, white and pink bells.Muriel.Julie Rainville and Meagan Thomas presented the bride-elect with her gifts.After they had been opened.Sharon donned her hat made from the pretty-bows and ribbons.Muriel w-as surprised to receive a corsage, a gift from her sister Carol, also other gifts and a lovely decorated cake.Everyone sang the Happy Birthday song to her.Lavina French and Verna Westgate.Lunch was served by the hostesses Lavina French.Brenda Thomas and Blanche French, assisted by others.The beautiful shower cake, made and artistically decorated in pink by Donna Nugent was cut by Sharon and served to everyone.Muriel also shared her cake with all the guests.Video cameras were busy all afternoon.To add to a very enjoyable afternoon, the deer came out for all to see.Everyone wished Sharon much happiness in her married life.—.Kimon V alaskakis The Women’s Canadian Club of the Eastern Townships is looking forward to their next dinner meeting which will take place at Hotel le President on Thursday, March 21, 1991 at 6:30 p.m.The guest speaker for the evening will be Kimon Valaskakis who is founding president of the Gamma Institute and the chairman of Isogroup.He is also professeur-titulaire de sciences economiques at the University of Montreal.He has written six books - one entitled ‘Canada In The Nineties’ which will be his topic for the evening.Celebrates 50th anniversary Engagement announced Friends and family recently joined in celebrating the 50th wedding anniversary of Fred and Ellean Palmer of Rock Forest.They weree married on Friday.February 28, 1941.Happy anniversary.Mr.and Mrs.Junior Harvey of Dunham, Que., are happy to announce the engagement of iheir youngest daughter Trudy, to David Stoddard, youngest son of Mr.and Mrs.Richard (Dick) Stoddard of Waterloo.Que.The wedding is planned for August 1, 1992.Sad evening at the club on last Ladies Night of the season Mrs.Clara Robinson honored on her 92nd birthday WINDSOR (DM) — Mrs.Clara Robinson, a resident at the Wales Home in Richmond, was honored at a dinner party and afternoon “open house” on the occasion of her 92nd birthday.February 15.The following day, Saturday, at noon, her family gathered in the 4th floor Reception Room of the Home for an old fashioned chicken pie dinner.Present with the guest of honor, were her sister, Ruby-Berry of Lennoxville; her immediate family.Cliff and Mary Robinson and Mildred Holliday; grand- Engagement announced Mr.and Mrs.Gordon Pow announce the engagement of their daughter Deborah to Mr.Denis Turcotte of Granby, son of Mr.and Mrs.Ernest Turcotte.A fall wedding has been planned.Baptism COMPTON — The infant daughter of Richard and Faye Nichols of Compton was baptized at St.James Church.Hatley, on March 3$ Rev.Curtis Patterson offi ciating.The baby received the names Krystal Dawn.Godparents are Janet and Patrick Molony, auni and uncle of Krystal.Following the service, Richard and Faye entertained at their home, where a delicious turkey dinner was served.OVER 500 WEDDING GOWNS KSKNEI GOWNS M DISCOUNT MIKES BY •Uissa «Demetrios «Sposabella «San Martin •Allred Angelo «Jessica McClintock •Bridal Originals •Bill levkott •And many more famous designers At low as fa Sizes 3 to 2 8Vi s9995^ TUXEDO RENTALS AT 25% OFF ENDS MARCH 31st From >95 * 1 children Bill and Nancy Holliday, Gary and Line Holliday and daughter Jessica; nephew Lyle Robinson and wife Yvette.In the afternoon, from 2 until 4, many friends dropped by to wish Clara a Happy Birthday and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee with birthday cake and ice cream.The family were assisted by friends Sandra Pariseau, Doris and Wanda Taylor.Among her many cards were those from family and grandchildren in Seattle.Washington.Phone calls were received from a grandson.Bruce Robinson in Spaniard's Bay.Newfoundland, and a niece.Muriel Muth.Northeast.Maryland.Clara would like to thank all the relatives, friends and organizations who remembered her with such beautiful cards, and to all who came to make her day so very special.It was much appreciated.St.Agnes Guild meets SHERBROOKE—The St.Agnes Guild met at the Wark home on March 7 with the President, Mrs.Florence Wark opening the meeting with prayers.Secretary and Treasurer's reports were read and approved.Annual dues collected from the members.Wardens dues to be paid.Tentative plans were made for the upcoming annual Salad Bar Tea to be held April 13 in the church hall from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.There will be food and sales tables.The meeting adjourned and the ladies signed Easter cards to be sent to the sick and shut-ins.after which everyone enjoyed a delicious lunch.A party is supposed to be fun.and it was.However there was a little note of sadness, as tonight, March 2nd, is the last Ladies Night of the season.The executive was paraded in.accompanied by their lovely wives.1st Vice Russell Gillam got it right this time as everyone was treated the same.He was excused when he introduced his own wife as lovely and beautiful.2nd Vice President Wyatt Savage held up proceedings to make a presentation to President Wilson.After unwrapping 16 or more layers of paper Trevor finally got to his present - a cap proclaiming him as a V.I.P.(a Very Irish Person».Irving Richards then jumped up with a complaint (he also can’t resist an open microphone).His wife’s place marker at the table was spelled incorrectly as Eilleen.He wanted to know who was responsible for the extra “L” in his wife 1B77 >HERBROOKE With some of the foolishness done.Trevor removed his new cap while Rev.Carl Gustafson returned thanks.Supper was soup, ham and veggies main course and another super dessert.No more of these till fall I During supper there was a pause to extend congratulations to Johnny and Fred Palmer who celebrated their 50th Anniversary this week and to Mayotta and Grant Taylor whose 45th Anniversary was this very day.In the drawing of the head table floral arrangement done in shades of Irish green and donated by 1977 a HOE V^LUB INC.Vaudry’s of Lennoxville.Eileen Richards (with the extra “L” gone) helped the celebration by picking Mayotta's name from the basket.John Riley had an extra special grin as he pocketed the 1/2 & 1/2.Guests were introduced from all over, with by fpr the largest group from Hatley, in fact, so many from that village there was a question who was minding the store?Reg and Jeanette Lacroix were then escorted to the head table where President Trevor presented them with a token of appreciation, noting they have completed 20 years of faithful tummy warming service.The next presentation, that of the Dan Loomis Memorial Trophy, given to the "Man of the Year", was awarded to an almost speechless Wyatt Savage.The king of the one-liners was not completely lost for words as he thanked the club for the honor.Entertainment was imported from Dorval - Lou Champoux introduced Fred Legg and his piano accordion.Fred who entertains at many hospitals and homes in the Montreal area played a wide selection of tunes.Most of them were sing-a-long friendly and many joined in, especially on Jingle Bells.The evening was brought to a close with dancing to the music of Albert Nutbrown, Stewart Deacon and John Foster.Submitted by R.Dewar, Club Secretary.Hunters get support and tongue-lashings Dear Ann Landers: I was listening to Paul Harvey's broadcast on my car radio and he said your column that day might be of special interest to hunters.Being a hunter, I read it the minute I got home.It's hard to believe that the farmer in Pierce, Neb., could be so naive.Surely he knows it’s illegal in Nebraska to use airplanes or CB radios to hunt deer.If he saw this going on and didn't report it, he's as culpable as the men in the hunting party.As for the animal rights people, they are 10 million strong and well-funded.Their tactics against deer hunters are often dangerous and illegal.They go into the woods armed with radios, horns, drums and whistles, follow the hunters, alert the game and disrupt the hunt.Many slates have enacted hunter harassment laws in an attempt to diffuse this volatile situation.You owe every ethical deer hunter an apology.- BILL YAEGER, DANSVILLE, N.Y.DEAR BILL; Would you believe I received 20,000 letters on this No GST or PROVINCIAL TAX ElH 27 - 1-91 Downtown Newport, Vt.802-334 8000 7or all Canadian C&ieôectrsf RALLY FOR CANADIAN UNITY orunnixnd try The Coalition for Caa-Hi».Unity 8:00 p-nn, at "O GRAND R"- 'Hall O 6166 Route 112, Ascot Corner SPEAKER; Me.JULIUS GRAY Constitutional lawyer & Chairman al the Task Force on Canadian Federalism Other speakers, including Gordon Atkinson, MNA MARCH 21 MARS, 1991 RALLY EN FAVEUR DE L’UNITE CANADIEN organise par la Coalition pour l’imite Canadien 20:00 HRS, "O GRAND R" -SALLE 3 6166, Route 112.Ascot Corner CONFERENCIER: Me.JULIUS GRAY avocat constitutioncl et president de la Groupe de travail sur le federaliame Canadien Autres conférenciers incluant Gordon Atkinaon, MNA Tour tous Us Qiieôecois Canadiens! subject?Read on.From Cazenovia, N.Y.: That farmer from Nebraska is right.Since I moved to the country three years ago, I have been shocked and sickened by the cruelty and unsportsmanlike behavior of some hunters.Wounded deer are left to die.Birds and small animals arc shot by hunters who get bored waiting for deer.Rules mean nothing.Hunters shoot from moving cars and trespass on private properly.It’s time we ended this frenzy of killing for fun.- O.L.Philo, Calif.: For the record, Ann, those "poor defenseless animals" can sec, hear and smell 10 times better than you or I.They arc able to jump over six-foot fences and leap over streams that are several feet wide.They also know all the escape routes.Some of us use high-power rifles with scopes and still we can’t get close enough for a shot.It takes real skill to bag a deer.- L.B.Victoria, B.C.; Why did that farmer write to you?He should have contacted Nebraska's Operation Game Thief.The number (Nebraska only) is 1-800-742-SNAP.- Canadian Reader White River Junction, Vt.: The "All-American" red-bkxxlcd spon of hunting animals is no sport at all.It's murdering defenseless creatures as a pastime.That's not much of a sport in my book.- Anonymous Fulton, Ky.: Hunters and fishermen benefit wildlife more than any other group, including the so-called animal rights people.Developers who bulldoze forests and drain wetlands for economic gain arc the ones who destroy our wildlife.When people sit down to a meal of bed , pork, lamb or poultry, do they think about the welfare of those defenseless creatures?Of course not.The only difference is the butcher.-James A.Jcffrcss Kcwanna, Ind.: Dccr arc beautiful but they have caused more acci dents than drunk drivers.And they cat soybeans, corn, wheat entire harvests.They really arc a menace and there are.t darned many of them.— J.D.Richmond, Va.: I hate dccr hunting and it has nothing to do with Ann Landers killing deer.It's my husband's total selfishness.The day the season opens he is gone.Period.He closes his business and I can't count on him for anything - including family weddings.He says none of the oilier wives complain.1 say bull! 1 can't be the only woman in the world who is sick to death of deer hunting.- M.A.TO ALL WHO WROTE: Thanks for some fascinating reading.1 learned a lot.Dear Ann Landers: I love my husband but we have a problem that is destroying our marriage.We've been married six years and have two young children.I'm 28, and he’s 34.He never was overly interested in sex but it’s dwindling down to almost nothing.I used to think once a month was infrequent — now it's twice a year and I'm becoming deeply depressed.My self-esteem is zero minus 10.I'm pretty sure he isn't fooling around.He works very hard and I know where he is at all times.And there is no chance that he is gay.We are great friends and I know he loves me, but I feel rejected and inadequate and have no confidence in myself.When I get frustrated I say terrible things to him and then I regret it.He says I’m obsessed with sex "like die rest of America." I hear about men who complain that their wives arc cold potatoes but very seldom do 1 hear a woman say this about her husband.Therapy is over $100 a session in this area and we can't afford it.Please, Ann, help us.-NEEDING MORE THAN A HUG IN CONN.DEAR CONN: Obviously your sex drive is a great deal stronger than your husband's, but 1 can tell you that twice a year for a man who is 34 is way below the national average.You arc not going to resolve this problem without outside help.II either of you has health insurance you may be able to use it to pay for several therapy sessions.Also, a psychiatrist isn't necessary.A well-trained counselor can do the job.I urge you to make this investment.Save on something else.This problem must be resolved or you are going to become increasingly depressed and the marriage will disintegrate.For more information and referrals, contact the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, 435 N.Michi gan Ave., Suite 1717, Chicago, 111.60611.Dear Ann Landers: Last October, while traveling alone from Chicago to Virginia, I stopped overnight at a motel on the western edge of Pennsylvania.In the mom ing I continued my trip eastward.After picking up a toll ticket, I drove without stopping through the mountains in the rain and fog until I came to my exit.I then discovered that 1 didn't have my handbag and couldn't pay the toll.The gentlemen at the toll gate were courteous and helpful.They called and verified that, indeed, my purse had been found in the dining area of the motel.Ann, my life was in that purse -my oilier keys, driver's license, credit cards, money and valuable person; papers, as well as dozens of "liai things." I couldn't decide whether or not should turn around and drive fiv hours (two and a half each way) l gel my purse, or trust the mon manager to return it.I bet on trus Since 1 didn't even have 25 cents fc a phone call, it was late in the da before I arrived home and could ca and give instructions for rctumin the purse.I was wondering if I would cvc sec my purse again, when sur enough, three days later it arrive with everything in it.1 want I publicly thank the staff at Conle '"'i i'i Mars, Pa.- A GRATEFU1 traveler .oakton, va.DEAR TRAVELER: Those folk will Ik* 1 more than amply repaid wlie they see your letter. The HKl OKI)—Monda) Marc h IS.l‘t!U—7 World Day of Prayer service MANSONVILLE lw 8c fun! Qlehrtc's Helps you beat those GST blues with 2 FOR 1 on our great food menu.(Just bring this ad in with you - Offer ends March 31/'91) Try our new games.Knowlton, Lac Brome (by the bridge) open 7 days a week — (514) 243-4100 12—The HK( OKI)—Monday.March IX.St.Paul’s Rest Home news and activities BURY (NRI — Mrs Isabelle Cruiekshank spent a few days at her home in East Angus, joined by her daughter and son-in law, Joan and Ken Thorneyeroft from Stitt-sville.Ont.Recent guests of Miss Florence Wheeler include Alice Drake and Vera Picken of Cookshire.Rodger and Meryle Heathering-ton.East Angus, visited his Monday, March 18, 1991