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10 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, March 31, 1976 MP Opposes Nuclear Sales To Unstable Governments HOUSE OF COMMONS Tuesday, March 23, 1976 Nuclear Proliferation GOVERNMENTORDERS BUSINESS OF SUPPLY Allotted Day S.O. 58 - Alleged Government Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons by Resuming Assistance to India Mr. Allan Lawrence (Northumberland- Durham) moved: That this House condemns the government for increasing the threat posed to mankind by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and in particular by its present negotiations to resume nuclear assistance to India. He said: Mr. Speaker, there is something wrong when the only way we can have a debate on the most critical man-made problem facing the future of mankind, namely, the growing proliferation of nuclear weaponry and the major part this country plays in its continuance, is for the opposition to force a debate against the wishes of a reluctant, tight-lipped, secrecy-prone and grouchy government. Some hon. Memberi: Hear, hear! Mr. Lawrence: This is another facet of the secrecy syndrome infesting official Ottawa today - and if it does not stop, and stop soon, I warn our Secretary of State for External Affairs (Mr. MacEachen) that the long tradition and history of a bipartisan foreign policy for this nation will corne crashing down around his ears. Things are changing here in Ottawa. Things are changing across the country, and if fresh winds do not start blowing through that architectural mon- strosity on Sussex Drive that looks like an old-fashioned fortress, and is guarded like one, called the Pearson Building, then those winds will not only blow the minister and sone of his advisers away but they could help to blow away this government as well. We have drafted this short, blunt and pointed resolution with four thoughts in mind: to initiative a debate on the lack of nuclear safeguards in the world today and the failure of the world community to stop the spread of nuclear arms; to examine and, hopefully, force our government and this particular minister to explain and defend Canada's policy of selling nuclear power generating plants to other countries; to drag out of the minister, if we can, for the first time some rational explanation, if one exists, for the intended resumption of nuclear assistance to India; and finally if, as I suspect, there is no rational explanation, to embarrass those government members who are either unthinking enough or partisan and disciplined enough to vote willy-nilly for the govern- ment's resumption of nuclear aid to India, the timing of which, the circumstances of which and the merits of which are simply incomprehensible to the people of Canada and to the nations of the western world. Make no mistake about it, sir, we in the official opposition are going to take special steps to make sure that the nature of the vote of government members on this particular resolution is communicated back home to the people in the constituencies, and we intend to point out those members who endorse this senseless policy of the government. Members can take that as a threat if they want, but if an appeal such as we are making today to government members to stop this give-away of the very means to manufacture nuclear weaponry to either untrustworthy or unstable foreign governments is not halted, if they themselves do not revolt against the policies of this minister, and especially his depart- ment advisers, and change the course of events which surely is leading us to a world holocaust, then we have no other course but to emphasize to the electors in the constituen- cies that their own MP voted in favour of this policy. We will do it, and they will hear of it. Vote with the government on this one, not only at your own political peril but, in the name of the future of mankind, at your own personal peril. Others from the official opposition will be dealing today with the general world situation which is sadly deteriorating. Others will deal with the Middle East situation which is quickly deteriorating. The Argentinian tin- der-box is about to ignite, with one Canadian reactor working and another being built at a time, in a place and by financial and legal means which to say the least are extremely shaky. The South Korean transaction will be examined and our conclusion will be that a worse example of Canadian participation in this whole nuclear industry simply could not be found anywhere. Each of Canada's contracts in these and other nations will be exposed, not as being for the general benefit of world peace, under- standing or development - and certainly not for the benefit of Canada nor, in some cases, of the other country itself - but, instead, as a giant hand-out or give-away of resources, technology and manufacturing capability, at direct cost to the Canadian taxpayer, under the subterfuge that somehow, somewhere, this is going to be paid for by others when actually we in Canada will be paying for these installations. My part in the debate is simply to introduce it and to try to goad or to pry out of the minister, or even his Prime Minister (Mr. Trudeau), some rational explanation of why we, as a country, are doing this. May I also give a short history of India's nuclear connection with Canada. In 1945, prime minister Nehru of India, in the tradition of Gandhi before him, proposed an end to the testing by anyone, anywhere, of any type of nuclear device. That was in 1945. On May 18, 1974, at a site in the Rajasthan desert east of New Delhi, the Indian department of atomic energy exploded a nuclear bomb, it cannot be called anything else - the yield of which was between 15 kilotons and 20 kilotons which is approximate- ly the same force as the bomb which was exploded over Hiroshima. Canada supplied the original materials, the original financing, the original knowledge and the original technology. These contributions, inescapably and inevitably, led to the Indian development in that desert almost two years ago. In 1956, Canada established, as foreign aid, the Canada-Indian research reactor at Trombay, India. It produces no power, but it can, and does now, produce annually 10 kilograms of weapons' grade plutonium and it has produced in the ten-year period from 1964 to 1974 at least 50 kilograms - enough plutonium for at least ten fair-sized nuclear bombs. The Cirus heavy-water reactor was built at a cost of $70 million. Of this total, $35 million in credit financing was accepted by the Canadian Export Credit Insurance Corporation, with an additional $5 million in nuclear technological information transfer- red to the government of India without cost or deduction from the Colombo plan or other aid assistance. In addition to the Cirus reactor, another reactor based on the Douglas Point power reactor has been built, with Canadian assistance, at Rama Pratap Sagar in Rajasthan state. It was to be the first of two Canadian-aided plants of 200 megawatts each. But completion of the second plant is currently being held up by Canada's decision not to supply further nuclear assistance without assurance that the plutonium coming from that plant will not be used for nuclear explosions. That is enough plutonium for 50 nuclear bombs in India. Financing by the EDC for the Rajasthan projects has amounted to $47 million over four contracts dating from April 27, 1964, to May 5, 1971. While India is a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency and both a signatory and ratifying member of the partial test-ban treaty of 1963, she bas neither signed nor ratified the non-proliferation treaty. More- over, her actions of May, 1974, are pretty TYRONE Senior Citizens Club The next meeting of the Senior Citizens will be held on Wednesday, April 7, 1976 at 2 p.m. in the new hall. Any retired citizen of the Town of Newcastle is welcome to join and if you would like to find out what it is all about, drop in next Wednesday and look around. Euchres First prize went to Betty Ringham with 91, 2nd prize to Pauline Alldread with 88, 3rd prize to Henry Stainton with 87, 4th prize to Bill Cox with 84, 5th prize to Marg Hall with 83. Low score prizes were won by Karen Jordan with 35 and Clarence Woodley with 44. The 50-50 draw was won by Mrs. Ethel Goble. Tennis in Darlington Area We are getting quite a few enquiries whether there will be tennis again in the Arena this year. The answer is yes. A detailed information letter will be mailed to each householder in the near future. Watch for it!! Tyrone Community Centre The Hall Board are planning to show some educational movies in the Hall in the near future, no date has been fixed yet. If it proves to be a success, probably movies could be shown on a fairly regular basis, on a Sunday afternoon or eveling. There are some very interesting films listed, and if we can get the ones we want, it will be a i e:. .im the whole family. ie Tyrone News for uer information on dates titles. fyrone Athletic Association This week-end is the big one for all the boys and girls to register their desire to play clear indications as to the stand of Mrs. Gandhi and the congress party on nuclear explosions. (1520) One further reactor at Narora in Uttar Pradesh, and another at Madras, are planned to come intô service by the mid-1980s. These plants will be modelled on the Rajasthan reactors, but 80 per cent of the project will be built from Indian resources. Reactors already in operation include two boiling water reactors of American design at Tarapur, near Bombay. That is the situation today. Is Canada blameless in all of this? What part, really, did Canada play so far as the entrance of India into the nuclear club is concerned? In the last issue which came to my desk last week of the slick, in-house departmental organ called "International Perspectives", another academic apologist for the government infers that the Canadian government was as appalled. and surprised as the rest of the world when the Rajasthan bomb went off. What are the facts? Not once, but many times during the disarmament conference from 1965 through to 1970, and perhaps even beyond, the Canadian delegation was specifically warned by other nations of the use the Indian plutonium from the Canadian reactor was being put to. Indeed, in the United Nations itself at least once in May, 1965, and later in July, 1965, at Geneva, the Indian representatives themselves hinted that India's only alternative to the Red Chinese threat was 'to build the bomb. In October, 1965, Mr. Shahi, the Pakistan minister of foreign affairs, specifically detailed that India was building a nuclear arsenal from Canadian plutonium - publicly, not privately. In April, 1967, the Indian external affairs minister, Mr. Chagla, came out in the open and threatened that his country had to develop and explode the bomb. In 1971, our Canadian Prime Minister went to New Delhi armed with these reports and came away docilely, trustingly, on the assurance of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that the Canadian aid was not in any way going to be misused. Well, whether it was misused or not, Canada stood by, assisting, providing, co-operating - not warning, threatening or cutting off aid. In May, 1974, the Indians blasted their way into the nuclear club and blasted away not only the ineffectualness of the non-prolifer- ation treaty, not only the facade of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, but also, I would hope, the physical and mental stagnation of our own Canadian policy respecting nuclear assistance. For ten years the Canadian government had aided and abetted the proliferation of nuclear arms in India, and all the time they must have known what was going on and did nothing. They had full inspection and control powers in respect of what went into and came out of Indian reactors. Like in the case of the judges' affair, the Prime Minister of Canada should have known what was going on. I suspect he did know what was going on but, like in the judges' affair, he kept quiet; he did nothing. Surely, now, we are entitled to ask the government, "Why didn't you pay attention to the warnings? Who did you have doing the inspections? Where are those inspection reports? What did you do to stop this mad rush to world disaster? Why didn't you cut off assistance when India's policy became obvious? Did you even threaten to do so?" And, above all, "Why, in heaven's name, are the same minds in even greater autocratic, if not dictatorial, control in India any more trustworthy in 1976 than they were in 1974?" Mr. Speaker, when conditions in the Far East and in the Middle East are more jittery now than then, when there has been a Friends are pleased that Mr. George Heaslip returned hone from Port Perry Hos- pital on Saturday. Mr. Lloyd Heaslip and Mr. Verner Michele, Ottawa spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Nesbitt and also visited with Mr. and Mrs. George Heaslip. Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Brown, Oshawa were Wednesday evening visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Grant Thompson. On Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lee were hosts for a turkey dinner to honour their son Clifford on his birthday. A delicious birthday cake added enjoyment to the festive occasion. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Neil Lee, Debbie and David, Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Lee and family, Nestle- ton, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Weston and family, Burketon, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Brown and granddaughter, Sherri Brown, Bowmanville. Con- gratulations Clifford!. On Sunday of last week, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Redmand and David, Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lee and Clifford, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. either soccer or softball in the coming season. You can register on Saturday, April 3rd from 12 noon till 6 p.m. at the old hall. If you miss this one be prepared to have to join the cheering section. The following teams have been established. Softball - Girls ages 8 to 12 years and 13 to 18 years. Softball - Boys ages 7 to 10 years, 11 to 13 years and 14 to 17 years. Lobb Ball for men 18 years and up. Soccer - Boys 7 to 11 years, 12 to 18 years and 18 years and up. The registration fee, which permits you to play softball or soccer or both, is $1.00 with the exception of the boys soccer ages 7 to Il years and the mens lobb ball. Their fee is $5.00 because these teams will be playing in leagues organ- ized by the Newcastle Depart- ment of Recreation. Al other teams play against Darlington teams. We are most pleasantly surprised at the warm recep- tion our fund-raising function has found and are particularly happy about the many offers to help out. We do need the help and hope that many parents will take the opportun- ity on Saturday to leave their names in our specially pre- pared book. systematic destruction of parliamentary and democratic institutions as we know them in India, and when India herself is making deals to supply nuclear material and knowledge to other countries in the Arab bloc, which surely cannot be looked on anywhere with satisfaction, considering the potential, and when India's competitors, such as Pakistan, openly admit they are in a nuclear race on the subcontinent, the question has to be asked: Why now? Or, better still: Why ever? Why, when no one has devised a remedy, sanction or penalty when a nation does develop a bomb? What do you do if India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Brazil, Argentina, Içorea, Chilé, South Africa, Egypt, Spain, Taiwan and Indonesia develop atomic bombs? Do you slap their wrists? Do you make them pay up on their UN appropriation? Surely, you make sure they do not have the means to make them in the first place. We are rapidly leaving behind that "first place" option. What are you going to do if India makes a hydrogen bomb, as Prime Minister Ali Bhutto openly declared they are doing in Madras when he was here in Ottawa last month? What is this govern- ment's answer? This government now says they are negotiating to resume nuclear assistance. Mind you, it is not the minister who said that, but Canada's version of Kissinger, Mr. Ivan Head. Perhaps he could be more fairly described as Canada's version of Chester Bowles. In any event, on March 10 Mr. Head announced that success had been reached so far as an agreement with India for resumption was concerned. (1530) The only small detail left, of course - and I gather Mr. Head did not give too much importance to this merely routine measure - was that it still had to be approved by the cabinet. This was done at a time when the International Atomic Agency had only 47 inspectors to report on well over 200 nuclear facilities worldwide. This was done at a time when we had already provided a country such as India with a developed nuclear arsenal which Canada itself would not dream of acquiring for herself. This was done at a time when Canada's own manufacturing and technical capability would be strained to the utmost over the succeeding ten years to provide our own nuclear power plants'for our own nuclear domestic needs without in any way adding to the stress and strain of providing CANDU reactors to others, and when we had the sneaking suspicion that our reactors were wanted so that those nations which acquired them could more easily make weapons' grade plutonium from a Canadian reactor than from the American light water reactors. Surely, if this is so and if the suspicion exists - and I assure the minister that the suspicion does exist - this places an even greater burden on Canadians generally. Finally, this deal was concluded at a time when Canadian government expenditures are at an all time high and must be cut down. Each one of these assistance programs, each one of these CANDU reactors in foreign lands, costs the Canadian taxpayer directly, at the very minimum, 55 per cent of the capital cost of each one of them - and usually much more than 55 per cent because of the man years and the expenditure of Canadian knowledge and Canadian experience with them. I merely ask this: Are our priorities straight? Is our thinking correct? Is the government right when we siphon so much effort, so much time and so much money into a program which in India's case bas been misused and will likely be seriously abused in the future? The time to stop this type of transaction and this type of deal is now. Some hon. Members: Htear, hear! Mr. Lawrence: And the way to do it is not to send Mr. Head on any more expeditions. The way to do it is to reprimand the government in the vote in this place tonight. Lorne Lee and family. Welcome home is extended to Miss Brenda Shaw who has spent the past 10 months in Vancouver. On Saturday, Brenda and her fiance, Mr. James Paton arrived in Tor- onto. On Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Shaw entertained for a family reunion in her honour. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. David Leslie, Toronto, Brenda, Mr. Paton, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shaw, Pam and Carryann, Cobourg, Mr. and Mrs. Brian Shaw, Patty, Shawn and Diane, Port Perry, Mark and Kim Shaw. Mayor and Mrs. Lawrence Malcolm, attended the South Central Ontario Big Game Hunters' Association Banquet and Dance held at the Gen- osha Hotel, Oshawa on Satur- day evening. Several farmers and their wives from the Nestleton Area attended the Durham Feder- ation of Agriculture Banquet held in Blackstock on Tuesday evening. The guest speaker was Mr. Clare Brent who presented slides on China. Musical numbers by the Stone family,'Greenbank were much enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. Balfour Moore spent an enjoyable wekend with their daughter and hus- band, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Robinson at Stroud. Mrs. Lawrence Malcolm, accompanied by Mrs. Stan- ford Van Camp attended a meeting of the Women's Institute District Directors at the home of Mrs. Wm. Ashton, Solina on Tuesday afternoon. During the week, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sadler and Mr. and Mrs. Richard MacKenzie and family visited with Mr. Sadler's mother, Mrs. Robert Sadler and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wetherall, Bowmanville. Claire and Leslie Ann MacKenzie spent a couple of days last week with their grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. W. F. MacKenzie, Toronto. Charles Scott, Corbyville, spent the holiday week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sadler. Mrs. Scott and Jennifer visited from Thursday to Sunday. Mr. Ian Scott arrived on Sunday for a family dinner party. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bradburn, Scarborough were Thursday afternoon visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Heaslip. Mrs. Howard Lee and Clif- ford called on Mrs. Vera Mountjoy in Bowmanville Hospital on Saturday. On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Géorge Bowers visited Mr. and Mrs. James Harris in Lindsay and Mr. John Frat- alochi in the Lindsay Hospital. Nestleton - Wedding Anniversary On Friday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ginn were guests of honour for their fifty-six wedding anniversary at a party in the Recreation Centre. Their family, grand- children and great grand- children were in attendance for their festive occasion also a number of former neighbours and friends. Two violins, a guitar and an accordian provided toe- tapping music for the younger folk. Those who gave so generously of their time were Bob Burton and Jim Curtis, Oshawa, Gord Baker, Tyrone and S. B. Thompson, Nestle- ton. A lovely anniversary cake was presented to the bride and groom of yesteryear on which was written "Happy Fifty- sixth Anniversary, Mom and Dad". Their granddaughter, Shirley Stinson's employees sent a beautiful bouquet and the Ladies' Aid gave them a potted chrysanthemum. Several anniversary cards were received and during the evening, members of the family brought greetings and reminisced as they spoke to the guests. Anniversary refreshments of assorted sandwiches, cookies, delicious pastries, tea and coffee were served by the Ladies of the Presbyterian Church. Congratulations are extend- ed from the community to this remarkable couple. May they have many happy years and may they cherish the memory of the joyous anniversary. Nestleton - Sunday Services Presbyterian In the Presbyterian Church, a Sunday morning, Miss Dorothy Bulmar. Deaconess read the Scripture passage, Mark 16: 1-8. Mny believe that Mark discovered the empty grave and that he was the young man in the white robe in the tomb who talked to the women on Easter morn- ing. Mark describes, in clear and vivid detail, the latter events in Christ's life. It is Mark who says with great assurance to the women," He is not here; He is risen. Look, YELVERTON Mr. and Mrs. Howard Malcolm entertained the family last Sunday in honour of Mr. Wilbert Malcolm's 84th birthday. Congrats W.J. Miss Elizabeth Nasato of Port Credit and Miss Arden Coulter of Brighton were guests this week of Miss Mona Malcolm. The Harvey Malcoms were among the several carloads here is the place where they laid Him." Two important facts came out that Jesus was the promised Messiah and that He was truly raised by the hand of God. Mrs. H. Visser and Mr. S. McNeely finished with a duet. United Church In the United Church Reverend Victor Parsons chose "Climate of Concern" as the theme for his message reading Amos 5: 14-24 and Luke 9:25-37. The prophets were concerned about the wrong doings in the land. Jesus teaches by "love". There must be that unbound- ing love to God - love to thy neighbour and love to thyself. If "Love" is practised the wrong doing and blasphemy will be corrected and over- come. The choir sang "How Long Has It Been?" from the area that attended the "Stag and Doe" held on Sat. evening in Sudbury in honour of bride and groom elect Miss Debbie Werry, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Werry and Mr. Dennis Serefine of Sudbury. On Sat. evening, a fresh snowstorm here provided a gentle reminder that spring is still around yet another corner. Mr. Bryce Jimmo is sched- uled to leave for Edmonton to-day where he hopes to get summer employment. Lots of Luck Bryce.! OBITUARY CYRIL LEVI RUNDLE A well known resident of the area, Cyril Levi Rundle, aged 80, passed away in Memorial Hospital, Bowmanville, Tues- day, March 16, 1976 following an illness of several weeks. Born in Darlington Town- ship and educated at Maple Grove School, he was the son of Samuel C. and Mary Grace (Jeffery) Rundle. Serving in the 6th Canadian Reserve, Company H and serving overseas in the First World War, he took over the family farm on his return from overseas, retiring 15 years ago. A member of Maple Grove United Church, he was a good neighbor and friend to all. Mr. Rundle was a great reader of good books. Left to mourn his passing are his sisters Mrs. Aura Hills, Bowmanville, and Dorothy Dumontelle, Sudbury. He was predeceased by Marie, Mrs. Arthur Found, S. Charles and Roy W. (Bil) Rundle. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. D. Harris of Maple Grove, assisted by Rev. A. Amacher on Friday at the Morris Funeral Chapel. Pall-bearers were Messrs. Roy Slack, Clifford Swallow, Arthur Found, Raymond Rundle, Alex Ferries and Donald Staples. IntermenL was in the family plot, Bowmanville Cemetery. ZI ON Mrs. L. Titterington and Raymond returned Friday from a two months vacation in Texas and Florida. Mrs. Zoe Latondresse, Oshawa, spent last week with her brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Meneilley. Mrs. Charlie Raby returned Monday from a pleasant two weeks in Hawaii. Mr. David Geron, Pigeon Lake, spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. C. Raby Mr. George Finnie, Wel- come, called on Mr. Fred Raby one afternoon last week whilst Mrs. Finnie visited her dáughter Jean, Mrs. Douglas Whitney. N ESTLETON A.b. Kur Beauty Shop Just Arrived!' Back from the International Hairdressing Convention "ALL" of us are lIaded with exciting cuts, styles and colors. Be one of the first to get a new creation personally suited just for you. Drop In . . . You Won't Be Disappointed! Telephone 623-5019 or drop by 71 King St. E., Bowmanville 'A Very Friendly Atmosphere"