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RL RRR Z & NN SREN---------- 'BACK BILINGUALISM OR CANADA FINISHED" PRIME MINISTER Normally we don't get too much into the political bickering in Ottawa but this past week seems to have set a record for disenchantment with the Trudeau government. The split between Trudeau's old pal Jean Marchand and the bilingual air-traffic con- trollers and pilots walk-outs on top of the capital punishment abolition in face of public opinion poll showing 80 percent in favor of retention shows that the Trudeau government is in for trouble. When leading cabinet Ministers like John Turner, Paul Hellyer and now Marchand all have resigned there is serious trouble in the camp. One scandal after another...the Olympics and now even the Prime Ministers top aide took a $1,000. home grant illegally towards the cost of a $180,000. house in Ottawa. Michael Pitield who runs Trudeau's office was questioned by the revenue ministry about the grant and returned the money. Strange..NO ACTION was taken against him. What if some ordinary person had defrauded the plan? Would they get off so easy? If you lost your drivers licence, for leaving the scene of an accident would you or I get it back 5% months early like Environment Minister Marchand did? Marchand believe it or not was the man picked by Prime Minister Pearson to follow him as leader of the Liberals in Ottawa and to be Prime Minister...not Trudeau! Before he would accept to join the liberals Marchand demanded that his pals Trudeau and Pelletier be also accepted. Marchand, a union boss and strike organizer, was well known in Quebec... much more than the relatively unheard of Trudeau. MARCHAND A DISASTER Marchand's tenure as Minister of Transport was a disaster. During the 1973 election he called Conserva- tive candidate and former broadcaster Ron Collister a "son of a bitch" and a "racist." Each time he was attacked for his inept running of his department or for foolish mistakes he cried "racist" to his critics. He rejected opposition calls in the House of Commons for an inquiry into Air Canada which later lead to the resignation of Air Canada President Yves Pratt. When questioned on spending estimates for the Trompe: department of which he was Minister at the Dean J. Kelly 'abolition of the death penalty were mainly in favor of . Those'mood rings that tell you what mood you are in time, he told the questioner to "shut up". ARROGANCE reigns supreme not only with March- and but his boss the Prime Minister. It seems every time there is serious questioning of the bilingualism policies and the immense cost the French members revert to the old refrain...go along with it or we'll break up Canada. Note that all the safe comfortable Ministries are run by Quebecers while the HOT seats like Finance and Transport are given to English speaking Ministers. Air safety is of paramount importance...bilingual- ism is not! Of the 16 letters to the Editor of the Toronto Star in one issue all 16 were in support of the pilots and the controllers. Letters to the editor on the retention. The Chief of Police Associations even called for the Prime Minister to resign on the issue for the way he pressured members on a supposedly free vote... The Les Gens de L'Air "(Quebec controllers) are harassing the English pilots in Quebec air space by working to rule and forcing a separation of up to 20 miles between flights...rather than the usual 15 miles. Roger Demers, president of the Quebec group who threatened to withdraw from the association said "we'll give the English speaking pilots a taste of their own medicine". The rift grows deeper and deeper. English speaking majority in this country are getting fed up with this type of tactic and having french forced down their throats. It is said that the bilingual program is a complete failure and costing about $200. million a year. Only 11 percent of those taking french in the civil service reach levels able to converse in the language. WASTE AND MORE WASTE. While Ottawa is trying to force its bilingual policies on English-speaking people they have ordered ALL CROWN CORPORATIONS IN QUEBEC, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES are to sign with the Quebec governments Bill 22 making French the working language of the companies. The Financial Post says Air Canada was under attack in Quebec for not doing enough to develop French in its corporate structure. It was ordered to apply for a Bill 22 "francization certificate"...Every Jumbo jet I ever flew on to Florida, the working language was French...I am told that they take stewardesses that cannot speak English and teach them in order to give them jobs. The reverse is never done I am told by an Air Canada instructor. So a What about the rights of the millions of Canadians who are already bilingual in the true-sense of the word The Italians, Germans, Ukrainians, Polish, Chinese etc.? . have been replaced by of all things "Mood #anties" If they are black you are frigid, brown is cuddly, green is playful and if they turn blue, she's in a sexy mood. The maker says they have sold 50,000 dozen in # New York at $1.49 a pair. SHS 2 A i 'Good goin', girls - It's from the frying pan into the fire for a group of Caesarea women who today celebrate prehaps not a major victory for human rights, but at least a significant one on the local scale. Scugog Township Council Monday night approved the hiring of three women to the Caesarea branch of the Scugog Fire Department, ending a six-month fight by the group to be given equal opportunity to try. out for the job. The girls had to overcome such tactics as a threatened mass resignation of Caesarea firemen, as well as some buck-passing by local council which attempted to shirk their responsibility by flopping the issues back at Chief Len Scott. It might well be noted that by all indications, these girls are not grandstanding, nor are they gathering under the women's lib banner to shake the walls of male chauvanism. They simply attempted to join a fire department "for much the same kind of reasons that move their male counterparts to do so. For this, they should be commended. For the fact that they stuck to their guns in the face of such obstacles should earn an even greater commend- ation. Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the entire issue is that despite the unreproachable fundamental issue behind the argument--the right of equal opportunity--the majority of the people in the community remained at best indifferent, and at worse, bigoted. Typical of the response we've run across is the woman who views the entire issue with the greatest disgust and indignation, and reduces those respons- ible as ""loudmouths who have nothing better to do than cause trouble." Why,' they ask, 'would any women even want to be a firefighter?' Which misses the point completely. Conglomerates Labels are usually misleading and when we talk about loss of freedon in our society, immediately images of excessive police action, repressive legisla- tion, censorship and violence spring to our minds. But there is one method of limiting freedom that goes along quietly, and with the utmost acceptance on the part of government simply because so few of us have any understanding of its insidious methods. We refer to the unchecked growth of corporate conglomerates, those widely diversified concentr- ations of power in the hands of a few enormous and relatively hidden corporations like Power Corpor- ation of Canada or Argus Corporation, both of which nearly merged a couple of years ago. In the area of the mass media 'alone these two corporations control 17 newspapers, 19 radio stations, 11 televeision stations and several cable outlets. This concentration of power inhibits, or could inhibit, the freedon of the individual to know what is going on in his city or nation. The power of these corporations reaches into the highest levels of government and the tax concessions made to them through a plethora of loopholes limits the equality of opportunity that has been a corner- stone of democracy. Whether one espouses the socialist or the free enterprise systems of government, whether ones political philosophy opts for greater or lesser state involvement in the economy, one must decry the un- checked growth of the huge conglomerates that destroy free enterprise, that upset the balance of equality in our economic system and move to control from the boardrooms the individual freedons of most Canadians. For the directors of one conglomerate are invariable on the boards of another. We suggest that Ottawa should move quickly to force the huge corporations to disclose lists of major shareholders and subsidiaries (Power Corp., alone controls 157 companies worth billions of dollars). Appointees to government agencies should disclose all their corporate interests and directorships. Media conglomerates should be dismantled and no con- "glomerate should be allowed to dominate any sector of the economy or to hold exclusive advantages through marketing links. We hesitate, out of sheer realism, to advocate the desmantling of all Canadian conglomerates for two reasons. One, our multi-national conglomerates seem impervious to Canadian controls; and two, the present government seems committed to outright approval of conglomerates to the extend that limit- ations on their growth seems the most practical first step.