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A ANA AAA BoE Defence Minister Richardson has resigned from the Trudeau government over the bilingualism issue... claiming the language issue is the basis of Canadian disunity, dividing the country. He is about the 10th minister to leave the Trudeau cabinet in recent months. As a cabinet minister he has inside information denied the public...and claims on a TV interview late Sunday night that the Prime Minister has a secret plan for the entrenchment of French language in the constitution and giving Quebec a veto. This means locking in FOR ALL TIMES the future of all Canadians and Richardson says that he resigned solely so that he could make public this issue, vital to all Canadians, including future generations. Lest We Forget: '1 SHALL NOT REST UNTIL CANADA IS IRREVERSIBLY BILINGUAL!" ...Prime Minister Trudeau (1975). ' Ottawa has admitted that its bilingual policy has been a dismal failure. The forced teaching of French on civil servants and politicians has cost the taxpayers in this country $310 million a year plus another $90 million for provincial language training. Now in the speech from the Throne, Prime Minister Trudeau says there will be more money for French in schools. Meanwhile, they are doing virtually nothing to aid the 750,000 unemployed by creating jobs. The headlines in the flip-flop Toronto Star says "MORE FRENCH IN SCHOOLS WIN APPLAUSE", ..educators welcome the plan. Just a few days earlier the Star headlines said "that students wére happy 'with the change. in curriculum stressing the 3 R's...as long as they did not make French compulsory. Now, Schodl Board officials in Metro area said they were "delighted" at getting more money... more taxpayers money for them to spend. Ottawa is already spending $400 Million a year on teaching French. Regardless of where the money comes from, it is still in one way or the other coming from the taxpayers of this country. Just because it doesn't appear on your municipal tax bill (already over 50 per cent goes to education)...we are paying dearly for the MOST COSTLY & DIVISIVE ACTION of its kind ever perpetrated on the Canadian people. Our priorities are wrong! Many people in the West are fed up to a point of opting out of Confederation. Parti Quebecois leader Rene Levesque says, 'Any attempt by the federal government to impose more French on English Canada will provoke "a violent Ficjure Will PQSTCARD If one thing only became evident at the Monday meeting of Scugog Council and members of the split Scugog fire department, it was the fact that one boss over the department is needed.... ....badly. rejection", that English Canada is no longer in a mood to tolerate either the smallest concession to Quebec or any acceleration of hilingualism .in Canada," and appealed to Ottawa NOT TO PUSH FRENCH ON ENGLISH CANADA. z The failures in Ontario's education system have recently been exposed by the reverting to the basics of education. A recent study at Queens University found that only one in forty students were completely literate...that is able to express themselves properly in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Now we are on a course to push French at the Expense of illiteracy in English. Author Pierre Berton says "ENGLISH is the richest and most precise language with more words than any } other language". We have failed miserably in teaching the history of our own country...with no Canadian history after Grade 7. It has been said that those who do not learn from history will have to relive its errors. With 40 per cent of our university students beyond help according to Pierre Berton where are we headed? Where are our future leaders coming from? The ONE in forty that is eminently literate? Bilingual civil servants are already being paid premium wages and demanding a full $2,000 across the board increase for all bilingual civil servants. This makes English speaking Cana- dians second class citizens...all paid for by you, the taxpayer. Throwing good money after bad is not only foolhardy but divisive. ATOMIC WAR? The Soviet Union is spending more than $1 billion a year to protect its citizens from nuclear attack...ten times more than the United States, a U.S. defence official said recently. John Davis, director of the Civil Preparedness Agency, said the $82 million Congress has authorized for shelters and other civil defence measures over the next year will require a lean program aimed at protecting 400 high-risk areas in the country. GOOD NEWS for CB radio buffs. The DOT will make an additional 17 channels available April 1, 1977. The new addition will bring the present 23 channels to a total of 40. Let us hope the new channels will not be filled with often useless and frivolous chatter. CB can be a valuable asset in times of disaster; in the reporting of car accidents to police; the summoning of fire and ambulance vehicles. The CB radio is a valuable aid to travellers in finding directions particularily, on long distance trips in locating gas stations, accomodation and the best place to eat from locals who know the better places. The U.S. has announced the expansion to 40 channels which will become available Jan. 1st, 1977. Anyone travelling to Florida can tune in on the truckers and know where the "'fuzz" and the radar are. They have it all in their own lingo even where the prostitutes operate their own CB rigs. 1 have seen farm tractors with them and many boats in the U.S., 73's and 88's to CB'ers. ' HHA ES Yet itis on this very issue that councillors seem to be indecisive. } For some reason, bad feelings have emerged between the two groups, and it became more and more obvious at the meeting that the firemen themselves are the victims...willing. but unable to solve the problem. While It may be ridiculous that grown men who more than occasionally risk their lives in the execution of their duties can get themselves into such 'a position, it is unavoidably a fact of life. And no matter how much Coun. Don Frew lectured that "'it shouldn't be' and that 'something should've been", it is and It hasn't. While most councillors agreed that the single chief idea is a good one, there were various theories why it shouldn't be introduced right now, ranging from suggestions of mass resignations to consider- ation for personality clashes. Coun. Bob Brinkman may have brought up a point to consider when he pointed out that today's volunteer firemen are not volunteers, but are in fact part-time firemen who are getting paid for their service. They can indeed be commanded without kid gloves a suggested by some other councillors. * Not to mention the fact that firemen are supposed to fight fires for the good of the community, not build a local social group with a one-for-all and all-for-one motto reminiscent of a kind of smoke-eating Three Musketeers. It would probably be the charitable, safe thing to say that regardless of the lack of love lost between the two departments, the community is getting it's tax dollar's worth of protection. It would also be a ridiculous thing to say. Disunity is always costly, and there's no reason to believe that this case is any different. If (and | believe we do) we get good protection now, it could be all that much better with a more unified effort. The departments have been given directives before about getting together to work out mutual problems, and haven't managed to do it. So the ball is clearly in council's pocket. An overall chief is needed, and if we lose a few part-time firemen over it, then one doubts if they were the kind we'd want on our department in the first place. Irresponsible Advertising You can't drink your way up the ladder of success. While some members of the liquor fraternity appear to advocate moderation.in drinking, states the United Church of Canada, others blatantly reveal the industry's true motivation. They want Canadians to drink more. They've given up those subtle visual advertising hints that you can't enjoy life without a drink. "They've begun stating that alcohol is essential. Jonnie Walker has offered whisky as an escape from life's pressures. An ad showing a glass filled with ice cubes read: "The road to success is paved with rocks. Let us smooth them for you." As an editorial in the Mennonite Brethren Herald commented: 'Anyone acquainted with the incidence of alcoholism among 'successful' business executives can only read that ad as a cynical joke." The Martini and Rossi people said: "How to succeed in business without really trying." The ad described their vermouth as "the world's most beautiful drink' with "a taste that can put almost anybody in the right frame of mind. So if you want to be a success in business just remember this one important word: Martini." Considering the damage already done to Canadian society by an ever-increasing consumption of beverage alcohol, this kind of advertising can only be called irrésponsible and harmful. i