Trudeau
OTTAWA
(CP)
-Quebec
Premier
Rene
Levesque
and
Prime
Minister
Trudeau
collided
in
formal
argument
today
about
the
state
of
federalism.
In
statements
at
a
closed
federal-provincial
conference,
the
newly-elected
separatist
premier
of
Quebec
said
disagreement
about
taxation
powers
demonstrates
a
failure
of
federalism
and
he
called
for
"new
political
systems."
The
prime
minister
restated
his
faith
in
federalism
as
"a
political
society,
EIGHT
TONS
House
vs.
ears
Police
discover
munitions
cache
LOS
ANGELES
(AP)
-
A
man
arrested
in
the
discovery
of
eight
tons
of
munitions
on
his
property
was
released
on
$15,000
bond
Sunday,
sheriff's
deputies
said.
Meanwhile,
investigators
found
additional
weapons
on
property
owned
by
41-year-old
Donald
Wiggins
in
outlying
Ontario,
Lancaster
and
Pomona.
Radioactive
drums
safe
SURREY1,
B.C.
(CP)
-Three
hundred
barrels
of
a
radioactive
substance
have
been
found
in
this
municipality
east
of
Vancouver,
but
the
provincial
health
department's
radiation
protection
service
says
they
pose
no
hazard
to
health.
Wayne
Greene,
head
of
the
protection
service,
said
in
an
interview
Sunday
the
drums,
containing
the
radioactive
element
thorium,
were
found
abandoned
last
week
on
private
property
in
the
Port
Mann
area.
the
ideals
of
which
are
liberty,
equality,
and
yes
fraternity
,
"
Federalism,
he
said,
makes
possible
"the
free
development
of
the
different
cultures
of
communities,
makes
our
individual
liberty,
capacity
for
self
realization
and
well
being
more
secure
and
guaranteed
than
they
would
be
if
each
community
were
to
attempt
to
achieve
this
alone."
Mr.
Levesque
said
that
for
Quebec
"the
structure
and
operation
of
the
present
This
house
won
the
right
of
way
by
sheer
size
today,
when
it
caused
a
car
and
a
pickup
to
run
off
The
Bypass
highway.
The
vehicles
mo
ved
over
to
get
out
of
the
way
of
the
house
movers
and
then
got
stuck
in
the
slush
at
the
side
of
the
road
leading
to
the
new
Nechako
bridge.
Sheriff's
deputies
bulldozing
the
front
yard
of
his
Pomona
foundry
Saturday
turned
up
a
number
of
military
rockets.
Authorities
said
they
also
found
a
large
supply
of
machine-gun
and
other
weapons
parts.
Wiggins,
who
originally
said
a
man
named
"Jeff
Martin"
had
paid
him
to
store
the
weapons,
now
has
invoked
"his
constitutional
right
to
remain
silent,"
deputies
said.
They
said
a
man
believed
to
be
Wig-gins's
lawyer
posted
the
bond.
Wiggins
was
arrested
after
he
went
to
authorities
Thursday
to
tell
them
he
owned
property
in
Lancaster
where
five
tons
of
armaments,
including
explosives
and
ammunition,
had
been
found
earlier
in
the
week.
He
was
booked
for
investigation
of
possessing
destructive
devices
but
authorities
said
the
buried
arsenal
was
amassed
by
a
revolutionary
right-wing
paramilitary
organization.
Saturday's
find
followed
discovery
of
more
weapons
in
a
hidden
cellar
.
QUEBEC
WANTS
'NEW
POLITICAL
and
Levesque
The
15'
Copy
Monday,
December
13,
1976
system
of
government
are
not
really
profitable,
and
in
fact
are
becoming
more
and
more
of
a
handicap."
Texts
of
the
statements
by
the
two
leaders
were
Sailing
family
rescued
ANSBAAI,
South
Africa
(Reuter)
A
Canadian
family
from
Dowling,
Ont.,
near
Sudbury
have
been
rescued
by
a
trawler
after
drifting
helplessly
for
eight
days
when
their
ketch
overturned
twice
in
mountainous
seas.
Winston
Bushell,
his
wife
Carolyne
and
daughters,
Lellie,
12,
and
Kimberley,
14,
have
been
sailing
around
the
world
for
4V4
years
in
their
10rmetre
boat,
the
Dove.
They
were
rescued
Saturday
by
the
Cape
Town
trawler
Captain
Inman
80
miles
off
this
southern
port.
PSST
ONLY
11
SHOPPIMG
DAYS
'TIL
,
;
CHRISTMAS
.'
Cit
izen
Vol.
20;
No.
issued
outside
the
closed
conference.
Also
released
from
the
conference
was
a
statement
by
Donald
Macdonald,
federal
finance
minister,
in
which
he
shifted
ground
on
Pipeline
x-rays
termed
'falsified'
WASHINGTON
(AP)
-Radiographers
for
the
almost
completed
trans-Alaska
pipeline
have
told
a
House
of
Representatives
subcommittee
that
they
took
part
in
a
scheme
to
falsify
up
to
200
x-rays
of
defective
double-joint
welds.
The
falsification
took
place
after
the
200
pipes
with
defective
welds
were
strung
along
the
800-mile
pipeline
without
repairs,
the
staff
of
the
House
energy
and
power
subcommittee
charged.
Finding
the
defective
welds
and
correcting
them
could
cost
"hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars"
and
delay
the
pipleine's
opening,
now
set
for
mid-1977,
the
subcommittee
staff
warned.
The
staff
charged
that
the
U.S.
departments
of
interior
and
transportation
may
have
conspired
with
Alyeska
Pipeline
Service
Co.,
the
consortium
that
is
constructing
the
pipeline,
"to
cover
up
or
at
the
very
least
actively
ignore
another
serious
welding
problem
on
the
pipeline."
A
spokesman
for
Alyeska
told
the
Anchorage
Daily
News
240
Prince
George,
British
some
points
of
difference
but
stood
by
his
refusal
to
budge
on
a
major
disagreement
over
taxing
powers.
The
federal
minister,
speaking
at
a
meeting
between
Prime
Minister
it
that
the
pipeline
company
was
unaware
of
any
falsification
of
double-weld
joint
x-rays.
"We
categorically
deny
a
conspiracy
with
anyone,"
he
said.
The
x-rays
of
the
200
doub-lejoint
welds
were
taken
in
sample
audits
of
some
42,000
double-joint
welds
made
by
machines
at
Fairbanks
and
Valdez,
the
subcommittee
staff
said.
Lang
issues
on
travelling
OTTAWA
(CP)
-
Defending
his
travelling
habits,
Transport
Minister
Otto
Lang
says
his
frequent
trips
to
the
West
are
vital
for
the
Liberal
party
in
that
region.
An
eight-page
memorandum
sent
recently
by
Mr.
Lang
to
Liberal
MPs
and
Senators
says
the
minister
does
not
apologize
for
his
travel
which
is
done
to
meet
requests
and
at
"considerable
sacrifice"
to
his
own
time.
Ministers
using
transport
department
aircraft
are
Stolen
car
recovered
Police
pull
a
stolen
sports
car
from
the
Fraser
River
near
Fort
George
Park.
The
car
was
stolen
in
the
Lower
Mainland
about
two
weeks
ago.
It
was
discovered
in
the
river
Saturday.
About
three
weeks
ago
another
stolen
late-model
car
was
lifted
out
of
the
Nechako
River
near
the
Prince
George
Pulp
and
Paper
water
intake.
Police
do
not
know
if,
there's
a
connection
bet-'
ween
the
two
incidents.
photo
by
Gordon
Wolfe
SYSTEMS'
meet
Columbia
Trudeau
and
the
10
provincial
premiers,
rejected
a
demand
by
the
provinces
for
more
taxing
power
in
place
of
a
system
of
payments
known
as
revenue
guarantees
which
expire
next
March.
TWO
JOURNALISTS
'Protest'
prompts
conterence
Southam
News
Services
OTTAWA
A
sit-in
by
a
pair
of
Ottawa
newspaper
columnists
this
morning
caused
Canada's
first
ministers
to
retreat
from
the
main
chamber
of
the
Government
Conference
Centre
to
the
privacy
of
a
fifth
floor
room.
Charles
Lynch,
chief
of
Southam
News
Services,
and.
Marjorie
Nichols
of
the
Vancouver
Sun,
were
protesting
the
two-day
fiscal
arrangements
conference
being
closed
to
the
public.
The
press
had
been
permitted
to
enter
the
lofty,
dome-ceilinged
main
floor
conference
room
to
conduct
informal
sessions
with
the
first
ministers
prior
to
the
9:30
a.m.
start
of
the
meeting.
But
when
Prime
Minister
Trudeau,
sitting
at
the
head
of
the
horse-shoe
shaped
table
asked
"will
the
press
leave
now
please,"
Lynch
moved
to
a
microphone
just
60
feet
away
and
announced
he
wasn't
leaving.
Premier
Peter
Lougheed,
speaking
for
the
premiers,
then
said
the
provincial
leaders
had
come
to
a
consensus
the
night
before
that
the
meeting
should
be
closed
to
the
public
and
the
press.
Lynch
was
asked
by
a
reporter
if
he
was
satisfied:
"Never
mind
if
he's
satisfied,"
the
prime
minister
shot
back.
"We're
the
ones
elected
by
the
people.
We're
the
ones
who
will
decide."
With
that
the
prime
minister
stood
up
and
marched
toward
a
stairway
leading
to
the
fifth
floor
room.
"You
said
you
could
live
with
an
open
conference,"
the
57year-old
columnist
said
as
the
prime
minister
passed
within
10
feet
of
him.
"Yeah,"
replied
Trudeau,
"but
I
can't
live
with
you
Charles."
memo
habits
allowed
to
accept
"political
engagements"
if
they
are
worked
into
a
schedule
which
includes
official
government
business,
the
memorandum
says.
The
Liberal
party
has
only
five
members,
including
two
cabinet
ministers,
from
the
West.
"They
constitute
the
Prairie
presence
in
caucus
and
without
them
the
government's
claim
to
be
representative
of
all
regions
in
the
country
is
gone,"
the
memo
says.
"From
this
perspective,
and
regardless
of
the
other
compelling
reasons
for
trips
to
the
West,
Mr.
Lang's
travel
to
the
Prairies
is
vital."
In
a
covering
note
to
the
memorandum,
Mr.
Lang
said
use
of
transport
department
aircraft
particularly
his
use
of
them
"has
been
the
centre
of
a
good
deal
of
attention
recently,"
Opposition
MPs
have
attacked
the
minister
for
using
government
aircraft
to
fly
to
political
events
and
parties
as
well
as
official
business.
There
also
has
been
criticism
of
his
attempt
to
use
a
defence
department
aircraft
to
send
a
British
nanny
who
looked
after
his
children
back
to
Britain.
The
proposal
was
rejected
by
Defence
Minister
Barney
Danson.
Mr.
Lang.
told
the
Commons
in
October
he
travelled
on
transport
department
aircraft
133
times
in
3V4
years
at
a
total
cost
to
the
government
of
$736,832.
Seventy-eight
of
the
trips
were
to
Western
Canada,
including
Saskatchewan.
head-on
Premier
Rene
Levesque
of
Quebec,
attending
his
first
federal-provincial
conference
s
ince
the
el
ect
ion
of
his
separatist
government
Nov.
15,
reiterated
in
a
formal
statement
that
his
government
aims
at
political
sovereignty
for
Quebec
and
a
new
economic
association
with
the
rest
of
Canada.
Prime
Minister
Trudeau
rejected
a
Levesque
argument
that
disagreement
over
taxes
demonstrated
the
failure
of
federalism.
"The
politics
of
federal-
TODAY
'I'd
like
a
job
for
my
dad!'
(featured
inside)
Eleven
Prince
George
students
will
travel
to
China
with
their
teacher.
Page
7.
The
CTV
network
says
two
French
agents
have
been
working
in
Quebec
promoting
independence
for
years.
Page
2.
Sunday
was
a
fine
day
for
Canada
in
international
hockey,
with
two
big
wins.
Page
17.
Fathia
Ghali,
sister
of
Egypt's
late
King
Farouk,
was
shot
to
death
and
her
estranged
husband
was
charged
in
the
slaying,
Page
5.
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THE
WEATHER
Cloud
patches
and
a
few
snow
flurries
are
forecast
today.
A
trace
of
snow
was
recorded
Sunday.
Sunday's
high
was
2
with
an
overnight
low
of
1.
Low
tonight,
0,
with
a
high
of
4
today
and
Tuesday.
On
Dec,
13,
1975
the
high
was
-11;
the
low,
-22.
Warm
temperatures,
cloudy
skies
and
periods
of
snow
are
forecast
this
week.
Ism
are
the
politics
of
accommodation,"
Mr.
Trudeau
said.
Mr.
Macdonald,
rejecting
the
provincial
demand
for
a
transfer
of
taxing
power,
said
that
"not
only
is
the
request
unwarranted
but
it
would
cost
federal
taxpayers
$860
million
in
the
next
fiscal
year
alone
and
about
$5.5
billion
over
the
next
five
years."
Disagreement
on
that
point
left
Mr.
Macdonald
and
his
provincial
counterparts
deeply
divided
at
a
meeting
a
week
ago.
move
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NOW
HEAR
THIS)
Drinking
drivers
are
never
safe
from
RCMP
roadblocks.
They
were
pulling
drivers
off
The
Bypass
at
5:30
a.m.
today,
inadvertently
catching
several
parents
driving
minor
hockey
players
to
a
6
a.m.
practice
at
the
Coliseum.
One
mother
was
able
to
tell
the
constable
who
questioned
her
about
what
she'd
been
drinking
that
she's
only
had
a
couple
of
quick
apple
juices
before
leaving
home.
"Is
anybody
here
driving
to
Vancouver
for
Christmas?"
a
local
man
asked
his
co-workers.
When
one
replied
that
he
was
he
said
"
good,
then
maybe
you
can
take
my
pig
with
you."
The
astonished
person
learned
the
pig
had
already
been
killed
and
was
to
be
a
Vancouver
family's
Christmas
dinner.