; | permission of the Publisher. . Page 4, The Herald, Thursday, July ‘3, 1980” Sally herald| | | GeneralOHice.4se2s7 Published by Cleostation - 635-4357 Storling Pubilehers PUBLISHER: CalvinacCacthy EDITOR .- Greg Middleton Published every weekday af 3212 Kalum ‘Street; Terrace, 8.C. Authored as second class mail. Registration number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. a - MOTICE OF COPYRIGHT -::~ The Herald retains full. complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or. photographic content published «In the , Herald: Reproduction Is not permitted without -thid awritten 3) tt -. -_ OTTAWA. OFFBEAT BY | RICHARD... JACKSON | ali OTTAWA — You're a recently-retired gen- tleman of 59, temporarily “at liberty.” You're still In the employment market, but nothing really urgent, just looking around and weighing the prospects. . Lg While surveying the scene In. an unwoffled and lelsurely fashion, what's better than a-well- padded and Inflation-Indexed pension? —_ As comforting as a good solld portfolio of securities?: i, , . On a par with more-than-adequate money In the bank? ’ . Easy question. 4 SO . Being a member of the federal Liberal establishment. Who says 50? Former veteran federal Liberal - cabinet - minister. and more lately provincial. Libera! leader in: Newfoundland, Donald Campbell Jamieson. re He's recently called time out in the game of politics he’s been actively playing for the past 14 years. Soe It’s time out rather than quitting cold. For politician Donald compares the. holding of public office tothe’Sport of deep-sea diving. ~ “lf you eéne wp too fast,” harsays;*fou'ger the bends. So easy does It. You have to watch that you don’t give it vp entirely and became completely detached from If.’". What’s an obviously gifted manipulator of men and public moods, in good health and spirits, his zest in life renewed by a dramatic reduction In welght, going to do with the rest of his life if he blows the whistle on himself in what he considers the only game in town, politics? Just what he’s doing. Relaxing, unworried, waiting: In comfortable certainty for that juicy ‘plum to drop. — . Meanwhile, anticipating the world unfolding as he feelssure it will, he’s thinking about taking arun at his memoirs.- They all do, that, those who have fed at the public trough, when they step aside — mariy of them doing it on fat Canada Council grants, But looking at It realistically — and Don Jamieson Is nothing If he tsn’t realistic — he’s a tad too young to be going into the memoirs business, even on the basis of a generous Canada Council subsidy: ~ Meanwhile as he “‘thinks” about It, he’s doing nothing drastic like getting right down to It, for, as he says, he’s pretty confident of “lining something up.” . a That “something” Is another hand-picked place at the trough. - . mo, Or, as Don Jamieson, Inhis atfably open and honest style:puts it: | ; ‘There are royal, commissions, boards, agencies and things tike that. “There's always a lot of that sort of stuff around for an elder statesman — or an older politician If you prefer phrasing It. — like me.” indeed there Is. ; y And H's all reserved for deserving Liberals. Which Is only falr, since the Conservatives in more than 40 years have never béen'In power long enough fo cause much, If any, mixed company at the exclusively Liberal trough. That of course Is not to include the Senate, which Is taken for granted by both parties — no matter what duration thelr terms of offices — as the ultimate in green pastures for tired old pols. Dom be gee te In this manner It becomes a sort of Pentee! retirement club where crass partisan politics as practised In the uncivilized Commons are never allowed to Intrude. ; : So commission, board, agency, or some other of “that sort of stuff,” as Don Jamieson so aptly describes It, obviously Is In the political cards ‘or him, He'll joln company with ‘Bud’ Drury, Mit- chell Sharp, Ben Benson and a dozen other Libera} anclents wha went to their reward from the cabinet and are still ornamenting the national capttal scene as chairmen, presidents and chief executive officers of the countless and costly federal agencies -- some of which you have never heard but geod-heartedly provide for with your taxes. — Way to go, Don. CIRCULATION- TERRACE-6x7 ~ Paar (2 Dear Slr ie vy Hvestocke and the realization, jo ’/ Inthe June 19, 1960, edition . of fleherled,, wildlife, water, * qutdoor recreation and other: natural resource valweg‘era: . co-ordinated aed integrated, wat in ‘consultation and CO- 5), : operation. with, - other. :..: " “miniatries. and agencies of ..-, the Crowd: and with the... . private sector.” Further, i, - Section 544) of.the province's - Forest ‘Act réquires* the ;.,' miniatry , to marage .,; provincial Forests for... ee tog plans 9d prepared by... * be~ the aint ge resources, including the * for: éxamination before final -..: (CRICHARD GWYN) geueirets reine tiie, Ras teens fd Seti cc OTTAWA — If you have been following tie may have noticed that In the news: accounts of | University of Montreal's. Business School: in Branch, strive ‘m co-operate these talks you will hardly ever havenoficed the .. place of his brother, Cultural Development.” 10 Briel Bo eee of : depends ts 7 ct »Minister Camille Laurin; 2 we word Quebec. - a 2 in the negotiations to renew federalism, tore. ~ {lg Confederation and to build a sub-arctic New Jerusalem, Quebec has. become the Province That Isn't Entirely There. — - ” Some of this silence Is the consequence of. accident. .One of the few Items on which the -. gang of eleven have been able to agree has been: that thelr’ co-chairman, -Justice Minister Jean Chretien and Saskatchewan Attorney-General Roy Romanow, should talk to the press on thelr. behalf. The other nine; Including Quebec’s Inter-Governmental Affairs Minister Claude Morin, lack a pulpit from which to plead thelr case. Still, politicians who have something to say, never have any difficulty finding ways to. -vaThe spectacie for Quebecer's not being: able to, think of something to say Is unprecedented. For. two decades, back to the Quiet Revolution, a succession of Quebec spokesmen; from Plerre Trudeau to Claude Morin, each of them” “.redlating self-confidence and elegant erudition, have dazzled and befuddled the rest of us while: they debated the merits of and differences between say, “special status”, ‘‘particuiar status”, “distinctive status”, and Quebec as “‘a- province-like-the-others”» excepting In those ways inwhich it Isnotilketheothers. _ - Yet, the original purpose of these con- stitutional talks was fo.fuifill Quebec's needs. - Near the end of the referendum campalgn, Trudeau declared he and his 74 Quebec MPs iit tite ig > and you . -. Newfoundland, or Ontario; but hardly ever what Quebec wants. !t’s quite extraordinary: at the very moment when English-Canadians have ot " interested In the constitution, orat least In parts’ Now. .the- justice depart- “that the nate - of it tike “economic freedoms’, Quebecers have ifr re , only depart . > to do by bureaucrats, academics, journallsts, ” described as “‘adversaries”. ‘ intellectuals, labour leaders. Thelr at et constitutional talks, whith adr ilttedly Is not -terwstlis incommerce, and their new hero sare . agenties,. th exactly Canada’s most popular Indoor sport, you. entrepeneurs, Pierre Laurin, the head of the | provincial Fizh-and Wildilfe " The other ‘factor In plag” Is. that’ Quebec: ja: y. of “Forests Act: ‘Ne ‘politicians. haven't yet:"figured: out. how. to: eeena ry rpnsen of-the : respond to the new political reality crested by © ministry. As.well as being rowith -whieh;qthase three the referendum result.” . Economllc, common-sense : dictate Quebec's. Interests, .as an Industrialized. ‘province, are the same line-up with Ontario, thérefore, in support of a “hands off provincial resources ‘evel thavgh, If. a Ottawa actually. did ‘this, Quebecers’ oll bills Jn me ey it would Instantly double, = - pe _ rr ae +49 oo The truth of the: matter is that while Who is right fs, Quebecers know what they want, andsaldsoin rn j Sg! the referendum, their politicians, including © ‘Ryan who has been conspicuous by his silence, don't know: what they want. * Read the reports of. the,constitutional.talks about his trip.to Libya from....role in his brother's Libyan ‘:- ‘Il read. what Alberta wants, or B.C., or his brother, the president. . connection: ' moe ey tion by the Ministry we, . All. three ‘ay ‘the forests ministry and the . committed to a program of, 5: Thelr new 4n- .. On the ‘cdntrary, ‘frose:two along ‘with the MT “and-to benefit the people of | British Colymbiar “Section: '§ of ithe.B.C. resources of the region, the . - concern © in your’: editorial is.entirely proper. *.~ . i " chatged:..with rencouraging .cagenelasi reyerd their «; oF maxishunr’ productivity of istesporisibility for-protecting « is that. “forest and range resources, the encironment and oo managing and . conserving | ‘those .. resources,” eD- | ‘gouraging .a = world- ped competitive: timber “aa” PAR as Ontario's. It shouid. ‘strong central government,-and in opposition to industry and so: anyone else to the detriment: ” the resource-rich western provinces. = - an, SubSection “‘C” requires of the region or the/province. re ”., theministry-'to plantheuse .” Sincerely,» But the legacy of two decades of nationalism of the forest and: range . A Biickert = as the dominant Ideology; requires: Guebec Tesaoe® osu iu Pe Regional Manager| . politicians to wage jurisdictional war 9A | ~7 th production ts tie YR oteorese se § tawa. So Morinderrands that-Oftaiva, bs its rere vv Piovetnger WASHINGTON (AP) — questions, the . Jatest~-. Billy Carter told federal development: raises new ~; investigators he got U.S. doubis about the president's: . state. department cables © self-described. arm'slength.:: Jimmy Carter says he.dis- © White. Howe spokesman cussed the cables with Billy Ray Jenkins said later’. but- doesn't ‘recall’ giving © Wednesday that: Président: . them to him. .” _ Carter's "best recollection ia mentis trying tofind outwho — ment: cables he has ever would-“lay our seats in the House of Commors done what we always were accused of doing --. is right, what cables Bly discussed with Billy Carter on the line”, to make certain that a No ‘yote - lapsed into acoma. - would not be Interpreted by English-Canada “as an indication everything Is fine and can remain as it was before". Carter has, whether they are" are low-classification cables Atter the referendum, the victor, Quebec Liberal Leader Claude Ryan, declared he would tour the. country to mobilize support for his constitutional proposals. But he hasn't. ‘The loser, Premier Rene Levesque, declared that he would re-examine his soverelgnty-association | policy, and come up with anew version of What Quebec Really Wants, this time within Con. |: - taderation. But he hasn't. The principal factor in play-{s that since the referendum, attitudes within Quebec have one a.set-change. Veteran commentator Dominique Clift writes.of an "after. natlonalism’” era, white author. Michael Morin has written that nationalism, “as a concept, Is de fe ; . . sore - ‘The mood of Quebecers has become relaxed to an extent that is uncanny. People. have switch off politics. Specifically, the have switch off natlonalist, collectivist politics. So nobody, not counting the small core of intellectuals who write open letters to each other in the pages of |. Le Devolr, any loonger igves a damn about the -istinctions between ‘“‘special status’ and "'distrinctive status’’. So Ai the same tima, Quebec’, mood has gone conservative, In the way that English.Canada’s waa until about mid-1979 when we got 6 government (Joe Clark‘s) that actually trled to . ‘i a _— The Herald welcomes its reader's contments.. All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right to refuse to print Ictters on grounds of possible jibe! or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to be considered for” publication must be signed. \ J. oot, my classified: and who gave. from our embassy in Libya: Whatever else we may be a5 people, we them to him. Reporting on Billy Carter's: aren't predictable. - a Beyond... any egal’ _ first trip to Libya" ‘ eee [ou - Mla ; _ THE EDITOR. |):