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Wednesday, January 22, 1986

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It was only a “people’s inquiry” with no authority to make deci-
sions or even file a report in parliament. But if the hundreds of people
attending the inquiry hearings Saturday and Sunday had their way,
Canada would move immediately to opt out of the Canada-U.S.

agreement which allows the U.S. to test its first-strike submarine -

weaponry at Nanoose Bay in Georgia Strait.

More than 500 people packed the ballroom of the Coast Bastion
Inn in Nanaimo for what was billed as the People’s Inquiry into
CFMETR — the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test
Ranges. And as the sessions wound up Sunday, they were unanimous
in endorsing a call from retired Canadian Forces Maj.-Gen. Leonard
Johnson that the base be converted to peaceful purposes.

see CFMETR page 3

rosce’ | OLR rollback demand
aims to ‘de-unionize
construction industry’

People’s inquiry draws 500 (top) as Victoria Bishop Remi de Roo (r) chairs; Gayle Gavin
(bottom left) says Nanoose range tests first-strike technology, while former missile designer
Robert Aldridge lists lethal weaponry.