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(RICHARD GWYN

OTTAWA — The other day, a Robert J.
MacMillan of Brantford wrote -me a note to
describe the classic Canadian Catch 22. i

He grew up In Ontario, and then moved to
Alberta where he worked for 14 years. in mid-
career, he decided to go to university, and then
applied to and was accepted by the University of
Toronto. He applied also for a Canada Student

oan. : os
Enter the Insanity. “This Is what 1
discovered’, MacMillan writes. “!. do not
quallfy for Ontario assistance because | worked
in Alberta for (the
months. | do not qualify for Alberta ald because
lam taking a program In an Ontarlo university
that is comparableto programs given In Alberta
univers!fes,”"

Keep this craziness in mind as you move on to
consider the angry response by Saskatchewan
Attorney-General Roy Romanow, co-chairman
of the federal-provincial ministerial comml
on the constitution, to the federal arc
limit the power of the provinces jo:
C.D. Howe Research Institue v4
April called “self-contained Hi en
The federal proposal made thei

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Jrovinces,

“very, very nervous’, sald Ramgnow. “Instead,
we want to IImit the pow fa Tap idea},
government over the economy.“this shay In-

volve barriers to ihe free mavement of people
and goods, and this may cause difficulties to the
federal: government, but this Is jntede
Start with the fact that the ivictims. ct
provincial emplre-buliding ‘are ‘hot: federal
polltictans and. bureaucrats, except indirectly,
but Canadians. Like MacMillan. Like anyone,
from a lawyer to: a plumber, who-moves from
one province to another and finds that thelr
credentials no longer qualify. Like Ontarlo and
Quebec construction workers and firms looking
on andon.t<'F res
Move on to the fact that most Canadians don’t
belleve in beggaring their neighbour. According
to the Gallup Poll, a majority, of 67 per cent to 15
per cent, believe that natural resources should’
be controlled jointly by Ottawa. and the
provinces rather than by the provinces alone, A
narrow majority, 57 per cent to 40. per cent,
disagree with the proposition that. ‘The -
provinces have a right to develop, their own —
economies without belng concern ith what Is
going on elsewhere In Canada.” CC
After an opening week of a plite exchange of
views and of clearing away minor wnétfers/éuch |
as giving the provinces a larger say-in ap-
pointments to the Supreme Court, the con-.
silfutional discussions at last have. prexen .
through to the harsh white light of rdalffy.:
This reallty, which no amount of. politeness .
and wishful-thinking can conceal, Is that at Issue
In these talks are fwo fundamentally contrary
views about Canada. a

One view is that Canada Is a country, sub-

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4, P oo = nt ers t. ds, the } .
for work In-each other’s provinges.” And on and ~ af Aree g 3 violas Ik

divided into provinces and composed of varlous °

cultures, or nations In the sociological sense of
the term. The other view is that Canada Is made:
up of ‘‘ten separate societies’, In the phrase of

for the sake of convenience, have arranged
themselves Into a political association.

lf you belleve In Canada as. ten separate .
societies, then MacMillan has only himself to
blame: In moving to Alberta and in then tryirig
to enroll In a university back in Ontarlo, he’s
behaved Ike an Immigrant, from Italy say, who
applied to the Canadian government to help him
- to go to school back In Rome. _

if you belleve In Canada asa country, then the
Ontarlo and Alberta governments are to blame
for treating MacMillan like an Immigrant.

It would be a supreme Irony If in a country to
which all of us once came as Immigrants,. Inuit
and Indians excepted, we all became im-

migrants once again. ,

But It could happen, Indeed Is bound to hap--
pen, unless the constitutional talks conclude
with some form or other of a charter of
“economic freedoms”; in Prime Minister
Trudeau’s phrase.

From the start of these talks, Trudeau has
been pessimistic about thelr outcome and he has
got the premiers mad at him by his off-stage |
barracking. But the evidence accumulates that
Trudeau’s pessimism was justified: no way
exists that a crowd of ministers and officials can
draft a new constitution when they haven't yet
decided whether. they are drafting It for a
country, or for ten groups of Immigrants. —

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VANCOUVER (CP) —
Thrée consecutive
constitutional - negotiations
ended Thursday with no
clear agreements reached
between federal: and
provicial governments on
any of the 12 issues  ear-
marked for discussion,

“It's not our mandate to
make agreements,’ Jean
Chretien, federal justice
minister, told reporters.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.
{AP) — Tactical police

teams shot out streetlights ©

and cordoned: off a

‘predominantly black hous- .

ing project after eight of-
ficers received minor

* this’ racially ‘tense city. ~*
The shooting occurred two
hours afler a dusk-to-dawn
curfew took effect Thursday,
closing .all retail businesses
in this southeast Tennessee
city of 170,000. The curfew

was imposed after two nights _

of firebombings; lootings and
rockthrowing that followed a
jury's acquittal of two Ku
Klux Klansmen in the
shooting of four black

women.

Early today, at least 19
people had been arrested for
curfew violations and jailed,
police said. Four of the
arrests were made in the

, area of the shooting.

All eight officers were hit
by ‘one shotgun blast as.
police tried to get people off
the streets. A ninth officer
cut his hand while trying.

rescue comrades who were:

in the line of fire.

empty Thursday night in the
city’s: heavily industrial,

Newfoundiand Premier Brian Peckford, which, predo amine gine ambush

occurred,

- But there were reports of ;

scattered sniper fire in other

areas and at least two fire- _

bombings.

Mayor. Charles (Pat) Rose
said his curfew order.

probably would: continue

through tonight. .
The violence began
Tuesday night a few hours -

‘after an allwhite jury -

acquitted two Klansmen and

convicted a third on reduced _

charges in .the April. 19
shotgun woundings of four
black women.
The city’s black leaders,
among them Harry Hill, a
kesman for the Youth
‘oalition, said the verdict
was just one element in the
explosive mix including poor.
housing an
that spark

arked the violence in
a city with

an estimated

black population of 35 per

cent. . ios
“We're going to all the
project areas tonight, trying
to talk to the people, trying to
cool them dows," Hill ssid
before the shootings.

“Everybody's starting to

off nw . . . and

everybody's making the
wreng moves — right down
o the curfew. We're trying
to avoidthe funerals. We had
some people die here in ’71.""

In May 1971, four nights of
race rioting brought
National Guardsmen and a
curfew to this city.

With a ré¥olver stuffed
into his waistband, Rose

weeks of.

_breakthrough in

The
. Marshall. Thrash, 30, 4

unemployment .

.
a

a

No agreements on

“We're here to define the
possibility for an agreement
for the meeting of the first:
ministers’ Sept.:8." --

The possibility of a’major
appears increasingly slim

because of the - ministers’
inability to reach a con-

sensus on the major’

economic issues which have
hobbled the talks.

arrived at. the- Alton Park
~:eerned).”.

area shortly after Thur-
sday's fray to survey the
situation. © °--
_ “Fhe whole purpose

the mayor ‘said

. ¢. George’ Key; Chittanoogi
-chapter president of the Na- -
_ tional Association for the Ad-

‘vancement _ of: - Colored

People, sald.the curfew, by ©

itself, is inadequate.

“My reaction to it is this is.

anly..a Band-Aid. over a
festering sore," he said. ‘‘Tt,
-won't do any good to run the
problems underground.”

The jury on Tuesday ac-—

quitted: William Church, 23,
who calls himself the Im-
perial Wizard of the Justice
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
and member Larry Payne,
26, of four counts each of
assault with intent to commit
murder ‘that resulted In
bodily injury.

jury _ convicted
member of Church's group
who testified he ‘fired the
shotgua blasts, of assault.
Four. hlack women testified

The streets were generally the shots hit them as they

walked’ fram. a downtown

‘tavern

Thrash was fined §225 and

given ‘two workhouse sen- —
tences of nine months each ©

‘and another of two months.

tember -

of the:
curfew was to, try to avoid
‘escalation. of this trouble,”

- for a break.

vie

“Ontari “Ate ‘General
_ Roy MeMurlry said he hop

he hopes
the federal government

return tothe fourth week of

ministerial discussions
béginning. rt
with somé: better-defined
pro;
Trudeau and the 10 premiers
are to initial agreements on
the 12 issues in September,
‘Py some extent, we're
sort of debating a number of

_ these issues in a little bit ofa
vacuum because we really’ -
. don't know what Ottawa is

Klan verdict -
-Sparks uproar |

the powers from

prepared to-do,” McMurtry

said,

“We think it important
before. the fourth week how
far it is prepared to.go so far
as the devolution of some of
the federal
government (is , con-

For example, -

provinces, more powers

“threugh a revamped Senate
but the federal government
‘did:not reveal hol. far: It 'i6}-"
willing to relinquish control “

of the ‘upper chamber,

: MeMurtry said.

Other provincial ministers.
left the meeting” renewing

-gomplaints about what they
“gonsider to be a federally-

imposed deadline to reach

‘agreements on the 12 issues
- in September.

Roy Romanow, Saskat-
chewan attorney-general

- andco-chairman of the talks,
“said. he expects ‘many: -

provinces will be willing to

extend the discussions two or’ --

three months beyond Sep-
tember if progress is being

made but no agreements

have been reached.
‘Romanow said he prefers
an extension to suecombing
to what he described as “the
doomsday scenario.”
Many provinces fear the
federal government will take

unilateralaction, as Trudeau’

has warned, if no substantial

agreements are reached in
’ September.

js Romane and Chretien
left the meeting Thursday
night, they agreed it is time

ning. Ayg. 25 in Ottawa

“resources and
goods, capital and: labor °-
‘across provincial

that. Ottawa make it. clear

the
‘ministers spent much time
"discussing ways of giving the. .

~ on one
_ cept’ of. richer provinces

-couver this week.

“in “sainie “Ways,” We've
-gone round and oa

will .some issues," Romanow

said. “We can stand back
now, get cabinet direction

and then decide whether or °:
‘not we? can moye’ from
gals if Prime Minister . there.”’ ce de gk

ee
The most contentious

iskues are what level of-
government will have:
natural:

-eontrol . over
the: flaw of

boun-
daries. . :

Some provinces have‘ pre- .
Is to

pared covinter-proposa
federal. suggestions . but
Chretien has yet to approve
any.

toa detective novel —having
read most of the chapters, he

‘ needs to read. the last ones to

discover. the: book’s -worth.

Morin said there appears -

to be unanimous agreement
point: that the con-

‘subsidizing poorer ones

through equallzatlon: pay-
ments he enshrined ‘nt the

“Two other areas — giving
the provinces more control
over the administration of
family law and giving the
provinces ‘a voice’. in

. constitution.

Supreme. Court of Canada —

appointments — were con-

‘sidered almost settled two:

weeks ago In Montreal but

_ ran into troublé last week in

Toronto and again

in Van-

" Chretien said no final posi-
tions have been taken by any
government on any issue.

Although an. aura of |

pessimism has ‘surrounded
the talks: since their
beginning, both Chretien and

Romanow tried to. wear 3 —
. brave face as the third week

ended, |

“We're working, we're
talking, we're exchanging
drafts, we're disagreeing —~
that's. a good thing,”

- Romanow said.

Chretien said: “It was 4
good three weeks; I'm
personally satletied with the

progress made.”

“designated responsibility
~  ignecessary,a fayorable atmosphere and public
attitude supportive. of
Odd then, isn't lt,

Tn years of Cabinet: service,. |
‘authority’ and power, Is outranked only by

Claude Morin, “Quebec .
intergovernmental affairs”
minister, compared the talks -

JACKSON”

good and

favorable Impression of the

Specialists -- call them “consultants”
of creating,

the administration.

e overall task: of:

‘In addition, the "government employs 7

1: to. hear one of Finance ;
~ a Minister Allan’ MacEachen’s former most -

trusted aldes say that what this government

“e _ most needs are some good public relations.
..._. The need Is urgent, never

“‘Heelf -- at stakes’.

- Allan MacEachen is in a strong position to volee.

- {inthe Commons since 1953, he has. precedence
and In influence,

Prime Minister Trudeau.
. Through’ all those years nobody has had to

give: Allan MacEachen.. advice on public.

relations -- which for a politician Is relating in a
positive way -to the taxpayers. t “
~.' Saying the right thing -- ¢
come. almost instinctively to him.
~. Totally partisan, he always has
‘ for sounding objective, wl
inmind. =. , . _
He quietiy communicates the feeling of un-
derstanding and,.. when. necessary,
. Master of the parliamentary rules,
‘summate diplomat; hée~has been-"head -and
shoulders above-all‘cther:House Leaders’ of all
parties Including his own, and able
basis that seems eminently reasonable. —

~ about Parliament and politics than perhaps any,
other politician including Commons dean
Stanley Knowles of the ND
only. cabinet experience --

he knows: public
relations. ~

deal.on a

~ So If he knows anything -- and he knows more ;

1-{s urge more so, with the. .
government facing -such exceptionally difficult .
asks-with so much -- perhaps the very country ©
Almost any’aide who has worked closely with
p. authoritative opinion on public relations. :

nd perhaps more
"Important knowing when silence Is golden = has
had the talent _
the public interest.

wkd add NS LE

who maybe lacks

Allan MacEacheén’s testing-by-fire will some

with his Fall budget.
" {fhe can, he’ll stay clear of the actual setting
Gf oll and gas prices -- unless he-@arlerid. a
. diplomatic. hand.

And avoid Invalvemant, ‘unless it can be.

- helpful, In the contlriying constitutional federal-

provincial debate. ;

As Finance Minister, already working on his
budget, he'll be under’ infense
conflicting interests. —

He has. made no secret of the government's

urgent need for more revenue which means . ”

more or higher: taxes or both.
Where or how he'll
attempting to discover. — Fo a

But knowing his man and his uncanny “feel”
for the public mood, his former trusted aide Is.
certain '
the taxpayers’ wallet like a pickpocket...
. That ts, he won't-dispense ‘with income fax
indexing, "

_Junking Indexing could be positively the most
unpopular. thing the government could do.

0 why make enemies when friends are so
‘sorely needed? '
government already
‘public trust? . ok boas
_ Already with 1,000 or’ so public-relations ad-
visors, ‘the government, whether: It wants
another or not, has the. best in the business in

dangerously lacking In,

Allan MacEachen.

Feel sure then that he will find those extra”
“dollars without double-dealing you in the budget,

pressure from —

get It, only he knows, or Is

won't dig those additional funds out of |

Why ‘lessen respect for -

ant

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