wetegat OTTAWA (CP) — Postal unlod. leader Jean-Claude Parrot . was sentenced Monday to three moaths in prison plus i8 months probation for defying Parlia- zment'a back-to-work order last October. . .. Parrot's supporters ap- plauded as he was led from the courtroom -to start serving his sentence. Chief Justice Gregory Evans of the Qntarlo Supreme Court told Parrot his defiance of the law was - reprehensible. He sald no one Ia above the law, and if defiance is allowed to go unpunished it could lead to anarchy — “without laws and respect for them we go back to the law of the jungle where might was right.” Parrot was found guilty last month of defylng Parllament’s back-to-work order which took effect Oct. ). Parrot's lawyer, Leonard Shore, said he has filed an appeal, zane judge, in a half-hour speech, told Parrot: “If you do not like the law, protest peacefully against it, seek to have it amended or revoked, but obey it” Mr. Justice Evans said it was not for him to decide whether the back-to-work order was fair. ea:“Its. not within my jurisdiction to second-guess ° Parllament.” ~ The evidence was clear uthat Parrot had defied the. law’ = and counselled ‘thousands of others to do so. That was “arrogant, in- solent, and contemptuous.” a “Power, without a corre- “sponding feellng of account- “ability, is ‘a highly volatile ‘eommodity in the hands of “the irresponsible,’ Mr. Justice Evans sald. P2rot, «who was allowed to make a ‘brief comment before =pentence was passed, dis- s puted suggestions that he does not care about Canada's 23 million citizens. _ He said he has long been ‘goncerned about the problems in the post office an | repeatedly sought a royal commission of inquiry Into post office operations. + “Dope not only for the 23 - million Canadians, but for , the 23,000 postal workers, * that this inquiry will take : place, Parrot told the 3 judge in his final remarks fore sentencing: «1°. «> of. Ppa ada The judge sald he was sad in passing the sentence because “T consider you to. be an honest and dedicated man whose loss of ob- jectivity warped his judg- ment," - .But- defiance - of Parliament was 50 serious that a fine would not, be satisfactory — a fine “would make a sham anda mockery of justice and would appear to almost condone ille- - gality.” . A jail term would give Parrot time to reflect on his actions and would serve: notice to others who con- | template defiance of the law. Crown prosecutor Douglas Rutherford bad called for a substantial jail term. The maximum possible sentence was two years in prison. “Tf jailing Mr. Parrot for thia offence makes him a martyr, then so be it," said Rutherford. oe : Parrot was accompanied in court Monday by his mothzr, wife, and lwo teen- aged daughters. His younger daughter, 15, ran out of the courtroom after her father as he was led away. Shore described Parrot as a manof good characler — a . good family man, a regular church-goer, a dedicated union leader and a fan of the Montreal Expos and the Montreal Canadiens. Rutherford said the fact Parrot is regarded aa of good character made his offence worse. It was because of his good character that he was able fo convince 23,000 others to join him In defying the law. . Rutherford argued against a fine for Parrot, saying it would likely be pald by his supporters in the labor movement. Sitting in the court while the judge heard pre-sentence submissions were Shirley Carr, vice-president of the Canadian Labor ,Congress, Grace Hartman, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, and Louis Laberge, president of the Quebec Federation of Labor.. Outside the court, about 100 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers demonstrated their support for Parrot. In Montreal, about 50 aff- duty postal workers mar- ched peacfully. to Liberal party offices.where they elk San Se TORONTO (CP) — An empire -bullt on smoke psed when its leader went to prison in Canada. ‘With contacts in ‘| - Holland, Belgium, India ‘] and Switzerland as well ‘T as England, the United | States and Canada, ‘] Gurdev Singh Sangha ‘| controlled a hashish- smuggling network that had made him a millionaire. - He owned’ hotels in ‘ Europe and apartment 2] buildings In Amsterdam :{ and Hamilton, Ont. His Swiss bank account contained $2miillon when he ‘was arrested in new Mercedes Benz. On Jan.id, he was sentenced in Torento to 14 “Tf years in prison and .finee +f $500,000 for conspiracy to :] import hashish. . He was caught because Cf of his trip for the new car. Sangha operated his 4 business from the 4 Netherlands, which has no extradition treaty with Canada. . Through =a conspirator in India, he arranged to buy hashish from. dealers in New Delhi for §100 a pound. . Concealing the drugs in oxygen tanks and bolts of cloth, his employees arranged shipments to Canada through brokers 4 who assumed they were ‘handling . legitimate ood “Hig source seemed to be limitless,” sald Don ‘ Heaton, superintendent of the RCMP drug squad in Toronto. When the shipments reached their destinations, the hashish was sold for $1,000 a pound and then re-sold for more than $10 a gram. . Money from the drugs was returned to Sangha hidden In new cars. Sangha already had been in prison. In 1972, he spent two productive years in a British jail for f attempting to smuggle 413 pounds of hashish into England. _ | EMPIRE BASED | ON DRUG DEALS -seience degrees he had Belgium on a trip to buy a” Heused his time toearn a PhD in _Iaser technology, adding to obtained in 1964 from University of London. Three mistakes led to Sangha’s arrest and eventual conviction, Although he conducted his business in Punjabl, he used the telephone to contact his agents, Taps in Holland and Canada led to his detection. His second mistake eame when he left the British prison in 1972. As soon as he moved to the Netherlands, Dutch authorities were notified, . They learned that he was conducting much of his business in Canada and notified the RCMP in 1976. . That year the RCMP in Ottawa selzed 30 bolts of cloth containing 450 pounds of hashish, At the same time, police at Toronto International Airport were watching 41 bolts containing drugsworth more than $2.2 million, . Despite their efforts, Sangha was unperturbed. His wife was living in England where his two sons attended Eaton and University of Man- chester. His Swiss bank account was intact. His business interests were thriving. Two years aiter he learned of the RCMP's interest in his activities, Sangha made a quick trip to the Netherlands to pick up his Mercedes Benz in Luxembourg. Dutch authorities notified Belgian border guards and Sahgha was arrested on an Interpol warrant from Canada. That was Sangha's third mistake — leaving his haven in the Netherlands. Belgium haa an extradition treaty with Canada, If arreated in the Netherlands, Sangha faced a maximum sen- tence of two years in jail for dealing In a soft drug. - prosecution of _ injustice. f d. . appeare of the Liberal government, CUPW _ local | ipresident Marcel Perrault called the Parrot an - Defence lawyer Shore said Parrot had already suffered’ the sting of the law through ‘his public trial and con- viction, “iy . L Rutherford said Parrot ap- ‘peared unrepentent. Two days after an Ontario Supreme Court juty found him guilty of defying an act -of Parliament, he sald on a national televison program that if he had to do it again, he would, Rutherford saida jail term for Parrot might. make Parrot a martyr to a small segment of soclely, but the vast majority ‘of the public “would not look on Parrot as a martyr, but as an anar- chisi.” ; ‘Shore said the Liberal : government had used the court to achieve Its political goals. ‘ : not afford politically to have the union on strike. and rather than resolve it in the traditional manner, the government resorted to the courts.” °° Parrot was treated har- shly and “was virtually found guilty prior to his trial," Shore said: As a pre-trial condition of being allowed to remain out - of custody, Parrot was or- dered to issued a public ‘statement declaring all “The government could : ‘eollective previous strike orders in- valid. , - os The union called a. legal strike Oct. 16. Parllament’s back-to-work order took effect Oct. 19 and Parrot ordered the 23,000 members back to their jobs Oct. 25. Shore said both sides -- the government and the union — - were posturing in an attempt to resolve the contract dispute. “The union judged C-8 (the back-to-work bill) as belng a pressure tactic, never thinking that criminal law would be used to resolve a bargaining problem.” . An exchange between the ‘judge and Shore resulted in dismigsal of character witness Martha Stockwell. She did not testify beyond Begin raps province for medicare trouble VANCOUVER .(CP) — Federal Health Miniater Monique Begin says the provincial government's failure to pass on federal funds for health care and attempts to limit doctors’ fee increases could result in the destruction of medicare in British Columbia. Her comments drew the ire of provincial Human Resources Minister ‘Grace McCarthy who said Sunday that misleading information is being spread for political purposes. a Miss Begin said the federal government is giving B.C. §701 million for health care this year and the province is committed by new: cost- sharing agreements: to provide almost the .same amount fer a total of $1.4 bil- lion. ae eyed, . The Social. Credit govern- ment’s ‘pre-election budget, however, allots only, $1.2 billion for health care. The federal minister said the province cannot afford to be too tough with doctors who are still negotiating a 1979 fee increase. “The situation in B.C. is very volatile,” she said in a weekend: statement. ‘The -;petcehtage’ given."in™ that | settlement will mean the difference between saving medicare and not. . \ é "] imow by experience that no government, whatever its political color, can have the doctors against them in a public health plan.” “An expert. talks about . The Hope diamond is a rare steely-blue stone. It is thought to be a part of a stone brought to France by Tavernier. This famous traveler who wrote about gemstones braught a 67- carat blue diamond iat India in 1642. It was sold te} TKing Louis XIV and was worn by Marie Antoinette. During the French Revolu- tion it was stolen and dis- In 1890 the} e diamond and a small: er blue stone appeared on| the market’ and are thought to be parts of this stone but no one knows for sure.’ several times. In 1911. an American newspaper pub- lisher. purchased it for his wife. Here it got a reputa- tion for being bad luck be- cause Mr. McLean had several turns of bad fortune and died in an institution. In 1958 it was presented to the Smith- sonian Institute In Wash- ington. D.C. where it will probably remain for all time, JEWELLERS LTD. 2 632-2171 216 City Centre Kitimat fk em The Hope stone was sold] ° Miss Begin also said the provincial government has failed to pass on a $20 sup- plement to elderly peaple in institutions. “Misleading and deceptive information is belng spread for political purposes during this election campaign, ” replied Mrs. McCarthy. “Within a few days of the federal announcement, the premier of British Columbia assured senior citizens that the $20 Increase of Jan. 1, 1979, would be passed along to them In full andithas been and-will contime to be." Miss Begin, however, said she was not referring to” genetal increases but to an additional $20 to be used as pocket money by people in institutions, The province has been receiving the money since January but has. " not passed It on, she said. Mrs, © McCarthy said Sunday there has not been a federal increase that hasn’t been passed on. ; “We think she (Begin) has been.in so many provinces that she didn’t know where she was," Mrs. McCarthy sent a tele- gram to Miss Begln saying - her statements were causing “unnecessary fear and anxiety on the part of many of our senior citizens who find the multiplicity of in- come malntenance pra- grams in Canada confusing at the best of thmes.” The Herald, Tuesday, May 8,1 Postal leader jailed for defying govt — giving her namen and union position — president of the union’s St, Catharines, Ont., local, Shore indicated he in- tended to ask Mrs. Stock- well, who took minutes of union meetings last October, that Acting Labor Minister Andre Ouellet suggested to the union the back-to-work legislation would be “put In the deep freeze" if union members showed good faith and returned to their jobs. — Rutherford challenged Shore to introduce Guellet as a witness “because I don’t believe it.'' . The judge upheld Ruther- ford'’s interjection: ‘I am not prepared to accept second-hand evidence in a matter of this importance.” Shore said Ouellet didn't take notes at the union meetings and Mrs. Stockwell “That's not good enaugh, 1 want the witness (Ouellet),”’ Mr, Justice Evans shot back. “Inconvenience to Mr. Quellet doesn't concern me - for one moment.” But Shore said he had na- further witnesses to call. In -his final pre-sentence sub- mission, he again mentloned Ouellet, this time in con- nection with his 1976 con- viction for contempt of court. Quellet was let go with an apology and small fine after being found guilty of being in contempt of court. Quellet, when he was consumer af- fairs minister, had criticized the Quebec Superior Court for its ruling that several ate companies “were not of price i. Shore said in the Ouellet ease, the Crown asked for a light penalty for Ouellet, an elected public official and senior member of the Liberal cabinet, Ottawa lawyer Maurice 7 Wright was the only witness has known Parrot since 1971, who testified te Parrot’s and Parrot strikes him as an character, Wright said he honest, dedicated man. UNEMPLOYMENT | 1S THE ISSUE TERRACE UNION OF THE UNEMPLOYED ask us about you. The Military Career Counsellor with the Canadian Forces Mobile Information Unit can help you to make important decisions about your future. in the wide range of opportunitias offered by the Canadian Forces, you may find just -what yau're !ooking for. And you'll be paid to learn a trade. ‘Talk to Captain PHIL CHRYSLER | Military Career Counsellor THE MOBILE INFORMATION UNIT will visit CANADA EMPLOYMENT CENTRE on Tuesday, 15 May from 9:09 AM to 3:00 PM . There's no life like it. 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