ThOrCadre; Thursday. NOVember 18. 1976,lnage 2.

’_ o [Lar'ry Green

What has been called the

Vbiggest test for the unity

of Canada since cons£ription, took place this Monday. It was, of course, the Quebec Provincial Election.‘The Liberal Government of Robert 'Bourassa that held 96 seats of the possible 110_was de— feated by the Parti Quebecois headed by Rene Lesveques.

' The "upset" of the P.Q.‘s victory surprised some people but the’knowledgable"were ‘ not in the least surprised. In the last three years the Liberals have done little to please the working force of 'Quebec. They promised to keep the labour unions in control and that:§_about what happen- ed,‘the labour unions kept control. Strikes have become almost a permanent part of the political scene in Quebec. Island students who worked for the Quebec-government this summer were even involv- ed with walkouts staged by the union of the Quebec civil servants.

The majority of the french people have no more desire to seperate than Kings County, but they voted for'the P.Q. anyway. This is the first election that the party was able to keep M Lesveque in control, con— centrate on other issues

'and playdqwn the seperation 'policy. They also promised a referendum before a sep—» eration bill will be intro- duced in the Quebec provin- cial Assembly. These actions were reassuring enough to' have finally won Rene

Lesveques a seat in the assembly, the"first he has held in his eight years as

leader of the P.Q. As for the fear of seper-

‘ation it shouldn't-exist.

The people of Quebec will surely vote down any bill a advancing such a proposal. Moreover, even if the refer- endum wasn't presented to the people I doubt that enough members of the P.Q. party in the Assemble would vote with the bill to have it passed. But if all this happened and such a bill~ were passed Quebec still wouldn't be able to seperate. legally. All of the provinces of Canada must be unanimous with Quebec for separation to accur. For this Quebec would have to make some concessions especially to the Atlantic;provinces

since we would be seperated physically"from the rest of Canada in such a case. The governments of the Atlantic provinces would demand access roads to thé.rest of Canada

without the bother of Customs.

A problem would also arise out of the use of the St. Lawrence seaway and the di—

Avision of federal property

within Quebec. - Whose fault is all this. I wouldn't.plaCe the blame on the Parti Quebecois, Rene Lesveques or the voters cf uebec. It should rest with

'the ineptitude of the Liberal

government and perhaps rest solely on the person who is said to be the most hated man in Quebec, Robert Bourassa.

Dear Cadre

Dear Cadre,

It is always so easy to sit back and condemn someone. who cannot possibly defend herself. I anm referring to the incident where, when it was known and stated that the

Communications Officer was out of the province, she was

You~deserve

a break

joday of

Is there something you 0 or don‘t like on

ampustfiis is the place ‘

to c0mp1ain or encour- .ge.All submissions very uch.welcOmed. ’

asked to phone Radio CIMN to face insinuations that she was not doing her job. Significantly some mem- ‘bers of the open-li’ne show,. Tuesday nite at 6 pm may not have been totally unbiased in their comments. I am all for "constructive" criticism but if we are going to get.

.involved in personalities

shouldn't we let these person- alities speak for themselves?

Signed

Concerned for Free'but EQUAL

Speech

Dear Cadre,

Sunday night's Council meeting had to be one of the most fnustrating, childish, irresponsible, meetings ever to have been held on the ca pus.5

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This week's tired crew: Gerald,Margot;George,

lKathy,Larry,Ruth,Tony,

Jackie,Ron,Aggie,Caroline,

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with periodic breaks. Staff Ameeting every Friday atL12z20,

'nominees? to handle Winter Carnival to Council. The ‘ suggestions were approved. At the conclusion of the-meeting Elisabeth Burke moved they be rejected. Her motion was approved.

At the next council meeting the council

members decided that "they",

would decide who was going to handle Winter Carnival. It was sug- gested and approved that both groups that had ap- plied appear before council.

At Sunday's meeting Pat O'Brian and Caroline Hill decided that rather than eXercise their right of abstention, they would simply "pack up”-and force the meeting to clOSe.

Caroline'returned after. it was explained what the consequences of this walk out inccured. Pat O'Brian

refused'towetunnto.thec~xmgx

meeting. The council was

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forced, because of this irresponsible attitude, to pass the decision-making task on to the Executive. What is council here for? If all council is - willing to do is complain about what other councillor's are doing then they are’

-"terrib1e" examples of the

student population. It isn't any wonder there is a decision to remain

.uninvolved when those

who are involved in the decisionemaking process

frefuse to use their powers ‘usefully? I

We grant that our exeC— utive has not been perfect;

we've made mistakes...

at least we are willing to try... even if no one ' gives a damn. '

Derek Key

Paul Currie

"Gerald Methanéiti