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DEFENDING HIS REIGN IN Msonoﬁéll—

Suffered through some K proportion of non—nationals 1199139013 a great Wall Of. ' Government inherited- tganada drastic rises in their than almost any other China around our unlverSltleS needed'toug measures _ tuition, and there seen‘s country. as around our young people's deal a Situation that to be a general trend to In I976, the last year " ’ minds, but at same we .was getting progreSSively reduce the number of 7 for which we have figures ' ‘haVe to realistically see worse, and no mtterdmat foreign students in Canada, - available, foreign" faculty our ‘mlverSltJ-es as {1311- govenugethnt leEéeCEel but isn't part of the rea— in many departments repre— v gated to our own soc1ety. Feb. :ha gebe ' tel son for a university to , sented as much as 30% of The same applies to Stlldente ours Wlll_ ave t0. 1n rO‘t~ encorporate people of the total. In other areas as Well as to professors. ducedv again. We just canno ‘ — i _ - — - Our OWQ students mnefit from I honestly don't think the budget had much to do rubbing shoulders with people

with the Fall of the government. That was an excuse from Other lands, but

to’ force an election when Trudeau and his crowd Young canadlans ate bemg

saw the Gallop Poll as favourable to themselves, leeked OUt 0f medical SChOOlS,

- — —_- — — law SChOOlSI or engineering

afferent backgrOUIKiS? almost half were non—Canadian. Programs because thOee

4r.McMillan: That's right. The great international _. Vtaculties are accepting a rt 5 an issue I feel very institutions like Oxford, disproportionate number of st Corlle abOUt- VIBt me Cambridge, and Yale, , eutSJ—de etUdentSI then our this pell’ltr I thka ~ have corresponding figures balance 15 OUt Of waCk- LnstitUtiOns Of higher ~ that rarely exceed 5- to 8%.

. 1 r _ w 7 . Q: Would you tell us a bit reﬂung are by definition Some people argue that we're _ about the thing that caused

yxternational. They shouldn't country, that we've this Federal Election

36 CirCIJmSCribed by CUltural lhad to rely on other countries Your party-S budget? '

3r geographical factors, and for our faculties because we ' Mr. McMillan: I honestly they Should Open their haven't had developed ‘ ‘ don't think that the budget wdeS. t0» the world- imam graduate schools to produce ' had much to do with the fall a

is part: of what unlverSltleS Ph.D's. That might of the government. I afford the rampant, uncontro— are all about. have been true in the 50's or think that was an excuse to lled government spending

On the othelf hand, they are even the early 60's, but we force an election when that we have been walla/sling corporate Cltlzens- They are continuing to hire non— Trudeau and his crowd and in to the detriment of are part of the broader ’ Canadians in all kinds of the ml: to a lesser extent, workers, of students and community and they, there" ‘ — .— _ — — - of senior citizens. fore owe allegiance to MY experience iS that Young People don't want Q: Have you any final that cammnity. They have work programs tailormade for themselves. i think messages for our readers? diligations to the society they see them as stop gap and ad hoc. ~ Mr. McMillan: Just one, that supports them 50 that a n - , _ - and it relates to my out—- they can't ignore the v t fields at the very time when ' saw the Gallop Poll as look on REJ. I feel, society's interests” When we have a surplus Of our own faYOUI‘abJ-e t0 them-t I . that we 'on the Island it comes dam to the level people: . I m I think Mr. Trudeau and his should be stressing of students and faculty, we ‘I think it 15 a guestlon henchmen, Jim Coutts, his policies aimed at making in Canada have a greater, 7 of balance. We don't want prinCipal secretary, Keith ( us less dependent on

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Davey, his election stra- the Federal treasury tegeSt and Alan MaCEacmm' and more self reliant

their house leader, who saw than we have been» We've his own position threatened V been too content to if Donald MacDonald took e over the leadership of the Liberal Party, these people got,together and sane Count?“ *frm the NDP' provinces. What I would - / ‘ a *govemnent like to see Islanders do is defgat? purely for narrow; start looking gift horses political reasons. There in the Knuth, looking at

' Were no principles Fede a1 eve t d at stake. _ There was no decigingg evergn 5:01;:y an

great OPPOSltlon to the generous, if it is in our bUdg?t' " best interests or whether Q: W111 Canada S_neXt it just accelerates our budget be much different dependency that has built frm the 1’35“: one? up since Confederation. Mr. MCMillam, BaSiCallY: the What I'm saying is that we

, country is near bankruptcy - should gear in on building

' We're spending 25% more than up our econcmic base, for we're taking in. The [Federal example , by the vet college,

_ deficit is about eleven‘billionby a new expanded airport, dollars in the current year I and by having a designated all.

accept generOus transfer. payments that just increase our raliance on the Federal government and-on other,

that's more than the total weather Qeep waterport, In national budget was in 1968, this way, we're strengthemlqg the first Year Mr- Trtdeau our econcmic base for other was in power. Since 1968 initiatives aimed at making us inflation has doubled, 'Un- self—sufficient, and, less employment has almost tri' dependent on the Federal

pled, and the dollar has plunged. Trudeau and his successrve governments badly mismanaged the

:1 I I " - \ econcmy. I TOM MCMILLAN SPEAKS TO HIS AUDlENCE DURING THE This is the state of % *

POLITICAL DEBATE ON CAMPUS LAST WEEK. affairs the new Conservative

Government .