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A SECTION Judges approve broader probe ROLEX N.If, Timdev Appeal Sakt and ayainsi ueaver Page B-6 Htfoellerv JeU 272-4525 -rf sm 5713 Park Ae. MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1986- i 1 ryst Tbiipln'. aees fight to hold seat 'High quality' jobs for drug industry include cleaners fr -a. When Patent Act changes were introduced last June, then consumer affairs minister Michel Cote said than urnnlH areata "nhnilt 3 000 new it scientific and research-related jobs." Harvie's claim of a minimum of high-quality jobs for scientists is a sienificant steo beyond that, says Robert Best, researcher for the Consumers' Association of Canada. 11 5 yal Ui tile uai oai, oasu Kpsr who finunts tne Drana-name manuiacturers win come anywnere By IRWIN BLOCK of The Gazette REPENTIGNY Robert Tou-pin may have a tough time being re-elected as Quebec's first New Democrat MP in this riding northeast of Montreal.

The former Tory, who quit the party to sit as an independent last May, has been unable to persuade any of his top organizers to follow his move yesterday to the NDP. entire eight-member executive of the Conservative riding association has stayed loyal to the party and is preparing to fight Toupin at the next election. While the Conservatives say they have 700 members, the NDP only claims "a of members in this riding. And the riding was not targeted as a priority in a membership drive planned for January, said Michel Agnaieff a member of the provincial executive. It is now.

The NDP has never elected a member in Quebec, federally or provincially, and in the 1984 election candidate Brian Umansky placed a distant third with 6,454 votes behind Toupin (43,822) and 'Liberal incumbent Roland Com-tois The NDP has no roots in Quebec or in Terrebonne and Toupin will have his work cut out for him, said Michel Lapointe, managing editor of the weekly I' Artisan. near reaching the target Watters disagreed, saying evidence of the industry's commitment could be seen in the fact it has already announced spending clans in excess of $700 million. "It's looking very good," said Watters, the department's director of 1 1 A 1 I 1 MP Robert Toupin (left) welcomed by NDP Leader Ed Broadbent in Commons. By PETER MASER Southam News OTTAWA Positions for clerks, cleaners and animal keepers will be among the 3,000 "high quality" scientific jobs Consumer Affairs Minister Harvie Andre has promised in exchange for amendments to the Patent Act. The controversial amendments, now before the Commons, would greatly restrict the so-called generic companies' rights to make inexpensive copies of brand-name drugs.

In return, the manufacturers of brand-name drugs, mostly foreign-owned multinationals, have agreed to invest an extra $1.4 billion in research and development in Canada, creating 3,000 jobs in the process. These commitments have been trumpeted by Andre, who said in a recent letter to a pensioner "that increased research spending will generate a minimum of 3,000 high-quality jobs for Canadian scientists and biochemists over the next 10 years." But a document prepared last spring by Andre's department estimates only 1,700 of nearly 3,000 jobs about 57 per cent will be created in the professional category and filled mainly by PhD-level applicants. Another 650, or about 22 per cent, are classed in the document as meaning they will go to laboratory technicians and require the services of someone with community college training or an undergraduate degree in science. The remaining 620 around 21 per cent will be filled by "others," which Consumer Affairs spokesman David Watters defined yesterday as managers, cleaners, animal keepers, statisticians and clerks. next federal election.

"I hope 50 Conservative MPs follow him," said Via steward Paul Gouin as he quaffed a draft beer. "I like (NDP leader Ed) Broad-bent He talks about the railroad all the time and this is important to me and my life," said Jacques- Joseph Marsh, a VIA attendent. "The NDP is for people and I'll vote for him." Gilbert Picard, secretary of the Conservative riding association, accused Toupin of being an opportunist attempting to profit from recent opinion surveys showing the NDP in second place in Quebec with more than 30 per cent of the decided vote. Toupin will have to regain the support of the electorate, said reporter Julie Page. "His joining the NDP could help bring on change in Quebec voting patterns.

It could infuence the Quebec vote," she said. The Tories were in the same position in 1984 when they elected Toupin in its sweep of 58 Quebec seats, Lapointe noted. But they were aided by a small-c conservative or "bleu" tradition in the largely suburban area. In a series of random interviews, however, several people applauded Toupin. At a brasserie on Notre Dame two Via Rail employees said they would support Toupin at the legislative review, miu my iceiuig is that there isn't going to be any difficulty (meeting the target)." But last spring, the department noted the pharmaceutical industry now employs about 1,100 professionals in research and development.

"The estimated increase of 3,000 or a threefold increase in workers in this field may appear to be beyond what may be reasonably reached," says the document, obtained under Access to Information legislation. "This 'target' may therefore warrant more explicit commitments from the industry." The only commitments the government has ever had from the industry are verbal. Asked what had changed between the document's preparation last snrirur and tnriav. Watters said the Will Toupin be a team player for NDP? 0 earlier commitments were not specific, but have since become clearer. witn me inausiry spenaing Conservative caucus last May, Toupin adopted a more flexible attitude toward Liberals and New Democrats.

"I was attracted to the Conservatives because they presented it as the Progressive Conservative Party," he said. "But it isn't progressive, it's just conservative." The diminutive lawyer remains an enigma to his former colleagues in the Conservative caucus. Insiders say Toupin has the courage of his convictions at the moment, but isn't a team player. "And," said one observer, "given his past convictions, it's unlikely he's going to become any more of a team player with the NDP." OTTAWA (CP) Robert Toupin seems to have a problem making up his mind. The MP for Terrebonne got his first political experience working for the Quebec Liberal Party.

He switched to the Conservatives in 1984, winning his seat in the Tory sweep across Quebec. lLast May, angered over a government decision to allow the Gulf Canada refinery in east-end Montreal to close after it was sold, he decided to sit as an independent. Yesterday, he joined the NDP. Quite apart from shifts in party allegiance, Toupin appears to have difficulty developing a consistent political philosophy. The 37-year- NEWS ANALYSIS old notary, who enjoys reading Aristotle in his spare time, has taken positions that run the breadth of the political spectrum.

Toupin's break with the Grits was precipitated by the National Energy Program introduced by former prime minister Pierre Tru-deau a policy largely inspired by pressure for a national policy from Toupin's new colleagues. The NDP has always claimed paternity for the policy and the creation of government-owned Petro-Canada, saying they were concessions wrung from Trudeau's minority government Of 1972-73. Following the government's decision not to intervene and save some 400 jobs at stake at the for-, mer Gulf refinery, Toupin continued to espouse a free-market philosophy. He accused Petro-Canada of influencing the cabinet to reduce competition in the marketplace. "I hope the Conservative government will hav? the political courage to put people into Petro-Canada who will be faithful to its ideology and political philosophy despite any howling the Liberals and New Democrats might do," Toupin said last January.

But once he resigned from the Man, 78, driven 1 ,600 km after apparent kidnapping CANADA BRIEFS NDP has blundered by accepting Toupin trek to raise money for spinal-cord has been overwhelmingly voted Canadian newsmaker of the year in a poll of newspaper, radio and TV editors. Liberals after he was defeated by Tommy Doug las in his attempt to become leader of the NDP at its founding convention. Then there was the conversion of Claude Wagner to the Conservative party from the Liberals in 1972, a defection which supposed to re DON sult in a lory breakthrough in Quebec. Another was when Jack Horner crossed the floor of the Commons on April 20, 1977, to join the Liberals after losing to Joe Clark in the 1976 MONCTON, N.B. (CP) A 78-year-old retired veterinarian was1 upset but unharmed yesterday after escaping from three men who allegedly kidnapped him at knifepoint from his apartment in Hamilton and forced him on a three-day, journey from Ontario in his own car.

Three Hamilton men are in the Moncton jail facing kidnapping charges. Police said Dr. Bert Carleton slipped out of a Moncton hotel room Monday after two of his alleged kidnappers left the room and the third fell asleep. He called police from the hotel lobby. 2nd body found NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) -RCMP suspect foul play after finding a second body less than seven metres from where the unidentified body of a nude woman was discovered Sunday in a bush area of Mount Seymour provincial park.

Workers strike WINNIPEG (CP) About 500 employees at Motor Coach Industries two Winnipeg plants went on strike yesterday after conciliation talks failed. Tory leadership race. "Pierre Trudeau gloated over his new catch," reported the Canadian Annual Review of that year. "For the first time in years he had a strong representative from Alberta and party organizers were hopeful that Mr. Horner's coattails would bring in other Liberals in the next election.

Breakthroughs don't come that way. And Cana OTTAWA The New Democrats have blundered in welcoming Robert Toupin into their ranks in the Commons. There are excuses for the mistake. As Ed Broadbent said in a press conference displaying his new convert, the party isn't used to hav'ng people ask to join. Most of the movement has en the other way.

Toupin, as a bolter from the Tories, seems to the NDP to symbolize its coming breakthrough in Quebec. And to attract a sitting MP elected for another party seems a cheap and easy way to get a seat in a province where the New Democrats have never been able to win one. But that's just the trouble. It's fatally easy and it looks cheap. Toupin is what Sir John A.

Macdonald used to call a "loose fish" a drifter among political parties. He was a provincial Liberal and a federal Tory and is now a democratic socialist. Broadbent sees "no problem of credibility" in this. To him, Toupin "knows the philosophy of our party and is totally at ease with it." This is the MP who welcomed the Wilson budget of June 1985 as "courageous because it increases indirect and direct taxes" and showed "a new vision of Canada where individuals and the private sector will play an increasingly important role." Toupin told the Commons then that the Wilson budget "constitutes a turning point in Canada's social and economic evolution" which "uses the living strength of the market and banks on the en-trepreneurship of Canadian men and women by dian voters tend to handle political turncoats roughly. Horner lost his Crowfoot seat in the next Costly kids CALGARY (CP) A test-tube baby program will continue in Calgary, but it may cost couples who want to use the service as much as $10,000 after Hospitals Minister Marvin Moore refused to fund the experimental program.

Appeal denied WINNIPEG (CP) The Manitoba Court of Appeal has refused Al-lain Joseph Le Bras, founder of the local Los Bravos motorcycle club, leave to appeal a March conviction of plotting to import drugs into Canada. Wrong place VANCOUVER (CP) Two Americans arrested in an abduction plot were talking on two-way radios while staking out a downtown hotel when they were caught in a security net for visiting U.S. Vice-President George Bush, a County Court trial heard Monday. They had nothing to do with Bush. election by more than 20,000 votes.

McGILLIVRAY V. placing at their disposal new financing tools and sources" including, particularly, the $500,000 lifetime capital gains tax exemption. The New Democrats fought tooth and nail against that budget and, with the Liberals, managed to force its partial Perhaps Toupin was just mistaken and has since seen the light of socialism? That's not the way he tells it now. He claims to have been misled by the first word in the name of the Progressive Conservative party but now realizes that it and the Liberals are "two parties at the service of high finance, in fact, they are two 'conservative' parties." Toupin will now be the only NDP member from Quebec. It is hard to see how the NDP will be served by putting a person of such variable views and loyalties in such a prominent position where he will be constantly seen and quoted in Quebec as the voice of the New Democrats.

The NDP adoption of Toupin has several ominous parallels in Canadian political history in the past couple of decades. One was the defection of Hazen Argue to the The same fate probably awaits the new social democrat of Terrebonne. The Liberal association in the riding unanimously rejected any idea of making him their MP because they expect to win the seat next time without the assistance of a re tread Tory. The New Democrats would have been wiser to acknowledge the compliment implied by Toupin's wish to join but to have told him to continue to sit as an Independent until the next election. He could then have run as a New Democrat, if Top newsmaker BLIND RIVER, Ont.

(CP) -Wheelchair marathoner Rick Hansen, wheeling across Canada in the final stretch of his round-the-world he was still of such a mind. But the NDP was in a hurry. And that hurry may kill its chances of a Quebec breakthrough. Supreme Court to define right to speak up Major ruling could make charter more powerful in Quebec Single-parent families The percentage of single-parent families in Canada dropped between 1 931 and 1 966, and is now rising again. The 1931-66 decrease occurred because fewer mothers By PETER CALAMAI Southam New I I died during childbirth.

rather than expression," Sack said. Organized labor was denied permission to argue in the Supreme Court during the hearing two years ago, even though Ottawa, B.C., Alberta and Newfoundland joined corporate opposition to the right to 1983 document. Lower courts across the country have disagreed on whether the charter guarantee of freedom of expression extends to commercial speech, such as advertising by lawyers. Also at stake would be the Mulroney government's proposed crackdown on exotic pictures and anti-prostitution laws, both of which might violate a broadly defined freedom of expression. The immediate impact from tomorrow's ruling is expected to be on picketing by unionized workers, says Jeffery Sack, a labor lawyer and adviser to the Canadian Labor Congress.

"The B.C. court said that a picket sign wasn't a message but a suggestion not to cross the picket line. They ruled that picketing was conduct, JTX.L, 1 r. --n of an year number families 1931 291,943 13,6 1941 306.957 VH. 1951 325,699 9.9 1556 86 347.418 8.4 1966 371.885 8.2 1971 94 1976 559,335 9 8 1 i4h1 I 714 010 I 11.3 scheduled for tomorrow.

Many lawyers and academics also expect the Supreme Court to decide, tomorrow whether the charter applies to judge-made law, as well as to more formal laws passed by legislatures. That decision could split the nation judicially, since Quebec follows written law only, while the other nine provinces follow statutes and the common law, made up of precedents established by judgments dating back to the 12th century in Britain. If the Supreme Court rules that the Charter does not apply to the common law which accounts for more than half the criminal law in the nine provinces then the charter will eventually prove much more powerful in Quebec, the only province that hasn't yet approved the OTTAWA After a two-year wait, the Supreme Court of Canada is set to rule tomorrow whether picketing is a constitutionally protected right for trade unionists, political supporters and even parents protesting unsafe streets. But the picketing question, arising from a B.C. labor dispute known as the Dolphin Delivery case, can be answered only after the justices first decide exactly what is protected by the freedom of expression guaranteed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

That decision, say legal experts, has far greater potential impact on Canadians than the much-ballyhoocd The case was born in November 1982 when a union threatened to picket Dolphin Delivery a Vancouver courier operation, because it was "allied" with another courier firm that had locked the union out in a labor dispute. The B.C. courts issued an injunction against the picketing, saying freedom of expression didn't apply. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, which heard the arguments in December 1984. It Gazette graphics ruling on Sunday shopping, also Source: Statistics Canada.