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2 THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1990t Page Two I FROM PAGE ONE Reflections: Identity can't be found in a passport Gay: 'Frightening act to gay community' Continued from page one Gertrude Madore, the eel fisher from Kamou-raska, Que. When they speak and they speak for all of us you can feel the chill in the air when the words rush out. It's winter everywhere. Perhaps there is a lesson for us all In Gertrude Madore's eels, inexplicable creatures that come by ocean from great distances, creatures with a stunning capacity to adapt, at ease in saltwater and freshwater, afflicted with a genetic obsession to hang on to, and return to, their origins. Their existence baffles the experts.

They don't make sense. But they survive quite well, thank you very much. The history books these young men and women graduates have studied tell of a country, but say little about what it means to belong to this country. June of 1990 will most assuredly make it into future accounts, but no one is here to record the young woman who bursts into tears on her way to the stage or the quick, shy hug another student gives a special teacher. These future hopes of a troubled country understand already that an existence is composed of more than dates and interpretations, that their identity is less to be found in a passport than in those small, unrecorded trysts of memory that they will come back to again and again like swallows playing over water, dipping down when they wish, taking up what they need.

It is a shame, really, that these two graduation ceremonies took place indoors, in decorated gymnasiums. When these young men and women were expected to be staring into their futures, their eyes filled with the images of older men and women who are part of the mess, men and women who are shocked to think that the 1967 they once held so preciously in their hands has fallen, and may have shattered. They themselves are afraid to look. If only the speaker could shut his mouth and, instead, carry them to the plane that, by pure coincidence, brought him back into Ottawa from the West on that fateful day, June 23, 1990. The day, we are told, the music' died.

It was a splendid ride, smooth through blue, skies, and the arc of the flight plan brought' the plane slowly down along the Ottawa briefly, out over the Gatineau Hills where, for, a long moment, the plane seemed to hang in' suspension over a long, thin lake with a large cottage on a high bluff on the south end. Meech Lake. 1 How instructive it might be to them to realize that it was not an accord below, not a' symbol, not a rallying cry, not a piece of' paper that has somehow taken on the air of'a suicide note. They would know then beyond doubt that1 this country they are setting out into is wdftHi more than the paper it is written on. For they would look out and see nothing but a deep blue lake surrounded by green hills.

On a sunny day in a country that means' more to its people than its politicians. A reality we have all lost sight of over the' past few weeks. Bourassa: Referendum not in plans, says premier Continued from page one metres below. Lalonde is serving a life sentence for murder. Hynes and Mauricio Carpio, 24, met the four gang members at a Hull bar, where all six decided to take a taxi to Fortin and Gauth-ier's Borland Drive home in Orleans.

One gang member had the address from an earlier mugging at Major's Hill Park and believed the man he had mugged was a homosexual. At the townhouse, Hynes, Lalonde and a 17-year-old youth ran upstairs, armed with a knife, a screwdriver, a belt and an imitation handgun. Carpio, Thomas MacDougall, 19, and a 16-year-old youth stayed downstairs. The men attacked Gauthier first, assistant Crown attorney James Stewart told court. Gauthier's throat was slit, permanently damaging his vocal cords, and he received stab wounds that perforated his intestines.

In a statement that was read in court, he said he was also struck with a stick. Gauthier, who was ordered not to look at his attackers, said a "blond kid with longish hair," seemed to be giving orders. Hynes meets that description, court was told. A few minutes after the attack on Gauthier, Fortin was awakened by three men who strangled him with a belt, cut him with a knife and repeatedly stabbed him with a screwdriver. He heard one of the men say: "You faggot, we're going to beat you up." Fortin, whose throat was slashed and who nearly lost his eye after being stabbed with the screwdriver, was carried downstairs and placed in the trunk of his car.

After struggling to prevent them from closing the lid of the. trunk, Fortin escaped and ran to a neighbor's. His attackers, who did not drive a standard shift and were unable to start his car, escaped on foot. All six were arrested within days and have remained in custody. Stewart asked McWilliams to impose a sentence that would send a message to the community about violence aimed at the gay community.

"This is a very frightening act, not just to these men, but to anyone in the gay community," he said. Defence lawyer Graham Pinos, who said Hynes spent his childhood bouncing from one foster home to another, agreed the attack was horrifying. He called it "a night of abject horror and terror for the victims." Charges of break and enter and kidnapping against Hynes were withdrawn. MacDougall has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with Brousseau's death, robbery and break and enter. He is serving a seven-year sentence.

Carpio, who pleaded guilty to break and enter, is serving a two-year sentence. The 16-year-old pleaded guilty to break and enter. The 17-year-old is charged with three counts of attempted murder and the Crown is attempting to have him transferred to adult court. A provincial court judge has already ruled that he should not be transferred, but her decision is being appealed. The 17-year-old youth also faces charges in connection with the stabbing in Major's Hill Park.

The Young Offenders Act prohibits publication of his and the other youth's names. Lalonde also faces two counts of attempted murder in connection with the attacks on Gauthier and Fortin. Bourassa 's provincial Liberal party already has its own com-, mittee exploring post-Meech scenarios for the province. Committee chairman Jean lairer said this week the results of preliminary consultations pointed to a rejection of the status quo, but of outright independence as well. mean less, depending on what's the purpose of that new constitution." He said his government might also use the commission's recommendations as basis for negotiations with the rest of Canada.

"There are many options," he said. While he remained non-committal on the future, Bourassa stressed that there would be no return to the status quo following last weekend's collapse of the Meech Lake accord. "Obviously we need change," he said, adding without elaboration that he would like to see "everything" wrapped up by next spring. Continued from page one a referendum. But Bourassa said a referendum was not in his plans, even if he was willing to discuss a possible constitution with his cabinet and caucus.

"We've been talking about this since 1965," Bourassa told reporters. "It could mean more, it could Canada's oldest female prisoner wins royal pardon QUEBEC (CP) After 11 years behind bars, Annette Proulx, Canada's oldest female prisoner, will be set free on a royal pardon from Solicitor General Pierre Cadieux. Parole Board officials gave the news on Friday to 75-year-old Proulx, who had twice requested the pardon. "This is one of the most beautiful days of my life," Proulx told host Simon Bedard of Quebec radio station CJRP on Friday. Bedard had collected 25,000 names on a petition to the federal government pleading for Proulx's release on humanitarian grounds.

She has been serving a life sentence in Quebec City's Maison Go- min, a medium-security prison. Found guilty in 1979 of the first-degree murder of her lover, Alfred Normand, Proulx would not have been eligible for parole until November 2004, after having served 25 years, at age 89. The pardon is an unusual procedure, granted rarely. In its decision, the Parole Board said it took account of Proulx's advanced age and deteriorating physical and psychological' health. Even though the granting of a conditional pardon does not re-! verse a guilty verdict, it nevethe-less allows the prisoner to be freed under the same conditions regulating ordinary parole.

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