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THE OTTAWA CITIZEN MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1989 A3 Canada IF(q The throne speech that might have been Citizen staff and CP The federal government has passed an order-in-council legalizing the irradiation of meat, vegetables and fruit, despite criticism from environmentalists and a parliamentary committee. The order, passed March 23, comes into effect April 14. Irradiated food has been exposed to ionizing radiation to prolong its shelf life. Food and drug regulations currently prohibit the irradiation of most foods, with a few exceptions such as wheat, potatoes, onions and spices. At the moment there is little or no irradiated food sold in Canada.

Under the new regulations, irra- its "global marketing strategy" to sell Atomic Energy of Canada irradiation technology abroad. "In both cases he had the responsibility. In Health he set the basis for it, ignored the recommendations of the committee, and then he moves into Energy, and now suddenly has the responsibility for AECL." A parliamentary committee recommended against permitting irradiation in 1987. But the Health Department disagreed with the committee's report, and proposed that irradiation be reclassified from an additive to a process, which would loosen restrictions on it. product.

No label would be required because each ingredient comprised less than 10 per cent of the whole. David Poch, a lawyer with Energy Probe, called the exemption outrageous. "All irradiated ingredients should be labelled. "You could buy soup that was nine per cent mushrooms, nine per cent tomatoes and so on and you'd never know it had been irradiated." New Democrat MP Bill Blaikie criticized the decision, saying "it was no coincidence" Energy Minister Jake Epp supported irradiation when health minister. Blaikie said the government's approval of irradiation is part of Sask.

Liberals choose stylish leader diated food will carry a symbol of a flower inside a broken circle to signify the process has been used. Defenders say irradiation simply adds energy to food and slightly modifies the chemicals. Critics say too little is known about possible chemical reactions. The Vancouver Province says a leaked copy of the order states that food that has been irradiated "shall, if the food constitutes 10 per cent or more of the prepackaged product, be included in the list of ingredients and preceded by the statement Barry Smith, of the health protection branch in Ottawa, agreed this means that a product might contain several irradiated ingredients adding up to most of the Lynda Haverstock wants to opposition New Democrats. "We cannot do the same old things just a little bit better," she said.

"Our party must be new and dynamic. Our party must appeal to Saskatchewan people." Born and raised in Swift Current in southwest Saskatchewan, Haverstock quit school in Grade 10 to get married and have a child. She is known best in Saskatche wan for lecturing on farm stress and for counselling rural families. The Liberals haven't held power in Saskatchewan since Ross Thatcher's seven-year administration was ended in 1971 by Allan Blakeney's New Democrats. The party was official opposition until the 1978 general election, when the Liberals failed to win a seat.

The Conservatives, under Grant Devine, defeated Bla-keney in 1982 and are still in power. Ralph Goodale, who became Liberal leader in 1981, won the lone Liberal seat in the 64-seat legislature in the 1986 general election but resigned last fall and ran unsuccessfully in the federal election. The Liberals lost the As-siniboia-Gravelbourg seat to the Conservatives in a byelection to replace Goodale. Haverstock isn't bothered by the party's dismal showing there. "I don't care," she said.

"I'm so tired of people wanting to talk about the history of any party." She said she wants the Liberals to be able to win back supporters who drifted to other parties. "The first thing we need to do is to appeal to all those people who really are not and never have been true Tories or true NDP but have been Liberals who have not been in the fold," she said. Her brother, Dennis Ham, sat as a Conservative in the 1970s until he joined former Tory leader Dick Collver in the Unionest party, which advocated Saskatchewan's succession to the United States. Past Conservative ties don't impede her relentless attacks on the Devine government. "I think he and people within the Tory party have not viewed the human costs or the social costs and the social crisis at all.

The only reason they're beginning to even pay lip service to this happens to be because of people like me." It was going to be this country's finest hour. The prime minister of Canada had, like so many other Canadians this early Sunday morning, been unable to sleep. Brian Mulroney felt strangely haunted. He sat at the kitchen table over a plate of cookies he had promised to pay for out of his own pocket, but did not feel like eating. His stomach was too nervous.

The clock was moving quickly toward 2:00 a.m. Finance Minister Michael Wilson would arrive shortly and together they would spend the next hour or so rewriting the throne speech. It would say that the Meech Lake Accord was going to be trashed. The government would still chip away at the federal deficit, but the two men would be changing the approach: The Governor General she might have difficulty reading this part would no longer travel outside of the country unless on personal holidays. The number of cabinet ministers would be slashed from 40 to 10, meaning 30 less cars and drivers, 30 less secretaries to put you on hold, 30 less chiefs of staff to muddy the waters, 30 less press departments to litter the capital with unnecessary paper.

The Senate how sweet it would be to announce this in the very room would be abolished immediately. Large corporations banks above all would henceforth pay their fair share of taxes. Montreal industrialist Jean de Grandpre" would be fined rather than paid for his embarrassing report on how Canada can adjust to the unemployment shocks of free trade. The submarine program would be cancelled, with the money saved spent instead on increased regional development. The Bank of Canada would be forced to introduce regional interest rates.

They would be allowed to drop throughout the country, but rise significantly in Metropolitan Toronto. But the new throne speech would contain far more than financial news: Legislation would be brought in to make it illegal for Parliament to go 100 days without doing a stitch of work. Access to information would become a reality in Canada. First Ministers would begin again to meet in public, as decency dictates. A Royal Commission would be struck to look into mergers.

Canada would get its foreign loses 31 Francesca Timpano centres REGINA (CP) A high-school dropout who went back to school to earn a doctorate in psychology has become the first woman to lead the Saskatchewan Liberal party. Lynda Haverstock, a clinical psychologist from Saskatoon, won a first-ballot victory Sunday over nurse June Blau and former public servant Neil Currie. No sooner had the ballots been counted when Haverstock, 40, a tall, striking blonde, got down to work rebuilding a party which has no members in the legislature. want to create more excitement than they have in Alberta and Manitoba," she said, referring to recent elections in neighboring provinces which produced optimistic results for Liberals. Haverstock immediately appeared to be on a collision course with her federal leader, John Turner, over the Meech Lake constitutional accord.

She opposes it, saying its supporters are "yesterday's politicians." Turner is a supporter. "That's a good feisty statement for a new leader," Turner told reporters today in Ottawa. "She is, of course, entitled to her views." But Turner insisted "the affair is closed" and he will not withdraw his support. About 400 attended the first contested Liberal leadership race ir) the province since 1976. Party officials wouldn't release the exact numbers, but Haverstock is believed to have won handily.

Her slick, upbeat campaign was backed by several prominent Saskatchewan Liberals and the party's youth wing. Her impending victory became apparent Saturday from audience response to her eloquent speech and strutting self -confidence. frankly, I like to think I have some style," the stylishly dressed candidate told delegates. 4She promised a revitalized Liberal party not bound by ideology, which she said was the fault of the governing Conservatives and Dogs maul SIMCOE (CP) Two dogs mauled a four-year-old boy to death in an attack the local coroner called "horrific." Michael Purtill died after the dbberman and a' rottweiler attacked fiim near his home Friday. e'This was quite a vicious attack which went on for five minutes." coroner Dr.

Michael Roy Chivers Attack victim said on the weekend. Purtill weighed only 44 pounds while the rottweiler weighed close to 100 pounds and the doberman was at least 60 pounds, Chivers said. The boy was with his father Richard Purtill, 29, who was working on a trailer in LaSalette, near Simcoe in southwestern Ontario, when Michael had to go to the bathroom. He left to go to a house about ROY MacGREGOR Citizen staff MacGREGOR AT LARGE policy in order There was so much to do, so little time. All over the country, others were up making their own plans: Alberta Premier Don Getty had decided, over a stiff drink of warm milk, that he might better reconsider his decision to call a byelection and try, try again to win a seat in his own legislature.

Better he got out of politics for good. Transport Minister Benoit Bouchard was getting ready to call the prime minister and offer his resignation. He could not, he was sure, be talked out of it. Both men began dialing but the prime minister's phone was already lighting up with other calls. Lucien Bouchard wanted the prime minister to know that he would, from now on, stick to his environment job and shut up on everything else.

Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski was going to smile, Barbara McDougall was going to laugh, Tom Siddon was going to think. Allan Gotlieb was preparing to call. He hadn't slept particularly well since he'd told the country there was no conflict of interest between being chairman of the Canada Council and publisher of Saturday Night. He -would have to resign. Simon Reisman was up as' well, wondering if perhaps he-should apologize to Canadians for his behavior over the lasil three years.

The prime minister was so; moved by the dozens of lights-flashing on his phone that he. closed his eyes for a momenjt, and began a deep, personal vow that he would never again exaggerate. But then the clock struck two and suddenly the hour of decision had vanished into a cu-riosity called Daylight Saving Time. The phone darkened and fell-silent. The prime minister wondered why he was downstairs at, such an ungodly time of the.

night. And the country called Canada went on pretty much as before one hour short of a full, load. lbs. Ottawa Client Francesca Timpano lost 31 lbs. 3089.

.11 4 ML 9. )(! tot to death CP photo create excitement She returned to high school at age 19 and later attended the University of Saskatchewan, the Harvard Medical School and the Clarke Institute of Pshychiatry in Toronto. She joined the Liberal party four years ago after being impressed with Ontario Premier David Peterson while she was studying in Toronto. Francesca Timninrt I nilgai iu before nutrisystem Ottawa woman "Let Nutri System keep your spirits up and your weight down! NATIONAL WEIGHTLOSS 100 metres away when the attack occurred, Chivers said. Chivers said officials don't know what prompted the attack.

There were no witnesses, he said. He said the boy died from loss of blood after a main artery in his left arm was severed. Chivers said the boy was not breathing when his father reached him five minutes later. "This has been a really horrific day for everyone involved," he said. "The father is in a lot of trouble emotionally and the owner of the dogs is very upset.

"The ambulance workers who went to the scene are having a lot of trouble dealing with it emotionally." He said the dogs would be quarantined and tested for rabies. Provincial police at Simcoe said the incident is being investigated. Clifford Skaratt, owner of the dogs, was working on the trailer with the boy's father, said a friend of Skaratt's. "Cliff is just wrecked by this," said the man, who did not wish to be identified. "He loves dogs and kids." three major issues program jurisdiction, job security and wages.

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