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The CITIZEN, OTTAWA FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1986 A3 ''-i itfee omm Hebert's decision to act outweighs right or wrong urges African at largo sanctions Roy MacGregor By Jim Robb Citizen staff writer 9 if If Forget the obvious ironies, the story of a fast launched over champagne and fancy snack plates. This, after all, was the lobbj of the Senate, where strange happenings are becoming commonplace. They gathered on Wednesday evening to toast the man whe made these marble floors famous, a man who was an unknown at noon on March 10 and who was a household wore only 21 days later, when he raised a glass of grape juice and declared his hunger strike both over and victorious. When people dominate the front pages and evening telecasts for three weeks, they are expected to write a book aboul their experience, and Senatoi Jacques Hubert is no exception. His 21 Days basically a diary of times already known is surprising not for what it says, but how it is said, which is very well indeed.

If only there were weekend supplements, this would have made a charming magazine article, complete with appropriate photographs. It would have come free with the paper rather than costing $13.95. There would have been a wider audience and no debate about what he intends to do with his profits. There would have been a few revelations, such as how the hunger strike began as a joke. Readers would have come to appreciate the decency of John Turner, who came punctually twice a day to visit even though, as Liberal leader, he could not bless Hubert's actions.

They would have been amused by the account of the Chinese doctors coming in to massage the toxins out of the Senator's 62-year-old body. They would have been told but not necessarily believed that the visit of Pierre Trudeau was a signal "that he agreed with my actions." Trudeau, of course, refused to speak, but one cannot help but suspect if he had still been prime minister Hubert would have gone from dear friend to former friend overnight. And they would have seen that the best common sense was exercized by a Liberal Senator by the name of Royce Frith, who ably defended Hubert's right to do as he wished, though some would foolishly brand him a terrorist and others, including the prime minister himself, would wrongly argue that such an act was undemocratic. Mind you, it may have been 34; wrongheaded, as some of us who were there each day thought. However, as Hubert states, one of his reasons for writing this short account is "to clear the air." To this end, much of the book is devoted to explaining how the media kept missing the point in thinking his strike was, above all else, to force the government to reinstate the Katimavik youth program.

That was certainly the sense I was given time and time again by him, and it was this strong impression that made some of us argue that his heart was in the right place even if his brain was not. Though he contended always that Katimavik was not elitist, he failed to convince that these were anything but special kids who would have been fine on their own. During an entire day of scouring the city streets and unemployment offices, I was not able to produce a single unemployed youth who had even heard of the program. Yet his overriding passion remained Katimavik right up to the end. In fact, he only gave up his hunger strike when a number of well-connected individuals said they would work to restore the program through private funds, though few seriously think this will ever come to pass.

But let him have his revisionism. No politician who has ever written about his time in the spotlight has ever done less. But I do wish that he had written far less about the actual fast and far more about the forces that created a man who would do such a thing. He tells of himself as a precocious 16-year-old in 1939, hanging a small piece of cardboard on the wall of his new quarters in a small Prince Edward Island university. "Who hasn't given all," the homemade sign said, "has given nothing." Now, 47 years later, it could just as easily hang on the wall of the Senate lobby, in recognition of a senator who may not have been doing quite the right thing, but who at least did something.

The first major parliamentary review of'Ca-1 nadian foreign policy in 15 years urges a stronger stand against human rights violators and the immediate imposition of total economic sanctions on South Africa. The 196-page report of the special joint Commons and Senate committee on Canada's international relations, made public Thursday, also says Canada should move to get superpower concurrence to demilitarize the Arctic and calls into question Canada's ability to sustain its current defence commitments. The committee's 130 recommendations are the result of an 11-month investigation, which co-chairman Conservative MP Tom Hockin termed "the first ever comprehensive parliamentary review of Canadian foreign policy." Hockin said extensive public hearings conducted in all provinces and the north clearly showed that what Canadians want is "a made-in-Canada foreign policy, pursuing Canadian national interests, and pursuing Canadian ideas for a better international order, and let the chips fall where they may." The report now goes to External Affairs Minister Joe Clark, however it's doubtful the government will act on the committee's recommendation that Canada "should move immediately to impose full economic sanctions" against South Africa and encourage Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth countries to follow suit. That recommendation goes beyond what Commonwealth leaders envisaged at their October conference in Nassau as the next stage in stepped-up measures aimed at ending apartheid and Hockin admitted it also goes beyond Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's timetable, which calls for a new round of measures to be discussed with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in July and with other Commonwealth leaders at an August enclave in London. The committee also endorsed a previous parliamentary recommendation that foreign aid be cut or ended to countries where there are gross and systematic human rights violations.

Among other recommendations: A majority on the Tory-dominated committee called for a foreign-aid spending target of 0.7 per cent of gross national product by 1990. Finance Minister Michael Wilson said in February's budget that foreign aid will remain at 0.5 per cent of GNP for the short term $2.4 billion in 1986 and will reach only 0.6 per cent of GNP by 1995. The committee said that Canada should develop stronger positions on arms control and disarmament and press the United States to join the Soviet Union in a moratorium on nuclear testing while negotiations on a comprehensive test ban treaty are going on. The committee said the government will have to face up to the gap that exists between defence commitments and the country's ability to pay for them. While urging demilitarization of the Arctic, the committee said that Canada should look to the construction of Arctic-capable submarines for military surveillance of intruders.

The committee urged stepped-up involvement by Canada in peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations, possibly employing reserve 'troops for such duties, and said international terrorism could best be fought by having Canada strive for a UN resolution that would deny the right of countries harboring terrorists to invoke sovereignty to prevent international action. The MPs and senators also called on the government to make "strenuous efforts" to achieve orderly trade liberalization and to remain consistent with international trading obli- gations with other countries in the free-trade deal being negotiated with the United States. -CP photos Don't look down: Thirty-year-old Dan (Spiderman) Goodwin, inset, of Marin, made the highest climb ever up Toronto's CN Tower Thursday, covering 360 metres, or roughly 100 floors. Goodwin, who has climbed Chicago's Sears Tower and Manhattan's World Trade Center, used no ropes or suction cups, just hands and feet, in the stunt to promote the tower's 10th anniversary. A pair of mountain climbers once reached a height about half that of Goodwin's climb.

I Politicians might be penalized if polls tainted surveys for the Liberals, said his firm now provides most of the information, but questioned the timing of the announcement. "Suddenly the pollsters are the Tories' worst enemies when they're falling in the polls, but not when they're riding high." Ian McKinnon, president of Decima Research, chief pollsters for the Conservative Party, said he was concerned about polls leaked to the media that did not contain all the required detail. told a press conference. But only several hours later, Hnatyshyn appeared to back down, claiming the penalties would only apply to the political parties, candidates or interest groups who put out the polls. "These are the people that we're directing our attention to.

It has absolutely no effect on the reporting and the freedom of the press." Hnatyshyn said the government wants to ensure the public has the "fullest possible information" about polls so "peo ple will be in a position to give the proper judgment." The recommendations in the white paper will be studied by a Commons committee beginning in September and Hnatyshyn hopes to have a new elections law in place for the next general election. Clara Hatton, director of research for Gallup, said it is a "good idea" to have all of the information available, but said it would be a "dreadful imposition" for the media. Angus Reid, a Winnipeg pollster who has done extensive By Stephen Bindman Citizen staff writer The Mulroney government wants to regulate the publication of public opinion polls during election campaigns, but doesn't seem entirely clear on how to do it. Releasing a government policy paper on reforming Canada's election laws, Government House Leader Ray Hnatyshyn first told reporters Thursday that newspapers and broadcasters that did not publish "full and unvarnished" details about polls would be subject to unspecified penalties. The requirements would include details of the size of the sample, how it was conducted, the questions asked and who sponsored and paid for the poll.

"I suppose it would be fair to say that if the propositions were accepted, that where polls are published and they do not comply with the law then obviously there would have to be some sanctions against those publishing the polls not in compliance with the electoral law," Hnatyshyn High court lets girl play on boys' team Ruling weakens right to speedy trial W. 1 By Peter Calamai Southam News in part by Mr. Justice Gerard La Forest. The decision means Canadians have a less powerful guarantee to a speedy trial than citizens of the U.S., where the Supreme Court has declared that unreasonable delay always ends a criminal prosecution. This same minimum protection for Canadians was supported Thursday by the Supreme Court's leading reformers Chief Justice Brian Dickson, Mr.

Justice Antonio Lamer and Madame Justice Bertha Wilson. In a companion case, the court unanimously upheld a B.C. court decision that flamboyant Vancouver oilman J. Bob Carter backer of one-legged runner Steve Fonyo must stand trial on four sex charges even though nearly three years elapsed between the alleged offence and police laying of charges. The Mills appeal, however, provided the opportunity for the first interpretation by the nation's highest court of the all-important "teeth" of the Charter of Rights the enforcement provisions and the core question of how well the judicial system itself measures up to the constitutional guarantees.

"The courts cannot simply admonish the executive or legislative branches for failure to meet the requirements of the Charter," writes Lamer of the guarantee of a speedy trial. "We must now look to ourselves and determine whether the judiciary is adequately responding to the demands of the Charter as well." But Lamer's argument failed to sway the majority, which skirted the controversial question that has bedevilled lower courts across the country how to decide when delay is unreasonable. '( Canadians can still face criminal trials and prison even if police and justice authorities openly violate the Charter guarantee of a speedy trial, a deeply-divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a 4-3 split, the court's majority said it was too extreme to stop every trial just because the accused suffered unreasonable delay in getting a hearing. "The Charter was not intended to turn the Canadian legal system upside down," declared Mr.

Justice William Mclntyre in one of four separate decisions issued by the seven judges who heard the appeal of convicted thief John Henry Mills. Mclntyre's conservative inter- pretation was adopted by two Quebec judges Mr. Justice Jean Beetz and Mr. Justice Ju-lien Chouinard and supported TORONTO (CP) A 13-year-old girl has scored a major legal victory in her fight to play minor league hockey on a boys' team, but her struggle appears to be far from over. The Supreme Court of Canada refused Thursday to grant leave to the Ontario Hockey Association to appeal a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of Justine Blainey.

In April, the Court of Appeal said a section of the Ontario Human Rights Code that allowed sexual discrimination in amateur athletics violated equality provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. By refusing to grant leave, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the lower court, and the offending section of the code now has no effect. "I think it's wonderful," a beaming Blainey, of Toronto, told a news conference Thursday. "I'm really glad with the decision." The 5-foot-2, 110-pound defence player has qualified to play in September with a pee-wee A team in suburban Etobi-coke. But to actually get on the ice, she must have her registration card accepted by the hockey association.

Anna Fraser, one of Blainey'3 lawyers, told reporters that, in view of the fight the hockey as- plaint can be expedited. But even if the hockey association loses its case before the commission, it could appeal that decision to the courts, prolonging the dispute even further, the lawyer conceded. Association president Brent Ladds made it clear his organization isn't surrendering. "Nothing has changed," he said. "Girls still cannot register on a boys' team where there is equal opportunity for her to play (on a female team) in her geographic area.

Metropolitan Toronto has lots of girls' hockey." Ladds said the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association recently reaffirmed its policy on integrated hockey, which says girls can play on boys' teams only if they are 13 or under and if there are no girls teams in the area. John Gardner, president of the Metro Toronto Hockey League, said Blainey "will not be able to play in the league until we are ordered to do so by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and the Ontario Hockey Association." Blainey recognizes that she may not benefit personally from the legal fight being waged on her behalf. But the battle could pave the way for other girls. Justine Blainey Happy with decision Newspaper loses request to appeal courtroom ban Southam News sociation has waged so far, "I'd be very surprised" if it lets her client play. That means Blainey must now convince the Ontario Human Rights Commission that the association regulation keeping her off the team violates a section of the code guaranteeing equal treatment in the provision of services without discrimination based on sex.

Fraser said commission inquiries can take up to three years, but added she is hopeful the probe into Blainey's com porter out of an Edmonton courtroom last May during part of the sentencing of a confessed heroin trafficker. A month later, the same judge rejected the newspaper's arguments that the ban violated traditional openness of courts and the freedom of the press guarantee in the Charter of Rights. The Alberta court of appeal said it couldn't review the first judge's order because the original drug case was finished. The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday rejected a request to hear an appeal by the Edmonton Journal concerning freedom of the press. The newspaper was trying to appeal the refusal of Alberta's highest court to rule whether a provincial court judge violated the constitution by hearing arguments behind closed doors.

The judge ordered the public and a Journal re.