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BEST COPY AVAILABLE The Edmonton Journal, Saturday, March 16, 1991 A3 Canada Copps accuses Reform party of racist, sexist, elitist agenda will be discussed at the party's convention in April to suggest that the party is against non-white immigration. "I think I've got this figured out," she said. "They're not racist. The Reform party just doesn't want people from foreign countries to move here and, if they do, they shouldn't have Charter half of the salary range in their field. What kind of populist party do they want to be?" Copps said such a condition would mean young, rural lawyers like the late former Tory prime minister John Diefenbaker would not be eligible; nor would women, who, on average, earn 64 per cent of men's salaries.

Copps cited some resolutions that really just populists," Copps said. "But I say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck." Copps made the blistering attack in a speech to the Saskatchewan Liberals' annual convention in Re-gina. A draft copy of the speech was made available in Ottawa. She urged westerners, who have been defecting from the Tories and JOAN BRYDEN Southam News Ottawa The fledgling Reform party is racist, sexist and elitist, deputy Liberal leader Sheila Copps charged Friday. "I know the Reform party say they're not bigots, they're not sexist, they're not elitists.

They're "But I say, if looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. deputy Liberal leader Sheila Copps flocking to the right-wing Reform look at the party's 40-page ques- party, to scrutinize "the real tionnaire that prospective Reform agenda" of the party and its leader, candidates are expected to fill out. Preston Manning. "It says that ideal Reform party She particularly urged them to candidates should be in the top iDuDtnigMlstriji) tare to sfia PHfl Mulroney denies TV report )n CP Laserphoto POLITICIANS ON ICE Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa jests with Fast Frank McKenna, better known as the premier of New Brunswick, after a hockey game Friday at the Montreal Forum. Members of Quebec's national assembly brought in a couple of ex-NHL ringers Serge Savard and Jacques Lemaire to defeat their New Brunswick counterparts 7-6.

Church rejects Constitution School inquiry I called 'joke' by gov't The Canadian Press JULIAN BELTRAME Southam News Ottawa Official bilingualism will not be dismantled to accommodate Quebec's demands for control over language and culture, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Friday. "That (proposal) has never come before us," Mulroney said in his Baie Comeau riding when asked about a television report that the policy may be scrapped as part of reshaping the Constitution. "It's never come forward directly or indirectly before the government of Canada." In the Commons, External Affairs Minister Joe Clark and Youth Minister Marcel Danis also reiterated the government's commitment to bilingualism. "It is not an open question for this government," Clark said. "The commitment to official bilingualism is clear, constant and continues." The proposal was discussed at length during a meeting of the prime minister's top constitutional advisers and 20 academics at Meech Lake on March 5.

Also proposed was a scheme for a massive transfer of federal powers to the provinces and for convening a two-stage constituent assembly representing Ottawa, the provinces and territories to hammer out a new constitutional deal. Queen's University Prof. Thomas Courchene, who brought up the controversial idea at the Meech Lake meeting, said in an interview Friday he believed the government "sent up a trial balloon" with the leaked television report. "I think it's the toughest nut to crack," he added of the language proposal contained in his paper The Community of the Canadas. Courchene explained that lan Quebec will to Canada ROBERT RUSSO The Canadian Press Baie-Comeau, Que.

Quebecers will see through the "specialists in division" and never say no to Canada if asked a clear-cut referendum question, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Friday. The real question won't be about sovereignty-association, Mulroney said while visiting his home town. "It's going to be a straightforward proposition: Do you want to be a Canadian, yes or no? If you don't want to be a Canadian, are you ready to tear up your Canadian flag and your Canadian passport and repudiate 123 years of history? "I can tell you right now that if that question is put, the answer to that question is going to be no." Recent opinion polls indicate more than two-thirds of Quebecers support some form of sovereignty. A referendum on Quebec's future is expected in the fall of 1992. The Allaire report, adopted by Quebec Liberals, calls for approving a new JAC MacDONALD Journal Staff Writer Saskatoon The Canadian Roman Catholic Church has rejected calls for a national inquiry into its management of Indian residential schools.

"We felt that it wouldn't be in the best interests of the victims," spokesman Rev. Claude Blanchette said Friday. "A public inquiry would only serve to re-victimize them, rather than to heal them," Blanchette told The Journal in a telephone interview from Saskatoon. Instead, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops offered Indians an apology, and recommended a series of local private meetings in each diocese between the church and former students. "We are sorry and deeply regret the pain, suffering and alienation that so many experienced," said a statement issued by the conference.

"Listening committees" are to be set up at the local level, Blanchette said. "Stories will be told in closed meetings to respect the confidentia guage guarantees, currently under the Charter of Rights, would revert to the provinces, while the federal government would continue to offer services in both official languages. Provinces would no longer be required to offer minority language education, although they may want to. Visiting his riding in Quebec, Mulroney said that despite some problems with the bilingualism policy, overall it has been beneficial to Canada. "I've always thought that bilingualism was an advantage to any country, so I would have to reflect long on any proposal (to change it).

But I haven't received any." But opposition MPs were not satisfied with the assurances, say ing the prime minister should set bottom-line conditions for future constitutional negotiations. "The prime minister should start from certain premises and one should be that the issue of the bilingual nature of Canada is not for sale," said deputy Liberal leader Sheila Copps. NDP constitutional critic Lome Nystrom also was skeptical and said a government official recently approached his party about abolishing the parliamentary committee on official languages. Tory-House leader Harvie Andre denied Nystrom's charge. "I still have some concern," Nystrom said.

"I think if you kill official bilingualism, you will tear this country apart." But the sovereignist Bloc Quebe-cois welcomed the proposal to scrap bilingualism. "Some people have lived in a dream world for years, maybe it's time that they wake up," said BQ House leader Jean Lapierre. "There's an English Canada and a French Quebec, this is the reality." say 'yes' Mulroney "It's going to be a straightforward proposition: do you want to be a Canadian, yes or no?" Prime Minister Brian Mulroney deal involving massive transfer ol powers from Ottawa to the provinces or, failing an agreement, on sovereignty-association. But Mulroney said he expects to be able to come to an agreement with Quebec and the other provinces on a new constitutional arrangement. And Mulroney predicted a "Yes" to renewed federalism could put separatists out of business.

"I know that will break a few myths, shatter a few pretensions," he told reporters. "You've got a great cottage industry going here. Might even put a few boys out of work. I don't know hat they'd do because they're specialists in division." Washes fnee CAR WASH CO. lity of the individuals," he said.

The church's rejection of a national public inquiry did not sit well with native leaders. Jerry Fontaine, spokesman for the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, said the church is trying to minimize damage after the hearings into abuse at the Mount Cashel orphanage in Newfoundland. "Obviously it is protecting itself after seeing the debacle at Mount Cashel. It's obviously going through some damage control," Fontaine said. The assembly will meet Blanchette next week to discuss opening up the process, he said.

Regena Crowchild, president of the Indian Association of Alberta, could not be reached for comment but she has also called for a national inquiry. Former IAA president Harold Cardinal addressed the conference earlier this week and repeated calls for an inquiry, saying it was time that religious institutions owned up to and accounted for what happened in the schools. abuses during a trip to the Caribbean country this week. What he was doing in Trinidad is still a mystery to Liberals. Dilys Buckley-Jones, Canada's high commissioner in Trinidad, said Karygiannis has made news in the country all week since announcing he was there on a self-appointed mission to uncover human rights abuses.

She said the Trinidad government, a parliamentary Ottawa A contest that promises a $300,000 prize to the person who rewrites Canada's Constitution is "a joke," says a Consumer and Corporate Affairs official. Linked to a scheme to sell silver "commemorative" coins, The New Canadian Constitution Draft Writing Contest rules say prizes may not be awarded if the submissions aren't good enough. Although $3 million in prizes are said to be available, the contest rules say that if not enough silver coins are sold, the prizes will be less than advertised. "Who would spend the time writing with only the possibility of winning a fake prize?" said Pierre Chapdelaine, a commerce officer at Consumer and Corporate Affairs, when shown a copy of the contest rules. The contest is organized by Orleans, businessman Michael Hahn, who claims to have helped finalize the 1982 Constitution and end the Cold War.

He said he was one of the chief democracy, has issued a statement deploring Karygiannis' remarks. Mark Entwhistle, a spokesman in Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's office, said Canada has assured annoyed Trinidadian authorities that Karygiannis is strictly an opposition MP and in no way speaks for the government. Acting Liberal leader Sheila Copps said she has apologized to the prime minister's office in Trinidad and to Trinidad's high com contest "Who would spend the time writing with only the possibility of winning a fake prize?" Pierre Chapdelaine, Consumer and Corporate Affairs organizers of a 1989 trade mission to the Soviet Union. External Affairs officials deny this, although they confirm he did travel to Moscow. The contest has drawn about 1,000 requests for information, Hahn said.

Hahn said Prime Minister Brian Mulroney stole his idea of a constitutional contest by initiating the Spicer commission. Hahn, 53, said the contest is the solution to Canada's constitutional woes. Contestants are asked to write a completely new or revised Canadian Constitution by July 1. The entries would be finalized at a national referendum in August. However, the Prime Minister's Office says no such national referendum is planned.

in Trinidad mission in Ottawa and has assured them that Karygiannis does not speak for the Liberal party on foreign policy. She said she's also promised that "very serious disciplinary actions is being considered up to and including the possibility of expulsion (from caucus)." Entwhistle said Karygiannis apparently appeared on Trinidad television inviting Trinidadians to tell him about rights violations. Towards IrcrrrJl Liberal MP creates diplomatic incident JOAN BRYDEN Southam News Ottawa Toronto MP Jim Karygiannis may be booted out of the Liberal caucus after sparking a diplomatic furore in Trinidad this week. Karygiannis has infuriated his colleagues in the past. But he appears to have gone too far when he accused the government of Trinidad and Tobago of human rights becorel It If 1 i OFF Windshield Replacement lifetime warranty against leakage replacement done to manufacturers safety specs, VtuA 2 Ultimate Car at THE GREAT CANADIAN IK (Reg.

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