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ANAIA SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2001 EDMONTON IOI K-JM A5 NATO CONFERENCE IN OTTAWA et seen ry minister says ersr Dont go overboard on costly security, Collenette wains Upset man put off plane ft I cf' I "I i 1 ,4 airport security and immigration points. "There's obviously a glaring hole in U.S. immigration policies as well as our own airport security," said Mclnnis. "I don't think the U.S. is one to throw a rock when they live in a glass house." In an earlier session yesterday, David Stapley, of DRSTechnolo-gies Canada, told delegates that new developments in the military industry could help in the war against terrorism.

DRS is a multinational company based in New Jersey with its Canadian branch in Kanata, Ont. It produces communications and surveillance equipment such as flight data recorders, and systems that see in the dark. Stapley said an example of technology that has taken "a quantum leap in capability" is the unmanned airborne vehicle, an aircraft that flies without people and is equipped with surveillance sensors. "They can look at a terrorist training base and report information to legislators or military commanders," Stapley said. The events of Sept.

11 have led to more interest in defence stocks, he said. "The fact that we've had this terrible tragedy has attracted more investment to that sector which we can use to fuel new technology developments." Canada's defence industry employs about 50,000 people in 300 companies, and has sales of several billion dollars a year, he added. Ottawa Citizen "In the short term, we need more money. In the longer term, more intelligence, more co-operation, and maybe going back to the good old 007 days of spying and counterspying," added Carolyn Parrish, a Liberal MP and head of the Canadian delegation. Collenette assured delegates that Canadian transportation safety is among the best in the world, and noted that airport security was enhanced following the Sept.

11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Some of the measures include limiting access to restricted areas at airports, increasing passenger screening, and locking cockpit doors on passenger flights. He has also announced the purchase of advanced explosives detection systems for a number of Canadian airports, and a 160-million compensation program for carriers for losses resulting from the closure of airspace following the attacks. "Sure, more has to be done and we'll announce (new measures) when we're ready and hopefully that will be soon," he said. Collenette said Canada does not want to post armed marshals on planes because it would be costly and possibly dangerous.

He said his office is in discussion with Washington about U.S. regulations requiring air marshals on board all flights in and out of Washington's Reagan National Airport. Scott Mclnnis, a member of the U.S. Congress, said his government will work more "intensively" with Canada to improve MARIA COOK Southam ewspapcrs OTTA Canadian Transportation minister David Collenette urged NATO politicians on Saturday to boost public confidence in flying. "We must encourage people to fly because flying is safe, especially with the new security measures," he told a group of delegates at a NATO parliamentary association gathering in Ottawa.

About 300 delegates from 18 member countries and 17 associate nations are attending. People must "get back to normal," spend money and take business and holiday trips, otherwise the economy will suffer, he said. However, Collenette suggested that rather than spending crippling amounts on security measures, that it was more important for NATO countries to spend as much as they could afford on improving intelligence and to share that intelligence. "If we put into place an inordinate amount of security, the cost is such that it will destabilize societies and have the same impact as a terrorist act," Collenette said, responding to a question from a Greek delegate about security costs. "If you spend to every eventuality, then that's going to have a destabilizing ef feet on the econ- IH CANADIAN Transportation Minister David Collenette passes through a metal detector on his way to the NATO meeting on Saturday in Ottawa.

omy," he told reporters later. really want to be sure about se- "fhat's why I emphasized the curity, society is going to become acquiring of intelligence and the an armed camp. And it gets sharing of intelligence. Because into transgression of individ- at a certain point in time, if you ual liberties." 300 in Ottawa church oppose military response to attacks he anadian Vc If XI If A deaf and mute man was ordered off a plane in I lalifax Friday after causing a disturbance that alarmed passengers before takeoff. Air Canada Might 661 1 was loaded with 1 10 people bound for Montreal when the man got out of his seat at 7 a.m.

and walked to the rear of the plane. "He was agitated," said Air Canada spokeswoman Nicole Couture Simard. "I le was looking around; he got up, he went to the back of the plane when he should not have gotten up." Flight attendants, who didn't know sign language, couldn't instruct the man to take his seat and asten his seat-belt. Two other passengers asked to get off the plane because they didn't want to travel with the visibly upset man. Then, odier people on the plane expressed fears about flying with him, she said.

"Obviously, this is a product of the events of Sept. 11. There is a heightened awareness of danger." The passenger was eventually forced to leave the plane. The flight to Montreal took off, 40 minutes late. Couture-Simard said the passenger took a later flight and was upgraded to business class because the airline was upset that the man was forced off.

ASK WHO ii cms on Anit-war protesters also met Parliament Hill on Saturday. kills pilot proach, just outside Fort Simpson. Harvey said he rushed to the site to help emergency crews but could do nothing for his friend. "The chopper was near a road, tipped over and crushed on its left side," he said. Harvey said the shaken male passenger was talking and appeared to have a broken hip.

He was air-lifted to Edmonton's University Hospital. It was South Nahanni's last trip of the hunting season, said Harvey. The company usually shuttles hunters and tourists into the wilderness, but Harvey didn't know why the passenger was travelling Friday. Fort Simpson is about 1,000 km northwest of Edmonton. FRENZY MFI.AMI BROOKS Southam ewspapers OTTAWA While NATO officials gathered downtown to discuss the new global state of terror, members of the western world's peace-loving community squeezed into a church in Centretown to call for nonviolence.

The event was organized by COAT, the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, and co-chaired by Marion Dewar, former mayor of Ottawa. Day urges air marshalls on Canadian planes knowledge that they are responsible for some of the same kind of atrocities, the same kind of terrorist acts, on other countries. Nothing can be done until they acknowledge that." The Vigil for Nonviolence began with a silent procession from Parliament Hill to the church, where members of various peace organizations spoke of the evils of military action. After the program, participants split into groups to attend workshops and discussion groups on fit ft' Stockwell Day forces, Day suggested. On Friday, he called for a federal-provincial meeting to address security concerns at the border, but Foreign Affairs nonviolence, signed by more than 10,000 people around the world.

"We want to present it to NATO, but the area is sectioned off," said Sister Helene Lebrun, a member of COAT. While the mood of the event was heavy with the thought of U.S. retaliation, the many speakers talked of other atrocities and human rights crises around the world: poverty, homelessness, and NATO test bombing in South America. Ottawa Citizen N.W.T. crash fournal Staff I DMOV ION Officials are investigating the cause of a helicopter crash in Northwest Territories that killed an experienced pilot and sent his passenger to hospital.

The 49-year-old flyer, and part-owner of South Nahanni Outfitters in Fort Simpson, was pulled from the dented Hughes 500 chopper shortly after the crash about 7 p.m. Friday. RCMP have not released the man's name and are trying to locate his family. Business partner and fellow pilot Jacques Harvey said the helicopter was returning from a routine flight into the mountains when it went down on final ap- FEEDING iAV i-v. TV 1 1 its Next logical step after beefed-up airport security Ihe Canadian Press CAI.GARY On-board security guards for Canada's airlines could go a long way in rebuilding passenger confidence and getting flyers back in the air, says Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day.

That would be a necessary step to restore confidence in consumers," Day said Saturday during a stopover at the Calgary International Airport. "We feel the government should be doing more to encourage consumers to use the airlines and to restore the confidence in the airlines." Air Canada could lose even topics such as America at war, how to confront injustice without violence, and theatre as a creative tool of resistance. People at the conference advocated a peaceful solution to the terrorist threat, but stopped short of presenting any kind of alternative to military action. Instead, they are focused on getting their peaceful message to the NATO officials meeting at a four-day conference in Ottawa this week. The message is in the form of an online petition calling for "International airlines in the United States have had air marshalls sinee 1985 and there's never been a problem." Stockwell Dar Minister John Manley accused the Opposition leader of fear-mongering.

Manley said Day was implying that Canada was "somehow responsible" for the terrorist attacks. Air Canada announced Thursday it will install added security devices on cockpit doors once it gets approval from Transport Canada. The airline's engineers are designing modifications and the entire fleet is to be retrofitted once the changes are approved. tect national security. Rather, it will be up to the government to convince the courts that any breaches to the Charter of Rights which enshrines guarantees including equality, freedom of opinion and association and the right not to be arbitrarily detained or searched are reasonable.

MacKay anticipates it will be several years before privacy battles triggered by terrorism concerns reach the Supreme Court of Canada. By that time, he warned, public tolerance of heightened security may wane. "It's easy for people to say right now to do what you need to do," he said. "But the further we get away from the event, the more people will chafe at invasions of privacy." Southam Sens More than 300 people packed the pews at First United Church on Kent Street Friday afternoon, the myriad colours, races and religions a testament to the audience's desire to unite all nations in peace. "The idea today is to let the government know we don't support the use of military force in response to the Sept.

11 tragedy," said Bill Skidmore, a human rights professor at Car-leton University. "The United States, and western governments, need to ac more business if its competitors in other countries implement onboard security, Day added. "International airlines in the United States have had air marshalls since 1985 and there's never been a problem." Day said putting air marshalls on planes is the next logical step up from the added security at Canadian airports since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. "It just makes common sense. There's some Liberal fantasy that there are no nasty people in Canada.

Well, there are. Let's keep those people off the airlines so the good people will have a sense of confidence." It would be the federal government's responsibility to foot the bill, he said. The federally trained air marshalls could be drawn from Canada's military or police Everything from cellphone and e-mail interceptions to freedom to associate in groups could well be considered in a different light, given public concern over security following the horrific hijackings in the United States. "The magnitude of this threat means there will be more limitations on rights," predicted Wayne MacKay, a constitutional law expert at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. "But it would not be right to say that anything is on.

We don't want to convert ourselves into a police state and throw away the free and democratic society that we're fighting for." Justice Minister Anne McLellan has signalled there could be a tough legal fight ahead by suggesting the balance between individual rights and protection of Supreme Court faces tightrope walk Judges will have to balance freedoms against security JANICE TIBBKTTS Southam Sewspapers OTTAWA the public may have to tilt toward security. "There has to be discussion in many places in this country about whether the balance we are always attempting to strike has shifted a little bit," she said. But it is the courts, not the government, who are the final arbiter in determining rights. The justice minister has already balked at a proposal to ban membership in groups associated with terrorist fund-raising, conceding the government could encounter difficulties under the freedom of association protection in the Charter of Rights. Although she has a constitutional safety valve with the power to override unpopular court rulings, McLellan says the government will not invoke the notwithstanding clause to pro The Supreme Court of Canada, as the nation's gatekeeper of constitutional rights, will be forced to walk a tightrope in the coming years as it determines how far the federal government can go in combating terrorism.

Experts expect dozens of Charter of Rights challenges will make their way to the high court if Ottawa restricts personal privacy, imposes stricter search and surveillance laws and toughens its handling of refugee claimants. I HI MM lias Syvie Sebough, left, and Tammy Pope take part in the Breastfeeding Challenge 2001 at the B.C. Women's Hospital in Vancouver on Saturday, in an attempt to set a record in the Guinness Book of World Records. One hundred and thirty-five women took part at the hospital..