Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 22, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free april 1978 new agent general Quebec Aims in Britain by Frank Gray London Lii Little Over six Gilles the Quebec governments new agent general has set tongues wagging among the consular corps Over his High profile a to so he has managed to establish effective working relationships with his in Glis Canadian counter a task Many thought would be impossible in View of him being an appointee of Rene Levesque and of being a successor to the popular Jean appointed by the Premier Bourassa in the stigma of being a parti quebecois appointee is not lost on i know there Are some who expected me to get off the plane at Heathrow armed with grenades and rifles when i first came he said in a recent at the same Howe he has energetically thrown himself into numer Ous debates and discussions on bilingualism and separa these Are subjects he admits face him daily and which automatically make his tasks in London markedly different from the five other provincial agents Gen eral who rarely have to Deal with them at by using a direct a is handling the Job differently from his who returned to Quebec last summer to make Way for Loiselle in is largely remembered for his Cool urbanity within the Ca Nadian diplomatic and his Success at downplay ing the language and separatism Loiselle stress that he tries to be As objective As he Points to a varied career that saw him trav Elling extensively through Africa and Europe in the 1950s and he also was a Rad Ocanada correspondent in Paris in the mid and joined the Provin Cial government in 1967 when he was appointed information director in he moved to Quebec City in 1972 where he held various Posi including director of inter parliamentary rela i dont want to be a prop Mcbride faces robbery charges Thomas Joseph alias Stephen Douglas of no fixed was arrested in Winnipeg thurs Day night in connection with two Bank robberies and an Auto theft in the City this Hes also wanted in connection with Bank robberies in Calgary and Auto thefts in Oshawa and Edmonton and escaping from Mcbride is to be remanded in custody until next robbery suspects in custody two Ages 18 and Are in police custody follow ing a robbery of a service station on Portage Avenue and Maryland a police spokesman two men had entered the service station at about threatened the 17yearold attendant with a Kitchen and took a Small sum of arrests were made shortly after the incident following a search of the the spokesman teachers plan demonstration government language members of the Public service Alliance of Canada will be demonstrating in front of the Federal Public service commission offices in Winnipeg wednesday Over delays in contract the teachers Are members of the educational group of the which has been without a contract since a Union spokesman said Ganda he if i meet someone who is Intelli gent and disagrees with i will respect his Point of View and i will always try to give the various que Bec Points of after i have worked under four but i will always emphasize the Point of View of the current which is the the separatism Issue overshadows some of Quebec other which Are mainly to act As a forum and information Centre for people doing Busi Ness with Quebec or for provincial representatives on business in Britain and eur Loisellen territory is the British Isles and scan and he is backed up by a staff of including specialists in economic development and a weakness is the Lack of a tourism As a Quebec has not participated in any Federal provincial workshops among travel agents in Britain this i agree with those who criticize us on but it is a High priority and one we plan to Correct he trying to wave the Quebec Flag Over such a Large Geo graphic area and one which has Many hundreds of other consular and Trade offices has not been Loiselle we have had to spread ourselves very thin in order to make any Impact on the territory and so far i have made hundreds of con people with whom i have spent More than 15 minutes and who Are interested in our but the separatism Issue is there is a liking for and Many people see the Quebec problem As being a threat to this Beautiful they find that what is happening is hard to what i Tell this is that what is happening there is not something new it is just a new indication of a very old one that wont go away by Loiselle expresses Surprise at the equanimity with which the British Public generally respond to i find that the British Are no All that concerned about he they have been accustomed to dealing with a Large part of the world for Many they Are in they want to but i dont think anybody Here is losing any sleep Over our in i would say that that is one thing that sur Prises me a great i haunt expected Loiselle has not been con tent to let questions about separatism come to but has actively taken Public platforms to explain the he has addressed audiences at Surrey the american school in Lon Don and the Royal Institute of International in head dressed the Canadian club Cambridge he has shown a Lively sense of opportunism in stimulating interest in and one senior provincial official described him As being a Little like a dentist he Sweet talks and the next thing you youve had a tooth at one reception at the High commission not Long after his Loiselle found himself in the lobby mixing with chauffeurs while waiting for his own Driver to on the Spur of the he obtained their names and the names of their within a few held a reception for them and their wives at the stately offices of Quebec House on upper Grosvenor Street in the Mayfair District of i remember that their employers were calling me beforehand to ask whether or not there had been some mistake and should not the invitations have been sent to them i pointed out that the reception to be for their it turned out to be a Good and it was Well they even sent me Flowers after although Loiselle is an sex he is not one to let a misleading news Story about Quebec affairs pass without some i know that news report ers have to bring a Story Down to just a few Para because of they will sometimes miss the but when i read some thing i disagree i Al ways ask myself what can 1 do to poll shows Schumacher leading Calgary up the Herald says two surveys recently conducted in the Bow River Federal constituency in Southern indicate Stan Schumacher is ahead in a bid for a drum quit the conservative caucus in february to sit As an Independent in the House of com Schumacher was Defeated in a bid to win the party nomination in Bow River last october by Gordon an Independent member of the Alberta Schumacher had represented Palliser for 10 Palliser has since been eliminated under redistribution Survey of Canadian youth Federal setup facing test Montreal up a Survey of Cana Dian youth conducted by an International advertising Agency indicates that Many believe Quebec will not remain in con when asked to agree or disagree with statement Quebec will no longer be part of confederation in the affirmative responses were obtained from 56 per cent of the French speaking youth and 44 per cent of the English speaking in 29 per cent of the French speaking youths and 15 per cent of the in Glis speaking youths agreed with the statement that Canada might one Day become part of the United commissioned by the new Yor based advertising Agency the statements appeared in an attitudes sur vey conducted last summer using a Sam ple of Canadian split in even English and French speaking half of the Sample population were in the 15 to 19 age group while the other half were in the 2025 age the Sample was also equally divided by one of the most striking differences Between the two groups was that 80 per cent of the Young French speaking canadians said they thought that in the future most educated people in Canada would be Able to speak both official while Only 46 per cent of the English youths agreed this was the Survey was part of a poll of attitudes among youth in 12 the results were released this week at a seminar during the cites first Salon inter National de la Ann senior Vic president of Mccanns International said the Survey which dealt with attitudes on everything from marijuana usage to communism indicated that the differences Between Canadas two language groups Are pretty translated for it Means that basically the same Selling message will reach Young English and French speaking Canadian described As the Labora Tor of International communications Strat egy for such clients As general coca cola Loreal and said she might advise clients to approach the two language groups differently in the area of Job recruitment and investment frenc Canadian youth place a higher Premium on Lon term Security in choosing a Job than do either european or English speaking Canadian according to the English speaking canadians placed exciting challenging and the Opportunity to get ahead above Job Securi Survey results indicated that Young peo ple in All 12 including France and consid ered finding a Job their of Federal electoral Boun the Herald said preliminary returns from a questionnaire mailed by Schu Macher to Bow River Homes indicate residents of the Riding do not think the conservatives will form the next government and May prefer an Independent my Over a party member As their the afternoon daily said 64 per cent of the 300 respondents said they feel the liberals will retain Power in the while 33 per cent picked the conservatives and three per cent were in asked about representation in 41 per cent of the respondents said they think an Independent my could perform better than a party Only 18 per cent said an Independent my would serve his constituents 25 per cent said the same service would prevail and 16 per cent were the liberals conducted their own Survey by placing informal phone Calls throughout the their Survey showed Schu Macher a hard Man to the newspaper it added the liberals also Are having a difficult time recruiting a candidate for Bow at least six persons have been approached by the liberals but none have commit Ted the Herald the party is to hold a Nomi nation meeting in on april Jii Jim korean air lines Cho Cho Nhoon leaves for Finland to await release of passengers and Crew of plane downed by soviet Jet fighters two passengers were two reported thirteen injured soviets release Kal survivors Moscow a a United states Jot was heading to the far Northern port of Murmansk today to pick up the survivors and the dead of the South korean Airliner forced to crash land on a Frozen Lake by shoot ing soviet two of the 110 persons aboard the korean air lines plane were killed and 13 two when the plane was officials but it was not known whether the casualties were due to the soviet Jet fighters or the i korean jetliner forced 90 the pan am Boeing 727 was leaving Berlin at 1 est and was to land in Kilometres to the two or three hours How Long it would remain in Murmansk was from it was flying to the finnish capital of Kilometres to the where a waiting korean air lines plane was to take the survivors to Seoul via Anchorage and Tokyo on the release of the downed Airliner is to be negotiated after the pan am plane leaves the Kore an a Boeing carried 48 51 five two two West germans and two officials one of the dead is a the other casualties were not South Korea and the soviet Union do not have diplomatic so the United states offered every pos sible assistance and worked out the pan am flight with soviet the drama began thursday after flight 902 left Paris for with a refuelling Stop scheduled in Anchor the last radio transmission re ported its position near Ellesmere Canadas northernmost and and Canadian planes immediately mounted a but the on a trans Polar for some unkown reason deviated from its turned South Over the Arctic crossed the Barents sea and entered soviet air space near soviet Jet fighters forc ing the Airliner to an ice shattering crash Landing on a Lake near 500 Kilometres South of Murmansk and 250 Kilometres from the finnish Bor Carter delays troop withdrawal Washington Reuter president Carter has announced a delay in the planned withdrawal of troops in South Korea in a move seen As applying pressure on Congress to approve expenditure of million for military equip ment for that approval has been held up because of the Kore an bribery investigation now under Way in Congress and Many legislators Are Loath to approve funds for South Korea until the matter is cleared the scandal involves South korean businessman Tong Sun Park and others who gave Money to the investigation has brought indictments against both South koreans and americans and it is not known How Long the it will in his announcement Fri Day that he was delaying the scheduled withdrawal of 600 Carter noted that Congress May not approve the Aid this session because of a crowded Calendar and also because of other mat ters concerning the president announced last year that he would with draw All combat troops now numbering about soldiers from South Korea during a four or five year at that time he proposed the military equipment program and stressed that it was essential to improve South Korea defensive military capability to maintain a balance of Power on the korean Carter said Friday that there has been no change in plans to bolster the air Force presence in South the administration official said the number of f4 fight a bombers will be increased to 72 from 60 by this despite the timing of the the official stressed that the statement was in no Way related to the forced Landing of a South korean Jet liner in the soviet Union in South Korea welcomed Carters South korean foreign ministry and defence ministry officials said they welcomed the delay and Park a spokesman for the governing democratic Republican said it was encourage apparently the United states government has accepted our position that it would be dangerous to with draw the american ground troops before sufficient compensatory measures have been he die cries foul at mint takeover Bill Ottawa up former prime minister John Diefenbaker accused the govern ment Friday of trying to make a eunuch of Parlia ment with its proposal to give the Cabinet Power Over the production of Gold its a dangerous Bill some trickery is being worked said die Fen he also criticized Supply minister Jeanpierre Goyer for not being in the commons when the Bill was goers portfolio includes responsibility for the Canadian Diefenbaker noted that Only four of the 33 Cabinet ministers were in the com he said he wanted some one to explain Why the Cabi net wanted the sole Power to determine the size and de nomination of Gold coins As Well As their design and Gold the which received second also prohibits Consumers from using More than one Gold Coin As Legal tender in any one pay ment of Money More than Aideen parliamentary Secretary to told the commons the world annual Market for Numis Matic coins is estimated at about Canadian sales were about million in the government believes the mint should continue its efforts to gain for Canada a substantial share of the world the Toronto my Arnold Peters nip to mis Kaming said issuing Gold coins could Lead to the reopening of Many Gold mines in the Northern areas of Ontario and Man ;