Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free feb Fuary 1980 Levesque reveals pos vote options Quebec up Premier Rene Levesque says if the parti Side captures less than 40 per cent of the vote Ift next Springs wed be Best off to forget our plans and think of something the statement comes in an interview with Levesque published in the French news Magazine be asked if he would resign in the face of such a the pm Leader said he would retain Little interest in politics with a poor referendum i will doubtless remain until the next provincial election which we must hold before 1981 but without much in the Levesque has said he would try to get As Many yes votes As but usually added that no matter what happened ii the the movement toward Quebec Independence was relentless and could not be the interviewer asked Levesque Why the referendum question was merely seeking a mandate to negotiate sovereignty Assoria Tion rather than asking Quebe cers directly if they support Quebec Levesque replied we could have certainly asked people a question which was sufficiently brutal so that we would be sure to but were not completely he said that by first asking Quebe cers for a mandate to negotiate sovereignty Assoria nation Tion and promising a second referendum no matter what the outcome of subsequent talks with the pm government was being perfectly Clear and As for the current Federal election Cam Levesque said he would prefer seeing Pierre Trudeau As prime minister for sport and for the Beauty of the debate to come on the that would Only be on condition that Trudeau wakes up fend takes politics seriously since he looks a bit burned out these Levesque said but his culture and stubbornness place him Well above the average Levesque said he believes Trudeau will finally come around and negotiate with the pm government on even the most obstinate defenders of the status quo Are always forced to change when there is the Premier said the future of que Bec is Bleak if it remains a province because it has consistently less clout in Canadian politics As the demographic bal Ance in the country moves the interview is accompanied by a report on the Federal election which says Trudeau is coasting to a Victory but adds that Canada remains a regional coun language injustice prompts Dean to quit Montreal up Pierre former Dean of Law at the University says he quit his Job to return to Quebec because of the injustice of having to live in English in a City that is 40 per cent Patenaude told reporters yesterday that although provincial Law officially proclaims new Brunswick a bilingual the Law is largely in he there is a Subtle discrimination against the use of French in i have three the eldest in children lose their All municipal services Are in but what is worse services for playgrounds and recreational Are in when you ask they say they cant separate the two and the Public is if you go into a department store in Moncton and ask for service in they look said in two years As Dean of the Law not once did i receive a letter in French from the provincial Justice speaking at a news conference at the Montreal Headquarters of the Jean Baptiste one of the most venerable of Quebec nationalist said he chose to leave what was otherwise a Good Job because he had to think of the future for his Chil to illustrate the problems of French speaking children in he asked reporters to consider the largely English speaking Montreal suburb of Beaconsfield imagine what it would be like if children play hockey in English in where he used to eight per cent of the people in a City of about Are he they have their elementary and High schools and Bishops University in nearby by said in Saint about the same where 15 to 20 per cent of the people Are there int one French school and there Are no services whatever in French except for one nurse at a City it is important for francophone in que Bec to know what is going on in new he added that my experience in Moncton indicates that it is Paradise by comparison with Sudbury or although he protested about the situation while in new it did no he there were no sanctions to Back up the Law on As Long As there Are no Teeth in the nothing Check fridays for details meet the right honourable Pierre Trudeau february 13 James collegiate auditorium 1900 Portage at ferry authored by party in jobs termed imperative Quebec by exodus for economic reasons urgent a diff Ftfe al up Quebec is weakened every tiflis a Pef Soti leaves the province for economic Opportunity Premier Rene Levesque said the situation makes Job creation Quebec most urgent Challenge be cause an estimated to Young people will enter the provinces labor Market Between now and Levesque those Young people Are a natural but it could blow up in our faces if the needed jobs Are not Levesque said in a speech to the cites chamber of he said the Federal system has turned Quebec into a welfare our share of Federal spending has come in the form of equalization and unemployment insurance he but our share of the spending that creates employment has always been inferior to the proportion of taxes we pay to the Federal he struck out at what he called the family compact that rules the Feder al Ontario politicians have indicated they feel that Only the continued concentration of Powers at the Federal level can guarantee the economic Domi Nance of he the interests of Ontario have al ways been at the heart of Federal Levesque que Bec cannot Hope to regain the Mastery of its own Economy in this kind of Levesque said provincially owned economic agencies have contributed More to the Quebec Economy than their Federal but he also praised the business sector for what it has been Able to accomplish without government there is a growing dynamism in the private for at the jobs that have been created in where government intervention is general growth in the profits and exports of Quebec companies and the fact that Quebec economic growth currently outstrips that of Ontario proves that predictions of economic ruin uttered when the parti Quebe Cois took Power were Levesque pro Quebec group courts fat cats Quebec up unlike the federalist pro Canada the fondation Des quebecois pour be out the official fundraising group campaigning for a yes vote in the Quebec referee to solicit or accept corporate contrib but the actions of a Maver ick pro Independence group threaten to smudge that virtuous image in the Public the Comite set up three Days is scheduled to meet today with Michel chairman of the National Bank of can to press for a donation to help promote a yes Reggie former longtime separatist and Leader of a fringe group called the Chevaliers de 1in said in a Tele phone interview his new co mite pro Quebec has no if they can collect from the grosses Bedaine fat so much the he but since that unlike the group is hoping to Advance the referendum cause by underlining the hostility of big business to que becs they have already Cap tured some publicity by issuing a news ryans federalist stand criticized Toronto up Claude ryans plan for realism is a serious tactical says a University of Montreal political Scien Denis Moniere told Stu dents at York University that ryans White paper on Constitution has caused Many leading members of the Quebec Liberal party to defect to the parti Quebe he is looking for a pan Canada solution to what Are Quebec an avowed Sepa accused Ryan of Fol lowing the nationalist Henri Bourassaw messianic Ideal in which the two Cul Tures would flourish Side by Side without state interfere he cited 1970 figures show ing that while 80 per cent of Quebec population is fran 80 per cent of executive were occupied by English Moniere said Only More state assure that French canadians Are not relegated to the Bottom of the economic your paint and wallpaper store of per on All or Best Norco paint example our Best Latex velvet a Low Lustre with excellent was ability now Only Gal paint Latex Flat Latex sating 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