Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free december up photo conservative Leader Joe Clark and party president Bill Blaikie left sipping Champagne Winnipeg site of next Clark test Ottawa up the Federal progressive conservative party will hold its next general meeting which will include a vote on whether to hold a leadership review in Winnipeg the decision yesterday by the party executive Means Joe Clarks leadership will not be tested for More than a the in line with the committees earlier commitment to hold the general meeting sometime during the first four months of is a Victory for Clark and a defeat for those who were quietly pressing for an earlier after the first Day of the 31member committees today party president Peter Blaikie told reporters Only one person spoke in favor of holding an earlier meeting but the idea was Given no serious consider the vote for the Winnipeg meeting in was unanimous with two or three Clark said he trusted the combined with poll results this week putting the tories four Points ahead of the would end dissension Over the leadership sipping Champagne at the official opening of the party new Headquarters in downtown Clark told part workers the office would be the site of the Celebration for the National election Victory waiting to Hap pen to tory Leader since Clark got a qualified expression of support when two thirds of delegates to the party last general meeting in february voted against holding a leadership Levesque decision on pm leadership set for tomorrow pm keeps capital in Tizzy on future Trudeau hints next fight is Davis on bilingualism Trudeau coming or going Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau has set the capital into a Tizzy once again Over reports he May stay on a lot longer than anticipated As Leader he can take on Premier William Davis Over the Issue of official bilingualism in it was reported yesterday that tru Deau told maps and senators at a Cau Cus meeting this week he wont retire until Ontario gives French equal status with English in the courts and the provincial two weeks Trudeau set typewriters aflutter when he seemed to suggest in the House that he was about to last he gained front pages when he playfully suggested he might be roped into staying on to fight Rene Levesque and the parti the weekly caucus meetings of All parties Are held in and maps Are generally reluctant to talk about what goes one Liberal source who did agree to talk said he could barely remember Trudeau remarks about Ontario by and he didst take them that he said maps had praised Trudeau for the Job he had done in getting the constitutional Resolution and Trudeau had summed up with a few remarks saying the new Constitution was still far from he said like if theres one thing id like to do before i its to convince Ontario to accept official the my intends to stay on i dont recall him actually saying i wont quit until it is another source said speak ing in had said he intended to stay on until Ontario is but he didst say it with a solemn look on his face like he was making an oath to considering All these stories in the last few weeks about whether he would i think he was just trying to make it Clear that he int planning to leave right away and plans to stick around for the next phase of constitutional a source close to Trudeau said the prime minister meant to imply he still plans to fight to convince Ontario to accept official but not to suggest he would never leave until the deed is bilingualism is a Touchy Issue in the Liberal with its Large number of French speaking maps from que under the existing Constitution Only Quebec and Manitoba Are officially the new constitutional Bill added new Brunswick to the list at the request of Premier Richard but with Franco phone residents the largest num ber outside Quebec not made officially bilingual because of opposition from the Ontario fearing a voter backlash in Rural has said he wants to introduce French services in the province Grade Montreal up Rene Leves ques 21year career in politics May come to an abrupt end tomorrow if he carries out his threat to quit As pres ident of the parti and per As Premier of and if he decides to remain As Lead Levesque probably will prevail on the pcs Rankan file to adopt a More moderate stance on the ques Tion of Quebec generally acknowledged to be More popular with voters than his Levesque has been asked to stay on by most pm Cabinet Back benches and party but that May not be earlier in the Levesque told a television interviewer he May abandon politics altogether at the age of he was beginning to consider another his threat to leave came last after delegates to the party Conven Tion steered the party to an uncompromising stand on the delegates deleted most references to association from the party program and resolved to hold a pm government to declare sovereignty immediately after winning a majority of seats in an election on Levesque argued a majority of the popular vote should be needed to declare Independence and told Conven Tion delegates that As an Ordinary he would have trouble casting his ballot for any stand Short of that democratic forced to step Down he also hinted he could be forced to step Down As Premier ultimate weapon in the ideological skirmish with party radicals if he didst get solid caucus backing for his As that message sunk the Riding associations and party executive straggled into line behind but Levesque wont make his decision known until after tomorrows executive meeting at a downtown Mon Treal even radicals who led the floor re Volt against his moderate line last weekend admit Levesque incarnates the party and the would be coun in the pm won about 23 per cent of the popular vote and seven seats in the National but Levesque lost the Montreal Riding he had held As a Liberal since he was shut out again in when the party upped its popular vote to 30 per but won Only six seats in the Liberal in the pm and Levesque swept to Power with 41 per cent of the vote and 71 after promising Good government and a referendum to de Termine if the government had a Man Date to negotiate Independence and a formal economic Union with Cana the 1980 referendum loss was a bit Ter disappointment for but he vowed his government hold a similar vote in a second nation the pm went on to win 80 seats in the 122member legislature in with 49 per cent of the last Levesque told Dele Gates that party polls taken since the 1980 in which so was backed by 40 per cent of support for his constitutional option has grown to about 44 per pm accused of spying Ottawa up the Federal government is investigating attempts by the parti quebecois government to obtain secret information from Federal civil servants working in solicitor general Robert Kaplan con firmed this week that Quebec Cabinet ministers have tried to encourage fed eral government officials working in the province to turn Over confidential information to the parti and any person or province which attempts to get confidential information by devious Means from the govern ment of Canada will not be tolerated by the government or the prime minister Trudeau told the com Mons it is unclear whether there Are new concerns about political spy ing or if an old controversy has been perhaps because Premier Rene Levesque said agents provocateurs manipulated last weeks parti quebecois foreign Power blamed the convention agreed the pm should drop the idea of Sovereign Yasso citation and fight for outright ind Epen who did not agree with All of the conventions said a foreign Power must have manipulated the Kaplan appeared to return the fire when he said the Quebec govern ment has tasked officials of that government and paid agents to try and exploit and encourage disloyalty among Federal Public servants and to obtain secret and to secret documents that belong to the prime minister said he didst know to what Kaplan might have been he suggested it might have been comments several 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