Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Hatfield Broadens bilingualism debate Fredericton up Premier Richard in an Effort to untangle confusion surrounding bilingual policy in new has promised wide open discussion on the Issue at Public hearings scheduled to begin March the hearings were supposed to Deal with the 96 recommendations of a report on but hat Field now says people can talk about All aspects of he said yesterday the to wards Equality of official Lan is Only part of the process of finding out How bilingualism should evolve in new he clearly wanted to put More distance Between himself and the which has fuelled dissent Between the provinces anglophone and francophone the report says francophone have a right to use their own Lan Guage in All aspects of daily life in new to achieve that bilingualism should be in creased in such areas As the civil the medical and judicial and in new Brunswick has been officially bilingual since but the govern ment wants to update and improve the language the report is not the whole it is not the Beall the it is just a submission made to the gov Hatfield we want to hear from the people of this province not just about the nation Hatfield report irrelevant but How they feel about the experiences Treyve had with regard to two official languages and what should be done to improve information sessions held in no vember and december to make the Public familiar with the report revealed widespread report overtaken Hatfield said the reports thrust has been overtaken by the charter of rights and freedoms in which new Brunswick official languages act is thereby guaranteeing Basic French language Hatfield spoke two Days after cd ctr in new Brunswick ran an interview in which the Premier said the report is out of Date and Orrele the Premier was clearly miffed with the abcs decision to run the he had understood it was intended for a National audience As and was to air on i gave the interview on the basis that it would be to All the people of Canada and in View of the fact that this province has been portrayed As being bogged divided and wracked with i Felt it was important for some one to make the Point that there is a vast majority of new Bruns Wickers who do respect the two official languages and who have re cognized the need for new Brunswick language Issue made National news when angry anglophones hurled racist insults in one eggs at the com Mittee charged with gathering pub Lic reaction to the he made pointed comments about the Csc showing his disdain for National Media representatives who drop in on new Brunswick Only theres one thing Ive always claimed As Premier of new Bruns Wick to those people who drop in and out of Here if you come to new Brunswick you will always be Able to find a Hatfield said were not like the other prov inces that Are so tolerant and so free of intolerance and bigotry were not like All the unilingual prov Winnipeg free january 1985 11 ballot decision seen As setback for hardliners l pm hardliner Camille Laurin takes seat at resignation favored in leadership poll Mulroney praises poll results Ottawa up a new poll showing a major drop in support for Quebec sovereignty either out right Independence or sovereignty association is Good for Quebec and very Good for prime minister Mulroney said 1 think its an acknowledgement of the fact that you can be a Strong que Becer and believe strongly in Canada As Mulroney told re porters on the eve of an important parti quebecois convention which will decide the party stand on the Issue in the provincial election expected this Quebec is it has sub Stantial differences that have to be acknowledged and we have to create a climate within which they can i refer to language and Canada is big enough and splendid enough to accommodate this Mulroney was commenting on a poll conducted by the Centre de Recherche sur 1opinion pub Lique crop and published yesterday in the Montreal newspaper la Montreal up a Public opinion poll published today suggests a majority of Quebe cers think Premier Rene Levesque should re sign before the next provincial elec Tion and that if the parti quebecois were headed by Pierre Marc John son it could defeat the the poll also found that Only one in five Quebe cers per cent feels his province should become Independent or seek Sovereign Tyas Socia Tion with the rest of it is the first indication since he has headed the pm that Levesques personal popularity among que Beers has slipped asked if the Premier should re main As head of the pm or leave the position to 47 per cent of Quebe cers questioned by crop said they would prefer to see him compared with 39 per cent who said he should results of the popularity part of the commissioned by the daily la were leaked on a television program last evening just As a special pm convention opened to discuss whether the party should adopt Levesques strategy of drop Ping Independence from the party platform for the next Levesque lost out to his Justice when respondents were asked who they thought would make the Best rival to Liberal Leader Robert Johnson was favored by 39 per compared with 23 per cent for 13 per cent for former finance minister Jacques Parizeau and three per cent for foreign Trade minister Bernard asked if they would prefer the pm led by Johnson or the Bourassa 47 per cent opted for the pm and 46 for the but if Levesque remained As pm Only 39 per cent would vote for the pm compared with 54 per cent for the the poll is said to be accurate to within three percentage 19 times out of fifty two per cent of respondents to the crop poll said Quebec should be a province like any other in the Canadian by Larry Hill Winnipeg free press Montreal delegates to the parti quebecois convention Here have moved one step closer to a softer Independence stand by ruling today vote on sovereignty be con ducted by a show of hands rather than by secret says a former provincial Cabinet Gilbert a Leader of the so called orthodoxies who oppose Premier Rene Levesques bid to drop sovereignty from the party next election said last nights 8662 vote against secret balloting weakens his groups Al ready slim chances of will skew voting it will skew the congresses Vot of although its an extremely fundamental the for Mer science and technology minister said after yesterdays delegates who sympathize with hardliners but dont want to upset the party establishment will tend to fall in line with Levesques Moder ates in a show of he Paquette said earlier that about 35 per cent of the delegates to the special Congress support his Posi but last night he want Able to say exactly How much the procedural decision will Hurt his comparing his Hartline group to Levesques Paquette said we have to work toward and they will have to be working toward reelection and their delegates also approved an Emer gency Resolution calling on the government to pass a Law that would place Bill 101 controversial French language Law whose several provisions have been overturned by the courts above All other Quebec this would mean that such Legisla Tion As the Quebec human rights charter could not be used to Chal Lenge Bill As has happened in the Levesque was expected to attend the session last night but did not show he was to take part in today debate and will give the conventions closing while party dissidents lost their secret ballot they appeared to receive a boost yesterday when news broke of a recent opinion poll con ducted for a Montreal in the Survey of 47 per cent said they would prefer to see Levesque resign before the next election and 39 per cent said he should remain at the Paquette said the results least credibility to the hardliners and showed Public displeasure with the premiers political polled about whom they would prefer As 39 per cent of respondents backed Justice min ister Pierremarc Johnson also a 23 per cent wanted be 13 per cent supported for Mer finance minister Jacques Parizeau who resigned with six other ministers last fall in protest Over the premiers soft pedalling of Independence and three per cent backed International relations minister Bernard Landry a Yves the Sci ence and technology minister from Matane who also supports refused to comment on the but he said in an interview that he believed profoundly in sovereignty and would continue to struggle for its but at the same time in profoundly in the sense that i dont think we should impose changes on a society that Doest want he said in reference to the moderate Pequi stes belief that most Quebe cers Arent interested in separatism at the several delegates and observers interviewed at random said they were lining up with who wants sovereignty to remain a fundamental objective of the party but not discussed in the next i was an orthodox Pequi Ste until last said Marcel Louis of the Labiti breast Louis said he was concerned that if More than 35 per cent of the delegates opposed the party would seek a new Leader who would probably drive the pm further away from Louis said it was because he believed in Independence that he would vote for Levesques slip of Tongue hints at election Montreal up will que Beers be going to the polls in a provincial election in june that what social affairs minis ter Guy Chevrette indicated in an apparent slip of the Tongue at a news conference yesterday the eve of a special parti quebecois convention As he discussed a dispute by doctors in Remote Chevrette said the doctors Are playing politics and that if they want to be politicians they should run in the next election in there will be an election in Chevrette let them run in questioned further by Chevrette and said maybe in maybe in the the doctors at the Dolbeau Hospi Tal resigned thursday to protest the governments failure to provide More physicians and equipment to Remote read Yin 3 Sooter studios ministers report Progress further talks scheduled on Energy pricing 21 locations to in Manitoba Eaton Bay resp j 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