Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Us in p r to u Winnipeg free May 1 i foreign policy review to cover peacekeeping Ottawa up external affairs minister Joe Clark was work ing Oft the next Olast draft of his governments Long awaited foreign policy review paper during one of those interminable flights Between Alberta and Ottawa in the promised soon after the fogies took office last septem had already gone through sever Al drafts and been delayed longer than Clark originally the minister was confident this time the final version could be re leased in two or three the weeks became months As cab inet was preoccupied with other matters and the paper underwent an unknown amount of but Clark has now announced his Green paper will finally be tabled in the Cotta finds marking the first overhaul of Canadas for eign policy since a Green paper is government Jar gon of a discussion paper opposed to a White paper which sets out government Clark has said that while his is a Short it will ask a lot of questions and cover a lot of ground from Trade to foreign peacekeeping troops and Canadas role in International but it is hot intended to question such Basic issues As Canadas membership in the United nations or he told the Canad Japan society in Tokyo last those and others Are he it will offer canadians Aii Opportunity to Cut relative place in the world How we Are doing in comparison to other nations and what we can do to improve our the paper will be referred to a special committee of maps and Sena tors empowered to hold pub Lic hearings and make recommendations to the preferably within Clark is determined that Ordinary canadians get involved in the review of foreign policy because tie says it can have As much effect on their lives As economic Clark has dropped several hints during the last few months about what to expect in the paper and its Clear from the tone of his voice and the glint in his Eye Hes excited about the there will be evident in it some Basic Points of departure from traditional Canadian foreign he said in me explained the Mam difference during the Tokyo speech late last year the review will to a relatively Large on eco nomic which is something hew for a foreign policy although re search and development have not traditionally been considered part of foreign its time they he said in Toronto a couple of months we made it happen were doing it see May 16 paper Pok Sitter feeling Law Over Fontos timing Victoria up Mark Sutton thinks Steve Fonyo is a great Guy but wishes he were coming to Victoria some other Sutton will break the world pol sitting rec Ord 440 Days tomorrow and he had planned to come Down from his wooden platform atop a 15metre pole at the end of but that when Fonyo is scheduled to Complete his journey for lives across by dipping his artificial leg into the Pacific at the end of the Tran Canada Highway in the an unemployed has been surviving wind and boredom to raise Money for the Canadian paraplegic association since february 1984 two months before Fonyo began his Sutton has raised about Cash and in pledges for spinal injury its not Fontos Sutton fearing the publicity for Fonyo will overshadow his own ill just have to stay up a few Days longer until Hes come and other topics expected to be disease sed in the paper include a peacekeeping Clark said theres a reference to we have a proven record of Success in peacekeeping and 1 would think that if the conditions were that a natural role for us to Fol d foreign Aid and development assistance Margaret president of the Canadian International development has said she was consulted regularly As the paper was d relations with the Pacific rim Clark has said he plans to make the Pacific particularly a focal Point of the policy d Canadas role in International in such As the United nations and its alliances Clark has said he personally feels not enough attention is paid to the common we have tended to take the Commonwealth of i think there is More value to it to Canada and More value to the Commonwealth from a More Active Ca Nadian participation than we might have 1 May be proven wrong after 1 have 4 Chance to pursue the matter More deeply but that is the prejudice with which i d South Africa Clark has also said Canadas relations with South Africa and its apartheid regime will be discussed in the Green lotto West will draw 5 extra sets of 8 numbers for Bonus prizes of 1985f Post la joker prime minister Mulroney plays the middleman As his son Benedict asks him to relay a joke to comedian Bob Hope on in Ottawa for a Benefit performance for the Royal Ottawa was entertained by the Mulroney at their official tories Crank up Quebec machine Quebec up haunted by John die Fen Bakers failure to hold on to Quebec after winning a major Victory in the progressive conservatives in the province Are moving quickly to consolidate the gains the party made in the last Federal the who captured 58 of the 75 Quebec Ridings Are in the midst of 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seats in the 1958 general four years later the tories lost 36 of them to the the province then became a Liberal in the 1980 74 of the 75 seats in Quebec were won by Quebec conservatives vow history wont repeat they know Quebec support is important to winning a second term in office and to show they have formed a truly National government representing every Region in the National tory organizers met thursday to Complete plans for the committee to oversee the Quebec the pending Mulroney approval that is expected this will include a representative from the National pc fund one member of the prime ministers representatives from Cabinet and caucus and Riding association Over the Winter we elected new executives in every Morgan volunteers who were appointed and worked so Well in the last Campaign have now been elected and Are keeping that same organization the National tory organization has offered courses for Quebec most of them serving in parliament for the first they have Learned said Are highly motivated and want to be we stress the importance of keeping in close touch with the local especially like poll captains who Are in Contact with the Morgan of course the local executive has to do its and the government has a role to play if each my is to be Quebec minister blasted for trips Quebec up civil servants in the Quebec department of Energy and resources took 312 trips abroad last year at a Cost to taxpayers of almost half a million department Docu ments the department is almost a travel said Liberal opposition member Pierre Fortier after the department presented a National As Sembly committee with a list of 491 civil servants who spent on the the department officials travelled across Ada and the United states As Well As in 17 other including 11 trips to trips to Sweden and four to this happens under former Energy minister and current finance minister Yves the same person who taxes Quebe cers said member of the National Assembly for the Montreal Riding of accused the department of excessive spending that de sending two officials to Yellowknife for a five Day conference on mines at a Cost of we Are criticized on the one hand for not sufficiently marketing Quebec products and we Are criticized on the other for taking trips said Energy minister Jeanguy Tad i Deputy minister Robert Tessier added that the travel budget represents Only a tenth of one per cent of the departments total expenses trips Are closely controlled and half of the applications for travel by department officials Are said ;