Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba In to i Winnipeg free March 1988 13 Bill 101 Battle planned Montreal up faced with a vigorous English rights lobby and the erosion of Quebec French Only language Law by the the Ultra nationalist St Jeanbaptiste society said yesterday its preparing to fight Nicole the groups pres said the society plans to tour the province to assess the state of French in lobby members of the legislature to apply Bill 101 and organize a pro French March through downtown Montreal next the fear that a French Quebec would drown in English North America served As a Call to arms for Many nationalists during the 60s and but those fears seem to have polls have shown that a declining number of que Cecers believe the French language is threatened in Quebec and the St Jeanbaptiste so named for the Patron Saint of has been relatively silent since Robert Bourasso and the liberals were elected in a landslide Victory More than two years the defensive position the society adopted has served it less and less and from now on the group will take the offensive and try to pull the rest of Quebec in its Bou Dreau told reporters at a news con she said the group was forced into being More aggressive because of the growing number of bilingual Beatty defends sub costs minister maintains estimates accurate Ottawa up a Fleet of Uncle a powered attack submarines for the Canadian Navy wont Cost More than the Binion predicted by the programs defence minis Ter Perrin Beatty insisted yester Beatty told a commons committee studying the Purchase that the Cost figures worked up by defence department planners Are Given current Cost projections for 10 to 12 British or French designed ves British government figures put the Cost of its Trafalgar class submarine at about million the French amethyst class is believed to Cost about million per but would need expensive modifications to meet Canadian specific Beatty also said arrangements have been worked out with the Brit ish and French governments to allow the highly specialized techno nation orgy of nuclear propulsion to be turned Over to Canada when the Purchase is defence officials predict that the vessels themselves will Cost billion and the costs of two years Worth of spares and for equipping and readying the vessels for operation by Canadian will add critics of the program warn that the project could end up costing Liberal Leader John Turner predicted last weekend that the Cost could reach billion once the Fleet is built and in the Beatty rejected Turners figures out of saying they were Illin he also laughed off Turners charge that the attack which Are aimed primarily at destroying hostile submarines and Are contrary to the traditionally defensive posture of Canad an armed the minister also rejected claims that the submarines will need expensive equipment updates to bring them to standards of modern War technological changes in new soviet and Warsaw pact the critics have will Force Canada to make improvements in the sub marines before the last of the Fleet is Ever but Beatty suggested that it is sometimes cheaper to install innovative technologies than it is to carry on with existing weapons and the first vessel is slated to enter service in 1996 and will Likely be built in a British or French but the government has ordered that the Fleet must eventually be com posed of 65 per cent Canadian con raising the possibility that later vessels might be built in lesbians denied health benefits Nicole Boudreau holds pamphlet promoting signs in Montreal and the reluctance of Bourassa to take a stand on the sign Bourassa has told both French and English language rights groups that he will Wail for the supreme court of Canada to Rule on whether Bill 101s French Only commercial sign provisions violate the charter of rights before he Boudreau said the group fears that if French comes under attack in the rest of the province May not be far Toronto up lesbian Cou Ples Are not 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