national Citizen Monday, May 30, 1983 — 5 NON-WHITES FACE HATE DAILY Target varies, but racism thrives across Canada by MARK HUME Southam News OTTAWA — Canadians pride themselves on being tolerant and civilized but researchers in 11 cities have found racism is a national problem that can show itself in violent outbursts of hatred. In a disturbing series of internal government reports, racism is described as a pervasive and sinister fact of life for the millions of Canadians who are not white. The reports, compiled for the Secretary of State, were done as quick studies to help the federal government establish priorities in tackling the growing problem of racism. One of the many recommendations called for an independent commission to look into the whole issue, a suggestion that has just been acted Multiculturalism Minister Jim Fleming announced last week a spe cial parliamentary committee will tour the country in an effort to reduce racial tensions between whites and visible minorities such as East Indians, blacks and native people. The 11 studies were compiled independently, but they all paint a disturbingly similar picture of bigotry and hate. Racism, it is clear, is not restricted by geography. There is ‘‘Paki bashing” in B.C., black-white gang fights in Quebec schoolyards and deeply ingrained prejudice against native Indians on the prairies. The cities studied were Vancouver, Williams Lake, B.C., Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Windsor, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax and Saint John. Each had its own version of racial hate. Perhaps the biggest surprise was Ottawa. The national capital and a showplace of multiculturalism, it seems the last place one would expect to encounter racism But researcher Elliot Tepper found that although Ottawa doesn’t have the head-line-grabbing racial clashes that occur in some cities, there is a quiet prejudice influencing the relationships of whites and minorities. “Racism here is viewed as being subtle, more sophisticated, more difficult to put your finger on . . . the views of Ottawa’s minorities reveal a dark side to a nice city and a grave flaw in government strategy,” writes Tepper. He states that all the minority groups he surveyed complained about the systematic discrimination they encountered when trying to get jobs, or promotions, in the public service. They also told him of the isolation they experience because they are forced, at a social level, to largely remain within their own racial circles. Concludes Tepper: “Whether as city or capital, Ottawa’s minorities, visible or otherwise, see themselves in the city, but not of the city. And if this is true for the capital, what does it imply for the definition of Canada as a nation-state?” Contrasting with the polite racism of Ottawa is the angry prejudice on the West Coast. “The racial climate in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland is tense and frequently violent,” writes researcher Odette Jobidon. “Vancouver’s racial hostility has found a variety of expressions, in- cluding violent attacks on the lives, property, and dignity of visible minorities.” Jobidon said the main target of racial violence are East Indians, or Indo-Canadians, who have been shot at, had their homes firebombed and been beaten by white gangs. The examples of violence cited by Jobidon show racism at its ugliest: —A pick-up truck speeds through a Vancouver suburb firing shotgun blasts into homes of six East Indian families. —A young East Indian man is beaten to death by four white youths in Vancouver’s South Memorial Park. —As he is waiting for the bus, Jit Thunal is struck in the chest by a needle apparently fired from a vehicle. Attached to the needle is a piece of tape on which are written the letters KKK. —A rally held by 100 members of the B.C. Organization to Fight Racism is disrupted by members of the People’s Front Against Racist and Fascist Violence. One man suffers a fractured skull and another a broken arm. —A gang of 20 white youths surrounds an East Indian couple sitting in a car, hammering on the doors and smashing the windshield. —A firebomb is thrown through a window in Gurdev Sidhu’s house, causing extensive damage. Jobidon said that in addition to the overt acts of violence, minorities face more subtle forms of racism in their daily lives. In Calgary, researcher Norman Buchignani found native people were the victims of widespread prejudice, often having difficulties finding jobs or apartments to rent. TORY CONVENTION Mulroney will speak first Southam News OTTAWA - Sixty-two Tories — sharing the bowels of a hockey arena with pool sharks, grocery store retirees and a circus — talked for five hours Friday night to decide who’d speak first. In the end, it was Brian Mulroney who won the chance to bore, entertain, turn on or turn off some 3,000 delegates in a final 25-min-ute speech on June 10. the eve of the leadership vote to choose a new Tory leader. Following Mulroney, in order, are Michael Wilson, John Crosbie, Peter Pocklington, Joe Clark, John Gamble, David Crombie and Neil Fraser. The pecking order of the eight leadership contenders was determined by a draw from a baseball cap. One bv one, with trumpeting elephants at a Shriner circus down the hall, a retirement dinner an eigli jionsni across the way, representatives from each camp trotted up to the podium in the basement of Ottawa’s Civic Centre. “It’s like a horse race.” grimaced an aide of David Crombie, who — also by the order of the draw — will sit next to Joe Clark. “No one’s there to hear the first speaker and everyone's gone by the last.” next door and an eight-ball championship PART OF HOUSE PM's pool an issue QUEBEC (CPI — The swimming pool at the prime minister’s official residence at 24 Sussez Drive in Ottawa has become an issue in the Tory leadership race. For Catherine Clark, the six-year-old daughter of leadership contender and former prime minister Joe Clark, dad winning means “having a pool, and when we lose she doesn't have one," Clark told supporters as he campaigned in Quebec on the weekend. “If you don't have any other reason for voting for me,” Clark said, “please, think of Catherine and her pool." Brian Mulroney, the Montreal businessman and lawyer who ran third behind Clark and the later Claude Wagner in the 1976 leadership race, has also been harping on the pool. But Mulroney has been promising all delegates to the convention who back him a plunge in the pool if he wins the leadership and eventually become prime minister again. The pool was built by Prime Minister Trudeau with money from anonymous donations. Speaking order can be crucial. In the 1976 leadership convention, John Fraser led off and Brian Mulroney pulled the plum position of third, in a field of 12 candidates. Mulro-ney’s strategists grinned with pleasure, but it was all in vain. Joe Clark, the eventual winner, drew fifth position; Sinclair Stevens faced a crowd of yawns four hours into the night. There were other weighty matters at the marathon meeting — 21 of them — itemized by the candidate liason committee. For example, the representatives — seated around tables pushed together in square — were told their candidates “will be encouraged, told, ordered to wear identification tags.” They were also told they couldn't block the aisles of the convention centre; that a phalanx of security guards would rush speakers out a back door to a media centre and that “only delegates and alternates could line up at the microphones." Criticism for security agency CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) - The attorneys general of nine provinces and the territories condemned Canada’s proposed security agency Friday as a massive threat to civil rights and a licence for institutionalized lawbreaking. Described by Quebec Justice Minister Marc-An-dre Bedard as “the birth of a monster," the legislation creating the civilian service was assailed in a special communique at the end of the annual meeting of provincial and territorial attorneys general. The British Columbia government was not represented at the Charlottetown meeting because of cabinet appointments in that province Thursday. Allan Williams, attorney general before the shuffle, said last week he saw no need for a new security agency and was concerned about how it would be monitored. Attorneys General Roland Penner of Manitoba’s NDP government and Gary Lane of Saskatchewan's Progressive Conservative administration told a news conference after the meeting that Canadians can stop the legislation if they fight hard „enough. “It indicates 19H4 has arrived six months Testimony by Lavoie brings up questions MONTREAL (CP) -Questions have been raised by the testimony last week by police informer Donald Lavoie who told a court hearing that lawyers briiig drugs to prisoners at the Par-thenais detention centre in the city's east end. Lavoie. 40, was testifying at the Quebec Superior Court jury trial of Claude Dube a u a n d brothers Jean-Guy and Adrien Dubois who are charged with the 1974 murder of underworld figure Jacques McS-wcen. Lavoie, who is kept in a special wing of the detention centre, said he once had a cigarette of marijuana brought in by a lawyer who tucked it in his boot to avoid the usual search Lavoie provided the name of the Montreal lawyer in court under cross-examination by defence lawyer Leo-Rene Maranda. He made the statement after insulting Maranda. The defence lawyer early,” Penner said of the bill, echoing the federal NDP’s accusation that the agency would be Orwellian in its ability to snoop on citizens. Solicitor General Robert Kaplan has denied the charge, saying agents will not be permitted to investigate the private affairs of people or groups engaged in lawful dissent The provincial ministers, however, said the definition of security threats subject to secret investigation is “so dangerously vague that the tossing of an egg at a rally . . . could trigger all the massive powers of the security service against that person.” Furthermore, agents would have “totally unfettered power” to break all laws and provincial attorneys general might never be told about it. Agents would need the permission of a judge to tap phones, conduct secret searches or bug homes or offices and an inspector general and committee of three privy councillors would review the force. The communique said that still leaves police, prosecutors, defence lawyers and probably provincial attorneys general in the dark about what the agents are doing. had been trying to make Lavoie admit that his spouse left him after he hit her during a visit to his house, made in the company of his guards. Maranda, who indicated he was astonished by the statement, asked where the drugs came from. Lavoie said the source was lawyers. Corruption case put off MONTREAL I CPI -A sessions court judge today postponed a preliminary hearing for businessmen Robert Harrison and Jean Bruyere, accused along with Liberal MP Bryce Macka-sey of corruption involving a now-bankrupt Montreal company. Judge Benjamin Schecter rescheduled the hearing to June 1 because Harrison's lawyer was out of town. Lawyers in the case huddled in the courtroom afterwards to decide how to proceed with the calling of witnesses. DEBRA KAYE LUNCH MON. - FRI. Sandwich ‘n Soup Buffet $3.95 Steak Sandwich $3.45 Experts rule out murder TORONTO (CP) -Two medical experts have ruled out the possibility a 6'/2-month-old baby at the Hospital for Sick Children was the victim of a fatal overdose of the powerful heart drug digoxin. Dr. Alois Hastreiter, a pediatric cardiologist from Chicago, testified Friday at a coroner’s inquest that Gary Murphy of Waterloo died of severe heart problems. Hastreiter said he did not believe the high levels of digoxin found in the baby’s body had anything to do with his death. He said he agreed with the findings of Dr. Ralph Kauffman, who told the inquest earlier that the child died of severe heart problems, including two holes in his heart, and circulation problems that prevented blood from returning to the heart. Hastreiter said the digoxin levels found in the baby’s blood were at least double the highest therapeutic levels he has seen. ABORTION DECISION Borowski willing to wait REGINA (CP) — Joe Borowski says he isn't worried that it may be months before Justice W. R. Matheson of the Court of Queen's Bench rules on the validity of Canada’s therapeutic abortion law. “The 10 years I have invested into the pro-life cause is worth it," said Borowski, who has withheld income tax, gone on a lengthy fast and resigned his Manitoba cabinet post to protest abortion laws. “If it’s necessary to invest a few more years it certainly will be worth it.” Borowski, 50, a father of three daughters, may have to draw on his patience before the matter is finally resolved. Matheson reserved decision Friday on Borows-ki’s request that 1969 amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada, which made therapeutic abortions legal, be declared unconstitutional. The Matheson judgment, no matter what it says, is likely to be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. Borowski, meanwhile, has returned to his Winnipeg home where he has turned his attention to Dr. Henry Morgentaler's abortion clinic. Borowski said he and his supporters will start picketing the legislature to pressure Attorney General Roland Penner into taking action against the clinic, which opened May 6. The Attorney General of Canada and the federal finance minister are named as defendants in Borowski’s action which opened in court May 9. Borowski wants to halt the use of taxpayers’ money for therapeutic abortions and their sanctioning committees. Morris Shumiatcher, 64, headed the Borowski legal team. A $350,000 legal fund Borowski set up from donations was used to bring world-renowned doctors to Regina to testify. A doctor from New Zealand testified he treats the unborn and mother as separate patients. A French genetics expert told the court human life begins at conception. A New York doctor, once known as the Abortion King of America, said he sometimes noticed the unborn moving away when a needle was inserted into the mother. Matheson also heard a tape recording of an ll'/2-week-old unborn’s heartbeat and saw a video tape of a 14-week-old fetus moving inside the mother. The Borowski argument is based on the premise that the Bill of Rights and the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to the unborn and prevails over Section 251 of the Criminal Code — the therapeutic abortion section. Section 7 ot the charter, one of three clauses cited in the Borowski challenge, says everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person and the right not to be deprived of the same except by due process of law. “An evil has been created under which you can go into a doctor’s office and casually get a death warrant,” Shumiatcher said during rebuttal Friday. “There’s no one to say no because it’s a little fellow who can't talk." Edward Sojonky of Regina, legal counsel for the federal government, called no witnesses and cross-examined only about one-third of those who testified for Borowski. In his four-hour summation, Sojonky said Canada’s abortion law is designed to protect the unborn. WELCOME To Prince George's NEWEST TAVERNA W' (i/h i t^na V A W> o •tod1 The meaning of 'the Taverna' is not the quantity of the meal, it is for a light snack served in a quiet, relaxing atmosphere. 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