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NATIONAL NEWS

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister

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Brian Mulroney, gaunt and grim-
faced, struggled to stem the damage
from the resignation of Lucien
Bouchard and appealed in the Com-
mons for acceptance of the Meech
Lake accord.

Bouchard, a: longtime friend of
Mulroney who campaigned in Quebec
for sovereignty-association in 1980
before joining the Tories, said the
country isn’t working.

“I believe that the solution is
sovereignty-association,"’ he said
ter his resign:
ment portfolio and the Tory caucus
was officially announced. ‘‘It’s a term
that!s never been properly defined.
English Canadians refer to
separatists, this is a cold term. We
have to remake the country.”’

Murloney’s hopes of saving Meech
received another blow Tuesday from
his constitutional emissary, Senator
Lowell Murray.

Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa,
said the provinces are still too far
apart to make a first ministers’ con-
ference on the constitutional deal suc-
cessful.

Meech Lake was designed to make
Quebec a willing partner to the 1982
Constitution, but opposition to the
pact in English Canada has fuelled
nationalism in Quebec.

The resignation of Bouchard, who
was also Murloney’s Quebec
lieutenant, stunned the Commons and
the country. It was the second recent
departure from the Tory caucus. On
Friday, Francois Gerin, the Tory MP
for Megantic-Compton-Stanstead,
quit to sit as an Independent.

Gerin and Bouchard were joined
Tuesday by. Gilbert Chartrand, Tory
member for Verdun-Saint Paul, who
also resigned to sit as an Independent.

In a bid to contain the damage

created by Bouchard’s departure, BRIAN MULRONEY

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CP News Analysis
By GERRY ARNOLD

OTTAWA (CP) — The heat has once again been
turned up on Canada’s boiling constitutional
cauldron.

It isn’t as if the kitchen wasn’t hot enough
already.

A supportive telegram from federal Environment
Minister Lucien Bouchard to a weekend meeting of
the Parti Quebecois on the 10th anniversary of the
i} iati has left some

ignty
people shaking their heads.

“It is very astonishing in the present time for Mr.
Bouchard to have made such a provocative gesture,’”
said Vincent Lemieux, a political science professor at
Laval University in Quebec City.

The telegram said: ‘*The referendum concerns us
all very directly as Quebecers. Its commemoration is
another occasion to remember the frankness, the pride
and the generosity of the Yes side which we defended
around Rene Levesque and his team.

“The memory of (late Quebec premier) Rene
Levesque will unite us all this weekend because he
made Quebecers discover their inalienable right to
decide their own destiny.’’

PQ Leader Jacques Parizeau said it was clear
there are problems in Prime Minister Brian

Bouchard's resignation
turns up heat on Meech

PM tries to stem damage

Mulroney attended @ meeting of the
Tory Quebec caucus Tuesday night
where he received a standing ovation.

Outside the meeting, MP Jean.
Pierre Blackburn. said Bouchard’s
resignation should send a message to
English Canada and three Meech
holdout provinces — Newfoundland,
Manitoba and New Brunswick.

“They don’t realize the country is
near collapse,” Blackburn said.

But in St. John’s, Premier Clyde

ells of Newfoundland said
Bouchard’s departure doesn’t change
his position on Meech and hasn't
placed any added pressure on him.

In the Commons, Mulroney was
passionate in his defence of Meech.
He appealed to patriotism and said
the accord is a simple deal to welcome
Quebec back into the Canadian
family.

“Quebec said yes to Canada,"’ he
said in an emotional tone.

““Now it is time for Canada to say
yes to Quebec."”

In a poignant statement to the
Commons, Bouchard said Bourassa
should not attend any first ministers’
conférence that will consider the
recommendations of the special
Commons committee report on
Meech.

Bourassa has rejected the recom-

i but said he would meet

ANALYSIS

The next day, Quebec backbench MP Franocis
Gerin resigned from caucus, saying he could no longer
sit in the party given the “‘turnabout”’ on Meech Lake.

The day after Gerin resigned, Bouchard’s
telegram was read aloud to cheering PQ national
council members gathered in Alma, part of
Bouchard’s riding of Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, a bastion
of Quebec nationalism.

**] don’t know if one can think that Mr. Bouchard
is preparing himself for the post-Meech period,”’ said
Lemieux. ‘*Many people are thinking that he will join
the independence movement if Meech Lake fails.””

If that is what’s on his mind, Bouchard is keeping
it to himself. When he returned to Montreal from
Paris on Sunday, he simply told reporters the telegram
speaks for itself.

“The telegram is there to be read,” said
Bouchard. ‘‘It’s public and it speaks for itself.””

Bouchard, 52, also speaks for himself. A lawyer
and former ambassador to France, he has been in the
Commons since June 1988. He caused a furore in
April after Newfoundland rescinded its Meech Lake
a al, i

Tory caucus.

Liberal Leader Herb Gray, unsettled by
Bouchard’s action, said he wanted to wait and hear
what Mulroney said.

“1 think it’s astounding and troubling that a
cabinet minister can send a telegram like this,’’ he
said.

Meech Lake is the proposed amendment to win
Quebec’s willing participation in the Constitution.
Among other things, it recognizes Quebec as a distinct
society and expands the powers of all provinges.

The accord needs approval from all provinces and
Parliament by June 23, but Newfoundla#d, Manitoba
and-New Brunswick remain opposedA Commons
committee on Thursday brought in’a report on
possible ‘‘add-ons’’ to the pact, which could form a
separate accord if first ministers agree.

Issues like women’s and native rights and Senate
reform could be addressed in such a pact, although the
committee recommended the accord spell out that
distinct society status would not override the Charter
of Rights and Freedoms.

English Canada would have to
chose between Quebec and Newfoundland.

Mulroney defended Bouchard then, but Lemieux
doesn’t think the telegram will sit well with the prime
minister. At the same time, he said don't expect
Mulroney to fire Bouchard because the backlash from
Quebec would be immense.

But Lemieux said the timing is bad, coming on the
heels of the Meech committee report and at the same
time Senator Lowell Murray, the government’s Meech
Lake troubleshooter, is sounding out the premiers on
the issue.

“I’m having some difficulty to explain this,’’ said
Lemieux. ‘‘He was not obliged (to send the telegram),
so we will see. I suspect that in the House of Commons
there will be some turmoi

A snapshot of Bouchard’s personal life says
volumes about his political foundations. On Nov. 29
when his wife Audrey went into labor, he raced across
a bridge from Ottawa, where he rents an apartment, to
Hull.

He wanted to ensure his son — their only child —
was born in Quebec.

other premiers on Meech if need be.

The special Commons committee,
led by Quebec Tory Jean Charest,
produced 23 recommendations last
week in the hope of producing a
Meech-saving compromise.

Bouchard said the time for bluffing
about Canada’s future was long
passed, and warned he is not making
idle threats about a discontented
Quebec.

“Here I am. I called my bluff. I
quit the cabinet.

“‘Read my lips because we mean
business.””

McKenna
calls for
meeting

FREDERICTON (CP) — The
Confederation stakes have become so
high that it’s time the players returned
to the bargaining table, New Brun-
swick Premier Frank McKenna said
today.

“I sense there’s a rising panic in the

country,”” McKenna said as he called =

for an immediate first ministers’ con-
ference on the Constitution. ‘‘Cer-
tainly the falling dollar and the jittery
financial market are evidence of that.

“‘It’s time for us as first ministers to
get together to provide steadying
leadership to the people of this coun-
try, to send out clear messages that
Canada is alive and well and that it’s a
good place to live.””

McKenna is asking for the meeting
to heal division over the Meech Lake
accord. Ottawa’s Meech Lake
emissary, Senator Lowell Murray,
advised against one Tuesday, saying
he doesn’t think it would succeed.

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Poll identifies split

TORONTO (CP) — Sixty-one per cent of francophone Canadians
favor sovereignty-association between Quebec and the rest of Canada
while only 19 per cent of anglophones back the idea, suggests a new

Nationally, 30 per cent of

points, 19 in 20 times.

association, while 49 per cent opposed it, said the poll published in the
Toronto Star. Twenty-two per cent had no opinion.

Sovereignty-association would mean Quebec would act as an
independent country but at the same time have some economic links
with the rest of Canada, such as a common currency.

The results are based on interviews with 1,025 adults from May 2 to
5. Results from a sample of this size, when taken to reflect the views of
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IN MEMORY

Bert Simmons

Nicholas Berdyne (Bert) Simmons of Trail died May 18, 1990, at
age 70.

Mr. Simmons was born Dec. 22, 1919, in Cragford, Ala., but his
family homesteaded in northern Alberta. He married Anna Hvycuik in
August 1939 and they moved to the Trail area in the early 1940s where
he gained employment. Shortly after, he joined the armed forces and
went overseas.

He returned to Nelson in 1946 and moved to Passmore that same
year. In Passmore, he worked for Burns Lumber, first working in the
bush and later in the boiler room. He moved back to Nelson in 1950 to
work for Nelson Regional Hospital as an engineer. Mr. Simmons then
moved to Wilson Creek in 1965, working for St. Mary’s Hospital at
Sechelt, and later moved to Gibsons where he worked as an engineer for
the school district until he retired in 1985. After retirement, he moved to
OK Falls where he roamed the hills with his metal detector. Due to his
illness, he moved to Trail in 1987.

He is survived by his wife Anna in St. Mary’s Hospital at Sechelt;
daughters and sons-in-law Marge and Emil Gustafson of Perry Siding,
Bonnie and Abbie Winje of Lemon Creek, Beverley and Alan Louie of
Sechelt,’ Valerie and Fred Swanson of Roberts Creek, and Dale and Ray
Phelps of Hudson Hope; daughters Shirley Peters of Trail and Dianne
Grafton of Sechelt; sons and daughters-in-law Jerry and Pat of Slocan,
Terry and Kim of Sechelt, Alan and Reta of Deep River, Ont., Nick and
Debbie of Vancouver, and Rick and Debby of Gibsons; 31 gran-

H four gr i brother Dal of Cocolalla,
Idaho; and sister Clayra Malcom of Vernon.

He was predeceased by his father in 1962, two grandsons in 1983
and his mother in 1939.

Rheata Morgenson will conduct a memorial service at the Passmore
Hall on Saturday, May 26 at 2 p.m. Cremation has taken place. Should
friends desire, donations may be made to the Trail Regional Hospital
Foundation.

Carberry’s Funeral Home is in care of the arrangements.

Ivan Kooznetsoff

Ivan Alexander Kooznetsoff of Castlegar (Shoreacres) passed away
suddenly Friday, May 18, 1990 at age 16.

Ivan was born July 5, 1973, at Nelson and grew up and lived all his
life at Shoreacres. He was currently attending Stanley Humphries
secondary school and was in Grade 11. Ivan enjoyed music, fishing,
tennis and badminton.

He is survived by his mother Ann of Shoreacres; sister Marian and
brother Daniel, both of Shoreacres; and his grandfather, Ely Kooznet-
soff of Glade. He was predeceased by his father in 1988.

Flowers will be gratefully received.

Funeral service will be held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel on
Friday, May 25 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cremation will follow.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar
Funeral Chapel.

Bob White

Walter Robert (Bob) White of Peachland, formerly of Castlegar,
died recently at age 79.

Mr. White was born Aug. 15, 1910, in Kinley, Sask. He came to
Nakusp in 1916 and attended schools there. He was active in basketball
and curling.

He started work as a young man for Reuben Buerge. For several
years he drove the freight truck south for the company. He then went to
work for the White Pine Co. and as the company changed hands he
went along with it, becoming mill superintendent.

When Celgar moved its sawmill to the south end of the lake, Mr.
White moved to Castlegar until his retirement about 15 years ago when
he built a home in Peachland.

He is survived by his wife Alma of Peachland; one son, Murray, of
Mississauga; two grandsons; two brothers, Fred White of Penticton and
Reg White of Nakusp; three sisters, Mildred Reid of Trail and Marjorie
Stanley and Betty Walton (his twin) of Nakusp.

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