By SHERYL UBELACKER
- { Canadian Press
GUELPH, ONT, — In the foyer of St. Joseph's Hospital,
a beaming employee proudly shows off a glass-encased
architect's model of a multi-million-dollar medical centre to
be built next door.

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A couple of kilometres away, a sign at the entrance to
city-owned General Hospital proclaims: Guelph's $8.2-million
Sspital Development Fund — a for public donations to
Hospital Foxe. recent feos poet i fn hospitals.
However, not a cent has been officially raised, even
though the project has been on the drawing board for two
years, because of a controversy over abortion and

long-term and chronic-care hospital and St. Joseph's would
be rebuilt to take over acute-care treatment, including
obstetrics and surgery.

Because the hospital is operated by the Sisters of St.
Joseph, an order of nuns under the auspices of the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of Hamilton, no abortions, tubal
ligations or vasectomies will be performed.

Therein lies the wrinkle in the blueprints.

The development plan calls for those procedures to be
performed at the General at an outpatient clinic, a proposal
that hospital a second-rate surgical
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earring

TORONTO (CP) — A flight
attendant at Wardair Canada
Ltd. can wear an earring at
work if he chooses, the On-
tario Divisional Court has
ruled.

Wardair's claim that it
would lose customers if Rob-
ert Elder sported his gold
stud earring during flights
has no basis in fact, Associate
Chief Justice Krant Calla-
ghan ruled Monday.

The company argued that a
survey of its passengers in-
diated Wardair would suffer
financially if male flight at.
tendants wore earrings.

Elder, 30, was represented
at the hearing by labor law-
yers with the airline division
of the Canadian Union of
public employees, which in-
-cludes the airline's 750 flight
attendants,

The airline filed the motion

before the Divisional Court
asking for a stay of an ar-
bitration décision handed
down Feb. 26.

Arbitrator David Beatty, a
University of Toronto law
professor, ruled Wardair had
placed “an unreasonable res-
triction” on elder’s freedom
by ordering him not to wear
the earring at work.

In his ruling, Callaghan
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RISKS PROTESTS

They also fear that women entering the clinic will be
harassed, and lose their anonymity, because of anti-abortion
protesters who frequently demonstrate at the General.

Guelph doctors perform about 50 tubal ligations each
year, while women are under general anesthetic for
caesarean deliveries, says Dr. Carolyn Smith-Pellettier, a
general practitioner and president of medical staff at St.
Joseph's. i

Under the current proposal, women would have to wait
several months to have a tubal ligation at the General, again
under general anesthetic, and could possibly get pregnant in
the interim.

“It's just not good medicine,” Smith-Pelletier” says.
“With general anesthetic, there is always the risk of death or
brain damage.”

Having abortions and ster at a small
clinie within a primarily chronic-care setting poses other
problems, says Smith-Pellettier.

“In that kind of facility, there would be no (surgical)
backup in case something goes wrong,” she said. “You don’t
have the surgeons next door to call on immediately, you
don't have another anesthetist there if the patient goes flat
and you need them in a hurry.”

She also believes that by being restricted surgically to
only stérilizations and therapeutic abortions — about 200 are
done each year in the city — the hospital “would shortly end

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up with a staff not capable of handling life-threatening
situations” because their skills would deteriorate.

“I feel that women are being asked to accept 4
second-rate medical-eare system.”

Jean Lane-Davis, chairman of the board for the General,
says a new proposal has been presented to St. Joseph's for a
single site that would house both hospitals.

A central block could contain common areas like
administrative offices, staff and patient cafeterias, laundry
facilities, laboratories and conference rooms.

Twin towers could be built, she suggests, with geriatric
and other long-term care provided on one side and acute
care, di and sterilizati on the other.

“We would perceive a one-site development as the best
plan regarding the delivery of health-care services,” says
Lane-Davis, adding the hospital could be built at a new site
or where St, Joseph's is located.

‘The name and ownership would also have to be worked

out.

A second proposal was also floated to try to break the
impasse.

Under it, Guelph would retain two hospitals, but would
reverse roles, with S. Joseph's providing chronic care for the
elderly and handicapped, among the services it now
performs, and the General taking over all acute-care
services and surgery.

Lane-Davis says both hospitals have been told by
Guelph city council to prepare a “strategic plan to try and
resolve some of the issues” by Jan. 15 or a committee headed
by the mayor will be formed to settle the dispute.

Too busy for Commons

By KATHRYN YOUNG
Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Don Mazankowski, the government House
leader, is too busy being deputy prime minister to spend the
time needed to get the government organized in the
Commons, opposition critics say.

The probl ave prompted lation Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney may use an expected cabinet
shuffle to deal with the problem that compromises the
ability of the government to get its legislation through the
parliamentary labyrinth.

“Mazankowski has a lot on his mind as deputy prime
minister,” Liberal House leader Herb Gray said in an
interview.

As deputy prime minister, Mazankowski is on call to
help Mulroney control the political brush-fires that have’ so
singed the government recently that the Conservatives are
running neck and neck with the undecided in national
opinion polls — well behind the Liberals and New
Democrats.

Political damage control has been consuming so much of
the Alberta MP's time that he has been forced to delegate
more and more of his responsibilities as House leader to
Doug Lewis, his parliamentary assistant. ~. .

The scandals.and preblems take “emotional and
psychological energy away from dealirig with the
government's legislative program,” Gray. said.

“No one has been in charge,” said New Democrat House
leader Nelson Riis. “The people of Canada are losing faith in
government institutions generally and the effectiveness of
the House of Commons to deal with the challenges facing the
country.”

A mark of the problem comes every week on Thursdays
when the government House leader is supposed to announce
which bills will be introduced or debated in the coming week.

Lately, Mazankowski has been able to plan ahead for
only two or three days. And even those plans can change by
the hour. *

That makes it hard for the opposition parties to plan
their own legislative strategy and make sure MPs who are
best-informed on a particular subject will be available when
a bill is finally debated.

Tom Van Dusen, Mazankowski's press secretary, said
his minister is too busy to talk about the problems but added
Lewis could speak for him.

In an interview in his office — a plush room near the
Commons that used to be reserved for the government
House leader — Lewis dismissed the arguments.

“It's fair to say, that is easy to say, that we're
backlogged, but we're also a government that has put a fair
amount of items on the agenda and I make no apologies for
that.”

Lewis said he could cast government business for the
next seven days in stone but then Gray and Riis would say
their critics had other commitments.

Gray and Riis say Lewis is doing a good job but he just
doesn’t have the clout Mazankowski has to get cabinet
ministers organized.

Transport Minister John Crosbie, for example, took up
an hour of Commons time last week debating what Riis
called a “bogus” issue of whether the NDP was misusing its
free mailing privileges.

And last month, Crosbie got involved in the
Newfoundland-Ottawa dispute over a fishing agreement and
didn't spend enough time leading his transportation bill
through the House.

Lewis said New Democrats are the problem because
they waste time with petty motions and tactics.

Earlier this week, New Democrat MP Svend Robinson
wasted time discussing a mistake in Hansard where
Mulroney was called head of state rather than head of
government: The three House leaders had already agreed
that the record should be corrected, said Lewis.

A government official, who did not wish to be named,
said Mazankowski “does have more time-consuming claims
than earlier on to do a good job.”

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By PAULMOONEY | i‘

, OTTAWA — One year after his dramatic hunger strike
Liberal Senator Jacques Hebert remaing.as passionate
partisan as ever about the problems facing Canada’s youth,

© On March 10 last year, Hebert annotinced he would fast |
in the Senate Jobby until the Conservative government
revived the $20-million Katimavik youth program.

Twenty-one days later, a ‘gaunt and exhausted Hebert
ended the stubborn quest that had cap the of
the country. The government maintained its decision to axe
Katimavik, but Hebert, 62, claimed he had succeeded in his
goal of sensitizing Canadians to the despair of 600,000
unemployed youth. fh

“The results aren't as great as I'd hoped for,” Hebert
said recently. “We have almost the same number of young
people unemployed as there were a year ago. We still have
thousands of young people who haveypo place to sleep at |
night in our cities. M3 #

“But I have no regrets about what I did. I did it because

I saw a problem of such magnitude I felt I had no choice. And
yes, of course, I would do it again.”

The senator believes some editorialists and columnists
were perturbed by the strike because it was such an unusual
gesture in Canada. They concluded that because it disturbed
them it must be wrong, Hebert said, and accused him of
failing to respect the democratic system.

TOOK A RISK

“But I knew from the beginning I was taking a very
serious risk — not\with my health, but the risk of being
ridiculed. If there had been no risk it would have been too
easy.”

He is proud of the national debate prompted by his fast.
Fueled by nightly jon images of ingly frail
Hebert prone on a red leather couch in the Senate lobby,
youth issues topped the media agenda, caused anguished
debate in the Commons and inspired thousands of letters to
MPs and editorial pages.

“Youth had never been an issue in this country,” Hebert
said proudly. “But during that period people everywhere
were discussing the problem. That was an achievement and
T’m glad it happened.”

Al Hatton, national director for the YMCA’s Employ-
ment Initiatives program, says youth unemployment
remains a serious issue, but the situation isn't as bleak as
some people claim.

Hatton, who supervises programs which provide
job-training for hundreds of young people, says there are a
number of organizations trying to tackle the problemwith
government support.

“First, we have to ber that youth ”
for a variety of reasons, has always been twice the national
average,” he said in a recent interview from his Montreal
office.

“But organizations such as the YMCA didn't start sixor
seven years ago, with Katimavik. We've been in communities
for 80 to 125 years working on this kind of problem.”

CAN'T DO MORE

“We believe government is trying to do something and,
although more can always be done, we're grateful for
government support,” Hatton said.

He said the YMCA' is about to launch a program for
young Pp 's, and has ded its job-training
programs for youth to include women returning to the
workforce, women who head single-parent families, and
visible minorities.

Hatton noted that the baby-boom generation is aging
and youth unemployment will cease to be a problem in 10 to
15 years. Instead, he warned, a rapidly aging population and
fewer working young people to support them will create new
problems.

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But Hebert remains contemptuous of the government's
approach to youth unemployment. A responsible govern-
ment would have studied the Senate's report on youth and
adopted its recommendations for job-training and job-crea-
tion, he said.

A small group of businessmen and Liberal party faithful
have kept a small Katimavik program alive. Before its

lation, th of partici worked on
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governments” and hopes to get young people -back in the

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