CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 9, 1983

In French or
not in French —

MONTREAL (cP) — It has been dubbed tho
“dying-in-French” controversy. $

Almost 18 months after 67-year-old unilingual Mario
Marthe Larose died of cancer in an English-language
hospital here, her daughter has charged that some nurses
refused to speak French to her mother in her last days.

The caso has aroused. resentment in the English-speek--
ing community, and brought unwelcome notoriety to the

. Commission de surveillance de la langue francaise, the

cy. that citizen

agency.
” violations of Quebec's language law.

Bill 101, a5 the language law. is commonly ‘knowns: says
all health services. must be available in French.. :

8t. Mary's Hospital, in the city’ s largely ‘angiophane and
ethnic west end, maintaiz in:
its treatment of Larose, who ated of cancer. bey tie esophagus
in May, 1981, after two months in intensive care,

‘Not long.after the woman died,:the Larose family sent
the hospital a letter’ preising the quality of its medical care.

. JUBPOENAS SENT

But. las Eat the hospital learned that the

woman's : daughter, Huguette Guy, had filed a: language

- complaint, Two doctors’and four nurses — three’ of them -

native — were d by-the: commis-
sion to testify.in private hearings this month,

While acknowledging that medical staff uses English to.
communicate among themselves, all denied that’ they had
ever spoken anything but French to Larose, -

They also said members of the Larose family’ often
addressed them in English and that the dying mother was
for much of the time on a respirator, unable to speak at all.

Guy, who also testified along with her father,
Jean-Charles Larose, has refused to comment publicly. Her
husband Paul is the Parti Quebecois-appointed chairman of
the Quebec Securities Commission and a former PQ riding
association president.

The d-to decide some
time in the next two months . the complaint is valid.

If it finds the hospital at fault, the commission can «

demand that corrective measures’ be taken within a set.
period of time. If that deadline is missed, the case can be
referred to the Quebec Justice Department’ for Possible

charges.

" IMPOSES FINES

Fines. for a first offence are a maximum $500 for':

and $1, 000 for

The city's bli }
pride in its  Boglich! language hospitals, Paareal of which

enjoy an for

Many view the St. Mary's case as yet another Parti
Quebecois attack on the English community. The linguistic
background of several of the hospital witnesses has only
served to strengthen their conviction.

Among them were a doctor raised in France, two
francophone nurses from Quebec: anda pa who, despite

his

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language private school and graduated b in medicine from the
Universite de Montreal.

“It looks as if somebody, somewhere decided to make an
example of St. Mary's," says Herbert Marx, a Liberal
member of the Quebec national assembly. “It was a bad
choice.”

Another sore point among anglophones is the broad
discretionary powers granted the commission, which can

take in private and protect
the identity of complainants at their request.
PROTECT REPUTATIONS

While several lawyers say they believe the courts would
uphold the right to a public hearing of a language complaint,
St. Mary’s Hospital did not request one, saying it wanted to

protect the roputation of its staff.
Allianee Quebec, the province's main anglophone
that the be

group, p
arguing that it “operates in a “triallike” fashion that is.
unlikely to encourage Erester respect for the law.

ski. waxing linl¢ held at ‘complex Thursday night.

for stock _
~market —

TORONTO (CP) — — The stock ‘niaeket’s bulls and bears -

were locked ina furious tug of war in 1982.”
Many traders were wondering at year’s end what. had
been-holding‘tp the market for the last four months?

z Because it is so hard to explain, 1982 may earn a place in “ ;
stock market lore ranking near the events 9F,1629..-
“<The centre point of the market's roller-coaster ride was’ ”

Aug; 18 — Friday the 18th.

On that day the New York Stock Exchange, suddonly,;

without explanation, rallied after seven terrible months of
bear market trading. Althopgh the moat dramatic advances
didn't come in New York and Toronto until the following.
Wednesday, Friday the 18th is generally regarded ‘as the

watershed.
REMEMBER 1982

Technicial analyst Don Dillistone of the investment firm .

Richardson Greenshlelds of Canada Ltd. says that in future,

market watchers might say," ‘I know the market has been.

dull lately, but tomorrow's Friday the 18th, and remember

* what happened in. 1982. ",

» | There have been other ‘significant years on the Toronto
Stock Exchange — 1980 was a bull market year, 1974.8 bear
— but 1982 was both a bull and bear.

In fact, in 1982 the Toronto Stock Exchange had its
worst first seven months since 1974, with the TSE 800

composite doing a free fall | from 1964.24 on Dec. 81, 1981, ..

1981, to a 3-year low of 1846.85 on July 8.
Then Bay Street saw the market take off after August.

: Although the Toronto composite has dipped somewhat, it is”

holding in the mid-1800s..:..-

Analyste note that increased: volatility of markets late
in 1982 was in sharp contrast:to’the same period a year,
earlier when high: short-term interest rates were sucking
investor dollars out of I and leaving the market flat.

‘THEY WERE RIGHT
Going into 1982, the analysts forecast a bad year on the

market because of poor projected earnings, skyrocketing ©

interest rates and international anxiety. They were right on
all counts.
. Today, the analysts are forecasting a good year for 1983.

because corporate earnings are projected to be better and.

interést rates lower. That means, recession or no recession,
‘the market is likely to be buoyant.

“In 1983, the bul!s will trample over the bears,” says.

John Ing, vice-president of Pitfield Mackay Ross Ltd.
The thing missing from the analysts’ scenarios is

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OTTAWA (CP) — There
were not many smiling faces

‘at national Liberal head-

quarters during the holiday
season. &

The reason, say insiders,
was that head office staffers
felt they were snubbed by
their leader, Prime Minister
Trudeau. -

The staff had organized an’
annual Cl party, the

ie

to publicity and

refuses to comment on te details of any case. Last year, it highlight of which was tobe a
handled 41 complaints concerning hospitals and held four
sets of hearings. None resulted in any charges being laid.

The St. Mary's case is the most spectacular manifes-, past but did. not. show this
tation to date of the questioning of English nurses’ bili 1 time,
capabilities that began when Bill 101 was passed by the new gronitiluge and sour feelings.
Parti Quebecois government in 1977. hs bd ig

visit from the PM. Trudeau
has attended the function in

English students

go underground.

" MONTREAL (CP) — Don't
bother. calling Patricia Mur-
ray at the school where she
works. The secretary will
pretend she's never heard of
her.

That’s because Murray's
name doesn’t appear on the
payroll and her 26 Grade 6°
pupils are. attending an
English-language school in
defiance of Bill 101, Quebec's
language law.

There are 23 such ele-
mentary school classes with a.
total of about 600 children
sprinkled ‘through the Mon-
treal Catholic School Com-
mission, and Murray is one of
the qualified — though for
administrative purposes,
non-existent — teachers who
look after them.

It's an underground sy-
stem born in 1977 when the
Parti Quebecois government
decided that henceforth, with
few exceptions, only children
whose parents had been edu-
cated in English in the prov-
ince would be allowed to
start school in that language.

The system is the brain-
child of Bob Dobie, secretary
‘general of the Provincial As-
sociation of Catholic Tea-
chers, and Kevin Quinn, for-
mer head of the Association

of Catholic” Principal. ot"
Montreal.
Between them ‘they were

able to marshal enough re-*"

sources and. sympathies to
shorteircuit Bill 101, which
had stireed particularly
strong resentment within the
city’s ethnic communities,

REFUSE RECOGNITION
The government refuses to
give report cards or diplomas
to the “illegals” or coniribute
toward the cost of their
schooling.

So teachers are paid and
books bought out of the $250
a year that parents contri-
bute for each child and the
$160,000 that Dobie canvas-
sed from teachers in other
provinces during a 1980
cross-country tour.

Security is a major’ con-
cern.

“Last spring we had some
very good tips that search
warrants had been issued for
our offices, so we destroyed
everything,” Dobie says. “Al-
though we were never
searched we keep the filing
system toa minimum and we
carry a lot of information in
our heads.”

_ One Liberal with a wall-to-
wall smile these days is Judy.
Erola, the mines minister
from Sudbury, Ont.
Erola, elected to the Com-
mons less than three’ years

* go, has rocketed to political

anes with her special res-,
ities: for women's is-
sues Ghd with her autumn y
appointment to the cabinet’s’
ipowerful:inner circle.
Now. she has been named
{Chatelaine’s Woman of the
Year and is even being talked
about as.a possible suc-

"There's a liot, new theory
circulating on. when’ Prime
Minister Trudeau: will retire.

It sees Trudeau delaying.
retirement ‘until 'the ‘fall ‘of
1984, with a’ winter leader-
ship convention followed by a
1985 spring vote. -

Proponents of the theory
note that Pope John Paul will
visit Canada in the. fall. of

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‘tors say the prime minister © much as $1, 200 an hour chau-
will retire this year. "- ffeuring the president, his

Halifax ‘astrologer Evelyn , friends. and’ officials, plus
Hare sées Trudeau leaving Canadian dignitaries and of-
some time before: next Oc-  ficials; A second firm also
tober, while. Vancouver | ee supplied some cars and one

chic Madame Cecilia predi

a September retirement. x
Montreal psychic, who asked
to remain ‘anonymous, says
Trudeau will. quit “in late
summer or early fall.

CAPITAL
NOTEBOOK _

1984, They ‘say ‘that Trudeau,
a Catholic, would like to be in

: power for the first Papal visit

to Canada.
They , also -note that by
staying ‘until late 1984, Tru-

deau would haye yeached the ©

normal.retirement age of 65
and would have achieved the
honor “of. having. been ‘the
country’s longest-serving
Fronch-Canadian n prime t min-
ister.

cessor to the pane

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NEW-YORK (AP) — Jit pee Jack pPae) ye

Poverty-stricken_ Pakistan -
provided. recession-stricken .
Canada with a ‘small -econ-
omic boost, when: Pakistani
President , Zia. visited’ last
month. :

-. One.Ottawa limousine ser-
‘viee: picked up $25,000. in

r rery.: The stock market my. be up, but there is no sign
of: economic Fecovery.
At the peak of the rally in October, stocks were trading

on the -TSE at a price-earning multiple of 16.4, highest such ; ©

figure since 1973. In October, 1980, at the peak of the

rally, the pri ing multiple was only ©

8.58,

‘The wide gap between actual earnings and the price of
so many-stocks has many observers wondering. why the
market is doing so well.

MONEY RETURNS
The conventional theory is that with interest rates,

particularly short-term rates in. the U.S., ‘falling ‘off.

that at
one point the total limousine
Dill was 2s much as $1,800 an
hour. : 2
a a |

How: was Michael Pitfield
named a senator. by his good
friend; ‘the prime minister? -

Extremely, quietly, _Sppar-
ently.

-One story circulating inthe
capital says that Allan Mac-
Eachen, back as external af-
fairs. minister after. an un-

happy time.in finance, was “

presiding over ‘a. .cabinet_
meeting in his capacity as
deputy prime minister.
.\First order. of business:
Michael Pitfield, former clerk
of. the. Privy. Council .is
becoming a senator.

The assembled cabinet

last summer, money that was pulled out of
equities the previous year started to flow back.

‘When Henry Kaufman, a Wall Street economist-known _
for pessimistic predictions, said on Aug. 17 that interest‘

rates would continue to fall for the next 12 months, the race
was on. One record after another was broken on Wall Street:
and Bay Street the following week in what was dubbed a
buying panic.

With so many blue-chip stocks selling at bargain
basement prices and interest rates finally falling, the stock

market took on a: new attraction — particularly fer large

The New York Exch had its first
100-million-share’ ‘day,'gn Aug. 18. In the four months
following, that level was, 6 ed 25 times.

Starting froma two-year of 776.92 on Aug. 12, the
trend-setting Dow Jores industrial average in New York hit

a record high. of 1 ,065.49 ‘on Nov. 8, The average hovered .

around 1,029 in the final days of December.
What's ahead? as
. Analysts.‘are calling for a good year because’ of

‘everything from low interest-rates to yet another piece of

stock market lore, American presidential Policies. t
AN UP YEAR ee

A di

thought

for, the dent's
two-day stay here.
In Montreal, where, “Zia

.' also spent two days, the Gaz-.

cette newspaper reported that
- one timo firm was making as

‘
Ivad 16: . Fidel ‘Castro ‘of:

ident Reagan ranked cain in: ‘asked'U.S government. spec:
a survey of the 47 worst inlists, ‘foreign: diplomats;
leaders in the world con- ics and j

Cuba; “17. Indira Gandhi of
India; “18: Gen.. Efrain Rios-
Montt of Guatemala; 19. Mo-

ducted by Parada magazine. -choose the five worst seeders
Prime Minister Trudeau was ; after considering’ five cri-

hammad' Zia ul-Hag of: Pak-
fstan; 20: Enver-Hoxha of Al-

not mentioned by the 61 teria: despotism, ineffective: bania,

international affairs experts. ness, irresponsibility, person-

polled in the survey.” al. greed .and personal in]

The Ayatollah Ruhollah stability. “*::
Khomeini took first place as>,.. The complete list: .1. Kho-
the world’s worst leader. He « mefiii; 2... Kho Mobutu;. 4.
was followed by Moammar: Duvalier;.5. Begin; 6. Alfred
Khadafy of Libya, Mobutu,, Stroessner of Paraguay; ° M1.
Sese. Scko of Zaire, Jean ‘Augusto Pinochet of Chile; 8.

‘21. Saddam Husseub . of

it was a pre-Ch 3 joke.
They laughed.

It's no joke even if itis-a
surprise, -MacBachen is re-
ported to-have said -eurtly.

to the theory, 1988 stock prices will be high
because it's the year before the American presidential

election. In the past 95 years, every year before a U.S.”

presidential election has been:a good one.

“It's not just a coincidence, it’s a planned event,” says ”

Yale Hirech, publisher of the annual Stock ‘Trader's

End of dis

with an eye to re-election or perpetu-
ating the party in power try to do the dirty work in the first

+! twe years of their term, in hopes they will appear angelic for

‘Nicaraguas 34. Le Duan: of
Vietnam; 85. Hua Kuo-feng of
China;_ 26. Milton” Obote - of
‘Uganda; 37. Pope John’ ‘Paul;.
88, Kenneth David Kainda of -
Zambia; 89. Jose Eduardo
dos Santos ‘of Angola; 40.
House of Saud of Saudi ioe

3 abla.

241. The Holivian juntas #2

: Juan Carlos ‘of ‘Spain; 48

Burnham of Guyana; 25. Ab-
med Sekou Toure ‘of, Guinea;

Claude Duvaliere of Haitiand “Ferdinand Marcos “of the

Menachem Begin of Israel. Philippines; 9. Brezhnev; 10.

The late Soviet leader,” The Argentine junta. .
Leonid Brezhnev, was ninth.:° 11. Pieter Both -of South
The survey was taken before Africa; 12: Reagan; 18. Pol
he died. Pot of Cambodia; 14.

Pope John Paul was 87th. L-sung of North Korea; 15.

In the survey, syndicated Roberto D’Aubuisson of El

Portillo-of Mexico; | 29, Julius’

; Kambarage Nyerére. of Tan-

zania; . 80. “Suharto” of ‘In-
donesia. 31. Rubert Mugabe

Kim of Zimbabwe; 82. Helmut

Schmidt of West Germany;
88. Sandinista directorate of

Mengistu .Haile-Mariam of
Ethiopia; 44. .Hissene Habre -
of ‘Chad; 46. Mathieu Kere-
kou of Benin; 46. Jerry Raw-
lings of Ghana; 47... Master
Sgt: Samuel‘ Doe of Liberia.

PLO Leader Yasser Arafat
.did not make the list of 47
“presumably because he
heads no nation,” Anderson
said.

_the remainder of the term.”

But Leon Tuey, technical analyst at Pitfield Macks:
“Ross Ltd., tempers the optimism for 1! ‘Without: real
economi¢ recovery, there arp likely to be/ several drastic
“adjustments during every-round of profi taking, he says.
That means the market should be ap, ed with caution,
bull market or no bull market.:

Since the market has fooled the experts once in, the last

year by. turning bullish, it might Just as easily fool them
apaie; he says.

But the variable that analysts are watching is sthe
economy. Most analysts have followed two truisms in the
post-war period. The market needs economic recovery to
sustain momentum and it’s.an indicator of what is ahead in
the cone six to eight months in the future.

A jome: analysts believe. this recession may

helping the stock’and bond. market by ccieagtie ie
decline in interest rates. The lower the rates are, the less
‘attractive it is.for people and institutions to park their
money in short-term interest-bearing investments.” -

“Investing is back in. vogue,” says analyst John
Connally, of Shearson American Express Ltd. in New. York.

«And Tan McAvity, an independent ' Toronto ‘stock
analyst, notes that before the Second World-War boomizg
stock markets were hardly en indicator of good times ahead.

In the period between 1982 and 1937 — the depths of the

Great Depression — the stock market
more than fourfold. rket increased in value-

CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 9,'1983

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nd 30 per ‘cent of
“your business loayen with them! —

“Hard: to ‘believe, but tr fal it i yours i is an average bucinges, you
" LOSE 30. PER CENT o our customers each ‘year. If you, don't

are no 10 loriger active.

“WHY DO you LOSE THEM?

“Through death, hard feelings;’ moving. to another. community or.
“through. the ‘efforts of hard- ‘driving competitors ...... a variety of
reasons, some of th ‘ond | your control: At. the same time,
‘there's a normal b s increase of: only: four per-cent each
year.. That leaves you facing a 26 PER.CENT. HANDICAP each year.
“A handicap you must overcome P YOUr. ‘business is to remain
healthy and profitable: aie: :

WHAT: 1O Do: ABouT iT?

Thé answer. lies better merchandising, better planning, _more
vigorous promotion ol fast-selling’ goods ‘and’service.' The: surest;
most ‘profitable method of sales promotion is consistent, timely
newspaper advertising. ;

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