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one ofthe committee's con- cerns is the possible cloqure of Pass Creek School.

The committee was estab- lished when Johnson: phoned people to ask if they’d be interested in’ participat- - ing.” The response was ent- husiastic and the first meeting was held Sept. 12.

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Kay Johnson, the discussion panel is part of a series of

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conducted by: the parent/ teacher group. “Basically what it is, we're . not trying to do a contro- versial thing. We're just set- ting it up as an informational . Session,” Johnson said. “I hope we can get some answers,” she said.

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. “It seems to me we feel that if we don't do something now, it’s just going to get worse for the teachers and general _ public.”

Inthe secret ballot, teachers will be asked whether they support the BCTF in authorizing “a province-wide withdrawal of services by teachers as a part of action against the legislation and the budget.”

Speakers at the Wednesday forum will‘include Mavis Lowry, assistant director of learning conditions with BCTF, and Corky Evans, Area H regional director.

Rodgers said the public is invited to the forum to listen /to the speakers and participate in a question Period.

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VICTORIA (CP) — Bowing to pressure from the New Democratic Party and others, B.C, Provincial Secretary Jim Chabot introduced Friday what he called major changes to the controversial Public Sector Restraint Act. i

That is the bill that would give government the right to fire any of the province's 250,000 public sector employees.

However, Opposition critic Gordon Hanson said the changes do nothing to improve the bill‘and only show that the government's consultative process is a sham.

Hanson said the changes’ will provide “retroactive legality” to actions already taken by the government.

Chabot said the changes clearly define the intent of the legislation and ensure that it is fair.

“First of all, we are clarifying our ability, to issue notices of termination prior to the expiry of the collective agreement,” he told a news conference.

“There was some confusion ’as to our ability to do so (before the contract expires Oct, 81), and the amendments

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bill changes introduced

put fesnare now, ae us that. opportunity.”

‘The changes specify that any notices of firing issued since July 7, when the government's controversial legisla- tive package was introduced, are valid.

ADVANCE NOTICE

Chabot said the only reason the employees were told four months in advance that they would be fired was to give them‘a’chance to find work elsewhere.

//As> promised, ‘the government dropped ‘the words “without cause” and specified the firings can only be as a result of lack of funds, lack of work, if'a program is dis- continued or if'the level of service is reduced.

Chabot said the biggest change in establishment of a review panel instead of. the ‘judicial review originally planned.’ ‘

He said that will allow fired employees to appeal to the panel “what they might feel is: an unjust or unfair termination.”

The panel's ruling then may be subject to judicial review “as a final tribunal in event that an individual feels that the review panel has not dealt fairly.”

The government also dropped a clause that would have allowed cabinet ministers access to the confidential personnel files of government employees including police officers, bylaw enforcement officers, fire marshals and the like.

The Opposition had fought vigorously for that change, saying unscupulous cabinet ministers could use the files to put pressure on officials.

Another change will allow school board to fire teachers effective Jan. 1 instead of at the end of the school term because the teachers’ contract expires then.

Chabot also promised that the long-promised regula- tions governing seniority, retraining, early retirement and relocation for fired employees will be made public before

Reagan questions intentions

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan, saying the Soviet Union is supplying. Syria with a new generation of missiles. on Saturday. questioned Syria's “protesta- tions. of their peaceful in- tentions” in Lebanon.

In his weekly radio add- ress, Reagan said the in- creased Soviet presence in Syria leayes no doubt’ that the need for the continued presence of 1,600 U.S. mar- ines in Lebanon.

“Can the United States or the free world stand by and see the Middle East incor- porated into the Soviet block?” Reagan asked.

“What of Western Eur- ope’s and Japan's depend- ence on Middle East oil for the‘energy to fuel their in- dustry?”

Reagan accused Syria of reneging on an agreement to withdraw its troops from war-torn Pebanca if Israel did. a

He said Syria “today'‘his some 5,000 Soviet advisers and technicians and a mas- sive amount of new Soviet equipment in its country — including a new generation of surface-to-surface missiles, the SS-21.”

U.S. intelligence officials had said earlier this week that the Soviet Union is pre- paring to send to Syria the highly accurate S8-21, which has never before been de- ployed outside the Warsaw Pact.

But Reagan's radio address was the first U.S. assertion that the mobile missiles, with arange of 120 kilometres and capable of reaching targets in Lebanon or Israel from southern Syria, are already there.

“We have to wonder aloud about Syrian protestations of

‘their peaceful intentions,” ‘ Reagan said.

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Improved outlook for

OTTAWA (COP) — Fi- nance Minister Mare La- londe, buoyed by.an unem- ployment rate which sank last month to 11.8 per cent from 11.8 per cent in August, says the outlook for those out of work is better than he predicted in his budget.

How much better, he won't say.

But jobs are being created faster than expected and it appears the unemployment rate this year will be less than the average 12.4 per cent forecast in April and may even fall below 11 per cent next year, he said out- side the Commons on Friday.

That would be much lower than predicted recently by

some other major forecast- ers, including the Conference Board of Canada which says the jobless rate will remain in the 11-per-cent range until the end of 1988.

It is also lower than pre- dicted by the international Organization for Economic Co-operation and Develop- ment which said unemploy- ment in Canada would aver- age 12.6 per cent this year and 12 per cent next year.

Although the ranks of the unemployed are still swollen at 1,257,000 a sharp increase in full-time jobs last month reduced them by 108,000.

Not since June, 1982, when the rate was 10.9 per cent, and May, 1982, when the

Pocklington prefers boat racing to lawsuits

TORONTO (CP) — An of- ten bizarre lawsuit involving flamboyant multimillionaire Peter Pocklington came to an end Friday when an Ontario Supreme Court jury ruled he did not have to pay a self- proclaimed clairvoyant for psychic advice.

“It beats boat racing, T'll tell you,” said a jubilant Pocklington after the six-

‘member jury delivered its

verdict in the $7-million law- suit brought against him by Rita Burns. “That (waiting for the verdict) was probably the greatest tension I've felt in my life.

“The tension is incredible on the fellow sitting in the hot seat. Politics was a: breeze and boat racing easy compared to this,” said the 41-year-old Pocklington, who races jetboats as a and ran unsuccessfully fi

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party leadership in June. After waiting four tense hours while the jury delib- erated, Pocklington hugged his lawyer, Douglas Laidlaw,

and rushed outside the court- room to hug and kiss his wife, Eva.

Burns was calm during the announcement of the verdict, maintaining the same emo- tionless demeanor she dis- played throughout the trial.

The decision ended a color- ful, two-week trial in which Burns, 88, claimed Pock- lington breached a contract to pay her for psychic advice on business and personal matters in 1977.

BURNS MUST PAY

The jury ruled Pocklington and Burns made no such con- tract and Pocklington won't have to pay her anything. Mr. Justice Marvin Cotzman ruled in favor of a motion by Laidlaw that the action be dismissed with costs, mean- ing Pocklington’s legal and court fees will be paid by Burns.

The costs will amount to about $25,000, although Pocklington won't be reim- bursed for all his expenses resulting from the case, said Laidlaw.

Burns did not object to Laidlaw’s motion but said later she did not realize she could have objected. The slim, blonde woman, who represented herself for most of the court proceedings, re- mained stoic about failing in her quest for payment.

Asked if she could foresee’

the verdict, Burns smiled and said “You're talking about magic now.

“I'm not into magic. I'm not magic nor omniscient.”

Burns said she doesn’t bear Pocklington any ill will.

“I feel sorry for Peter Pocklington, to tell you the truth. He made the wrong decision (not to pay her) six years ago.”

Burns said she hadn't de- cided whether to appeal the verdict or whether she will continue with two other law- suits for which she has started proceedings — $10 million against Pocklington for slander and $17 million against his lawyers for har- assment.

number of jobless was 1,241,000 has the employ- ment picture been brighter. JOY NOT SHARED

However, Opposition MPs did not share in the obvious joy of Lalond id Employ- ment Minister John Roberts who entered the Commons on Friday laughing and shaking hands just prior to the daily

‘question period.

The ministers also had an- other reason to be cheerful, and Lalonde went from Rob- erts to shake hands with In- dustry Minister Ed Lumley

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with whom he later an- nounced the establishment of a $750-million helicopter manufacturing project out- side Montreal which is ex- pected to create nearly 4,000 jobs over the next 20 years.

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adjusted for seasonal vari- ations they show there were 309,000 fewer people work- ing last month than in Aug- ust, said New Democrat Cyril Keeper, MP for Winnipeg- St. James.

With students returning to school, the labor force nor- mally shrinks from August to September. But once the fig- ures are adjusted for that seasonal factor, they show that the labor force grew and that there were also 42,000 more people working in Sep- tember than in August.

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The contract between the B,C. Government Employees Union and the government expires on that date. Negotiations are at a standstill and union members are conducting a strike vote.

Hanson said the amendments meet none of the major concerns in the community “regarding this Draconian legislation.”

“Instead, the Social Credit government is rendering the bill retroactive and thus wiping out grounds for appeal against illegal terminations.”

Hanson said the firings were eontrary to current contracts and wouldn't have been supported by arbitrators and’ the courts. 1

“They are legalizing the términation notices, making sure that even if the legislation is not approved by the legislature in time, that it will be deemed to have been in force.”

Legislature gets reprieve

VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia legislature adjourned for the three-day Thanksgiving weekend Friday, giving members a reprieve from the strife that has characterized the house in recent days.

The break may allow tempers — which reached the boiling point early Thursday when Opposition Leader Dave Barrett was dragged from the house and banned from the legislature for the rest of the session — to cool.

The adjournment came on the heels of an opion from a parliamentary law expert that the New Democratic Party leader can't be banned from the legislature.

Edward McWhinney, a political scientist from Simon Fraser University, said Barrett, who was premier from 1972 to 1975, may have grounds for a civil suit against the house officials who carried him from the legislature and dumped him on the carpet in the corridor.

Legislative members are given a mandate by a public

“vote and the speaker can't remove that mandate, McWhinney said Friday.

“J don’t think the speaker has got any such powers at all and it would be high folly if officers of the house carried out those orders,” he said.

Barrett, who has announced he will be retiring from provincial politics next spring, was ejected after a prolonged argument about procedure with a novice Acting Speaker John Parks.

NDP house leader Frank Howard asked Speaker Walter Davidson on Friday to rescind Barrett's expulsion, saying the speaker erred in using the British house rules rather than the B.C. rul

Davidson reserved decision but noted “at first blush” that the Opposition leader “was fully and completely aware of the consequences of his own actions.”

Barrett made conciliatory noises himself Friday in an appearance on a television pan Shon

He jed for calm sai , Prepared to work out a schedule t s ) get the qoveranents ‘8 logjamming fegislation through.

The Opposition has been using every eae ein tactic, available to stop passage of the Social Credit ment’s package of controversial legislation. Three’ actor ago, in what it said was an attempt to get legislative business done, the. government instituted evening and overnight sessions. Normally the house sits 25 hours a week. In the last three ‘weeks at has sat a total of 1981 hours. J

Barrett also tol sat \who likened B.C to the Philippines: “The government not a dictatorship. Some Gil words have’ , unfairly I think.”

B.C. legislature has been in an uproad since July Twhen ‘Preaier Bill Bennett, who was returned to office with a strong mandate in this spring’s provincial election, introduced a budget and legislative package, which includes civil service and social welfare program cuts and revamps human rights legislation. Opinion polls suggest British Columbians support government spending restraint but object to the methods being used by the Social Credit government.

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