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(819) 569-9351 1567 King St.W., By Laura Eggertson The Canadian Press Astronaut Steve MacLean became the third Canadian to take a ride in space as the shuttle Columbia roared aloft from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla.On the ground, members of MacLean'\u2019s family watched anxiously Thursday as the spacecraft carried the 37-year-old Ottawa-area resident beyond their sight.ui SHERBROOKE bu Proud pop watches MacLean soar \u201cThe flagship of the fleet is back in space again,\u201d said commander James Wetherbee moments after NASA\u2019s oldest shuttle reached orbit.The six crew members aboard Columbia for its 10-day mission were to release a laser- reflecting satellite today.Geologists hope to use the satellite to measure the slow drifting of continents by firing laser beams at the prism- studded ball and measuring the isngmiakes}BD Sie ÿ N \u201cSe time it takes for the pulses to be reflected back to Earth.MacLean\u2019s parents, Paul and Helen McLean, expressed relief when the rocket boosters and fuel tank jettisoned as planned, after the shuttle\u2019s takeoff was delayed for two hours by high winds.The first two minutes of the flight \u2014 before the shuttle flies free from its boosters \u2014 are considered the most dangerous., J aii se.Ep.ue ne arte GA Magog Township speed-reading teacher Joel Bonn Wanted to paint a campaign.After consultations with the Yes huge \u2018OUI\u2019 on his barn roof to show his colors in the referendum would do it better.For the full story, turn the page.Challenger exploded in 1986, killing all seven astronauts on board during those first few minutes.Afterwards McLean described his feelings as he watched the start of his son\u2019s great adventure.\u201cYou get a tremendous feeling of being completely innocent and naive and powerfuless when you're faced with such a magnificent demonstration of See MACLEAN Page 2 + $ : Re, Ea .committee he dec RECORD GRANT SIMEON Liberals: Smear papers were fake By Don Macdonald DRUMMONDVILLE (CP) \u2014 A Quebec news magazine used \u201cfalse\u201d documents in articles which questioned Premier Robert Bourassa\u2019s performance at the constitutional negotiating table, the premier said Thursday night.Bourassa referred to a letter released Thursday in which the government's senior constitutional adviser, André Tremblay, says he never saw many of the documents referred to in the articles.L'Actualité magazine publis- \u201ched a story last week saying Bourassa had ignored the advice of a team of senior advisers, headed by Tremblay, and made a series of concessions in the Charlottetown agreement.\u2018\u2018There are false (documents),\u201d\u2019 Bourassa told a rally of 1,000 Yes supporters in this city northeast of Montreal.\u2018\u2018Many of them weren\u2019t even seen by the man who was responsible for examing them.\u201d An aide to Bourassa said Thursday that all the government documents on the Charlottetown agreement went through Tremblay.In a letter to Benoit Morin, Quebec\u2019s senior civil servant, Tremblay says \u2018\u2018several.notes or documents used in this article were neither seen nor approved by me.\u201d The letter was released to the media by the Yes campaign on Thursday.An agitated Bourassa later accused his opponents in the campaign for Monday\u2019s national unity referendum of \u2018dirty tactics\u201d in using the magazine article to attack his credibility as a negotiator.He said the No campaign\u2019s use of the article and a secretly recorded conversation between Tremblay and another adviser, Diane Wilhel- my, have \u2018\u2018dirtied Quebec\u2019s democracy.\u201d Tremblay, who attended the Is Ottawa\u2019s ad By Daniel Sanger QUEBEC (CP) \u2014 Ottawa has flagrantly disregarded the spirit of Quebec\u2019s referendum law despite promises by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney it would obey the legislation, the province\u2019s chief returning officer said Thursday.The federal government and big business have been \u2018\u2018indecent\u2019\u2019 during the campaign, with Ottawa being the more shameless of the two, said Pierre-F.Coté.\u201cI asked the federal government at the beginning to respect the spirit of the law, Côté said.\u2018\u2018(But) I find they have gone overboard.I find they are going to town a bit and acting not at all in the spirit of the law.\u201cThey have spent millions of dollars that, if they were under the jurisdiction of the Referendum Act, they could not have,\u201d Côté told a news conference at the National Assembly.The problem arises from the fact that Quebec is running its own vote with strict spending rules while the rest of the country holds a referendum which Côté described as a free-for-all.Côté said there is nothing he can do to bring Ottawa to heel because there are no spending limits in the federal campaign.\u201cI have no recourse.I can\u2019t bring the federal government Charlottetown negotiations, slammed Bourassa\u2019s performance in the conversation with Wilhelmy.Bourassa accused Parti Québécois Leader Jacques Pari- zeau of using the article and the conversation to divert attention from the big gains Quebec made in the Charlottetown agreement.\u201cI couldn\u2019t keep silent when Quebecers are perhaps being cheated by this when their future is at stake,\u201d he said.Bourassa said he did not mean to say the documents were forgeries but that the government had never consulted them.\u2018\u2018\u201cThey\u2019re false insofar as they are said to have been used by the government,\u201d he said.\u2018\u2018\u201cThe documents may have existed.\u201d Quebec provincial police are investigating the leak.Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Gil Rémillard also issued a lengthy essay Thursday denouncing L\u2019Actualité\u2019s story, saying most of the documents used for it were outdated.Rémillard, reiterating comments he made at a news conference last Saturday, said most of the documents refer to the constitutional agreement concluded by Ottawa and the nine other provinces on July 7.\u2018\u201cThe legal texts (of the Charlottetown deal) .respond entirely to the questions and worries expressed in internal documents referred to in L\u2019Actualite\u2019s article.\u201cIt is Quebecers who will decide, but in light of the facts, not on the basis of outdated documents, and even less on an article that is so erroneous and incomplete.\u201d In his letter, Tremblay, whose government contract expires this week and is not expected to be renewed, says the legal texts confirm the government\u2019s interpretation of the agreement.Inside Townships Week, find out what\u2019s going on at Lennoxville\u2019s Army, Navy & Air Force Veterans association and read why stamp columns are disappearing.Also, Country Connection tells which form of transportation is becoming most popular with cowboys.All that and more only inside T-Week.a a: ds Cases Dan ve: A Weekend TOWNSHIPS WEEK | Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, October 23, 1992 50 cents Births, deaths .15 Classified .eee 12-13 Comics .\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.14 Editorial .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.4 Farm & Business 657 Living .\u2026.10 Sports .ee.16-17-18 Townships .ceeeeeee 3 Inside © Sherbrooke bus drivers will decide early Friday morning if they will go on stike.See page | 2.® Find out how anglophone ; community leaders plan to vote on Monday.All that and, full referendum coverage on pages 3.4 and 5.® In Sports: AAA Football team suspended.See page 18.~y Undecided the key?Bourassa expects a nice \u2018surprise\u2019 By Don Macdonald MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 Premier Robert Bourassa was talking confidently about his political future Thursday despite polls that suggest his Yes forces are headed for a big defeat in the unity referendum.He said undecided voters could still provide his Yes side with \u2018\u2018a surprise\u2019 victory in Monday\u2019s vote on the Charlottetown agreement.But at the same time, he looked ahead to the next provincial election, noting that his Liberals are neck-and-neck in the polls with the Opposition Parti Québécois despite the bruising campaign.And he said the next election will be a referendum on Quebec independence \u2014 an advantage for the federalist Liberals given polls that indicate an aversion to sovereignty among many Quebecers.\u201cJust took at the polls | toficerning voting intentions and you\u2019ll see that we (Liberals) are very strongly in the race,\u201d he said, after defending the unity deal before 750 members of the Montreal Chamber of Commerce.\u201cThe same polls that show Quebecers are supporting the No also show that they are even more hostile to independence.\u201d A poll by the SOM organization published in Quebec City\u2019s Le Soleil Thursday indicated that 46 per cent of Quebecers oppose the deal, 28 per cent are for it with 26 undecided.But when respondents were asked if they are for or against Quebec becoming an independent country, 46 per cent of respondents were against, 30 per cent were for and 24 per cent were undecided.Bourassa repeated he\u2019s in no hurry to call an election after the referendum and will definitely wait until after the federal election next year.In newspaper interviews published Thursday, the premier also said he doesn\u2019t expect to be faced with a challenge to his leadership or deep divisions in his party if there is a No vote on Monday.; \u2018\u201cOne doesn\u2019t have the feeling that we are a party that has been torn apart,\u2019 Bourassa said in an interview with Le Soleil.The Yes camp has faced stiff opposition from a group of dissident Liberals headed by youth wing president Mario Dumont and Jean Allaire, the Laval lawyer who co-authored the party\u2019s hardline constitutional platform.Parizeau: Did Royal bank profit?STE-FOY (CP) \u2014 Parti Québécois Leader Jacques Parizeau said Thursday the Bank of Canada should consider an investigation into a controversial Royal Bank report released in the early days of the referendum cam paign.That report predicted dir economic consequences in the event of Quebec sovereignty \u2014 Which some experts say would be given a boost by a No win in Monday\u2019s vote.Parizeau suggested in a speech to the local chamber of commerce that the Royal Bank could have benefited financially from the drop in the Canadian dollar that followed publication of the report.Parizeau praised the central bank for the way it handled pressure on the dollar as a result of the report.\u201cThank God, the central bank was remarkable.I think Mr.(Governor John) Crow was admirable during those hours and the days that followed,\u2019\u2019 he said after his speech.\u201cI know what they (the central bank) can do and I have complete confidence they will do all that is necessary,\u201d he said.Parizeau suggested the Bank of Canada should wait ntil \u201ceverything is perfectly table\u2019\u2019 after Monday\u2019s vote efore starting such an inves- igation.vee overload tilting Quebec vote?into court.\u201d Ottawa\u2019s most flagrant violations of Quebec\u2019s law, which requires that all spending be authorized by either the Yes or No committees, have been full- page newspaper ads as well as the Canada 125 television commercials, Coté said.\u201cThey were supposed to stop but then they injected something like $5 million more to continue them during the referendum period,\u201d Côté said, openly skeptical of Ottawa\u2019s claims that the ads aren\u2019t geared toward winning Yes votes.\u201cTell that to all the people who call us to protest against them.\u201d * But while Côté was long in lambasting Ottawa\u2019s attitude, he didn\u2019t stop there.He said several Quebec business leaders have acted as if they too were above the law.\u201cIt\u2019s a bit strange that all of a sudden business would wake up and feel obliged to tell their employees how they should vote.It bowls me over that certain people don\u2019t feel constrained by the law,\u201d he said, mentioning letters sents by Bombardier Inc., the Laurentian Bank and K-Mart stores to their employees.\u201cYou can twist a person\u2019s arm but you shouldn't go so far as to break it.\u201d Côté added that the No side does not appear to have been entirely beyond reproach itself.In what was supposed to be a fund-raising drive, the Parti Québécois distributed almost 200,000 flyers that weren\u2019t authorized by the umbrella No committee, Côté said.\u201cIt\u2019s hard not to come to the conclusion that it wasn\u2019t advertising when it incites people to vote on the right side,\u201d Côté said.There also seems to have been some less serious infringements of the law, he added.His office received complaints \u2014 grounded but trivial, he said \u2014 that municipal buses with legal No advertising\" on them were passing by several advance polling stations on their regular routes.\u201cIt would be a bit much to ask them to change their routes,\u201d he said.A plumber who advertised: \u201cI am a good plumber.Yes.Yes.Yes\u201d also seems to have been out of order, he said.But despite the violations, \u2014 which could take two years to process and pursue in the courts, leading to fines of between $100 and $10,000 \u2014 Coté said there is a bright side.\u2018\u2018Happi# no one has used the old slogañ, \u2018Vote early, vote.» » often\u2019. What do E.T.anglo leaders think?We asked 2\u2014The RECORD\u2014Friday, October 23, 1992 SHERBROOKE \u2014 How are members of the Record family going to vote on Monday?We contacted a number of English- speaking community leaders in the Eastern Townships to find out.Many say they have reservations about the deal, and many of them expected the No side to win, but a large majority intend to say Yes to the deal.Here's why: Marjorie Goodfellow, former president of the Townshippers Association, plans to vote Yes for three main reasons \u2014 the economy, peace and respect.\u201cI think a No vote will give a negative signal to the world that we have not been able to sort out things out,\u201d she said.She said a No vote court have anegative impact on the economy, even if it is short-lived.Knowlton artist Rhonda Price says she will do her bit to keep Canada together by saying Yes on Monday.Pauline McQuilliams, manager of the Bank of Montreal in owlton is ¢ definite Yes\u201d.| \u201cTwelve politicians were elected to take decisions and they were able to come to an agreement,\u201d McQuilliams said.\u201cWith a Yes we will have a country and a constitution.À No to me is a Yes for sove- 'reignty.\u201d Royal Orr, CJAD Radio host find former president of Al- ance Quebec, says he\u2019s defini- Lely voting yes.i \u201cI'm voting Yes because I *hink this is a good deal that imoves us forward in some reas like justice for natives \u2018and regional representation,\u201d \u2018be said, adding that the deal doesn\u2019t in any way compromise Canada\u2019s ability to re- smain united.\u201d x3 James Ross.\u2018A good step.\u2019 Orr said it\u2019s time to \u201cput constitutional wrangles behind us and move on to other stuff.\u201d Leo Gervais, publisher of the Stanstead Journal, also intends to vote Yes.\u201cI\u2019m doing so because it\u2019s better to work from a plan than no plan,\u201d he said.\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s perfect, I don\u2019t think everyone got what they wanted.But you have to start with something and it\u2019s the first time in 125 years that our leaders came up with a compromise they can all accept.\u201d Lawyer Thomas Walsh said he\u2019ll vote Yes because he\u2019s pro- Canada.\u201cI think we\u2019ve had enought arguing,\u201d he said.\u201cI\u2019m not in 100 per cent agreement with the deal, but I think it\u2019s a good start.\u201d Hugh Auger, director general of the Eastern Townships School Board, is also going to vote Yes, because \u201cI\u2019m concerned about the future of this province and the future of English- French relations.\u201d Auger said he doesn\u2019t agree with all aspects of the deal.He said he finds the native agreement too \u201copen ended\u201d and he would prefer to see the Senate abolished.\u201cBut this has been a series of compromises and we have to move ahead,\u201d he said.\u201cA No vote provides for the possiblity of separation in the future and I don\u2019t want that to happen to any of us.\u201d Warren Grapes, former head of the Quebec Farmer\u2019s Association, says he\u2019s still undecided.\u201cI\u2019m going to close my eyes and put the pencil down,\u201d he joked.\u201cI\u2019ll probably say yes, but I\u2019m not really sure,\u201d he said, addding that while he \u2019s read all the \u201cpropaganda\u201d that came in the mail from both sides, there\u2019s a lack of \u201chard information\u201d and he\u2019s still thinking.\u201cI guess because I'm a dairy farmer, I should really vote yes,\u201d he said.While Grapes intepds to vote he said many of hi ends: too apathetic.He'saigl will vote just to dumrp=th Brian Mulroney.\u201cThey want to prevent him from gaining any credibility.\u201d Rev.Lynn Ross, of St.Luke\u2019s Anglican Church in Magog, already voted Yes in advanced polling.The country\u2019s political leaders \u201ccame together and reached a consensus,\u201d Ross said.\u201cIt may not be \u2018perfect but it may be the best they can do in this context.\u201d Murder in Iron Hill: Police track suspect SHERBROOKE \u2014 A 28-year- old women was shot to death by her former live-in boyfriend in Iron Hill THursday night.\u201c Police were still searching the neighborhood for the man, said Quebec Police Force spokesman Tom McConnell.He said the suspect does not have a car and escaped on foot.CIRCULATION DEPT.819-569-9528 FAX: (819) 569-3945 KNOWLTON OFF.: 514-243-0088 Randy Kinnear, Publisher \u2014.saeenseseeneseanessartensesntonsettesttistner Charles Bury, Editor The woman was shot outside her home at 131 Fairmount Street following a violent argument with her ex-boyfriend.McConnell said police would not indentify the woman or the suspect because at press time her family had not been identified.\u2014 - - the FAX: 514-243-5155 569-9511 569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager ; Richard Lessard, Production Manager | Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent - Guy Renaud, Graphics 569-9525 | 569-9931 569-9931 | ! Francine Thibault, Composition Subscriptions by Carrier: weekly: _Subscriptions by Mail: Canada: 1.year- 6 months- 3 months- 1 month- U.S.& Foreign: 1 year- 6 months- 3 months- 1 month- Established zette (est.1837) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879).$1.80 $78.00 $39.00 $19.50 $16.00 - $159.00 $97.00 $65.00 $34.00 These prices do not include GST.\u201d February 9, 1897, incorporating the Sherbrooke Ga- 569-4856 | remeron rns 569-0931 | _\u2014 Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of publications: -60¢ per copy.Copies ordered more than a month after publication: $1.10 per copy.Published Monday to Friday by The Record Division, Groupe Que- .becor Inc.Offices and plant located at 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K TAI.Publications Mail Registration No.1064.Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation \u201cI have no way of measuring the implications of the deal,\u201d Ross said, but given the friction between different regions of the country, a deal is better than nothing.Bob Halsall is athletic director at Alexander Galt Regional High School.He\u2019s voting Yes.\u201cI believe we put a government in place to do what\u2019s best for the country.I believe they\u2019ve met for this constitution and I believe they\u2019re doing the best for us.I believe they're trying the best they can.\u201d Mark Widner is director of the faculty of music at Sherbrooke University.The Toronto native is not voting.\u201cI don\u2019t understand the issues involved.It's hard to understand who's telling the truth.When dozens of issues are thrown at you at the same time, it\u2019s clear the parties don\u2019t want anyone to understand them.I feel the politicians don\u2019t care if the people understand.\u201d David Dawes, the Shack, director of Knowlton Merchant\u2019s Association: \u201cYes, of course.Because I believe in what is in the constitution now.I be- leive in this province, but we really don\u2019t have any choice.\u201d Myrna MacAuley, former Townshippers Association president: \u201cYes.Because I think it\u2019s the best way to preserve the country we now have.While not perfect, I think it\u2019s the best we can get along with.\u201d Heather Keith-Ryan, former Townshippers president, political activist and Brome- Missisquoi MP hopeful: \u201cYes.I think it\u2019s a good document.it\u2019s not perfect, but it certainly answers a lot of needs.You can\u2019t answer all needs perfectly in our country.we're going to have to live withit now.It\u2019s a long way down the road to compromise.\u201d Claire Kerrigan, editor of Tempo, monthly community forum, Knowlton: \u201cYes.I think it\u2019s the better of two very poor choices.\u201d \u201cI have a great many reservations about the deal, but yes is better than no,\u201d Kerrigan added.Ron Ewing, president of the Eastern Townships Association of Teachers, said he would have prefered to avoid a divisive campaign, \u201cbut seeing as we\u2019re having one, I'm going to vote Yes.\u201d Richard Staples, a Cowansville resident and principal of Waterloo Elementary School, says he \u201chas a great deal of hope in the federation.\u201d \u201cI never say No to something without trying and I believe the agreement is a step in the right direction,\u201d Staples said.\u201cWe have to keep on trying.l\u2019m a definite Yes.\u201d Knowlton businessman Derek Severs says there have been compelling arguments made for voting No, but he will say Yes on Monday.\u201cI think there will be continued instability with a No,\u201d Severs said.\u201cAnd I couldn't agree with anything that Jacques Pa- rizeau says.\u201d University professor Louise Sheils says she\u2019ll be saying Yes as well.\u201cAs society evolves, we have to find new ways of accomoda- ting different concepts of democracy,\u201d Sheils said.\u201cWe have to look further than October 27th.\u201d Theatre Lac Brome general manager Nicholas Pynes says he too will vote Yes.\u201cIt\u2019s a question of compromise.\u201d Pynes said it is important for the federal government to maintain some involvement in the cultural field.James Ross, a Sherbrooke Hospital surgeon, former Towns- hippers Association president and Alliance Quebec chairman, is president of the Lake Massawippi Water Protection Association.He is going to vote Yes.\u201cI think the accord is a good step in the building of a constitution and a future for Canada,\u201d Ross said, adding that the deal worked up by provincial, territorial and native leaders provides fair play for everyone across Canada.He also believes it\u2019s time to change the subject.\u201cIt\u2019s very important for our country to put the constitution behind us and get on with running our economy,\u201d he said.Bromont businessman Robert Desourdy says he\u2019ll say Yes on Monday because he appreciates the difficulty in reaching consensus.\u201cAs far as I'm concerned, the first ministers we elected to represent us have managed to do the impossible and that\u2019s enough for me.I think it\u2019s ridiculous to ask 22 million people the question.\u201d Desourdy said it\u2019s like asking the whole population what co- Heather Keith-Ryan.\u2018A good document.\u2019 lor to paint the house \u2014 \u201cyou\u2019d end up with a rainbow.\u201d He said most No voters claim the agreement is incompete, and doesn\u2019t go far enough.\u201cLife is an eternal negotiation,\u201d he said.\u201cWhy should this be any different?\u201d Monique Saumier is chairman f the board of directors of the Bishop's artists\u2019 centre and director of the Eastern Townships Research Centre.She\u2019s voting Yes.\u201cBecause I think it\u2019s always a question of negotiation and the No people have gotten together \u2014 the people who think Quebec has gotten too little and the people who think Quebec has gotten too much \u2014 they\u2019ve gotten together, I can\u2019t understand it.\u201d \u2014 Rita Legault, Sharon McCully, Caroline Kutschke.Sunil Mahtani and Shawn Apel Parizeau: \u2018First we\u2019ll rest a little\u2019 By Sharon McCully GRANBY \u2014 A No vote in Quebec Monday will clear the road for an election and vote on sovereignty, Parti Québécois leader Jacques Parizeau told some 450 supporters in Granby Tuesday._ \u201cWhat will happen after the 26tK?\u201d Parizeau asked the cheering crowd.\u201cOn the 27th, first we\u2019ll rest a little, thenuntil a provincial election is called, we will work with Premier (Robert) Bourassa to rebuild the economy in a spirit of cooperation and solidarity for all Quebecers.\u201d \u201cThen we\u2019ll prepare for an election,\u201d he added, drawing applause.\u201cOur party doesn\u2019t hide the fact our main goal is sovereignty for Quebec.We must say No massively to those who would block our way.\u201d Parizeau urged Quebecers to continue to work calmly and Without\" fer 16E the fufure of = and failed to do.\u201d Quebec., \u2018 \u2018\u2019Phe PQ téâdér joked with the crowd about English Canada and Quebec voting No to the Charlottetown agreement.\u201cIt\u2019s like Alphonse and Gaston,\u201d he chortled.Parizeau said the differing Sherbrooke city bus drivers were to decide at 9 a.m.Friday whether or not to go on strike.Talks with the Sherbrooke\u2019s transit corporation fell through late Friday night, with the union refusing all offers of essential services.The union also refused to return to the negotiating table unless the corporation dropped its regular part-time hiring plans.CE CT A RECORD/GRANT SIMEON southwesterly \"Saturday: Friday: partly sunny with cloudy periods, winds WEATHER Doonesbury 15 \u2014 30 km/h.High: 11.cloudy with a : 40 per cent chance of showers.High:12.10-23 i visions of Quebecers and English Canada areincompatible.English Canada wants a strong central government and we also want a strong government with real powers,\u201d Pari- zeau said.\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to reconcile the two visions and that\u2019s what the politicians tried Parizeau dealt little with the substance of the accord preferring to speak about the post- referendum period.He repeated his claim that combined with other considerations, the \u201cdistinct society\u201d clause contained in the Charlottetown agreement would have the effect of weakening Law 101.Bloc Québécois leader Lucien Bouchard, introduced by Shefford MNA Roger Paré as \u201cthe man who gave up his limousine and ministerial privileges for Quebec,\u201d opened the meeting with a series of barbs aimed at Prime Minister Brian Ayjroney and Bourassa.\"2 \u201cYesterday Mulroney compared us to Cajuns in Louisiana,\u201d Bouchard said.Today he\u2019s telling us that in provinces where there\u2019s a No vote, he may have another referendum.He\u2019ll keep having them until we say Yes.\u201d MACLEAN: \u2014 Continued from page one.power that man has been able to create in sending off a rocket.\u201d But that feeling was also mixed with parental and national pride, said McLean, who spells his name differently because of a bureaucratic mix-up with his birth certificate.Steve MacLean, a laser physicist, is the only novice among the other five American crew members.Columbia soared into space at 1:09 p.m.EDT despite crosswinds outside the NASA safety limit at an emergency landing site at the Kennedy Space Centre.The space agency waived its rule to let the shuttle begin its 13th mission.\u2018When we finally decided to go we were confident that we'd made the right decision,\u201d said launch director Bob Sieck.As the shuttle went up, a cheer rose from the MacLean clan.\u201cWhen the rocket really exploded off into a tall column of burning flame \u2014 everyone just got up and cheered, as if it was a strikeout or another home run (for) the Blue Jays,\u201d said Paul.MacLean, a payload specialist, took along a Blue Jays\u2019 cap and ball.But mission control in Houston said they\u2019d be unable to send up audio on the fifth World Series game between Toronto and Atlanta \u2014 just relays of updates.BY GARRY TRUDEAU UNIVIESAL PRES STNOICAT D 1492 QD w AND ILL TELL YOU WHY.EVEN THOUGH, GOTTA SAY, THE CALLERS ARE GOOD, TRIPS TO MOSCOW, MEETINGS, DECENT AMERICANS, NOT RAISES QUESTIONS, BUT, HEY, SAYING THIS BI6-SPENCING DON'T CRY FOR ME, LEONID.DEMOCRAT GUY ISN'T, WOULENT AAS THERE AN UNPATRIOTIC POTHAT, NOT PRUDENT.ANGLE ?CANT SAY, HOULENT SN Red light makes barn painter see We in yellow REA Up on the roof: Bond preparing to make giant tracks \u2014 A We sign visible from space.RECORD/GRANT SIMEON By Rita Legault MAGOG TOWNSHIP \u2014 Decades ago, during the reign of Maurice Duplessis, Joel Bonn°s grandfather painted his barn roof blue.Later, when Jean Lesage was elected he painted it red.\u201cThat\u2019s the way farmers used to curry favor with politicians, by painting their roofs Union Nationale blue or Liberal red,\u201d Bonn recalled Thursday, a bucket of paint in hand.\u201cMy father used to say he hoped Créditiste leader Réal Caouette wouldn\u2019t get in \u201cbecause I'd hate to have a roof the color of a St Hubert restau- à rant\u2019.\u201d Bonn, who\u2019s roof is now red to support Liberal MNA Robert à Benoit, planned to paint a Yes sign on his roof to show his support for that side in the refe- ¢ rendum.But Benoit asked him not to because it might have to be tabulated in official referendum committee expenses for the riding.Bonn was not pleased.He put an official Yes poster on the barn roof, but the 4-foot sign \u201clooked like a postage stamp.\u201d So Bonn came up with another idea to voice his views, while adding a chuckle to the dry campaign.NO HUMOR \u201cThis campaign is void of humor,\u201d said Bonn, a teacher of speed-reading.\u201cEverything is so serious and so emotional.There\u2019s really no cause for people to get so upset.\u201d Bonn\u2019s love for puns and other word games led to his contribution to the campaign.\u201cWe have anglophones, francophones, allophones and telephones,\u201d he said.\u201cNow we have a homophone.\u201d Boon has painted the work \u2018WE\u2019, the french \u2018OUI\u2019 on his barn roof in St-Hubert yellow.It\u2019s his own unique way of saying which sounds just like, The RECORD-Friday, October 23, 4, yes to the Ch~rlottetown accord.Bonn said Quebec is not part of Canada since it dodn\u2019t sign the repatriated Constitution in 1982.He said the Charlottetown deal is the only way to make Quebec \u201cemotionally dnd legally a part of Canada.\u201d Bonn is upset with the emotional impact of the campaign.He asks Quebecers to keep the debate in context.\u201cThis is the greatest country in the world and we really shouldn\u2019t be taking ourseves so seriously,\u201d he said.\u201cLife is going to go on even if we vote No.Nobody\u2019s going to miss a meal.We'll still be the fattest people in the world.\u201d Bonn also criticized the press for publishing polls showing the No side ahead.\u201cUnfortunately the only people saying No to this deal are publicity seekers, naysayers and people who get a tremendous kick out of bucking i the establishment,\u201d he said.\u2018 \u201cThe people voting Yes, you ; don\u2019t hear them at all,\u201d he said.\u201cIt\u2019s the case of the silent majo,.it rity.» Joel Bonn.\u2018We'll sill be the fai- test people in the world.\u2019 Sherbrooke lawyers debate fine print of accord By Shawn Apel SHERBROOKE \u2014 For one of the last times before next week\u2019s constitutional referendum, experts for the Yes and No sides debated a key ques- Sen.Gérald Beaudoin \u2026 \u2018This sharing seems to go in the right direction.tion Thursday: Is the Charlottetown accord transfer of powers aceptable to Quebecers?Yes, Conservative Senator Gérald Beaudoin said to an audience of young lawyers and law students, because it is a change from the status quo and allows Quebec to make some progress.On the contrary, shouted Sherbrooke University law professor Pierre Patenaude, a Yes vote would be a terrible step backward.Beaudoin is also a law professor and a long-time player in the country\u2019s constitutional soul-searching.He spoke with the detached air of someone who has seen his share of horsetrading.Never raising his voice, Beaudoin said the Charlottetown accord was a decent compromise between people who want power decentralized j & and those who want it to stay in 9 Z Ottawa\u2019s hands.D PHOTOS/GRANT S e = -® la] ud = SHARING \u201cThis sharing seems to go in ight direction,\u201d Beaudoin 8 said.\u201cIt seems acceptable.\u201d He said gertain transfers, of Riad ao bowers, such as those over 4 5 £ culture and manpower, aren\u2019t RE really transfers because they have traditionally been provincial matters.\u201cBut it\u2019s better to say it in the constitution,\u201d he said.\u201cThe deal is \u201cbetter than the status quo and is part of a historic movement,\u201d Beaudoin said.Patenaude would have none of that.\u201cIwill say No simply because it doesn\u2019t answer Quebec\u2019s principle demands.Patenaude referred often to legal texts of the agreement which had been distributed in the room, and instructed his audience to do the same.He raced through the deal, disputing claims that Quebec gets new powers.Pointing to article 33, which says housing should be recognized as an exclusive provincial jurisdiction, Patenaude shouted, \u201cThere isn\u2019t anyone in this room who doesn\u2019t know it\u2019s been exclusive for the provinces since 1867.\u201d \u201cWhen yoy tell , Quebecers that\u2019s a gain) you're taking them for ignorant people who can\u2019t read the constitution.\u201d Patenaude continued, poin- No committees end campaign on By Caroline Kutschke SHERBROOKE \u2014 Leaders for the No committees in seven Eastern Township ridings top- No leader Conrad Chapdelaine.\u2018English Canadu is ready to say No, too.\u2019 ped their campaign Thursday with predictions of a decisive grass-roots victory in the referendum vote Monday.No committee president for the Eastern Townships region Marie Malavoy based her conclusion on positive reaction to the No committee, \u201cfrom all horizons, which proved without question the maturity of the Quebec people.\u201d The meeting was also attended by Bloc Québecois MP François Gérin and Johnson riding MNA Carmen Juneau, who, along with the other members, forecasted political change across Canada after October 26.The leaders, from Brome- Missiquoi, Sherbrooke, St- François, Johnson, Mégantic- Compton, Orford and Richmond, levelled now familiar criticisms against the Yes camp\u2019s campaign strategies and the Charlottetown agreement.Unity?Farmers By Shawn Apel .SHERBROOKE \u2014 As Canadians grapple with reforming the fundamental law of the land, people more fundamentally attached to the land than most are struggling with the Charlottetown accord.But two organizations representing Quebec farmers have taken very different positions onthe deal, and have arrived at them along very different routes.The Quebec Farmers\u2019 Association, which represents the interests of about 3000 farmers and rural people, almost all anglophone, is supporting the accord following a recent decision by its board of directors.\u201cMany of us are strong federalists,\u201d says association president Peter Riordan.But he adds the support for the accord is from the the pocketbook as pi much as the heart.PROTECTION He said it\u2019s crucial to protect the supply management system which assures Quebec\u2019s dairy farmers higher percentages of the Canadian market that the province\u2019s population represents \u2014 such as 48 per cent of the inustrial dairy business.He feels those assurances would certainly disappear if Quebec were to separate.Riordan knows Monday\u2019s vote is on the Charlottetown accord, but says the implications are deeper than that.\u201cThe most important consideration for farmers,\u201d Roirdan said, \u201cis a consensus that the consequence of a No is a greatly increased chance of separation.\u201d QF A icinbers join the ranks of those supporting a deal that The No side is convincing voters because \u201cour arguements are the best and the Yes side has proved that theirs are not solid,\u201d Gérin said.INCOMPLETE The Yes side\u2019s arguments, strategies and campaign were disorganized, poorly planned, and incomplete, they said.Gérin translated voter dissatisfaction with the provincial and federal governments into a vote for the No side.When pressed, he and other No members avoided distancing themselves completely from sovereignty-association and renewed federalism.Whatever the vote on October 26, the political landscape in Quebec and Canada is going to change, Gérin told reporters in answer to a question on the committee\u2019s separatist leanings.All the No leaders said the referendum and the constitu- is far from perfect, Riordan admits.\u201cIt\u2019s not written in a way I'd write it, but I'm ready to compromise.It\u2019s the best deal we're likely to have.\u201d The province\u2019s larger and more powerful offical farmers\u2019 union stands in stark contrast to the QFA.Every farmer in Quebec must belong to the Union des producteurs agricole, which traditionally calls for far greater autonomy for Quebec.Two years ago, more than 90 per cent of UPA members voted to hold a sovereignty referendum, and it says the provincial government should have all practical control over agriculture.NO POSITION Jaques Blais, former head of the UPA Estrie sector, sits as a h tional negotiation process had started a change in the political landscape in both Quebec and Canada.\u201cWe will see a political reorientation after Oct.26,\u201d avowed Sherbrooke lawyer and No committee leader Conrad Chapdelaine.Supporters of the deal have \u201cdiscredited the constitutional process,\u201d Gérin said, promising Canadians would see a new era after the Oct.26.ELECTION \u201cThe first consequence for the prime minister is a federal election,\u201d he said.\u201cDon\u2019t forget that there are other No votes across Canada,\u201d added Chapdelaine.\u201cEnglish Canada is ready to say No, too.You can analyze the results.it\u2019s the population that is doing this.\u201d He added, \u201cthere will be a change in the political process.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s important to remember private citizen on the region's No committee.But the union has taken no official position in the referendum debate, preferring to remain silently neutral.\u201cIt\u2019s very simple,\u201d according to Marie-Anne Rainville, a spo- kewoman at the union\u2019s Longueuil headquarters.\u201cFirst of all, historically, we never get involved in partisan debates.\u201d \u201cSecond, our members are preoccupied with other things,\u201d Rainville said, citing concerns over the economy and marketing.\u201cWe're worried about the survival of some of our members.\u201d The UPA neutrality is no surprise, according to Gary McBurney, new president of the union\u2019s local English sector.He says the UPA has been gradually backing out of provincial polities.ting to several other such areas, and asking, \u201cSo where is the gain?\u201d Beaudoin smiled and nodded often as Patenaude spoke.The young jurists were assu- Prof.Pierre Patenaude.a confident not that voters across Canada are standing up to say to to the prime minister \u2018We don\u2019t believe in what you say,\u2019\u201d he said.Seniors want to know more about the deal, but have no more confidence in politicians, said Juneau, predicting a No vote.\u201cTheir vote won\u2019t be one made out of fear,\u201d she said, \u201cbut an affirmation of their maturity.\u201d The deal holds nothing for workers and women, said Chantal Ouellet from Mégan- tic-Compton.\u201cIn unions, it\u2019s obvious we don\u2019t sign blank cheques and it\u2019s the same with this accord,\u201d she said, adding that 90 per cent of workers in her riding said they were voting against the deal.Anglophones understand that the referendum isn\u2019t one on sovereignty, but on the Charlottetown accord, said Brome-Missisquoi No repre- have other things on their mind \u201cJust the fact that it decided to stay out is a good sign,\u201d he said, because it snuffs out potentially divisive debates.McBurney agrees the supply management system must be safeguarded.NO HOPE \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019d really be a mood in the rest of Canada to let Quebec keep that business,\u201d McBurney says.\u201cThe UPA seems to think sometimes we\u2019d get to keep it, but I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any hope.\u201d McBurney said he can\u2019t tell how other UPA members might vote.\u201cAnybody I talk to is undecided,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe politicians have done a very poor job of explaining what it is.They've been too busy playing politics.\u201d But when people in the farm sector discuss the accord.talk h + 1 1 red that Yes or No, there is & future after the referendum.representative of the association stood up after the debate, inviting audience members to a Halloween oyster party.0 where is the gain?\u2019 Tisiea \u20ac sentative Marion D\u201d Astou, agreeing with Cowansville lawyer Tom Lavin, who said recently he\u2019d like to see a morèë: intellectual and less emotion debate on the agreement.ANGLOPHONES Lavin\u2019s comment re i well the anglophone commun ty spirit in the Eastern Townships, she said, predicting huge No vote in the traditiona ly federalist riding.Bromptonville mayor Clément Nault also associated my, nicipal disapproval with the ac cord to not wanting to sign a blank cheque.He handed reporters a list of 92 supporters in the Johnson federal riding, saying it was clear their vote was clearly and solidly against the deal.: The list included nine why were listed twice.Whe contacted later, Nault said thf list had been put together th£ night before and he called th duplication an error.8 politics, and back t suppl A mangement.The accord speeificall H exempts the marketing systemÿ from the proposed economid union, which would eliminate other protectionist barrier between the provinces.That exemption is as impor tant as anything that\u2019s actuall in the accord, says professoiË.Roger Buckland, dean of Macdl donald College, McGill Univerf: sity\u2019s agriculture school, be cause it protects the Canadia market for Quebecers.- .@ Not only that, but the deal of} fers some badly needed econo# mic stability, he says.That\u2019 why he publicly endorsed th accord.+ \u201cIt\u2019s in the best.inierest of Quebec farmers to be in favor of a strong, united Canada.\u201d PRE + \u2014 \u201cossaä oa \u2014 = 4\u2014The RECORD\u2014Friday, October 23, 1992 Lu The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Bus drivers taking public for a ride a This morning, people in the Sherbrooke area \u201cdon\u2019t have bus service.They don\u2019t even have -+rush-hour services, which the bus drivers refused to provide.That\u2019s bad news for a large segment of our of population including seniors, students and the {'poor who will have to resort to paying for expensive taxis, begging lifts and hitchhiking.Access to public transport is an essential service to many people in our society who don\u2019t have access to automobiles.Often they are the neediest in our society, those who cannot afford the inconveniences a strike will bring.Few of these people will be able to afford taxis to take them to school, to work and to other important places like doctor\u2019s appointments and job interviews.For many elderly _ riders, hitchhiking is not a viable solution.+; It-is unfortunate that these people are being \u2018taken hostage because of the stubborness of © more than 100 well-paid bus drivers who oppose - ithe hiring of part-time drivers which won't af- :P\"fect them.The move by Sherbrooke\u2019s metropolitain transit corporation (CMTS) aims to provide fding the budget through the roof.It says hiring \u2018part-time drivers for rush hours is an affor- \u2018#1 dable way to improve service.> \"* That\u2019s a good idea in times of skyrocketing J¢ fares, dwindling numbers of users, not to men- \u201cE tion massive funding cuts due to Claude Ryan's |! municipal reform which passes on the costs of 141 transit to Quebec municipalities.\"Æ The drivers, if you can believe it, insist that #4 part-time workers will have a negative impact {on the quality of services to users outside rush \u201cPF hour.What?The union claims it doesn\u2019t want 3K to inconvenience bus users, yet they refuse to \u2018 negotiate until the CMTS decides to put aside + it\u2019s plan to hire part-timers.They insist it is the F CMTS that is insensitive to the needs of stu- \u201cvif dents, seniors and workers.Methinks they protest too much.1 It\u2019s time for the drivers to wake up and smell 3! the exhaust fumes.It is unlikely they wil get -F' much public support for their cause.Let\u2019s face \u20184 \u2018it, their refusal to negotiate is not based on \u2018| injustice, horrendous working conditions or 1} bad pay.384 \u201c|?While their unreasonable conduct persists, \u201c30 bus users are in a bind.It\u2019s up to the population - of the Sherbrooke metropolitain area to come to their rescue.ad} lift.Pick up a frozen hitchhiker.Offer to cari pool your colleagues to work.Let\u2019s prove to bus -J¢ drivers that while they don\u2019t have hearts, there :13 ! are plenty of others in the region who do.\u201cdep ip RITA LEGAULT Letters better service during rush hours without sen- - p>oI08tér your néighibor a rifle.Give a student ay 21 No space on ballot £ gi for explanations af From an editorial in the Anglican Journal \u201cnewspaper: tschs 1 RO Li Many disagree with various elements of the 32 fr constitutional proposals and say their interests {have not been addressed by it.They will be tempted to vote No.Many are enraged at the current government and the prime minister and will see any opportu- 11s] nity to go to the polls as a way of venting that stip anger.They will be tempted to vote No.Many believe the whole constitutional process -1\u20ac1; has been hijacked by politicians.Weary to death 3H\" of them all, they will! be tempted to vote No.However, there will be no space on this ballot .314! for explanations.Those who vote No, whatever \u2014 Lo pr Æ their reason, will be voting against our survival > as a nation.For this reason, it is important that we all vote, or :1: and that we vote Yes.(The Anglican Church of : 7} Canada has not taken a position on the referendum.) saules A No vote from the rest of Canada, regardless of - the reason for it, will be seen in Quebec as confir- -15f mation of what the separatists have said all ~¥{ \u2019 cH \"along: Canada does not want Quebec.Charlottetown deal al bears no signatures | From an editorial by Robert Payne in Share, a .weekly ethnic newspaper published in Toronto: Remember, too, this agreement bears no signa- \u201c244 tures.The 11 men who produced it \u2014 behind clo- -33 avt ag 146 Lai