The record, 17 juin 1993, jeudi 17 juin 1993

[" 40 cents June 17, 1993 Births, deaths .7 Classified .8 Comics .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.9 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .5 Living \u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.6 Sports .\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026erse 10 Townships .3 - Page 2 Not impressed by unions ang À £ yao?057% > 30 EXPTRES QUEBEC G 99/4 | 2 per Partl US] Liberals shed few tears as renegade quits By Jack Branswell QUEBEC (CP) \u2014 Quebec Liberals shed few tears Wednesday when a renegade member announced he was resigning his seat in the National Assembly.Guy Bélanger, from the Mon- treal-area riding of Laval des Rapides, has been a thorn in the government\u2019s side for some time.The strong Quebec nationalist was seen as a loose cannon and he ran afoul of the Liberal government when he said his party had no vision.During constitutional nego- Bouchard: Saguenay anglos a model of \u2018respect\u2019 \u2014 Page 3 Angry Johnson moves to make pay freeze law By Don Macdonald QUEBEC (CP) \u2014 The Quebec government moved to force passage Wednesday of legislation that would impose a two-year wage freeze on 275,000 public-sector workers and demanded that unions stop disruptions of public services.Legislators debated late into the night after the government threatened closure to limit debate in the National Assembly and rush the freeze into law.Thousands of commuters were stranded in Montreal and Quebec City earlier after picket lines were thrown up around municipal transit garages or bus drivers abandoned their vehicles.Other public-sector employees demonstrated against the freeze in a dozen communities and police refused to hand out parking and speeding tickets.But Treasury Board Presi- \u2018By Peter Lowrey MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 Protests by public sector workers over a planned two-year wage freeze broke out in Quebec communities Wednesday.stranding Montreal commuters and snarling traffic in Quebec City.Hundreds of workers picketed in front of court houses, schools, hospitals, Hydro- Quebec offices and the National Assembly.\u201cIf they cleaned up all the waste in the government they would have enough money to give us a raise,\u201d fumed Bernadette Dussault, a court clerk.as she skipped her } lunch to picket the Montreal Protests ranged across province court house with 30 coworkers.Dussault pointed to the recent case of a senior provincial civil servant who had not been to work in several years but was still paid an annual salary of almost $100,000.The government admitted there were about 100 such unassigned public employees still getting paid.\u2018\u2018An absolute minimum raise l\u2019d accept would be one per cent,\u201d Dussault said.The unions have said they would accept a one-year wage freeze but not two years.The protests signalled an See PROTESTS Page 2 \u2018Id be happy to do that\u2019 Charest agrees to join Kim Campbell.First official step.Bourassa: We want labor By Norman Delisle QUEBEC (CP) \u2014 Premier Robert Bourassa said he will raise Quebec\u2019s request for exclusive jurisdiction over employment training when he meets prime minister- designate Kim Cambell.\u2018\u201cThe priority for the government, the most important matter for us, is a solution to the manpower training problem.\u201d Bourassa told the National Assembly.Campbell plans-to meet the By Warren Caragata OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 Kim Campbell and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offered mutual and complimentary salutes Wednesday as MPs bid farewell to Mulroney and welcomed Campbell as his successor.Mulroney led Campbell into the Commons only hours before Parliament broke for a summer recess.It was her first appearance since winning the Conservative leadership four days ago.MPs from the opposition parties lowered their partisan guard for the tributes but never dropped it completely.The ca- premiers before the meeting of the seven major industrialized countries \u2014 the G-7 \u2014 in Tokyo in early July.For the past two years, Quebec has asked for exclusive jurisdiction over employment training.The province says federal employment offices in Quebec are a costly and unec- cessary duplication of services.Employees and employers should be able to deal with a single agency on employment matters or for labor dent Daniel Johnson said he was not impressed by the protests.He threatened to abandon an agreement with unions to pursue negotiations for three more months before going ahead with the wage freeze scheduled to take effect July 1.\u201cWe're looking for signs of good faith not for signs of disorder,\u201d a tough-talking Johnson said outside the Assembly.He demanded that union leaders \u2018\u2018exercise a minimum of responsibility.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t imagine how public workers getting paid 25 per cent more than the market get any public support by bothering people on their way to work.\u201d A common front of public- sector unions has already offe- | red to accept a one-year wage _ freeze, buf Johnson has not budged.Besides the two-year freeze, the legislation would also mean that workers would be docked three days of paid leave if they don\u2019t negotiate $171 million in savings through improved productivity.The government is looking to save $1.4 billion over two years with the wage freeze.About 500 workers demonstrated in front of the Assembly Wednesday to denounce the freeze and the Liberal government.Fernand Daoust, president of the Quebec Federation of Labor, told the crowd the disrup- See FREEZE Page 2 maraderie was always tempered by the reality that an election campaign is only months away.Earlier in the day, Campbell took the first official step toward her occupancy of the prime minister\u2019s office with a visit to Government House, where Gov.Gen.Ramon Hna- tyshyn invited her to form a government.In the Commons, Mulroney noted that when Campbell is sworn in June 25 as prime minister, she will be the first woman in Canadian history to hold the post.\u201cThe member for Vancouver and professional training.Quebec argues.Quebec Employment Minister André Bourbeau recently indicated that there's some flexibility in Quebec's position, particularly on unemployment insurance.But exclusive provincial jurisdiction remains an essential Quebec demand.he stressed.Parti Québecois Leader Jacques Parizeau noted Wednesday that there's little sign of a breakthrough in the matter.tiations last year he dismissed the federal proposals as a \u2018con job.\u201d Party Whip William Cusano said it was probably best that Belanger quit.\u201cHe made statements which sometimes irked his colleagues and in a way his leaving solves the problem.\u201d Cusano said outside the Assembly.But Bélanger's resignation forces the Liberal government \u2014 caughtin a battle to impose a public-sector wage freeze \u2014 to call a byelection by next January.Bélanger had wanted to resign for a while.but he said Wednesday the party had asked him to stay on until the next election.\u201cThey don\u2019t want a byelec- tion,\u201d he said.Bélanger was probably best known for chairing a committee that studied Quebec sovereignty and for being a member of the 1991-1992 Bélanger- Campeau commission \u2014 named after co-chairmen Michel See QUITS Page 2 Cop: Oka Mohawks fired \u2018one weapon\u2019 \u2014 Page 2 Eastern Townships School Board chairman and Sherbrooke Elementary commissioner Margaret Paulette presented this photograph of the school and Howard's Park to principal Frank MacGre- gor during graduation ceremonies Wednesday.MacGregor is leaving the school next week after 25 years.Turn the page for more.Centre has already demonstrated great poise and sound judgment and clear vision,\" Mulroney said in his introduction of Campbell.who satin her customary place as defence minister.one row back and one seat over.For her part.Campbell offered less a political tribute to Mulroney than a personal one, speaking of him and his family and the \u2018grace.charm, warmth and their wonderful devotion to this country.\u201d Mulroney's wife Mila and their eldest children, Caroline and Ben.watched from the gallery.training But Bourassa observed that there will be a federal election in coming months and suggested that will make Ottawa more flexible about transferring the jurisdiction to Quebec.During the debate.Bourassa accused the PQ.former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and the small.federalist Equality party of complicity in scuttling the Charlottetown constitutional accord.The agreement would have given Quebec nore See BOURASSA Page ?Both Campbell and Mulroney paid particular praise to Jean Charest, the environment minister who finished a close second in the leadership balloting.Charest will be a central figure in her government, she told the Commons.Campbell and Charest later RECORIYGRANT SIMEON Kim Campbell team met privately.where both said that message was repeated.**She\u2019s made it very clear that she\u2019s invited me to play an important role in that government, a central role, and I'd be happy to do that.\u201d Charest said.The party has been riven See CAMPBELL Page 2 - His last day in House?PM hands out jobs as time runneth out By Warren Curagata and Portia Priegert OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 Prime Minister Brian Mulroney named longtime cabinet minister Robert de Cotret to a job at the World Bank on Wednesday as he moved to fill a number of appointments before he leaves office next week.De Cotret.a Quebec MP.served in Mulroney cabinets as Treasury Board president.secretary of state.and environment minister until January.He is being nominated as Canada\u2019s executive director at the World Bank in Washington.Also named were: e Terry Ivany.president of Via Rail.Ivany has been president of Marine Atlantic, another Crown corporation.e Anthony Eyton, chairman of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal.Eyton is a longtime bureaucrat and brother of Tory senator Trevor Eyton.e Peter Mcekison.member of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.Meekison, a professor at the University of Alberta.has been a longtime constitutional adviser to the Conservative government of Alberta.See PM Page 2 IM Pes Ir EVP PEPPY PVT T rrr uo rome man - 3 CoN Ce AZ a a a OS A SE EAT I SC TE EE Cee INT CR as FC RRC PP CP ARON =o Sad aay» = 4 aR LAA) SUAVE = The.2\u2014The RECORD\u2014Thursday.June 17.1993 \"The Townships By Dan Hawaleshka SHERBROOKE \u2014 High school physics and chemistry : are being made, if not simple, certainly different.How?Instead of being fed 5 formulas from textbooks, to- .\u2026\u2026.day\u2019s students are being taught .through a new.hands-on approach designed to get adolescents thinking for themselves.The teaching technique is so new \u2014 and different \u2014 that about 80 high school teachers from across the province have been sent to summer school at Bishop's University in Lennox- ville.The teachers have been there since Monday.and by the time their intensive one-week course ends Friday.they will have been taught how to teach physics and chemistry using the \u201cconstructivist\u201d approach.On Wednesday one of the teachers\u2019 teachers.Bishop's physics professor Lorne Nelson, said constructivism emphasizes laboratory work.BUILD YOUR OWN For example, instead of students being told how the optics of a telescope works, they're told to build one, measure how much it magnifies an object and then figure out the mathematical equation explaining it all.\u201cWe want students to be able to create the required knowledge,\u201d Nelson said.This same sort of build-it- and-figure-it-out approach holds for the other cornerstone scientific theories: the students put together a hypothesis, test it in the lab and accept or reject their theory.\u201cThe student is more or less the problem solver,\u201d Bishop's summer school director Carol Mooney said.Being able to think for yourself is obviously useful.Mooney said.\u201cIt's a good skill for them to acquire even if they don't continue in the sciences.\u201d SECOND TIME AT BU This is the second year in which Bishop's has hosted the Quebec-government funded teacher re-training program.Last year.teachers came mostly from western Quebec, said Mooney.This year they've come from Montreal.Gaspé and the Lower North Shore.among other places.\u201cIn the two years we\u2019ve pretty well covered the province.\u201d she said.Susanne Chan, who teaches chemistry at a private girls school in Montreal, said the constructivist approach takes a bit of getting used to for students.\u201cMany of them do need a bit of an adjustment,\u201d said Chan.in part because there is no text Pecord Teachers in summer school to chalk up on skills book.Not having a book to take home and study also forces students to sit up and pay attention in class because what they miss can\u2019t be made up by studying at home.\u201cThey have to take part in class to construct their own knowledge,\u201d Chan said.\u201cMany of them find it more interesting than just \u2018chalk and talk\u2019.\u201d Man can go back to Vermont but \u2018He just has to stop at the border\u2019 MAGOG (CP) \u2014 Florian La- brie will be more careful the next time he nips over to Derby Line, Vt.on one of his regular trips to buy cheap gas.In his hurry last weekend to get to a gas station that serves Canadian customers almost exclusively, Labrie, 46, absentmindedly neglected to stop at the U.S.border post in the Vermont village.He was quickly brought to heel by the U.S.border patrol.Then he spent a very tense period with American officials who didn\u2019t speak French.*I spent an hour and a quarter on another planet.\u201d said La- brie.The officials let Labrie go after they decided he had committed no major infractions and had not intended any disrepect to U.S.laws.They also let him fill up his tank with cheap gas before he returned to Canada.But Labrie said, \u2018\u2018I don\u2019t have to tell you how frightened I will be the next time I put my feet over the frontier.\u201d U.S.Customs spokesman Patrick 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