The record, 18 octobre 1993, lundi 18 octobre 1993

[" 40 cents October 18, 1993 Births, deaths Classified .Comics ce Editorial .Farm & Business .Living es Sports .10-1 Townships .We NU ENO ® A TI J WEATHER | Peur TOMOKO ITO .CLASS 3N SHERBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINDY Ontario hiding behind its trade barrier?MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 A Quebec government official and the vice-president of the Parti Québécois say Ontario\u2019s planned adoption of a protectionist bill poses a threat to Quebec\u2019s construction industry.Jean-Luc Trahan, an aide to Quebec Industry Minister Gérald Tremblay, says all provinces agreed at a federal- provincial conference last March to oppose new barriers Quebec losing ground?Farm subsidy fairness a priority \u2014 Bouchard By Paul Mooney ALMA (CP) \u2014 Quebec doesn\u2019t receive its fair share of federal agricultural subsidies and Bloc MPs will fight to change that, Bloc Québécois Leader Lucien Bouchard said Sunday.Grain production is subsidied at the rate of $12 a tonne in Quebec but by $32 a tonne in Western Canada, Bouchard said.In 1987, Quebec received $410 million in agricultural subsidies, the West $4 billion, he added.But these figures don\u2019t account for price support through marketing boards, which ensure farmers get a certain price for their products.Bloc MPs will insist that Quebec receive its share of subsidies commensurate with its share of Canadian agricultural production \u2014 17 per cent, Bou- chard said.They will also fight any attempt by Ottawa to eliminate Quebec\u2019s agricultural-credit program and its crop- and har- vest-insurance plans, Bou- chard told about 250 people at a brunch in Metabetchouan, in OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 Forget the election.Some Tories say Kim Campbell's real aim in the final week of the campaign is proving why she should stay on as leader of her party.The breathtaking scope and swiftness of the Tories\u2019 implosion over the past few weeks suggests the Conservatives could be the fourth-place party when the new session of Parliament is convened, glum Conservatives admit privately.They said Sunday that has -Started talk about a leadership review.Campbell running \u2018scared for her job?| CP News Analysis By Robert Russo - The Conservative party\u2019s constitution was amended two years ago to allow for a vote on a leadership review at the first annual meeting following an election in which the party didn\u2019t take power.Much depends on whether the Liberals form a majority See CAMPBELL Page 2 to interprovincial commerce.Trahan said Ontario did not reply to proposals Quebec made last Aug.19 on construction, bus sales and government purchases.But a month later, Ontario announced a protectionist policy for provincial government purchases and plans to oblige Ontario cities to follow suit.Montreal La Presse on Sunday quoted an Oct.8 internal his riding of Lac-Saint-Jean north of Quebec City.And Ottawa must not be allowed to cave in to pressure from some trading partners and abandon Canada\u2019s system of agricultural marketing boards during the current negotiations on a new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Bouchard added.The Bloc leader also promised to battle any changes in the Crow\u2019s Nest subsidy program for grain transportation.If Ottawa pays the $1-billion subsidy directly to Western farmers instead of paying the railways, it will allow those farmers to diversify further and livestock production will shift to Western Canada from Quebec, Bouchard said.Bloc MPs will fight te ensure Quebec receives its fair share of the $28 billion it pays in federal taxes until Quebecers hold a See BOUCHARD Page 2 Ontario memo that says Quebec suppliers can get contracts only if there are just two bidders and the Ontario prices are 10 per cent higher.* The buy-Ontario bill has not yet been introduced in the legislature but Ottawa city council recently passed a similar resolution.Other communities are also considering protectionist measures.Ottawa Mayor Jacqueline story, please turn the page.Holzman said the aim is to get Quebec to change its longstanding, much-criticized rules that limit workers from other provinces who want to get jobs on Quebec building sites.Meanwhile, PQ vice- president Bernard Landry denounced Ontario protectionism which he said was already present, in a subtle form, before Premier Bob Rae\u2019s NDP government adopted it as a po- undreds of well-wishers turned out for a brunch Sunday to bid farewell to Megantic-Compton- tanstead MP Francois Gérin.Front and centre were Parti Québécois vice president Bernard Landry, left, and Maurice Bernier, the Bloc Québécois\u2019 candidate to fill his shoes.For the full licy.\u2018Because he still believes in old-fashioned protectionism, Rae opposed free trade with the United States and he\u2019s doing it again with Mexico, even if his province has the most to gain.\u201d He said, \u2018A man who can lead Ontario\u2019s prosperous economy to the brink in three years is a dangerous politician.\u201d RECORD/GRANT SIMEON \u2018Not very fervent about causes\u2019 Young militants have fun with vote By Eric Siblin MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 Guillaume Dumas embodies a lot of the concerns found in young Quebecers these days \u2014 disenchantment with mainstream political parties, job angst, the pursuit of fun.And support for the Bloc Québécois.S how and tell: RECORD/MARK BRENDER A weekend open house drew thousands to the federal experimental farm near Lennoxville.Farm priorities include animal health, digestion of plant protein, meat quality, soil erosion and farm safety.Above, the usual live cow was replaced bya dummy on the veterinarians\u2019 operating table.For the full story, please turn the page.Dumas is the Bloc candidate in Mount-Royal riding who, at 20, is the party\u2019s youngest vote- seeker.\u2018\u201c\u201cYoung people don\u2019t trust anyone in power,\u201d says Dumas, adding that Bloc Québécois Leader Lucien Bouchard \u2018\u2018appeals to us because he seems honest.\u2018\u201c\u201cHe\u2019s someone who speaks from the heart, he stays true to his ideas and won\u2019t compromise because of opinion polls.That\u2019s what captured my vote.\u201d Capturing the riding of Mount-Royal \u2014 a Liberal preserve once the domain of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau \u2014 isn°t in the cards for Dumas.He says he\u2019ll be \u2018\u2018very, very happy\u201d if he scoops up 10 per cent of the vote.\u2018Nobody was eager to run in Mount-Royal because they're sure to lose the election and See YOUNG Page 2 Sanctions back in force tonight Foreigners flee Haiti as warships move in From Reuter-CP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CP) \u2014 Hundreds of foreigners fled Haiti on Sunday as Canadian and American warships patrolled offshore in preparation for international sanctions aimed at forcing the country\u2019s military rulers to restore democracy.The airport in Port-au- Prince was jammed with Canadians and Americans who were urged to leave Haiti or take security precautions ahead of the anticipated international showdown.\u201cI wasn\u2019t planning on leaving until they (the Canadian Embassy) called.I still don\u2019t want to,\u2019\u2019 said Katika Isherwood, 31, of Toronto, who worked as a piano teacher at a private school.\u201cI didn\u2019t feel any particular danger at all.\u201d The Canadian Embassy recommended Saturday that all 2,300 Canadians in the country leave before commercial airlines halt flights.Stringent United Nations See WARSHIPS Page 2 \u2018Tell Canada that I am waiting\u2019 Haitians wonder what\u2019s next: By Laura Eggertson PORT-AU-PRINCE (CP) \u2014 Dusk is approaching in the Little Market of the Canapé- Verte and the charcoal vendors are nervous.As soon as darkness comes, they will leave the market for the relative safety of their ramshackle tin and concrete homes.\u201cI would like to talk to you but I would risk my life,\u201d Clement St.Jean, 29, says in Créole through an interpreter.His friend, Flaubert Ocene, 46, glances anxiously at a hard- eyed man who eavesdrops a few metres away.\u201cAttachés are everywhere,\u201d warns Gladys Philogène.She refers to the loosely organized groups of civilian gunmen who roam the streets of the Haitian capital.They are armed and protected by the military that has controlled the tiny Caribbean country since a 1991 army coup deposed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.No one knows who will turn informer, desperate at the prospect of gifts or money that could improve life in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.Despite the ever-present v x 3 3 fear, the vendors talk for a few: : minutes.\u201cIt is out of my hands.It is in the hands of the authorities,\u201d says Ocene.\u201cI would like de- - mocracy to be restored.\u201d ! But as a poor man, he says, he cannot push Lt.-Gen.Raoul Cedras from power by himself.Canada, with about 80,000: Haitian immigrants and historic ties to the country, is one source of foreign aid.Fewer negative connotations surround Canadian help than that\u2019 of the United States, which occupied Haiti militarily from See HAITIANS Page 2. 2\u2014The RECORD\u2014Monday, October 18.1993 Gérin retires after nine years and two parties By Mark Brender COATICOOK \u2014 Over 150 Quebec sovereigntists paid tribute Sunday to retiring MP François Gérin, the founder of the Bloc Québécois.Gérin, the first Conservative Member of Parliament to cross the floor and sit as an independent following the failure of the Meech Lake accord in 1989, is not seeking re-election in Me- gantic-Compton-Stanstead, a seat he has held since 1984.Gérin said he has lost the motivation to be a federal politician, but not his desire for Quebec independence.\u201cNine years in politics is a long time.It\u2019s long enough to give the place to someone else,\u201d he said in an interview.»+ \u201cFor the past year it has been more difficult for me to go to Ottawa and fight.If I had deci- Hed to stay there it would have een for the advantages of the ob.\u201d Ede od Gérin plans to return to his Sherbrooke law practice.+ First elected as a Conservative in 1984 and re-elected in 1988, Gérin was the leader of WARSHIPS: Éontinued from page one.trade sanctions are scheduled to go into effect at midnight to- Right to choke the military\u2019s hold on the impoverished country.{ :Three Canadian and six U.S.warships \u2014 some visible from the capital \u2014 patrolled off Haiti\u2019s coast to ensure no fuel or ârms are allowed to enter the ¢ountry.\u2018The destroyers HMCS Fra- er and HMCS Gatineau and the supply ship HMCS Preserver arrived Sunday.The ships, all based in Halifax, are car- tying a total of 775 personnel.+.The UN sanctions came after Haitian military chief Lt.-Gen.Raoul Cedras refused to relinquish power as scheduled Friday, a crucial step in the UN- a brokered plan to return demo- cratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power Oct.30.Cedras said Sunday on CNN that there is no threat to Americans in Haiti.But when asked what he was doing to guarantee the safety of foreigners, he didn\u2019t answer.BOUCHARD: Continued from page one.referendum on independence, Bouchard said.\u2018\u201c\u201cWe\u2019ve known since the referendum on the Charlottetown agreement that the federal system can\u2019t be reformed.We're condemned to the status quo.We have to tell English Canada that we don\u2019t accept it.We have to tell them there\u2019s a great independence movement in Quebec.\u201d The day was also marked by dontroversy over a profile of Bouchard in the Montreal Gazette on Saturday that said his lather had a drinking problem.! Bouchard categorically de- died the allegation and said he will not accept such charges against his father, who has the Eastern Townships No forces against the Charlottetown accord last October.NEW SOLUTION All attemps at negotiated settlements to satisfy Quebec demands have failed, Gérin said.He believes another way must be found to pursue Quebec\u2019s interests \u2014 a \u201cunilateral declaration from Quebec that the Constitution is finished.\u201d Electing BQ members to Ottawa is only the first step, Gé- rin said.He expects the Bloc to win around 55 seats.The root of Gérin\u2019s separatist drive is economic rather than emotional; he voted against sovereignty in Quebec\u2019s provincial referendum of 1980, hoping Pierre Trudeau and Réne Lé- vesque could come to an agreement that would give Quebec more freedom within Canada.Canada\u2019s federal system doesn\u2019t allow Quebec the powers it needs to prosper because too much time is spent on squabbling between the smaller provinces and the federal government, he said.Gérin is not sure of how long it will take for Quebec sove- rigntists in Ottawa to finish what he started, or even the form an eventual separation will take.But a significant Bloc presence in Ottawa means the rest of the country will have to deal with the modern Quebec reality, he said.CHANGE NEEDED \u201cI don\u2019t know how this will end but I'm sure eveybody in Canada will realize we need this very fundamental change,\u201d he said.\u201cIt\u2019s always difficult to divorce, but if there is goodwill from everybody I'm sure they will realize this is the situation and it is in the best interests of everybody to discuss and to make a new deal.\u201d Head-table guests at the sendoff included Parti Québécois deputy leader Bernard Landry and Megantic-Compton- Stanstead Bloc candidate Maurice Bernier.Landry said Gérin will be remembered for starting a movement giving sovereigntist Que- becers true representation in Ottawa.\u201cFor the first time in our lives we can vote for a federal deputee that corresponds with our deepest political wishes,\u201d Landry said.Former Mouvement Quebec leader Marie Malavoy and Bloc Québécois candidate Maurice Bernier wish Francois Gérin good luck.Bernier took a shot at Jean Charest\u2019s comment during the Conservative leadership race that \u201cthe Bloc is a crock.\u201d \u201cOn October 25 he will find out that the Bloc is a rock.\u201d RECORD/GRANT SIMEON \u201cAs far as the foreigners living in Haiti are concerned, we have had the (UN) civilian mission here for almost a year,\u201d Cedras said.\u2018\u2018At no time were members of the mission threatened.\u201d Before reluctantly evacuating the country Saturday, the leader of the mission said there had been threats against the human rights observers.Many Haitians remained inside their homes Sunday, fearful of the police-linked civilian gunmen who during the past week shot dead the country\u2019s justice minister and prevented a ship carrying U.S.and Canadian non-combat troops from docking.Those actions prompted the UN to withdraw, its personnel From the country, including the human rights monitors and a contingent of police monitors and non-combat troops.On Thursday, 50 RCMP officers left Haiti, and seven Canadian military engineers pulled out Saturday.On Friday and Saturday, the 300 UN human rights monitors, including 35 been dead for 18 years.\u201cMy father was an irreproachable man, who worked 16 hours a day all his life, never took a vacation and gave everything for his family.\u201d A visibly upset Bouchard said his father, Philippe, a truck driver who barely knew how to write, was the \u2018\u2018most intelligent, generous and sensitive man l\u2019ve known.\u201d Joan Fraser, the newspaper\u2019s editor in chief, said Sunday \u2018\u2018the Gazette has two sources we consider reliable.However, we accept Mr.Bou- chard\u2019s statement about his father and we regret any distress caused him or his 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46.The Haitians\u2019 always precarious existence has seemed even more uncertain since gunmen assassinated Guy Malary, the justice minister in Aristide\u2019s transitional cabinet.Events are moving beyond the control the men and wo- mein of the market, a winding gravel road where green canopies once housed stalls now reduced to blankets full of charcoal, eggplant and carrots or glasses of rum.U.S.and Canadian ships pa- YOUNG: Port-au-Prince to protest what , they called attacks on Haiti's sovereignty.\u2018\u2018Independence or death\u201d chanted some demonstrators, reviving the popular slogan from the Haitian slave revolution that led to independence from France in 1804.An uneasy calm fell over the capital Sunday, the annual holiday known as Jean-Jacques Dessalines day in honor of a famous Haitian general who led Haiti to independence.Worried residents lined up at the airport to leave the country, while others boarded the colorful buses or \u2018\u2018tap-taps\u2019\u2019 to stay with relatives in the countryside.trol just outside Haitian waters, sent to enforce an embargo which the venders fear will make it even harder to earn the $490 Cdn that is the annual per capita income.American and Canadian troops who were to have helped the Haitians build better schools and hospitals have packed up and left.And the United Nations observers documenting the hu- manrights abuses that shadow the people\u2019s every waking moment have also pulled out.\u201cI think it\u2019s a big mistake,\u201d says Philogeéne, gesturing with hands black from the dust of the coal that is the main source of energy in the country.\u201cNow they just leave us to get killed if they turn their backs on us.\u201d Malary, the latest of an estimated 3,500 Haitians to have been killed since the coup, was a prominent politician in the cabinet that was to take power from the military before Aristide returned Oct.30.But Philogène and the others in the market know ordinary people like themselves could just as easily be the victims of sometimes random attacks by the attaches who have also driven 300,000 Haitians in to the hills in a campaign of terror.Philogène, 32, voted for Aristide in 1991, and wants him back.\u201cI would like the country to change so I can live (better) with my five kids,\u201d she says.Gemmaire Toussant, 50, is also for Aristide, the slender, bespectacled Roman Catholic priest with the fiery brand of liberation theology who won the hearts of the masses.\u201cI would like to see my president to come home,\u201d she says.\u2018\u201cEven if they killed me, I would like to see the foreigners come back and Aristide to be back with them.\u2018Because I have my faith in Aristide.Aristide loved all the poor people.\u201d Continued from page one.their deposit of $1,000,°\u201d Dumas said in a recent interview at the University of Montreal, where he studies law.\u201cI decided to do it for the fun of it.\u201d With conditions: the party picked up the tab for the candidate\u2019s deposit and he\u2019s allowed to continue his studies.His press attaché, a fellow CAMPBELL: Continued from page one.or minority government.A minority government likely means another election within a couple of years and a possible reprieve for Campbell.A majority Liberal government means no chance at regaining power for up to five years and a fractious caucus.A leadership review is also almost certain if Campbell , fails to hold on to her seat in Vancouver-Centre.One Tory strategist has spent part of the past few weeks studying John Turner\u2019s successful effort to stave off a leadership review after he lost the 1984 election.\u201cA lot of Liberals I know say Turner was only able to fight a review because he won his seat,\u201d he said.\u2018\u2018A leader without a seat is almost defen- II Doonesbury Variable skies ) a AT FOUR NOW.17 Monday with Va EAH, PARDLY EVER SEE northwest ALREADY vom, MIKE ANYMORE.; HONEY ?- EOT 2 winds of 2010 KP ES I: i / SWITCHED 272 40 km per NV RN DTHE hour.High: % TN ORNING / near 12.Sunny | with cloudy periods Tuesday.Low: 8.High: near 12.me student named Benoit who wears a baseball hat turned backward on his head and a pager fastened to his hip, nods in agreement.\u201cThe youth now in Quebec is demobilized from politics,\u201d continues the bilingual Dumas, who worked as a Bloc organizer before the election was called.\u2018\u2018We\u2019re not very fervent about causes.We\u2019re not activists like our parents were.\u201d Not committed, maybe, but concerned.\u201cThe federal debt that has risen from $2 billion in 1975 to $500 billion by the end of this fiscal year \u2014 a deficit that they promised to cut \u2014 is higher than when Brian Mulroney took office in 1984,\u201d says the candidate.Aside from the \u2018\u2018tougli mission\u201d that Mount-Royal riding represents for a Bloc candidate, Dumas has another challenge on his hands: he\u2019s got a crush on a Tory supporter.\u201cI\u2019m very interested in her, but she\u2019s pro-Campbell,\u201d\u2019 he explains.And if politics comes between them?\u2018\u201c\u2018Maybe I just won\u2019t run (again) as a candidate.\u201d celess against an enraged caucus.\u201d Rumbles coming out of Quebec over the weekend suggest the Conservatives have already started circling their wagons to shoot at each other.Transport Minister Jean Corbeil\u2019s public rebuke of Campbell over the weekend was seen as nothing less than a direct challenge to her leadership.At least four other cabinet ministers \u2014 all from outside Quebec \u2014 called the prime minister and suggested she fire him.Campbell, perhaps realizing that party blood will only attract party sharks, refused to do so.But Campbell\u2019s problems aren\u2019t limited to cabinet.\u201cI don\u2019t read the newspapers,\u201d said André Plourde, Tory MP for Kamouraska- Rivière-du-Loup.\u2018\u2018Why would I do that?To tell me that Kim Campbell is in a free fall?\u201d Plourde said he constantly carries in his pocket a tattered newspaper article that appeared on the day before the Tories selected Campbell as their leader on June 13.The headline over the text reads \u2018Only Charest can keep the Conservatives in Power, according te Gallup.\u201d \u201c\u201cI told that to.Radio- Canada then and I haven\u2019t changed my mind,\u201d Plourde said.Plourde and Corbeil supported Jean Charest at the convention and both are in danger of being turfed out by the Bloc Québécois in their ri- dings.But Charest, the man around whom any pro- leadership review would ine- ALPHE LT SYNDICATE 19360 1 I HAVE TC GET UP ya - 070 A = Gp?WHO KNOWS 2 HE STAYS UP HALF THE NIGHT PARTYING WITH HIS NEW MHAT ELECTRONIC FRIENDS \u201cmE CN THE INTERNET ZO0ESHE vitably crystalize, may not have the stomach for a brutal leadership fight.Friends of Charest say the industry minister may quit polities completely if the Liberals form a majority government.He\u2019s been in politics for nine years and is still young enough to go into the private sector and earn enough money to ensure the comfort of his young family.The alternative may be spending up to five years as an MP in a party that could have little influence in a drastically overhauled Parliament.Both Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien found that the private sector was not a bad launching pad for successful second attempts at their party\u2019s leadership.BY GARRY TRUDEAU Shouldn't we mix | | alittle first?= Hey, lets go find An empty The Townships The RECORD\u2014 Monday.October 18, 199:3\u20143 Record conn Rape trial hears talc of \u201cindescribable violence\u2019.By Sharon McCully GRANBY \u2014 Margot B.repeated the details in a Granby courtroom Friday of her alleged sexual assault last September 24 by a Cowansville penitentiary inmate during five hours of cross-examination from defence attorney Andre Coté.The 47-year old Dunham church secretary testified she was left alone at the presbytery with the convict while the parish priest was away on a three- day study session.and the housekeeper had left for the day.Margot B.said during the afternoon of September 24.Louis million Bishop \u2019s University showed off it\u2019s $20 acelift Friday as ribbons were cut, tours were guided and stories of the good old days were told as the university opened its doors to the public.A ribbon in front of McGreer Hall was Beaulieu entered her office at the church presbytery.placed his two hands on her shoulders.and asked if she would like to go upstairs with him.She said she realized she was alone with the 27-year-old inmate and felt a sudden sense of panic.\u201cI decided the best tact would be to remain calm and speak firmly to him as I would to one of my children.\u201d said Margot B.the mother of three adult children and grandmother of one.She said Beaulieu responded by grabbing her arm.twisting it behind her back and grabbing her by the throat with his other hand.She testitied he pushed her up the stairs to the parish priest's bedroom.She said she fell twice while being forced up the hardwood staircase and that Beaulieu grabbed her around her neck with both hands and pulled her up.threatening to kill her it she screamed.In a controlled voice.she said Beaulieu threw her on the pastor\u2019s bed.and violently tore off her bra.The five-foot-six inch woman sald she realized she was no match for Beaulieu and feared he would kill her if she resisted.cut by St.Francois MNA Monique Gagnon- Tremblay, accompanied by principal Hugh Scott, Sherbrooke MNA André J.Hamel, Bishop\u2019s corporation president Philip Johnston and Susanne Poulin from MP Jean Charest\u2019s office.From milking cows to pig manure Experimental farm research benefits farmers By Mark Brender LENNOXVILLE \u2014 Farmers take note: Do unto udders as you would have your cows do unto you.Scientists at Agriculture Canada\u2019s Lennoxville Research Station have discovered that one of the determining factors in milk production is how well farmers treat their cattle.\u201cWith nice people, the cows NES EON NE FEI , INGAAS Ey * came e up and played, they butted us with their horns,\u201d said Anne Marie de Passillé, who watched hours of videotape of humans interacting with cattle as part of her research.\u201cWhen confronted with a mean person in their pen the cows stayed as far away as they could get.\u201d De Passillé said when animals are afraid of the people who work on them, milk production drops and litter size is reduced.Lennoxville station researcher Alain Pesant with experimental corn.\u2018Untruths bordering on defamation\u2019 CLSC director says Gnyps By Sharon McCully COWANSVILLE \u2014 CLSC interim director-general Andre Coté called allegations levelled by hunger striker David Gnyps \u201cuntruths bordering on defamation\u201d.Gnyps, who has remained without food in his van in the parking lot outside MNA Pierre Paradis\u2019 office since Tuesday, claims workers within the local and regional health care network have conspired to put his residence out of business.Coté explained in a news release Friday that an investigation was launched by the regional health council into a seniors\u2019 residence operated by Gnyps following complaints from families of residents there.On the other hand, with the proper amount of fibre in the cows\u2019 diet they may even stop chewing on their pen\u2019s metal bars.WORDS OF WISDOM Such kernels of wisdom were available in abundance at the station\u2019s open house Saturday and Sunday as part of the 13th annual Quinzaine des Sciences.There are around 90 people, ER ER \u201cThe investigation was part of our mandate to protect the publie,\u201d Coté said.\u201cTo our knowledge, no administrator or worker with the CLSC was ever placed in the situation described by Gnyps nor was any attempt ever made to damage his reputation,\u201d the statement says.\u201cIf Mr.Gnyps has proof of otherwise, we would certainly ECORD/PERRY BEATON She testihed she stared tree- tlyv at her alleged assoiiant und asked him in a controlled manner what he intended to do now.She said Beaulieu threw her to the floor \u201clike a rag doll\u201d without releasing his hold on her neck.Asked by the defence why she didn't notice marks on her neck and throat following the alleged attack.Margot B.hesitated before responding.1 was not able to look in the mirror for nearly three days afterward.\u201d Margot B.said Beaulieu was \u201cindescribably violent\u201d in his actions and language.before and during the assault.She even be a supporter.said he dragged her to the bathroom and torced her to her hands and knees while he violently disrobed and raped her.Margot B.who until that point in her testimony had been composed and in control.broke down for the first time in two days of testimony, She left the witness stand tor a short recess in the company of her husband and tamily members.who have beenin the courtroom throughout the trial which began Tuesday.When the trial resumed.defence attorney Coté continued on another line of questioning, ending the day's testimony Conservative blue meets Bishop\u2019s pu rple.strange friends as Jean Charest found out as ob owen, the McGill/Bishop\u2019s football game : on Saturday.The purple person wearing the watermelon was quite harmless with the question of a civil aut launched by Margot 3.tollo- wing the alleged attack.Details of the suit cannot be published because court was adjourned before testimony in front of the jury of cight men: and four women revealed the nature of the legal action.The 27-year-old inmate.who had received a favorable report recommending his releases : from a Corrections Canada official the same day of the alleged attack.listened attentive- Iv.but showed no emotion throughout the testimony.The cross-examination witl continue in Granby Monday.In politics you have and may including 18 scientists and 20 technicians, working at the station and its 400-hectare farm.The farm is home to 150 dairy cows, their offspring and many pigs.Most of the station\u2019s work is testing hypotheses, said Gordon Barnett, who works in soil fertilization.Results of the studies are written up in scientific and trade journals and government reports, which are then made available to farmers and suppliers in related industries.While farmers may be aware of some of the work done at the station, the place is truly a walk of wonder for city folk.Current studies include the viability of pigs living in a \u201cdeep litter\u201d that includes their own manure (later used for fertilizer) and studies of its environmental impact; a machine that measures meat tenderness by recording the exact force required to cut a piece of cooked meat; sheep breeding for maximim output; tests on the effects on livestock of stray voltage \u2014 the everyday electricity in the air and objects; treating grazing grass to improve digestion; and promoting full cell growth in livestock through the use of vitamins.Much of the station\u2019s research is groundbreaking, including development of the Dorset, Leicester and Suffolk cross-breed of sheep in 1989.The DLS sheep\u2019s long breeding season allows ewes to be bred during June, July and Au- e 1 e study all other angles.\u201d Coté said the CLSC is prepared to cooperate with police in any investigation it might undertake to study Gnyps\u2019 allegations.The CLSC administrator also expressed his dissatisfaction with the sensational means Gnyps chose to draw attention to his position \u2014 and with the local media for responding to it.gust without the need for hormonal or light treatments.The breed was developed by Len- noxville scientists in conjunec- tion with the La Pocatière Experimental Farm.Other original work now in progress includes experiments on the optimal levels of proteins in livestock feed so the protein can be digested properly and without waste.According to researcher Hélène Lapierre, England is the only other country in the world doing similar work.Ninety-five cows are involved in experiments on milk production.For each cow milked there is a computer data base listing its name, bir- thdate, changes in weight, how RECORD/PERRY BEATON | » A se.Ne much and how often they eat and behavior \u2014 everything except its hobbies and favorite\u2019 - hockey team.! One recent experiment showed that exposing dairy cattle to light for 16 hours instead of: eight during lactation yields a: 10 per cent increase in the quantity of milk produced.All the results of experiments eventually make it into the Canadian Agriculture Library located in the main building.Computer systems at the library connect Lennox-.ville to the 23 other Agriculture Canada centres across the- country.The Internet computer system gives researches.\u2019 access to agricultural information from around the world.may cause By Seleena Shourie SHERBROOKE \u2014 There's a week left until the federal election on October 25, and Elections Canada is concerned that some voters are waiting until the last minute to register.\u201cNext week, the revision of the voters list will end, the deadline for applying for or voting by special ballot will pass and Canadians should not wait until the last minute,\u201d said Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley in a press release.\u201cWe are concerned that electors will wait until the last day to act, which may result in longer waits.\u201d The revision period, which runs from now until 6 p.m.Wednesday, is the last chance voters have to register themselves on the voters list.Advance polls, which began this weekend, continue Monday and Tuesday from noon until 8 p.m.Delays in registration long waits Voters who are unable to cast their ballots at the advance polls or on the official election date, must fill out an application to vote by special ballot and deliver it to Elections Canada no later than 6 p.m.Wednesday.Election \u201993 Canadians who are registered to vote by special ballot must return their ballots to Elections Canada before 4 p.mon Friday.With so many deadlines, Kingsley said he hopes voters will pick up their pace, \u201cotherwise, they\u2019ll be watching the time tick away as they wait in line.\u201d To contact the Elections Canada office in your riding, call directory assistance for the number or call 1-800-267- VOTE. \u2014The RECORD\u2014Monday.October 18.1993 the 2008 ees 56 ch de phen The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 ne ade 32876 aha te Ma ent Sa nr ay ad 15 UE AN EVA rar PUS 1 SEI) oe Biliamatrns ass SHAE 1 BAAS MB GANT AL RR des Frm ad es cad bts Editorial BE I Td Le Il was an unexpected question from a woman in the audience last week at a forum on women\u2019s issues that proved most telling about the contenders to become the next MP for Brome Missisquol.Late in an evening which saw candidates from Brome Missisquoi and neighbouring Shefford quizzed on everything from equal pay to family violence, a woman approached the microphone and asked a question which caught panelists completely off guard.\u201clI am an English-speaking woman and I haven't heard a word of English spoken here tonight \u2014 not even as a courtesy.\u201d she began.\u201cMy question to all candidates is.is there a place for English-speaking women in Brome Missisquoi?\u201d Unlike the other questions.the candidates found themselves without prompting notes or prepared responses.Conservative candidate Francine Vince- lette was the first to respond.With spontaneity and sincerity.Vincelette explained that panelists had been told the forum was to be conducted in French There is nothing particularly sinister about that since the women\u2019s groups that organized the forum are predominently French- speaking.Vincelette followed her explanation with an unequivocal apology.revealing a quality all too seldom scen in politics.Liberal Joan Kouri demonstrated her strength was in the area of policy development.noting that she had already rescar- ched the lack of services in Brome Missis- quoi for English-speaking women and promised to remedy the situation.NDPer Sean Hutchinson.a 26-year-old bilingual anglophone.spoke of the historic compata- bility of the Eastern Townships\u2019 two language groups.calling it a model for the rest of the country.But it was Bloc Québécois candidate Gaston Péloquin who was left as naked as the Emperor by the question.Péloquin \u2014 who teaches English as a second language \u2014 bristled openly at the temerity of the \u201cWoman tor asking such a.question.Responding in French, he launched a stinging attack on the woman, sputtering.\u201cno matter where we go in Canada we have to speak English \u2014 we're in Quebec madam.\u2018ici on parle francais.\u201d .Péloquin later qualified his reaction by saying it was \u201ca matter of principle.\u201d What principle would that be?The principle of bad manners or the principle of political stupidity?Mr.Peloquin\u2019s response was not one of an aspiring elected representative, but rather what one might expect trom a town hall heckler.It\u2019s inconceivable that either of his political masters \u2014 Jacques Parizeau or Lucien Bouchard \u2014 would have responded in such a manner to a legitimate.question from a Quebecer.Mr.Peloquin\u2019s outburst revealed him as a poor choice for anvone \u2014 regardless of their language.politics.or sex.SHARON McCULLY Letters Come now Ms.Legault Gaston Péloquin\u2019s revealing outburst There is a hint of McCarthyism in Rita Legault's editorial \u201cWith regard to fairness\u201d (the Record.October 1.This criticizes Tempo.a monthly community newspaper.tor how it handled: (a) an editorial written by me.and (bh the attempt by Mr.Calouri.a TBL councillor.to respond to it.The Tempo editorial cited a number of actions by TBL council over the past six years which reflected an \u201cabuse of power\u201d.As one of her points.Ms.Le- gault states that readers deserve to know where opinions are coming from (other than my name.no further background ws supplied by Tempo.This is an interesting concept but not one followed by the Record for its editorials.She apparently believes that the appropriate way to identify me is to state that during the last TBL election I was a strong supporter of the defeated mayoralty candidate.Louise Sheils.What exactly is the implication of this and for how long must 1 be thus identified?Since purchasing property in TBL some 30 vears ago | have made no effort to hide the fact that I am a strong advocate of democracy in local government.It was for this reason that I supported Mme.Sheils.M was also for this reason that I wrote the editorial in question.In editorializing about the need for media fairness.Ms, Legault does not.herself.pursue the balanced tone she claims that Tempo lacks.She refers to Tempo in a derogatory way as a \u201cmonthly newsletter\u201d.She repeats Mr.Caluori's opinion that Tempo is \u201cbiased politically\u201d and out of touch\u201d.and then adds gratuitously the comment.\u201cHe is probably right.\u201d (Readers deserve to know where this opinion is coming from?!).Her editorial is one-sided in that it reports the rebuttal of the councillors but fails to note that they NEWS ITEM: FREEDOM AIR, Ti Cop Si THE CAPTAIN HAS TURNED ON THE \"NO WHEE ZING LIGHT: HE FIRST ALL- SMOKING AIRLINE BEGINS TRAVEL have avoided the issues in the Tempo editorial.preferring instead to attack the messenger.Come now Ms.Legault.is fairness à virtue to be exhibited only by \u201cmonthly newsletters\u201d?PETER WADE Foster Tempo adds.The Editor.Your editorial of October 8 attacks both Tempo and guest edito- rialist Peter Wade.Peter Wade himself was written reacting to some of the points made by Ms.Legault.Tempo would like to add the following: 1.Tempo editorials are signed by one person but they always carry the approval in principle of the Editorial Committee as a whole.2.Contrary to what Ms.Legault said Tempo received two letters regarding the September editorial: one from Councillor George Bristol which was printed m its entirety.the second from Couneil- lor Michael Caluori (not the whole CounciD which was 670 words.Like most newspapers.Tempo has a policy limiting the length ol letters.As our stated limit has always been 300 words.Caluori was asked to eut his letter.or if he preferred.we would do it for him.He chose to buy ad space and print the whole thing.He subsequently added the names of the councillors and the mayor.Yours truly.CLAIRE KERRIGAN Editor Tempo Will arming police ensure their safety?By lan Bailey ST.JOHN'S.Nfld.(CP) \u2014 Police officers in Newfoundland's capital are looking to a recent labor board ruling as the key to ending their oddball status as North\u2019 America\u2019s only force banned from carrying sidearms.But provincial Justice Minister Ed Roberts says the government sees little reason \u2014 such as soaring erime statistics \u2014 to change the policy.**All the statistics I've seen indicate the violent crime situation has not changed dramatically over the last few years.\u201d Roberts said Saturday.\u201cWe've never addressed this.We have not changed the state ot affairs that has been there for the force's 120-vear existance.\u201d The unusual debate rages as police elsewhere in Canada demand more powerful guns to deal with a new class of better-armed criminals.; \"This month's fatal shooting of a Sudbury officer prompted Ontario\u2019s police association to demand Police Act changes allowing officers across the province to replace their .38-calibre revolvers with semi-automatic pistols.Patrolling members of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary must now keep their guns unloaded in a locked case in the trunks of their cruisers.If they need a weapon.unarmed officers call headquarters for permission.Depending on the answer.they can then get.load and use the .357 Magnum and 12-gauge shotgun thev carry in their cars.\u201cWe've timed it \u2014 it takes from seven to 10 minutes from the time they get permission to be armed.\" said Staff Sgt.Joe Gullage.»sdent in which a 14-year-old boy.at-: \u2018president of the union represen-\u201d ting more than 300 members of the force.\u201cWhen vou go into a domestic dispute and a guy grabs a knife, you've got to go back to the trunk of your car to get your guns.\u201d said Gullage.36.Gullage hopes a recent labor board ruling will help kickstart talks with the province and lead to a \u2018reasonable\u2019 review of the issue.The board ruled Const.Sheldon Anthony.who feared for his safe- tv.was justified in refusing to respond to a domestic dispute without his sidearm.Anthony felt \u2018he needed a firearm to ensure his safety and to be in total control of a 1992 inci- tacked his older brother with a.knife.the board said.Gullage\u2019s efforts have been endorsed by the Canadian Police Association.which represents more than 30.000 officers.But Gullage concedes he faces a stmbling block because no member of the constabulary.which also patrols Corner Brook.Nfld.has died on the job since one was stlugged in the head during a 1959 labor scuffle.RCMP officers in Newfoundland are allowed to carry guns.Two have been shot dead in the province in the last 40 vears.Today in history By The Canadian Press Abraham Okpik of Yelloknife became the first Inuk appointed to the Northwest Territories council 28 years ago today \u2014 in 1965.Opik.36, an employee of the Department of Northern Affairs, was recommended for the position by Northern Affairs Minister Arthur Laing.Also on this day in: ; 1919 \u2014 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada\u2019s 15th prime minister.was born in Montreal.1929 \u2014 The Privy Council of Britain ruled that Canadian women were \u2018\u2018persons\u2019 and could become senators.\u2019 1980 \u2014 Canada\u2019s first African elephant was born at the Metro Toronto Zoo.Did you know that.DEFENCE REGULATIONS Defence of Canada regulations.which gave Ottawa sweeping authority to protect the country against subversion and control dissent, was proclaimed in force at the outbreak of the Second World War on Sept.3.1939 under the War Measures Act.BILL OF RIGHTS The Bili of Rights was federal legislation passed in 1960 that guaranteed civil liberties: the right to life, liberty.and personal security.language, education and enjoyment of private property.NFB ORIGINS The National Film Board was established May 2.1939, The agency advises on government film activities and began producing feature films in the early 1960\u2019s.Northern bootleggers peddling death Bootleg booze is a major problem forthe Indian reserves of Northern Ontario.all officially \u201cdry.\u201d Sold at staggering prices.il has heen smuggled in baby jars.frozen in bags of vegetables and stuffed into the cavities of turkevs and chickens.By Wendy Cox PIKANGIKUM.Ont.(CP) \u2014 Each winter when northern lakes freeze as hard as asphalt.a road is carved into the ice to this remote Indian reserve.providing a \u2018passport to the outside world \u2014 and a pipeline to a big problem.The road is a favored route for bootleggers who hawk cheap store-bought booze to residents of the reserve for staggeringly high prices.The result is violence and poverty in a place that already has plenty of both.says Chief Gordon Peters.His face contorts in disgust as he speaks of the bootleggers.\u201cTheir way of living is our way of dving.Peters says.With booze officially banned from the reserve.bootleggers can fetch up to $500 for a 1.2-litre bottle of rve that costs $50 at a liquor store in Red Lake.100 kilometres to the south.A $10 mickey can be resold in Pikangikum for up to $75.FORCED ONTO WELFARE The cost is especially steep.considering that unemployment reaches 80 per cent or more on Pikangikum and other reserves in Northern Ontario.forcing many onto welfare.And in the North.as elsewhere.alcoholism can have tragic results.\u2018*No matter what society.if vou have an alcohol problem.the liquor comes first.\" says Staff Sgt.Wayne Ferri of the Ontario Provincial Police northwestern patrol.\u201cForget the kids and putting food on the table.\u201d Officers blame much of the violence in Pikangikum \u2014 shootings.domestic assaults \u2014 on alcohol.The 30 or so Indian reserves in Northern Ontario have all been officially \u201cdry\u201d for as long as their chiefs can remember.The sale.possession or consumption of alcohol is banned.: Band councils try to enforce the ban because they believe alcohol abuse has devastated communities already suffering from poverty.substandard housing and high suicide rates.Those who want to drink have to smuggle in booze or make it themselves.Ferri says the bootlegging problem is worst in Pikangikum \u2014 a lakeside community of 1.400 residents 300 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg \u2014 because it is within an hour's drive of a \u201cwet\u201d town and its liquor stores.A gravel road leads north from Red Lake.ending at the Barens River which connects with Pikan- gikum Lake and the reserve.BOOZE-FILLED BOATS In winter.the road crosses over the frozen river and the lake.In summer.an elaborate portage route allows people to move booze-filled boats from the river to the lake.The road's end.known as Ba- rens Landing.is littered with liquor boxes and bottles.It\u2019s the last-chance spot for smugglers to figure out how they re going to get their booty into Pikangikum.Booze has heen smuggled in baby jars.frozen in bags of vegetables and stuffed into the cavities of turkeys and chickens.People have strapped it to their bodies and hidden it in their groceries.\u201cThey are asinventive in smuggling liquor into the community as international drug dealers are at smuggling drugs into the country.says Ferri.Peters blames a lot of it on Red Lake taxi drivers who he says can earn as much as $130 in cab fare plus profit on the booze.\u20181 strongly feel the taxi drivers don't value the lives of our people.\u201d he says.But Isaac Wood.who owns Woo- dv\u2019s Taxi in Red Lake.says cab companies are caught in the middle.He says he doesn't transport alcohol knowingly.but there's nothing he can do if a passenger gets into his cab with bottles hidden among bags of groceries.\u201cI've got no authority to look in bags or boxes even if I suspect they have liquor.\u201d says Wood.STRONG BYLAWS To combat the problem.band councils have given themselves that authority.They have enacted strong bylaws allowing people.houses and vehicles to be searched with little or no cause.The sweeping powers would likely be declared unconstitutional if they were challenged in court.but one Indian leader says they're necessary.\u201cWhat we're doing is surviving here.\u2019 says Greg Shisheesh, deputy chief in Attawapiskat on James Bay.The band council there formed a group of nine residents solely responsible for ferreting out illicit booze.Shisheesh says that in the vear since then.90 per cent of the problem has been removed.\u2018\u2019The community got together because they were tired of losing their families.The school wasn\u2019t functioning and kids weren't ca- ting properly.\u201d Penalties for possession of alcohol can range from a reprimand to time in jail or.in extremely rare cases.getting kicked off the reserve.Even the sale of yeast is strictly controlled.since alcoholics who can't afford the inflated prices of hootleg liquor often make their own stomach-churning swill out of potato peels.ketchup.raisins.water, sugar and yeast.It looks like vomit.but it gets vou drunk.says Kevin Carroll.a provincial police officer on Pikan- gikum.Peters says rigorous enforcement helps.but alcoholism among native people will only be solved through education.\"Hopefully we can get people to realize alcohol is not what a native person is about.\u201d Asked if legalizing booze on reserves would help put an end to the financial hardship that bootlegging causes.he replies almost indignantly: \u2018There's no intention of even discussing making the reserve wet.\u201d eran a ces rm wees nae m0 -\u2014 = 20e == \u2014\u2014.\u2014_\u2014 Farm and Business The RECORD\u2014Monday, October the 18, 19035 Gays: Out of the closet and into the marketplace By Michael Bernard VANCOUVER (CP)\u2014 Whenhe ca nc out ot the closet 3% years ago.Murray Newman thought the event would slam the door shut on his career as an insurance executive.I thought it would ruin my life and business,\u201d said Newman, a 40-year-old father of three whose successful insurance business still thrives in Edmonton.In fact, being gay has led him to a whole new market for his life insurance products in Vancouver\u2019s West End.once of the countrw's largest gay communities.The insurance industry does not adequately serve gay men.he said in an interview.\u201cThe industry \u2014 because of the AIDS crisis \u2014 has not sought out the market.But insurance companies are well-protected by a battery ol blood tests and the industry has not collapsed as some predicted.\u201d Newman is among a small but growing group of Canadian business people who recognize the gay cornmunity.estimated by some as about 10 per cent of Canada\u2019s population.is ¢ vast untapped market.There are no dollar ticures to describe the size of the market.thouch Statistics Canada has wrestled with the whole issue of how to measure the gay population and its habits.ENORMOUS POTENTIAL South of the border.where the bus ness sector.including companies like Levi Strauss.Coca- Cola and Hiram Walker.have more aggressive- lv targeted gays.surveys suggest the potential is enormous.One firm.Chicago-based Overlooked Opinions.estimates the U.S.market could exceed $600 billion US.It also found in a survey that So per cent of the gay men interviewed had university degrees and carned S50.000 a vear or more.Half of them owned their own homes.Lawrence Bernstein.publisher of Toronto's Pink Pages.discounts the U.S.figures as being unrealistically high.But he does see a large unexplored market in Canada.Advertising in his 94-page annual directory has increased by 25 to 30 per cent sir ce he took it over two vears ago.something he partly attributes to tougher times.\u2018Business has to exploit every market it can and do it in a cost-effective wav.\u201d we said.Whatever the markets size.itis © torondable one.says ken Smith, a Vancouver lawyer and director of the Greater Vancouver Business sociation.\u201cGay men have more disposable neome than anyone else.\u201d he said during an interview mhis West End office.DOUBLE INCOME.NO KIDS \u201cAlot of them are DINKS (Double Income No Kids.They have an enormous impact in areas of commerce that involve diseretimary