A26-Wednesday, April 16, 1980 - North Shore News

Independence would hurt
Quebec farmers - Whelan

QUEBEC (UPC) -
Sovereignty association
would not be a profitable
venture for Quebec farmers,
federal Agriculture Minister
Eugene Whelan said last
week.

Whelan, who was visiting

association”.

However, he told
reporters that if Quebec was
to become independent, it
would cost Quebec
Agricultural Minister Jean
Garon half of his present
budget to assume the cost of
current federal milk sub-

in Ottawa which I will send
him to correct him on that
matter,” Whelan said.

“Milk subsidies are a $125

million direct cost to the -

federal government and
indirectly the subsidies run
to about $200 million,” the
federal minister said, noting

debate last month, Garon
said Quebec farmers were
getting a raw deal from the
federal government.

But Whelan refuted that
charged Wednesday, saying
provincial farmers were
“more than self-sufficient in

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Rac jati on victims

WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Veterans who claim they
contracted cancer or other
illnesses from exposure to
radiation following the 1945
atomic bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or
235 peacetime nuclear tests,
have sued the U.S. govern-
ment. - ;

The class action was filed
in U.S. District Court in

class action |

anofficial
organizations.

The case is of interest also
to an estimated 250,000
military personnel said to
have participated in nuclear
weapons tests between 1946
and 1962.

The court was asked to
invalidate rules and
procedures belatedly put out
by the Veterans Ad-
ministration last year for

veterans

Washington by attorneys of
the National Veterans Law
Center specifically on behalf
of seven former servicemen
and two widows of former
servicemen and two

an experimental farm near
the provincial capital, said
his visit “had nothing to do
with the forthcoming
referendum on sovereignty

evaluating or accepting
compensation claims by
veterans or survivors for
health problems or death
allegedly caused by service
connected radiation.

sidies to Quebec farmers.

“If Garon said sovereignty
association will be ad-
vantageous to Quebec
farmers, I have information

the Quebec dairy industry
provides 48 per cent of
industrial products for all of
Canada.
During the

the pork, poultry and dairy
industry and it’s. just not
factual for anyone to say that
the federal government has

referendum hindered them.”

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