AG - Wednesday, July-15, 1981 - North Shore News @ , ; Listen, Allan! We have no evidence that Attorney General Allan Williams is hard of hearing. But there are occasions when he appears to turn a remarkably deaf ear to concerns of his constituents In the West Vancouver-Howe Sound riding. - Am immediate case in point is the im- pending rape of Gambier Island, two-thirds of which Twentieth Century Energy Cor- poration is seeking to turn into a huge open- pit mining operation. Twentieth Century has now. reportedly stepped up its exploration work and filed a report with the Vancouver Stock Exchange indicating an _ actual production start-up by 1983. The environmental damage that would ensue in ‘this prime Lower Mainland: recreation area has heen exhaustively documented. The ongoing “Save Howe Sound” campaign has won wide public backing to halt the project. West Vancouver council has reaffirmed its solid opposition, which has also been endorsed by North Van City council. North Van-Seymour MLA Jack Davis has bluntly told his government that it knows “in its heart of hearts” it can never approve the scheme. on Gambier (though not ex- ploration) is, in any case, outlawed under the 1974 Island Trustees Act and under the 1977 Gambier Island Plan. Yet the Socred cabinet — and specifically Environment Minister Stephen Rogers — still sit on the fence as Twentieth Century pours more and more money into the project. Meanwhile, not a squeak from Mr. Williams to indicate he’s even aware of any of this. Did you hear your voters, Allan? Help from above Canada, with its $14 billion deficit, isn't the only sovereign state in the glue. Pope John Paul has just set up a special com- mission of cardinals to wrestle with the Vatican City's deficit-plagued budget. But there's a difference , of course. In the last resort the Holy See can pre- sumably call on accumulated reserves in Heaven — a solution that's clearly not available to Finance Minister Allan MacEachen. 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THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE OTTAWA (SF) - This town is bursting with new security wrinkles, as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Parliamentary security officers, local police forces and visiting bagdetoters by the dozen gear up for their biggest challenge since the Montreal Olympics. For a couple of days next week the pmme_ terronst — feta enka ake cate pte egg et er bert eners ete ote, Battlefield tha targets of the world — leaders of the western economic world — will be here for the summit, complete with ‘their en- tourages and thousands of media people who are swarming to Canada for the event. , The arrangements for protecting the summiteers must be checked and ap- proved by Canadian security A widely experienced media colleague who immigrated from Britain seven years ago came up with a gloomy prediction the other day. We were discussing the ugly riots in a score of British cities by young people, both white and colored. “Don't think for a moment,” he warned, “that it can’t happen here unless there are radical changes.” “Canada,” he continued, “1s usually eight to ten years behind Britain in matters like this. What I see in Canada today are cxactly the same conditions I saw in Britain in 1972 “High unemploymeat, especially among the youngsters, with no relicf tn sight) Record high inflation, always on the mse. Record high interest rates “FKyen among thc vast mayortty with yobs, a growing feeling of helplessness A feeling that it was going to be harder and harder to make ends meet A fechng that things simply going to get) worse That financially for the ordinary there was nothing to look forward to ~ Inevitably the con versavion turned to racism which led bim to couple of other points about Britains preseat troubles were Joc. make au The root of the problem he contended.is always the situation not With three millon Brits yobless it works cc onoOmc racism as such Iwo ways On the one hand un skilled colored tmmigranots tend to be hardest hit’ by rising unemployment = (in some colored “ghetto” arcas of Britain's big cities it's reported to run as high as 40 percent). On the other hand, many colored immigrants are prepared to do lowly jobs rejected tn normal times by their white compatriots. When the jobless) crunch arrives, it's the latter who find themsclives in the dole line. shut out from even the menial work they = once despised The other point he stressed was the “bad applic” analogy In a penod of high unemployment the fact that 92 of 93 percent of the labor force is sll working offers no aulomatic guarantee against violeat social strife When the predominantly young peuple in their late teens and carly twenues —- bursting with frustrated energy and demed both a pay cheque and a postive purpose in life a mere seven or cight percent are quite cnough to threaten the very fabne of Ihe events of days in yobless are socicty the past 10 London, Liverpool and Lemwester leave nw doubt about that spread fast All Tiny cancers can these latent factors efter sate f Canadian Comment BY PETER WARD \ teams and visiting experts from the United States, Britain, West Germany, Japan, Italy and France also must check out the precautions and make suggestions. The RCMP has cancelled all leaves for plain clothes officers for the period of the summit. Officers are being brought in from narcotics squads, vice squads and counter-espionage duties to see to the safety of the western leaders. And there's some unhappiness about the Canadian choice of Chateau Montebello for the first day of summit meetings. The old building is all wood, layered with varnish and paint and might have difficulty passing fire safety checks, at least checks made with the super- precautionary view of guarding the safety of the western leaders. Delegations to the summit will be flown to and from Chateau Montebello by Armed Forces helicopters. shutthng back and _ forth along the Ottawa River from the lawn of the parhament buildings. Its going to be great stuff for the annual swarm of tourists, but it will could focus Noel Wright se ular ess] already cxist in Canada, though they have not yet crupted here in civil disorder So do other ingredicnts of the British crisis The = permissive society spawned in the sixtics The inercasing breakdown of — traditional family life as more and more mothers entered force = (some cconomic the work from = sheer necessity) Lana education Datly violence on the tube for the world’s first TV generauon The “me first” and “dont have to” cult with tts widespread rejection of allauthonty By and large the wartimc generation — intentioned however well apparcnitly provide extra security headaches for those on . guard duty. The banks of the Ottawa River will have to be checked and staffed — probably with troops — to ensure that nobody takes a shot at a helicopter in flight, and the area surrounding Chateau Montebello will be crawling with security forces. There are even stories to. the effect that there will be security people in canoes along the Ottawa River, pretending to be fishermen. That's not going to fool anybody. There's not much fishing done on the Ottawa below Hull and those that do fish use outboard motor boats. It's a shame that such security contortions are necesary to guard the leaders of the western world, but in these days of- fashionable international terror, those are the facts of life. If security precautions work, people scoff at the degree of effort involved. If they don't work, those responsible get = criticism. Canada has no choice but to err on the side of safety on this one. e ours hasn't done a very good ih -for-many-of its children. In tortured Britain the chickens are now coming home to roost. If my knowledgeable colleague's fears are right, what can be done to save Canada from similar strife a few years down the road? Obviously. the only lasting solution 1s to get the economy back into whack by beating the twin devils of high inflation and high unemployment — a task at which government continues so far to be an abject failure At the risk of being labelled ai redneck I'll venture to report a more immediate and practical suggestion from Erin Pizzey. a leading British sociologist She has proposed the “conscription” of all school leavers for a mandatory two year period of paid com munity service before en tering the economic mainstream This, she argues, would kcep them off the dole, teach them social values and get much needed work done for society al a reasonable cost to the taxpayer. Even more im portant, it would guarantee young people confidence self-respect and marketablc skills A good many pcopic including the unions, will doubticss recoil from the very idea But don't forge! that Ms Pizzey is now cycball-to-cyeball with the problem on a battlefield that one day could become ours