faa ey 1 4 - Sundsy, June 11, 1989 - North Shore News Bos HUNTER -SO THE Canadian Security Intelligence Service — the Canuck CIA or Mossad (well...) — has beez sneaking around spying on Indians, especially the Labrador Innu, who are protesting NATO training fghts over their heads. Surprise, surprise! — Raymond Boisvert, the CSIS’s deputy director of internal com- munications, admitted iast week . that permission for an investiga- tion into native groups was given by senior officials and passed to the solicitor-general. Quoth Boisvert: “Unlike police forces, CSIS does not need ‘reasonable and probable grounds’ to investigate. Oh really? What are the criteria then? Whim? Malice? Boredom? _ The snoops are only doing their job, of course. It ‘s the job that they carry in their genes, as it were. That is, they were born of the RCMP, which was born of the North West Mounted Police, which was born of John A. Mac- Donald’s ‘‘National Dream’’ (read: Manifest Destiny North). In response to Louis Riel’s dec- laration of independence, Canada cobbled together a military force T, is ironic that the innu people of Labrador should suffer the indignity of being spied upon in Canada at a time when the political structure of NATO...is being transformed.”’ specifically designed to crush the Metis, contain the Plains Indians, and take over the West. To this day, the state police force's raison d’etre is essentially the maintenance of that Conquest. The ‘civilian’? spy department's job flows from this historic start- ing point to embrace any forms of ‘subversion’ or restlessness. There is nothing radical about this observation, by the way. The central fact of ‘‘Canadian”’ ex- istence is that Canadians — the sons and daughters of the im migrants, all immigrants — live, as did the Romans, within the ex- panse of a vast empire. We don’t call it an empire, but it is. The second-largest in the world. Once you grasp this fact, the behavior of the CSIS, like that of the Mounties, becomes entirely predictable, even inevitable. it is what the history books like to call imperialistic. That is, it in- volves the on-going, day-to-day subjection of conquered people, to their disadvantage and to the ad- vantage of the conqueror. I don’t think for a minute that this is a popular view in Canada today. It never has been. it proba- bly never will be. But it’s the truth. As so often happens in the True North Strong and Free, events have a way of backing into each other by accident. While the Innu are rising up against the use of Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay as a training- ground for low-level NATO mili- tary flights, the Mulroney gov- ernment is vowing to shut down other bases all over the country where people are yowling for them to be kept open. Solution: Transfer the NATO flights to Prince Edward Island, where the issue of base-closings has become the main political event of the year. The residents around the base want to keep mak- ing money. Let them do so, but let them also pay the true price! it is ironic that the Innu people of Labrador should suffer the in- dignity of being spied upon in Canada at a time when the politi- cal structure of NATO — and not just NATO, but, perhaps even more impostantly, the Warsaw Pact —- is being transformed. It is precisely against state con- trol that popular uprisings have been directed in Poland, the Balkan states, Beijing and Moscow. Meanwhile, in Canada, we re- main apathetic to the same basic abuse of state power against op- pressed minorities. You think, for the Innu, Labrador hasn't become an en- vironmental gulag? Not only are the winds of change blowing hard through the ossified temples of communism, but the NATO partners themselves, led, finally, by George Bush (and Joc Clark?) are taking a step back from the hair-trigger edge where we have been perched so long, trying to stare down the Ruskies et al. The new-found West German urge to get the foreign armies out of its hair stems as much from sheer physical tolerance levels hav- ing been reached as it does froma political breakthrough in the awareness that Mutual Assured Destruction in fact meant Assured Destruction of Germany. Anybody who has visited West Germany is familiar with the pierc- ing shriek of a jet fighter coming in low and banking. It’s like living next to an airport. The Innu natives of Labrador are being subjected to physical torment, as well as secing game disappear from the areas they have always relied upon for their food. The jets chase the animals away, the Innu either starve or go on welfare and end up committing suicide, some quickly, some slow- ly. The fed-up West Germans have enough political clout, it seems, to have swayed the top guns at NATO. No so, for damn sure, Canada’s Innu. They are forced to fight a lonely civil disobedience battle against the might of the Western Alliance, while the rest of us sit on our hands. And the Canuck spies spy @ This week at councils REGULAR COUNCIL meetings for North Vancouver District and City Councils and West Vancouver District Council have been cancell- ed this Monday because of a meeting of the Federation of Ca- nadian Municipalities. North Vancouver City Council, 5 p.m., June 12: Committee of the wuole will consider in camera the buitding application of the Olym- pic Hotel site by Intercon [n- vestments and will afterwards be reporting to council. The next council meetings will be Monday, June 19. Look in the June 18 issue of the North Shore News for council agendas. wee RE el ER al ete bs - Avenue, ‘Booze who’ on the North Shore RECENT CONVICTIONS in North Shore courts have resulted in the following fines and penalties for drinking and driving related offences. 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