--umbia, initially ‘stunned

” ‘Sweeping: government
'. cutbacks, - has -bounced
back to lead “the ‘fight
. against legislation per-
ceived as stripping the
public of many basic
’ fights...

The result of - this com-

; Solidarity.”
The coalition of labor
‘unions, civil servants, and
«, B8ass.: roots . community
.. ‘Sroups organized by the

VICTORIA — ” Premier
+ Bill ‘Bennett, - Saying

reforms were -mis-
|» informed, - plans. to ‘press
ahead with a bill allowing
,, the firing of civil servants
“without cause.

- “A lot of the shrillness
has

© have ‘to ‘take some. res-
“: ponsibility for their” ‘ac:
“tions.”

OTTAWA — . Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau
and his senior economic
ministers began gathering
‘Priday at a Laurentian
tesort for a session
designed to give the
Liberals fresh economic
ideas for the pre-election
period.

The weekend mecting
will give ministers and
selected senior mandarins
chance to pick the brains
of such economic lumin-
aries as John Kenneth

Galbraith and Nobel
Laureate Paul

Samuelson.

WARSAW, Poland —
Poland's national holiday
Friday marked the end of
19 months of martial law,
ironically delaying the
telease of political
prisoners freed as a con-
sequence of the decree.

Red-and-white flags
and other national sym-
bols were draped across
Warsaw and cities
throughout Poland to
celebrate both the 39th
anniversary of socialist
rule and the decision to

‘by Premier, Bill Bennett's

mom front i is: “Operation

- critics of his legislative |

‘created’ concern.
.. among the: people. Those -
“who, have been shrill, in

is “holding protest rallies
and letter-writing cam-
paigns against the provin-
cial. government.

Organizers hope 15,000
people will attend a mass
demonstration next Wed-
nesday (July 27) in front
of the legislature | in Vic-
toria.

Operation Solidarity
wants to press Bennett to
drop the package of, leg-

‘islation that critics says

would trample on the
civil right of British Col-

umbians.

“Time will alleviate the
fears of the people who
are concerned” about Bill
3.that would permit the

- dismissal. of civil-servants } -

‘without cause in a plann- —
ed 25-percent staff cut-_
back, he said.

' The premier said fired .

employees would be fair-
ly. compensated.

not force him to. change
the’ “bill, he said. “We're
going a a head with the pro-
gram.”

Grits meet to plot
economic future

The closed session at a
resort complex north of
Montreal has been dubb-
ed a “brain feed” by of-
ficials in the prime
minister's office.

“It's to give the partici-
pants some different per-
spectives, to get them to
think along new lines,”
said one spokesman.

Marie Josee-Drouin,
the executive director of
the Hudson Institute of
Montreal and one of the
participants, said she
hoped the conference
would add some uncon-
ventional idcas to the
economic debate.

Poland celebrates
martial law end

end the martial law phase
of the Communist govern-
ment’s crackdown on
Solidarity, the free trade
union.

Aside from the decora-
tions and official holiday
observances, however,
there was scarcely any
sign that Poland had turn-
ed a comer on history.
No public reaction to the
end of martial law was
visible, in part because
most Poles find no
changes in their lives as a
result.

I'm. sure we-all agree, is 4

- Td always guessed, -

“native

“Public pressure would -

The British Columbia flag,

agnificent’“:piece. of *
mean?

Recently, I was given a
mpleétely new perspective
the flag. The crown in the
aks for itself, but

and’ white lines and. the, .
: golden flare at the bottom? --

“Something to do with the
sun setting over the Pacific,

‘Not ... so; _ according to
Indian ~ activist
Timothy Tomma, one of thé .
participants in the Red Peo- __
ple’s Long Walk, who was ~
recently roughed up by
Calgary police.

Tomma and a small band:
of Indians and non-native
supporters were arrested
June 27 for exercising what
they believed to be their
right to walk on a street in
Alberta.

They'd. hiked all the way
from Victoria. They plan to
keep ‘walking until they. get
to Ottawa where they intend
to protest the new Canadian
Charter of Rights on the
grounds that: it doesn’t
guarantee sovereignty for
native people.

‘When they were. arrested,

the. Andisns, 1 were carrying,

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among other things, a British
Columbia flag.
I talked-to. Tomma when

the group passed through

Vancouver and it was then
that he gave me the Indian
interpretation of what the
flag means.

It is not actually a flag, he
said. Instead, it is a docu-
ment, an agreement that was
made . between; the British
Empire and: .a' coalition of
native Indian’ nations.

_ The flags that we fly, s0

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