December 6, 1974

_; French · olympic example CARS ARE FORBIDDEN in this tcwn. A French Olympic Village has spawned a "model town" that ,..__ Montrealers would do well to keep The James Bay story will get WorSe an eye on, says Loyola's Com ' Arts head Jack O'Brien who has just returned from a tour of the Defore it gets better town . .,,Confronted with · prospects of FRED KNELMAN, of Sir Geor matter of waste, or tailings, that resources" . - the existing re a doubling of population, Grenoble ge's Science & Human Affairs de are · left behind after the uranium sources that are accessible at oificials got together with the' partment, has been around long ore is purified. The wastes are known social, economic and envi national government two years enough to expect almost anything extremenly toxic and d~ngerous." ronmental costs - in exchange for agQ.. and called in a team of so from governments. So Premier . · What will becom.e of the agree "potential resources whose. costs ciologists, . architects, eco brains Bourassa's sudden disclosure of ment in principle? have always proved enormous. and oth.~r urban experts to plan plans to devote 20 per cent of the Knelman isn't sure. "It comes "We've already done . that with ·Villeneuve on the site of the '68 total projectt;,d generating capaci up for final ratification in Febru oil and gas," he says. · "Now w_inter Olympics Village (in the •ty of James Bay to ·uranium, en .ary. I don't see how Bourassa we're doing the same thing with . Alps), to accomodate the growing richment without see!cing )he ap will be able to convince the lndi- uranium. Since the uranium re population and to serve as a pilot proval of the area's native people - ilns and Inuit that be is acting quirement for two enrichment _ project for French cities of the may outrage , him, but it doesn't in good faith." plants is about 18 thousand tons of future. ~ _ particularly surprise him. What also worries Knelman is urantum- oxide annually and total As the experts saw it, lhe ma In his view, this latest project · tbat we're selling off our "proven continued on page 3 jor problem in building· a town is an "environmental tragedy", . " from scratch -is getting the resi premised on hypocrisy, distpr den~ to talk to eac;h other. So - \ tion, stupidity, and Bourassa's they ,linked together a chain of own "spurious political ends". highrise apartment blocks with He doesn't hesitate to call it the Indirins fare passages so that neighbours biggest bamboozle in Canadian couldn't help l;,ut bump into each, history. "It is a monument of other· on their way to shops, un!lCC'OUntability, of contradictions badly in ~chools, libraries, parks or bordering on deceit, of the hoard cinemas, all of which are integrat in& of information by a govern ~d into the housing project, ment elected democratically and White ~A O'Brien says. ; assumed· to be answerable to its Villeneuve bears some resem electors," he sums up in an arti IIAIH blance to_ our modern shopping cle he wrote.for the Gazette .. court concourses. Still, Knelman has over the years grown cynical enough about .IA,\\HI Most of the 10,000 Villeneuvians Jhe process of government ("ad (as many as 50,000 are expected hocracy", to use his word for it) in the future) are blue collar that he almost accepts that sort workers employed by Grenoble's of thing as a fact of life. He tends many small factories. Their rent to look to people and groups out is · assessed according to their side of the machinery of govern ability to pay. ment to make sure government Villeneuve's TV communica mentality doesn't prevail. tions· network is one of its most At issue is ·the "enrichmenf' CANADIAN NATIVES.are usually on ' the proceedings. Also, they · impressive features, according to of natural uranium to render it . dealt a lopsided hand by the White· allo.w lawyers to presept their the Com Arts man. There are suita'ble for use in certain types man's court system. case from a wide range of strictly 12 closed circuit .channels and of nuclear reactors, "particular Judges from the Appeals Court, non-legal arguments. But in all the video equipment and stu ly," says Knelman, "the US var Quebec's highest, will tell you Appeals Court, there are three or dio space the community could iety and a current French type." that they were only doing their five -judges (depending on the case) want to prepare its own programs. The Canadian CANDU nuclear re job when they recently shot down and they are concerned solely Residents have broadcast events actor does not require enriched a lower court decision in favour with legal principles. "They don't - ranging from strikes at a local ,uranium for -its operations, "and of the James Bay injunction, says give a damn about the pressures factory to kids .attending a sum the export of · enriched uranium Loyola's legal aid lawyer and of the press or social issues," mer sailing school on the . Medi to countries whose reactors com Quebec politics professor . Marcel 1 Danis says. They won't allow their terranean. Closed circuit TV is pete -with us •in the world market Danis. But therein lies a catch views to creep into the proceed an intregal part of the city life, does not make s.ense." · for the Indians (or anyone else) ings, nor will tbey permit lawyers· not just a hobby for s?me, O'Brien _Two aspects of the case are fighting legal battles over social tc stray from the strict legal says. areas of concern for Knelman. ' issues in this country. niceties at hand. Villeneuve's library holdings First, implementation of the plan The Indians are told that tactic~ Finally, if the case makes · it are split pretty evenly · between would place the provincial gov like armed occupation of parks is into the Supreme Court of Canada, books and audio-visual material ernment in violation of the much not the Canadian way to get their the Indians will be faced with the O'Brien says. Videotapes, films, publicized agreement in principle message across and that if they same · preoccupation with · legal slides and cassettes may be used with the Indians and Inuit who in have a gripe they should take it to principles. The catch of course is on the spot, and this is encourag habit the James Bay region. -one court. But ultimately the court that Indians are never afforded an ed at least as much as reading, of the provisions of the agreement sys,tem will work against them. opportunity to argue the merits of O'Brien says with a •nod of ap was that the native people were to The Indians stand a reasonable their case on the basis of the proval. be consulted before anything new chance of coming out winners at social principles which brought was decided ·upon. the first stage in the legal them to court in the,first place, Schooling · in Villeneuve takes, "There had been no disclosure process, Superior Court, Danis The Court of· Appeals is com certainly by French standards, a at all vis-a-vis uranium enrich says. Witness Judge Albert posed of judges who have been radical turn. The classrooms (with ment," Knelman points out. The Malours upholding of the James appointed by the . federal govern out wal s) are located right under Indians, in effect, had had no way Bay injunction. ,But when they hit ment after serving perhaps 15 or the living quarters and both. kids of knowing what they were really . the Quebec Court of Appeals it's 20 years on the Superior Court and adults are free to use the agreeing to. the end of the road in most cases. · bench. They tend; by that time, to classroom in the evenings. ' How will the ' project · affect In Superior Court, Danis ex be conservative men, and their O'Brien says that it's too early them? · plains, there is only one judge· appointment has to be confirmed to judge the success of the Ville "For one thing, the process presiding over each case. Superi by the Bar, itself traditionally neuve project but he's confident consumes huge amounts of energy or Court judges tend to be rela very const:n'ative, Danis says. we stand benefit from the French and water without being labour tively liberal and their social experiment, particularly in the intensive. And then there is the views are frequently impressed continued on page 3 field of close,d circuit TV. REPORTS ESA executive were self-serving, Trustees say . Following · are recommendations vations about the amount of time Board to review, on an annual · students, and evening students of the Trustees (headed by John they can spare for such activities. basis, the financial statements (don't generally) identify with it. Porter) charged with reviewing Delegates . should be permitted and the year's activities with the The E.S.A. should stop publishing SGW Evening Students' Associ to serve on sub-committees and officers of each association? . its , own · paper and examine other ation activities and coming up that · the various membership re h) Relationship to other student means or" communicating with its with proposals for a new boay quirements do not specifically tusaciations: members at large. A newsletter to succeed the ESA which Wtu name an individual (i.e._ the The relationship between the and/or a column in the Georgian placed under trusteeship sever President).

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