ISSUE NO. 021, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013, 19 PGS. “Draconion” House Bill To Root Out RCMP “Troublemakers”: MP

Legislation awaiting Senate ewan, told the House addi- debate will root out “trouble- tional powers are required to makers” and “poor perform- deal with personnel issues. ers” in federal policing, says a Conservative MP and vet- “What I am asking, yes or no, eran of the Royal Canadian is whether my colleagues are Mounted Police. going to support the bill to get rid of the poor perform- “There are poor perform- ers in the RCMP,” said Clarke, ers in the RCMP,” said MP MP for Desnethé–Missinip- Rob Clarke. “Having been a pi–Churchill River, Sask. sergeant in the RCMP and having had to administer the The Canadian Police As- RCMP Act and do the inves- sociation has described as tigations on those individ- “extraordinary” the pro- uals, I know the RCMP is visions of C-42, including looking for a tangible, mean- new powers that permit ingful way to get rid of the the RCMP commissioner RCMP troublemakers who to suspend, demote or fire are tarnishing the image of any rank-and-file member the RCMP.” “whose performance in the Commissioner’s opinion is Clarke’s remarks came unsatisfactory” (Sec. 20.2.e); in final House debate on and “recommend the dis- The commissioner’s rulings authority to deal with things Bill C-42, An Act To Amend charge of any Deputy Com- on grievances are considered within the RCMP Act,” said The RCMP Act, that critics missioner for the promotion Wilks, MP for Kootenay-Col- charged will grant a police of economy and efficiency of 32.1 of the Act. umbia, . commissioner “Draconian” the force” (Sec. 20.2.j). powers to discipline non- “This bill has been a long time Newfoundland & Labrador unionized members. Bill C-42 also allows man- coming,” said Conservative MP MP Jack Harris said the legis- agers to conduct closed-door David Wilks, a 20-year veteran lation will “create a more The bill passed the Com- hearings on grievances filed of the force. “The RCMP has powerful hierarchy within the mons March 6 on a vote of by employees; and permits been unable to do anything RCMP and give the commis- 187 to 101. dismissal of workplace com- with regard to discipline.” sioner more Draconian pow- plaints deemed to conflict ers than ever.” Clarke, who served 18 years with “the safety or security “The commissioner, and only with the force in Saskatch- of Canada” (Sec. 30.1.3). the commissioner, has the Continued on Pg 2 BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 2

Continued from Pg 1 A group of RCMP members MP Don Davies told the gaining structure in the have attempted to union- House. “In 2013 I think RCMP with a free collect- “We are going to have a top- ize the force. The Ontario Canadians expect that ive bargaining structure down hierarchy which will Court of Appeals last June when men and women walk that respects norms,” said not inspire confidence but 1 rejected an application to through the workplace Davies, MP for will create more of a para- organize the RCMP’s 23,695 door, they do not check Kingsway. military organization,” said employees into a functioning their rights.” Harris, MP for St. John’s union with bargaining rights. East. “This is an anachron- “It is not acceptable that ism when it comes to modern “Just stop and think for a to this day the government STAFF policing in Canada.” moment,” New Democrat has not replaced the bar- Feds Try, Try Again On Cellphone Policy Rules

Federal regulators propose tion will include package “I don’t think consumers “It’s not going to do anyone new rules on wireless ser- bids from license applicants care what is under the hood any good before the next vice providers amid custom- on an “all-or-nothing basis,” in most cases,” Goldberg auction.” er complaints. the department said. Appli- continued. “It’s actually the cations are due June 11. services that ride on top.” The Industry Canada an- The Department of Indus- John Lawford, legal coun- nouncement March 7 came try said in an attempt to “Our government is deliv- sel for the Public Interest the same day that Open promote “choice,” wireless ering on our promise to use Advocacy Centre, expressed Media reported results of companies will be required the upcoming wireless spec- concern that regulators a study identifying Can- to provide roaming capacity trum auctions to promote were “setting the table for adians’ general dissatisfac- to competitors and share four competitors in each the big three providers to tion with cellphone service. cellphone towers; and at region of the country.” said win most of the auction.” least four “players” in every Industry Minister Chris- “People are upset about region can acquire rights in tian Paradis; “Our govern- The Advocacy Centre, along disrespectful customer ser- an upcoming Nov. 19 spec- ment wants to see at least with Consumer Associa- vice,” said Steven Anderson, trum auction. four players in each market.” tion of Canada, the Coun- executive director of Open cil of Senior Citizens, Open Media. “They are upset “What all carriers will agree However, groups contacted Media and other groups, about restrictive contracts on is that more spectrum is by Blacklock’s expressed con- earlier pressed regulators and price gauging. I don’t needed and needed soon,” cern about regulators’ defin- to adhere to the “ministry’s think the Minister of Indus- said Marc Choma, of the ition of “player,” especially clear policy to preserve the try’s announcement are go- Canadian Wireless Tele- given a network agreement spectrum for new wireless ing to address those.” communications Associa- between Bell and Telus entrants.” tion. “Carriers have to keep which allows for the sharing “Our cellphone market is up with the unprecedent- of cell towers. Groups told Blacklock’s they broken and we need bold ed growth in wireless data had not received a formal action to fix it,” Anderson usage by acquiring more “That doesn’t say what a response from the industry added. spectrum.” ‘player’ is,” said Mark Gold- minister. berg, a telecom consultant. Industry Canada said its “Is a player a service provid- “In the future it may do new 700MHz spectrum auc- er? Is it a carrier or a brand?” some good,” said Lawford. KAVEN BAKER-VOAKES Guest Commentary Jamie Nicholls, MP

I Wonder What Became of Dennis Victims and criminals share an intim- I did not want go out in North Park for fear I might meet Dennis. I cut my hair results from the collision of two lives, short, in the hope Dennis would not rec- in which neither are ever exactly the ognize me. same again. When people cast crime as black and white, good versus evil, I am Now I had this intimate link with a man I reminded of all the shades of grey that barely knew, and a question that all crime exist in the middle – and then I think of victims ask: why would he do that? Dennis. Tom Hyland Blacklock He was a skinhead in a “White Power” impact statement so Dennis might “under- t-shirt. stand” what I’d gone through. They said I A pioneer publisher and war correspondent, might even qualify for compensation from confidante of three prime ministers and 1922 Dennis was known to neighbours in the president of the Ottawa Press Gallery, Tom Blacklock North Park district of Victoria, where I I didn’t want their money. I wanted justice. was mourned at his passing in 1934 as “a keen lived in 1997. It was a rough-and-tumble observer blessed with a sense of proportion.” Born in Halton County, Ont. in 1870, he became a frontier neighbourhood. Dennis had a wife and I believe in restorative healing, where vic- editor and first mayor of Weyburn, Sask. in 1903. baby; I had seen them going to the wel- tims and their tormentors reach for some Assigned to Parliament Hill by the Winnipeg Telegram - understanding. Dennis’ skinhead friend en- in 1912 he remained a gallery man for life with lent, and he could get very drunk. I don’t rolled in a program with the John Howard columns published from Victoria to Halifax: “As Tom Society; he renounced white supremacy, Blacklock used to say, ‘That ain’t the way I heard it.’” and was eventually acquitted. I’d just returned to British Columbia BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER PUBLISHES DAILY after spending a year teaching English Dennis didn’t. I wanted him in custody so ONLINE AT BLACKLOCKS.CA WITH A WEEKLY in South Korea, and was at a house party he couldn’t hurt anyone else; I wanted a DIGEST OF NEWS AND SHARP-EYED FEATURES PUBLISHED EACH MONDAY, 50 WEEKS A YEAR. one evening with old friends I’d known judge to order him to wear an electronic in art school. ankle bracelet so police could monitor his movements. I can’t say if restorative jus- Copyright 1395804 Ontario Limited Dennis and another skinhead showed tice would have done Dennis much good. Head Office: up at midnight. He had been drinking. I Afterward I wondered, what brought Den- 409 Third Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 2K6 asked them to leave, and on his way out nis to the point in his life that he was so Editorial: Dennis sucker punched me in the head. hateful, so angry, he would shave his head 350-N Centre Block, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6 It was sudden, explosive. I was bleeding and wear a “White Power” t-shirt and look HST no. 87055 5372 and in shock. He wore a spiked ring that for someone to hurt? left a scar by my eye. Tom Korski, Editor Of course my fear is gone, sixteen years 613-992-4511 [email protected] Police arrived. I gave them my state- later. But this remains a vivid memory. To ment. Later there was an assault charge, this day I tend to be more alert than other Holly Doan, Features Editor 613-422-6823 a trial and conviction. The scar from people in urban environments. I also have [email protected] a better understanding of victims of such only indelible mark. crimes. And I know crime is a wicked prob- EDITORIAL BOARD: lem more complex than political rhetoric, Alex Binkley 613-992-4511 I became fearful. I was 25 but had never and requires multi-faced solutions. [email protected] experienced such jarring violence: I’d Kaven Baker-Voakes grown up in a peaceful family in the St. I often wonder what became of Dennis. 613-992-4511 Lazare-Hudson area of Quebec, a tran- [email protected] (Editor’s note: the author is New Democrat Mark Bourrie 613-992-4511 that I’d seen such rage. MP for Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Que.) [email protected] BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 4

An Odd Phone THIEVES TARGETED IN BILL Regulation A private bill proposing to “It will be dangerous to rely make it a felony to tamper on Kijiji and other third-party area of Qikiqtani Region of Baf- with cellphone serial num- resellers because the cell- bers has been introduced in phone companies are work- the House of Commons. ing to make sure they can’t re- - activate those stolen phones,” peated requests for an inter- Bill C-482, An Act To Amend said Sullivan; “It’s a ‘buyer view. And his department told The Criminal Code (telecom- beware’ kind of issue…People Blacklock’s the old regulation munication device identi- will learn that you don’t buy “is no longer required,” but fier), is described as a safety your cellphone from some- failed to explain why. measure by its sponsor, New one you don’t know.” Cabinet has quietly repealed a Democrat MP Mike Sulli- Pearson-era order forbidding “This is extraordinary,” said van. new mining exploration in a Bevington. “If Cabinet makes a decision affecting public “It would prevent the re- The minister responsible lands, Cabinet must stand up activation of stolen cell- would not say why, and his and explain itself.” phones and so remove the department could not explain incentive to mug people for who requested withdrawal of Tom Paddon, president and their cellphones,” said Sul- the 48-year old regulation. livan, MP for York South- Corp., did not reply to an Weston, Ont. “Why would they repeal that interview request. order now?” said Dennis Bev- “A police superintendent in ington, New Democrat MP The company originally my riding told me 80 percent for Western Arctic. “Public af- planned development of an of street crime involves the fairs require public answers.” open-pit mine with road ser- theft of cellphones and other vice and a 149-km railway to devices,” Sullivan said. “This The Canadian Wireless Tele- Northern Development Min- is a smart solution because, communications Association, ister Bernard Valcourt re- in theory, it will dry up the which is currently developing pealed the order that banned The Department of Northern market.” a database to track lost cell- new mining stakes in a two- Development approved the phones, told Blacklock’s that mile strip of land from an iron project last Dec. 3, it what the The legislation states any its database initially will not ore mine site to the coast of company described as “the person who “alters a telecom- be available to the public. right-of-way, as well as lands every planned above the Arc- interferes with its operation “It’s something we are look- set aside for construction of tic Circle.” or removes it from a telecom- ing forward to in the future,” dock and airstrip facilities. munications device is guilty said Ashlee Smith, communi- However, in subsequent fil- of an indictable offence and cations manager. “That’s The order was passed by ings with Nunavut regulators, liable to imprisonment for something we are looking at Prime Minister Lester Pear- the mining corporation said a term not exceeding five developing.” son’s cabinet June 23, 1965. it would defer construction years.” It banned “nuisance stakings of the railway, and a deep-sea The national database will be that may thwart the construc- port, and scale back the size Sullivan dismissed sugges- tion of facilities,” according to of its mining operation from tions the bill would harm the industry group said. archival records. 18 million tonnes a year to 3.5 cellphone resale market, but million tonnes. acknowledged that vendors Construction of a $4 billion could deactivate phones after iron mine in the Mary River STAFF sale. KAVEN BAKER-VOAKES BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 5

Towns Shortlisted For Nuclear Dumpsite

Six towns and a Prairie First economies; they want to keep Nations reserve are front- their young people in the runners for a multi-billion community, rather than have dollar bedrock storage vault them go away to school and for spent nuclear fuel rods never come back. from the country’s power re- actors, industry sources tell “And a lot of these towns Blacklock’s. have people with experi- ence in mining,” Krizanc The Saskatchewan towns of added. “Elliot Lake and the Pinehouse, Creighten and the towns in northern Saskatch- English River First Nation; ewan are close to old uran- and northern Ontario com- ium mines.” munities of Ear Falls, Ignace, Schreiber and Hornepayne The Nuclear Waste Man- have the edge in the search agement Organization will for a nuclear waste storage spend 7 to 10 years identify- facility, worth between $16 ing a site, with an additional and $24 billion. five-year environmental as- sessment and regulatory ap- The communities, all eco- proval, and a further decade nomically depressed, have for actual construction of agreed to preliminary assess- the nation’s permanent fuel ments of local geology and rod dump. infrastructure. All are located on the Canadian Shield – a “We expect the site to open requirement for the con- in about 2035 and to be struction of a nuclear waste operational for at least forty site deep underground in years,” Krizanc said. “If new granite bedrock. nuclear plants are built, you can add to that. The site The northern Ontario towns of Lake Huron— Arran- tion for the safe disposal of would stop operating about of White River, Wawa, Blind Elderslie, Saugeen Shores, highly radioactive fuel rods, 20 years after the closure of River, Elliot Lake, North Brockton, Huron-Kinloss will take years to complete. the last new reactors. Shore and Spanish have also and South Bruce – also ex- agreed to listen to the pro- pressed an interest in ac- “A lot of these commun- “After that, we are looking at posal from the Nuclear Waste cepting the nation’s nuclear ities are resource towns 150 years of monitoring,” he Management Organization. waste. wanting to smooth out the added. boom-and-bust cycles,” said In southern Ontario, six The organization said selec- spokesperson Michael Kri- communities near the shore tion of sites, and prepara- zanc. “They want stable Continued on Pg 6 BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 6

Continued From Pg 5 bedrock in southwestern parts of reactor systems ground in the dense lime- Ontario. – especially in the water stone of the Cobourg He said the agency has treatment process -- are Formation, 450-million- already investigated safe It will be located next to among the items classified year-old rock laid down in transport of the spent fuel OPG’s Western Manage- as intermediate waste. the Ordovician period of rods. In one simulated ment Waste Facility at the geologic time. Parliament catastrophe, nuclear waste Bruce Nuclear Power Plant Low-radiation material is Hill’s buildings and the was placed in a train and near Kincardine, Ontario, incinerated at the Bruce Darlington Nuclear Power put through a 90-mph s p o k e s m a n K e v i n O r r plant to reduce its volume. Plant are built on the same crash that left the fuel rods told Blacklock’s. About half of the materi- rock formation. intact. al that would go into the The facility would man- underground storage fa- A 6.5 metre elevator shaft “If there is going to be an age about 200,000 cubic cility is already stored on would connect the surface accident there is not going metres of low and inter- the surface near the Bruce to series of side tunnels to be a release of radia- mediate-radiation nuclear plant in specially-engin- where the waste would be tion,” Krizanc said. waste. eered structures. stored. Once the facility is full, the shafts would be Meanwhile, Ontario Power Work gloves, paper and The public process is about flooded in concrete, Orr Generation is close to other refuse from routine to close and hearings will said. building a Deep Geologic clean-ups and maintenance begin in Kincardine this Repository (DGR) for the of nuclear power plants is a fall. long-term management of large part of the low-radi- low and intermediate level ation waste. Filters, resins The storage facility would nuclear waste in limestone and other often-changed be built 2,230 feet below MARK BOURRIE

BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 7

“Disturbing”: Feds Sued Over Freedom Of Info Laws

A federal agency is suing its stop charging large fees to own Department of Justice compile records available over excessive fees charged electronically, including e- for information Canadians mails. are entitled by law to see at minimal cost. “The regulations must be interpreted based on the or- Information Commissioner dinary meeting of the word Suzanne Legault, former ‘non-computerized,’ which legal counsel for the justice cannot include records that department, filed applica- are stored or created on a tion in Federal Court over computer,” the Office of the prohibitive costs charged Commissioner wrote. under the Access To Informa- tion Act. None of the federal agencies to learn about competitors’ audiocassettes. named in the lawsuit would “This is enormously dis- dealings with government.” speak to Blacklock’s. turbing,” said David Eaves, In her lawsuit, Commis- an information consultant; Commissioner Legault in her sioner Legault said another “There is a presumption that last annual report said the ministry, the Department of government acts in good Department of International Human Resources, specific- STAFF faith in complying with its Trade charged “preparation ally refused her request to own laws.” fees” for electronic records numbering 500 pages or Under Access To Information more, though Access To In- Regulations, federal depart- formation Regulations state ments are forbidden from extraordinary fees may only charging large fees to com- be charged to compile non- ply with legitimate requests computerized documents. for government records. Federal law limits most elec- “These can total thousands tronic record recovery fees of dollars,” Eaves said. to $25 or less. “These are numbers that or- dinary citizens could never Non-electronic records can afford.” incur additional charges of up to $10/hour to compile Eaves noted that “some of paper documents that may the heaviest users of Ac- take more than five hours to cess To Information requests complete; 20¢ per page for are companies attempting photocopies; and $2.50 for BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 8 No Pesticide Product Recalled

found 75 percent of oolong tea samples had excessive lev- els of pesticide residue, com- pared to 50 percent for white tea, 32 percent for green tea and 20 percent for herbal and black tea.

By comparison, inspectors found less than one percent of whole or ground coffee, and one percent of fruit juices, failed to meet pesticide stan- dards.

All teas sampled were dried, and not diffused in water.

“The tea industry itself has argued that they should do this as parts per million of liquid, and there is an argu- ment out there that it should be a test of the liquid in the cup,” says Bill Kamula, a tea Federal regulators confirm directed sampling, and recall ive measures were taken on instructor at Toronto’s George they did not recall a single one of products,” the agency said dried teas that failed pesticide Brown College. “The tea in- of scores of dried teas found in a statement. standards of more than 0.1 dustry has argued for this; ob- to contain detectable levels parts per million of toxins. viously it’s to their advantage of pesticides in violation of However, federal inspectors to do so.” national standards. confirmed they did not re- “We think there are consider- call any tea samples. And the able threats to health if these Kamula said higher quality The Canadian Food Inspec- agency said it stood by its as- pesticides are found on the teas harvested from spring tion Agency said it took sertion that “exposure to these stuff that we drink and eat,” crops tend to have fewer “follow-up actions” on 66 of pesticides…is not expected said Gideon Forman, execu- pesticides, compared to sum- 267 tea samples containing to pose a human health con- tive director of Canadian As- mer teas that are more heav- “at least one pesticide viola- cern,” as reported in a federal sociation of Physicians for the ily treated with chemicals to tion,” but has declined Black- study 2010-11 Pesticides In Cof- Environment; “It would be prevent damage from insects. lock’s repeated request for de- fee, Fruit Juice And Tea. quite reasonable for Canada to tails. bring residue limits in align- “The industry will conform The Canadian Tea Associa- ment with higher European to whatever the monitoring “Follow-up actions for our tion declined an interview. Union standards. It would not standard is,” said Kamula. surveys typically include fur- destroy the economy; clearly “We’ve been kind of derelict ther analysis, notification of Food safety advocates ex- Europeans import tea.” on the issue.” the producer or importer, fol- pressed alarm at the agency’s low-up inspections, additional refusal to detail what correct- Random federal inspections STAFF BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 9

And This Year’s MPS SILENT ON Dubious Honour SPILL WARNING A parliamentary committee Commissioner Scott Vaughan, Goes To— has opted not to question in his 2012 Fall Report, de- conference – and those limo regulators over warnings Can- scribed the two regulatory rides cost enough money to ada is unprepared for a major boards’ emergency plans as immunize 2,000 kids,” Thom- Atlantic oil spill. uncoordinated, “inconsistent,” as told reporters. incomplete and untested. MPs rejected a motion to ques- The federation’s other federal tion executives of the Canada- In recent testimony to the nominees included: Nova Scotia Offshore Petrol- Senate finance committee, eum Board, and its counterpart Commissioner Vaughan went • $126 million in funding in Newfoundland & Labrador. further in stressing the boards The Canadian Taxpayers for the Senate, an insti- “I want to get this on the rec- “need to do more to prepare Federation has issued the an- tution “in dire need of ord,” said Liberal MP Ted Hsu, for a major oil spill.” nual awards nobody wants: its reform or abolition,” the who sponsored the motion. yearly observance of the most group said; “We identified several defi- wasteful spending of public The Commons’ Standing ciencies that limit the offshore funds. • $5 million in funding Committee on Natural Re- boards’ ability to take over the from Western Economic sources voted down Hsu’s mo- response should operators fail “It’s enough to bring you to Diversification Canada tion without comment. to respond appropriately to a tears,” said Gregory Thomas, for hemp processor Gen- major oil spill,” said Vaughan. the federation’s federal direc- esis of Waskada, Man.: “For example, the boards and tor. “Less than a year after federal entities have not tested doling out the money their collective plans or joint The advocacy group pre- under the guise of Can- capacity, and roles and respon- sented a mock Lifetime ada’s Economic Action sibilities are not always clear Achievement Award to Bev Plan, the 25,000 sq.ft. in their response plans.” Oda, former minister of inter- processing plant is emp- national co-operation, who ty and hasn’t been used MP Hsu had proposed that resigned in 2012 following a once”; “I thought normally there Parliament summon execu- succession of apologies for might be debate on this im- tives of the Nova Scotia and misspending. • $826,000 in funding by portant issue,” said Hsu, MP for Newfoundland boards to ad- the Department of Agri- Kingston and the Islands, Ont. dress the fndings, and report The federation cited Oda culture to a Brampton, back to the House of Com- for “outrageous expenses” “As parliamentarians we mons within ninety days. including $17,000 in limou- Specialists, to “develop should be looking in-depth an explosion-free saus- at these issues,” Hsu added. “If something bad happens in months in Cabinet; a billing age.” “When authorities point out one part of the industry, it is for a $665-a night room at work that needs to be done, it bad for the whole industry,” London’s Savoy hotel, includ- The taxpayers’ advocacy is Parliament’s job to ask ques- said Hsu. ing $16 for a glass of room- group described its awards as tions.” service orange juice; a $250 a public shaming intended to Committee chairman Leon fine for smoking in her ho- reduce misspending of tax- The federal Commissioner Benoit, Conservative MP for tel room; and $3,000 in limo payers’ funds. of the Environment earlier Vegreville-Wainwright, Alta., rides while in the UK. warned both boards lack ad- would not take Blacklock’s equate plans in event of a cat- questions. “$3,000 for a private car to astrophic oil spill in Atlantic take her to an immunization PAUL DELAHANTY waters. STAFF BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 10 Rail “Duopoly” Under Fire At Committee

Canada’s railway “duopoly” arbitrator and makes the case, by billion-dollar he has a 50-50 chance the commercial customers, in- arbitrator will say, ‘You know cluding one mining execu- what, the big bad railroad – tive who likened dealings with I’ll go with you.’ If every other railways to a hostage taking. shipper would like to have their service at 8 am, we just The remarks came in testi- can’t service everybody at mony to the Commons trans- once.” port committee on Bill C-52, the Fair Rail Freight Service The Canadian Propane As- Act, that obliges railways to sociation praised the Fair Rail provide service agreements to Freight Service Act as a mod- commercial shippers. est improvement on current operators who “just come when “It is a bit of an irony when practice. “This is a duopoly,” said Ri- they’re available.” Under the you’re lucky to have a railroad chard Paton, president and legislation, railways would be serving your mine, that you “There is a need for some kind CEO of the Chemical Industry subject to $100,000 fines for are somehow becoming a cap- of dispute mechanism,” said Association of Canada; “We violating service agreements. tive shipper,” Mongeau told Jim Facette, association presi- have no rights.” MPs. “We have mines all over dent and CEO; “What we see However, the Mining Asso- this country at the moment is a balanced approach. It is Bill C-52 allows shippers to ciation of Canada called the that would like us to build rail not too interventionist.” request contracted terms of fines “an indirect tax” that lines to serve them.” service from the nation’s two railways would pass on to “We don’t want legislation large rail carriers, Canadian customers. Mongeau said CN had a 95 that is overly prescriptive in National and Canadian Pacif- - crossing every ‘t’ and dotting ic, with resort to binding arbi- “The biggest issue rail cus- ment,” but did not provide every ‘i’,” Facette told Black- tration. tomers have is they do not details. lock’s. “Every industry has its know what they are getting own perspective, but what I A shippers’ coalition has for the rates they pay,” said The rail executive called Can- hear is – ‘Pass the bill, with proposed amendments that Pierre Gratton, association ada’s system “the envy of the amendments if possible.’” would more specifically de- president and CEO. “The re- world,” and dismissed com- mote locations of many min- plainants: “The railroad in- Railways transport most of other terms. ing operations leave miners dustry is like a bus service. Canada’s surface freight, often captive to one of the You cannot pick up everybody by federal estimate, includ- “If this was better defined, two railways and frequently ing more than 250,000,000 we’d be in a better position to stranded, without alterna- someone, and drop them off tonnes of minerals, wood negotiate these agreements tive modes of transporta- products, auto parts and other and carry on,” said Paton, tion.” a customer decides he would goods; 75 percent of fertil- representing the country’s like his switching at 8 in the izers; 80 percent of chemical $47 billion chemical industry. It was “captivity,” Gratton morning because that’s after production and 80 percent of told MPs – a characterization he comes back from Tim Hor- grains and oilseed exports. In an interview, Paton com- ridiculed by Canadian Nation- ton’s and he likes it at 8 in the pared railways to snowplow al’s CEO Claude Mongeau. morning, and he goes to an STAFF BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 11

“What Rights Do We Have Right Now?”

commercial arbitration of dis- months; we want this cor- putes. rected.”

“This is not to be a punitive, Fertilizer producers have in- retroactive penalty kind of vested some $15 billion in pot- system,” Larson said. “It’s a ash expansion and $3 billion matter of saying, for example, in nitrogen fertilizer expan- that we think the agreement sion – “stranded investments,” says we should have 150 cars said Larson, unless rail service delivered every week to this improves. mine…We’ve only had 80 cars per week for the last three STAFF

Canadian industry requires “We have been convinced the more federal regulation of railways will never agree to railways if shippers and ex- a complete list of contracted porters are to grow, warns an terms without a legislated executive. backstop,” Larson said in an interview; “We need more ser- Roger Larson, president of vice from the railways, more the Canadian Fertilizer Insti- tute, said producers are at a see it is a sustained commit- loss to hold the nation’s two ment that will not be under- largest railways to service mined by some future railway agreements without federal CEO.” oversight. In earlier testimony to the “Practically speaking, what Commons transport commit- rights do we have now?” said tee, Larson noted 75 percent Larsen. “You can sue the rail- of fertilizer production is ex- ways; it’s expensive, time- ported to the United States consuming and unlikely to and other foreign markets. get results. You can file a complaint with the Canadian “We move 70 percent of our Transportation Agency – product to farmers in 70 days,” same result.” Larson told MPs. “So, we have a very compressed season and MPs are conducting hearings it started in January.” on Bill C-52, the Fair Rail Ser- vice Freight Act, which grants Fertilizer producers and commercial shippers the right other industries have sought to demand service agreements amendments to the Fair Rail from Canadian National and Service Freight Act that would www.robinbakerartist.com Canadian Pacific Rail, with more narrowly define ser- resort to arbitration. vice commitments, and speed BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 12

A Railway Slowdown?

A Western trade group al- “A more credible and more leges railways have slowed recent survey was conducted service since the introduc- for shippers themselves last tion of a rail reform bill. year by Supply Chain Sur- veys Inc.,” Bourque told MPs. Shippers charge the coun- “This survey reports that try’s largest railways im- 72.5 percent of shippers re- proved freight movement till ported 95 percent or better the introduction of Bill C-52, on-time departures and on- the Fair Rail Freight Service time arrivals performance Act, last Dec. 11. from their carriers.”

“As recently as two weeks ago we had mills just about shut It is therefore necessary to of unsatisfied clients, say- ALEX BINKLEY down because they couldn’t use the law to give shippers ing it was based on 262 re- get boxcars in western Can- more leverage to negotiate spondents and conducted ada,” said Ian May, chair of service agreements with the five years ago. [PHOTO: LIBRARY & ARCHIVES CANADA] the Western Canadian Ship- railways.” pers’ Coalition. Another industry group, the “I can tell you that the oper- Forest Products Association Best of Sheree ating model that our mer- of Canada, described the chandise members are used market dominance of the to, is asking for forty cars two largest railways as an ob- and being told, ‘Well, I can stacle to “opening up Canada give you 30’ – and then re- to the world economy.” ceiving twenty,” May told MPs; “It may be worse than The Railway Association you folks realize it is.” of Canada, in a submission to the Commons transport Robert Ballantyne, chair of committee, dismissed ser- the Coalition of Rail Ship- vice complaints. pers, cited a survey that found 62 percent of rail “The myth I would like to customers “reported they address is that somehow rail- had suffered financial con- ways are failing the country,” sequences as a result of poor said Michael Bourque, asso- performance.” ciation president and CEO. “‘Our cars don’t show up half “We’re not dealing with a the time.’ ‘They’re broken’; normal free market,” said ‘they don’t work.’ The reality Ballantyne; “The reality is is something else.” that many shippers have lim- ited choices when it comes Bourque questioned the to shipping their products. shippers’ coalition survey BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 13 A Shark Warning In Ottawa

we have in Canada is the unintended catches of Canadian regulators banned shark .

- ready know – that shark populations are in peril,” said Fin Donnelly, New Demo- crat MP for -Coquit- lam-, and sponsor of a private bill to outlaw the sale of shark fins in Canada. “I’m feeling hopeful that I will Shark populations are declining around have enough support so it can at least be the world and it should be a concern for studied at committee.” policymakers in Canada, researchers warn in a study published in a science journal. Several municipalities have debated such bans. Vancouver, Richmond, and The paper Global Catches, Exploitation Burnaby, B.C. earlier considered a Rates and Rebuilding Options for Sharks in three-city ban to prevent the sale of “OPINIONATED” the periodical Marine Policy is being shark fin, but deferred the issue to fed- A Poem by Shai Ben-Shalom called one of the most comprehensive eral regulators. publications ever to gauge the death rates of sharks around the world. - ing imported into Canada are only being “Most sharks they are being caught at a sourced from non-endangered species or faster rate than they can replace them- practice shark My cat moves across the kitchen table selves,” said co-author Prof. Mike Heit- to set my priorities. haus, of Florida International University. “Matters relating to shark finning and shark fin food products, however, are She positions herself The researchers calculate that there were within federal rather than municipal on today’s newspaper. an estimated 100 million shark deaths in jurisdiction.” 2000 and 97 million in 2010. The auth- Her eyes ors blamed the declining population, in A municipal ban in Toronto was struck in my cereal bowl. part, on the down by Ontario Superior Court in 2012 in Asian delicacy. a similar question over jurisdiction. Her rear end in the Opinion section. “If we knock sharks out it may disrupt other “I don’t see that as a setback,” said on,” said Heithaus, adding Donnelly. “Canada would become a that sharks function similar to land-based leader. We would be the first in the (Editor’s note: the author, an Israeli- predators such as wolves by helping to bal- world to take on an import ban.” ance the Donnelly’s Bill C-380, An Act To Amend The collection of poems, Martians Among Fish Inspection Act And The Fisheries Act Us, with In/Words Press) “Canada is an importer of we also export some that are taken off for debate on March 22, with a vote on sharks that were landed,” said Dr. Boris second reading on anticipated March 27. Worm, a co-author of the study at Dal- housie University. “The biggest problem KAVEN BAKER-VOAKES BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 14 Policing At A Price

Canadian companies victim- suspected counterfeit goods. Under C-56, copyright ized by counterfeiters must pay And amendments to the Trade- a “request for the cost of enforcement under marks Act impose maximum assistance” with regulators to legislation introduced in the fines of $1 million and up to track and detain cross-bor- House of Commons. der shipments of counterfeit manufacture, sale and distribu- products. Bill C-56, An Act to Amend the tion of fake products, similar to Copyright Act and Trademarks provisions of the Copyright Act. However, the Department Act, requires that copyright of Industry may “as a condi- holders pay expenses of track- “At the moment our border tion of accepting a request for ing, seizing, storing and de- t have the power assistance…require that the “storage and handling for the stroying bootleg imports. to stop counterfeit goods even copyright owner furnish se- detained copies – and, if applic- when it’s obvious,” said Regan, curity in an amount and form able, for the charges of destroy- “I want to hear testimony MP for Halifax West. “This ing them” (Sec. 44.07). from companies on this very can be a question of public payment of an amount for question,” said Geoff Regan, safety. Business has been ad- which the copyright owner The value of counterfeit goods Liberal industry and consum- vocating for years. Most coun- becomes liable,” according to seized by the RCMP has grown er affairs critic. the legislation (Sec. 44.02). five-fold since 2005, from more powers than ours do. $7,600,000 to $38 million. The legislation grants border I’m surprised the government And copyright owners are officers new powers to seize hasn’t acted sooner.” responsible for the cost of TOM KORSKI “This is a crime issue”

health and safety. We don’t “We have a member who subscribe to the notion that manufactures brake parts,” this is an issue of property Laurin said. “Imagine if a disputes.” container load of counter- feit brake parts are seized. The industry group said it What would it cost to store will seek details of fees pro- those? What would it cost posed in Bill C-56, An Act to to destroy them? We don’t Amend the Copyright Act and know.” Trademarks Act. Copyright Laurin continued, “We need assistance” with the Depart- more clarity on this.” ment of Industry must pay the cost of tracking, seizing, Police have identified China, storing and destroying boot- Hong Kong, the United leg imports. States, India and Thailand as primary sources of bogus The department has not said products. Canadian companies are “This is a crime issue,” said how much it would charge, or questioning the bill that Jean-Michel Laurin, of the published a schedule of fees. would force them to pay the Canadian Manufacturers & And Industry Minister Chris- cost of enforcing copyright Exporters. “Counterfeiting is tian Paradis would not take STAFF law on counterfeiters. a crime and a threat to public Blacklock’s questions. BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 15 Landmarks Ottawa Destroyed: The Broad Street Station

The CPR was granted $25,000,000 in subsidies, a land grant of 25 million acres, a 20-year monopoly on freight rates, free right-of-way through Crown lands and exemption from all local taxes in the West. In exchange, the railway paid kickbacks to John A. Macdonald and his Cabinet totalling $440,000.

“Even to railway promoters of the United States, accustomed as they were to the lobbying and corruption It was a monument to scandal. For 19th in the legislatures of their country, the century visitors and VIPs, the last stop lavish terms of this agreement caused in Ottawa was Canadian Pacific Rail- astonishment,” wrote an MP. way’s Broad Street station. It had no more frequent visitor than Prime Min- Abbott kept a tally of all the payoffs, ister John Abbott, millionaire lawyer but on the witness stand at a subse- and CPR fixer. The station is gone now, quent inquiry suffered a memory lapse; the scandal forgotten. And Abbott is asked if he acted as a CPR bagman, Ab- recalled only as the great-grandfather bott replied: “No, I don’t think I was…” of actor Christopher Plummer. lic work will only make me hated?” Public life made Abbott rich. He He also remains the only prime min- The Broad Street station was designed owned a fabulous mansion in Mont- ister who never made a public speech. by architect Edward Maxwell in the real and 300-acre country estate on When he died of cancer in 1893, Sat- trademark chateau style the CPR made the west end of the island. Here he urday Night magazine marveled the famous nationwide. It rang to the hiss built a baronial house with a library news “occasioned surprisingly little and clang of steam locomotives on and conservatories, surrounded by comment.” the Ottawa-to-Montreal run morning, farms, orchards, and gardens. No noon and night. wonder he didn’t have a residence in The Broad Street train station burned Ottawa; he could escape Parliament in a 1900 fire. And the old CPR tracks Abbott travelled by free CPR pass be- Hill, arriving at the Broad Street sta- on what is now LeBreton Flats were tween Montreal and Parliament Hill tion at dinnertime and be in Montreal removed by 1970. – but not always on public business. by 9 pm. ANDREW ELLIOTT

As counsel he incorporated the CPR Despite the Pacific Scandal, Abbott [PHOTOS: LIBRARY & ARCHIVES CANADA PA-008676 & PA-026319] and served as director. He also toted survived as an appointed senator. the cash used to buy votes in the Named a caretaker prime minister (Editor’s note: the author is a federal archiv- House and Senate. Abbott was a key in 1891, he served eighteen joyless ist who chronicles historic architecture at figure in the 1874 Pacific Scandal, “the months as leader. glebeheritageblog.wordpress.com, and in most stupendous contract ever made 2012 wrote The Glorious Years: Peterbor- under a responsible government,” as “I hate politics,” Abbott wrote; “Why ough’s Golden Age of Architecture 1840- one newspaperman put it. should I go where the doing of pub- 1940, Borealis Press) BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 16 U.S. Railway Cited Over Nuisance Complaints

“Mr. Chaput states when the train pass- es, the horn is blown for long periods of time during the day and night, and the car switching near his residence is like living in a war zone,” the agency wrote.

Disturbances logged by neighbours living within 30 metres of the rail line included a January 2012 incident in which a locomotive was left idling for 32 consecutive hours, and another case in which a train whistle sounded con- tinuously from 2 am to 3:35 am: “It was believed the horn was broken.”

In documents filed with regulators, CSX Corp. said that “given the proxim- ity the complainants live to the railway line, one can expect train operations to be heard.”

A federal agency has cited a U.S. railway “We have told CSX, if you want to The Florida-based railroad declined for violating Canadian regulations fol- buy our house, please go ahead,” said an interview, but Blacklock’s in a state- lowing noise and nuisance complaints O’Connor. “We can’t sell our home. No- ment that it “places great importance from neighbours in a small Quebec body will buy it because of the railroad.” on being a good neighbour” and is re- town. viewing the federal case. Regulators noted the blare of repeated CSX Corp. was found in violation of the train whistles exceed World Health “They used to run one train a day Canada Transportation Act for idling Organization thresholds for “sleep dis- through town,” Mrs. O’Connor said. locomotives for hours at a time at a turbance,” and that idling locomotives “Now it is back and forth across the switching junction in a neighbourhood can “produce loud, low-frequency street, and you never know: are they in Huntingdon, Que. noise” disturbing enough to rattle win- passing through? Will they idle for 15 dow panes. minutes? Will it last several hours?” “This has been going on for years,” said Shirley O’Connor, a complainant. The Huntingdon line dates from 1897. “It is very stressful,” she said. “There are times we just about gave Since 2004 CSX and Canadian Nation- up.” al have used the town as a switching The Transportation Agency recom- junction for rail cars shuttled between mended CSX reduce idling times, park The Canadian Transportation Agency Montreal and Massena, NY. locomotives away from Huntingdon ruled CSX “failed to comply with its residents or find another location to obligations” under federal law with Shirley O’Connor, her husband Elzear switch cars. “unnecessary whistling” and idling and a neighbour, Clarence-Michel locomotives day and night at the Hun- Chaput, complained to the Transporta- tingdon exchange. tion Agency. TOM KORSKI BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013 17

book review Fit, Young and Fascist

Beginning in 1937 with Britain’s Physical a professor of history at New Zealand’s Training and Recreation Act, and spreading Victoria University. through the “white Dominions” of Can- ada, Australia and New Zealand, legisla- for programs. Physical Fitness held its inaugural meet- ing in 1943, directors announced: “This This is an intriguing story, crisply told. Council stresses the fourfold nature of The interest here was not merely a is spiritual, moral, mental good cardiovascular workout. It was a must movement laced with political themes originate in the home, the church, the of national superiority, anti-decadence school and the community.” and regimentation: “Some suspected the Physical Training and Recreation Act of - being the wolf of conscription dressed in paigns the author leaves unexplored the innocence of sport as sheep’s cloth- – the parallel themes of eugenics and ing,” notes Professor Macdonald. “It was white superiority, and who was decid- hard to dispel entirely the impression edly not that the a sign of a desire for a stronger, even au- Instead, we are left with two souvenirs thoritarian politics.” of this strange era that everyone agrees are so wholesome, it’s just as well the full In British Columbia, volunteers with the story is untold. Everything was political in the 1930s. It Provincial Recreation program num- was a haunted decade that “almost made bered 27,000 by 1938. Members could One is the permanent role of govern- me a Communist,” as one Alberta pre- purchase a 15¢ Pro-Rec crest, were en- ment in amateur sport, and the accept- mier put it. couraged to adopt simple uniforms and ance that phys-ed in schools and main- abide the motto: “Health, Beauty, Diet tenance of hiking trails in national parks Strong, Beautiful and Modern captures and Sports.” “became part of what was expected to be the oddest political expression of all, provided as public service,” concludes the campaign for physical culture. In Ontario, the Women’s League of Macdonald. Archival images of mass synchronized Health and Beauty debuted in 1935 and exercises of the Pro-Rec league in the had 5,000 members in Toronto alone And the other is the British Empire ath- parks of Vancouver bear an unnerving within two years. resemblance to parades of bronzed Ont. in 1930 – and known today as the youth so popular in Nazi Germany and In Parliament, Liberal MP Hugh Plax- Commonwealth Games. Stalin’s Russia. ton, a varsity star who played one NHL season with the Montreal Maroons, in bod- 1937 advocated the formation of a min- HOLLY DOAN ies in the 1930s was not the monopoly istry of sport. It was a question of na- of totalitarian and right-wing regimes,” tional prestige, he said. Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fit- writes historian Charlotte Macdonald; ness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and “Was it a modernity of individuality and “Sports and body cultures did not sit out- Canada 1935-1960 by Charlotte Macdonald; freedom or of mass conformity and na- side the polarising politics of the 1930s, UBC Press; 240 pages; ISBN 9780-7748- tional duty?” but were part of it,” writes Macdonald, 25290; $34.95

19 APPOINTMENTS BLACKLOCK’S REPORTER NO. 021 MAR. 25 2013

Allison, Scott – of Collingwood, Ont., re- Day, Natasha – of Saskatoon, appointed Kozlenko, Mariya – of North York, Ont., Rahnama, Hossein – of Toronto, appoint- appointed a director, Canadian Tourism a full-time member, Parole Board Prairie appointed an official bankruptcy trustee, ed a member, Natural Sciences & Engin- Commission, Feb. 7 Region, effective April 2 Feb. 28 eering Research Council, Feb. 7 Ellis, Rear-Admiral J.E.T.P. – of Ottawa, Audet, Josée – of Berthier-sur-Mer, Que., Larue Stéphane – of Ottawa, appointed Reay, Kevin – of Dundas, Ont., appointed appointed a member, Social Sciences & appointed Deputy Commander, Royal Can- Consul General in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. Humanities Research Council, Feb. 7 adian Navy, National Defence HQ, Feb. 6 14 an official bankruptcy trustee, Feb. 28 Aymar, Alkisa – of Meteghan River, NS, Foster, Maj.-Gen. R.D. – of Ottawa, ap- Leduc, Raymond – of Bromont, Que., re- Rivest, Marie-José – of Montréal, re- reappointed a member, Atlantic Pilotage pointed Deputy Commander, RCAF, at Na- appointed a member, National Research appointed a member, Immigration & Refu- Authority, Feb. 7 tional Defence HQ, Feb. 6 Council, Oct. 4 gee Board of Canada, Montreal region, Baker, John – of Waterloo, Ont., appointed Fujarczuk, Richard – of Ottawa, appoint- Lee, David – of Toronto, reappointed a March 1 ed Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel a member, Social Sciences & Humanities member, Immigration & Refugee Board, Robertson, Sharon – of Kitchener, Ont., Research Council, Feb. 7 to House of Commons, March 7 Toronto region, effective April 12 reappointed a citizenship judge, Feb. 7 Bale, Richard – of Ottawa, appointed Gagné, Martin – of Blainville, Que., ap- Lloyd, Rear-Admiral M.F.R. – of Ottawa, Consul General in Mumbai, India, Feb. 15 pointed a director, Canadian Commercial appointed Deputy Commander (Exped- Santarpia, Commodore B.W. N. – of Ot- Corp., Feb. 7 itionary_ Canadian Joint Operations Com- tawa, appointed Director General of Navy Barone, Sam – of Ottawa, appointed vice- mand, Feb. 6 Personnel, National Defence HQ, Feb. 6 chair, Canadian Transportation Agency, Gallagher, Stephen – of Kirkland, Que., with a salary in the range of $196,800 to reappointed a member, Immigration & Luciak, Lubomyr – of Kingston, Ont., ap- Saroli, Pasquale – of Ottawa, reappointed Refugee Board, Montreal region, effective $231,500, Feb. 13 pointed a part-time member, National Par- a member, Canadian International Trade April 12 ole board, Ontario division, effective April 2 Belleau, Marcel – of Québec City, ap- Tribunal, March 10 pointed a commissioner, National Battle- Gardam, Rear-Admiral D.C. – of Ottawa, McGraw, Louis-Philippe – of Moncton, fields Commission, Feb. 7 appointed Chief of Force Development, NB, appointed a member, Parole Board of Schembri, Lawrence – of Ottawa, ap- National Defence HQ, Feb. 6 Canada, Atlantic Region, Feb. 11 pointed Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada, Bennett, Dr. Andrew – of Ottawa, named Feb. 21 Ambassador for Religious Freedom, with Garnier, Emilie – of Montréal, appointed Marshall, Robert – of Winnipeg, ap- a salary in the range of $117,300 to an official bankruptcy trustee, Feb. 28 pointed a part-time member, Parole Board Schoepp, Brenda – of Rimbey, Alta., ap- $137,900, Feb. 19 Giguère, Guy – of Ottawa, appointed chair, of Canada, Prairie region, effective April 2 pointed a director, Farm Credit Canada, Bertoia, Peter – of Drumbo, Ont., appoint- Public Service Staffing Tribunal, with a sal- Mercure, Robert – of Québec City, ap- Feb. 12 ary in the range of $139,900 to $164,600, ed an official bankruptcy trustee, Feb. 28 pointed a director, Canadian Tourism Com- Senécal-Tremblay, Marie – of Montréal, effective March 29 mission, Feb. 7 Bingham, Cathy – of Scarborough, Ont., appointed a citizenship judge, effective appointed an official bankruptcy trustee, Gupta, Susheel – of Ottawa, appointed Meyers, Troy – of Dartmouth, NS, ap- acting chair of the Canadian Human Rights April 2 Feb. 28 Tribunal, with a salary in the range of pointed a trustee, Canadian Museum of Immigration, March 5 Siteman, Lantz – of Halifax, appointed a Bloom, Glen – of Ottawa, appointed a $226,100 to $266,000, effective April 5 director, Halifax Port Authority, Feb. 7 member, Canadian Cultural Property Ex- Hainse, Lt.-Gen. J.M.M. – of Ottawa, ap- Millar, Maj.-Gen. D.B. – of Ottawa, ap- port Review Board, Feb. 7 pointed Commander of the Canadian Army, pointed Chief of Military Personnel at Na- Taylor, Rod – of Whitehorse, reappointed tional Defence HQ, Feb. 6 Brabant, Carolle – of Montréal, re- Feb. 6 a director, Canadian Tourism Commission, appointed executive director, Telefilm Can- Hallsor, Robert – of Victoria, appointed a Morris, Sandy – of Toronto, reappointed Feb. 7 ada, with a salary in the range of $210,600 director, Prince Rupert Port Authority, Feb. a member, Immigration & Refugee Board, to $247,700, Feb. 7 Toronto region, March 1 Thibault, Darlene – of Laval, Que., re- 7 appointed a director, Export Development Brazeau, Denis – of Longueuil, Que., Hamel, Bruno – of Ottawa, reappointed Mungovan, David – of Toronto, appointed Canada, Feb. 7 reappointed vice-chair, Canadian Forces chair, Canadian Forces Grievance Board, a member, Immigration & Refugee Board, Grievance Board, Feb. 9 with a salary in the range of $139,900 t Toronto region, effective June 14 Thibault, Lt.-Gen. G.R. – of Ottawa, ap- Bromley, David – of Vancouver, appointed $164,500, March 2 Newton, Rear-Admiral J.F. – of Halifax, pointed Vice Chief of Defence Staff, Feb. 6 a director, Ridley Terminals, Feb. 13 Hood, Maj.-Gen. M.J. – of Ottawa, ap- appointed Commander, Maritime Forces Tratch, Shelley – of Vancouver, re- Atlantic, Feb. 6 Caddle, Lisa – of Toronto, appointed an pointed Director of Staff, Strategic Joint appointed a director, Canada Deposit In- official bankruptcy trustee, Feb. 28 Staff, National Defence HQ, Feb. 6 Norman, Vice-Admiral M.A.G. – of Ot- surance Corp., Feb. 7 Hughes, Andrew – of Hamilton, appointed tawa, appointed Deputy Commander, Calyniuk, Michael – of Vancouver, ap- Royal Canadian Navy, National Defence Uppal, Atam – of Toronto, reappointed a pointed a director, Business Development an official bankruptcy trustee, Feb. 28 HQ, Feb. 6 member, Immigration & Refugee Board, Bank of Canada, Feb. 7 Ivany, Raymond – of Wolfville, NS, ap- O’Brien, Kate – of St. John’s, appointed a Toronto region, effective July 17 Crane, Mary – of Kensington, PEI, ap- pointed a member, Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council, Feb. 7 member, Payments in Lieu of Taxes Dis- Walberg, Murray - of Thunder Bay, Ont., pointed a part-time member, National Par- pute Advisory Panel, Feb. 7 ole Board, Atlantic Region, effective April 2 Jollette, Denis – of Ottawa, reappointed a appointed a director, Thunder Bay Port Au- Oyelese, Olumide – of Calgary, appointed Cunningham, John – of Toronto, Ont., full-time member, Parole Board of Canada, thority, Feb. 7 Feb. 18 an official bankruptcy trustee, Feb. 28 appointed Special Advisor to the Attorney Wemyss, Nicholas – of Victoria, appoint- General on Federal Court Prothonotaries Joyce, Brig.-Gen. D.W. – of Ottawa, ap- Pal, Surinder – of Winnipeg, appointed a ed a director, Canada Deposit Insurance Compensation, with per diem in the range member, Payment in Lieu of Taxes Dispute pointed Military Advisor to the Privy Coun- Corp., Feb. 7 of $700 to $900, Feb. 26 cil, Feb. 6 Advisory Panel, Feb. 7 Day, Maj.-Gen. M.D. – of Ottawa, appoint- Kaminska, Bozena – of Vancouver, ap- Player, Scott – of London, Ont., appointed Young, John F. – of Prince George, BC, ap- ed Chief of Force Development, National pointed a member, Natural sciences & En- a director, Canadian Commercial Corp., pointed vice-chair, Canadian Museum for Defence HQ, Feb. 6 gineering Research Council, Feb. 7 Feb. 7 Human Rights, Feb. 11