Ron Basford, Minister of Con Sumer and Corporate Affairs, Done 21 BOOKS for Him?
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Chronicl^^| UBC ALUMNI • • e , ••i*w»5ii*,;--?9: y<i/ ,6s: .:'<rZ'- m '^WJZr..'- d4? - \ WWEMBQ & QUEBEC^ THE BEGINNING OR THE END? Heui Fiesta-Siesta cruise to mexko From Los Angeles or San Diego So you can fiesta or siesta. Or both. to Puerto Vallarta. Twelve departures December 17 through 11 days round trip. April 17. Thrift season rates extended all winter This is one cruise where you set the pace. Lively or lazy. Fiesta or Siesta. Either New rate reductions will save you from way, every minute's a holiday. $55 to $105 per person on all sailings You sail on the M.S. Orpheus to some except the Christmas Cruise, December 17. of Mexico's most intriguing, most secluded Regular winter season fares begin at $390 resorts. To La Paz, Mazatlan, Cabo San round trip. So plan now to put sunny Lucas, Puerto Vallarta. Mexico into the middle of your winter. Your ship is Greek. Amenities and Cruise for 11 days round trip, or combine service are superb. 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ROBERT McKENZIE Clive Cocking RECOLLECTIONS 16 OF JOE'S PALACE Dave Brock 18 STAGE CAMPUS 70 Pity the poor consumer . what has Ron Basford, minister of con sumer and corporate affairs, done 21 BOOKS for him? ... p. 8 Reviews by Allan Fotheringham, Trevor Lautens, Clive Cocking and Audrey Down 26 ALUMNI NEWS 29 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 30 SPOTLIGHT EDITOR Clive Cocking, BA'62 EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Susan Jamieson, BA'65 COVER Annette Breukelman ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE National Advertising Representatives Ltd. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Frank C Walden, BA'49, chairman, Mrs. R. W. Wellwood, BA'51, vice- chairman, Mrs. Frederick Field, BA'42, past chairman, Miss Kirsten Emmott, Med 2, Dr. Joseph Katz, BA, MEd (Man), PhD (Chicago), Philip British Prime Minister Heath pro Keatley, BA'51, Peter Ladner, BA'70, Fred Moonen, BA'49, Trevor poses to sell arms to South Africa Lautens, BA (McMaster), Jack K. Stathers, BA'55, MA'58, Dr. Ross . political scientist Dr. Robert Stewart, BA'46, MA'48, PhD (Washington), Dr. Erich W. Vogt, BSc, McKenzie speculates on the motives MSc, (Man), PhD (Princeton), Miss Alex Volkoff, Arts 4. and the implications . p. 13 Published quarterly by Ihe Alumni Association of The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Business and editorial offices: Cecil Green Park, 6251 N.W. Marine Dr., U.B.C, Vancouver 8, B.C. SUBSCRIPTIONS: The Alumni Chronicle is sent to all alumni of the university. Non-alumni subscriptions are available at $3 a year. Postage paid at the Third Class rate. Permit No. 2067. Member American Alumni Council. •H^ll VOLUME 24, NO. 4, WINTER 1970 Tliiltl QEPIIIIIIIIDtblNNINPb UflDTUK lilEt [1111tNII9 I Allan Smith WITH THE KIDNAPPING of James remaining to federalism to prove its there is no doubt, then, that October Cross and the murder of Pierre La- worth to the people of French Can 1970 marks a turning point in the porte, Quebec's Quiet Revolution ada is more limited than most history of Quebec and of Canada, has entered a new phase. No longer English-Canadians suspected follow it is not yet clear in what direction will it be possible to assume with ing the elections of last April. events will move. Will Quebec re easy confidence that the course of Yet those same events, however, gain stability and continue to func political life in the province of have also raised the possibility that tion within the Canadian federal Quebec will be, in the main, tranquil calm may be restored. They have system, or does the future offer only and calm. No longer will it be pos suggested that the Front de Libera unrest, disruption and violence, with sible to dismiss the acts of violence tion du Quebec (FLQ) may have a separate Quebec at the end of the which have taken place in Quebec outreached itself. They suggest that road? during the last seven years as re it may have moved too far too fast The FLQ has emerged from the grettable but wholly transitory and that it may therefore have lost breakdown of the value system that phenomena. The events of October whatever chance it once possessed governed the society of French Can have suggested, too, that the time of getting widespread support. While ada until after the Second World War. Following the collapse of the the discontent of the Quebec worker, social and economic order—rural has produced the sense of frustration and agrarian—upon which that and grievance which is now so value system rested, there arose an marked a feature of politics and industrial and urban Quebec in society in Quebec. All of this has which the values of a conservative, in turn been compounded by the Catholic culture had no place. The dislocation induced by the break state replaced the Church as the down of the old order. And this in premier institution of Quebec and its turn explains the Quiet Revolu the guardian of society. The funda tion, which has been, essentially, an mental dislocation produced by the attempt to respond to these frustra sudden irrelevance of old truths and tions by remaking Quebec in the traditional institutions was intensi image of a modern industrial state fied by the real and substantial controlled by and functioning in the grievances felt by the people of interests of the people who inhabit Quebec. it. The elements at the root of these This sense of frustration and grievances are not new. The econ grievance explains, more particu omy has been controlled by anglo larly, the massive defeat of the phone elements since 1760. The National Union in April 1970, for anglophone community has exer that party no longer seemed capable cised its functions not in the interests of imparting direction in these con of Quebec society at large but in the fused times. It explains the victory interests of itself, an elite which has of Bourassa, for he promised a cure people of Quebec were told, there been involved in the life of the to the hard grievances on which would at last be a state of Quebec society around it only in the most this discontent rests, a cure which under the control of the French- formal sense. While the anglophone would have the advantage (a con speaking majority. community has benefited massively siderable one in these difficult times) Finally, this fundamental disloca from its central place in the prov of not involving further and basic tion explains the FLQ. The sense of ince's economic life, the franco disruptions in the life of his society. uncertainty produced by the break phone population has functioned as It explains the Creditiste phenom down of the old order coupled with little more than a pool of cheap enon, for that remarkable band of the incapacity of that which has re labor. Of all the ethnic groups charlatans proposed easy solutions placed it to come fully to grips with which inhabit the population of to confused men in the country, the social, economic, and cultural Quebec, only the newly arrived who do not understand. But most of problems facing Quebec, has con Italians and the native Indians re all this sense of frustration explains vinced the FLQ of the need for radi ceive a lower wage. For a long time the existence of the Parti Quebegois cal action. The FLQ has no time for these things were not seen as a cause as the most vital force in Quebec the Parti Quebegois. It sees that for resentment. Schooled in a system politics today. party as a middle class organization which eschewed commercial activity, The Parti Quebegois received the which will do nothing more than the people of Quebec, and their impressive popular vote—24 per replace anglophone capitalism with leaders, paid little attention to com cent—in the April election because francophone capitalism, and make merce and trade, save as these things it proposed a plan of action and a Quebec the plaything of a French- represented a threat to the conser set of principles which seemed to speaking rather than an English- vative and Catholic society they had meet simultaneously the need to speaking elite. It proposes a clear been educated to venerate. But the reorganize the economy and alter and simple program which cuts growth of industry in Quebec, the the status of the majority. Central to introduction of an educational sys its programme was the notion that tem that equips French-speaking the resources of Quebec should be Canadians to function in industrial placed in the hands of the province's society, the choice many immigrants people by a programme of nationali to Quebec make to speak English zation. It proposed, too, that the rather than French, the difficulties government, functioning as the agent faced by those who want to speak of the people, should actively in French at work, and a new and in volve itself in the creation of new tense consciousness of the privileged industry through the medium of an position occupied by the anglophone effective development corporation.