VOLUME 13. NUMBER 9 TORONTO, NOVEMBER 8. 1973

MEMBERS OF VIET SQUIRREL'S GOON SQUAD AS THEY

PREPARE TO PREDETATE UPON UNAWARE GLENDONIfES. NOVEMBER 8, 1973 PRO TEM 1 The re's Sno w business like Traying by Steve Greene Beaver Traying Society". The occa­ a rather boisterous and liquid Glendon pursuers. With that in mind he jumped Although few Glendonites may rea.:.. sion was marked by the first snow­ Party when he was attacked by a on his tray and at break-neck speeds lize it, Monday, November 5, 1973 flurries of the year,--certainly a good patrol of Squirrels led by the noto­ slid into the woods, and safety. Thus is destined to go down in the books omen. rious Viet Squirrel, behind. the li­ traying was born. as one of the great days in Glendon The sport of traying was first brary. Just happening to have his Since the era of Andy Brown, traying history. On that day, thirteen Glen­ brought to Glendon years ago by a trusty tray, from which he was never at Glendon has been in a slump. don students met in the Student U­ student named Andy Brown. Legend separated, Andy realized that his only When Andy and his contemporairies nion's conference room and formed has it, that one snowy winter's night, way of escape was to make it to left Glendon, there was no one left the "Glendon and District Downhill Andy was making his way home from the Excott Reid woods and lose his to carry on the traying tradition. However, two years agotrayingbeg~~ to have a small revival. In the winter of 1971/72, a few sturdy souls decid,ed that they would again challenge the winter hills in the Andy Brown tradition. Among them was one A. Knab. In 1971, Albert Knab was a first -- ,.;r year student at Glendon College. On cold snowy winter's nights he would sit spellbound as Mark Anderson would relate the story of Andy's historic ride. It was Albert's sense of tradition that made him decide to ... ______~----;_------challenge the slopes that had made r- .. Andy famous. So with a few 9ta­ CHAINED UP, lwart companions he set out into the IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS THESE PEOPLE WILL BE FAMOUS unknown. to re-create Andy's le­ gendary ride. Since that time, traying at Glendon FENCED IN has been slowly gaining popularity, until this year, the GDDBTS was by Lance N. Forests formed as a tribute to the great 1973 will definitely go down in history as the trayers of the past. year of the Blockade at Glendon. With Andy Brown enshrined as its It started off as normal as any other year. grand Master and Foundary Father. but as time went on, it became evident that the GDDBTS set itself to the task something was out of the or~Hnary. One morn- of making traying the sport that it ing, students in Wood Res1dence woke up. to once was. discover a chain blocking the only road to Wood Without going into details, a Board _. in front of the Leslie Frost Library. of Directors was elected, with Albert Not to be deterred by the mild protests of Knab as its President. Plans for angry students, the administration decided to- go forthcoming traying functions were one step further. Last week, a snow fence was discussed as well as trips to the erected which practically closed Escott R~id University of Guelph and Western to Walk (the road behind Wood) to all pedestnan spread the word of traying. traffic. Only one question has been raised: It's a small beginning but at the "Why?" t same time a momentous one, destined Could it be that a fence was necessary 0 to leave its mark on the history books. prevent the Serpent of the Don from rava,ging As for Andy Brown? Well, rumour the Wood Residence? If so, congratulatlons has it that Andy has isolated himself to the administration. in f h Sin __-- The one minor problem (inconceivable as it a arm ouse near au t.:>teo---~ may seem) is that students returning from ac- Founding fathers of the Glendon and District Downhill Beaver Traying Marie. h There'hhe Ispends his daiys tivities at the field house must climb the 5,000 Society get together in the Student Union board room to hash out some and nig ts on t e s opes practic ng steps (at least, they seem that long), instead b fib f the Student Un1'on as a un1'ted club his technique, accomplishing feats on convenient route problems e ore go ng e ore • h h b id d b of the more directly to the Founding fathers Albert Knab(Pres1'dent,) Lorne Pr ince, Steve Greene, a tray t bat iave een"bl consdere 1 i y residence. Once again, the Glendon admin~- many to e mposs1 e, an p ann ng 1f stration has come through and displayed the1r and Grant Lake are prominent in this historic photo. his return to Glendon. in glory to competence and forethought. Congratulations I L .. look upon that which he began. Clerouxg separatism versus Federalism

by Derek Watt had not tried another "revanche de as scandal, but they wanted to achieve Parti ,Creditiste they are at present berceau" by only paying a mother power on the merits of its platform. the only opposition to the huge Lib­ Last Thursday afternoon a packed each time she produced another child. The Big Red Machine presented eral m'\jority. lecture hall heard Richard CLEROUX' His scheme to deal with the pro­ a "saleable image" to the public of Bureau Chief of the Globe -M. Cleroux noted that with "the blem of drugs in schools was more incumbent, Premier Robert Bourassa vacuum left by the disappearance of and Mail, analyse the recent Quebec ridiculous. Dupuis' reasoning was and its slogan " Bourassa construi"t . ~ election as vote of federalism versus . the third party that discontent from the kids had nothing to do with their Bourassa emerged from this election farmers and petite-bourgeoisie mwht ser.aratism. recreation time; as a result, his solu­ with a tremendously enhanced per­ materialize in a new third party -­ •The third parties died on us and tion was to give them free milk. sonal prestige. He ran a one man it became a two-way race between one that would be "rightwing to coun­ M. Cleroux astutely pointed our to his campaign on his own image. The teract technocrats in the govern­ federalism and separatism. On that audience that "you just can't get kids media can do wonders for a big one to one basis federalism was ment." The Conservative Party might off pot with milk!" . business party with a techno-:rat as have the opportunity to rebuild their bound to come up on top." The credibility of the Creditiste leader. _ Both Dupuis of the Parti Creditiste forces in Quebec which were missing was a major factor for many of its By polariZing the election around since the time of Macdonald. and Loubier of the supporters abandoning Dupuis for the the federalism versus separatism agreed that because of the "absolute man with"a saleable image", Robert The problem of violence in issue, Bourassa avoided a split of the streets would be unlikely this time choice" between federalism and se­ Bourassa. third party votes between the Liber­ paratism their parties' support went M. Cleroux characterized the Parti said Jacques Desautels, a P.Q. or­ als and the Parti Quebecois; as a ganizer for the Saint-Jean riding, to the Big Red Machine. Quebecois' organization as a myth. result, with the issue of Q:.leJ.)ec's Bourque and Laurin-Frenette in Its "fantastic grass-roots organiza­ in a Toronto Star interview because status, his popularity and the public's there was a determination among P.Q. their analysis of "Ideologies in Que­ tion failed to deliver what the press satisfaction wIth his government he bec" wrote that the Union Nationale and the people in the or~anization organizers to see Quebec become in­ captured most of the votes of third dependent by legal means. Richard could survive only by maintaining"A thought would be deliver~d. party supporters. Also he succeeded temporary state of equilibrium be­ A student, Marc Duguay, did not Cleroux agreed that the chance of in moving from defending his gover~­ violence was not a s great as in --- tween the two principle factions of agree that the P.Q.'s organization was ment to an attack of the P.Q. s the French-Canadian petite bour­ a myth, but it was his opinion that . 1970, but that the chance of a growing platform and budget. After all, he apathy among Quebecois with politiCS geoisie (i. e. neo-capitalists--"juri­ the collapse of the third party was thought, who would prefer a pequiste dicial-cultural nationalism ala Tru­ an important factor in the failure to wc'uld be a serio(ls problem for the bour~ dollar over a Canadian dollar. Parti Quebecois. deau"; technocratic petite deliver the votes. M. Cleroux then Bourassa's main problem now is geoisie--"political independentism a modified his position claiming that how to satisfy his huge caucus with This informal meetingwith Richard la Parti Quebecois")". "myth" was a poor word to repre­ cabinet positions andgovernment gifts Cleroux was well received by both That was written before the 1970 sent his intention and substituted to his constituency. students and faculty. Certainly this and has been proven correct after "letdown" for the word "myth". Was this election a defeat of se­ will not be the last time we hear this election and M. Cleroux agreed The Parti Quebecois, this election, paratism as M. - Trudeau would at Glendon about the 1973 Quebec upon questioning that now the Union was not attempting to emphasize the sug$.est? Nol Although the Parti elections. This meetingwill increase Nationale can be eliminated "as a issue of sep~ratism in order to de­ Quebecois won only 6 seats to the the awareness among r,:0ple in the force in Quebec." polarize.this contentious issue so that Liberals' 102 seats, they advanced Glendon community that •independen­ M. Cleroux saw Dupuis, the leader their party could present the elec­ in the popular vote from 23% in 1970 tisme" is vital to the survival of of the Creditistes, as his own worst torate with the image of a party to 30% in 1973. It was a modest Quebec as a nation which is the enemy. T111s d,emogogue's platform prepared with constructive ideas such gain and they did achieve their mini­ first major step towards reco$.nizing " got more and more ridiculous". as their bUdget for Year I of sepa­ mum objective--official opposition in the goal of socialists of Quebec as For example, his idea of mother's ration. It did not want to mess the National Assembly. With the de­ a socialist state which would be free pay might have been acceptable if he around with destructive issues such mise of the Union Nationale and the from foreign economic control. 2 PRO TEM NOVEMBER 8, 1973 Alittle Trouble in the moming... Refugees and Resistance

shelter in UN agency camps. On by Andrew Nikiforuk the eve of the six-day war there The Arab-Israeli war of 1948 oc­ were approximately 1,344,576 Palest­ curred for three basic reasons: the inian refu~ees according to the Uni­ Jews' determination to create a na­ ted Nation s Relief and Works Agency. tional state for the survivors of The war of 1967 created another European fascism, the Arabs' re­ 350,000 refugees. The· tents and sistance to what they regarded as agency .camps remain to this day the an invasion of their land, and the number of Arabs displaced by the withdrawal of British troops from latest conflict is not known. Palestine which enabled the two hos­ The attitude of these people to the tile camps to directly confront each Israelis is uncterstandibly hostile. other on the battlefield. One Palestinilln refugee expressed his .Initial clashes between the Haganah, feeling!:! thusly: Israel's defence force and the army .,God is with us, and Israel will for Arab Liberation, a conglomera­ be punished, for they have done us tion of Palestinian guerillas and Arab too great a wrong; no nation has "volunteers from Syria and Jordan, ever done such wrong before. But ended definitely with the Arabs' de­ one day we will go back. " feat. The armies of Egypt, Trans­ The Palestinians, as a people, no .Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq longer regard themselves as a "re­ entered the conflict when Isreal de­ fugee problem", but rather as a na­ • After Shave and Cologne with a clared its statehood on May 14. The tional movement. The Fedayeen, the distinctive, disturbing fragrance that can give war concluded rather ignominiously Resistance fighters have awoken the a whole campus Trouble up to 8, 10, or even 12 hours! with the. defeat of the Arab armies consciousness of the Palestinian peo­ in 1949. The victory enabled the ple: They have activated the rebirth Jews to substantially enlarge their of a truly Palestinian identity and da~ borders from the original bounda­ dignity. ..- and you've gotTrouble all ries allotted to them by the UN par­ The Palestinian liberation army, tition resolution of 1947. The myth whose political wing is the Pales­ of the invincibility of the Israeli war tinian Liberation Organization,t, machine originated with this conflict. consists of ten different commando The Zionist victory also aggravated· groups of varyingpolitical ideologies. the mideast situation by creating El Assifa (the Tempest), the mili­ some 900,000 Palestinian refugees. tary Wing .of El Fatah has between COR\lDS Israel'srefusal to readmit these 5,000 and 15,000 members. Primar­ Model 312 refugees, and to reliquish land gain­ ily a Nationalist movement, El Assifa ed during the was on the pretext is dominated by conservative ele­ v_ Pocket calculator that such actions would precipitate ments. All members are paid, sub­ tIthe death of Israel", intensified ject to extensive military training, 4 functions plus Arab hostility towards. the JeWish and operate in small guerilla focos, state. automatic square root or units. The organization began its Prior to renewed fighting in 1956, first commando operations in 1965 automatic percentages the Arabs had launched economic which escalated in ferocity and effe­ automatic constant blockades and various damaging com­ ctiveness after 1967. A special group mands raids against the state of maintains contact with refugee'camps Israel. These actions brought on a Bright light-emitting diode display by supplying medical aid and teach­ new confrontation. The war of 1956 ers. El Saika, whose political wing Rechargeable NICA~ Battery which in many ways parallels the six­ is the peoples war of liberation, Warranty: One full year day war of 1967 began with an Is­ operate!? on a similar basis to El raeli offensive against the Egyptian Assifa. El Saika is closely linked army which had been massing troops Available NOW from stock with the Syrian government. and supplies. In the course of the The popular front for the liberation Cash and carry or Mail order war Israel seized sections of the Sinai of Palestine led by George Habash and Gaza strip. The Egyptian army has conducted some of the many spec­ was again defeated. Israel withdrew tacular hi-jackings of civil aircraft L~ from Arab occuppied territory in by the movement to draw attention Business Machines Limited 1957. However after the six-day war ~venue to the plight of the Palestinians. It ~ 286 Eglinton West, Toronto Israel fortified these areas and has is my guess that the black September Phone 481-5673 consequently colonized them. movement evolved from this organi­ In May of 1948, 1,280,000 Palesti­ zation. nian Arabs lived in Palestine along The popular democratic front for Another quality instrument from Texas with 700,000 Jews. The war of.1948 the liberation of Palestine is a Also available as desk unit created nearly a million refugees, Marxist-Leninist organization that half of whom were forced to find incorporates in the national movement the concept of class struggle. Be­ cause of its marxist stance the PDF is not affiliated with any Arab gov... ernment. The PDF operates an effe­ ctive propaganda campaign in all cen­ ters of Palestinian activity. It also has established units that supply medical aid and teachers of marxist inclination to refugee camps. The PDF, which has no. connections with any communist party, is the onl'y' re­ sistance movement to have put 'for­ ward the notion of a Palestinian state in which Jews would enjoy full na­ tional rights:' None of its 3,000 What members are paid. The resistance which has little chance of defeating Israel on its own is nevertheless an importantelement. Whatever settlement is reached in gives cola themideast, it will have to include .the Palestinian Liberation Movement. They are a viable force that can exert enough power and strength to ...... topple any Arab government that does not support its position. .. akick? The political stability of· the Arab states can be attributed to their con­ . White and Light-amber Bacardi rum. Though they're smooth and flict with Israel. This conflict pro­ mellow, they've been kicking up a storm in cola ever since they vides the people with a distraction from the social ills and corruption were used in the first ru m and cola in 1900. How's that for a kick rampant among Arab regimes. The back? BAC~t\RDlrum same can also be said of Israel White and Light-Amber to a lesser degree. The Arabs, a common enemy, provide the Israelis with a unifying force that keeps the nation suspended in an intense pa­ triotic state. Due to the emotional response this issue can arouse I have decided to draw no conclusions from what I have written nor to add any personal comments on this subject. NOVEMBER ~,.1913 PRO !'tM 3

PRO TEM is the student weekly of Glcncc:'1 Colleqc York University, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto. Ontario- ( .. ) Opinions expressed arE: those of the writer. Unsigned c,omments are the opinion of the paper and not necessarily those of the student union or the university. PRO TEM is a member of Canadian University Press and an agent for social change. Phone 487·6136. editor,Brock Phillips;business manager,GregCockburnentertainment# Larry Mohringisports,Brock Phillips;cartoons#John Roseiphotographs Dave Fulleriproduction and staff at large;Allan Grover;Lorne Prince Ann Meggs,Steve Greene,Andrew Nikiforuk#John H. Riley#Jane Mar­ tin,Charles Laforet,John Frankie#Pat Phillips#William Marsden. Steve Godfrey,Cindy Randall,Derek Watt#Steve Barrick#Eleanor Bates# Doug Gayton, Peter Russell#Gary Lamb,France de ManviIle.Rhonda Nussenbaum,Pat Chuchryk Sylvia Vanderschee# -Frank E. Yofnaro Aliberal arts cOllege or ------1 amisn,omer? Glendon claims to be a liberal arts college# and that very - name obliges us. If it is not to become a misnomer we must remain loyal to the ideal expressed in the name "liberal arts college"# and the governmental structures# must· foster and further the realization of the ideals of a liberal arts education. It mfy not come amiss here to recall the inestimable contributions which the much-maligned "ivory tower"# i.e. the undergraduate colleges and small universities of the 18th# 19th# and early 20th century have made. Their edu­ cational credo was neither that of"progress and research for the sake of progress and research" nor that of "in­ volvement in contemporary politics" nor " betterment of soc­ iety" but "preparation for life through immersion in the world of ideas'. "Confrontation with the highest achieve­ ments of the mind was the means through which the stu­ dents' character was being developed"# and in this con­ frontation standards of excellence# habits of work perfor­ mance, and even patterns of conduct were implanted which nobody would ever lose again totally. Openness of the mind, Willingness to make constantly demands upon oneself# and principled flexibilit~ of the mature person were the supreme values of the • ivory tower" education - and these values are just as good today as they were 100 years ago when one read Classics in Oxbridge to become a civil servant, diplomat# administrator, entrepreneur# businessman# "Okay meatball.knock off the nickles and dimes and lay some BIG STUF~ on meW' politician or simply an educated person. People in the 19th century knew just as well as we know today that nobody anywhere spoke Latin or ancient Greek as the language· of daily communication ; they knew also that in order to run a country one has to have a grasp of economic, legal and administrative matters. Never were Homer, and Euripides, Horace and Tacitus being read as from their altars before which man is now writhing and "handbooks on administration, warfare and how to increase cringing. The needs of the student's mind# soul# heart the GNP", and I am most certainly not prescribing a good and body must determine the contents and the methods of dose of classical studies as panaceas for today's social all teaching and learning - not the alleged U demands and submitted by Tony Hall ills. The point is "that the immersion in something as expectations of Societyl#. remote from the problems of the day as are these ancient writings was the means through which mind and character were being educated and prepared for coping with the very real and immediate problems of life in general." A DAY IN THE LIFE In the ..ivory tower" which was unashamedly elitist the minds of the students were challenged. nourished, disciplined and widened all at once; the characters were formed, the imagination was kindled - Karl Marx wrote his doctoral dissertation on a problem of ancient Greek Compensation philosophy -; .the sensitivity was heightened, self-conduct was being learnt, aims and purposes of life were peing dis­ covered by the students freely and spontaneously. The by Steve Greene injured worker is forced to approach "ivory tower" teachers knew what is forgotten today, viz. the Board on his knees and to beg that an educational institution while it is located ..in" The last few weeks Glendon stu­ the powers that be for the compen­ this world is not "of" this world, and that to burden the dents have been becoming more and sation which he is entitled to. young with all the problems of the older generation is to more aware of the plight of the rt the Board refuses a man's claim deprive them of their youth. immigrant worker. The strike at he has the 01;'tion to appeal his case The utilitarianism and hectic contemporaneity of tOday's Artistic Woodworking has pointed out at the W.C.B s appeal system. This educational system j'hwarts and paralyzes the development to many of us the injustices that system consists of the Board inti­ of the young mind in the sam.~ way in which habitual TV­ do exist. It is unfortunate however mating# harassing and being down­ watching buries the spontaneity of self-expression and the that our concern for the worker right rude to the claimant. The will to communicate. Acting on the assumption that the does not continue after a man has man is automatically assumed guilty future will be an extrapolation of the present our educa­ been injured while on the job. The and made to prove himself innocent. bonal institutions stifle the imagination and creativity of injured worker is completely neg­ Whatever happ,eed to'innocentuntil youn~ lected by all components of our soc­ proven guilty. ' the through ·showering on them incessantly "INFOR­ iety. MA TION'. on everything that is"going on"# through teaching Many workers who feel that they . them· always the very latest methods on what happens to Once 'a worker receives an injury are entitled to compensation do not .;be considered "relevant"# through giving pupils and students he immediately becomes a second desire to be put through such a access to whatever is being turned out in our overproducing class citizen in Ontario. The att­ humiliating procedure and do With­ and over-consuming society. By synchronizing the $tudent's itude of the Ontar.io Government and out. While those who do contest the . minds# hearts and souls with whatever the pacesetters# of the citizens of Ontario has been W. C. B. ([0 so as a last desparation i.e. the specialists in the innumerable fields of research that of trying to push the injured effort. 'into which the organic body of knowledge has been sub­ worker out of sight. Out of sight It should also be noted that the diVided, have taken a fancy to, we constrain and constrict out of mind. Compensation Board acts as prose­ the students. When a worker is injured while on cuter# jUdge and jury. There is In claiming the young mind to the speed-gathering de­ the job in Ontario, he is forced no impa:rtial judgement with regards velopment of our industrialized society the educational to deal with a bureaucratic mon­ to Compensation. The Board takes institutions thoroughly condition the young into the accep­ 3trosity known as the Workmens the stance that a man is a mal­ tance of what is said to be the· ineluctable trends of our Compensation Board. The Comp­ ingerer and then finally makes the time, and the fact that no student protest movement any­ ensation Board was supposedly cre­ decision concerning the case. Not where has as yet successfully challenged the idolatry of ated to ensure that the worker would very good odds. progress and the worship of material growth is sad proof receive fair and just compenstion Unfortunately people do not concern of how far the conditioning has already weakened the re­ for an injury sustained while on the themselves with the plight of the sistance potential. job. In other words# he was to injured worker, not unless they be be compensated for his loss of earn­ an injured worker themselves. The A liberal arts college because it is linked to the ivory ing power. tower tradition is perhaps the only place left where at least plight of the worker is an issue an awareness is still alive of the truth of Protagoras' The attitude of the W. C. B. seems that cannot be ignored. It's time "Man is the measure of all things~'. Indeed - man must to be that 99% of people claiming we stopped ignoring the plight of the - a,gain become the xardstick and the criterion; "progress"# compensation are'malingerers'. The inj~red worker. • growth"# "speed' on the other hand mast be pulled down

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'>ale abortion and if he agrees, the two of On March 16, at a public rally spon­ them are apparently engaged in a criminal sored by the Canadian Women's Coalition conspiracy); as ~ell as two other charges to Repeal the Abortion Laws, Or. Henry 01 h,l'iing performed illegal abortions. Morgantaler publicly declared for the first I cannot of course for obvious reasons time that he has performed nearly 5,000 go into details of the cases: but can tell WELL. IF I WERE PREGNANT I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T HAVE AN ABORTION abortions in his Montreal clinic. vou that I intend to fight these cases as a Following are excerpts from his statement ~lajor challenge to the very laws under which was greeted with a standing ovation which I am being tried, from the audience of 500. I do not believe that doing medically sale abortions is a criminal act. On the contrary, I feel very strongly that denying reprinted from the Chevron women safe abortions and exposing them AM NOT to death and injury is criminal. In October 1967 I p.resented a brief to the House of C:Ommons Health committee I am firmly convinced that all those who in the name of the Humanist groups in » oppose the liberalization of the Canadian Canada urging abortion on request in the abortion laws and those who have the first three months of pregnancy. It was a power to act to change these laws yet do not do so, have a moral and perhaps more revolutionary idea at the time and to my A CRIMINAL than moral responsibility for the deaths knowledge the first occasion in Canada and injuries of women who died and that a responsible organization had made continue to die and be injured as a result of such a proposal. self-inflicted or botched incompetent As a result of the publicity surrounding competently under the best, most modern induced or incompetent operations done abortions, because they were denied my appearance in Ottawa and the many and safe medical conditions; secondly, the by quacks without medical knowledge. access to safe medical procedures before others that followed afterI became.the first lees had to be reasonable and adjustable I claim that my moral obligation and the law. president of theHumanist ASsociation of downward even to zero, so that no person duty to my patients to save their lives and If I have decided to speak of my clinic -- Canada and continued campaigning for would be denied this service because of health tnUlscends the dead letter of a law tonight in spite of the legal risks involved abortion law repeal, many women started inability to pay. Both of these conditions based on religious superstition and false and the fact that I have three charges coming to my office in Montreal saying to were fulfilled. premises, a Ia\\: which is widely under the Criminal. Code pending against me: '\Doctor, I heard your' views and I And now I wish to share with you disregarded by most Canadians as obsolete me, it is because I believe that it is im­ am ,in troub1e, can you help me?" tonight a'secret widely known in Mon­ and unjust, ,md which has ju~t been portant for the Canadian people to know I realized that I could do nothing for treal, Quebec and by many people across declared an unwarranted invasion of that clinics such as mine do exist, that these women and that there was no help CUlada. privacy by no less an authority than the they are safe and of benefit to women available except to those who could travel I wish to make public that I have been Supreme Court of the United States. seeking abortions and that they would be to Japan or England; there were at that doing abortions in my clinic in Montreal I finally claim that not only is my action the ideal solution to the abortion issue in time no competent reputable doctors in for the past few years a~d that I am proud in providing safe mediGl1 abortions to - ...... lIrt.1Alt-omntrealbr. Ganada to provide assistance this country. by providing specialized :If having helped a few thousand women women wanting them, morally right: but Iacilities, l'asv of access, to all those in to these women. I used to excuse myself :lbtain safe medical operations. that I firmly believe that it will be declared nee~1 of them'at low cost under medicare'. saying that I could not aid them because it I am convinced that by doing so I have legal in due time by the courts of this It I haw decided to take some risk .was against the law, that if I did help I ,aved many from death and many others country. Until such time- that the highest tonight hy making these public could go to jail for tlJeJ~~~ of my life, that I from' inju~y, disease and tremendous courts of the land decide on these im- disclosure:-.. it is because I realize that in had tothirik'Of O:ty'wife and-children etc. 1 anguish. , 'portant questions, I believ'e that. ac­ ,>pite 01 the numbers of women helped in saw 'these women drift off in despair, many I am firmly convinced that the law cording to legal opinion, the CUladian Ill\' clinic and similar facilities, there are .of ~ ,t,o go, to back-alley, butchers, to under which I am now being tried is alxlftion laws arc in violation of the ,>ti'!I in this country thousands more who risk~ath and injury at the hands of in­ unjust, cruel and dangerous to women and Canadian Bill of Rights, and am therdore .Ire deprived of this type of help' because of comPfttent people, to abort themselves, or unnecessarily restrictive. convinced that doctors perlorming the restrictions 01 the law. in sOme cases to go on to give birth to I claim the right to myself as a medical abortions in good faith and hy accepted The requirements 01 a three-man Board unwanted babies. doctor to provide help to my patients who medical standards are within the hounds of and thi:-. in a restricted number of hospitals As the abortion campaign in­ want it without the approval of a three­ legality even though they di,rl'!!ard the :-.evercl v limits access to legal abortions tensified,the stream and finally the flood of man Board and without being forced to stipulations limiting them as to thl' I"cak ~l1ld thl;S makes them difficult to obtain for women seeking abortion made me realize perform abortions in a hospital while I can and conditions under which th,',(, the 11I,1j(lrit \' of Canadian women desiring the magnitude of the problem. I became do it well, under the best medical con­ operations can be performed. to do so: this provision is contrary to the painfully aware that there were thousands ditions' in my own clinic. You are well aware that I am now hd, )fl' Canadian Bill of Rights and violates the of women in Canada denied basic human I claim that my duty as a doctor is to the courts of the country on three char<;,-'~, hlllll.II111'ntal right of privacy recognized rights and forced to risk their very lives' assist women with unwanted pregnancies of the Criminal Code. Conspiracy Id 1'1 the l:.S. Supreme Court. when seeking an abortion because a law who ask for an abortion, to provide them perform an abortion (Mark well It :, high time the Canadian govern· based on ignorance and religious prejudice with the best medical care available so that conspiracy; apparently it is a crime ,,[i,ll 111('111 I"llows the example given hy the would not allow them to obtain safe they are not exposed to the dangers of self- for a woman to ask a doctor to perform a L .. '\ 'lupreme Court and repeals the medical abortions and permit doctors to (,.1I1,tdiaJl abortion laws. The excuses offer this help. It became clear to me that t:i I 'Jl 1(11' inaction are no longer valid; unjust laws create victims and that in this till 1" ' are a dear majority of Canadians, case the potential victims are all women of t\'d lout of three, who favour repeal. childbearing age subject to unwanted There is no reason why the Canadian pregnancies, an accident of normal sexual gO\unment should deny Canadian women activity, not the result of any crime. the services, freely available across the It dawned on me that it was not enough border by imposing restrictions found to fight for repeal of these barbarous laws unreasonable and dangerous by but that it was also imperative to help the enlightened legal and medical authorities. victims of these laws who could not I hope the time will come soon when wait months or years until the law would birth control clinics including out-patient be changed. Their plight was real and they needed help NOW abortion facilities will be established across Canada, when women in need of abortion I had a choice. I could continue to hide will be allowed to have them without legal behind a screen of legality and refuse while hindrance, under the best and most denouncing these laws as cruel, unjust modern conditions. and oangerous to women, or else I had to defy them and offer help to women in I hope that my medical experience as order to protect them. well as my campaign for safe abortions for After a great deal of soul-searching I women will contribute to this end. mustered enough courage to choose the In the meantime, I pledge you to only morally defensible course; to offer a continue the fight for this fundamental helping hand in spite of the law. human right. Looking back on the last few I am glad I had enough strength to make difficult years I feel a great sense of ac­ this decision and to bear the stress complishment; I feel that of all the things resulting from it. I have done, providing safe abortions for Two conditions haq to be met in order women in an atmosphere of compassion to make such a decision valid and con­ and understanding was the most im­ sistetlt with my philosophy and my portant gratifying thing I have done in my conscience: the operations had to be done life. NOVEMBER 8, 1973 PRO TEM 5 Election de Polarisation en Quebec

O. differentes au Canada et que chacune par Yves Gauthier Comment peut-on interpreter cette devrait avoir le droit de s autodeter­ derniere election? n existe plu­ miner. Que la derniere election provinciale sieurs theories a ce sujet et encore Pour un parti politique qui partait au Quebec en ait ete une de polari­ beaucoup p'lus d'opinions, dependam­ deja avec 20% du vote populaire, sation est un fait indiscutable et peut ment de 1 hotmetete intellectuelle ou les Liberaux n'ont pas a se rejouir facHement se demontrer par ce que politique pe ceux qui les formulent.· de leur victoire. Bien sur, Hs ont notre premier serviteur de la col­ Si I'on regarde les evenements dans lectivite anglo-saxonne, Pierre-Elliot une perspective historique comme Trudeau, a dit a. la suite des elec­ semble le faire le chef du Parti tions du 29 octobre dernier: ce Quebecois Rene Levesque et ses prin­ vote prouve une fois pour toute que cipaux lieutenants. il est evident que les Quebecois ne veulent pas du se­ le Parti Quebecois n'a pas perdu la paratisme. Et en anglais: this face lors 'de ces dernieres elections. election does not mean that separa­ L'evolution d'un peuple ne se fait tism is dead in Quebec. Il y aura pas du jour au lendemain. Pas~er toujours des demagogues a la· Mar­ de l'etat de subordination a I'etat chand .R0ur crier sur les toits que d'independance prend plusieurs annees les Quebecois francophones ne veulent et plusieurs tentatives avant de re­ pas du separatisme, mais il faudrait ussir. Un peuple qui a ete si oasse­ quand meme etre un peu plus rea.. mt~nt et si sournoisement domine et listel Lorsque 37.5% des Quebecois exploite pendant pres de trois siecles ne sort pas de son etat d'inferio­ rite aussi facilement. Il faut re­ garder les pas que le Parti Que­ Robert Bourassa becois fait comme des pas en avant. vers le jolir ou enfin les Quebecois auront une fierte legitime des leur appartenance a une Nation, un Etat. un Pays qui sera le leur. Les elections du 29 octobre dernier ne font que confirmer le fait que de plus en plus de Quebecois realisent ce Q..ui ce passe dans ce beau Canada fait a la mesure de la societe anglo­ saxonne en acceptant la minorite francophone que dans la mesure ou .cette derniere sert leurs interets qui eux servent ceux des Americains. 102 sieges sur 110, mais 11 se pro­ Ce que le PartiQuebecois et 37.5% des duira ce qUi s'est passe depuis,que Quebecois demandent n'est ni plus ni Bourassa est au pouvoir i.e. lop­ moins que les moyens de vivre comme position ne viendra pas seulement bon leur semble dans un pays qUi des partis de I'opposition siegeant soit le leur avec des institutions po­ a Yvon Dupuis I'assemblee nationale, mais de tous litiques qUi leur appartiennent et un les groupes de Quebecoisfrancophones francophones votent pour le Parti Que­ gouvernement qui soit au service de qUi eux en ont assez de se faire becois dans I'ensemble de la pro­ la collectivite toute entiere et non rire au nez et d'etre que· des sci­ vince et que dans la region de Mon­ pas au service d'une petite minorite eurs de bois et des porteurs d'eau treal pres de 50% d'entre eux en d'exploiteurs et d'hypocrites de la dans un pays qui devrait etre le leur. font autant, I'ideologie d'independance pire espece. Nos gouvernements ne L'ere de la democratie de repre­ est bien vivante et blen ancree au pourront jamais admettre en face de sentation tire a sa fin. C'est mam coeur des Quebecois francophones la population qu'il.s ne sont que des tenant le temps de la democratie de eclaires et dignes de ce nom. serviteurs de ceux qui remplissent participation et la participation de Apres la conquete anglaise de leur caisse elec.torale et que jamais, groupes engages est la meilleure op­ 1760, les Canadiens furent rempla­ jamais au grand jamais, ils ne pour­ position. une opposition qu'aucun gou­ ces des postes de commande et des ront servir ceux qui par leur tra­ vernement n'aime voir. lieux de decisions et du domaine vail fournissent I'elan et le dynamis­ Non. le Parti Quebecois n'a pas des affaires par des Britanniques me indispensable a la societe pour subit la defaite. Non, le Parti Libe­ designes par la couronne d'Anj;le­ ral n'a pas detruit l'idee d'indepen­ terre. Depuis ce temps les ~ue­ dance chez les Quebecois fancophones. becois ont toujours eu leurs valets Non, les Quebecois n'ont pas fait un pour occuper des postes secondaires pas en arriere en elisant sans le soit dans le domaine politique ou dans vouloir j'en suis ~rsuade•. 102 de­ le domaine des affaires. n fut un putes liberals a 1 assemblee legis­ temps ou les Quebecois francophones lative. lIs n'ont que reporte I'eche­ se rejouissaient du fait qu'un des ance a quelques annees plus tard. leurs etait Premier Ministre a Ot­ Que· l'on regarde un peu en ar­ tawa. Il ne fallait pas attendre long­ riere et que l'on regarde l'evolution temps avant qu'ils ne realisent que de l'idee d'independance au Quebec, celui-ci se voit force de se sou­ seulement depuis le debut des annees mettre aux Anglo-Canadiens. Le Que.­ Rene Levesques soixante et qu'on me dise si cette bec a connu un mouvement autono­ election est un pas en arriere ou miste tel que nous pouvons encore un pas en avant! U est a prevoir parler aujourd'hui d'une pro­ que lors des prochaines elections vince francophone au Canada. C'est provinciales au Quebec la majorite ce que Gabriel Loubier a essaye de des Quebecois francophones opteront faire revivre lors de la derniere pour un Quebec libre, un Quebec qui campagne electorale. Mais les gens leur appartienne, pour un gouverne­ d'un certain age ayantvecu sous la ment qui serve la collectivite et la tutelle de Duplessis et sous l'aUe majorite. Les quatre prochaines an­ paternaliste de son gouvernement au­ nees verront une radicalisation des tonomiste savaient tres bien que la membres du Parti Quebecois et ce n'est plus la solution. Nous avons se developer tant sur le plan eco- la culture quebecoise ne sont pas n'en sera que pour le meilleur, pour donc vu la disparition presque com­ _nomique que sur le plan intellec­ logiques avec eux-memes et le moins le futuro U est a prevoir que les plete de I'Union Nationale,' Le parti tuel ou culture!. U ne peut pas y que l'on puisse dire c'est qu'ils Quebecois francophones realiseront de Gabriel Loubier n'a pas reussi avoir d'independance culturelle tant manque d'un certain sens historique. avec Michel Brunet et plusieurs au­ a faire elire un seul candidat et le qu'il n' y a pas d'independance poli­ Ceux qUi veulent ameliorer le sort tres que:

Cl We had the Great Pumpkin on our side," John Frankie told Howard Cosell in an exclusive post ,fiame shower stall press conference. With him on our side how could we lose." Frankie added pointing to the legen­ dary Gallopping Ghost who was wafting in and out of the locker room. Paul Hazlett had something to say but Mallard J. Duck was afraid of misquoting him. Amid the din of the happy post

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