FROM SPEC (SOCIETY PROMOTING NVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION) nvironmentalists, labour leaders, peace and women's groups want to know why anadian military intelligence ompiled a list of 60 community broups as “potential threats” to ast November's APEC onference, and how the military earned details of a private eeting of peace and pnvironmental groups in ancouver. The information came to light n a seven-page “secret” Canadian ilitary intelligence report Makah request ADRIENNE LINDSAY. he US government has unilaterally concluded that the International haling Commission ([WC) has iven tacit approval for the akah to commence a five-year boriginal subsistence hunt. owever, a majority of IWC embers have explicitly rejected his interpretation. At the 1996 IWC meeting, the S delegation submitted a akah aboriginal subsistence haling proposal. At that time, everal delegations indicated that ey did not consider the Makah roposal to meet the strict IWC efinition of aboriginal subsis- ence whaling, and the US with- rew it. The Canadian Marine nvironment Protection Society pports that in 1997, “the US bARAH GLEN ICTORIA (CUP)—After eeks of mediated negotiations, orkers and management at a deal cafe have reached their first pllective agreement, seen as the rst of its kind for newly ionized service workers in orth America. Employees at the city’s heesecake Cafe had been fight- bg for better working conditions d health benefits in a drawn- t dispute that began when they ent on strike September 18. he strike ended October 8 hen cafe manager West onnect Investments Inc. filed r mediation. University of Victoria student avin McGarrigle, who was a entered as evidence at the now- suspended Vancouver APEC inquiry. Under a list of “terrorist groups” that includes Mexico's “Zapatista Terrorist Group, the report's author, Army Intelligence Major R.J. McCutcheon, describes details of a private September 1997 meeting held at the Vancouver offices of the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC). At that meeting, three conser- vation groups, the Nanoose Conversion Campaign, End the Arms Race and Physicians for Global Survival discussed US for an aboriginal subsistence whaling quota not delegation negotiated a side deal with the Russian delegation for the Makah to share the Eastern Pacific Gray whale quota with the Chukotka natives of Siberia” (whom the IWC officially recognizes). A majority of IWC members expressed seri- ous misgivings about this unprecedented attempt to subvert the accepted pro- cedure for recognizing aboriginal groups, and proposed that no part of the quota should be allo- cated to the Makah. The IWC delegations subse- quently passed a quota amendment that stated only native peoples “whose traditional aboriginal subsis- tence and cultural needs have been recognized” are authorized to take whales from this stock. negotiating committee member for the workers, said both the restaurant's management and its employees were eager to finalize the agreement. “[ They're] expecting a busy holiday season with lots of cheesecake served,” said McGarrigle, a server at the restaurant. About 20 University of Victoria students work for the cafe. The contract, which will last two years and expire in November 2000, includes the development of grievance, anu- harassment language, job posting and leaves of absence procedures. Both kitchen staff will also receive small wage increases and improved health f and servers elligence’ s ‘secret’ report ;Gfoups also targeted as potential APEC threats Navy war games at the Nanoose Bay (Vancouver Island) nuclear submarine test ranges. McCutcheon names “Jim _ Fulton, Executive Director of the David Suzuki Foundation [who] has written the Canadian Government,’ and expresses con- cern with “Dr. Mike Wallace of UBC who is writing submissions The US delegation chose to interpret the phrase “have been recognized” to mean by the abo- riginal group's national govern- ment, even though every other Reach out and touch some whale aboriginal group currently whal- ing has been recognized by the entire IWC. At least [2 other afe workers reach hailstone agreement and safety protection. “The union recommended [to the employees] to accept the pro- posal and so did management,” said Frank Greenlay, a Canadian Auto Workers union representa- tive for the restaurant employees. “All membership looks to now is implementing the agreement in the workplace.” The agreement comes on the heels of a two-year trend of service sector union drives in North America, including work- ers at McDonald's restaurants and Starbucks cafes. Military intelli- y © gence secretly moni- ‘niet tor law abiding Canadian Citizens ’ to newspapers.” The report then links the SPEC meeting with 60 anti-economy and anti-APEC groups that include: *The Canadian Labour Congress *The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (which is, or used to be, ernment) *The BC Federation of Labour eAmnesty International *Langara Women's Centre *Environmental Youth Alliance *Canadian Environmental Network delegations made formal state- ments for the record that they interpreted the phrase to mean by the IWC and that the Makah had not been so recognized. The Australian dele- gation stated, regarding the US interpreta- tion that the IWC had rec- ognized the Makah’s abo- riginal subsis- tence need, that they “explicitly reject... this claim] as false and as giving an entirely erroneous interpretation of...the [quota proposal] as passed...” The delegation also stat- *End Legislated Poverty *The Carnegie Community Action Project ¢The BC Union of Indian Chiefs David Cadman, chairperson of the Canadian Environmental Network and SPEC president, said, “If military intelligence secretly monitor law-abiding Canadian citizens; that is totally unacceptable and contravenes Canada’s laws and democratic tra- ditions.” Many of the groups listed have sent a letter to Defence Minister Eggleton asking for an investiga- tion into the matter. IWC approved ed that it, “accepted that the Chukotka Natives’ request and claim clearly met the require- ments...in relation to the recogni- tion of both traditional subsis- tence and cultural needs; whereas the request and claim of the Makah people did not.” The IWC itself confirms Australia’s interpretation. On its list of home regions of those aboriginal groups it recognizes as having claim to take whales, for the US, only Alaska (i.e., the Inuit) is listed. Washington state (and hence the Makah) is not listed. Meanwhile, the Makah, who are guaranteed the right to whale by the 1855 Treaty of Neah Bay, renewed their whaling permit without setting any dates for the hunt. eo rry ymore ALG VEE REY at NE AE SL “THAN SMHS ta Ace ES an =r WA RC OA RE see The Other Press November 25 1998 Page 5