nen ae by Dave Christian The federal government has broken the law in its ef- forts to conceal cruise-mis- sile testing negotiations with the United States, said New Westminster-Coquitlam MP Pauline Jewwet last Monday night at a meeting sponsored by the Public Education for Peace(P.E.P.), a New West- minister Disarmament group. An order-in-council tnat authorized the Canadian am- bassador in Washington to sign a framework agreement with the Pentagon over cruise missile testing at Cold Lake in Alberta was signed the day after parliament ad- journed on December 20. The order-in-council was never published, nor placed in the Canada Gazette as is required by law. When Jewwet later asked External Affairs Minister Allen Mac- eacon why the order was not placed in the Gazette, he at- . tributed ‘to a technical error. Jewwet went on to say that the Liberals probably wanted the agreement signed in Washington instead of Ot- tawa to avoid demonstrations on Parliament Hill against the missile agreement. “‘They’re (the Liberals( af- raid of public opinion.’’ Jew- wet said. ‘‘If it wasn’t for public opposition to the test- | ing, the agreement would probably be signed by now.”’ Stewart Woolverton Alanna Whitley Election Interviews on Page 3 A gallup poll released two weeks ago showed that 50 percent of Canadians are op- posed to testing the cruise missile in Canada. Jewwet also said during her speech that if Canada gets involved in testing the cruise, we'll probably end up with a blanket agreement for testing various types of nuc- lear weaponry, a policy quite divergent from Canada’s present nuclear arms policy. Since World War II, Cana- da has effected three major unilateral nuclear policy ac- tions. The first was Canada’s decision not to build an ato- mic bomb immediately after the war. We were the only country capable of becoming a nuclear power that. de- clined to do so. Canada also didn’t arm its’ NATO contin- gent with Nuclear weapons, and have since stated that when the nuclear devices at Comox air force base are gone we won't have any more on our soil. So why are we thinking of testing the cruise missile? Jewwet asks. Canada wouldn’t be alone if we decided to oppose the cruise missile, Jewwet added Opposition to the cruise is growing in Europe, particu- larly in Great Britain, Italy and West Germany. In Bel- gium and the Netherlands, opposition to the cruise has all but defeated proposals to deploy them on their terri- Registration Results by .Glen Nazaruk - _ 650 students were forced to’ take alternate courses semester because of a lack of available space in their pro- grams. The results of the ques- tionairre handed out at the last registration show that the college is unable to prop- erly fulfill the student's needs. Of 2800 students who en- rolled this spring, 2110 re- sponded to the survey. Over 30 percent of these students were unable to register in all of the courses they wanted this semester. This is a noticable increase over last semester, where 591 students were unable to register in all of the courses which they had intended. Course programming is done prior to each academic year and the administration of the college is unable to alter the class size when student num- bers are increased. iberals Caught Cold tory. -- In Canada, opposition could also stop the cruise. In an interview with the Toron- to Star five weeks ago, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said that if the public yelled loud enough, he’d stop the pro- posed testing program. But opposition in Parliament has been lacking, Jewwet said. The Conservative Party have been all but ignoring the isue, leaving it up to the New Democratic Party to question the government. A free vote proposal last April was quashed by the govern- ment, and the party whips laid on to stop dissent from individual MP’s.The Liberals have refused to give a gov- vernment day in Commons for debate on the Arms race. eS _ VOLUME 14 NUMBER 3 FEBRUARY 9TH 1983 THER PRESS DOUGLAS COLLEGE STUDENT NE WSPAPER Douglas College and the people of New Westminister will have to settle for Educ- ation Minister Bill Vander- zalm to address the opening ceremonies on March 18. Originally it was hoped that Queen Elizabeth, who is scheduled to be in the Vancouver area on March 18 would attend, but due to sch- eduling difficulties she will not be present. This is interesting in light of the fact that the Queen gave the city of New West- minister its’ name after her favorite part of London; Westminister. Hence the city has for long been affection- atly known as the ‘‘Royal City’’. The new college is a cor- nerstone in the redevelop- ment plans for New West- minister. A large array of activities has been planned for the opening which will begin at 2:00 pm, including tours of the campus, theatre various displays and a dance at 5:00 pm.