1) eight-page statement to the Right Honourable John N. Turner, dated Christmas, 1989 (January 25, 1990)...; with copies of these attachments:
2) copy of January, 1990 statement to the "ONE CONFERENCE"; with List of Contents for the submission on the face of it.
3) copy of January 19, 1989 statement to PREMIER William N. Vander Zalm; with List of Contents for the submission on the face, terms of reference of copy of page 5 of To December, 1989 edition of SOUTHERN AFRICA NEWSWATCH containing December 8-14/89 Weekly Mail article, "Are these agencies behind the death squads?", and December 15-20/89 Weekly Mail article, "Secret papers hold hit squad clues".
Mr. Turner: About item 3) here and the additional
term of reference to it, i will advise you that the added thing,
obtained from "The Anti-Apartheid Network" this past week,
confirms that the information i gave Bill Vander Zalm
last year was correct.
I gave the "Southern Africa
Action Coalition" a copy of it recently also, once i realized
that i hadn't done so before.
I know this is a subject that backbenchers like to bring up in
their Members' Statements. May i urge you to explain "(my) present situation" to those in your
caucus who might, so they don't in future end up being dismissed
by Pretoria as hypocrites? (After all, i likely have enemies in
the Middle East--or, given the August 31, 1989 burglary of my
house, right here in Canada--and no one in Ottawa has to date
said anything or done anything about this.)
Incidentally, i spoke with Roy Derrick of Shell Canada by
phone after Vancouver City Council passed its boycott of Shell
products as a protest against apartheid. He sent me some things
about Shell's position, the City Law Office gave me a copy of
the dossier Shell gave to Council, and before i could get to
Mr. Derrick the document copies i promised i would
send--they started the lawsuit challenging the boycott.
The Quadra N.D.P. representative with whom i spoke at the
"Anti-Apartheid Network" meeting on January 22, 1990 suggested i
keep in touch with the Law Office if i want to keep track of
this. She thinks Shell will lose the case, or, if it wins, the
ruling will be appealed by the City.
As you likely realize, the Arabs have been fairly active in the
international community in pressuring South Africa by means of
an oil embargo. There's probably some things i can do that the
Arabs would appreciate in this regard. But i lack that document
copy from Mulroney.
I think that this time you ought to talk with him directly about
these matters.
About the closing remarks to PREMIER Vander Zalm in
this January, 1989 statement to him and the dearth of replies by
any of you three to my January, 1988 statement to you three
about Canada's child abuse problem, i advise you that N.D.P.
Member Joy Langan sent me some information about her
Private Member's Bill. I agree that there has to be
coordination of the federal and provincial functions and a more
uniform punishment that will discourage the practices of child
sex abusers.
I note that the November 27, 1989 Maclean's cover story,
"The Abuse Of Children", begins thusly:
"They seemed to be a typical couple, struggling to live in an expensive city with two young children. To avoid the high cost of day care, she worked night shifts as a hospital nurse whenever she could, leaving her husband, who worked during the day for an electronics firm, to look after the children. Then, during the summer of 1985, her four-year-old daughter complained of pain and bleeding around her rectum. Despite doctors' assurances that there was no cause for concern, the woman said that she was disturbed when the problems persisted. Acting on a hunch, she asked her daughter, 'Would this go away if Daddy went on a vacation?' The girl replied, 'Yes.' It is now 4½ years since the woman, who asked to remain anonymous, discovered that her husband was sexually abusing their daughter, but even now, she says, her feelings of guilt and anger remain. 'It shook my concept of the world,' she told Maclean's. Now 32, divorced and recovering after extensive counselling by Children's Aid workers, she added, 'I thought sexual abuse only happened in really dreadful, disturbed families--until I found it in my own home.'"
Later on, the article explains:
"...Many police officers say that they find dealing with sexual-abuse cases emotionally stressful. Calgary police Det. Harvey Cemaiko said that, in one of his most wrenching cases, a three-month-old baby girl contracted a sexually transmitted anal infection after one of her parents abused her. Said Cemaiko: 'You name it, it can happen.'"
Please understand that once Mulroney's fun
started
last year, i decided to delay sending Pretoria the copies of my
June, 1988 statements to Desmond
Tutu and Frederick
Van Zyl Slabbert until after he desisted. Then,
Botha had his stroke, the power struggle ensued, and i
still have to send deKlerk the copies. One of the
"concerns" this will raise again will be the apartheid regime's
torture of South African children.
Is this not a "concern" Ottawa wishes to be seen to be
sharing?
Given the amount of documentation the U.N. SECRETARIAT has about
Ottawa's ignorance of the country's child abuse problem, it's
hard to say how far its credibility will go in expressing
indignation about the welfare of children unless the "concern"
is held by more than just a private member and her bill.
I note Javier Perez de Cuellar's recent statement that
the U.N. should be involved more in human rights issues. And
the children's rights bill is a matter of debate now in the
international diplomatic community.
Is this to be another case where, recalling the July 10, 1986
Calgary Herald article, "Stance
on sanctions unchanged sinced 1977", in relation to the
cooperation we requested by Trudeau in 1978...you
just
stand idly by until there is so much tragedy you have to do
something, too little and too late?
I read that cases of teenage AIDS in Vancouver doubled since
last year...
*-I MET WITH MY DOCTOR LAST YEAR--WHEN HE EXAMINED ME AS A PHYSICIAN AND RE-CERTIFIED THAT I SHOULD NOT DO MANUAL LABOUR--AND I DECIDED, WITH RESPECT FOR HIS WORK PRIORITIES AND NECESSITIES, TO NOT INCLUDE A SCAN OF THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY BECAUSE IT IS ON HIS OFFICE STATIONERY.
HOWEVER, TO READ THE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS, TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE: IT IS ON THAT PAGE.