Ottawa outlines offshore exploration measures to boost Canadian participation
The federal plan introduces six year in the making rules governing petroleum on federal lands. It envisions a 25 percent Canadian participation requirement, a profit sharing royalty, and special advantages for Petro-Canada. The measures grant Ottawa power to compel drilling or production, aim to double northern exploration in three years, and tighten work and domestic-content rules while extending Petro-Canada options on lands returning to the Crown.
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Ottawa
Petro-Canada
Ottawa Power
Alastair Gillespie
New Democrat
T. C
Douglas
James Gillies
Progressive Conservatives
Federal Civil Service
Gillespie
Ture
Giscard d Estaing proposes a new world economic order
French President Valery Giscard d Estaing urged a new world economic order in Philadelphia linking stability and peace to aid for developing nations. He told the World Affairs Council that industrialized countries must finance growth and modernization for poorer states as part of a broader global progress. Philadelphia is the third U S stop in a six day visit.
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Philadelphia
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
World Affairs Council of
France
United States
MacEachen faces NATO questions over Lockheed deal collapse
Canadian External Affairs Minister Alan MacEachen said he expects NATO allies to query the aborted Lockheed long range aircraft contract while assuring NATO commitments remain intact. He noted Canada will consider alternative proposals to meet defence obligations and explained Ottawa's nuclear cooperation pause with India.
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Oslo
Alan MacEachen
NATO
Canada
Joseph Luns
Luns
West Germany
Brussels
Norway
MacEachen
Lockheed
Defence
India
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Lockheed Renewed Talks on Orion Patrol Plane Financing
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. resumes discussions with Canada to revive the $1-billion Orion LRPA program after failing to secure over $300 million in bank loans. Ottawa officials, including Defence Minister James Richardson, seek a financing plan and possible restructuring to keep the project alive. The government faces calls for resignation amid the Orion setback and urgent search for a replacement for the Argus planes due to go out of service in 1979.
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Stephen Scott
Ottawa
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Bill Wilson
Defence
James Richardson
Orion
Richardson
Argus
Lockheed
Wilson
Jean-Pierre Goyer
Canada
Robert Haack
Commons
Department of National Defence
Allan McKinnon
Victoria
New Democratic Party
Ed Broadbent
Boeing Co
Alberta Legislature closes after prorogation and fund assent
The Alberta legislature prorogued after royal assent to 58 bills in a 51-day session led by the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund act. Debate centered on the fund, with opposition split on investment controls. Also passed was a $2.9 billion budget. two reform acts will resume after summer with fall sessions.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund
Jim Foster
Ralph Steinhauer
Peter Lougheed
Lougheed
Bob Clark
NDP
Grant Notley
Gordon Taylor
Drumheller
Social Credit
Ron Ghitter
Calgary Buffalo
Ottawa air controllers near walkout over bilingual air traffic
The government and the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association moved to resume talks with a May 31 strike threat looming. CATCA pressed for an acceptable settlement on all issues and asked to broaden and delay French language changes until an inquiry reports. Lang offered to clarify inquiry terms while Chretien signaled limited room to maneuver.
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Ottawa
J. M. Livingston
Canadian Air Traffic Control Association
CATCA
Otto Lang
Livingston
Quebec
Lang
Treasury Board
Jean Chretien
Keith Spicer
Transport Department
Spicer
India mourns Canada move ending nuclear aid
India criticizes Ottawa for terminating nuclear assistance after India’s 1974 plutonium test. External Affairs Minister Y B Chavan says India regrets the unilateral abrogation and will review implications, signaling possible redefinition of safeguards on joint projects. Canada cites erosion of democratic institutions and future explosions concerns.
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New Delhi
Indira Gandhi
Canada
India
Y.B. Chavan
Ottawa
Chavan
All India
Guerrillas Infiltrate Rhodesia Amid Border Tensions
Rhodesia accuses over 1,000 black nationalist guerrillas of entering from Mozambique amid border tensions. British nationals in Rhodesia urged to leave for safety as police and soldiers report rising casualties this year. Rhodesia cites an increase from six weeks earlier and notes 206 guerrillas and 38 security personnel killed.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
Mozambique
Defence
P.K. van der By
Lusaka
Zambia
British High Commission
van der Byl
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