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...Canada, the boat people can thank private organizations and individuals who responded to the crisis. "Per capita, Canada did as much as or more than other countries because so many people decided it was the right thing to do," says Kirk Bell, executive director of immigration for Ottawa's Federal Ministry of Employment and Immigration...
...Ottawa government has provided air transportation that the refugees must ultimately repay. Private sponsorship groups and churches have supplied housing and taken over additional details of resettlement for most of the boat people, as well as some help for the 23,000 other Indochinese refugees Canada has accepted. This degree of personal involvement among Canadians has given an emotional boost to the homesick refugees...
...customer, calling from Ottawa, was furious. Someone, he complained to officials of Telenet, a telecommunications network based in Vienna, Va., was using its lines to penetrate his company's computer. As a result, his operations were fouled up. The next week another computer network, named Datapac and tied to Telenet, got a similar call from a firm in Montreal. Its circuits too were being plagued by electronic interlopers...
Even if the courts decide to overrule the tax boycott, Trudeau's program will still face other obstacles in the West. In Alberta, the country's leading oil supplier, Premier Peter Lougheed warned that unless Ottawa negotiates a higher price for crude, the province will not only cut back production by 15% but will hold up construction of two new refineries...
Mindful of the dangers of the provincial protest, Ottawa has reacted in a low key. Trudeau spent his Christmas holiday skiing in the Alps, while a junior finance minister issued a statement to British Columbia pointing out that the province had the right to challenge a levy, but only in court. More forthrightly, Ottawa's Energy Minister, Marc Lalonde, warned that a refusal to pay would be "a dangerous precedent for any government to take...