20 ~ Sunday, March 21, 1993 - North Shore News

Council chided for accepting award

NORTH VANCOUVER City
Mayor Jack Loucks and two
members of North Vancouver City
Council were condemned Monday
night for accepting Canada's
125th anniversary medals when
the same awards were given to
North Shore News columnist
Doug Collins.

By Stephen Wisenthal
Contributing Writer

Lionel Kenner said the mayor
and councillors Barbara Perrault
and John Braithwaite should give
back the medals, which were
awarded in the name of the Gov-
ernor General of Canada at a cer-
emony on Jan. 20,

He added that they should also
have walked cut of the ceremony.

He said the medals were made
“ominous'? because they went to
Collins, ‘Noel Wright, his former
editor (and defender), and Peter
Speck, the publisher of the ir-
responsible tabloid in which Col-
lins’ scribblings are published.”

Kenner said that by accepting

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He was 68.

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A funeral service was held. for
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the medals, the mayor and coun-
cillors ‘lent their prestige’? and
“Jegitimized’’ medals given to
three people ‘who are responsible
for insulting .., constituents ...
who are members of minority
ethnic groups, as well as
homosexuals, those unfortunate
enough to have contracted AIDS
and people associated with the
women’s liberation movement.’’

“Collins can only be described
as a hate-monger whose stock in
trade would seem to be appealing
to people’s worst instincts and
trading on their irrational fears,’
he added in a letter he read out to
council.

Council voted to consider the
letter at its Monday, March 22,
mecting and asked staff to report
on the process for deciding who
received the awards,

During the discussion of the let-
ter, Braithwaite said he had talked

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with Kenner earlier, and would
say no more about the matter.

“It is up to council to deat with
this correspondence. 1 gave him
my opinion,”' he said.

Coun. Bill Bell said: ‘There
were some accusations that Dr.
Kenner made that 1 didn’t agree
with and certain others that I did
agree with. In my opinion those
awards !ost a lot of respect when
one was given to Doug Collins.’’

Mayor Loucks said: ‘‘] was im-
pressed by the calibre of most of
the candidates who were there (at
the awards ceremony), I had some
questions about the criteria,

‘dt may be fine for some to
walk out of a meeting, but I don’t
do that sort of thing.”

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