The provinc | government has limited your right to free expression BROUGHT 70 YOU BY THE North Shore News If what you have said or written could in some way have disturbed somebody or some group some- where in B.C., you could be in trouble. e Bill 32, the new Human Rights Amendment Ac which empowers an inquisition, the Human. Righ Commission, to harass the press and other medi by seeking out alleged discrimination, be it real’ If you disagree wiih what someone has said and perceived, without a complainant, ‘express that disagreement verbally or in print, you could be in trouble. . Because the provincial government now packs the power to silence opinion, to regu- late your right to know, to muzzl “the press, to censor public dis- ~~ cussion and to inflict heavy penal- ties on those the government deems to have violated: oe ‘Bill 33, the 1993 Human a Rights Act, which restricts the 2 publication or open discussion of material that “indicates dis- crimination” or is “likely to “expose a person or group of “persons to hatred or con- tempt.” The vaguely worded legislation is policed by an ‘unelected Human Rights Council empowered te. apply hefty penalties upon those ruled io have vio- lated the legislation. — BILL 33 FOR AGAINST Leonard Krog (Parksville-Qualicum) Langara) Harry Lali (Yale-Lillooet) B Bill Barlee (Okanagan- Margaret Lord ® Boundary) (Comox. Valley) BF to ine M Norm Lortie (North ¥ bee (Prince George Mt Delta) . Vi Dale Lovick (Nanaimo) , breche Brewin (et-Beacon Darlene Marzasi B) Rob Chisholm (Chilliwack) : tim Beattie , (Okanagan-Penticton) ® Act Charbonneau | 4 (Kamlocps) A Glen Clark (Vancouver-Kingsway) Jim Doyle fm (Columbia River- @ Revelstoke) Ht Rev. Val Anderson (Van.- island) Frank Garden (Cariboo North) Helmut Giesbrecht (Skeena) Fred Gingell (Delta South) Anita Hagea (New Westminster) Sue ilammell (Surrey Green- Timbers) Mike Harcourt (Van.-ML Pleasant) Andrew Petter (Saanich Sowth) |” Jan Pullinger (Cowichan- : Ladysmith) Paul Ramsey (Prince George North) Joan Sawickt (Burnaby Willingdon) David Schreck (North van: Lonsdale) Rev. Val Anderson (Vancouver-Langara) Clive Tanner (Saanich North and Len Fox (Prince Geore-Oninea B Anne Edwards my (Kootenay) B Corky Evans (Nelson- B Creston) @ Colin Gabelmann mm (North Island) BR Frank Garden (Cariboo 3 North) Helmut Giesbrecht H (Skeena) i Anita Hagen (New & Westminster) Bill Hartley (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows) y Gerard A. Janssen (Alberni? Barry Jones (Burnaby North) (Vancouver-Point Grey) Dar Miller (North . Coast) Jan Pullinger (Cowichan-Ladysmith) Paul Ramsey (Prince George North) Fred Randall (Burnaby-Edmonds) David Schreck (North Vancouver- Lonsdale) Dennis Streifel (Mission-Kent) David G. Zimhelt (Cariboo South) yet Bob Chisholm (Chilliwack) Jeremy Dalton (West Vancouver. Capilano) Richard Neufeld (Peace River North) Cliff Serwa (Okanagan West) Islands) Judeline Tyabji (Okanagan East) Allan Warnke (Richmond Steveston) Gordon Wilson (Powell River-Sunshine Coast) H Gordon Campbell (Van.- B Quilchena) A John Cashore (Coquitlam- @ Maillardville) A Art Charhonneas (Kamloops) aa Elizabeth Cull (Oak Bay-Gordon 5 iS B tlead) Jeremy Dalton (West Van.- iB Capilino) Al Michael de Jong (Matsqui) BB U3 Dosanjh (Van.-Kensington) Jim Doyle (Columbia R- B Revelstoke) Mike Farnworth (Port 8 Coquiilam) af Gary Farrell-Collins (Ft. @ langhy iy Aldergrove) Bill Hartley (iHaple Ridge-Pitt Meadows) Wilf Hurd (Surtey-White Rack) Fred Jackson (Kamloops-N. Thompson) Gerard A. Janssen (Alberni) Leonard Krog (Parksville. Qualicum) Harry Lali: (Yale-Lillovet) Norm Lortie (North Delta) Dale Lovick (Nanaimo) Joy MacPhail (Vancouver. Tlastings) Dan Miller (North Coast) Shannon O'Neill (Shuswap) Jackie Pement (Bulkley Valley- Stikine) Tom Perry (Van.-Little Mountain) Bernie Simpson (Van.- Fraserview) Joan Smallwood (Surrey- Whalley) lynn Stephens (Langley) Dennis Streifel (Mission-Kent) Doug Symmons (Richmond Centre) Cordon Wilson (Powell River: Sunshine Coast) Jotin sai Dongen (Abbotsford) Alkan Warnke (Richimoad- Steveston) David G. Zirnhelt (Cariboo South) Lyall Hanson : (Okanagan Yernon) David Mitchell =. (West Vancouver-Geribaldi) Richard Neufeld (Peace River North) * Cliff Serwa (Okanagan West) Jack Weisgerter : (Peace River South