& — Wednesday, September 17, 1997 — North Shore News

NDP’s human rights
; “dusey train is starting to
pick up.a head of steam.

All safety-minded citizens are

_advised to stay well away from the
tracks.

Of course, you didn’t expect that
the muzzling of free expression and
the intrusion of government into the
arena of public debate would be all
that the human rights brigades would

_: be after did you?

o . Well the reality is that. human
rights is now 4 government growth

ind ; and its train is unstoppable.
“Stich is the nature of bureaucracy.

__ It is self-generating and self-perpetu-

”, ating. In the case of the human rights

brigades this. seif-gencration is dou-.

expense of your hard won free-
doms Past i intrusio:

‘uesday,. donati is “from. over .1, 800

into ‘those free.

north shore news

VIEWPOINT
ights express | ___.

doms aside, the new chief commis-
sioner of the B.C. Human Rights
Commission is proposing another
round of B.C. human rights code
changes that will have an impact on
residents acrass the province and gen-
erate a whole new raft of complaints
for the already over-taxed human
rights machinery..

Among the changes proposed by
Commissioner Mary Woo-Sims, a les-
bian activist, is an amendment that
would prohibit discrimination
against “transgender persons.”

How about a cross-dressing trans-
vestite as a teacher at your local’
school? Under Woo’s latest proposed
code changes opposition to such ‘a
scenario would be grounds for
human rights prosecution.

The human rights train needs
derailing now. |

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‘Human Wrongs a goldmi , e to pa

: IF yeu were unaware that the
inmates run the asylum these
days, the unbelievable case of

_B.C. hotelier Gordon Robson
“will act as a healthy

1¢
and ‘fice speech“ supporters to the fund
1,160: Legal fees, expended thus far by'the
already exceeded $200,000.: The’ final bit will
“All funds received will help defray the

ced by, th News i in: its ? vattle with

man Rights ibur jal Over a’complaint laid

e the: ni find: its columnist Doug

ian. Jewish, Congress. The

Suppleincne, which was oneal, published in
the:-Aug. 20 News, are now available at the N fs

offices :
‘Another ‘excerpt. | from. the, hundreds of respon-
dents to o the cause:

aoa

dager then Doug — we ¢ don’t have to!

bur defend bis right

the eventual repeal :

art.the very things -
aa and gave their lives

are angerons Whoeesr .

i tp.the fund V7M 2H4. Cheques should te .
de : out to the North Shore. News: Free ee Speech afin, 3 e

Starth Stare tava, foundsd in 1960 2 an
ludependant suburban newspaper and quaiaicd
“+ under Schedule 111, Parsgraph 111 of the
Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday,
"Friday an Sunday by North Shore Free Press

‘reality check for
you

- with restaurant policy, , stale

“On Oct. 31, Robson,
owner of the Glacier
Park. Lodge ‘at Rogers’
Pass, will will be hauled ;
before a Human Wrongs
tribunal (yes, a clone of
the one seeking the hides
of Doug Collins and the

: North Shore News) for

ation against

‘ children,.”. What on earth has this heartless

monster done? © 2 «

-Personaliy nothing. The complaint was
laid by Oregon rourist Rico Micallef who
ate at thie Glaciey Park Lodge in 1994
with his'three children — then aged six
months, two and seven. In accordancé
litely sug-
gested the Micallef might find eatin
more enjoyable in the Be iyoncat
cafeteria than in the more formal and”
seufy dining room. Or they could use the

ige’s free baby-sitting service provided

to eee small kids from disturbing the

<. adute diners.

Rico would have none of it. So
although his two-year-old frac already.“
miade a nuisance of himself, the staff gave -.

and served in the dining room. Despite ’.

which, Ricalief still poured cut his horror.
ry to the BC: Human Wrongs: :

Commission. Since then, says Robson;

deer sseceressccesasccrevosesesessoosteoencces

_ nf such idiocy is superfi

“six or seven” bureaucrats have been

‘involved with the file for some 30 mo: ths
‘until the cornmission finally decided to.

‘send the case to the Tribunal for trial.
Even the original Human Wrongs
investigator recom-
mended dropping the.
complaint, but Ricalle
__ pressed on, arguin; t
: Robson’ "5 resturant dis-
criminated against his
children by assuming,
they would misbehave.
Meanwhile, the case has
already cost Robson: —
about $1,000, with
thousands more needed
for a lawyer at the hear-..:
ing. One sliidders to
think of its final cost to the taxpayer.
To those of us who, though tempi
ly forced to live in the NDP. asyluni; Still
retain a modicum of sanity, any
tous —= except foi
One interesting thought:.Consideris thie
Human Wrongs Commission is a ,
tial goldmine, why isn’t it at ieast 20 times
busier? .

Its Human Wron,  eribunals can wring
hefty compensation from anyone whose
actions expose, or are likely to expose, a

person ¢ or persons to “hatred of con-

tempt,”

oF injure his /her/their “dignity,
feelings or aierespee

respect.” And comp

‘don’t necessarily even have to pay for a.

lawyer.

Lin and the whole family was duly seated: oe selfen

: ae

vilified cow in certain quarters
year for them | to haul the ae
Congress before a Human an Wrongs tri

The ls of pre
ty? The list of prospects
“even your gentle scribe might go:
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