other hand WANT some money from government? | As I’ve told you before, just set up an B “anti-racism” group. 4 Coming. Chances are, too, that no ne will check up on what ' - : you are doing with the a money. Having given Canada the gift of large scale multicul- faralism, the politicians seek port for their dotty poli- s.That’s why, they fund ese ‘groups "and ask few ‘questions. - > On Wednesday this space a described the antics of Alan Dutton’s Canadian Anti- Ie operates out of B.C. jand has been funded by the “feds and_the province, even legally registered ‘society ince Sept. 2, 1994, and the fund: therefore does not warrant large-scale official funding. Recently, the scummy Anti Racist Action group (ARA) got $8,000 from Metropolitan Toronto Council and another $8,000 from the Trillium Foundation. CAERS acted as certified “trustee” for those grants. But because it was not incorporated it could not legally do that. Purpose of the grants was to finance ARA in holding a two-day conference called Youth Against Hate. Dutton and self-proclaimed Communist David Lethbridge of Okanagan College took part in it. ARA is a neo-Bolshevik bunch with a proclivity to strect fighting. It operates for the most part “under- ground,” provides no address except a box num- ber, and denies the media access to its meetings. Columnist Christie " Blatchford of the Toronto - Sun has described the orga- nization this way: “ARA became most infa- FLEXWOOD Soto CUSTOM. a \ SLEEP SYSTEM fl Our systerns will give a you the best sleep of f your life. 2 Queen from 1940 complete King from ‘950 complete mous for its 1993 trashing of a Heritage Front feader’s house in which a crowd of about 300 smashed windows and doors, and threw eBgs. paint bombs and rocks.” The group | has called for “direct action” against “racists.” One of their tar- gets is Paul Fromm, the right-wing, entirely law- abiding and peaceable leader of Citizens For Foreign Aid Reform (C-FAR). In March, to cheers from the ARA something calling itself the Anti-Fascist League intimidated the owner of an Edmonton hotel into denying Fromm a room and a meeting place. In December, ARA toughs broke into a private C-FAR dinner meeting in Toronto. They assaulted an old lady, spat on the owner and other people and trashed the restaurant. By the time the police arrived they had disappeared. Before the grant was approved Fromm informed Toronto Metro council that ARA is “terror- ist and violent.” The council was not per- suaded that ARA was a men- ace. But there was a heated five-hour debate before the. grant was approved. ARA had to be OK, one supposes, because it trum- pets that it is anti-racist.” That password worked also with the Trillium Foundation, which dispenses Ontario Lottery funds. Trillium’s executive director, Julie White, deliv- ered some classically silly lines in responding to objec- tions to the grant. She wrote: “We were satisfied that ‘he conference itself, (my en:phasis) was not intended 70 encourage vio- lence...”. The conference itself? Does that mean that any- thing else these toughs do is irrelevant? Obviously, she was sucked in by that Youth Against Hate propaganda, “Hate” is another pass- word for getting bucks out of the gullible and it seems to be of no consequence that Sunday, July 28, 1996 — North Shore News - 7 the ARA folks are them- selves good haters. CAERS, meanwhile, has connections stretching into the B.C. government. The organization lists Charan Giil as its secretary treasurer and as Multicultural Adviser to the Minister of Social Services. He was also an NDP candi- date in Surrey in the last election. Harinder Mahi} is listed as a “distinguished past director” and Chairman of the B.C. Council on Human Rights. The president of CAERS, Roger Nadarajan, is employed by Family Court Services, which comes under the ministry of the Attorney General. The NDP government has given a lot of money to CAERS — well over $100,000 in the 1994-95 financial year alone. (Whether before or after CAERS was “struck off” as a registered society is not known.) But until lawyer 4 een cet ey mone Ke ts Sone ee ee A SaW A: Centre: ae oan oara ee ri tk aetna coat va ‘ all os coe Ag Gus Kroll of West ; Vancouver got on the trail no one knew that CAERS had been dissolved by the B.C. Registrar. of Companies. Two years ago Liberal MP John Bryden did a big study on the funding of special interest groups. He warned that * ‘it is a sys- tem gone sour.” “Misrepresentation is a common business practice .. individuals award them-_ selves huge salaries, hire professional lobbyists, and attack critics with name call- ing and noisy demonstra- tions.” Dutton says it was all “an unfortunate oversight.” Really? The registrar of companies infermed him in writing what his situation was. Can’t he read? — The North Shore News , believes strongly in freedom of speech and the right of all. sides in a debate to be heard. 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