THERE are a Jot of
shiny new faces out
there in the ranks of
the employed these
days.

You see ther everywhere
vou oa, ar the eroeery stare,
in the Jogal earenes, in the
garden shops. These are our
youth, smiling, bright-eved
people with no job expert-
ence and an inspiring amount
of enthusiasm.

At my local Safeway there
must be a dozen new stu-
denis who have started work-
ing in the past month, | saw
one of my sons’ friends in the
meat department the other
day.

He looked very spifty in
his white uniform with the
ted butcher’s apron, and if it
hadn't been for the fact that
his mother told me she still
cuts his meat for him at
home, I would have sworn he
was a real live butcher.
Others are efficiently ringing
through and packing gro-
ceries, . seemingly never too
cranky to chat with a boring
housewife.

Why even my own, com-
pletely-useless-at-home ollest
boy is now gainfully

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emploved in one of our local
restaurants (no thanks to that
crummy job resume column
his mother wrote }.

T have co contess, it took a
lot of perseading to get him
to apply for the job, and
more encouraging to get him
there on his first day. He was
very nervous. But Twas pre-
pared wo do almost anything,
including hand holding it
necessary, f prevent hain
to look at his sorry self
lounging about the house all
summer long.

His father and I went to
the Red Robin he’s working
at the other day to have
lunch and survey his situa-
tion. His official title is
“Fryer Person,” and the posi-
tion comes replete with 4
snappy uniform and hat, plus
a five-page job description.

if you knew what the kid

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Dear Editor:

Doug Collins’ May } letrer
(Closing the Ross case) about
former New Brunswick teacher
Malcolm Ross is deceitful for a
number of reasons.

First, he characterizes the
Supreme Court of Canada’s
unanimous decision in the
Ross case as one “that detied
logic.”

However, in reaching this
decision, the Court had ar its
disposal a number of impor-
tant decisions, among them:
Zylberberg (1988); Irwin Toy
Lrd. (1989); Keegstra (1990);
Butler (1992); Zandel (1992).
As well, the Court had the
Oakes test (Oakes, 1986)
which provides a rigorous for-
mula that can. when all three
significant criteria can be meet,
justify overriding a Charter
guarantee.

Second, Mr. Collins claims

Brunswick media
“demonized” Malcolm Ross.

{ thought Mr. Collins
believed ina free press and free
speech. Indeed, when he was
your columnist, vou defended
him and, by extension, your
right to publish his columns
and even asked the public to
support you with cash dona-
tions. What has changed?

Third, Mr. Collins offer
counts on the public's apathy
or its ignorance to promote
men like Zundel, Keegstra and
Ross, ] have read the decisions
cited above, as well as every
decision concerning Malcolm
Ross that I could find.

the New

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was like at home, vou'd
understand our cursosity. He
is dike many 15-year-old
men, completely useless, not
only in the kitchen, but
everwhere in lite that does-
Wowolve a game.

This is a kidd who takes 20
ANNUteS every Morning to
tind his backpack. Joses his
shoes at feast twice a day, and
hay never relayed a telephone
Message accurately in his life.

This is a kid, who when I
informed him that 1 would
be forced to deduct $2 (from
a measly S14 allowance) for
every day ther he neglected
to make his bed and get iis
Jaundry to the laundry room,
never got any allowance for
three months straight.

“Mom, let's just think of
that daily two-dollar dedue-
tion 4s me paying you to
make my Sed and deal with
my laundry. You deserve it,”
was his response to my bewil-
dered query about his pather-
ic situation.

Put another way, this par-
ticular young man is nota
stickler for organization, nor
has he ever displayed that
Jer’s-get-crackin® attitude that
typifies the real movers and
shakers in this world.

So vou can imagine his
father’s and my shack to see
him moving and shaking up
the deep-fry baskets in tie
Red Robin kirchen. We spoi-
ted him immediately through
she farge opening that the
Walters use te give their
orders to the kitchen staff,
heeause he is the Hulest guy
working there. (He's also the
mast adorable, but he ells
me Fam not allowed to serite
that)

Neither of us was pre-
pared tor what we saw. Our
complerely-useless-at-home
boy was scurrying abeut the
big kitchen, getting stuff our
of an enormous fridge,
preparing deep- fried Portions
of buzzard wings, cajun
strips, onion rings and cheese
sticks.

He chatted and laughed
with the other kitchen staif as
he shoveled delicious looking
popcorn shrimp and calamari
into red baskets, replete with
garnish and sauces in tiny
bowls.

“Wow,” L sighed out loud.
li seems like only vesterday
that he was using a garnish
tor GE Joe camoutlage at the
dianer table.

He washed his hands after

Malcolm Ross case

books.

I have read Ross*

They contain a number of

arrant lies commonly used by
Holocaust deniers. However, I
challenge any citizen of good
will to read anv of Ross’ books
and conclude that Malcolm
Ross is a decent man whose
writings are not gratuitously

filled with an inciting hate of

Jews and others. Doug Collins
trumpets the virtues of free-
dom of expression. However,
there is another fundamental
right he ignores.

We ail have the right not to
become somebody else’s vic-
tim. Unlike Mr. Collins, this is
something many of us learned

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every order, prompting his
bewildered father to specu-
late. “Maybe that’s his wav of
slacking off,”

AHL know is ve been
mving to vet him to wash his
hands for 14 vears with little
SUE CESS,

Atone point, wher there
happened to be a dull in
orders, the most incredible
thing of all happened. My
son, a virtual stranger to me
now, Went Over to what ntust
have been a basin of seapy
water and grabbed something
with a jong handle,

“John,” 1 said to my hus-
band, “what’s he deing?”

Then, to our great asten- -
ishment he pulled a big mop
fron the basin with which he

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proceeded to mop the
kitchen floor.

My eves welled up with
tears and I felt a big lump in
my throat. Reaching tor my
husband's hand, | whim-
pered, “Oh, John. he’s mop-
ping the floor.”

As parents, vou worry
constantly whether vou are
doing a decent job raising
your children vo be produc-
tive adults,

‘Yaday ac Red Robin, we
gota good sign, It may not
seem like much to you, but
my kid is a productive Frver
Person, and Pm about as
proud as [ve ever been of the
guy.

Now if only I could ger
him to make his bed .

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