8. Friday, Sune 21, 1985 -

North Shore News

get this

Manitoba, mais oui!

I

t thrilled me that Manitoba must re-write in
French every law passed there in the past 95
years. It is the kind of thing we must expect,

naturally, from a Supreme Court in which four of
the judges are French, and the rest Anglos appointed

by the Liberals.

Regardez-vous, s'il vous
plait:

All laws back to 1890 must
be translated — those passed
by the legislators when they
were in their cups, those used,
those not used. Plus half-
baked regulations that no one
ever took any notice of. But
their honors, who are classed
as sane, Say that unless this be
done, anarchy will prevail.

Never mind. Just think of
the work it will create. Pawley
and Baloney, a great pair, may
have to send to France to get
enough translators. As for the

cost, Baloney will probably -

heap it on top of the deficit,
where no one will notice it.

Is there another country in
the whole wide world where
such flummeries are the
fashion?

In B.C., meanwhile, a fem
by the name of Christine
Plascio-Bernard finds it
“totally unacceptable” that at
‘Expo there are no signs of
having signs in French. The

lady is the executive direcior ©

-of the Chambre de Commerce
Franco-Columbienne de Van-
couver, an organization of
which no one has ever heard
and in which, if it exists at all,
they probably use English.
Do not. take on so,

Christine. Expo will probably
plaster the requisite signs all
over town, It will be a change
from all the other bad news.

. From Toronto, meanwhile,
comes the glad intelligence
that French-speakers are get-
ting jobs in the Federal civil
service at twice the rate that
would be warranted by their
share of the population. (See
the April/May newsletter of
the Alliance For the Preserva-
tion of English in Canada —
APEC). |

But in Quebec itself, only
0.8 per cent of personnel in the
provincial civil service are
Anglo, even though English-
speakers make up 20 per cent
of the Quebec population.

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Speaking of the public ser-
vice, 1 have before me a
wonderful questionnaire

distributed to swivel servants .

by the Treasury Board. It is
part of the federal plan to find
out how many visible

minorities (vismins) there are’

in the public employ. The next
move, naturally, will be to put
a further crimp in the recruit-
ment of Anglos while Ottawa

- gives jobs to its pets (Indians,

Ethiopians, Viet refugees,
etc.)
But that’s not the item. The

item,- as my informant so,

discerningly puts it, is that
“indigenous peoples, vismins
and disabled persons are all
lumped together. ‘‘Are

vismins thought of as being -

disabled,’’ he asks?

Questions include gems like
“Do you consider yourself to
be of African origin, Asian
origin, or any combination of
African, Asian, or Oceanic
origins?”’

Who knows? All we know
is that Baloney, flower-child
Flora MacDonald, Mary Col-
lins, Chuck Cook, etc.,
fervently support the
fantastic.

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In Kitchener, Ont., Rabbi
Rosensweig has whined to the
local board of education that
Bill Shakespeare’s Merchant
of Venice should be taken out
of the junior high school cur-
ticulum. Anti- -semitic, you

‘know,

There are plenty of gentile
villains in Shakespeare, ‘but

presumably they’re OK.

RCMP theft case
remains closed

THE NAME of the North
Vancouver RCMP officer
facing dismissal for using a
fellow constable’s credit card
for escort services will not be
released,

.RCMP Supt. Roy .Byrne
said Wednesday the action
against the constable, who
was dismissed in late
December, ‘‘is straight
disciplinary action within the
force.’”

“Tt was a theft on the
premises, so it seems more
appropriate to deal with it
within the force,’’ Byrne
said.

“What we're talking
about is not a matter of
public record,’’ he con-
tinued. “If it had gone
through the courts it would
have been a different thing,
but a negative decision from
Crown counsel precluded
having the case go through
the courts.”’

Byrne said the constable,
who does not live on the
North Shore, is entitled to a
hearing if he wishes to con-
test the allegations against
him. He also has the option
of resigning.

“Let's be honest,'’ Byrne
said. ‘‘One would hope the
member would pack it up
and leave — resign.”’

The constable in question
is alleged to have used the
Visa card of Cst. Darryl! Lit-
tle without permission, and
charged approximately $200
worth of escort services.

Byrnes said he did not
know what services were
provided for that amount,
but he said the issue was that
he used a stolen credit card.

The RCMP disciplinary
system is a long, slow pro-
cess, Byrnes said, and a
decision on the constable’s
dismissal could take up to
five months.

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One of the country’s most
endearing goonies has done it
again. Irefer to that master of
the English language, Eugene
Whelan, who has told
World Food Council in Paris

- that ‘twe are guilty of the

greatest genocide or holocaust
the world has ever seen”? — |
leave it to you to fathom what
the funny fellow means.

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