A10 - Wednesday, February 4, 1981 - North Shore News

Ellsworth
Dickson

The municipal workers strike has many
people upset. Garbage is starting to pile up,
the Queen Elizabeth Theatre is losing
thousands of dollars. It is difficult to do
business at City Hall, and so on: Perhaps the

municipal workers should be classified as
“essential service”?

Today’s question is:
“Should the municipal workers
be allowed to strike?’

John Sudsbear
North Vancouver

They should have a right
t to strike like anyone else.
_And [m not going to
‘cross any picket line at
2 City Hall to pay a parking
# ticket or whatever.

. Tom Walton
North Vancouver

Yes, they should be
allowed to strike as are
any other union mem-
bers. The management in
my apartment has taken
care of the garbage
problem. I plan on

respecting y CUPE
picket line.

Stella Ingram
North Vancouver

' They have a right to
strike alright, but the
strike Certainly is causing
many inconveniences. I
won't cross any picket

line to do business at City
Hall.

Norman Dorrington
Burnaby

1 think the municipal
workers should be
classified as essential
service workers and they
should negotiate wage
settlements without a
strike. It is really un-
fortunate that people are
- being forced to cross
picket lines to carry on
with their daily business

Rusty Fraser
North Vancouver

It is too bad that this
unton can alfect
everyone's life so rouch.
It's a shame they “an shut
down the city so casily |
think the ‘SO's are going
to be a decade of umon
control.

___FROM PAGE Ai _
she must leave by today and
that she may not be eligible
to return for one year.

The Hoffmans entered
Canada, November 28
without an entrance visa for
‘Stella, a visa the, Hoffmans
say was impossible for them
to obtain in Columbia
because of Canadian Im-
migration laws and
Columbian divorce laws.

Now, after one short
immigration inquiry, which
only discussed whether she
had a visa, Stelia must leave
her Canadian born husband,
or David must leave his job
and follow his wife back to
Columbia..

Even though a sponsorship
hearing is still scheduled for
February 17, Immigration
would not permit Stella to
stay until that time as she
would require a_ special
ministerial permit to do so
and local Immigration of-
ficials have refused to issue

one.
David Hoffman

was
yesterday trying a last-ditch
attempt to have the
departure put off until

tomorrow (Thursday) since.

Stella was due to be flown to -

San Francisco and _ there
were no connecting flights
scheduled for Columbia

~ THE CASSETTE DECKS YO!

from there. o yesterday. Stella
was concerned about having
to spend 24 hours in San
Francisco on her own when
she does not even speak any
English. .

Her husband says of the
situation that has led to their
dilemma:

“We were told in
Columbia that because she
was: .divorced in Santa
Domingo, a_ divorce
recognized by Canadian civil
law but not by the Catholic
government in Columbia,
she would be unable to
obtain a visa to enter Canada
as my wife,” Hoffman said.

“I want to live with my
wife in my country.
Somehow I thought this was
Canada and they would
understand. But they won't
even let.me explain why we
came to Canada without a
visa,” he adds.

Columbia does not grant
divorces for marriages made
in the Catholic church,
although it will permit
divorces for civil marriages.
Canadian immigration law
stipulates that a visa must be
obtained from the country of
origin and that the laws of

-that country must be ob-

served.

To complicate matters,
the Hoffmans were also told
that because Stella is his

wife, as recognized by
Canadian civi) law, she
would not be able to enter
on a tourist visa.

Because the Hoffmans
could not obtain a visa in
Columbia, they flew to
Canada in hopes of being
able to explain their
situation to officials here.

NOT INTERESTED

“We told them (im-
migration) as soon as we

entered Canada, but they

weren't interested in the
circumstances, only whether
she had a visa or not,” he
said.

Hoffman's lawyer, David
Finlay, says they are caught
in a “Catch 22” situation.

“There appears to be no
simple solution ...
necessary for immigration to
put a time limit on this sort
of thing. David's wife

should be allowed to remain
with him,” Finlay said.

“The immigration
department is not showing
any understanding or
compassion to their cir-
cumstances.”

David Hoffman says: “The
only thing they keep telling
me is that I can stay in
Canada. But how can I stay
if they won't allow my wife
to be here?”

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through the red tape.

Hoffman says he will be
proceeding: .
sponsorship jhearing on th
17th; but that whatever the’
outcome he and his wife will:
be separated for a minimum
of three months,

“The hearing. is only a:
preliminary process and the
they will have-to make
ruling,” he says, “which wil}
probably take 30 days.

“If it is in our favour they.
will have to get specig
permission from Ottawa to
let her back in. If it is not in.
our favour we will have to’
appeal.

“It will probably be three
to six months before we:
might even get the final word’
saying, ‘No way.”

If that is the case, whereas
Hoffman wants. to stay in
Canada, he will join his wife
and live somewhere they can
be together without
harassment.

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