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GREENPEACE MEMBER Kel hands out pamphiets to a motorist at the north end of Lions
Gate Bridge on Wednesday morning. The activists wore gas masks during the rush-hour
event which was to promote alternatives to car transportation.

News columnist vows to

CONTROVERSIAL North Shore News columnist Doug
Collins says he is willing to go to jail if he is found guilty
of violating the B.C. Human Rights Act.

He made the comment this
weck after the NDP government
introduced two ‘‘anti-hate’’
amendments to the legislation that
Opposition parties have charged
are direct threats to freedom of
speech.

Collins said the provincia gov-
ernment wants to silence critics of
anything that is not ‘politically
correct’? by introducing the
changes.

The amendments would prohibit

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News Reporter

the publication or display of any
statement or communication that
is "kely to expose a person or
groups to hatred or contempt or
indicates ‘tan intention to
discriminate’? against a person or
groups.

Under current Iegislation, signs,

symbojs .and emblems cannot
communicate such contempt or
perceived discrimination.

Prohibited grounds of
discrimination in the legislation
include race, color, ancestry, place
of origin, religion, marital status,
family status, physical or mental
disability, sex, sexual orientation
orage. |,

But Collins said the NDP is in-
terested in supporting the right of
free speech only for groups or in-
dividuals it agrees with.

“It's obviously aimed at people
like me, and there are not a fot of
people like me. I don’t know if it

will affect me, but if it does 1 will
be happy to go to jail, because |
would be able to write some great
columns from there.

“It’s typical of what a socialist
government wants to do. They on-
ly want people who are politically
correct to write columns.

“They're all in favor of the
kind of immigration we're getting,
and they’rt all in’ favor of
homosexuality,'’ said Collins.

The proposed changes to the
B.C. Human Rights Act, he said,
will back-fire on the government.

‘It’s directed against so-called

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HERE'S YOUR chance to let
us, and the North Shore,
know how you feel about
issues that affect you.

TJurn to page 8 in the Fri-
day, June 18, Nerth Shore
News for respoases to the fol-
lowing question: ‘‘Does the
provincial government's new
‘anti-hate’ law (Bill 33)
threaten free speech?’’

It’s your call. Just dial the
North Shore News Your Call
linc at 983-2208 and fet us
know what you think,

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