6 - Friday, September 19, 1986 - North Shore News THE vOiCt OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER ! Booey Display Advertising 980-0511 : Classified Advertising 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 Feter Speck Noel Wright Barrett Fisher Linda Stewart IH Paragraph HI ot tte Publisher: Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Advertising Director . News Viewpoint Right to fire O WEST Vancouver School Board has announc- Rental sea ed it is going to spend another $10,000 to appeal y as a Supreme Court decision that ruled against the board for firing long-time teacher Roper Callow. The board’s plan to appeal comes after Justice Mary Southin ruled that arbitrator Louis Lindholm should not have approved the firing of the 44-year-old social studies teacker under Bill 35 last year. B.C. Teacher's Federation took the board to court over the arbitrator’s decision, expressiny, its fear that , the firing would set a precedent. whereby teachers De would be fired without sufficient reason. But the board claims it fired Callow because he did not show present demonstrated ability, and the (each- ers are not arguing that point! What has the world come to when an employer can- not fire an employee because he is not doing his job effectively? Are the rest of the teachers so insecure about their own present demonstrated abilities that they have to band together like a group of superstitious old women, fighting off an enemy that doesn’t exist? And now the school board plans to sink a further Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions Nonh Shote News, fu rndedie 14.1 as arndepend: . sututan new abaper sid qualtieed 1 eMIDAY Bee fie AE bad aN dednesddy Poday abd Sutthiy by North Shoe bene Pays, puted fo vet y Ora Ob “wt 5, Mar Hegutrabng Number 44KS Subscriptions Motth and West vont Guvet $555 pet tear Marling fates nH ARICA but ae Cannot aC Cont Hespontibudy foe ursobe ted maternal ncuding manase opt: spay: 1139 Lonsdale Ave. tea North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 rt to Entire contents «©: 1986 North Shore Free Press ttd All tights reserved 57,656 (average, Wednesday a Feutay %& Sunday) $ STOR, (ey $15,000 it has already spent, into an appeal that should POWER ee $10,000 of taxpayers’ money, on top of the over IN never have warranted a court case in the first place. Let’s quit wasting time, money and energy on court battles, and have the qualified teachers teach our children, and the responsible schoo! board members manage our education system. CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME Canadians cannot afford to intervene Dear Editor: Mr. Stephen Lewis, Canada’s ambassador to the UN, has correctly stated that black-ruled Southern African states will require financial assistance for long enough to carry them through to some point in time when presumably the economic climate of the region will have changed. Mr. Lewis appears to subscribe to the theory that such financial support is easily provided by Western countries and that black Southern Africans can only benefit if strict world sanctions are applied against South Africa. Under the guidance and financial influence of South Africa, Southern Africa has remained con- sistently steady and productive with no signs of the starvation, military coups, and genocide that have come to characterize other regions of Africa. It is surprising to see that Ottawa is reacting posi- tively to the UN proposals, there can be no doubt that there now exists a determined will to destroy the stability of the Southern African region. No Canadian needs to be told that ailing industries are obliged to lay off workers or that unemployment is the natural consequence of recession, the proposed campaign will serve no purpose other than to destroy a tried and tested system and to create a vast field of hardship and death in its place. For how many years would the noble campaign continue and what would be the cost? How many mil- lions must die before the sanctions campaign becomes an admitted failure? With Canada’s own economy at such a dangerously low ebb, Prime Minister Brian Dear Editor: im S. Africa Mulroney has blandly stated that the campaign against South Africa will cost the country dearly — more unemployment, more lost export opportunities, and Canada joins the line up to pour precious na- tional resources into the gaping maw of an African monster being created by the UN. Take away South Africa’s industrial strength and millions of city blacks will be obliged to return to the black homelands where they can escape high city rents and living costs. They’d become a poverty stricken mass with no direction or ambitions beyond being sure to atterd the food hand-outs sponsored by the UN. They’d have only dreams left, and hopes of going back to their fulfilling lives in the cities once their saviors pack up .and go home. South Africa can well afford to wait out the in- tervening period of time. There is no question but that the sanctions campaign will founder at huge cost of life and UN credibility. The past !aws of South Africa were never able to encourage mass resettlement in the black homelands, it is something of an anomaly that UN policies will accomplish all those laws failed to do. Proceed, Mr. Lewis, recently we have heard the first desperate call for financial help fom Zimbabwe, Zambia, and others. Charity begins at home. Canada has nothing to give to an impractical program of foreign interference when its own economy is in rags and tatters. Peter du Plessis North Vancouver pect great service for a measly 34 pennies, although that’s what I Come on you guys, lay off the post office. It’s getting to be downright boring. Lay off the P.O. Regarding August 27, editorial by Tony Carlson — has he been on vacation? The post office plan for alternate day delivery was thrown out months ago. He says five years ago a stamp cost a paltry 17¢. Well, now it costs a paltry 34¢ and you can ex- always get. He says there are high overtime bills, and further on in the same paper, page 8, another person writes in to hire more. That goes together well. Stick to community events and services more and try to get back to being a community newspaper. §J.G. Leach North Vancouver te Who will take Canadian refugees? To be admitted to this country as a refugee one is supposed to qual- ify on one or more grounds, including religious or racial persecution, a natural disaster, a civil war or a general fear for one’s safety. Canada has been front and centre in accepting the world’s refugees, virtually without question, and has liberalized its immigration policy toward the third world at the cost of so-called ‘traditional’ immigra- tion. A conscious decision taken by Trudeau and his gang in Ottawa converted Canada, almost overnight, to a multi-cultural society without any input from, or approval by, the citizens of this country. What has it cost us? It is my sincere belief that by admitting prac- tically anyone who claimed ‘refugee status’ we have introduced a cancer into the body of this country that will be the death of it. A strong statement maybe, but even a partial tally of events of the past few years speaks for itself — and it’s getting worse, not better. Not too long ago thousands of new arrivals, myself included, came to this country with little more than the clothes on our backs and a will to work. Sure, most of us retained a strong attachment to the land of our birth, but we were Canadians first and foremost. Not so with today’s arrivals. Encouraged to hang on to their ethnic dress, customs and language they live in ghettoes. Some, wanted in their countries for crimes in- cluding murder, are ‘‘Canadians of Convenience’’ protected by Canada’s toothless extradition policy. Right here in Canada we’ve become used to pitched battles in our parks between rival Indo-Canadian factions; the attempted assassina- tion of an Indian Diplomat; ongoing hostility between Canada’s Sikhs and Hindus over Khalistan; plane bombings and various plots; and the assassination of Turkish diplomats by Armenian-Canadians in revenge for an alleged slaughter 70 or more years ago. We have rival gangs of ‘New Chinese Canadians’ fighting with ‘Old Chinese Canadians’ over philosophical differences and, more prag- matically, tong wars for the territorial rights to protection and drug revenues of Chinatown. Even a Croation-Canadian doctor was shot down on one of our main streets because of allege political differences within his ethnic community. My question is this. Twenty-five years from now which country will accept ‘Canadian-Canadian’ children as refugees when their own cities are being torn apart, as is Beirut, by so many warring factions that a program will be required to tell them apart? Kenneth C, Garner Vancouver