‘SORRY to disturb
your looming holiday
reveries, but it’s the
Collins thing again.

Not going to go away
guietly, Pm afraid.

And a good thing too.

As most News readers
will be aware, Collins, aka
the ex-columnist anti-Chiist,
continues to wage war with
the Human Rights
- Commission and the ‘see:
tions of the province’s
‘Human Rights Code that
limit basic free expression
for kim and the rest of the
province’s residents.

Thus far he is running
into stiff resistance.
‘Government battalions have
been deployed to battle the
‘demon. Their resources are
. limitless; boug.the Devil,
"meanwhile, soldiers on alone

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pensioner’s budget and the |
intestinal brass that helped
“him survive repeated enemy
Capture. during the Second
forid War.
‘Sort.of a David and

Goliath ‘affair — onty in this ~

non-biblical battle, more are
Coen cheering for

ath. The David in this
contest, you see, is not espe-
cially marketable: too’ | ~~
ornery, too. obstinate; too
old; too set upon principles
to care about being fashion-
able or popular.

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their heads, BC Supreme
Court Justice Georgina
Quijano has determined that
a human rights cribunal is
better suited than the courts
to determine matters of con-
stitutionality.

This even though human
rights tribunals across the
land have been found to be
politically partisan and hope-
lessly biased.

Through lawyer Doug
Christie, Collins argued that
the tribunal’s decision and
the section of the Human
Rights Code upon which it
was based violate Charter
rights of free expression.

They. also argued that the
Human Rights Code estab-
lished a tribunal that is nei-
ther independent nor impar-
tial. . ;

Hey, I thought that was a

On, Lube & Fi

foregone conclusion.

Not so.

The judge found that the
tribunal's order penalizing
the News and its ex-colum-
nist is not final because the
constitutionality of the
Human Rights Code sec-
tions at issue and the consti-
tutionality of the tribunal
itself had not been deter-
mined by the tribunal in the
previous hearing.

In her decision, Judge
Quijano has ruled that the
tribunal should determine
both of the outstanding
constitutional issues.

Js, other words, a biased
at. of the government is
going to ponder whether it
and legistation drafted by
that same government is
valid.

How is justice supposed
to survive in that venue?

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From one old soldier to

_ another:

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dignified Jack Loucks was

~ fered not once but twice last

week in retirement dinners
applauding his achievements
and contributions to our
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But for those who
weren't at the city mayor's
Dec. 2 retirement dinner
put on by North Vancouver
City at the North Shore
Conference Centre, some
Loucksian insiguts gleaned
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