ww A28 - Sunday News, November 29, 1981 Jobs Canadians won't do OTTAWA(CUPC) - Live-in domestic workers in Canada on work visas - the- subject of a parliamentary study on discrimination last year — will be allowéd to apply for Canadian citizenship after two years of work experience, Immigration Minister Lloyd:Axworthy announced Thursday. Under the new im- migration rules, employers would have to grant domestics a minimum of three hours of free time a week for “self-improvement” courses designed to help them live on their own in Canada. Employers would also be ‘ required to contribute up to $20 weekly towards the cost of the retraining or up trading programs. Jnder the new rules, potenti .1 domestics applying from outside Canada would be evaluated on _ their potential for upgrading and “self-sufficiency” in addition to their domestic skills. Once in Canada, the new arrivals would have two years (with an annual evaluation) to show they have achieved a degree of self-sufficiency towards landed immigrant status. After two years, the domestics may apply for permanent residency, a process which takes six months. Domestics already in Canada will be allowed the same two year periods for training and adjustment, in addition to the time they’ve already spent in Canada, Axworth said. Potential landed residents would be granted one ex- tension of their temporary status if they are unable to show improvement after two years, Axworthy said. In a policy paper ac- companying the an- nouncement, Axworthy said domestic workers are one of the few classes of Taborers allowed into Canada to work on a temporary basis, because of the heavy demand for domestic workers. The demand for domestic help has not been filled by Canadians because of the low pay generally associated with the cleaning and child- care jobs. “Because of the unique nature of their employment, domestics admitted as . temporary workers often obtain repeated renewals of their employment authorizations,” the policy said. This has built “sensitive ... human relations situations”, leaving the “government in the awkward postition of saying that a satisfactory domestic had to be returned home but that a different foreign domestic could be granted authority to be employed for another ar- bitrarily short period of time.” As of July 31, 1981, Axworthy said there were 11,009 people in Canada on temporary authorizations, 96 per cent of whom were live- in domestic workers. The study committee said the often-undereducated domestic workers were often being paid “abysmally low” salaries and have often been the subject of harsh treat- ment. The workers were often reluctant to complain because of the uncertainty of their residency status. Ethnic ads attack backfires on Feds OTTAWA (UPC) - The government should examine the quality of its own advertising campaign before at- iacking the media for its portrayal of ethnic groups, Conservative MP Perrin Beatty said Thursday. Citing a recent speech by Multiculturalism Minister Sim Fleming on the lack of representation of non-white persons in the media, Beatty said current government advertising had the same fault “It's a bit much for him to complain about ethnic stereotyping in advertising when the worst example ts a federal ad when Fleming was responsible for government advertising,” the former communications minister said in a text. “If he’s serious about setting up a study on ethnic stereotyping in ad- vertisements, the first one they should look at 1s the government's that stereotypes Canadians of Itahan descent.” Beatty cited an = ad vertisement in the federal government's current “Shop EXHIBITION MARINE PAINTINGS DECEMBER 4th - 19th richard beard ga lery 1681 marine drive, west vancouver (604) 922 2786 Canadian” program - a radio, television and print campaign to encourage Canadians to buy products made in Canada. He said it featured a tailor named Reynaldo, who speaks in heavily accented English. In the television com- mercial, the tailor offers to sell a suit to another person at “a good price”, while another person recites the virtue of buying Canadian. “It's hard to take Fleming very seriously when he attacks advertisements but doesn't say a word about the government's own ad.” he said. loren adams carl g evers colin gillett keith a griffin harry heine robert mcvittie jeftt pritchard robert d stacey tfr thompson thomas w wells LIONS GATE Hospital’s bedridden patients may have their physician's permission to smoke. But now they also have to get the approval of the head nurse on the ward. The board has changed the hospital’s smoking policy to give nursing staff the final say, mainly for safety reasons, “Since the new smoking policy was introduced three years ago, we have had a significant decrease in fires,” said Administrator John Borthwick. “Fires in patient areas are always a nightmare for hospitals. The problems have been confined mostly to orthopaedic areas where there are many young people bedridden for sometime. ~ “The nurses have to police the situation, especially important if there is oxygen around, and if they feel there’s a need to say no, then we should support them.” Patients and visitors: can no longer buy ~ materials on the premises smoking ° and smoking is confined to _ designated areas for am- bulatory patients. Classified PACKAGED OFFICES e Large, private offices ¢ Quiet, convenient location 140 - 225 sq. ft. © From $425 per month Execwest Services. #409 - 545 Clyde Ave., West Van Call Jessie Anne Boyd at: 922-0135 Christmas dinner There are families in our community who may not have a Christmas dinner this year unless they receive a hamper from the North Vancouver Christmas Bureau. 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