VICTORIA - NDP
claims that thousands of
dollars in cheques sent to
the provincial Ministry of
Finance wound up in the
garbage will be in-
vestigated by Auditor
General Erma Morrision.

Finance critic Dave
Stupich alleged Thursday
that $2,853 worth of che-
ques and money orders
were found in garbage
cans by a finance ministry
employee who was sear-
ching for additions to his
stamp collection.

VICTORIA - Anti-
government protests will
continue despite Social
Credit action this week to
take some of the sting out
of its controversial
restraint legislation.

AS expected, the
government has amended
the contentious Bill 3,
removing a clause that
would have allowed civil
servants to be fired
without cause.

The government can
still lay off civil servants
because of a shortage of

PORT MOODY -- In-
terest is rising quickly as
the federal NDP and Con-
servative parties square
off in an August 29 by-
election in this B.C.
nding.

The campaign in the
Mission-Port Moody
riding, located on the fr-
inges of the Greater Van-
couver area, is expected
to be a two-member race
between Sophie Werem-
chuk of the NDP and
Gerry St. Germain of the
Conservatives

TRIPOLI - Fourteen
people leaving a mosque
in this northern Lebanon
city were killed Friday by
a massive bomb blast

The explosion, which
may have meant for a
militia headquarters on
the same street as the
mosque, was the latest
eruption of violence in
Tripoh, the scene of
growing tension between
l ebanese factions.

Violence first broke
out in the city two weeks
ago when Syrian (roops,
who control Tripoli,

Tripoli blast
kills worshippers

AZ - Sunday, August 7, 1983 + North Shore News. .

Trashed cheques |
draw NDP fire

The cheques were
given to the NDP which
turned them over to Mor-
rison. Stupich also claims
a cheque for $750,000
was found in a garbage
can last year.

A finance ministry
spokesman said the
mistaken trashing of the
cheques was due to a
large influx of mail to the
ministry.

“Someone’s elbow pro-
bably pushed it into the
garbage,” the spokesman
said.

Socreds soften,
organizers don't

work, where a specific
program has been reduc-
ed or eliminated or where
the employer has unsuffi-
cient funds.

Despite the changes,
labor-organized rallies
being held throughout the
province will continue.

Thursday night 2,000
people gathered’ in
Nelson and organizers are
expecting a crowd
numbering in the tens of
thousands when they rally
at Empire Stadium
Wednesday.

NDP, Tories
lead vote race

Weremchuk, a Mission
school trustee, is con-
testing her second elec-
tion of this year, having
lost by less than 600 votes
to Socred MLA Austin
Pelton on May S.

Two other candidates
in the race -- Louis
Duprat,. a elawyer
representing the Liberals.
and Barbara Nicholson, a
Port Moody grandmother
running for the Green

Party, are expected to
finish well back of
Weremchuk and St’ Ger-

main

uncapectedly abandoned

some of their military
strong points Rival
militia fachons plunged

tanto batde in attempts to
secure the vacated post
(ions

The violence in Trapol
is mirrored in other parts
of Lebanon as the
Palestine Laberation
Organization (PLO) con
Uinues its internal strugele
and as the Israclis at-
tempt to disengage
themsclyes from the
country while maintain
ing a secure northern

border.

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

IT IS ONE THING for Premier Bill Bennett to
talk about “downsizing government” — a laudable
goal, even if he phrases it in newspeak — but
quite another to downsize the barriers against
bigotry and racism in this province.

British Columbia has had,
in some ways, the most
deplorable human _ rights
history in the country. I say
in some ways — referring to
the fact that people of
Chinese origin-vere not even
allowed to vote until 1947,
for instance — although it
should be abundantly clear
that other parts of the coun-
try have their share of
bigots.

In Newfoundland, race
relations began with an act
of total genocide committed
against the Beothuck In-
dians.

In Alberta today the
Social Credit Party © still
refuses to disassociate itself
from the anti-Jewish ravings
of Jim Keegstra.

Here, closer to home, it
wasn’t until last year that
Surrey municipal council
finally got around to rescind-
ing an anti-Oriental bylaw
passed in 1894 which for-

bade the employment by the -

municipality of any
“Japanese or Chinamen.”
Among the low points of
race relations in B.C. were
the anti-Japanese riots of the
1900s and the 1920s, the bar-
ring of East Indians arriving
on the Komagata Maru in
1914 and the Chinese Immi-
gration Act of 1923.
Arguably, the worst inci-
dent in B.C.'s history was the
rounding-up of Japanese-
Canadians in 1941, because
in this case it was not just a
matter of rejecting or attack-
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While I am one of those
many people who had. some
degree of respect for
Premier Bennett’s restraint
program before the recent
election, the current attack
upon civil rights in B.C. is
another kettle of smelts en-
tirely.

Restrain the growth of
bureaucracy, by all means.
But to apply a sledgehammer
to the delicate network of
legal protection afforded
minorities in British Cotum-
bia is an act of human rights
rape.

Provincial human rights
workers may be swivel ser-
vants themselves, and as
such they are probably fair
game for any politicians aim-
ing at trimming the size of
government by 25 per cent.
But the people whom the
human rights workers were
helping — and in many
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It is ironic, indeed, that no
sooner has federal Multi-
cultualism Minister Jim
Fleming called for a national
probe into racism than the
B.C. government comes
along and kicks all the pro-
vince’s human rights workers
down the stairs, then yanks
away the Rentalsman’s of-
fice, leaving every minority
at the mercy of any bigot
who happens to own an

apartment block.

This, in a province where
East Indians — the most
commonly victimized
minorities — are still subject
to terrorism in the form of
firebombing, shotgun  at-

tacks and vandahsm.

This, in a province where
outrageous exploitation of
farm and domestic workers
from ethnic minorities is still
permitted because they
aren't covered by the
Minimum Wage Act.

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more than half the popu-
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minorities.

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racism, especially in hard
economic times when
competition for jobs is
fierce, is not going to melt
away in the immediate
future.

For Mr. Bennett to strip
away what few protections
the victims of discrimination
in British Columbia have —
or rather, had — is some-
thing you would expect from
the Ku Klux Klan, not a res-
ponsible provincial govern-
ment in Canada in the last
quarter of the 20th Century.

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Enough of them have
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couver Council about the
problem that it decided
Monday to ask its Parks and
Recreation ‘Advisory Com-

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