Doug
Collins

TED White has
scored a “first” in the
House of Commons.
‘The North Vancouver
| MP has speared
Liberal hypocrisy on
racial discrimination
as it affects white
f males. He has also
- demanded an end to it.

‘His speech was made dur-
ing the last week of May but
I’ve seen not the slightest
reference {o it in the major
. media even though press
releases were issued. That's
4. where things are at these
“days. But it carried in The
Ottawa Times, a small news-
paper, under the headline
“Reverse Racism Targeted.”
. The major media didn’t-

want to know about it, being
too busy hunting “racists” of
a different kind. And the
Liberals sat on their hands
and whistled.

White. proposed that
Parliament get rid of affirma-
tive action, which has
become a cornerstone of
Liberal policy. He did it in
the form of a private mem-
ber’s motion so it was “non-
votable.” And when he asked
for consent to make it
votable his request was
denied.

As he told the House,
Section 15 (1) of the
Constitution Act “enunciates
the principles of equality as
called for in the Charter of
Rights and Freedoms.”

It states, “Every individ-
ual is equal before the law
and has the right to the equal
protection and equal benefit
of the law without discrimi-
nation and, in particular,
without discrimination based
on race, national or ethnic
origin, colour, religion, sex.
age or mental or physical
disability.”

The authors of Section 15
should have left it at that,
said White. But that wouldn't
have been politically correct.
So they made sure that peo-
ple who were “disadvan-
taged” were exempted.

(Meaning, of course.

‘posed to

indians, the minorities, and
anyone else some vole-hun-
gry politician, bureaucrat or
human rights maniac was
fond of.)

As White pointed out, it
was George Orwell's Animal
Farm all over again, with
some animals being more
equal than others. It was also
“a travesly
of democriat-
ic princi-
ples,” and
procedures
that are sup-

encourage
equality end
up as

engines of
discrimination.

The victims being whites,
especially young white
males.

It is now almost routine
for them to be discriminated
against, both provincially and
federally. :

White mentioned the case
of Timothy Juliette, who grad-
uated form a civil aviation
mechanical engineering course
with near-perfect marks.

Oe

a's lost horizons

In spite of that he was
denied entry to a Department
of Transport training course
because he was not a mem-

ber of a disadvantaged group.

“The worst thing,” White
continued, “is that some of
the most vocul of the pro-
moters of affirmative action
are so blinded with ideology

66 It is a mistake, too, to believe that
only whites can be ‘racist.’ 9

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that they will not or cannot
see how intolerant, bigoted
and extremist their demands
really are.”

As some sage put ita
long time ago, “The road to
tyranny is paved with human
rights.”

It is a mistake, too, to
believe that only whites can
be “racist.” I have given
instances in the past where
whites have been discrimi-

nated against in the private
job market, let alone in gov-
ernment and crown corporu-
tions. But no political party
as such raises the issue. It
was significant that White
did it in a private member's
motion.

{i was entirely pre-
dictable, too, that the
Liberals
would not
agree to pul
White's
motion to a
vote. As he
stated:
“Tam sure
the Liberals
wish they
could com-
pletely censor this motion. |
do-not doubt some would
suppress free speech in this
place if they could.”

Yes, Last year, Liberal
House Leader Peter Milliken
said that members who
“abuse” freedom of speech
should have their phones dis-
connected or Icse pay.

I wish I could be less
gloomy about the prospects
facing this country in issues

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of this sort, But the writing is
on the wall.

The mainspring in anti-
white discrimination is inimi-
gration and no MP dares to
attack head-on the kind of
immigration we ure getting.
Not even Ted White, who
does more than most
Opposition MPs to bring
some common sense into the
Commons, nor Reform’s Art
Hanger, the best immigration
critic Canada had in 40 years
until Preston Manning
dumped him.

Anyone who did face the
issue squarely would himself
out of the Reform caucus in
a trice, just like Bob Ringma,
David Chatters and Jan
Brown, who were thrown out
on lesser matters.

Call it Canada’s Lost
Horizons.

The North Shore News
believes strongly in freedom
of speech and the right of all
sides in a debate to be heard.
The columnists published in
the News present differing
points of view, but those
views are not necessarily
those of the newspaper itself. ©

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‘his column is about.

Everyone is entitled to.

“his opinions and if you take
‘that away froma person,
well I think that’s; wrong. ..

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nal “man, don’t read his column.

There are people out
there .who happen to agree
with -him ona lot of issues.

~ It’s .OK to be: upset. with.

the things he says and I think
“it’s OK to write about it, but
“it’s not.OK. to-iake it away.
Doug Collins should ‘stay if
“he wants to. | think it’s eye-
opening that’in this day and

something that those of .us

who disagree . can use

whether it's in a debate or ©

whatever. He has an interest-

“ing look at the world and I

think’ that’s worth some-
thing.
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