AG - Sunday, November 25. 1984 - North Shore News

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News Viewpoint

Non-solutions

udge Rosalie Abella’s royal commission

report on equality in employment will, if

implemented, raise new problems for
every existing One it seeks to resolve.

On the surface, her recommendations for
forcing employers by law to. stop
discriminating against women, the disabled,
native Canadians and visible minorities are
pure motherhood. But with continuing high
unemployment predicted for years to come,
they also inevitably mean ‘‘discrimination”’
against work-seekers in other categories. The
job pie is only so big.

The proposals would remove the right of

Sunday brunch

ideas ... Salute Sutherland’s
Kuan Foo, Jan Fredricksen,
Margaret Knight and Brian
b Noel Wri ht Kraushaar, winning team in
Vy £ the zone final of CBC's
“Reach for the Top’’ com-
petition after beating out
Hillside and Burnaby North.
They’ll advance to the B.C.
final next February ... Ap-
pointed sales manager of the ‘
luxury 505-room Pan Pacific
Hotel and convention centre,
now being built at Canada}
Place on the old Pier BC, 1s
; West Van's Deborah Root,
| : Toronto University grad

. _. ee , : with extensive experience in
RGARET KNIGHT J USHARI FREDERIKSEN

national and regional Cana-

: . . dian hotel chains ... Two
employers to hire solely on the basis of job . . North Shore students at
qualifications and make them, in effect, part 2 gts BCIT are in the money for

of a one-sided social security system. As long
as unemployment persists al its present level,
enforced hiring of females, ethnics and the
handicapped on those grounds alone must
automatically result in roughly the same
number of males, non-ethnics and the
ablebodied going jobless. Given two equally
qualified job applicants---one a_ single

Outstanding achievement---
lumber and plywood student
John Gillis of North Van
with Tahsis Co. and Council
of Forest Industries awards
totalling $700, and natural
gas and petroleum student
Blair Kerr of West Van with
a $500 B.C.Hydro_ scholar-

ship ... Climbing on to the
mother with two teenage sons in school, the Shote submiteg -—~POlitical bandwagon in good
other a father and sole breadwinner for his THEY REACHED AND MADE IT!...Sutherland’s brains team (upper row). time are local young Tories
wife and three young children---where, for

Chris Lowe, Joseph

example, would the fairness be in arbitrarily
choosing the former over the latter?

HE PLAZA at 16th age of 70. tor such a happy ing. The Law and the

Undoubtedly, hiring discrimination does E and Marine in West man, it was perhaps a Layman And Jack's own

. . ae ; ; Van will never be  wondertul way to go---and cartoon illustrations reveal

exist and insofar as it stems from personal quite the same again tor its the book he never wrote real- one of his lesser known tal-
prejudices, as opposed to an_ unbiased

weekend throngs of grocers ly doesn't matter too much ents. POPULAR POLITICS
buyers. now that Oscar Oscar will ive on for a long is available right now trom
Hatelt has gone time in the memory ot hun his North Van-Seymour con-
He was a large dreds of West Van shoppers stituency office, 389 Lynn
gentleman. | guess around Whose day he brightened (phone 98& 7213), price $10,
OOIb For 15S vears, in his every weekend and should soon be on sale
ample green ( anadian Secu _ ._s * at other outlets As a very
ne Cuatd uniform, he ONE BOOK that did get peadable guide to the Goh-
reigned on Eridays and written and published last ath. of today's political
Saturdays over the crowded “SSK 8 @ declaration of Scene at's a book filed with ieomectes
Sateway parking lot, direc taith in the human spirit by hope tor Davids lke thee DEBORAH ROOT...WV',
ting tratti. collecting bug a North fore politician | Sand me gift to the hotel industry.
gies and assisting Customers called POPULAR POT! In a lunchtime aside last

oa scote oot other little Pics How to Mahe week. columnist and tormer
Demoracy Work By North

assessment of job capabilities, everything
possible should be done to eliminate = it
through moral persuasion. But in a_ free
market economy, with well over a millon
workers on Ul, reverse discrimination im-

posed by law merely defeats its own objec-
live.

Think positive!

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