Bra

of a complainer, Not that anyone takes any

Y ou may have noticed that I am something

notice of my lamentations (if you exclude

professors,

Media Watch,

the North Shore

Women’s Centre, and other nobodies of that sort).

get this
straight

But it’s nice to be able to
let off steam,

Anyway, [I ‘was puffing
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being short-changed in the
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cent of all recruits now come
from Quebec, and only $1
per cent from B.C. This even
though Quebec doesn’! use
the RCMP (the province has
its own police force), To add
insult to injury, B.C. —
which does use the RCMP
— pays a large share of the
cost of keeping the force go-
ing.

Next thing { | know, a West
Van chap leaves a message
for me to phone him. I do.
Am I aware, he asks, that
there's a new RCMP
recruiting program involving
about 200 bodies, and that

the quota’ for B.C. is just
ONE?

No, says I. But I'll find
out.

We get on the blower to
Superintendent K.E. Hollis,
who is the. RCMP’s chief
staffing officer for this area,
and learn that the informant
has not misinformed me.

The force is recruiting six
new troops of special con-
stables for secruity duties at
foreign embassies. The jobs
have been advertised in the
daily newspapers, and there
have been 1,200 applications
in B.C. alone.

The new officers will

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receive six weeks’ training in
Regina —- instead of the six
months’ that ordinary of-
ficers are given ~- and will
then be put on embassy
patrol duty, a move that
resuits from the recent at-
tack mounted on the Turkish
Embassy by a bunch of
crazies.

Fifty-eight of the recruits
will come from Quebec;. 94
from Ottawa (which is pretty
weli the same thing); three

. from Manitoba; four from

Nova Scotia; four from
Alberta, and the big ONE
from you-know-where.
Which totals out at 164, So
‘probably a few more will be
hired before the program is
complete, a ‘‘troop"’ usually
consisting of 3° men (or per-
sons, men being out of fash-
ion).

As the designation: im-
plies, special constables do
special duties and are not
normally sent out to fight
bank robbers, etc. Among
other things, they patrol the
airports. But it's a job.

Bilingual ‘people are
preferred for: this embassy
thing (as they’ are for every
RCMP job these days), and

“that automatically cuts out

most English Canadians, or
whatever it i$ that we are
these days. So you can bet
your grandfather’s whiskers
that nearly all of these new
recruits will be French.

Not that anyone needs

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French to guard an embassy,
especially when English has
long been the lingua franca
of the diplomatic world. But
there it is. We're a bilingual
country, doncha know, and
anyone who says we're not is
a rotten, iousy racist.

The number of applica-
tions for these jobs shows ,
how keen some of our.
younger people are to get’
work. But zccording to the
superintendent, only 25 of

the 1,200 local applicants say
they are bilingual. Of those,
as we have seen, only ONE
will be lucky,

As befits a servant of the
Crown, the superintendent -
was strictly non-partisan and
kept mainly to the: figures.
But in response to a query
on today’s recuriting pro-
cedures he did state that,
along with-French-speakers,
women are now. “preferred
candidates’’.

9. Friday, May 24, 1985 - North Share News

“What does that mean?”
L asked, all innocent-like. ;

“It means that if there’s a
female candidate with the
minimum requirements, and
arate candidate with mini-
mum requirements, the male
doesn’t stand a chance.’’

Thank you for putting it
so clearly, sir. What we'll
end up with, probably, is a
federal police force: staffed
by. French-speaking her-
maphrodites. ‘

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