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THE GOVERNMENT spends
immense sums of our tax dol-
Jars to promote official multi-
culturalism in Canada.

The Mulroney govern-
ment actually established the
Ministry of State for
Multiculturalism (now part of
the Ministry of Cdnadian
Heritage) for the sole pur-
pose of handing out our tax
dollars to favored: “ethnic
groups” across Canada,

‘The original idea was to
transform Canada into a
“mosaic” of diverse and toler-
ant cultural groups. The result
of official multiculturalism,
however, has been to enhance | §
differences dnd divisions, : as.
well as foster’ resentment
between Canadians of differ-
ing backgrounds. Consider:
the following multicultural
handouts (a taxpayer. year :is ..
the amount of total personal .
income tax. an average. tax-
payer pays in one year —
about $4,800):

& $25,000 for the United.
Way of Toronto to train indi-
viduals to “acquire the neces-
‘sary skills and tools to imple-
ment iastitutional.. change.”
(Three taxpayer years.). - ;
@ $12,000 for the “4 colors :
race relations. committee.” .
Gwe taxpayer years.)

@ $10,000 for. the Multicu

ender jon joust

' the work place to redress past biases

should be over. Ladies: an increasing

number of unemployed men are walking
about dazed, uncertain and without jobs.

The latest release of economic indicators,

a compendium of salient tidbits compiled by

Vr BATTLE of the sexes in managing

the Greater Vancouver Regional Districi,

tells us that male workers are over-repre-
sented among the ranks of the region’s
unemployed.

The ratio between working men and
women in the region’s work force remains
about the same, according to the GVRD
strategic planning department.

However, the proportion of men without

work is greater than the proporiion of women

without work.

those, 49,200 were men, 37,100 were women. ;.
Men accounted for 54. 5% of the employed
labor force in the region. But men looking for

work in the region represented 57% of area.
. job-seekers.

The trend also shows itself in the unem-
ployment rate by sex. In February the rate for
men was 9.1%. The rate for women was
8.3%.

Against this background we still see gov-.
ernment at all levels continuing to be fast
friends with the discriminatory concept of
employment equity programs and standards.

Just last year for example, the NDP gov-
ernment monkeyed with the human rights
law, seeking the power to impose employment
equity programs, including the right to lay

’ complaints without anyone coming forward

tural: Women's “Organization
of Ottawa Region (two tax-*
payer years). .
EH $15,900 for the Workers of:
Colour « Support .. -Network
(three taxpayer years.) .”'
Wf $30,000 fora research pro
ject to describe and asséss the:
choice of Quebec as.a'desti-’
nation for refugees ti tax.
payer years.)

Handouts by. the; federal
Department of Multicultu

— From Tales fron the’ Tax ‘>
Trough Ill, a National Citizens’
Coalition publication.

In February there were 86,500 workers
without jobs in the Greater Vancouver area. Of

a youth to

- JOB CREATION — in

case you hadn’t noticed —- Noe
has ceased to be the job of
government, business or
industry. So who is now
responsible?

For tens of thousands of
bright, energetic young people
(some 16% of the 15-24 age
group) who can’t find work of
any kind, the answer is much
closer than they may think. But
first, let’s look at what's hap-
pening right now.

What's happening is simply that the guaran-
teed lifelong 9-to-5 job their parents may have
known, with a pension and gold watch at 65, no
longer exists and never will again. It’s gone, tin-
ished, kaput.

Actually, it had a pretty short life anyhow.
Steady $-to-5 employment really became a norm
only from around the time of North America’s
early 20th-century automobile assembly lines.
Prior to that, much of the world’s work was still
done either at home or on a project basis, the
workers contributing their individual skills until
the task was completed, then moving on to other
work opportunities.

Now, high taxes, high wages and galloping
technology are combining to recreate that earlier

Wright

to complain in the first place.
Enough already.

scene. With computers and
robots performing many tasks
better and faster than humans
— and with the ability to trade
worldwide with a few key-
strokes — full-time workers
other than a small core of
supervising technocrats are
becoming simply too costly.

So they are being laid off in
droves — their work “unbun- -
dled” and farmed out to indi-
vidual contractors, consultants,
task forces and, in the manu-
facturing industries, low-cost
third-world labor.

Attacking corporations as “heartless” for
such layoffs makes no sense.

The function of business and industry is to
produce gocds and services in the most efficient
way, in order to compete in today’s global mar-
ket.

Since technology now enables them to do so
with many fewer human employees, both they
and Canada — which lives on exports — would
be courting economic suicide to follow any
other course.

OK, you say, but where will jobs for our
young folks be created? The answer: in school
classrooms and college lecture halls.

Endless work is still waiting to be done, for
which companies and individuals wil! happily

and yon

make its own jobs

pay. In many areas — for example, the environ-
ment, communications, home support, hygiene, .
personal development, recreation and entertain-
ment — there are possibilities that as yet have
hardly been explored,

All that’s needed to exploit them is imagina-
tion, research and tenacity.

In short, the most effective solution to youth
unemployment is for young people to create
their own businesses: perhaps home-based busi-
nesses, as more than four million Canadians
have already done.

Which means that teaching entrepreneurship,
saleabic skills, how to seck out customers and
earn a living as one’s own boss has to become a
vital function of all future education from grade
school up.

Once students master those lessons, they'll
never want any other boss. Nor need one!

WATERCOLOR lovers shouldn't miss the
moods and scenics by West Van artists Jocelyn
Wade (“Memories”) and Linda Bell (“Simple
Pleasures, Special Moments”) on display at
West Van Library until April 28.

WRIGHT OR WRONG: Never count on age
to bring wisdom. Quite often age arrives all
alone. :