7 - Friday, May 10, 1985 - North Shore News

Challengin the courts

Dear Editor,

Should Canadians be fore-
ed by law to support a
political party or cause?

The National Citizens’
Coalition doesn’t think so
and is therefore backing a
constitutional court challenge
by Merv Lavigne to two
aspects of labour law.

Mr. Lavigne is a dedicated
professional engincer and
teacher at the Haileybury
Schoo! of Mines in Ontario.

He is forced to support,
through union dues which he
is compelled to pay, political
parties and causes with which
he strongly disagrees.

Mr. Lavigne simply
doesn’t think he should have
to support, through his dues:
the NDP; the extremist leader
of the British mineworkers,
Arthur Scargill; disarma-
ment; etc.

He believes that his right to
freedom of expression is be-
ing violated and is seeking to
guarantee that compuisory
union dues may only be used
for collective bargaining

‘purposes.

f Last fall he discovered that
“he could have been fined
$500 per day by the Ontario

_ government for being paid to

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Go with
Sunday
on a
‘shopping
wy |_ a,
majority
Dear Editor,
Your paper does a lot to
‘promote Sunday Shopping
- on the North Shore and I
_ have to question its motives.
Of course the average person
who doesn’t work in a store

wants the convenience of
seven days a week shopping,

but if asked they’d probably

go for a 24 hour/day service
too!

A recent poll taken of the
Lynn Valley Centre: store
holders showed that those in
favour of Sunday Shopping

- were. the minority, yet the
Mall is still operating its
seven day week.

1 believe in the main the
only individuals to financial-
ly benefit from Sunday shop-
ping ‘are the Mall owners
whose overheads change very

- little regardless of how Jong
or late they stay open.

If we truly do live in a
democracy why don’t we go
by what the majority of
storeholders seem to want as
they’re the ones who are in-

.., convenienced, or simply let
-. them make their own. deci-
~’ sions? After all, ] don’t know
of a single bank, trust com-
pany or liquor store that |
can shop at on a Sunday
anywhere on the North
Shore, so why should the
retailer have to open his
doors if he doesn’t want to?
Yours Faithfully,

Name withheld by request

KEEP CAN4D4A

teach his students during a
strike. He and seven of his
colleagues therefore decided
to teach during the last week
of the strike at no pay.

the law, the Colleges Col-
lective Bargaining Act, is the
only one of its kind in the
province.

This is the second aspect of
his challenge. He believes
that he should be iveated
equally wnder the law, as
guaranteed in the Charter of
Rights and Freedoms, and is
seeking to have this jaw
overturned,

We urge those of your
readers whose rights have
been similarly violated to
protest to their provincial

end federal representatives
and civil liberties
organizations.

The price of liberty ts cter-
nal vigilance by citizens —

and their involvement.
Sincerely,

Colin M. Brown,

President,

National Citizens’ Coalition

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