other hand

WHEN A govern-
ment specifically
removes the right to
freedom of speech,
you might think that
the media and the
main opposition
party would create
hell about it, espe-
cially whea an elec-
tion is pending.

It was three years ago
that the socialists made it
possible to go after the polit-
ically incorrect — meaning
me — with Bill 33. But for

ali we’ve heard about from
Gordon Campbell and his

Liberals it might have been a
piece of cold toast.

He has never raised the
subject. And when Charles
Maclean asked Liberal MLA
Gary Farrell-Collins about it
on his AM1040 show, the
MLA waffled. He said the
caucus had not discussed it.

I decided to ask Campbell
about it myself and informed
his staff accordingly.

The great man avoided
me.

I tried again. Still no
dice. Eventually, however,
Sonja Sanguinetti came on
the line. She is the president
of the B.C. Liberal Party.

She claimed Campbell
was busy and that he was
doing 2 jot of travelling. I
said I would take up no more
than two minutes of his time.
Nothing doing. But that very
same day Campbell wasn’t
travelling. He was in
Vancouver and appeared for
an hour on a CBC show.
Clearly, he didn’t want to be
put on the spot.

Since Campbell was play-
ing the phantom of the opera
T asked Sanguinetti what the
Liberal position was. She
said they were opposed to it,

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but that it was not high on
their list of priorities.

{ suid that sounded a bit
iffy, and reminded her that
the party had fought hard
against the Bill when it was
rammed though by the NDP
steamroller in 1993,

She got a little shirty over
the “iffy” bit and said that if
that was what I wanted to
think 1 could think it. End of
conversation.

I think [| know what is
going on here.

When the Liberals fought
against Bill 33 night und day
for the best part of a week,
Campbell wasn't in the leg-
islature. The party was led
by Gordon Wilson. And
although Wilson made it
clear he didn't approve of
my subversive writings, he
nevertheless waxed eloquent
on the subject of a free
press.

Are we saying, he asked,
that we should legislate
against the right of Doug
Collins to write his column?

An unidentified MLA
called out: “Yes. That's what
they want.”

During the debate it

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became obvious that the
Canadian Jewish Congress
and other ethnic groups were
supporting Bill 33 and had
lobbied for it. And that's
where Campbell comes in
again.

As we all know, he
replaced Wilson. As we also
know, he is falling over
backwards to attract the eth-
nic vote. When he was nomi-
nated as the candidate for
Vancouver: Quilchena, there
were turbans in the offing.
And so far he has four
Chinese candidates running
for the Liberals.

T suspect he is getting
support trom the ethnic
wheeler dealers. And he still
refuses to say who funded
him when he ran for the
party leadership.

Another smail sign: the
Chinese Benevolent Society
has contributed $2,000 to the
fund the CJC is raising to
defend Bill 33 when the
NDP Thought Police calla
human rights tribunal against
the News and me. So a pat-
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With an election in the
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under the blanket with
regard to the worst piece of
legislation of its kind since
the Alberta Press Act was
killed by thie Supreme Court
in 1938.

Campbell is anyone’s
man. First he is the plaid
shirts’ man, then the men-in-
suits’ man. It wouldn’t sur-
prise me if he turned up one
night wearing a yarmulke.

Only one party is firmly
committed to ditching Bill
33, and that’s the Reformers

under Jack Weisgerber.

Meanwhile, good news
from Alberta. The govern-
ment wants to make people
who lay frivolous human
rights complaints pay the
costs of lega! fees.
Predictably, the move is
opposed by the usual crowd,
plus the United Church.

What is really needed is
legislation to wipe out all
human rights commissions.
But I'm not holding my
breath.

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