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4 Friesen’ 8 arrogance and insulting -
4 jll-preparedness.’. -

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| COLLINS:

3 ° get this straight °

THIS IS by way of a battle report in the war against Shaw
Cable, whose backbone wasn’t strong enough to show the
Great Immigration Debate in full. Shaw also denied it to |
other cable outlets, claiming it was “unbalanced and

racist.’” °

I said | would complain to the
CRTC about that, and asked for
teinforcements. } needed several
hundred angry people, { wrote.

IT have them. The Fighting North
Shore (and area) has responded
magnificently. So far, 321 people

Van: “Who are Shaw Cable to
decide what is racist and what
isn't? They are supposed to supply
me with a cable service, not think
for me.’
Mr. Albert Smith, West Van: ‘1
-,was dismayed when the audience

have taken pen in hand to join the // part was cut off. This violated the

protest, and letters are still coming

in. Some people wrote not only to
me but to their MPs, Ottawa and

Shaw itself. Here are some exam- os

:, Shaw Cable to check the broadcast

ples from my mail: ‘
Liz James of North Van: ‘'Sup-
. pose the meeting had been racist,

“| integrity of the occasion. Surcly we

* are entitled to hear the truth and

af the whole truth!

**! should add that J phoned

"schedule and was told the broad-

4,cast would last about 2-4 hours, |

and suppose I wanted to be able to y “not the one hour that was shown.’

‘ prove that to support a brief 1

might be presenting? Should { not

. have...access to a full recording? -

_Mr, Edwin Bebbington, West
Van: ‘I was one of those who
’ could not get a ticket to witness the
Weiner roast. However, | was
looking forward io secing the TV
broadcast that nearly came about.
What i did sce was frightening.
_ "To think that such mental

" featherweights are running this” °

M, rs. Sylvia

‘Sawchuck, ‘North
Van: “Who are

» Shaw Cable to.

' decide what is. racist
“and what isn’t? They

are supposed to

supply. me with a
cable service, not
“think for me. ”

; win fact, the meeting was not”

| about racism, but rather about ‘the.
be government’ 8 imposition of its”

own ideas, and its’ incompetence ::

and | feverse racism and bigotry
| upon the citizens of Canada...
1 was also’about (Immigration

Minister) Gerry. -. ww
-incomplete statistics. a
and, most of all, (MP) Benno."

“IF THEY ARE SO SURE

i. THEY ARE IN THE RIGHT,

HOW COME THEY’RE SO
AFRAID OF OUR OPINIONS?”
Mr. and Mrs. T.B. Mulligan, -

| North Van: “Thorndike defines

‘forum’ as ‘an assembly for .

discussing questions of. public i in-
| terest.’ We cannot find a dic-

' tionary that defines ‘forum’ as ‘a
pre-selected place to present pre-

. selected opinion.’”

Mrs Sylvia Sawchu North |

country makes me sick. ! would
certainly like to see the balance of
the program if we can bring suffi-
cient pressure to make the wimps
show some guts and do their job."'
’» Mr, Klaus Bange: ‘I am
frightened out of my wits to think
that censorship methods may have
been applied to manicure this
event.’ “
Mr. Gordon Froese, North Van
(one of the many turned away .
‘from the debate because there were
no more seats): ‘If Shaw Cable

‘ can find the time to occupy the |
alrwaves with such items as which
dogs are currently available for
adoption from the SPCA, and the

tumbling championships of nine-

, year-old children at a local elemen:.

tary school, then I have a right as a~
“:” subscriber to view the total content J”

of the debate on Canada’s
deplorable immigration policy."*

_ -Mr..T. Wilson Jones, North
Van: “‘Shaw should te told they, ‘-

’ fare there to present the programs:

demanded by subscribers,:not to” <

"set themselves up as some kind of
‘Nanny’ telling us we must sce what,
_they think is suitable for us,’
. Mr... Wilfred Blair,’ Surrey: ‘1

* ‘pray that the CRTC will take

prompt and appropriate action.

* How dare Shaw Cable take upon, ©

~ itself to delete the entire public

discussion in an important public
meeting!’” a

And so on: “Three hundred and
twenty-one times. My complaint

"will be submitted next week, so

_ you can still join the North Shore .
Commandos if you haven't yet

* written but would like to.

Before the truth came out, Shaw,
gave all sorts of dopey excuses as
to why the whole debate wasn’t
shown. One such piece of nonsense
was that they didn’t have enough |

“air space. But they did have three

separate hours and could have split
the broadcast into three Parts. .

: -Couldn’t t they have?”

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charges of break and enter.

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