Employment equity
promotes hostility

Dear Editor:

The recent letter by Peter Ferris
(bemoaning Doug Collins who
made Ferris “feel bad") is fair opin-
ion except that over hall of his fet-
ter promoted soctal engineering
falsehoods.

There has never been proof that
the newest fad of social engineers
lied “employment equity” warks
in practice, but, there has been
ample. evidence in all jurisdictions
where it has been tried that it h, id
severe adverse effects. ‘

It promotes hostility and hatresd
when a person must be accepted

. ahead of anather because the cho-

sen is of the correct color. sex or

nice,

Canada is .a democracy based
upon majority rule (and merit — up
to now). Ferris and his Hk promote
rule by the “new elite’: the bureau-
crats and back-room flacks. who
know. what's best for us, who wish
to experiment on us, and change us

;to what they deem is proper
“thought and proper action. — .
The renowned black professor
* Thomas. Sowell, who regularly
writes in the prestigious Farbes
magazine, has studied employment
equity in depth and concludes that
it-is harmful to his race. The two
recent articles in Financial Post's
Spectrum give much negative evi-
dence. | ;
- Yet Ferris and his fellow social

engineers. disregard both the evi-

dence and the fact that the principle
‘of equality of all cilizens and
advancement: by merit will be
destroyed.

They want to impose their own

agenda Without a vote. Collins is’

the ‘only Canadian columnist with
“courage enough to comment on the
great sacred cow.of social engi-
neers —~ multiculturalism (multira-
cialism?) and immigration. Canada
‘has a’ real’ unemployment rate of
‘over 16% but Ferris is not per-
turked.

He wants no debate on govern-
ment policy to allow 300,000
immigrants per year-to whom
employment equity would give jobs

“ahead of most Canadians with more ;
merit. Ferris refuses to compare his.
own-credentials of having an edu-.

cation and being conversant in the
English language versus the 85% of

afl immigrants who now come in -

purely on the basis of theoretically
having a relative here—one half of
the: 85% is considered to be illiter-
ate even in their own country.

Canada’s inunigration hiws ane
the laughing stock of the world, We
even aceepl haown criminals as
refugees. We accept peuple with no
traditions of democracy and the
majority could give us lessons in
intolerance with their castes,
untouchables, etc,

In the pire of social engincer-
ing and multireciahisnr we invite
people with customs tually repre-
hensible to the majority,

, — We invite those with the custom
‘of putting down women, of abort-
ing female [ctuses, ete, As a citizen
of this country which hus been
more generous and more
toward immigration chan other
country in the world, 1 want debate,
discussion and referendums on
these subjects. Immigration and
multiculturalism wil! change the
Canadian make-up for centuries 10
core (versus trivialities in history
like our deficit which will be

“resolved in ane or two dozen yéars

one way or another, However much
it affects us, historically it's no big
deal). Immigration and multiracial-

-ism is a big deal and the rationale

used to woo us into complacency
— that education would make us
all live in unity and friendliness
forever. —- has been disproved by
the conditions injthe old Russian
empire, the Middle East and on and
on. :

Each neweomer to an urban cen-
ter requires $60,090 worth of fixed
assets to be in place to, service
them. At 300,000 immigrants per
year that is.$18 billion dollars per
year — nearly one half our deficit!

The vast majority of these immi- -

grants will never be net contribu-
tors to Canada. No vote of citizens
was held on this new experiment
for.Canada to premote a large pro-
portion of visibly different people
who generally never integrate,

These experimental policies
were sneaked in by the social engi-
neers,

Ail Canadians deserve debate on
the subject.

Doug Collins is my favorite of
those expressing opposition.

I find Mr. Ferris’ letter to be
offensive, misleading, anti-thought,

. anti-debate, autocratic. clitist, non-

democratic and anti-free speech on
the most important topic in Canada
— employment and. the future
make-up of our nation.

Give us more Collins columns.
Neil Thompson
West Vancouver

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