THOSE APEC ads on how the Brian Baloneyites are plan-
ning tc shove French down the throat of English Canada
were bang on target. (APEC stands for Alliance for the
Preservation of English in Canada.)

The ads were also a cail to arms.
No words were minced, and that
was a joy for the likes of me, who
have often wondered how long
those sellouts in Ottawa could go
on betraying the country to
Quebec without the Anglo pea-
sants taking to the streets.-

‘SWAKE UP CANADA," they
read. “RACISM RUNS RAM-
PANT ON PARLIAMENT
HILL.”

The text stressed how the new
bilingualism legislation known as
Bill C-72 is a racist document
designed to promote the French
language, French people and
French culture, and that the gov-
ernment is engaged in ‘‘the biggest
con game ever perpetrated on an
unsuspecting pubtic.”’

It’s the truth.

I said it before this protest was
born. I said it when the first
rumblings were heard from the
rebel group of Tories who were
getting ready to bash their own
party on the issue, and now I say it
again,

How long can we be pushed
arcund? How long before we howl
that we're not going to take it any
more, whether it comes from the
Baloney Party, the French-Liberal
Party, or the New Dummkopf
Party led by Ed Broadbent?

There is no hope or health i in
any of them.

In a discussion with Mary Col-
lins of Capilano on a range of
issues, including C-72, she told me
« she agreed with the legislation
“except for a few minor clauses."*

To show how good it is, she
gave me a Statement signed by 10
Western ministers. The statement
was directed at Western Report

City says

magazine, which had come out
against the bill on its front page
with the words (in French): "SF
YOU CAN'T READ THIS YOU
CAN'T WORK FOR THE FED.
ERAL GOVERNMENT."

This column has already gone
into detail on what the legislation
portends. (See the North Shore
News of Jan. 17 and 20.) Today, it
is cnough to point out that C-72, if
implemented, would kill most

A. ow long can we be
pushed around? How
long before we howl
that we're not going to
take if any more,
whether it comes from
the Baloney Party, the
French-Liberal Party, or
the New Dummkopf
Party led by Ed
Broadbent?”’

English-speakcrs’ chances of get-
ting into the civil service or becom-
ing anything but a dishwasher in
the armed forces and crown cor-
porations.

It's all being done in the name
of equality between French and
English, and never mind that the
French number only 24 per cent of
the population.

The letter from the 10 ministers
was what you might expect from a
bunch of twerps who are more in-
terested in staying ministers than in

railways

are too powerful

THE EXTRAORDINARY powers of Canadian railways
’ that enable them to ignore municipal bylaws should be cur-
tailed, says North Vancouver City Council.

In a report. received by council,
the city’s Noise Control Commit-
tee said the municipalities are

powerless to enforce bylaws on the’

railways, which are empowered to

act-in ways that ‘could have the

effect. of destroying any and all
municipal town and regional
plans.”? .. ;

The committee cited expropria-
tion powers that override Official
Community Plans as one example.
Anti-noise, bylaws are also regular-
ly ignored, it said.

_ Council .voted unanimously to
$end a motion to the Federation of
Municipalities conference in June
demanding a committee of local
and federal. representatives be
formed to amend the Railways Act
to give municipalities the power to

‘enforce. municipal bylaws “where
such. enforcement: is a reasonable
interest of the municipality con-
cerned.”

The motion will be debated at
the conference- to be held in
Halifax, and if passed, the federa-
tion will lobby the federal gov-
ernment to ‘establish the commit-

_ tee.

The intent of the motion, says

‘the committee, is to ensure that the

‘railways ‘‘are sufficiently account-

Contributing Writer
able to local municipalities,’’ while
still protecting the legitimate inter-
ests of the railways.

“It is recognized that railways
are special cases serving the na-
tional economy as a whole, and
that it would be impractical to
make them subject to any and
every municipal bylaw. However,
the present arrangement, whereby
municipalities are obliged to have a
major industry operating in their
areas, which is unaccountable to
local municipalities as the railways
at present are, is totally unaccep-
table.”’

Council also voted to send a
similar motion regarding the Ports
Corporations to the FCM con-
ference requesting a committee be
established to review and amend
the legislation to give recognition
to the ‘‘legitimate interests’ of the
local governments and protect
them from disruptive actions from
the Ports Corporations.

A third motion seeking funding
for research into noise abatement

techniques also passed and will be ~

forwarded to the FCM conference.

standing up for their own kind.
(For B.C., they include Pat
Carney, Tom Siddon and Frank
Oberle.)

Their cpistle should be cut in
stone and displayed in public
places so that posterity may see the
kind of stuff the so-called leaders
of English Canada were made of in
1988,

There's no space to itemize all of
their idiocies. But the following
will give you the gist:

“Nothing in the Act requires
people to speak both official tan-
guages.” (Of course it doesn't, you
fools. All it does is to make clear
that anyone who would like a
future on the federal scene had
better speak French. And they will
be better off again if they are
Francophone by birth.)

‘Bill C-72 will help promote bi-
lingualism...and is therefore an
element in this government's
commitment to national reconcili-
ation,”’ (Are these guys fully com-
pos mentis?)

“The Bill docs not require all
federal government supervisors to
be bilingual."’ (Not in so many
words. What it docs say, though,
is, ‘Public servants must be
allowed to work in the language of
their choice."’

As Ted Byficld, the Western
Report chap, has pointed out, if
someone ina rural post office
wants to work in French, and the
postmaster doesn't savvy French,
the postmaster must be replaced by
someone who does. What could be
clearer?

Such deduction is beyond the
Morning Wimp, the Evening
Wimp, and the National Wimp, all
of which say we must love C-72.

As in so many issues (immigra-
tion, militant feminism, abortion
on demand, South Africa, etc.)
they are a bunch of nodding
donkeys. @

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Carson teacher
cies of cancer

EDUCATION in) North Van-
couver's School District 44. suf-
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The News carried details of the
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Mr. Neuman, 46, died Feb. 16
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