The dumping ‘of - Senator Ray Perrault
- from the federal cabinet has a wider
‘significance than the immediate loss of B.C.
influence in Ottawa.
With no ‘elected Liberal MPs, this pro-
vince is now. represented at the national level
by.a single appointed minister, Senator Jack
Austin. It-is inconceivable tht he alone will
be able.to handle. all the B.C. concerns
hitherto shared with Senator Perrault.
_ Fhe latter (who should know the size of the
job after nine years) has described the situa-
. tion as “quite ludicrous”. B.C. Liberal leader
‘Shirley McLoughlin calls it “a slap in the face ©
for the party and B.C.”
Ms McLoughlin is right, of course. Four of

po
‘Quebec. The only. logical

Prime Minister ‘Trudeau

: ing “BG. back into «.
eral fold for next year's. ohon uate

ain on thetwo eastern
‘statistically capable of

majority. ~
a ieee ate gamble — given
us fickl

Gr But, at least the
strategy. little.more promise than at-
tempting to win: ‘back ‘the west at this late
Stage.

The firing of Senator Perrault without a
replacement.in effect tells B.C. to. get lost
and: finally destroys any lingering Liberal
obe national party. . :

+e

- The = poiléters who found : a majority among
313: ‘people (chosen out of two: ion) op-
|. pose the Bennett restraint program haven't
yet asked the right question. Each working
day: ‘Victoria is presently spending $5 ‘million
more than it'is taking in. So the right ques-
tion for every B.C. household is surely 1 this:
Will’ you accept an extra $2,000 on your
yearly ts tax x bill to avoid further cutbacks?

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By JOHN™ ‘REYNOLDS,
MLA
West Van-Howe Sound

MANY OF YOU who have
-worked in the private sector
have lost your jobs due to
hard economic ° cir-
cumstances. Did your pay
continue when your
employer could no © longer | af-

ford it?

‘Even though a fropile 7

recovery has:started, ‘times...

TRO FIPTY. plea a FIFTY: TOR

DIFFICULT... FOUR. TOURER. TNE We

A LADY — oops, sorry! a woman — named 1
Catherine Kerr slaps me patiently on the wrist for.

my sexist language. She was kind enough to
enclose with her letter material designed to
educate me out of the deplorable habit, provided
I am interested in making an “effort at self-
improvement” as she puts it.

You bet, Ms. Kerr! I'm a
self-improvement nut, even

though there ‘isn't. too much .

to show for it. But I confess
I'm finding some of the
“Guidelines For Nonsexist
Language” you were good
enough to send me a trifle
confusing.

Their authority is pretty
intimidating. They consist of
extracts from Her and His. A
Report of the Status of
Women Committee of the
Nova Scotia Confederation

of University Faculty
Association on Sexist
Language and the
University.

You ignore a body as
august as that at your peril.
But let’s run,qver a few of
the little.’ ‘problems the
Guidelines are still causing
me.

They begin with a
roundhouse swing at the
world “man” as a generic

term. Forget it, they
command. Say instead
“humankind”, “men and

women”, “women and men”,
“the individual”, “person”.
But that's just for starters.
Banned are the following
(with the nonsexist  tran-

slation in brackets):
chairman § (“chairperson”),
workman  (“worker’’),
foreman (“supervisor’’),

businessman/woman (“bus-
iness executive”), policeman
(“police officer”).

HIS AND HERS

A title like “Mankind and
Social Change” must. be
translated as “The Individual
and Social Change” (1 never
knew “mankind” meant
“individual” until now.).
“Man-made” must become
“synthetic”,of course. And
“the common man” is kicked
out in favor of “the average
person”. All very colorful.

“Man the desk” is also out.
Instead, “staff the desk”.
Hence, presumably, “staff
the guns”, “staff the
barricades” and “staff the
lifeboats”,

The guidelines about he,
she, his, her and him get

' even trickier. For example,

“the gricvor must exercise
his right” is a no-no. Replace
it by “the grievor must
exercise his or her right”.

If you then need to
continue the sentence it will
have to go something like:

“.... by bringing his or her
complaint to the notice of
his or her union ‘spokes-
person and asking that he or
she take steps to prevent him
or her from. being unfairly
penalized.”

In the case of “anybody”,
“somebody” ‘or “nobody”,
the guidelines advise, this
litle problem can be
overcome by using the plural
pronoun. Don't say
“anybody who wants Ais
teaching evaluated" . but

positions . ha

t:
wublic employees whose
have been. ter

| cuntil their. termination ‘date,
' with the effective date. for
* most being October, 31,

1983. Some even have nine
months notice, to June 30,

1984.

Also, a comprehensive
termination compensation
package is being put

together for civil servants

and ould

include

re-

training, re-location, early
and other

retirement
benefits.

The Social Credit Govern-
ment asked for consultation
with the public sector unions
to discuss severance provi-

sions, but

the

initial

meetings were boycotted by
the unions. Instead, they

chose to demonstrate and
protest.

The government plan to

by 7
Noel Wright

‘

have 25 per cent less direct
“government employees by
pared (619 1984 as com-

ar sad remains intact.

“anybody who wants their
teaching cvaluated”.
Oxford Dictionary violently
disagrees. But then who's the

Oxford Dic
challenge the
Women?

tionary
Status

The

to
of

Stereotype or patronizing
terms for women are strictly
verboten —- such as: scat-
terbrained, fragile, goddess,

gossip,
spinster,
SCK,

my gal,
coed, :

shrew,

frustrated
faty (or weaker)

career girl,

CHAUVINIST PIGS
A woman is an author or
sculptor or flight attendant

(never “authoress’ ,
“sculptress” or “stewar-
dess"). “Ms.” is always

preferred . to

“Miss”

or,

cent must be reduced. A
year from now, about 90 per
cent of those working direct-

ly for the provincial govern-

ment: will still be there.
_The. Provincial Secretary

~ Has: removed the .“without
cause”. phrase from:.Bill- 3

and::this: move. makes clear
the. intent to reduce ‘public
sector positions for
economic reasons and for
better efficiency in govern-
ment. Public.: sector
employers * and employees
can negotiate layoff provi-
sions in . their collective
agreements.

But it does not serve the
purpose of the NDP nor the
public sector ‘unions to look
at the ‘situation objectively.
It does serve their. purpose to
try: to. get everyone in the
unions to fight the govern-
ment. Their fighting didn't
just start July 7.

When the government in-
troduced the restraint pro-
gram in February 1982,
union leaders said it
wouldn't work and fought it,
spending hundreds of
thousands of dollars on their
“catchup” campaign—acam-
paign that defied the
economic reality of the
times.

‘Hundreds of thousands of
dollars went into the socialist
election campaign from the
unions’ fee money, yet the
people of this province
decided otherwise May 5.
Now, union members are be-
ing told that hundreds of

CONTINUED ON PAGE A7

shit

“Mrs.” regardless ¢ of marital
Status (not “Dr. and Mrs.
John President”, please, but
“Dr. John President and Ms.

Sally President”). And
mever, never demean a
woman by calling her a
“lady” — a term described as
insulting and trivializing.

Finally, the Guidelines
warn about direct quotations
from unenlightened writers
of the past. If they're sexist,
we're instructed to
paraphrase them as indirect
quotations, using nonsexist
language.

That's going to be quite a
job. Check any dictionary of
quotations under WOMEN
and you'll quickly discover
alas, that the giants of
literature from Shakespeare
to Shaw have been
predominantly male
chauvinist pigs.

Even some female writers
like Madame De Staci have
been just as rude about
women as many of the men.
Other male

warned about their cunning.
And those who praise
women have invariably
broken every rule in the
Guidelines, too — by being
condescending about it.

No doubt that’s cxactly
what Ms. Kerr has in mind as
she seta out to educate us
latter-day scribblers. And
while she waits for us to
master nonsexist. newspeak.
she may at Icast find some
crumbs of comfort in the
i8th century French
dramatist Joseph de Segur.

“Men say of women what
pleases them,” the old sexist
rascal wrote. “Women do
with men what pleases
them,”

scribes have.
made jokes of women or