NOWWE know for sure. Shaw Cable got into a bluc funk,

cul the Great Immigration Debate to an hour, excluded the

audience participation, and ‘refused to give the program to
+” Rogers Cable in Vancouver because they considered it to be

“racist and unbalanced.”’ |

“There is also a strong possibility
— but no proof — that political’
pressure was used to restrict the:
use of the material. That, at any
Tate, is the opinion of many pro-
minent North Shore people, in-!
cluding my co-panelist, Mr.
Charles Campbell, former vicc-!

balanced programming dealing with
issucs of public concern. Regret-
tably, the program you have
inquired about docs not meet this
criteria.*'(sic) ‘
"Fascinating stuff, that. Rogers
Cable had obviously not screened

A the item, and was therefore in no

Some idiots think that any discussion
about the disastrous course our imenigration
. policies have taken is racist. But the point
of the debate was to discuss those policies,
and: if that is ‘racist’ so oe. it’ :

- ‘chairman of the Immigration Ap-
_- peal Board. -
God moves in mysterious way

“os 10: cnsure that the truth will out, .

- cand in this case the truth came :
“from Victoria, Mrs. Pauline
“y Britnell of that city wrote to

: -RogersCable asking that the pro- .

on am be shown, tiere:, She teccived |

wish:to- respond you Iet-

"March 29th * concerning the.

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position to judge it. But it was

. perfectly, happy to accept the judg-
“tent of its chicken-hearted friend -
on the North Shore.

The bit about the j program be.
ing ‘unbalanced and racist"* '
hilarious, ina. strange kind of
way. This debate, after all, was
‘called by the politicians. They

‘< selected the panelists: MP Chuck

Cook was the moderator. He laid.
* down the rules.

How stupid can these cable peo-
ple be? How.can a debate be un-

“balanced when Immigration —

\Minister-Gerry Weiner was on the :
panel together with Benno Fricsen,:

his parliamentary secretary?(Thelr |.

brains’ may, not be balanced, but
the 's not. my. ‘fault.), Who else do °

The discussion will go on
regardless. And unless the policies,
change it will grow in intensity no™
matter how many programs are

censored by gutless cable com-

panies or other media.
There’s more to this than’

whether an individual item got on.”

the tube. I’ve been tellivig you
about it for some time. Increasing-
fy, this country is ‘playing “let's.
pretend.*’ :
Let’s pretend we are a free
socicty, for instance. At the same

time, develop more machinery to |”

stifle free discussion. Human
rights commissions, politicians,
some judges, some churches and
most ‘‘liberals’are all heavily in-
to that game.

That's why Shaw Cable is look-
ing over its shoulder at the ;
thought cops, even if. it wasn’t
directly pressured to keep this,
debate off the air.

I intend to send the ball into
Shaw's court by making a strong
complaint to the Canadian Radio,
Television and Telecommunica-
tions Commission (CRTC).

J will ask why Shaw Cable is
allowed to collect Sat fees from us
when it doesn't carry out its man-
date of covering important evenis
properly, and why it should make
arbitrary decisions on matters of
public importance.

Ifyou would like to join me in
that endeavor, drop me a line and

‘give me your phone number, I’m

looking for several hundred angry

Peoele: os
Let’ 5 ive’ em hell! @

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