22 — Wednesday, August 20, 1997 — Nort Shore News From page 21 have struck down the law that is clearly dangerous. All the Establishment pres figures Collins bas spent his life stabbing, now snust stand up — not for him — but against a law that is being used unfairiy to silence him. It is more than sad that an overly unc- thous NDP — tie party that practically ‘invented’ lnunan rights in this country —— has on its books such an ill-aimed attempt at correctness. It will lose in the end, even if it has to go to the Supreme Court of Canada and make a martyr out of Collins. Allan Fotheringham, Torento Sun, May 13, 1997 o00 Suppose I deny the crimes of Communist governments, including the deliberate murder of millions of their own citizens. Suppose I join the Turks in denying the Ar.aenian holocaust. Should I be hauled before a human rights tribunal? Or, more likely, invited to crawl back under a rock. martyrdom, Tf he is found guilty, it will be because the New Democrats drafted their law so broadly, so subjectively, so deliberately, as to Jeopardize writing damn near anything that could offend the political sensibilities of a government appointee. Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun, May 13, 1997 000 News stories At igue is a column in the bi-weekly North Shore News in which Collins called the Oscar-winning movie Schindler's List propaganda to advance the Jewish cause and make money in memory of the Holocaust ... Representing Collins and his newspaper is Victoria lawyer Doug Christie, who has gained a national repu- tation defending Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, worldwide Jewish conspiracist Jim Keegstra and fired teachers Malcolm Ross and Paul Fromm, who lost their jobs because of their racial beliefs. From a May 12, 1997" Vancouver Sun c story that a] on ning day o: the trial. Reporter Rick Ouston made two errors in the story: the News is tri-weekly, and Doug Christie was never a lawyer for Yet there sits Mr. Collins before an. NDP-appointed tribunal, reveling in r | On Ti rial. : ‘ ¢; when the judg- ‘ment comes, things may get a lot worse very quickly. “The: chair. Jady’has the - stonished,”. pe poh - North (: Shore’ News ~ “comptroller: Doug Foot said the " paper's." ly" exceed -» Meanwhile, donations to the » defence fund stand at roughly © $105,000: 08°" ale Foot said. the costs: have - exceeded everyone’s expecta- tions, including his own and those: of the newspaper’s lawyers. Ac the same time, contributions to the defence fund have likewise exceeded _ his initial expectations..: .. “There’s certainly.a lot of °- support for free speech out there, no doubt about it,” said Foot. “It certainly indicates a lot of people out there under- stand what it’s all about.” ” A breakdown of contribu- tions made to the fund reveals that it-is.as much a home- grown effort as the paper itself. Ninety per cent of con- . . tributions have come from the ‘North Shore. They include _more than 1,500 individual : donations. averaging about _ ‘$70 each. The remaining 10%. ~ has come from sources as dis-- tant as Toronto... =. Foot: said” word . of. the - aper’s efforts travels fast and Br via both the Internet and ‘~ * other. media outlets covering the story of the News’. fight - for free speech. : ‘The events leading up to ‘Collins’ ballooning defence costs are as bizarre as they are surprising. ; Said Speck, “First of. all .. there were so. many lawyers on the other side;-my lawyer just became . overwhelmed by paper.” News (lawyer David 7 Sutherland saw the paperwork involved in the case stretch to nine. metres’ (30 feet) of assorted files and documents. “So another junior lawyer was hired to back-stop our regular lawyer,” said Speck; .- . “As the struggle continues, the paper’s bottom fine is undergoing one of its most challenging times | ever. Without the continuing sup- port of the community it is unlikely the battle could have been waged as long as it was. “It’s definitely a concern,” said Foot, adding with a note of defiance, “We plan to. keep it going until there’s a final - decision.” Donations to the fund can be sent to: 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, V7M 2H4. Cheques should be made out to the North Shore News Free Speech Defence Fund. either Collins or the newspaper. NDP’s Bill 33 changes CHANGES to the Human Rights Act instituted in 1993 included for the 4 first time newspapers and other publications in the act’s discriminatory pub lication provision. BEFORE Bill 33 (1993), Section 2 of the B.C. Human Rights Act read: ; Discriminatory publication . os 2. (1) No person shall publish or display before the public, or cause to be published or’ played before the public, a notice, sign, symbol, emblem or other representation indicating '‘d crimination or an intention to discriminate against a person or class of persons in any manner profi ‘ hibited by this Act. . ao (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) but subject to the Civil Rights Protection Act, a may, by speech or in writing, freely express his opinions on a subject. * AFTER Bill 33 was passed ir June 1993, Section 2 read: Discriminatory publication . ent 2. (1) No person shall publish, issue or display or cause to be published, issued or displa any statement, publication, notice, sign, symbol, emblem or other representation that (a) indicates discrimination or an intention to discriminate against a person or a group or. class| of persons, or ; oS (b) is likely to expose a person or a group or class of persons to hatred or contempt:b of race, color, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or me: disability, sex, sexual orientation or age of that person or that group or class of perso (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a private communication or to a communication inten ed to be private. : i a Section 2 1) a and b of the Human Rights Act has since been changed to Section .7-1)'a b of the new Human Rights Codc. - earn :