AB - Sunday, June 20, 1982 - North Shore News

Local court action unlikely

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troducing a bylaw to ban the
sale of such material.

The brief they will present
tomorrow is endorsed by
Rape Relief, Emily Murphy
House for battered women,
North Vancouver Branch of
the Status of Women, in-
dividuals from North Shore

churches, West Vancouver
Teachers’ Association,
individuals from various

North Vancovuer schools,
North Van Capilano MLA
Angus Ree and the Salvation
Army.

In addition, the name of
one of the aldermen who will
be hearing the delegation
tomorrow — Alderman
Stella Jo Dean — is also on
the bref.

The opponents are also
pressing for action at the
federal and provincial levels
and for court action from

local and regional
prosecutors.

Provincial legislation
defines pornography as

being bestiality, depiction of
child sex or sex coupled with
violence. ~

Onginal movies of hard-
core sex are banned in
Canada under Customs law
but provincial law allows
videotaped copies of such
movies to be sold.

Five video tapes from Red
Hot Video have been viewed
by North Van RCMP and
prosecution staff as a result
of the complaints.

Of these, Crown counsel
Don Celle said two titles —
Young and Abused and
Expensive Taste -— may
contravene the provincial
guidelines.

According to the
protesters, Young and
Abused shows a teenage gir!
abducted and raped by two

men, while in Expensive

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Taste a woman is sexually
excited as she watches two
men raping her virgin friend
after she has paid them to do
so.
Other films, showing
supposed incest and women
in chains being beaten were
considered unlikely to be
actionable in

court, ac-
cording to Celle.
VIOLENCE
Jancis Andrews, a

member of West Van United
Church who is acting as
corresponding secretary for
the concerned citizens, says
the campaign has nothing to
do with the fact that the
films are sexually explicit.

The concern, she says,
arises from the films
depicting rape and violence
as a turn-on. She cites
studies and statistics which
indicate such films can lead
to increases in rape and
sexual violence.

Authorities which would
act against Red Hot Video
express concerns about the
presence of the store but
have so far shown caution in
respondiing, uncertain
whether any preventative
action they were to take
might be overturned by a
higher level of the law.

The feeling expressed is
that the matter should be
dealt with provincially,
especially as Red Hot Video
stores are in Vancouver and
other municipalities.

Local Crown Counsel
Celle says he left it to the
RCMP to “suggest” to the
store manager “it might be
wiser if they did not stock
these things” — Young and
Abused and Expensive
Taste.

As for prosecution, Celle
doubts it.

“I haven't really = for-
mulated all my reasoning or
a final decision on this,” he

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says.

Asked what would happen
if the store continued at
some time to sell those titles,
Celle responds: “I would as
soon deal with that one if the
situaton arises.”

He is not enthusiastic
about prosecution from only
one municipality.

“It doesn't seem correct
for a person to be
prosecuted for one thing in
North Vancouver for
something he is allowed to
get away with in other areas.

“I would like to look at
taking a united and coor-

dinated approach to the
whole thing.”
DOUBTS

City Mayor Jack Loucks
shares the view and ex-
presses doubt over removing
Red Hot’s business licence
without having the decision
ruled out of order by the
courts, although his staff is
looking at the matter. He
questions the justification of
using taxpayer money to
defend such a court action.

Loucks has already had a
lengthy meeting with about a
dozen of the store’s op
ponents and has suggested
that one approach might be
to present a resolution to the
Union of B.C. Municipalities
to request that provincial

pornography law be
tightened.
Tomorrow's delegation

will ask council to take
resolutions to the UBCM
urging the attorney-general
to ban the sale of all “hard-
core pornography” matenal
and broaden the scope of the
present provincial definition
of pornography. It also
wants the attorney general to
close the loophole allowing
the sale of hardcore video
tapes while movies are
illegal.

Loucks says Red Hot’s
business licence was ap-
proved without reference to
council.

“Quite frankly I wish we
had the power to deny them
a licence,” he says. “I didn’t
know about it until after the
fact.”

He says he doesn’t want to
Start imposing censorship
since he suspects such
movies rather than being a
cause of moral decay are a
symptom of it.

“T don't think council are
happy about having
something like that (Red Hot
Video) in the community.”
he says. “It just happened —
and I would hope something
can be done about it. We are
not ignoring it.”

Loucks says he considers
the provincial loophole
authorizing hardcore video
tapes is “utterly ridiculous”
but adds: “I don't think I am
going to lead a crusade as we
have other things to concern
ourselves with.”

Funding for detox centre

ALTERNATIVES, the
North Vancouver centre for
treatment of alcoholism and
drug abuse, is receiving
$140,949 funding for the
year from the provincial
Health ministry.

Grants totalling
$7,603,596 have been
allocated to 49 provincial
agencies dealing with drug

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lots overnight’ Tuesday -
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Police are saying that the
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hand in preventing thefts
from parking lots which have
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Such lots have also been
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