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ORTH Vancouver
ity Council needs a
help on the gues-
on of a free press,

Tt seems that i it doesn’ t
bint to be seen giving aid
d comfort to The
Rtouchable, meaning me.
D it is hopping around like
rover ial cat on’ hot
fe st
In fairness, three council-
rs did conclude, in Barbara
srault’ s words, that you...
ca little bit of
mocracy.”. And'Bob is
sarnley had td admit: that |
hy. columns “have probably
Hd-to somie di sions: ia‘the ,
tchen: about‘human ri hts.” -
at.
ch.is why the!Free
beech Defence -Fund has,

ore kitchen talk! But
; ty,councillors never .
pinto kitchens, it appears.
“They should consider the
itimat kitchen example,-”
On July 3;-Kitimat’ asked.
mey General Ujjal’.
jhito répeal thes:
endmient tothe Human. -
pit

“allows the Human Rights
Commission to accept com:
plaints from anyone who
objects to other people's
views,”

As was also stated in Ue
letter:

“Our Council's motion
does not in any way take a
position on Me. Collins’
views, Rather, it objects to
the use of the Human Rights
Act asa vehicle to suppress
the expressiva of ideas in an
open and free democracy,
since such expression is the
fundamental method by
which citizens determine
their collective destiny,”

Ger it, councillors
Braithwaite, Sharp, Mussatto ”
and Mayor. ‘Loucks?

Probably not. Barbsra
. Sharp even showed how
clever she is by saying that
“free speech i is going to be. .
there for 4 long, long time”
in any case.”

* Which ignores the fact.
that we indulge in itnow at.

~ our peril, : Unless we are left-
ists.

The municipal movement

_ against the censors was start-,
i. ed by.Couit, Ernie Crist in.

the North Van District
Council, which voted 6-1 for
freedom. - .

The motion was sent to

‘the B.C, Union of

"Municipalities, which also’
~ éndorsed it, as have, ning
municipalities.

Even the village of
Telkwva, out there in the
boonies, declared that it, was,

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_ VIEWPOINT
Pity needs free speech lesson

“unconscionable that one
man’s opinion of
Hollywood's exploitation of
the Holocaust for profitable
purposes can be construed as
hate literature.”

The city officials in ques-
tion might also consult the
Writers Union of Canada,
which told Glen Clark that it

“supports Mr, Collins’ right
to freedom of expression
and that the offending legis-
lation should be repealed,

But the city wants to find
out more about the Civil
Rights Protection Act before
condemning B.C.'s Human
Rights Act.

Which is a puzzlement,
The Protection Act was
passed in 1981 after a couple
of Junatics burned a cross on
White Rock beach.

The usual suspects —

Harry Rankin, Emery Barnes, ;;
-the axe-grinding cthnic

groups and the sensation-

seeking media danced around

~ as if Adolf Hitler had just -

been dug up and was making

speeches.
So the politicians, this

time the Socreds, wrote new ©

legislation.

But the Protection Act
actually protected ne one, .
threatened many, and ‘was

".., passed by pols eager to pla-
cate the

“anti-racist”. lobby,
Allan Williams of West’
Van was attorney general at

the. time, But the legislation

was never, used because it
would not have steod up in!

DRAPERIES

ns

assault on democracy will
not,

AS always, however, The
Vancouver Sun thou ght the
Protection Act was the great-
est thing since Magna Carta.

Iris still at it, “Ku Klux

Klan down but not out in

B.C.,” was'a recent headline

over a nothing story written
up by Kim Bolan, she who
thought those nvo Canadian
terrorists down in Brazil were
innocent, plus being the salt
of the earth,

If the dunces on city
council want any further evi-
dence, let them talk to Alex
Macdonald, the attorney gen-
eral in the Barrett g guvern-
ment who drafted the origi-

nal B.C, human-rights legisla- -

tion in 1973," »

He recently’ told B.C. :
Report magazine that the
current rights commission is |
a disgrace,

_ “The thing is a mess,” he

: went on. j

e They" Ve put in people .
with theit own agendas from
the gay community and the
feminist community,” ising
that Glen Clark should
appoint people “who won":
take three years to make a
decision.”

What a great daily press
headline that would make:

“Former AG condemns -

» tights commission mess.” ,
Instead, The Sua concen-.,.

‘

trates on the fictional KKK. +
North Van‘ City.council-
lors should start reading!”

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