8 - Sunday, December 15, 1985 - North Shore News

A CERTAIN West Van professor once had some

unkind things to say to the press council about
me. I made my living, he implied, by putting cye
of newt, juice of toad and other nasty ingre-
dients into columns about minorities.

Actually, the prof was
ony half right. The truth is
that Collins makes part of
his living reporting stuff
that the Morning Wimp and
the Vancouver Sun either
ignore or refer to only in the
most opaque terms,

However that may be, |
expect a bonus for what I

J am about to reveal, it being
a sist of goodies handed out
here recently by the Hon.
Otto Jellyneck, the Minister
for Muiticult.

The Hon. Jellyneck
wrapped his gifts -- which
we pay for -- in the usual
ministerial bilge. He stated,
for instance, that they
would produce ‘‘a greater
understanding of the dif-
ferent ethnocultural
groups, their diversity, and
the richness of their cultural
background’’. What | he
really meant, of course, was
that they would bring votes.

** Arabs
couldn’t be left
“out, and the —
Nile-Fraser
Egyptian :
Society of B.C.
was in the
parade.”’

I didn’t know there was
an Ethiopian Community
of British Columbia, but
there must be because
Jellyneck: gave it $4,000.
There are also some funny
types who sport the colar
green. The Green Thumb
Players Society got $15,000

} to put on something called

**Skin’’ which seems to be
some sort of play.

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You may never have
heard of the Khalsa Diwan
Society Punjabi School, but
Jellyneck has, and he was
“delighted"’ to present it
with $11,960 for the study
of ancestral language. The
local Canadian Jewish Con-
gress, which I thought had
more bucks than it knows
what to do with, got
$14,000 for group
development.

Various Chinese societies
also received alms for
ancestral language studies,
or, as Jellyneck also put it,
“Cantonese and Mandarin
cultural enrichment’, The
Jews struck lucky again,
too, with $5,240 for the
study of Hebrew in the
Temple Sholom Religious
School, while the Canadian
Jewish Congress came up
smiling once more for a
teachers’ workshop called
“*Facing History and
Ourselves.’’ Should be
interesting.

Politics being what they
are, the Arabs couldn’t be
left out, and the Nile-Fraser

-Egyptian Society of B.C.

was in the parade, For a
modest $935.

The Aryans weren’t en-
tirely out of it, you may be
pleased to hear. The Ukrai-
nians, Portugese and Ger-
mans all came up for vary-
ing sums. The German
School on the North Shore,
for example, was given
$4,080 to learn German.
Apart from that, though,
oir side of the inlet was out
of luck.

My favorite in
Jellyneck’s Lucky Dip was
something called The Snake
In The Grass Moving
Theatre. Its ethnic connec-
tion is unknown to me, but
the title of the project for
which it was receiving funds

77). BRASS HOOD
OPTIONAL »

Doug Collins

© get this straight @

was ‘‘Future Roots’’
Which sounds to me like a
loser.

$24,000 went to a Socicty
for Racial Justice, and
$25,000 to a similar group
for ‘anti-racism education
and research".

The grand total for all
this local uplift) was
$264,195. Jellyneck handed
cut the cheques personally
and patted himself on the
back like mad on account
of all the good he was
doing.

We're talking here only

of the Vancouver area, |

remember. To get the na-
tional picture, you probably
have to multiply by 20.

To spoil your Sunday
even more (a warped
fellow, this Collins) allow
me to put you wise regar-
ding taxpayers’ largesse on
the Indian front. Yes,
David Crombie, Minister
for Indian Affairs, recently
handed out $2.4 million
“to promote awareness of
recent changes in the Indian
Act”.

EE
“We're talking
here only of the

. Vancouver area,

remember. To
get the national
picture, you
probably have
to multiply by
20.”’

Can you beat that?

Anyway, the Native
Women's Association of
Canada got $642,275, the
Indian Homemakers of
B.C. trotted up for
$107,916, the United (but
mostly disunited) Native
Nations made’ of with
$216,315, and so on.

It’s enough to make you
weep, if you weren’t in tears
already.

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