8 - Friday, January 31, 1992 - North Shore News

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Staying together worth the price

Dear Editor:

| want to thank you for
publishing the excellent: guest col-
umn ‘fs there a Canada in your
future?"’ by Don Lanskail on Dec.
8, 1991,

His message of tolerance and
mutual respect for all Canadians
echoes the thoughts of our Com-
missioner of Official Languages,
Dr. Victor Goldbloom. We. too,
believe that a better understanding
of Canadian history, combined
with a spirit of generosity towards
those whose needs are different
from our own, will lead us to find
a solution to this constitutional
debate which is fair to all. yet
allows the country to. stay
together.

In reality, it does not require a
large expenditure of funds or yer-
sonnel to provide the very basic
level of service to francophone
residents of British Columbia
which is required under official
bilingualism. Only 426 of the
20,026 positions in the federal
government in British Columbia
(2.1%) are designated as bilingual.
Bilingual anglophones hold 281 or
66% of those jobs.

J mention only federal services
because the provisions of the Of-
ficial Languages Act apply only to
the federal government and to the
government of the province of
New Brunswick.

No other provincial or
municipal government is obligated
to supply service in the minority

Doug Collins
responds to
Rafe Mair

Dear Editor:

Rafe Mair has been ... uh ...
doing his letters, Good. Didn't
know he could write.

Typically, he avoids ... ub ...
mentioning the reason for my Jan.
8 column, which was that he had
the organizers of the ‘‘anti-racist’’
demo against the North Shore
News on the air without having
me on, | being his main target.

And the fellow is inventive,
claiming he tried to save my job
when we were on CJOR, and that
I was dropped because I kept say-
ing ‘“Uh.’’ Which is news to me
and everyone else who was there.

He ... uh ... also forgets to
mention he was spending all his
time trying unsuccessfully to ... uh

. save his own job. For he too
was ... uh ... dumped, his ratings
not being exactly wonderful. £ was
dumped because ... uh ... the new
management didn’t like what |
was saying.

Mair is a great journalist, all
right. He calls me names on the
air but ... uh ... doesn’t have the
spine to face me in the studio.
Doug Collins
West Vancouver

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official language.

Official bilingualism does NOT
require most citizens to learn the
other official languave. In fact, it
is likely that most British Colum-
bians will never be directly af-
fected by official bilingualism.
The costs to the federal govern-
ment ure not excessive: about $3
for every $17.000 spent on pro-
grams and services,

As Mr. Lanskail stated in’ his

cohnun, the
Canada is worth some price."” OF-
fictal biHingualism is rer an expen-
sive way to allow this country to
stay logether.

Deni J. Loriesu

Commissioner's Representative
Alberta, B.C... NWE and Yukon
revion

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