A10 - Wednesday, February 4, 1981 - North Shore News

Ellsworth Dickson

The municipal workers strike has many people upset. Garbage is starting to pile up, the Queen Elizabeth Theatre is losing thousands of dollars. It is difficult to do business at City Hall, and so on: Perhaps the

municipal workers should be classified as “essential service”?

Today’s question is: “Should the municipal workers be allowed to strike?’

John Sudsbear North Vancouver

They should have a right t to strike like anyone else. _And [m not going to ‘cross any picket line at 2 City Hall to pay a parking # ticket or whatever.

. Tom Walton North Vancouver

Yes, they should be allowed to strike as are any other union mem- bers. The management in my apartment has taken care of the garbage problem. I plan on

respecting y CUPE picket line.

Stella Ingram North Vancouver

' They have a right to strike alright, but the strike Certainly is causing many inconveniences. I won't cross any picket

line to do business at City Hall.

Norman Dorrington Burnaby

1 think the municipal workers should be classified as essential service workers and they should negotiate wage settlements without a strike. It is really un- fortunate that people are - being forced to cross picket lines to carry on with their daily business

Rusty Fraser North Vancouver

It is too bad that this unton can alfect everyone's life so rouch. It's a shame they “an shut down the city so casily | think the ‘SO's are going to be a decade of umon control.

___FROM PAGE Ai _ she must leave by today and that she may not be eligible to return for one year.

The Hoffmans entered Canada, November 28 without an entrance visa for ‘Stella, a visa the, Hoffmans say was impossible for them to obtain in Columbia because of Canadian Im- migration laws and Columbian divorce laws.

Now, after one short immigration inquiry, which only discussed whether she had a visa, Stelia must leave her Canadian born husband, or David must leave his job and follow his wife back to Columbia..

Even though a sponsorship hearing is still scheduled for February 17, Immigration would not permit Stella to stay until that time as she would require a_ special ministerial permit to do so and local Immigration of- ficials have refused to issue

one. David Hoffman

was yesterday trying a last-ditch attempt to have the departure put off until

tomorrow (Thursday) since.

Stella was due to be flown to -

San Francisco and _ there were no connecting flights scheduled for Columbia

~ THE CASSETTE DECKS YO!

from there. o yesterday. Stella was concerned about having to spend 24 hours in San Francisco on her own when she does not even speak any English. .

Her husband says of the situation that has led to their dilemma:

“We were told in Columbia that because she was: .divorced in Santa Domingo, a_ divorce recognized by Canadian civil law but not by the Catholic government in Columbia, she would be unable to obtain a visa to enter Canada as my wife,” Hoffman said.

“I want to live with my wife in my country. Somehow I thought this was Canada and they would understand. But they won't even let.me explain why we came to Canada without a visa,” he adds.

Columbia does not grant divorces for marriages made in the Catholic church, although it will permit divorces for civil marriages. Canadian immigration law stipulates that a visa must be obtained from the country of origin and that the laws of

-that country must be ob-

served.

To complicate matters, the Hoffmans were also told that because Stella is his

wife, as recognized by Canadian civi) law, she would not be able to enter on a tourist visa.

Because the Hoffmans could not obtain a visa in Columbia, they flew to Canada in hopes of being able to explain their situation to officials here.

NOT INTERESTED

“We told them (im- migration) as soon as we

entered Canada, but they

weren't interested in the circumstances, only whether she had a visa or not,” he said.

Hoffman's lawyer, David Finlay, says they are caught in a “Catch 22” situation.

“There appears to be no simple solution ... necessary for immigration to put a time limit on this sort of thing. David's wife

should be allowed to remain with him,” Finlay said.

“The immigration department is not showing any understanding or compassion to their cir- cumstances.”

David Hoffman says: “The only thing they keep telling me is that I can stay in Canada. But how can I stay if they won't allow my wife to be here?”

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tries to thrash — his” way through the red tape.

Hoffman says he will be proceeding: . sponsorship jhearing on th 17th; but that whatever the’ outcome he and his wife will: be separated for a minimum of three months,

“The hearing. is only a: preliminary process and the they will have-to make ruling,” he says, “which wil} probably take 30 days.

“If it is in our favour they. will have to get specig permission from Ottawa to let her back in. If it is not in. our favour we will have to’ appeal.

“It will probably be three to six months before we: might even get the final word’ saying, ‘No way.”

If that is the case, whereas Hoffman wants. to stay in Canada, he will join his wife and live somewhere they can be together without harassment.

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