get this straight

by Doug Collins

The loonies retreat

ISALIGNED, MISCONSTRUCTED,

MISPLACED and misbegotten is too

generous a description for the message those four federal cabinet ministers have sent to Victoria concerning the changes in B.C.’s human rights legislation. They should do the nation a favor and take a vow of silence.

_ As you may have heard, the provincial government is trying to bring some sense in- to the so-called human rights field. To the accompaniment of cries of rage from the NDP and the media, it has got rid of the useless Human Rights Commision and cut the staff of the Human Rights Branch by about two- thirds. Under the new rules, we can look forward to far less looniness.

{t will no longer be possi- ble, for instance, for the thought police to chase a guy down the road because he calls himself Hunky Bill. Nor will complaints about men’s days and women’s days on golf courses be a matter for earnest bureaucratic scrutiny. And crackpots will no longer be able to declare that people are guilty of ‘‘unintentional discrimination’’.

BRIBING ETHNICS

Into this victory for sanity steps a Canadian Gang of Four: Mark MacGuigan, the minister of justice who would be king; Judy Erola, the odd- ball consumer and corporate affairs type who moonlights as the minister reponsible for the Status of Women: David Collenette, the Minister for Mutticulturalism, who hke all

such ministers 1s in charge of bribing ethnic groups to vote Liberal, and Secretary of State Serge Joyal, who has billions to play with in order to realize his French National Dream.

These depressing ig- noramuses deplore the new B.C. legislation and demand that it be dumped. They howl that the present human rights code (the one under which it was possible to persecute Hunky Bill and_= others) ‘‘placed B.C. in the forefront of progressive human rights thinking.’’ Crazy, eh?

It was also progressive, one supposes, when B.C. Timber was told to pay $100,000 to a new arrival from India on ac- count of how the company had dared not to hire the guy. ‘‘Discrimination,’’ y’know.

The reason Bill Bennett took the action he did was that the axe-grinding human rights industry had discredited itself. Not only did uw commit the above- mentioned offences, it was also goofy enough to run around the Hunky Bill hear- ing yelling that Shakespeare was a racist and that his texts should be edited so that our

poor innocent little kids wouldn't) be turned into monsters As Professor | A

Hunter of the University of Western Ontario put it last year:

PURSUIT OF TRIVIA

“The B.C. Human Rights Branch was one of the worst offenders in the pursuit of trivia, in its cavalier disregard for due process, and tn its ab- solutist view of equality.’

To that one can only add that human rights in this pro- vince had become a com- plaint bureau for surly types who imagined they had a grudge, and a rich source of business for lawyers and other enemies of the people.

| look forward to the day when we can advertize for a cleaning woman rather thana cleaning person. That will be progress.

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