* Page AG — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 15, 1992 ‘ter educated and much more ra- cially tolerant than most of white — 3 LETTERS _ TO THE TERRACE STANDARD SB’s user friendly ta draws stinging rebuttal Dear Sir: As one of the 6,000 people whose claim was denied by the WCBS last. year, I would like to make a comment on some of the Statements made by its CEO, Mr. Ken Dye, in The Terrace Stan- dard (Tune 10, 1992) Mr. Dye says he "would like the WCB to be more user friendly". How ‘can you be friends with. people who altribute a.work place injury to congenital defects and alter 30 years of appeals and refusals, use. old age as a reason for denial of the same claim? How friendly can you be with a— bureaucracy when after. you receive.a severe. chain saw. cut to the leg, you travel 150 miles from a logging camp by. walking, by boat and by float plane only to. have compensation denied _be- More on healin cause of a typographical error of oue day on a form which causes the WCB to assume the accident happened on a weekend, in spite of many witnesses to the con- trary! This is a judgment. against the same person who, rather than continue to: draw compensation © after another injury, went back to work three and a half years sooner than expected by his doc- tors! Its difficult to be friendly with an insurance company (the WCB) who refuses your claim when ‘you, after 25-years of operating a chain: saw, have developed pain- ful ‘problems with your wrists making it impossible to work. un- til'after an operation and lengthy recuperation! I think this one was. refused because ‘the WCB doctor — ro ram Don't nate = all Christian didn’t know what a chain saw was! lf after winning - your case through the appeal and review board: during a long period of time only ta have your claim ar- bitrarily denied by the WCB for reasons you don’t. understand, you may agree the board’s meth- ods need to change some. before - they can become “user friendly" as Mr. Dye puts it! As for Mr, Dye’s statement referring to the people whose - claims are denied! "There are some people who don’t like the answer, especially when the ans- wer is ‘no’, This is, in my opinion, arrogance typical of ‘those who are not required to ans- wer to anybody, and at the sare time have the power of life and. death over others, Try saying to the WCB when they demand a premium that you think it is unfair; they can and will put a lien on your house and sell it to. collect, for cxample. Trying to appeal: that is like ap- pealing anything else they decide, a lesson in frustration! The WCB, in my opinion, is an overweight paper eating bureaucracy loaded down with dead wood at the top. No other insurance company could stay in business a year and treat its customers as the WCB does. They need some compelition- let’s leave the post office alone for a while and privatize, the WCB. Allan Kennedy - as Terrace, BC. ~ workers for native hurting — Dear Sir: I was very much interested in your June 24, 1992- front page story about Native sexual abuse headlined, "Healing, not hurting". ‘The caption under the photog- raph of. Joanne Peter-said that the eagle feather she held symbolized the presence of the Creator. The story outlined a:program’ for sex- wal abuse offenders and their vic- tims which has as its goal healing and’ reconciliation among families. : ‘My: feeling concerning” Worthiness. of this .program watt drastically changed: for the worse - when I read’ that “Lee: Oates blames sexual: abuse on - white society and more particularly on the Christian clergymen who ran the native residential schools. He asserted that ‘‘all the screw ups of white socicty ended up in charge of a generation of Native children’? ' Certainly, there. were a small | minority. of clergy who were themselves guilty of sexual abuse of the children placed in their care.. Manly of these men have gone through: the court system, sometimes 20-30, years. after the crimes had been committed. To maintain that these offenders were- anything but a small minori- ty is either a ‘mistepresentation of the tuth or an ignorance of reality. . I personally know many Catho- lic priests and brothers and sisters who spent decades of their lives in service’ to the native people. Their lives were-not easy as they often cared for ‘as many as 60-70 children, Generally, these “individuals could be characterized as being more idealistic and energetic, bet- society of those times. One reason. why there were residential schools was that some native leaders could sec their tra- ditional way of life was dis- appearing and that their children needed to be ediicaled to survive in the white man’s world, My own fathér.gave me the same message when he pointed out that after. centuries of small scale. farming only a few could continue that way of life and that both my . lalents ‘and my shortcomings indicated that lwas not going ta be one of those who could farm. + The conditions that prevailed in native residential schools also ex- isted in’ many white: boarding — schools, -For:some it was a hor- rible experience; for my mother anid father it was some of lhe best it is to take. very young children away from their families. And yes, it was very callous and short-sighted to’ put native children in an English immersion school-setting which tended to denigrate their culture, yet the same was’ happening to im- migrant children all over North America. ‘In ‘the — earlier days, these schools were Spartan in terms of food, shelter and clothing. This reflected the unwillingness of the Canadi i A fund ton af: children’ "eho were for’ the Tot part unwelcome in white public. schools. years of their lives as ittook them J away from the harshness and pet- tiness of everyday life. We now realize what a mistake uA gt Miey “J ¥ ae & “9 ora re e 7 “eae we overnments RCE an ET involved v4 ndéal-“ and ’ Thank God, we are more than the sum of our past experiences. My Irish ancestors had to forgive those agents of the British Empire who. brought them so much. misery. Indeed, our church ' teaches us that we must forgive all before we come to God’s altar. Our Lord Jesus told St, Peter that we must forgive 70 times seven and He himself forgave those who crucified Him. The archives of the church show group photographs of native Be a painful separation from: their’ parents there was happiness and “YOUR DECOR - “Terrace Carpot Centre 8202 Munroe Street at Hwy. 16W * 636- 2076 TERRACE = 1-800-665-1087. : learning. It is unworthy of the ideals of the native people involved in this healing endeavor to blacken the reputations of the many Christian men arid women who came to serve their people and who are unable or unwilling to defend themselves. If this is a model of a program that can bring healing through forgiveness, let that forgiveness be wniversal. That is what our | be “at -third-year university lavel and states. All I want is law and or- der in the world at large. ; Everybody who has. his/her eyes and cars open can notice:. the terrible lawless mess our world is in these days. It is a. Christian thing. to promote |}: peace and unity. We. nced the police force to Dear Sir: If Brian Gregg is suggesting that I promote police states (letter to the editor, July 8, 1992), I'd like to suggest that Brian is in favour of anarchy. Brian loves to write puzzling, confusing letters to the. editor. He also seems to be one of these people who don’t know what quotation marks mean. His interpretation is absurd; just like that of Sandor Komlos. _ As I wrote in my atest letter to the cditor, I am not a fascist and I am not a communist — people who promote police in. turn should help the police...[ It has nothing to do with a so-" ealled “New World Order as’ Brian suggests. . I repeat, we need protection from. hoodlums,..no matter’. what their colour or race Is. Bill Homburg Terrace, B.C. 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