CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 7, 2000 - A7 NOTICE TERRACE AND AREA HEALTH COUNCIL The Mail Bag Forget French. How about fixing the streets of Terrace Dear Sir: For over 30 years Canada's politicians and media have been trying desperately to convince Canadians and the rest of the world that Canada is a truly bilingual country. A Statement last year by former Commissioner of Of- ficial Languages, Dr. Victor Goldbloom, should convince our politicians that the billions spent every year pretend- ing we are a bilingual country could be put to useful pur- poses instead. Dr. Goldbloom stated, “The fact is we are not a bilingual country. We are a country in which a lot of people — nearly one sixth of the population — are able to speak both languages. We are a country in which we have two official languages, and we recognize and re- spect them both. But we are not a bilingual country, be- Pro-choice view Dear Sir: If the pro-lifers wish to plant crosses cammemora- ting each abortion per- formed in this town, it is their constitutional right to do so. Likewise if they want to form a human chain on the Skeena Bridge. It's a way of showing you care what happens, | suppose. However, if these people really care about the unborn, then it logical- ly follows that they should care about what happens to the unborn once they become born. I don't see them firing off thousands of angry let- ters to Paul Martin protest- ing the fact that one in five Canadian children lives in poverty in spite of Liberal campaign promises to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000. I] don’t see them plant- ing a crass for every child in this country that has to g0 to school inadequately fed and clothed or forming a human chain to protest the clawback of the Child | Tax Benefit from welfare... « moms in every province but New Brunswick and Newfoundland. I don’t see them de- manding that Jean Chre- tien and Paul Martin fulfil another campaign promise and create a quality natio- nal day care program that all working people could afford or petitioning for all- day kindergartens for dis- advantaged children to en- able them to catch up with their more affluent peers in social skills and develop- ment, I don’t see them lobby- ing for better maternity benefits and CPP contribu- tions for stay-at-home moms or develaping more comprehensive sex-ed pro- grams or ensuring that no teenager is too embarras- sed to speak to a health care professional about birth control. Suffice it to say that when | see you all doing even some of the above Do it by referendum Dear Sir: Mr. Norman Read’s re- cent letter that it was not the government banning smoking in public places contains clouded informa- tion. Every regulation passed by the legislative assemb- ly becomes then a law, and the WCB is there to enforce that regulation. The proper way is to have a referendum to let every voting citizen of British Columbia have a say. Everybody should have a choice: yes or no, not to sneak in a regula- tion without public input. Look at yourself as an atheist, would you like a religious fraternity shove their faith down your throat? Manfred Bader, Terrace, B.C. then I will believe you truly care. can create a society that actualiy values all of its citizens who have the for- tune (or misfortune) to be born, sign me pro-chaice REDUCED OBSTETRICAL/GYNECOLOGICAL SERVICES Due to the loss of one of our hospital's obstetrician/ gynecologists the sole remaining specialist will be unable to provide continuous obstetrical/gynecological services. Patients will be required to check with their family physician on the availability of this service. This means that labour and delivery will be closed at times, Some patients will be referred to other centers until such time as the full obstetric service has been restored. Patients are advised to discuss this with their doctor. cause we can't be. Not enough people are exposed on a daily basis to the other language to be able to acquire and maintain their fluency in the other language.” It was Pierre Trudeau's dream for Canadians coast to coast to be fluent in both. English and French. But Tru- deau was a dreamer; it is Canadian taxpayers who must pay for the billion dollar nightmare. Bilingualism has spawned costly immersion programs and completely separate French schools in which stu- dents receive more than double the funding of main- Ste Millenium Partners in Concert stream public schools. Our public schools are left to deal wo i Conductor Jim Ryan with higher student-teacher ratios and the elimination of Dragan entire programs such as music in grades six and seven. rlaydn Te TRIO ACCORD MEMBERS A significant cutback in the amount of money spent on the never-to-be-achieved goa! of a bilingual society would free up billions of dollars every year which could be spent on bettering the lives of all Canadians, irre- spective of their cultural roots. Our health care system needs a shot in the arm, we are short of nurses and the money to train more, child poverty is a national disgrace, our combined federal-pro- vincial debt is $791 billion, thousands of unfortunates endure the indignities of welfare, and the list goes on. The diversion of a good portion of the $5 billion that ‘bilingualism is currently costing taxpayers every year would be a victory for common sense. 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