Ad - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 19, 2000
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Pride, Part One

WHAT PRIDE can there be in using the power
of the state to bludgeon city council into doing
something it doesn’t want to do?

Not much. And a bludgeoning it surely will be
given council’s denial of a request first of Rain-
bow B.C. and subsequently a local group to de-
clare a day this summer as “Lesbian Gay Bisex-
ual and Transgender Pride Day.”

Clearly, council is headed toward a bruising in
its refusal to declare a pride day. Its decision mir-
rors that of its Kelowna counterpart which has
now been found to be discriminatory by the B.C.
Human Rights Council.

But it is an absurd situation for Rainbow B.C.
to first ask Terrace council to take pride in some-
thing, and then to note that failure to do so will re-
sult in a public spanking using the Kelowna deci-
sion as a precedent.

In its suggested proclamation text, Rainbow
B.C. says a pride day will bring “honour and re-
spect for our differences so that we can help each
other to be the best we can be as individuals and
members of our diverse communities.”

These are good words, but to then intimate that
the B.C, Human Rights Council can be unleashed
upon city council for not signing such a declara-
tion will not bring about the desired honour and
respect.

Something signed with one hand while the
other.is being twisted by an agent of the state will
not give any grace or authority to those words. It
will not give any comfort to gays, lesbians, bisex-
uals or transgender individuals. They may read
those words.and know they are part of an official
declaration, | but, they. will mean nothing,

To force city council by a bully-boy tactic into
declaring something it wants no part of will sim-
ply harden the attitudes of the opposing factions.

There is no victory here to be won by Rainbow
B.C, Indeed, Rainbow B.C. can already declare it-
self as the victor on the basis of the Kelowna de-
cision. To replicate the results of the Kelowna de-
cision with a complaint about Terrace council
now makes no sense.

This‘is not a matter of discrimination regarding |

housing or employment. This is a matter of ac-
ceptance and of tolerance which are altogether
quite different. Lack of tolerance or acceptance
cannat.be magically changed through a forced
declaration which in and of itself is symbolic and
has no practical value.

The council members who have voted against
the declaration request have shown themselves

not to be accepting or to be tolerant. Turning them ~

into martyrs will not change anything insofar as
how they think, feel and behave.

If Rainbow B.C. and the local group truly wish
to represent their constituency they will withdraw
from this field of battle.

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Liberals should worry about Day

VICTORIA - Two week-
ends ago marked the begin-
ning of one of the most pro-
found changes in recent Cana-
dian political history.

The election of Stockwell
Day, the former Alberta trea-
surer, as leader of the Cana-
dian Alliance will result in a
massive shift in the country’s
political landscape.

Day scored 64 per cent of
the votes, leaving Preston
Manning, the man who foun-
ded the party 13 years ago
under the name of Reform
Party of Canada, in the dust.

Manning took the greatest
gamble of his pelitical career
when he stepped down as lea-
der of the Reform party to
make way for its rebirth as a

More encompassing Alliance -

party.

And regardless of how con-
fident he may have been ‘of.
winning the leadership can-
test, in the end, he sacrificed
his own political future for
what he thought was necessary
to offer a genuine alternative
to the Liberal party which be-
lieves it has a God-given right
to govern this country.

Perhaps Manning's defeal
was inevitable. As one obser-
ver said, you can’t have a new
party with an old leader.

Day will prove a far bigger
headache to the Liberals than

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FROM: THE CAPITAL

HUBERT BEYER

Manning ever was.

In fact, they should be
scared, and my guess is they
are,

Day is 49 years old. By
comparison, Sean Chretien,

the pritie’ minister; ‘seems’ an

cient. Day has new ideas. The
Liberals’ haven't produced -a
decent idea in years,

And Day’s ideas will find
fertile ground in a Canada that
is already shifting to the right.
A poll conducted by COM-
PASS two weeks ago last
week, found that 54 per cent
of Canadians would welcome
a leader who is a social con-
servative.

It’s something I have been
saying for sometime. The pub-
lic is tired of the kind of social
engineering traditionally. advo-

cated by the left-wing New
Democrats and implemented
by the Liberals who have al-
ways been famous for stealing
ideas from the NDP.

The public is uneasy about
the new frontiers of human
rights and about- gender and
sexual equality.

Most Canadians, I dare say,
are in favour of jetting gays
and lesbians live together in
peace, but they are freaked out
by front page pictures of two
men in the U.S. sealing their
“marriage” before a justice of
the peace with a kiss.

Equally, most Canadians do
not oppose abortion per se, but
once informed of what a par-
tial-birth abortion is, they da
definitely not want abortion in

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no national debate on either of
these issues. All changes have
been either introduced by the
Liberals and rammed through.
Parliament by virtue of their
majority or, in the absence of
existing laws, been imposed
the courts.

What is pushing the public
to the right is that, without
consultation, they’ve been
pushed too far to he left.

Day is a religious man. |
mean, openly religious, not
just one who gives the tradi-
tional lip service. He has said

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he will be guided by his
Christian principles, and for my
money, they're still a dammed
sight better than any of the so-
called principles advanced by
the myriad of special interest
groups that have dominated po-
licy-making in this country for
the last 20 years.

All this spells bad news for
the Liberals, With an aging
leader and bankrupt of ideas,
they won’t know what hit them
when Day comes to Ottawa.

It will be a while yet before
an Alliance Member of Parlia-
ment steps down to allow Day
to run in a byelection. In the
meantime, I’m sure the na-
tion’s media will leave no
stone unturned to find some
dirt, any dirt, on Day.
~ Unfortunately, | believe it

“wrt*be slim pickings: for: the

headlinwihunters: Alberta’s li-
vely media have tried and
found nothing.

They wan’t like it, they’ll
probably find that the guy is as
clean as he looks.

I for one am looking forward
to Day’s march on Ottawa. It
should prove extremely inter-
esting.

Beyer can be reached at:

Bo- m a i i
hubert@coolcom.com; Tel
(250) 381-6900; Web

Altpc/heww.hubertbeyer.com

Hey there, Newfoundlanders

YEARNINGS FOR childhood
foods are easy for me to un-
dersiand. Following eight
years of living in America, on
our return trip to Montana after
visiting family in Saskatche-
wan, we arrived at the U.S.
border with two items to de-
clare — large can of Roger’s
Syrup, and a 24-inch high bag
of Prairie Maid Puffed Wheat.
Talk about suspicious looks
from a customs agent! But
those were two of my favourite
foods as a kid, and nothing: for
sale in the U.S. came close to
their flavours.
Newfoundianders are raised
on all sorts of foods indigenous
to their island. Every Christ-
mas my son-in-law — and now
my granddaughters — loak far-
ward to one relative or anather
mailing a box crammed with
treats — chicken flavoured po-
tato chips, a hard candy
known as peppermint knobs,
strawberry jam-filled teacakes
called jamjams, lemon ¢rack-
ers, and peanut butter kisses.

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CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

These foods, produced and

packaged in Newfoundland,
are available only from the
pravince’s suppliers and are
next to impossible to find in
this part of Canada.
"Add the high cost of ship-
ping from the opposite coast
and you know why supplies
are hoarded and doled cut like
communion wafers,

But Fert McMurray, Alber-

AND BATTERY
BLANKETS !!

Bor! L THOUGHT THOSE ARE PLUG-INS
CALIFORNIA WAS FOR FAN HEAT ERS,
MopERN Gut YOU Block HEATERS

ta, has a sizable population of
displaced Newfoundlanders. To
accommodate their palates,
one of the town’s two Safeway
stores stocks many of the is-
landers’ favourites,

Besides chicken chips, pep-
permint knobs, strawberry (and
apple) jamjams, lemon crack-
ers and peanut butter kisses,
the store supplies partridge
berry, baked apple, and blue-
berry jams and pie fillings, salt
beef; mussels and oysters can-
ned in brine; fish haddie; hard
breads; Denny’s canned rice;
Eversweet butter; dried kip-
pers; and Sunrise bologna. For
a start.

They are unable to offer
blood pudding. Health regula-
tions forbid ils sale beyond
Newfoundiand’s borders.

’ Ordering from the Fort Mc-

Murray store can be done

through Safeway’s florist line
by phoning 1-800-SAFEWAY
(723-3929),

Food ordered directly fram
the Alberta store can be paid

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for at Safeway here in Terrace.

Using a credit card, you can
order by phoning 1-780-790-
3444. The shipment can be de-
livered to your door by courier.

I prefer to check prices by
phone and order by mail, en-
closing-a cheque to cover both
food and shipping charges. A
twa week wail for the foods ar-
rival only whet’s the appetite.

The mailing address is 9601
Franklin Avenue, Fort McMur-
ray, Alberta, T9H 238, atten-
tion Louise or Boris. Louise
will be on vacation for another
week.

Current prices for chicken
chips .99 per single serving
bag, $3.59 for jamjams, $2.29
for peppermint knobs or peanut
butter kisses.

My little. granddaughter’s
birthday is mere weeks away
and there's no question (hat she
is excitedly expecting a supply
of her favourite out-of-province
treats.

This year Fort McMurray’s ©

Safeway can deliver,

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