Aé - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Democracy doesn’t mean Officials can discriminate

Ms. Mohammed also states -

Dear Sir: Councillor Lynne Christ-

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iansen’s logic regarding de- mocracy and freedom is flawed in her Sept. 4 letter to ther editor “Freedoms are eroded.”

We may vote for our city councillors in a democratic election, but this does not give them the right to discriminate. Evidence at the re- cent Human Rights Tribunal was submitted indicating that for the past five years proclamations in Terrace were routinely passed.

When the Rainbow Committee of Terrace submitted their request it

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was denied. B.C. Human Rights Tri- bunal member Ana Mohammed, in her decision on the city’s refusal. to proclaim Pride Day, found that the Rainbow Committee of Terrace was discriminated against as they were denied the right to have a day pro- claimed because of their sexual ar- ientation.

gious beliefs of an individual elected into public office is not justification for a refusal

to perform their public duty.”-

City councillors as individ- uals may not share the va- lues of 4 particular proclamation. or group but this does not allaw coun- cillors.to discriminate. 02.000... 5 In the next civic: election not be voting for any candidate who believes it is acceptable to discrimi- nate, | Alisa Thompson

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Gee, for a while I] thought 1 was real dumb.

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Wake up, PPWC

Dear Sir:

I’m a former member of the PPWC and am curr- ently a member of UBC local 1735. 1 don’t have any illusion about Dan Ve- niez being some knight in shining armour coming to save us all. Rather, I’m pretty sure that he’s just a man who wants to make as much money out of his mill as he possibly can.

Having said that, { hope Mr. Veniez has the sense to immediately terminate all the remaining members of PPWC so if he does de- cide to reopen his mill, then in as little as two years and a day he can do it without having to do battle with people that are | so out of-touch with'reality » itbogglesthe mind. "°°

I keep reading letters about how employees are going to lose this much pay and these benefits. Wake up guys, you have lost them already!

No one owes you any- thing. Without a deal those jobs you are talking about

no longer exist. Maybe you ee “i ; should all get together nn ae down at Tim Hortons and FINANCING DRIVEAWAY LEASE smell the coffee.

My union is happy just , Me eee our brothers em- vf $0 vow parwent FIRST LEASE PAYMENT benefits - forget it. We PLUS 0 PAYMENTS DOWN PAYMENT take reductions just ta FOR? * maintain our existence. It’s 7) TEREST ONTHS" , SECURITY DEPOSIT

time to face the reality that our local pulp union, or at least their executive, are in big trouble.

Just like the dinosaurs of old, they seem to lack the ability to recognize their changing environ- ment as they speed down the road to extinction.

So Dan, get rid of the dregs and lets pet your mill up and running. Or if you've had enough (and I don’t blame you), try to qe. a ; Se, leave enough so that we wees els can open up a museum , ae me like North Pacific Can- nery. Then we could at least get a few tourist dol- lars out of this mess.

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