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, Page 11, News, Tuesday, October 16, 1990 Native land Bilingualism myth issue needs more time Dear Editor The United Northern Citizens Dear Editor: Ninetey-seven percent of Canadians that I've heard from want a national referendum held on Forced Official Bilingualism in Canada. I posed my question are not listening to the people. Sadly, it appears that our politi- cians have decided that they are not accountable to the electorate and mistakenly believe that taxa- tion without representation is is an Organization set up to create in a one-page letter-to-the-editor Canadian democracy. public awareness so that there is mailed to over 100 newspapers Many letters candidly question proper representation by responsi- and many radio and TV stations whether Canada is a democracy ble-leaders of an informed public - across Canada. I have received "by the people". concerning land claims issues. telephone calls from Sincerely, Only by this self education of the Newfoundland to British Jim Grant magnitude of the native concerns will the general population be able to support a fair and just set- tlement. Given the fact that the provincial and federal govern- ments are now prepared to address these issues, the process should be granted the period of time to evolve. As we have all witnessed at Oka, no negotiations took place because efforts were spent addressing the symptoms rather than the solutions. The general public should encourage that these issues be granted their period of time to develop. With these basic views, we, as United Northern Citizens have had our rights violated. That is, the basic freedom of thought and the right to pursue a livelihood.: Even to communicate to the pub- lic these fundamental views has been difficult because media appears to be attracted to sensa- Columbia and hundreds of enriching heart-warming letters from concerned Canadians. Almost all want to have the opportunity of a referendum where taxpayers can decide whether we can afford to spend billions of our dollars propping up Canada's bilingual My -..t5.. "pillionguali$m". Apparently the indefensible federal bilingual Bill C-72 (The Official Language Act of 1988), based on the myth, has proven to be too expensive, discriminatory, and very divisive. Even the Chief of Language Police has threat- ened to resign. Excluding our one province of Quebic, 98 percent of our daily newspapers, 94 percent of radio and 87 percent of TV are in English. That's Canada's reality. What comes through in the let- ters received is the great love for Doctors needed continued from page 4 someone who may have very questionable credentials. This may not be the problem but none- the -less I think that it should: be looked at. I have read in the newspaper that the ambulance was looking to moving to the highway. Here could be a perfect spot to set up our medical centre with two doc- tor's offices in the same building. Let us not wait.too long to act, so as to put ourselves in the predicament of having to take who we can, not who we would like. Our problems will not go away nor will they stop, so lets do HOSPITAL QUIPS "A TINY LITTLE ASPIRIN HE CAN'T SWALLOW; A KENNEDY HALF DOLLAR > ne GAN," tionalism. ; out country and the overwhelm- something about it now, before it Irene Ness, native member of ing disappointment in out politi-- is too late. 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