Nase Novine, November 01, 1978

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Dear Mr. Kostelac,
- Your gaper recently carried an announ-cement
describing the commitment of the
Toronto Board of Education to continue
the Heritage Language Programme. We
commend Toronto and the Borough of
Yorkfor their participation In this essential
programme, but wish to point out to you
and your readers the ways In which the
Provincial Government is undermining the
language programmes so Important to all
Ontarians.
1). Heritage language instruction is still
not a right in this province. Local school
boards are not obliged to offer these
classes. The Conservatives blocked our
N.D.P. bill that would have integrated
heritage languages into the regular school
day and made them a right whenever 20 or
more students wanted to study a particular
langgiiage As a . result, many school
boards will not provide any heritage
language classes this fall.
2). The Province provides less than 30%
of the costs of the Heritage Language
Programme for Metro pibllc school boards.
The Province has access to tax dollars to
fund their programmes more adequately,
but chooses to take credit for the program
REPRINTS
The most brutal of all the changes in
unemployment insurance proposed by
Employment Minister Bud Cullen is the
reduction of nearly 10 per cent in the
benefits to be paid Canadians who can't
find work. . ч
' a ''The rate of compensation will be"
reduced from two-thir- ds of-- Insurable
earnings wltha maximum of $240 a week
to 60 percent — a cut of more than 9.5 per
cent.
v. With inflation again approaching double-d-igit
rates, this means that the unem-ployed
worker next year will have his real
income cut by around 17 or 18 per cent
over the year from present levels.
This is, a cruel and synlcal way to treat
Canada's army of unemployed, the vast
majority of whom, honestly, want to work
arid earn their living but; can't find jobs. t It will also take a substantial amount of
purchasing power out of the economy just
at the time when the government should be
trying to stimulate demand for goods and
services. Because unemployment benefits
are barely sufficient to pay for basic
necessities — and often enough not even
ithat — they are spent immediately, and
nobody can argue that they are inflatio-nary.
Cullen's whole attitude, which speaks
for the Trudeau government as a whole, Is
that unemployment insurance Is some
kind of charitable handout from Ottawa, to
be cut off or limited at the will of the
authorities.
Official Languages Commissio-ner
Maxwell Yalden has told the
joint, Senate-Commo- ns committee
studying the constitution that the
language rights proposed by the
federal Government are so weak
that they would be a step back-ward.
Mr, Yalden termed the proposed
language provisions poorly wor-ded,
restrictive and potentially dis-criminatory.
He said the nine-yea-r-me
while sending many of the bills to the
owners and tenants who pay property
taxes.
' 3). There Is a great need for English as a
Second Language classes to enable child-ren
whose.mother tongue is not English to
learn English well enough to succeed In
our school system. However, the Province
gives such limited financial support that
100 ESL teachers will be laid off In Metro
.Toronto In September.
We find this unconscionable. Children
should not be punished because their
parents do not speak English. All Ontario
children must have access to a good edu-cation.
The government has a responsibi-lity
to develop the potential of all Ontario
children and learning an official language
is essential to success In our education
system.
The N.D.P. is committed to improving
and adequately financing these program-mes
because they meet real needs in our-socie- ty. Ontario is rich enough to make
this investment in our future citizens and
work force.
DrJanDukszta Tony Grande
MPP Parkdale MPP Oakwood
Jobless
easy taiget for Ottawa
In fact It is meant to be insurance
against financial disaster, paid for by
workers, employers and the general tax-payer
to protect Individuals and their
families.
the government ! administers Jhe prog
ram. Its main responsibility is to make
sure, that nobody cheats for benefits or
tries' to juggle periods in jobs' and out of
them to deliberately live off the system.
But unless the government has delibe-rately
abandoned full employment as a
policy objective — and Is prepared to
admit it — then every Canadian willing and
able to work at a productive job should be
entitled to have one, or else receive reaso-nable
compensation for the failure of the
government's economic management.
Cullen's argument that present levels of
unemployment payments encourage em-ployers
to lay off workers is nonsense.
Lald-o- ff workers represent lost production
and profits. The only reason for layoffs Is
lack of markets for output.
The arbitrary bureaucratic qualifications
for insurance benefits which Cullen is
imposing are bad enough. But his decision
to cut an unemployed worker back from
two-thir- ds of normal earnings (up to the
maximum $240 a week) to 60 per cent has
no logical basis at all In this time of
inflation.
It's simply government money-grubbin- g,
making the unemployed pay for Ottawa's
new shell game of budget cutting.
(Тђв Toronto Star)
Comirassioner scorns
old Official Languages Act offords
better protection to French and
English than the Government's
watereddown proposals.
He said that he does not doubt
the Government intended to give
equal language rights to English
and French-speakin- g Canadians in
the new constitution, but the
actual wording falls miserably, in'
meeting this goal.
Mr. Yalden said the Govern
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Prema pisanju zagreba6kog "Vje-snik- a" na zapadnonjemafikoj tele-vizi- ji je 29. augusta emitiran poduZi
program o ustaSama i njihovoj
antijugoslavenskpj djelatnosti. To
je Јпабе prvi put poslije rata da se
javnost te zemlje upoznaje sa 6i-njenic-ama
i faktima o ustaSkom
pokretu i djelovanju u emigraclji.
Nakon najave, da se "hrvatski
nasilnlci" koji zloupotrebljavaju
gostoprimstvo mdraju o§tro luditi
od vrijednih poStenih hrvatskih i
drugih jugoslavenskih iseljenika i radnika u SR Njema6koj, slijedile
su slike koje su u ovoj zemlji prika-zan- e
prvi put lako su snimljene na
zapadnonjema6kom teritoriju. Pri-kaza- na je i snimka iz 1941. i гебепо
je da je NDH stvorena po nacisti6-ko-j
Njemafikoj i faSisti6koj Italiji.
Zatim je prikazan koncentracioni
logor Jasenovac kao i zdravljenje
(rukovanje) Hitlera i Paveli6a. Po-kaz- an je i snimak komandanta toga
logora Vjekoslava (Maksa) Luburi-6- a.
Sve je to za Nijemce bilo novo.
Takoder su saznali da je Stjepan
Bilandzid - 6ije Izru6enje trazi
Jugoslavia r-- nastavlja6 takvih
nedjela u emigraciji. Iz svega se
San i Java
Monarhistima
гебепо: Ne!
U Torontu postoji druStvo pod
imenom Macedonian Patriotic Or-ganization,
koje se navodrio zalaze
za "ujedinjenje" Makedonije — tj.
spajanje jugoslavenske Makedoni-je,
Pirejske (u Bugarskoj) i Egejske
(u Gr6koj).
Radi se u stvari o starim bugaro-manim- a
j monarhistima koji poku-Sava- ju
P zainteresiratl i kanadske
vlasti za "svoju stvar". No, гебепо
im je,-prek- 'o mlnlstra za Multikultu-raliza- m Normana Cafika, da ih Ka-na- da ne moze u tome podriavati.
"rtemamo namjeru da zapodinje-m-o tredi svjetski rat", rekao je
minister Cafik. Jer, do toga bi, naj-verovatn- ije, dovelo "guzvanje na
Balkanu".
Ovo pak nije usamljen slufiaj, jer
postoje brojne imlgrantske grupa-cij- e
koje sanjaju o "mijenjanju"
svijeta koji su ostavili iza sebe.
Sanjaju o onome Sto je tako davno
pregazilo vrijeme, pa se 6ovjek
mora duditi da su tako upornl i
pored svih neuspjeha.
ment's stated goal of entrenching
the right of the minority to get
schooling in either official langu-age
is weakened by the fact that
every province has the choise of
opting into the system or remai-ning
outside. The second major
problem is that the provision does
not apply to immigrants.
"It is particularly unfortunate
that our longstanding tradition of
according basic civil rights —
except the right to vote — to immi-grants
as well as citizens has been
bypassed In so important an area
as the language of education. This
Is a form of discrimination among
neighbors and potentially even
within families, which I would be
reluctant to see enshrined in a
constitutional bill".
IJSffi ? №i д grecwwfW
pak mo2e zakljuc'iti da je ova emisi-j- a
neSto kao predznak objektivnog
tretiranja terorizma protlv Jugosla-vij- e
I иорбе. No, da li je? Ostaje joS
da se vidi.
Iz Sydneya, Australia, javila je
proSlog tjedna novinska agencija
UPI, dajetamoSnja policija izvrSila
raciju na ustaSki tajni logor za
vojne vjezbe, kojom prilikom je
uhapsila osamnaest osoba. UstaSe
se optuzuje za regrutlranje u stranu
vojnu sluZbu.
Policija kaze da su uhapseni
nosili kamuflazne uniforme, erne
beretke i epolete sa natpisom
"Hrvatsko Revolucionamo Brat-stvo- ",
koje je posvedeno borbi za
"nezavisnost Hrvatske". U povodu
toga je 6lan australske vlade
Sinclair izjavio da vlada misli da
Austral ija ne bi trebalo da bude
upotrebljena kao vjeZbaliste za
teroristidke operacije bilo kakve
vrste i da ce se poduzeti iste mjere
ukoliko se joS neSto sli6no prona-d- e.
Eskimisenadaju
Za razliku od Indijanaca, kanad-s- ki Eskimi se nadaju da 6e .novim
ustavom biti za§ti6ena njihova
prava, a posebno njihov пабт 2ivo-t- a, kultura i tradicija.
Ovo je izjavio predsjednik Eski-msk- og Bratstva (Inuit Tapirisat of
Canada) Eric Tagoona. U Bratstvu
je Јпабе zastupljeno 22 hi I jade
Eskima, koji u predlozenom ustavu
vide svoju najve6u nadu. Ukratko,
Eskimi traze da se ustavnom refor-mo- m ukine njihov sadaSnji eko-noms- ki,
politiCki i socijalni polozaj
koji im je nametnut, i da im se
omogu6i da kao poseban narod, na
svoj паб!п egzistiraju unutar Fede-racij- e.
Kad govorimo o Eskimima i ne-hoti- ce se sjetimo pro§logodi§njeg
izvjeStaja kanadskog suca Bergera
o njihovom stvarnom stanju, pa je
razumljiva zelja i nada tih ljudi da
im se dozvoli da zivekao Sto su
zivjell vjekovima. Mi ostali'treba da
ih u tome podrzavamo.
Шu&кМШ
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