Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-10-05
issued: 1983-07-20
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note: " 7* ". .'". -1...''. ."\V'<TS^_W .,'■'■..-■■...-:.-) :-y.\.-y-.y :.::■. mmjmmm BUDGET CUT-BACKS encouraged, HBsfc VICTORIA - Social Credit government is treating the province as "a public milk cow to be sucked dry by private corporations," New Democratic F-arty MIA Bob Skelly said last week. Hie government was "put into office to prevent file people of this province from ever realizing their economic independence through the agency of a democratic government," Skelly (Alberni) fold the legislature. "They are a financial fifth- column - public sector saboteurs and economic traitors." Skelly said the budget aims at "the elimination of human rights protection, the restoration of rights of private property over individual rights - reversing a two-century bend toward individual liberties - and the final dismantling of the countervailing power which all the people have established to protect themselves from the interests of the few." While the government is wiping out human rights and rent review agencies in The name of cost efficiencies, these bodies cost the average British Columbian a total of $1.53 last year, said Skelly. Skelly is one of three candidates for the NDP leadership, to be decided next May. The human rights commission and branch cost taxpayers "less than the cost of two first-class postage stamps," Skelly said. He charged that they are being eliminated because of "the bigotry which is at the basis of the new right in this country and in the U.S. and Britain - a bigotry which all too often surfaces in this legislature." The commission embarrassed the government because it "made public the fact that Social Credit m British Columbia hiss the worst record of any province" in human rights protection, he ..SSJA,,^....^.::.: .-.i.-y. ..... ,..,;.-,v'y "Who has the protection of this govemment?"skelly asked. "Bigots. Who will pay? Minorities. "It is dear that what has oozed to the surface in the Social Credit party in Alberta has always been, present here in Brit…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0421145
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
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