Page 4, The Herald, Monday, July 30, 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald Ganaral Gtilce - 635-4357 Circulation - 635-6357 GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middieton - CIRCULATION. TERRACE-' 495-4357 * KITIMAT OFFICE - 632-2747 Published. every weekday at 3212 Kalum Streat, Terrace, 6.C. A member of Verified Circulation, Authorized as second class mall, Registration number 1201. Pestage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorlal or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted. : Published by Sterling Publishers LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Mr. AicCreery: b am In recelpt of Lilllan Gogag’s letter of July 17 regarding the July 14 meeting of the Two-Mile Com- - munity . In an unusual way, we're about (o find out if the $400 or more per year each working Canadian pays in additional {axes to subsidize the unem- ployment Insurance fund Is money well spent, Big chunks of tax money are also spent supporting welfare recipients who don’t qualify for unem- ployment benefits, Roger Worth is Director, - Pubiie Affairs, | Canadian Federation of Independent Business. During the next 12 months, Canadians will welcome more than 12,000 so-called boat people, refugees from Viet Nam and Cambodia who stak- ed their lives on a final bld for. freedom, Their success in find- Ing employment In this sirange. new land where 831,000 people claim they are unemployed will provide remarkable insight into the number of jobs that are really available. Across Canada, irritated business people have been complaining about a shortage of workers, contending that overgenerous unemployment Insurance benefits of as much 25 $160 per week have serjously eroded the work ethic. So {f the boat people find employment - proving jobs are readily available for those é who want to work — the case for again tightening untemploy- ment insurance regulations will become even stronger. Undoubtedly the newcomers will,’ in many situations, be taking low-paying, unskilled positions that don't enthuse “unemployed Canadians, par- tleularly when government support Is so readily available. It's not unusual, for ex- ample, to find students accept- ing unemployment benefits on the basis of contributlons made the previous summer, Employers also complain that many potential workers are purposely unkempt and obnoxious during job inter. views, The reason: these unem- ployment recipients want to be refused Jobs, meanwhile proving to Manpower officials that they are actively seeking work. Naturally, the poten- tlal employers are forced to fill out yet another govern- ment form to record this charade, - The situation has become so pervasive that many busl- atsses have simply stopped In- forming Manpower when jobs are.avallable, thus saving them- selves the aggravation of use- less Interviews, Needless (o say, there is In- deed a serlous unemployment probiem in some parts of the country, But there are also people ripping off their fellow taxpayers, The job hunting success of ihe boat people should indi.’ cate whether Canada’s unem-_ ployment difficulties are more -Imagined ‘than real. ‘between Labor's romain “ i This scene greets visitors who arrive at Kemano deported LUSAKA (CP) — The in- creasingly bloody struggle between blacks and whites for southern Africa will dominate the conference of Commonwealth leaders opening in the Zambian capital Wednesday The 22nd such summit between Britain and ‘its former colonies thus will be like its predecessors in the last 20 years, It was In those two decades that Britain's African empire became independent, South Africa was pushed out of the Commonwealth for racism and the white minority in Rhodesia launched its 14 year-long struggle for survival and control, Among the differences since the last Com- monwealth summit two: years ago in London is the cast of leaders, Britain and Canada, the moat senior of the 40 member countries, are" ‘rookie: represented by Conservatives elected in May — Margaret Thatcher and Joe Clark. Elsewhere, the leadership Is in flux. This includes In- dia, the most populous ‘Commonwealth member with 600 million people, where Morarji Desai was recently defeated. And Nigeria, the biggest and richest black African country with its 80 million. people and its oi), is in transition to civilian government and after 19 years of military rule. Government by the army began with a coup the day SUMMIT CONFERENCE Racism affects meetings By CARL MOLLINS after the Commonwealth heads of government closed _& conference in January, 1964, at Lagos, the Nigerian ~ capital, the only previous Commonwealth summit held © in Affica: | - The Lagos conference waa an emergency meeting called in the wake of a defiant declaration of in- dependence Nov. 11, 1065, by the white minority in Rhodesia, plunging the region into tensions that generated the present black nationalist guerrilla war in what now is called Zim- babwe Rhodesia. th Apart from the coup that toppled the host government, the Lagos conference is best remembered for a prediction by then British Prime Minister Harold Wilson that the white ‘Rhodesian regime « would collapse soon, “in weeks, not months." Thirteen years later, the stubborn 260,000 whites led by Ian Smith, outnumbered 25 to one by black Zim- babweans, finally yielded the blacks a junior part- nership in a new government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa set up this spring. But the whites retain control of the army, the courts, the prisons and the guvernment machinery. And the toll mounts in the war with black guerrillas based in Zambla and in Mozambique. The prime Commonwealth issue since 1966 and earlier thus has been the Rhodesian situation and the behavior of the neighboring white- ninority regime of South Africa in assisting the white. Rhodesians and resisting black-majority inde- pendence for Namibia, formerly South-Weat Africa. The difference this time is that the 1979 summit is being held almost within the sound of the gunfire, The border of war-torn Zimbabwe Rhodesia is only 75 kilometres south of Lusaka, and the white Rhodesian army blitzes into Zambia on anti-guerrilla ralds from time to time. About : 400 kilometres: southwest of Lusaka is the Caprivi strip frontier. of Namibia, one of the war zones in the battle between the white-led South African army and the black guer- rillas of the South West- Africa Peoples Organization. Zimbabwe Rhodesia, Seuth Africa and Namibla are the last redoubts of white supremacy on the African continent. As such, they constitute a continuing af- front to the 13 black African members of the Com- monwealth and to their. Asian and = Caribbean colleagues. The white Commonwealth membera Britain, Canada, Australia and New. Zealand — are often accused | of being halfhearted sup- porters at best of the 13-year- ald economic boycott of Rhodesia and the perennial pressure for similar sanc- tions against South Africa, White multinational mi interests and Western in- dustry needs some of the strategic minerals of southern Africa. On the other hand the non- African Commonwealth is wary of being drawn into internal black African pelitical rivalries, including the competition between parties both in Zim- babwe Rhodesia and The pressure play at the Tasaka meeting will be to campaign against Zimbabwe Rhodesia, as the country is. saying called under the new Muzorewa-Smith regime. And there is a long- standing recommendation by the Commonwealth's southern Africa committee to seek a United Nations oll ‘embargo against South Africa if that country con- Zimbabwe Rhodeaia. South Africa continues to do so — but it also transships oil to ‘neighboring black-ruled countries. The hiting — issues, however, have been at least - partly tranquillized in ad- vance of the Commonwealth meeting, perhaps in- tentionally. The diplomats are reported busy behind the scenes seeking compromise settlements in both Zim- babwe Rhodesia and Namibia. English labor party split LONDON (AP) — The Labor party, which has governed Britain with its mild brand of socialism for half the post-Second World War era, ia in turmoil after the crushing victory of Conservative Margaret Thatcher in the May 3 General election, ot @ traditional party split between right and left now ia @ gaping chasm. There are demands for party leader vesipunth Callaghan ’s res on and for sweeping changes in the way the party is run. - “Weare heading fora aitu- atlon that will be as crippling to the party's prospects as anything in the past,” Callaghan told left-wingers at a recent party meeting. - It is not the first time a La- bor defeat has led to party bi . But the land- slide triumph of Mrs. Thatcher’s Conservatives has brought open warfare left- ers, led by Anthony cod Benn, 54, and the moderates typifled by , 87, tiral party toa it is the na y to govern pre- dominantly = working-class Britain, But unions, angered by Callaghan’s five-per-cent anti-inflation ceiling on pay increases, had confronted “their” government with a rampage of strikes that pushed many Britons into the Conservative camp for the election. Union votes will be vital to Callaghan when the dispute reaches its climax at the annual party conference in the seaside resort of Brighton in October. Ex-cabinet minister Benn, who dropped his inherited House of Lords title Lord Stansgate to become just plain Tony Benn, will lead a grassroots revolt by the left. He also is pushing for Callaghan’s job as party leader. The leftists’ demands were summed up by Eric Heffer, a Labor member of Parliament and Benn's close “Rank-and-file party members want a greater say in policy and decision- making. They want more influence over their mem- bers of Parliament. They want a say In who the leader of the party should be. They want all forms of patronage ended, together with the abolition of the House of Lords,” If the leftists take control of the party organization, future Labor . governments would nationalize banks and insurance companies, cut defence spending and do Court hears of Reichstag arson FRANKFURT, West Ger- many (AP) — A German- born American lawyer: is seeking a court hearing to clear the name of a Dut- chman executed by the Nazis for allegediy setting fire to the Reichstag in 1033. The blaze in the building of Germany's lower house of parliament was used by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler aa an excuse toarrest thousands of Communists and cther ponents of his month-old government, Marinus yan der Lubbe, a Dutch national, was con- victed of setting the fire and executed. Robert Kempner, deputy U.S. chief of counsel at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, said Saturday he is applying for a retrial of the case, He sald he represents Johannes Markus van der Lubbe of Amsterdam, a brother of the executed man. Kerapner is a native of Berlin who was one of the thousands. of apectatora at the Reichstag fire. He later fled Germany and lived in Lansdowne, Pa. He now is practising law in Frankfurt. Kempner said that Her- mann Goering, who became Hitler's air force com- mander, told him at the Nuremberg trials that Hitler had instructed him and others to testify before a Berlin court that the Reichstag fire was part of a Communist plot. “The verdict against Marinus van der Lubbe partially rests on these false statements,"" Kempner sald in hia application for retrial, * The Nuremberg tribunal found Goering gullty of war crimes and sentenced him to death but he committed -ailei.:s with a hidden dose of pro ‘ ‘and local away with the upper house, sald Josephine Richardson, leader of the party's leftist Tribune Group and a Benn supporter, ss To this end, 66 of the 380 _ resolutions submitted for the party conference call for procedural changes to wrest policy-making control from the party leader and his cabinet and place it in the. hands of local party activists and union - representatives. One resolution from an East |London constituency resignation, aceualng bite of on, accts| r) wing a powder puff to combat Prime Minister Thatcher and of socialist commitment, It is not likely to aucceed, Callaghan is thought ready to retire before the next general election in 1964, but not before he fends off the challenge from the left. He hopes to be succeeded by a member of the party's min ihe pact party leads é past, party leaders have been elected by Labor ‘members in the House of Commons, The leader then Picks his own cabinet. Benn and his allies want the leader chosen by an electoral college of members of Parliament, union leaders party organizers, They want all Labor MPs — currently 268 in the 638-seat Commons — to elect the cabinet. ; A group of 100 Labor MPs have announced their position to whe left-wing Proposals, and one group of moderate Labor members of Parliament accused the far Jett of wanting to reduce elected MPs to ‘‘robots, automatons and poodies.” LAW - by Miguel Moya . Although a landed immigrant in Canada has moat of the rights and obligations of a citizen, there are some restrictions. As a landed immigrant, you cannot vote . in-municipal, provincial or federal elections; cannot be appointed to most civil service positions and can be - if convicted of ‘certain crimes, . Aside from these restrictions, you are free. to travel anywhere in the country, live anywhere and take any . job. However, if you change your job or move soon after: your landed immigrant papers are issued, Immigration Canada may feel that you were not being honest‘on your application form about the occupation you planned to follow in Canada or where you planned to reside. This can lead to ‘ deportation. Landed immigrant status is lost if a person is deported and is unable to successfully appeal the ~ deportation. This status can also be loat if a person . leaves the country with the intention of abandoning Canada as his or her place of permanent.residence, Certain persons have the right to appeal an ad- judicator’s decision following an inquiry by Im- migration Canada. Appeals are heard by the Im- migration Appeal Board (IAB) which deals with three types of cases: an appeal made by a Canadian citizen ‘whose application to sponsor a relative has heen rejected, an appeal by a person whose claim to Con- vention refugee status has been denied and an appeal from the-decision of an adjudicator. | ; As in an inquiry, the IAB has the power to hear witnesses and examine evidence. Also, a person ap- pearing before the board has theright tocounsel. —. Only certain persons can appeal the decision of,an adjudicator. For example, a landed immigrant can -_ appeal an adjudicator’s decision ordering him .. removed from Canada.. Also, a person visitor’s visa applying for admission at the border may appeal a decisiqn to refuse him entry: ““". Only sponsors who ‘ate Canadian citizens have thé. . right to appeal and. the. appeal must be initiated _ within 30 days of receiving the notice rejecting their application. However, a person turned away at the border has no right of a unless he or she holds a valid visitors. visa, And no visitor in Canada -- even with a valid visa ’ —or person illegally in Canada has the right to appeal : an order removing them from the country, — The IAB has several options open to it. It can’ . dismiss the appeal and let the decision of the ad-" - judicator stand. It can also allow the. appeal, either by _ grounds justify it. that the adjudicator’s decision was not right, or - ‘by deciding that humanitarian or compassionate: If thé IAB allows a landed immigrant’s appeal, it will quash, that is destroy, thedportation order and let — the person stay in Canada If the board allows the appeal of a Convention * ref : hol a valid: visitor’s visa, it tinued to provide oll to - ugee or @ person holding ‘ can substitute another form of removal order, For example, when the board feels a deportation order is too harsh, an exclusion order can. be subatittited, which would prohibit the person from entering Canada ‘for 12 months, — ‘The IAB has another option open to it. If the person has appealed on humanitarian or compassionate grounds, it can delay the execution of the removal order, Then, terms and conditions will be set for the person to follow and the case will be reviewed periodically. ; When the person has complied with the terms and conditions, the [AB will usually quash the removal order’. But if the person has not complied, the IAB can set new tertis and conditions or order the person removed from Canada. Decisions by the IAB can be appealed to the Federal Court of Appeal."However, this court will hear the. appeal only if it thinks there is a real possibility the - IAB has made a mistake in interpreting the law. This means that if the IAB made a mistake of fact, you cannot appeal. Algo, the Federal Court of Appeal does not have the power to consider humanitarian or compassionate grounds. my Appeals to this court must be made within 15 days: after the IAB has made its decision. Because a person should be represented by a la an expensive process, wyer in this appeal, it is When the federal court decides the IAB has made’a. mnistake, it can quash the decision and elther sendthe case back to the IAB or subsitute its own decision. .--. A Federal Court of Appeal decision can be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, however this process. is time consuming and expensive. A person with no right to appeal to the IAB can ask the Federal Court of Appeal to review the decision of an adjudicator if he thinks the adjudicator has made a - mistake in interpreting the law or has gone beyond his power. In this case, the court can only say whether the adjudicator's decision was right or wrong, it can not substitute its own decision. If the court decidés the adjudicator’s decision was wrong another inquiry must be held. ‘within 10 days of the adjudicator's decision. For more information contact the People’s Law School for its booklet on Immigration Law. 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