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CASJAFVA Quarterly

No.83
July-Sept., 2010

Table of Contents
Breaking News, Cartoon & Video of the Bayne family

1. Quotable Quotes

2. Editorial

3. Inspirations & Remembrance

  • (1) Perception
  • (2) Custom
  • (3) Surrey man striving to stop albino murders
  • (4) Finding the road to healing through music
  • (5) Teen gets second chance at life
  • (6) Thousands keep democratic dream alive at Tiananmen Square vigil in Hong Kong

    4. Money Matters

  • (1) Tories beating Liberals in Ontario, Quebec donations
  • (2) $1-trillion bailout won't solve the debt problem
  • (3) Grants and drag queens don't mix
  • (4) Pay for your own parade
  • (5) Say no to a bank tax
  • (6) Finance minister's rosy economic pronouncement a gesture in futility
  • (7) Mortgage risk and reward
  • (8) User fees really work
  • (9) Canada's economic recovery could falter if other countries can't join the party
  • (10) CPP: a bad investment

    5. Politics, Religion & Terrorism (enemies within & without)

  • (1) Trial balloons
  • (2) Churches may be sanctuary no longer
  • (3) How long until Christians are blackmailed for daring to speak?
  • (4) The dots some don't want to connect
  • (5) Tawfit Hamid speaking from the heart
  • (6) Muhammad cartoons everywhere
  • (7) Forcing chaplains to submit
  • (8) Is the Pope Catholic?
  • (9) Faith-based charity ruling too murky
  • (10) The anti-Catholic McCarthyists

    6. Religion, Persecution of Religion, False Religion, Secularism, Atheism & Limitation of Human Intelligence

  • (1) Judge declares National Day of prayer unconstitutional
  • (2) Man, not religion, is responsible for suffering
  • (3) Richard Dawkins, evolve thyself
  • (4) Some further tidying up
  • (5) Less fear and more friendliness
  • (6) Who can mock this church?
  • (7) Another homosexual conflict: Human Rights vs. God's law
  • (8) Pastor's "Human Rights" ordeal to continue
  • (9) Religion in the public square
  • (10) Lawyers battle over definition of religion

    7. Free Speech, Human Rights, False Human Rights & Kangaroo Tribunals
  • (1) Defining hate in extreme times
  • (2) Saskatchewan's great idea
  • (3) Homosexuals' rights don't prevail in private religious schools
  • (4) 26-year-old case set precedent
  • (5) The Orwellian logic that's turning the faith Britain was built on into a crime
  • (6) Saving women's lives without aboriton

    8. Is There A Right To Be An Addict or A Prostitute or Demand Special Treatment or Entitlement? Should There Be A Right to Abort One’s Baby

  • (1) Few Canadians willing to fight for life and liberty
  • (2) The debate politicians are afraid to reopen
  • (3) Laura Bush deserts the truth
  • (4) Defying common sense
  • (5) Tory MP's private member's bill puts abortion on agenda
  • (6) Emery pleads guilty to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana
  • (7) What did the church ever do to them?

    9. Environmentalism (as a cult)/Animal Rights

  • (1) Neo-pagan environmentalism: The new orthodoxy?

    10. Leftism, Sanity, Bilingualism, Feminism, Liberalism, Political Correctness, Media Bias, Oppression & Cultural and/or Military Suicide

  • (1) Now they're corruption the comics
  • (2) Official bilingualism: from failure to farce
  • (3) The pill at 50, still not making women happy
  • (4) Liberals are spinning their policy wheels
  • (5) Dalton Mcguinty's latest tax grabs
  • (6) Liberal MP's 'lobbying' questioned
  • (7) The vanity of big government
  • (8) Marci McDonald's biggest blunder
  • (9) Liberal leader's 6-year odyssey
  • (10) Apocalypse soon
  • (11) Tread carefully on Sikh history
  • (12) Hate crimes on the rise in a tolerant city
  • (13) A city of wimps

    11. Politics & Reality, Ethno-Politics, Western Alienation & Normalization of Separatism

  • (1) How to ruin the Supreme Court?
  • (2) Speaker grants access to Afghan detainee papers
  • (3) Equalization isn't doing Quebec any favours
  • (4) Principle be damned
  • (5) Burning Greece in name of unions
  • (6) Minister defends tougher treatment of young offenders
  • (7) Ignatieff's missed audit opportunity
  • (8) Of blockades, bulbs & books
  • (9) Do we have a Wacko in the White House?

    12. Judiciary, Judicial Hegemony & Judicial Idiocy & Jndicial Decency

  • (1) U.S. jurors to be vetted for anti-Canada bias
  • (2) A bittersweet day for press freedom
  • (3) Supreme Court ruling makes it open season on investigative journalism
  • (4) Court axes inspection law used to find pot operations
  • (5) BC Rail case shows why our legal system is a mess
  • (6) What a sack of sacrosanct?
  • (7) Loyola's good fight

    13. Basic Freedoms, Justice System, Political Correctness, Persecution

  • (1) Battle over fees on civil litigation heats up
  • (2) No way to stop Homolka's bid for pardon, Harper says
  • (3) Some 'crimes' deserve forgiveness
  • (4) If the Surpeme Court's not broken...
  • (5) Despite one spectacular failure, the special prosecutor system doesn't need a major overhaul
  • (6) Social media poses challenge for publication bans
  • (7) A pardon is not a right
  • (8) Cellphone recording after a car crash could be useful in court

    14. Marriage, Family & Children's Rights & Polygamy, Incest etc.

  • (1) It's not all good
  • (2) Quebec parents to take mandatory relativistic ethics course to Supreme Court
  • (3) Canadian traditions matter
  • (4) Study suggests link between abortion, mental health disorders
  • (5) Children's watchdog angry at her power being eroded
  • (6) Child-welfare watchdog wins early court date
  • (7) Women tell of guarded lives in polygamy sect
  • (8) There's more at issue here than sexual orientation
  • (9) Ex-civil servant to probe complaint of excess BCTF
  • (10) Domestic violence myths
  • (11) When child abuse is suspected, school responses vary
  • (12) Mother fed cocaine to infant
  • (13) Stay-at-home dads shattering stereotypes

    15. Special Interest Groups Rule Canada

  • (1) Sexual orientation led to firing, teachers says
  • (2) How an epic battle began?
  • (3) Lesbian teacher's allegation she was "fired" from BC Catholic school sparks debate
  • (4) Exposing the sex-ed biz
  • (5) You're teaching my child what
  • (6) Perverse sex education
  • (7) Refugee reform roadblock

    16. Corruption, Dirty Politics, Crimes, Frauds & Scams

  • (1) Another reason to take on big milk
  • (2) When a lack of remorse hits home
  • (3) Top court to hear case of immigrant sponsors
  • (4) Premier blames the process rather than himself for Heed embarrassments
  • (5) Tainted process meant that Heed had to resign
  • (6) Despite hints to the contrary, Gordon Campbell won't retire until he's good and ready
  • (7) Basi, Virk got $50,000 from BC Rail bidder: Crown
  • (8) the immigration consultant mess
  • (9) Border guard used passport details to hit on women
  • (10) MPs change their minds; agree to open books to audit

    17. Knowledge

  • (1) Supplement may prevent 'baby blues'
  • (2) Many cancers caused by pollution, panel says
  • (3) Making sense from nonsense
  • (4) The 'gay gene' hoaz
  • (5) Acid-lowering drugs carry high risk
  • (6) Cheap cancer drug shows promising results
  • (7) Massive study can't say whether cellphone use cause brain cancer
  • (8) 'Tsunami of strokes' likes to hit Canada's aging boomers
  • (9) Surprising conclusion from a clinical study of sexual satisfaction
  • (10) Device vacuums clots from stroke patients
  • (11) Study hints brain damage is cause of sex addition
  • (12) New prostate drug shrinks tumours, BC scientists say
  • (13) An HST quiz for those who follow broken promises like a real whiz

    18. Personalities / Heros / Big Business / Frauds

  • (1) Goldman's fall
  • (2) The Liberals and their hang-ups
  • (3) Pastor, prophet, martyr, spy: why Bonhoeffer still matters
  • (4) The new McCarthyism
  • (5) Why God is still in the building
  • (6) Toronto MP uses taxpayers' money to rent condo owned by her children
  • (7) From Honduras to Iran, a parade of foreign-policy failure

    19. Economics And The Economy / Have-not Status / Ethnic Contributions / Corporate Welfare

  • (1) Time for the city to make to tough decision
  • (2) How are we supposed to save?
  • (3) It won't be cheap or easy to bail out the HST deal with Ottawa
  • (4) The ongoing corporate welfare scandal
  • (5) Thatcher was right on the euro
  • (6) Eurpoe's unsustainable status quo
  • (7) Bank of Canada must avoid revesing the fragile recovery
  • (8) Voters deserve a real say
  • (9) Enjoy the summer: an economic crisis is coming

    20. Real Education, Propaganda, Self-interest & Political Correctness

  • (1) Letter to Dalton McGuinty
  • (2) Every week is sex week
  • (3) These aren't 'human rights'
  • (4) Push to start businesses leaves school districts in debt
  • (5) The real discrimination at universities
  • (6) BC parents sue over French education
  • (7) No Charter Right to a short bus ride
  • (8) Shutting out the world
  • (9) Who doesn't have an honorary doctorate?
  • (10) The disgrace of the OTF

    21. Demographic Winter? / Euthanasia / Genocide / Reproductive Privilege

  • (1) Depopulation quotes

    22. Morality, Ethics, Culture, Politics, Racism, Unionism, Anti-Semitism, Sloth, Favouritism, Hypocrites, slippery slope etc.

  • (1) Sex ed requires prudence and parents
  • (2) Family wins school lunch case over son's table manners
  • (3) Cabinet's naked power play emasculates Hydro's watchdog
  • (4) Secularism vs. Christianity
  • (5) Same sex, different marriage
  • (6) You've plunged a long way, baby!
  • (7) Ontario more transparent than B.C. in misconduct matters
  • (8) UN rejects changes to asylum process
  • (9) The spineless are running the West
  • (10) Should gay men be allowed to give blood?
  • (11) Joys of Muslim women
  • (12) Bathing in the Rubicon Truth versus the Polls
  • (13) Kim's rain of terror

    23. Statesman or Politician

  • (1) Popular with some, HST remains a public outcast
  • (2) Premier's bid to save face put Liberals on their HST road to ruin
  • (3) The murmurs are beginning that the premier has no clothes
  • (4) Luckily, there's no 12% tax on rhetorical flourishes
  • (5) Carole Taylor won't join former colleagues drinking hemlock from the HST punch bowl
  • (6) Liberals use their majority to force an end to HST debate
  • (7) Anti-HST campaign succeeds in strong Liberal ridings
  • (8) Revolt over hated new HST tax threatens to topples BC Liberals
  • (9) Stalling anti-HST drive in committee won't give Liberals an easy way out
  • (10) Liberals seize potential way to cool HST debate
  • (11) Recall campaign could put targets on the backs of these MLAs
  • (12) Surprised premier vows to soldier on with HST despite minister's resignation
  • (13) Ignatieff's 8 rules for political theatre
  • (14) HST makes Campbell the odd man out when Western premiers discuss prosperity
  • (15) Lekstrom, Huntington are independent voices who may not want to party together

    24. Law & Order, Public Safety, True Civil Disobedience or Opportunistic Thuggery, War & Police

  • (1) Cop charged with dealing drugs
  • (2) Tories move to end pensions for prisoners
  • (3) Tougher prison sentences carry hefty price
  • (4) YVR customs experiment alarms critics
  • (5) Arizona's cautionary tale
  • (6) Minimum sentence is only part of the solution, MP says
  • (7) Special-prosecutor system badly damaged by solicitor-general affair
  • (8) Rape should be distinct from sexual assault
  • (9) Refugee reforms that work
  • (10) Watchdog to put RCMP under tighter scrutiny
  • (11) RCMP officers to face second look at charges

    25. Monkey Business, Transparency / Accountability, Bureaucracy Medicare & Crown Corporations

  • (1) 'Red Flag' raised at fertility agency
  • (2) Ignatieff's selective accountability
  • (3) We pay for world-leading care but don't get it
  • (4) Let's get this audit started
  • (5) Government ordered to hand over documents to child watchdog
  • (6) Ex-judge slams law aimed at curbing child advocate
  • (7) Dumbest anti-audit argument ever
  • (8) Local election reform goes beyond restrictions
  • (9) Good start toward transparency in local government

    26. Oh, Canada

  • (1) We can't grow everything
  • (2) Tory cheques bounced
  • (3) Tories need Manning's touch of class
  • (4) A failed G-G gambit
  • (5) Bill would end criminal pardons
  • (6) Pablo Rodriguez must step down
  • (7) Agents of influence

    27. Democracy, Patriotism, Nanny State, Capitalism, Liberalisms, Conservatism, Socialism, Dictatorship, Conservations, Multiculturalism, Immigration, Refugee etc., the Senate & More

  • (1) Today's glitzy China, built on yesterday's graveyards
  • (2) Remembering May Day
  • (3) Ignatieff abuses Hapre's trust
  • (4) A living argument for an elected Senate
  • (5) Stealing the food off poor people's plates
  • (6) The ideal marriage of East and West
  • (7) It's up to China
  • (8) Destroy the Liberal party - for its own good
  • (9) How the Supreme Court keeps information from us

    28. Tax-grab & Government Spending Do Matter

  • (1) Bill Vander Zalm's HST comeback
  • (2) Showdown coming over HST as deadline looms
  • (3) HST opponents flock to sign petition
  • (4) B.C. Liberal can only hope anti_HST anger fades before election
  • (5) HST petition signatures will not be disqualified: Election BC
  • (6) Owners of leaky condos face 'double whammy'
  • (7) Much happened in and out of the legislature - but it was all about the HST
  • (8) Confident HST opponents expect to wrap up campaign
  • (9) It's time for premier to clean up tax mess he created with HST

    29. Leadership

  • (1) Letter to President Obama

    30. Civic Responsibilities / International Responsibilities

  • (1) Dear Leader's see-no-evil enablers
  • (2) Rightly deciding to go it alone
  • (3) Three spies posed as Canadians: FBI probe
  • (4) Don't they know the Cold War is over?

    31. BC Politics etc.

  • (1) Sensing the anti-HST drive just might have legs, NDP MLAs follow...
  • (2) Majority would sign anti-HST petition
  • (3) Foreign families bring special needs students to BC schools
  • (4) B.C. Conservative Party resurgence draws in former federal politician Randy White
  • (5) A cause Vander Zalm could not ignore: fighting the HST
  • (6) 'Blind spots' may make online gambling more risky
  • (7) Getting rid of an MLA is a challenge much greater than anti-HST initiative
  • (8) Premier lashed to wheel of HST ship

    32. Jokes

  • (1) Earning privileges, raising grades, reading your Bible and...
  • (2) Where is the "BC" located?
  • (3) Burglar and an elderly woman
  • (4) Let sleeping dogs lie
  • (5) Stamps
  • (6) Time for chuckle

    33. Health Matters

  • (1) Controlling your blood pressure helps to protect your mind and your body
  • (2) Reduce your risk of cataracts
  • (3) Preserve your kidney function as you age
  • (4) More than a glass a day could harm your heart and brain
  • (5) No smoke without fire
  • (6) The salt shaker: Sodium and your blood pressure
  • (7) Know your colon screening options
  • (8) Diabetes drug safety update: Avandia and your heart
  • (9) Multivitamins can be a nutritional safety net
  • (10) Colonoscopy reduces cancer deaths
  • (11) Keep cool in the summer heat
  • (12) Abnormal heart rhythm linked to Alzheimer's
  • (13) Good oral health may protect the brain and heart
  • (14) Scientists discover how depression, anxiety are linked
  • (15) Vitamin D cuts risk of preterm delivery
  • (16) Enzyme mapping clears path to treatments

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  • Association objective & history (Eng)

    The Objectives of the Canadian Alliance for Social Justice and Family Values Association

     

    (a) The advocating, fostering and safe-guarding of social rights and justice.

    (b) The advocating, fostering and protection of traditional family values.

    (c) The safe-guarding of parental rights with respect to education and up-bringing of their children.

    (d) The advocating, fostering and safe-guarding of constitutional, common law and civic rights and responsibilities of individuals both as citizens and as parents.

    (e) The advocating, fostering and establishment of traditional schools, social and educational institutions for the preservation of traditional values.

    (f) The advocating, fostering and safe-guarding of citizen’s right and entitlement to clean, just and upright government.

     

    A Brief History of the Canadian Alliance for Social Justice and Family Values Association

    The Canadian Alliance for Social justice and Family Values Association (CASJAFVA) was founded on October 1, 1997. CASJAFVA was brought into existence with the aim to awaken the silent majority and to organize a united voice to deal with governments. CASJAFVA has been and is against detrimental policies and actions on the part of governments and special interest groups. These wrongful policies and actions include the infringement of parental rights in bringing up and educating their children, the destruction of traditional family values, misinformation, the promotion and the fostering of unhealthy life styles and social environment for the younger generation, and oppressive legislation and governmental policies.

    Some of the more important works done by CASJAFVA in the past ten years for your information

    1.      In order to protect and preserve stability of our community, CASJAFVA had repeatedly written and attended the Burnaby City Council meetings and public hearings and succeeded on 23rd December, 1997 in stopping the expansion of gambling in Burnaby, BC. As a follow-up to stopping the expansion of gambling, CASJAFVA continued to monitor Burnaby City Council and the provincial government on the issue of gambling.

    2.      CASJAFVA in educating the public about the legal rights of citizen and parents, and family values, participated in a forum “I love Canada” hosted by the Truth Monthly on 8th February, 1998. The convenor of CASJAFVA, K-John Cheung was invited as a guest speaker. The forum, consisting of representatives from the Federal government and different political parties, had alerted media and this led to a wider coverage of the issues raised at the Forum.

    3.      CASJAFVA was invited to attend a meeting with the press hosted by the “Coalition for the Protection of Parental Rights” on 12th March, 1998. CASJAFVA opposed the BC NDP government and school boards in their attempts to promote homosexuality as a normal, healthy, and acceptable way of life in the curriculum of public schools. CASJAFVA supported the Surrey School Board’s refusal to include homosexuality as part of the curriculum. On the 29th of the same month, CASJAFVA initiated a protest outside the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver, BC, in support of the decision of the Surrey School Board. As a result, the Education Minister (林世普) indicated on 16th March, 1998 that the government had no desire to change the present curriculum.

    4.      On 31st March 1998, CASJAFVA held a media conference at the Chinese Cultural Centre, disclosing to the public that the Vancouver School Board had harbored an ex-employee (杜文) who had shown gross disrespect to parents when they presented petitions against the promotion of homosexuality. The School Board had failed to take any action to discipline the person in question. On the contrary, the School Broad apologized to him. The Board also promised to give a favourable testimonial to him for future employment.  CASJAFVA formally lodged a protest to the School Board against such a miscarriage of justice and unfairness. The Vancouver School Broad was warned of any consequences for repetition of such serious, politically correct actions.

    5.      CASJAFVA, on 14th July 1998, had a forum on children at the Chinese Cultural Centre in regard to the Ministry’s abuse of authority by unjustifiably removing children from their homes. A child psychologist, was invited to speak on the topic of parents’ rights and responsibilities and to awaken the public, because the Minister of Social Services was abusing his authority by unwarrantedly breaking up families. CASJAFVA succeeded in pressuring the NDP government to return Mrs. Leung’s five-year old daughter who was the victim of such abuse.

    6.      CASJAFVA showed its deep concern about the persecution of Indonesian Chinese. In July, 1998, CASJAFVA advertised in 2 major Chinese newspapers, chastising the Indonesian government for allowing such an atrocity to occur. Letters were sent to the Prime Minister of Canada, the President of the USA, the members of Parliament, the Prime Minister of UK, and the Indonesian consul in Vancouver.

    7.      CASJAFVA’s representatives appeared in numerous television and media interviews in regard to gambling, drug, homosexuality, education, parental rights, and crimes to show CASJAFVA’s concern on the above issues.

    8.      CASJAFVA continues to monitor the working of various government departments, in particular with the Attorney General’s department, as CASJAFVA is concerned with problems arising from the lenient handling of pedophiles.

             Mr. Chris Kempling, a Christian teacher in Quesnel (BC), wrote to local media and politicians (outside of school) in his own time expressing his critical views on inclusion and promotion of homosexuality in school, as a result of which he was found guilty of conduct unbecoming of a teacher by the BC College of Teachers (BCCT). CASJAFVA wrote to BCCT criticizing BCCT’s unjust deprivation of Kempling’s freedom of speech and religion and further brought to the attention of the media and politicians, the persecution of Kempling by BCCT. CASJAFVA held a rally on 9th November, 2002 outside BCCT’s office in Vancouver, which led to extensive reporting of Kempling’s case by major local media and national media including the National Post and Global TV. BCCT became a laughing stock across Canada. The BC Liberal provincial government later effected much needed reforms to rectify the constitution and control of BCCT by eliminating its control by BC Teachers Federation (a union). These reforms are of vital importance to the preservation of conscientious teachers’ freedom of speech and religion which in turn protect the decent educational process which our children are or will be going through. BCCT after prolonged delay, punished Kempling with one month’s suspension instead of the much more severe punishment initially contemplated. As the judiciary has failed to redress the injustice inflected on Kempling, he continues to seek justice in the court of public opinion and elsewhere. Due to resistance from B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF), the provincial government compromised its reforms, which led to continued control of BCCT by BCTF. CASJAFVA will continue to monitor the situation.

    10.     CASJAFVA started a campaign of writing letters by members of the general public to the Canada Blood Services (CBS) urging them to maintain the existing screening process of blood donors and not to change the questionnaire asking male donors: “Have you had sex with a man, even one time since 1997?” Later, CBS replied saying that no changes to any screening process would be made and assured CASJAFVA that CBS fully intended to operate the blood system by ensuring optimal safety of blood collected.

    11.     CASJAFVA launched a campaign urging Parliament to raise the age of consent for sex from 14 to 18. 8,700 individual petitions were collected from concerned citizens and delivered to Mr. John Duncan, Canadian Alliance MP, for presentation to Parliament. On the same day, a motion urging the Parliament to raise the age of consent for sex to 16 was also proposed by Canadian Alliance MPs. Mr. John Duncan also introduced CASJAFVA in the House of Commons, explaining CASJAFVA’s aims and works. (House of Commons has since passed legislation raising the age of consent for sex to 16 but the Liberal controlled Senate has yet to pass the legislation)

    12.     CASJAFVA participated as one of the intervenors in some important legal proceedings including the case of Surrey School Board disallowing three pro same-sex family books as learning materials for kindergarten and grade 1 students. The case went to the BC Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Another case CASJAFVA participated in was the case challenging the definition of marriage before the Supreme Court of BC and BC Court of Appeal.

    13.     In 2003, Mr. Vic Toews, Canadian Alliance MP and the Justice Critic of the Official Oppositions, presented 12,000 petitions collected by us (opposing Bill C-250-hate crimes and supporting traditional marriage) to Parliament and Parliament accepted the same, and the same became part of the records of Parliament. Mr. Toews also introduced CASJAFVA in the House of Commons, with their objectives and works.

             CASJAFVA held a 10,000 strong rally in downtown Vancouver on August 23, 2003 opposing the making of sexual orientation a protected ground for hate crime. The message sent to Ottawa was loud and clear.

    15.     In defending the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, CASJAFVA has spent much of its resources. This fight is ongoing until Ottawa re-visits this issue and restores the traditional definition of marriage. [see photos: Pages 36A & 36B]

    16.     At the end of May, 2006, it came to our knowledge that the B.C. Liberal provincial government, through Mr. Wally Oppal, the Attorney General and Ms. Shirley Bond, the Minister of Education, had reached an unprecedented Settlement (“the Secret Settlement”) with two homosexual activists (“the Correns”) as a result of their complaint to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal alleging that non-portrayal of homosexuals in B.C. curriculum constituted discrimination. The Secret Settlement with an unusual and unreasonable limited time-frame was meant to exclude any meaningful public consultation and participation. Essentially, the Secret Settlement gives the Correns and their recommended groups and individuals, privileged and undue influence in the revision of curriculum of all grades (Kindergarten to grade 12), unwarranted restrictions on and infringement of parents’ right to withdraw their children from classes teaching unacceptable sensitive materials, and the establishment of a new elective Social Justice course for grade 12 students. According to Vancouver Sun’s report, the Correns intended to incorporate into the curriculum “queer” history and historical figures, the presence of positive role models (past and present), the contributions made by “queers” and legal issues relating to them, so-called same-sex marriage and adoption. CASJAFVA’s position has been and is that a person’s sexual orientation is irrelevant to his/her contributions to the society and the country. The only reason for such agenda is to propagandize certain sexual preferences to young minds. Upon learning of the Secret Settlement, CASJAFVA immediately launched letter writing and media campaigns to alert the public, particularly parents, of the dangers of such a hidden agenda. CASJAFVA also commenced a petition drive. During the period from June, 2006 to March, 2007, CASJAFVA had incessant correspondence with the provincial government, collected more than 17,000 signatures demanding the same rights and entitlements as those given the Correns under the Secret Settlement, met with representatives of the government on the above issues, held seven protests outside the premier’s Vancouver office and one outside the provincial legislative building in Victoria and presented the above signatures to the provincial parliament through Mr. Richard Lee, MLA on March 1, 2007. ] The provincial government finally reached an agreement with CASJAFVA on March 5, 2007 agreeing to give CASJAFVA the same rights and entitlement as those given the Correns with respect to the aforesaid issues. Furthermore, CASJAFVA’s position has been and is that if sexual orientation is to be included in the curriculum, it must be presented in a fair, unbiased and objective manner including the pros and cons of such life styles, to which the government agreed. The implementation of the terms of the March 5, 2007 agreement with the provincial government depends on the provincial government honoring the terms of such agreement. CASJAFVA maintains and will maintain constant vigilance on the situation.



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