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oc 8 T= Seugos Cen Teich Avrif2, 3 1996 - weekly community newspaper, 4 is distributed, free of charge, to over 13,500 homes and businesses in and around Scugog Township. Subscriptions sold outside Scugog Te Si tn I oubiished by: Sages Citizen Publishing Ltd. / THE SCUGOG CITIZEN OCNA Member : an independently owned and operated CCNA = / joi 1] ZC. CCNA Verified Cia NA verified | quant publishers : John B. McClelland, Valerie Ellis - itor ; John B. McClelland office manager : Sibylle Warren advertising sales representatives : Thom Doran, Jerinine Huffman, Bob Osborn reception 4 Janet Rankin production : Tanya Mappin, Valerie Ellis feature writer : Heather McCrae "Prowd Canadiins, proud o cal Scygog Township home." 28 [ANGRY PIG | SHOULD - Ji _] Nice win, guys Congratulations are in order for tHe Port Perry Panthers | who downed Sutton Ice Saturday evening at the Scugog Arena to capture the all-Ontario A Juvenile hockey banner. After the first game in this series ended in a draw, the Panthers won the next four games Straight to take the eight point series by nine points to one. But it was not a cake-walk--not by any stretch of the. imagination. All the games were close, and even Saturday's series clincher was in doubt until the final period when the Panthers opened a two-goal cushion and then concentrated on shutting the opposition down the rest of the way. This, is the second all-Ontario Juvenile crown for Port in three seasons and the Panthers are the only Port Perry Minor Hockey team to win a provincial banner this season. ' Full marks to the guys on the ice who had their sights set on this one and were not to be denied a victory in front of a large, vocal and appreciative home crowd. Nice to see so many fans out'on a Saturday night to lend their support to this team. . They won it the old fashioned way--by sticking to hockey and playing with a lot of grit and determination. Much credit must go. to the "behind the bench team" of Jamie M Scott M Dave M and Andrew Steele. Coaching hockey at the Juvenile level can have its pitfalls, but these four kept the course' steady with 'a lot of patience and confidence in their young charges. Port Perry enjoys a proud tradition when it comes to putting all-Ontario banners along the rafters of the local arena. The latest one carries on that fine tradition and .everyone connected with the team in any way has every right to feel a sense of pride. Right to know - We suppose we should be chortling with glee that the salaries of thousands of Ontario residents who toil for ospitals, school boards, utilities, crown corporations, unicipalities and so on, are now on the phblic record. Anyone earning more than $100,000 who works fgr any concern that receives $120,000 in funds from the province 'must disclose their salaries under the tggms of new Ontariq, legislation. We suppose there is some 'intrinsic value in the public | having the 'right to know that the president of Sick Childrens Hospital-earns $534,000 in salary, bonuses and taxable benefits, and the chief of the Toronto Housing Corp. (which finds housing for those on social assistance) gets by on $176,000; and a fund-raiser for the University of Toronto drew a stipend of $250,000 last year. After all, the money comes from one source: the "payers of this province. And they should have the right to know who is making how much these days. One can't help but wonder when the public will have right to know everything about how the courts work, for example, how. deals with the likes of Karla Homulka are hammered out. Perhaps the public might like the right (through the media) to sit in on contract talks, like the ones contend that strikes would end a lot sooner if the bargaining sessions were open to public scrutiny. Making public the salaries of those paid by the public purse makes interesting reading and is no doubt great fodder for conversation over coffee or around 'the water cooler. But a lot of extremely important public business is still conducted behind closed doors i inythis province and this country. When it comes to a full and lete public disc e about public business, we can't help but wonder if we still haven't got the priorities straight. that just cohcluded the OPSEU strike. There are some who HAVE WON TH TICKED-OFF CHICKEN THEY PRIVATED E COUP TH AND I'VE LOST MY JoB.. MAD COW [ DON'T GET T... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: N There are men who assault little girls and women who have sex with little boys, and men who believe they have a right to rape women, but we don't use them as an le to cond sepa; te from the Human Rights Act which Flury and Daniels cast under thé sdme umbrella; the two have absolutely no bearing on each other. They only put the two together to use the threat of sexual viol inst children all heterosexuals. Why, then, do Jann Flury and David Daniels (even though he says he does not equate them, and then proceeds to) feel it is necessary to write I and condemn all homosexuals because a few depraved individuals agreg with the illegal practice of pedophilia? Is their logic so shaky that they can only fall back on this Teposterous chestnut? 4 ! Both of themytrot out the party line that allowing homosexuals protection under the Human Rights Act by definition of sexual orientation would then mean . rights for those who prefer pedophilia, coprophilia and beastiality (most of whom are heterosexpal rather than gay, and often married with families). What nonsense! column, homosexual sex is legal; pedophilia is not. The religious right's fearmongering aside, even the most liberal human rights agenda 'would not recognize criminals | specialized group based on the nature. of their crimes. We sn no more expect to see pedopiiiles - named as a group under the Human Rights Act as we can car-bombers, or rapists, or bank robbers. What citizens, both héterosexual and homosexual, must uphold is the right for children to grow up without sexual interference from adults -- both straight adults and gay adults. That is completely to sway public opinion against a group of people they despise and feel they have 'the right to" control. Should 'we refuse Muslims sanctuary under the Human Rights Act because a few radicals from their homeland are terrorists? Do we refuse to protect the rights of women because a few misguided ones use false accusations of rape against male co-workers? Do we refuse to uphold the rights of Christians because a few have murdered their families, believing that God ordered them What about tolerance? to do it? . So, why do we tefuse homosexuals the right'to walk' down the street without fear of * gay-bashing, to.apply for jobs "witho fear of being turned awhy BY homophobic employers, because a few deprav, individuals such as NAMBL are vocal about pedophilia? Children 2ve in much greater danger of sexual assault from their parents, uncles and aunts, or family friends, and yét few identify that as a problem; it's + much easier to blame faceless strangers, especially if they're "different". Ms.Flury, Mr. ' Daniels, didn't your own savior stand up6n the mountain and try to teach you tolerance? * Sincerely, Y Ji] MeIntosh R.R.1, Oshawa Ne Women's wages To the Editor: ? The Canada Human Rights As Daniels points out in hig, Commission needs tb get its facts In its recent &nnual report, the Commission noted that the average wage of women is 70 per and blames this r statistics, which the A recent StatsCan report dhiws that never married, university educated women earn, on average, 95% of what men with the same attributes earn. As well, women under the age of 24 working full time earn 91 per cent as much as men of the same age. Other figures show that for certain age classes, never married - . ¢ difference; . ggatus. The voluntary institution. women actually earn more than comparable men do. v 's the wage discrimination, } a women in these instances?" Clearly the difference in earnings between men and women is caused b; factors other than discrimination on the basis of sex. + The. major cause of ' the in fact, is maritq} of marriage terids to increase the earnings of men and Sopesses those of women. The Human Rights Commision ; may not like it but this difference _ in earnings will persist as log as the traditional family exists, Sincerely, RAE David Somerville, President Natiopial Siteon 's Coalition Toronf L] iy