{"id":1044,"date":"2015-12-02T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T04:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2015-12-02T23:52:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T04:52:16","slug":"b-c-man-takes-icbc-to-human-rights-tribunal-for-nixing-white-pride-vanity-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"B.C. Man Takes ICBC To Human Rights Tribunal for Nixing “White Pride” Vanity Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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B.C. Man Takes ICBC To Human Rights Tribunal for Nixing “White Pride” Vanity Plate<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The waiting time is usually a month. When, after three months, he’d had no reply. he phoned them. “Oh, it’s been returned to us [from the Ministry of Highways]. That slogan,” he was informed, “may be considered not in good taste.”<\/div>\n
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Being a persistent\u00a0chap, Willie didn’t give up. “I e-mailed the director of the department.”<\/div>\n
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When he replied, he reported that he’s Googled the term “White Pride” “and I found it on ‘White Supremacist’ sites. It is the department policy that ‘no slogan may be offensive.”<\/div>\n
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Willie took his case to the manager of customer relations and the fairness commissioner at ICBC. He got nowhere.<\/div>\n
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“I’m a white guy and proud of who I am but I am just not allowed to express myself.” he is convinced that “Black Pride”, “Gay Pride” or “Indian Pride” slogans would face no problems.<\/div>\n
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On November 10, he filed a complaint against ICBC with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal charging them with discrimination on the basis of race, colour and place of national origin.<\/div>\n

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