藤儿点评：毛姓主席(Ed Mao)这下真的把加拿大的City of Richmond惹毛了。原本City of Richmond不想迎合那些仇恨中文标牌的加国白人，睁只眼闭只眼... City of Richmond现在开始态度强硬起来了！ 还有加国会议员和BC省议员站出来力挺立法要求公寓业主委员会禁止使用加拿大非官方语言。 ----------------------------------------- 来源：加西网 2016-02-11 列市府拟新规 公交站广告须用英文 
(加西网综合)被华人称为“解放区”的列治文，是很多华人移民大温地区后首选的居住区，优势当然是吃住及生活非常方便，沿街广告都是中文，和在中国生活似乎没什么太大差别。不过，近年来，由于中文太多也引发了不少讨论，从沿街商店没有英文的中文商业招牌，到前不久的一栋住宅业主开会全说中文，引爆了西人业主的投诉。现在列治文市府计划修改法例，规定公交候车站的广告招牌必须以英文为主。
由于市府与派特森户外广告（Pattison Outdoor）公司的5年合约已经于去年底届满，双方现时正在谈论新的合约，市政府希望加入新条款，规定广告招牌必需至少50%用英文书写。
市政府发言人Ted Townsend 确认这一消息，表示市府已经于去年底提出这一语言要求的提案。 他说，市府正在审查建议，并希望将建议书提交给列治文市议会。
此类引发争议的城市商业广告，类似包括中文的广告招牌。
他指，全部用中文的广告招牌引起争议，故此市政府计划作出修改,使用所有人都明白和支持的广告招牌，以便维持列市的包容性的社区形象.
他指，市府只能对公交站的广告进行规定使用英文，市政府不会规范就私人物业的商业招牌提出要求。
Townsend说，这样规定公交候车站的可行性较大，因为不会违反加拿大人权及宪法，因为公交车站属于城市土地。
他解释指，派特森公司通过和市府签订合约来放置广告，因而市府可出台相关规定，而商业广告则属于私人财产，要规范私人物业的难度非常大。
列治文公交候车站的广告招牌推介各式各样的产品，包括地产经纪,信用咭以至个人卫生用品等，最近一个啤酒广告招牌全部使用中文，引起市民极大的争议。
上个月，列市市民 Chak Au投诉派特森公司允许太多的中文广告出现在公交候车亭。虽然派特森撤走了市府前的公交车站的广告，但城内还有不少公交车站仍然有类似的中文广告。
列市大约有48处派特森所属的广告，市府从中每年收入为$60,000 。
（图片：Graeme Wood/Richmond News ） ------------------------------------- 来源：Richmond News 2016-02-05 Strata fight gains support from local MLA and MP MP Joe Peschisolido and MLA Linda Reid think strata councils should conduct business in English 
Andreas Kargut is leading a class-action Human Rights Tribunal claim against his strata council, which he claims has discriminated against non-Mandarin speaking homeowners. Dec. 2015.
Wellington Court strata owners who feel discriminated against based on their language and race now have two political heavyweights backing them up. Andreas Kargut, who filed a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal complaint against his Chinese-only strata council in December, told the Richmond News MP Joe Peschisolido and MLA Linda Reid stand behind his contention that strata council meetings should be conducted in English. Reid told the Richmond News on Wednesday she will be advocating for language requirements in the B.C. Strata Property Act — although as Speaker of the House, she cannot table a motion in the Legislature herself. “As speaker I’m not in a position to do that. I’m certainly going to have conversations, and I have had conversations, in terms of what that might look like,” said Reid. Late last year, Kargut’s strata council decided to conduct council meetings in Mandarin, after a controversial ousting of non-Mandarin speaking council members. Kargut claimed the new council was upset the old council spent too much money on repairs. Reid said the next meeting, on Feb. 23, should be in English. “Absolutely. It should be in one of Canada’s official languages. That’s his (Kargut) direction, and I certainly can support him in that,” said Reid. Kargut said he was surprised by the outright support Reid showed. “I wasn’t expecting that. I was expecting your typical politician who wants to keep everybody happy,” said Kargut. “She said she was very glad to meet me and told me this wasn’t a matter of ‘if’ this was going to happen in Richmond, but a matter of ‘when.’” Reid said she has discussed the issue with the property manager, hoping to resolve the problem in the meantime. She said the manager assured her the next meeting would be in English. “Time will tell,” said Reid. “I think everyone can have every expectation that, if you are an owner of a strata unit, you should be able to follow the proceedings in English,” said Reid. She was asked if there is a difference between the Chinese-only business sign debate and this set of circumstances. “I don’t actually think it’s different. When you come to Canada, the language we conduct business in is English. The other is French. So we have the expectation that we want more people to be able to communicate more effectively. I don’t think it matters if it’s a restaurant, a business or a strata council,” said Reid. Kargut also met with MP Joe Peschisolido, who said he couldn’t comment on provincial laws. “That’s up to the provincial politicians, Linda (Reid), John (Yap), Teresa (Wat), and the premier, to deal with. But I think it is important to have a language that unites everybody and, in Richmond, it’s English,” said Peschisolido. Kargut expects a decision by the tribunal to hear his case in March. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 来源：网路 2-16-02-23 卑詩省華業主投訴物管會只講普通話 
Wellington Court物管會開會時只用普通話，引發業主不滿。（視頻截圖 卑詩省列治文市公寓樓Wellington Court的物業管理委員會（物管會），因為成員皆講普通話，而且70%大樓業主講普通話，為了圖省事，除了文件仍用英語，物管會開會時就索性只用普通話。去年底，一名不講普通話的業主卡格特（Andreas Kargut）要求旁聽物管會的會議，但物管會的會議卻仍然只用普通話。卡格特感到受歧視，遂聯絡了其他不講普通話的業主，將物管會告上了卑詩省人權法庭。
據Global News報導，2月17日，卑詩省人權法庭給物管會的母公司AA Property Management Ltd（APM）發了信。APM稱，人權法庭尚未確認投訴，因此物管會還有機會在人權法庭聽證會之前通過協商調解此事，或在3月23日赴庭對證。若物管會選擇後者，那麼它還可在70天內提出申請取消該案。
卡格特對此結果感到鼓舞。他說，他們的目的是要維護官方語言，若任由物管會我行我素，5年後英語就會被踢出大門。
譚先生（Alex Tan）是物管會中最後一名不講普通話的成員，他聲稱當其他成員意識到開會時他還需要一個翻譯，最終設法將他排擠出去。譚先生說，他們會上都講普通話，然後由經理翻譯給他聽，他們互相之間發電郵，就是沒發給他。
物管會幾名前成員也聲稱，他們被有系統地通過選舉排擠出了物管會，而後他們被告知會議將不再用英語。
該物管會的下一次會議就定在今天（23日），儘管有媒體和政治人物稱，會議可能以英語進行，或由APM翻譯，但一些業主稱，沒有人與他們直接溝通過，特別是要參加會議的業主。
卡格特認為，即使請來翻譯，也只是權宜之計，只會掩蓋問題。他現在至少獲得了語言協會（ MLA）和一名國會議員的支持。他說，不管目前結果會怎樣，他都要抗爭到物管會開會用英語。他們尚未定要多少賠償，但表示至少要讓物管會清醒過來。
列治文市共管業主協會的執行董事基凡圖（Tony Gioventu）表示，像這樣的例子很少見，過去5年中也就3、4例，通常都是請個翻譯很快就解決了。 |
