On June 20, 2002 the Metro-Today free newspaper had a small article entitled: "Apartheid victims sue Citigroup, banks." It was referring to a suit filed on June 19, 2002 against the Citigroup, UBS AG and Credit Suisse, alleging the banking companies helped finance the violent South African apartheid regime and its crimes against humanity. Apparently the four apartheid victims had filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, seeking class- action status on behalf of other victims of human rights violations.

US Magistrate Judge James Francis of the Manhattan federal court on July 1, 2002 recommended that Zimbabwe's ruling party, pay 73 million in damages for using violence against political opponents before the country's June 2000 parliamentary elections. That $53 million be paid be by the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front in punitive damages and $20 million in compensatory damages. The plaintiffs are citizens of Zimbabwe filed the suit in the US under a federal law that permits foreign nationals to file suit in the United States for injuries suffered in violation of International Law.

South African apartheid was made legal by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government of the Republic of South Africa in 1961, and it was not rescinded till 1993. Its victims have not forgotten the suffering it brought to the Black African and Colored citizens of South Africa, and thus are now seeking compensation. In suing the Citigroup, UBS AG and Credit Suisse, the litigants have not gone far enough. They have not sued US owned companies operating in South Africa, which during the days of apartheid also willingly or unwillingly followed the policies of the South African Afrikaner (Boer) dominated government, by instituting racial discrimination in the workplace. A complete list should now be made of those US companies which promoted apartheid during that period. This should be done with a view to seeking restitution from them, because they knowingly violated the very essence and spirit of the United Nations Human Rights Charter of December 10, 1948, which was signed by the US in the presence of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt herself. Of course there is also the fact that the litigants also seek class-action status on behalf of other victims of human rights violations.

Now we come to the issue of state-sponsored linguistic and racial harassment by the racist Canadien¹ government of Quebec. Just when did this policy of Canadien¹ apartheid rear its ugly head? It began at a meeting held on November 22, 1963, at the home of Gerard Pelletier in Westmount, Quebec. In attendance at that meeting were one Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Jean Marchand, Rene Levesque, Jean-Luc Pepin and Gerard Pelletier. Its main theme was to draw up plans for the removal of the English-language and drive out English-speaking Canadians from Quebec. But of course this could only be done after Pierre Elliott Trudeau achieved his goal of becoming Prime Minister of Canada, which he did in April 1968. On June 9, 1969, Trudeau put forth his main plan, by going the route of declaring Canada officially bilingual. It was a forerunner of things to come, and at that time it seemed a harmless act. But the devilish Trudeau had something very sinister in mind. He had figured that by making Canada officially bilingual, he could now permit the removal of English as an official language in Quebec, and the English-speaking population by promoting Quebec premier Robert Bourassa's Bill 22, which placed restrictions on the use of the English language in Quebec. At a Liberal Party meeting at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal in February 1974, he not only praised the removal of the English-language in Quebec, but went on to point out that it was now legal to do so. It has been reported that Jean Chretien at a dinner on July 26, 1974 told Conrad Black and other English-speaking Canadians present that they should leave Quebec. If this is not racism, what is? No one should ever overlook the fact that plans for removing the English-language in Quebec was hatched by Trudeau himself on November 22, 1963.

According to Article 2 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights:

"Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status"

There are some misguided individuals in the City of Toronto, Ontario, who want to put up monuments honoring Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who they say made Toronto a multicultural city. Did these misguided individuals give any thought to why Trudeau did not want to make Montreal a multicultural city? Because he Trudeau did not believe that any city in his native Quebec, should be allowed any other form of heritage but Canadien. He Trudeau therefore opined that it was quite all right for any city in English-speaking Canada to be made multicultural and bilingual but not so in Quebec. Again, this revealed Trudeau's double standards at work. On the other hand their decision may be influenced by the fact that Trudeau was a Roman Catholic.

Now we come to Trudeau's ploy with regard to bilingualism. Its main aim being was to create jobs for Joualophones (Joual being the French patois language spoken in Canada by Canadiens¹) throughout English-speaking Canada. Since Quebec's Bill 22, was Trudeau's idea, he would not very well challenge it, by invoking Section 20 (the overriding motion) in the British North America Act of 1867. But he still went on to demand that the English-speaking province of Manitoba print all its laws in the Joual language. What Pierre Elliott Trudeau was really pushing for, was the racial and linguistic superiority of his Canadien¹ race of that there was never any doubt. So in effect the laws passed by Quebec provincial governments since June 1974, all violated the United Nations Civil and Human Rights Charter of 1948. The United Nations Human Rights Center in Geneva, Switzerland after hearing the case involving four parties that had complained about Quebec's Civil and Human Rights violations, issued a report condemning Canada for these violations in April 1993. The Canadian government refused to comply with the UN request, and even promoted the Quebec government minister who said, we don't give a damn about what the United Nations says, by making her a member of the Canadien Senate. The Canadian Justice Minister one Kim Campbell, even wrote a letter to the United Nations, in which she alluded to the complainants as being a bit crazy. When in fact it was the Canadian Justice Minister who herself lacked credibility, and could have been the crazy party herself.

A lot of US companies located in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada discriminate by following rules laid down by the Canadien¹ controlled federal government in Ottawa, Ontario. It is the duty of the US government to inform US companies that they should comply with the United Nations Civil and Human rights Charter of 1948, rather than be forced to obey Canadien1 apartheid laws, which are an affront to human dignity.

Rather than allowing Canadien1 apartheid to continue, moves should be made to take US companies to court for caving-in to pressure, by permitting linguistic and racial discrimination on their premises. It will be also necessary to harness the support and co-operation of groups such as the NAACP, if at all there is going to be hope for success in the area of civil and human rights. But there must also be action taken against the Canadien¹ Roman Catholic Church which is the backbone of Canadien¹ apartheid, being that a good 90-95 of Canadiens¹ are Roman Catholics, and make up a good 24 % of the population of Canada.

The Canadiens¹ are the descendants of the Habitants, who were a Metis people inhabiting New France (Canada) at the time of France's empire in North America. They were never accorded equal treatment by the French Regime in New France, because they were a mixed race of some 24 nationalities as the book "The Traitor and the Jew" written by Quebecoise author Esther Delisle points out. Wanting to feel WHITE since 1763, they have denied the American Indian-blood which flows in their veins, rather than being proud of it, like Sir Winston Churchill was, of his Iroquois (American Indian) blood through his mother Jenny Jerome of New York, USA. Or for that matter the American Indian features of Pierre Elliott Trudeau which reveal his true identity. But they have out of sheer inferiority complex laid claim and used the term of French-Canadiens, something to which they are not entitled. If two hinnies/mules cannot give birth to a horse, then neither can a Canadien¹ and a Canadienne¹ give birth to a French-Canadien¹, because that would be quite impossible. There is a big difference between looking White and being White. Even the culture claimed by the Quebecois could well be made in Taiwan. Besides that, Quebec's only real culture is yogurt, because it has such a large dairy industry.

Any one who is not a Canadien¹ (Quebecois) in Quebec is fair game for the police, the language police or the government. The Office de la Langue Joual have harassed and threatened with prosecution two immigrants, one a Bangladeshi named Rahman Saifur Pervez Khan owner of a convenience store, and the other a Greek named Pieros Karidogiannis the owner of a dry-cleaning shop. The reason being that they are not a Canadien¹ and make mistakes when speaking in the Joual language of Quebec. When Diane Lemieux a Canadienne¹, minister of Quebec's Gestapo or language police was asked to give answers justifying her actions in the Quebec Parliament she refused and spoke about everything else but the question that was being asked of her until question period was over.

One cannot even go with a complaint regarding racism to the Quebec Human Rights Commission in Montreal, Quebec, because they will not tolerate complaints made against Canadiens¹. I once went to them in 1987, and was told in no uncertain terms by a man named Lafontaine that I was not allowed to make reports of racism against any Quebecois (Canadien).¹ I was told that if I came back again to do so, they would slap a heavy fine on me as a sort of deterrent.

All that is written here I have lived through, and believe you me, nothing can replace experience.

Kenneth T. Tellis
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

¹ Metis or Metisse, (Quebecois or Quebecoise) in Canada