The pressure is enormous on the library board. She's been under siege. Also, the media and the RCMP have been creating the impression there would be 500 to 1,000 protesters. The keynote speaker Friday night was long-time journalist and columnist Doug Collins. On his way into the meeting, the much decorated World War II veteran had scoured the crowd for Moe Sihota.
History belongs to history.
A complaint by the Canadian Jewish Congress landed Collins before a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal last year. Today it's a person who is hated by Jews. The protest against the free speech meeting was organized by Jewish Federation of Victoria and Vancouver Island and by the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union. They are about hate speech. Saturday, the two day conference continued with featured speaker Miss Terry Graham of California.