Kerry Starchuk: Ethnic Chinese

Richmond Dept: Despite Richmond officials acknowledging that many residents are upset by the large Chinese-only signs being erected in the city, Kerry Starchuk has been consistently stonewalled in her campaign, which consists of letters to the editor and buttonholing politicians, according to Vancouver Sun. Forty-five per cent of the residents of Richmond are ethnic Chinese, the highest rate in the country. The city has hundreds of outdoor signs promoting restaurants, retailers and ser-vices that are either only in Chinese characters, or which dwarf an accompanying English sign and a Richmond woman has been get-ting the bureaucratic brush-off in her efforts to restrict the pre-dominance of Chinese-language signs in her hometown. But there are many reasons to sup-port Starchuk's mission to have the 200,000-resident suburb bring in bylaws that favour English-language signs over foreign-language ones. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.