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debacle
drags on

By Ian Noble

News Reporter
ian@nsnews.com

LOCAL Liberals
backed the decisi

to strip colleague
Jeremy Dalton of his
labor critic post after
the fiery West
Vancouver-Capilano
MLA penned a note
to bureaucrats on
behalf of relatives in
the ranch business.

But fellow Liberal MPs Ted
Nebbeling and Katherine
Whittred said the episode has
been dragged on long enough.

Said = West = Vancouver-
Garibaldi MLA Nebbeling: “It’s
quite a slap in the face ... bur
once the correction has been
done we should be able to move
forward.”

Dalton told the News he
accepted the loss of his labor
critic position at the hands of

See MLA page 3

Rights

By Andre Ramshaw

Contributing Writer

ONE man’s Hemingway is another
man’s Hitler.

Literature or hate speech — it all depends on the
reader.

That was the essence ofa debate Wednesday at the
North Shore News human rights hearing in
Vancouv

News lawyer 1
olent or unthinking”
prose far differently from one who is not.

He made the comments during, final statements to
the tribunal hearing, a complaint azainst the News and
columnist Doug Collins over his 1994 piece, Hollywood

id Sutherland sugpested a “matey

reader will interpret a piece of

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This Week p23

Red tape binds beer deal

Jeannie Whitelaw have licked red tape to bring beer from Zimbabwe to the North Shore. See story page 3.

News’ case presented at
tribunal hearing into CJC
human rights complaint

propaganda.
The Cana

complaint, all

hatred or contempt based on the

asection of the provincial Human Rights “ode.
Sutherland said the column does not strike him as

hatefil but “almost anything could set off a powder keg”

in a reader who is predisposed to a certain mes:
Ultimately, he said, his personal view that the :

an Jewish Congress which brought the

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DEFENCE FUND

‘s not breach the code is irrelevant because chairman
itya Iyer — sitting as a one-woman tribunal — is the
ion counts. No weight should be given
to the interpretations of experts.
Sutherland added that the incidence of overt ra
» have dropped steadily since the “dark” days of hi
axes, and that there is no pressing need for the govern-
ment to interfere with the press.
Roger McConchie, lawyer tor the B.C. Press Council
and an intervenor on behalf ick: “We' re

153-page written submission, the press council
says the emotional nature of Collins’ writings should not

See Ruling page3

NEWS photo Cinds Goodman

NEWS lawyer
David Sutherland
... Closing state-
tents.