APRIL 7, 1989

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Easter baptism

SUZANNE Salter (centre) is baptized by Pastor Paddy Ducklow (left) with help from Shelley Drew on Sunday at Ambleside in West
Vancouver. Capilano Christian Community with Hillside Baptist Church hosted the Christian baptism of about 20 people at Easter.

Jem Tari

Contributing Writer

REFORM Party immigration critic Leon
. Benoit painted a bleak picture of Canada’s
immigration practices at a recent forum
held in North Vancouver.

Approximately 100 gathered at the North Shore Conte
Centre last Wednesday to atten ian i
tion policies.

Reform MP Leon Benoit ar;
poses real dangers in terms of the increased likelihood of terror-
ism and international drug trafficking.

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Reform critic warns of increased
terrorism and drug trafficking

He ended his speech with an appeal to keep criminal elements
out of Canada in part “to protect the repurations of honest immi-
grants who have already successfully settled here.”

The annual general meeting of the Independent Immigration
Aid Association (ITAA), and the Euro/British Immigration Aid
Association (EBIAA) began in patriotic fashion with the singing
of the national anthem. Benoit was joined by Martin Collacott, a
forme adian ambassador to Syria, Lebanon and Cambodia,
and Mike ‘Taylor, a former Citizenship and Immigration Canada
inspector and author of The Truth About Immigration.

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get more
charges

Anna Marie D‘Angelc

Neus Reporter
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MORE charges have
been laid against three
men accused of a hon
invasion in North
Vancouver on March

28.

William Arthur Paradi, 500 and
ustin Lorenzo Francis, 26, both of
New Westminster, and Leo Joseph
Kothuber, 27, of Burnaby have
been in police custody since their

y were immediately charged
with break and enter.

Late last week, the men were
charged with wearing a disguise
while committing 3) crime and

ulting three people with guns.

The men were also charged with
uolawiully confining and robbing
the three, according to the North
Vancouver RCMP,

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Benoit was in B.C. on an immigration fact-finding tour. He
is a need for a national referendum on inumigration.

federal Citizenship and Immigration

Minister Lucienne Robillard of deliberately suppressing any

Benoit heralded the evening’s meeting as “perhaps the start of
a badly needed nation-wide debate.”
experiences as a diplomat in Africa and

h figures,” he said, “I believe

See Immigration page 4