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THREE TEENAGERS ac-
cused of brutal robberies at
‘Waterfront Park in January
were sentenced to nine months
in youth jail on Monday.

By Anna Marie D "Angelo
{AEE MOLY A A ES}

News Reporter

The three Korean-born youths,
ages 15, 16 and 17 at the time of
the crimes, cannot be named as
stipulated in the Young Offenders
Act.

-They were charged with the
Jan. .11 knife-point robberies of
North Vancouver residents James
Mitchell, 37, his mother Thelma
Mitchell, 65,° .and Thomas
Scheinpflug, 35. ~-

-All three victims were bruised,
sore and had experienced cuts as 4
result of the rotberies.. Thelma
Mitchell required five stitches ¢o
her.eloow and had a front. tootn

chipped : during the incident. She -
\ said she is fearful to bein her own

“s Said-Nort Vancouver proviii- ;

ge Bill Rodgers,

ger:
2 tzid See ctately went on to
ach Schieinpflug ‘and rob hitn

$ ‘wallet at knife-point as well.

Rodgers noted that:

robbers threatened the ‘vic-
bout ‘Teprisals, . saying they
re the victims lived,

the stiacks were brutal and vio- o

The total robbery take was $190

: and two wallets.

. With a Korean interpreter jean- :

“ing into the prisoner's box, the
‘three teenagers stood with their
hands clasped ir in front of them and

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their heads bowed throughout the
court proceedings.

Defense lawyer Kevin Gillett
represented the 16-year-old boy
who did al] the talking during the
robbery, held the knife, and has
been in Canada for the longest
period of time.

Said Gillett about his client,
“Ft’s not as if this is a lost cause.”

Two of the teens live in
Vancouver. One came to Canada in
1992, Another came to Canada in
February 1995 on a student visa.

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The third teen lives in North
Vancouver with his mother and sis-
ter as landed immigrants after
coming to Canada in May 1995.

Gillett echoed the other defense
lawyers who spoke at earlier court
proceedings concerning a mysteri-
ous Korean gang recruiter called
“Sang.”

The defense lawyers claimed
Korean culture influenced the way
the boys respected the gang
recruiter. Gillett said his client
knew Sang Yoon for three years.

Said Rodgers during sentenc-
ing, “I cannot accept that Korean
culture honors and venerates 20-
year-old gang members.”

Rodgers said that poverty or
substance abuse had nothing to do
with the teens’ action.

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“GUN CONTROL SECRETS??

Tie Gun Control Bilt, C-68,°
Sponeorsd by the: Minister of
Juatica, Hon, Allan Rock, was
probably the moat. controversial
pleca of legistation t pazs through

i the Hesse of Commons last year.

Polla taken In rurcel. communitios

“2 meanaured up to 85% oppeaition to
|. the BIH, white polls token tn urban

ridings like North. . Yancouvor
showed clone to 65% In favour. A
tracert deveiopmsnt, though,
appears to have re-opened the
ontire debate, and raises the
question: “Has Mr. Fiock been
hiding some important facts that
contradict hig arguments in favour
of Bill C-887"

THE SECRET REPORT

in early December of 1995, Garry
Broitkrauz, MP for Yorkton-Maitville,
raceived information that a consulting

contract related to Bill C-68 had been

awarded to a Winnipeg company
eleven months gartier by Mr. Rock’s
department. The company, Prairie
Research, was told to evaluate the
impact of the 1977 and 1991
legislation pertaining to firearm
incidents, and to “establish if gun
controf has made Canada a
safer soctety™. Inside sources told

_Mr. Breitkreuz that the Justice

Department did not make the results
public’ because they ware not
supportive of the Liberal Gov-
ernment's position on gun coniral.
On Oacermber 4, 1985, Garry
asked the Library of Parliament to
obtain copies of all reports issued by
the contractor. He also requested
confirmation that work on the contract
was suspended in July 1995 because
thera was no evidence that gun
controls were successful in reducing
violent crime or impraving public
safety. It took until January 15, 1996
for the Department of Justice to
respond, but the content of tha letter
tecelved from Anne Brennan, the
Justice Department Coordinator of
the Access to information and Privacy
Office, was far from satisfactory.

AN MP DENIED ACCESS

Ms. Brennan stated in her letter
that the releasable documents
relevant to Garry's request amounted
to 9 pages, but that all other
information was exempted from
telease under Section 22 (testing
-procedures) of the Act, because they
would “prejudice” the results of the
evaluation. She provided, as required
by law, the following list of pages she

had considered for release:
0001-1826 Exempt, S.22
(1826 pages daniod)
Released 8 pages
Exempt, $.22
{85 pages denied)
1811 - Released - t page
1912-2010 Exempt, S.22

(99 pages denied)

its important to note that it cost

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4835-1910

- $58,765 for this report, but when a

Mamber of Partiament, a
fepresentative of the taxpayers of
Canada, asked for a copy of the
repon, he was given just nine
pages out of a total of two
thousand end ten pages. Those
ning pages detaited the terms of the
contrect and the ariicles of
agreament.

Garry has already filed a formal
complaint with the Information
Commissioner, Mr. John Grace, but it
could be some time before the
Commissioner makes a ruling.

WHOSE REPORT IS IT

ANYWAY?

As an MP, | find it extremely

disturbing that my access to an

important report on a controversial
Bill before Parliament can be blocked,

both belore and after the passage of -|

the Bill. The report was paid for with
your tax dollars, it batongs to you, and
at the very least it should be made
available to your MP. | hope you
agree, and that you will write to the
Prime Minister, and the Minister of
Justice, Allan Rock, damanding that
the report be released in its entirety
so that we can read the conclusions
for ourselves.

it the report is supportive of Mr.
Rock's Gun Control Bill, then he, and
supporters of the Bill, should be more
than happy to see the Information

made public. Ifit is a condemnation of |

his Bill, those same supporters
should be permitted to study the
information and detérnine whether
Mr. Rock misied them into thinking the
Bill had merit. Either way, it is
important to fight for treadom of
access to the information your
Government gathers using your
money. Please join with me in
protesting the refusal to release the
$58,765 report on gun contro!
prepared by Prairie Research of
Winnipeg.

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