inquiring
reporter

OK, OK, we know he’s opted to stay out. But when we
asked the question we didn’t know which way he was
going to jump, only that he had “some surprising find-
ings” and that he would include “a surprise or two
also” in his Tuesday press conference. Cynics may
argue that White's decision to stay out of the parti
mentary pension plan was a slickls

guaranteed to collect maximum voter and media atten-
tion. But it is a fact that White has, since his election
in 1993, made a consistent effort to communicate
what's going on in Ottawa and stay in touch with what

his local electorate thinks. The “householder” he mailed in July to all his con-
stituents asking for feedback on the pensions issue is the fourth time he has used

such a device. Who responded this tim
(the form warned that unidentified responses would be given less weight) and of

White says he used 800 of 1,100 returns

those “close to 80% said 1 should opt back in.” Interesting. Only 14% of our 453

(tabulated) responses said take $4 of our mon

NORTH SHORE DEMOGRAPHICS

Dundarave/Ambleside

Capilano/Delbrook Highlands

Norgate/Pemberton Heights
Lower Lonsdale
Central and Upper Lonsdale

Lynn Valley
Blucridge/Deep Cove

‘for every $1 you contribute.

35%
ALG
25%

13%

506
38%

14% 40% 46%

Suzanne Ristic
North Vancouver
He should stick to his word.

Lorne Westgate

North Vancouver

‘Vhev should pay for it them-
selves just like the working
man has always had to.

Lars Poulsen

Abbotsford

If he puts in the time he
deserves the pension — after
all he may only be there for
four or five vears. Why
should he jose that qualitica-
tion time?

But there should be no dua-
ble dipping into a provincial
plan if they were MLAs first.
And the government, that’s
us, are paving $4 for every
$1 the MPs contribute.
That's too muc

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THE Abbotsford
Police are requesting
the public’s assistance
in locating two dan-
gerous convicts.

Kevin Randall Knight,
35, and = Kevin Fern
Besulicu, 26, were discov-
ered missing from the Sumas
Community — Correctional
Centre in Abbotsford short-
ly after midnight on Aug.
8.

Police saici the men have
significant: substance abus
problems and no means of
financial support, making
them a risk to the communi-
ty.

Knight is Caucasian, 6°
tali, 160 Ibs. with blue eves
and short brown hair.

He is serving a J0-year
sentence for robber
assaulting a police officer,
po ion of an unregis-
tered restiicted weapon,
theft, possession of stolen
property, impaired driving,
and failing to remain at rhe
scene of an accident.

Beaulicu is also
Caucasian, 577 tall, 162 tbs.
with brown eyes and short
black hair.

H erving a lesser sen-
tence ro two counts of
assaulting a police officer,
dangerous driving, break
and enter, mischief, and pos-

ssion of stolen property.

Police warn both

apees have a history of

tolent behavior and are
believed to be “an extremely
high risk to re-offend and a
threat to public .

The twe men, who police
said are associates and are
believed to be travelling
together, were on a staruto-

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