THE following is a list of recent) North Shore emergency incidents: Brooksbank ren A complaint of theft was received from a deep sea vessel berthed in the Brooksbank area. A female who had been visiting the vessel is alleged to have ‘stolen a quantity of money. FIRE'‘DEPT |e Sept. 23 Number of medical aid calls: 2 Number of false alarms: 1 Number of public service calls: 1 NORTH VAN DIST 4300-blk. Gallant Ave. Commercial /industrial fire. McGuire Ave./West 15th St. Car/truck fire. Sept, 24 Number of medical aid calls: 5 Number of false alarms: 3 Number of public service calls: t 1900-bik. West Ist St. Commercial/industrial fire. t. 25 Number of medical aid calls: 5 1100-bik. Mt. Seymour Rd. Investigation. Sept. 26 Number of medical aid calls: 3 Number of false alarms: 1 Number of retical aid calls: 4 Number of fire calls: 4 Number of other calls: 3 Sept. 25 Number of medical aid calls: 2 Number of fire calls: 7 Number of MVAs: 1 Nuinber of other calls: 1 400-btk. Somerset St. Single-family house fire. Sept. 26 Number of medical aid calls: 4 Number of fire calls: 5 Number of other calls: 1 300-blk. Ridgeway Ave. Single-family house fire. 200-bik. West 14th St. Malfunctioning detector. smoke PSD Jasper searched a vehi- cle and located a small quantity of marijuana. PSD Jasper located a stolen CD player in bushes while tracking a suspect from a theft from vehicle. Sept. 6 St. Georges at Keith Rd. Three-vehicle accident. Vehicle travelling south on St. Georges left stop sign and was ALE N wre RT \ struck by vehicle travelling eash on Keith Rd. Southbound vehicle then struck a vehicle travelling north on St. Georges. No injuries. Charges: failure to yield after stop. Approx. $3,000 damage. Dollarton Hwy. at Front St. Two-vehicle accident. Passing vehicle struck right rear of vehicle it was attempting to pass. No injuries. Charges: uasafe pass on right. Approx. $9,000 damage. Sept. 7 5th St. at Brooksbank. Two-vehicle accident. Vehicle travelling, east on Sth St. left stop sign and collided with vehicle travelling south on Brooksbank. Injuries: bruises. Charges: failure to yield after stop. Approx. $5,000. Seymour Parkway wi. is ith Dollarton Hwy. PARLIAMENTARY ANTICS Ever aince the new session of Parliament began on September 14th, heat- ed exchanges over the Somalia Enquiry have tended to dominate the first fifteen minutes of the dally Question Pariod. However, a number of other Interesting issues have been raised In the secondary | questions, as well as during the debates on legislation currently nefore the Housa. Here is a summary of a few of the main j events of the past week. OPPOSITION DAY Monday, September 30th, was a Reform Opposition Day, so Reform was able to | choose the topic for debate. We decided to talk about B.C. issues, and you probably noticed that we received fairly extensive media f coverage of our efforts in the House. | was lucky enough to get on the speakers list, so | was able to question the accountability of sev- eral Ministars who seern to be the subject of a lot of letters and phone calls to my oftice. These included Heritage Minister Sheila Copps, Transport Minister Cavid Anderson, Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin, Justice Minister Allan Rock, and, of course, the Prime i Minister himself. Ministers are not usually in the House during debates, because they know that the outcome of every vote has already | been decided before the debates begin, but beth Anderson and Irwin happened to be pre- | sent, making it possible to interact directly with two of the subjects of my speech - a rare 1 occurrence indeed. If you would like copies of any of my speeches, just give my office a call. JUSTICE ISSUES On Wednesday we debated Bill C-45, the Government's weak-kneed approach to amending section 745 of the Criminal Code, also known as the “Faint Hope” clause. Thera is massive public pressure to repeal Section 745, but the Minister of Justice wants it to remain, so has simply added a change requir- | ing a unanimous, rather than a two thirds, jury decision for release before a murderer can go free. Tha Government moved closure on this Bill, so there was very little time for debate, but | managed to deliver a ten minute attack on the failure of the Government to adequately deal with justice issues like Section 745, the Young Offenders Act, and criminal refugee I claimants. ' in a surprise move, Liberal MP Peter Milliken voted against the Bill, and his Party's position, but not because he didn’t think the Bill went far enough. He thinks we are getting TOO TOUGH on criminals!!! IMMIGRATION ISSUES On Tuesday, the opportunity presented itself to ask Richmond MP Raymond Chan about “astronaut families” living in his Riding. nsdaie Ave. ?) c ® 3 Lo ws seeder esc ade pwater AAPA sorrel NG RM SIT Qo os advertorial, October 9) Some of these families are reported to be sell- § ing their homes and moving back to Hong § Kong because of new asset reporting provi- [ sions in the 1996 budget. The new rules are | supposed to help Revenue Canada to track § sources of income from Canadian residents who have offshore assets exceeding $100,000, but there are howls of protest com- ing from accountants, financial advisors, and tea! estate salespeople who deal with Asian clients. Chen was not in the mood to discuss: J the matter, but at least he now admits that “astronaut familias” do exisi, something most peoplsa have known for several years. Reform’s immigration: critic, Val Meredith, asked the Immigration Ministar two quesiions: during the weak. She first enquired why. only 104 of 734 immigrant criminals already identi- fied by the Minister have not been deported, Val referred to the case of dangerous offender Dennis Garcia, who claimed refugee status in Canada after escaping fromm a Montana prison, and was released in Vancouver dy an Immigration adjudicator. The Minister's non: answer was “Canada will never be a country which welcomes dangerous criminals. It will, however, continue to be a country which wel- comes refugees in need of ‘protection, Clearly, in this connection, our view is tota!- ly different from that of the Reform Party.” Val's second question was about reports that new guidelines had been issued by the Minister asking immigration officers to bend over backwards to avoid detaining llega’ immi- grants and bogus refugees. The Minlgter gave a very confusing and contradictory reply, “It is not true that we are going to make changes in the Immigration Department's detention policy ,,. the reason this policy ts now under review — a policy that was not adopted by the deputy minister ar the current minister - is to conform to existing jurisprudence. We also respect the rule of law in this country.” | leave it to you to judge whether the rules have changed or not. My contribution to the criminal refugee debate was to introduce a Private Member's Bill on Friday, which, if passed, would allow provincial judges to deport criminal refugee claimants in lteu of sentence. !’m not holding my breath in the hopes that the Minister will support such a move, but miracles do happen occasionally. REMINDER Don't ferget to obtain your free tickets to the public meeting on Quebec separa- 2A AAS TA A SY SSUES Yt WQS STEAD sn nts SSO 9 “CESS tion, October 16th, 7:30 5.m., at the § Centennial Theatre. Trevor Lautens and | Doug Collins will interview Bioc MP, Pierre de Savoye, followed by your questions. Call my office for more information. : _ Ted White, M.P. 4302-1200 Lyon Valley Rd, North Vancouver, B.C. V7} 2A2, Tel.: 666-0585 Fax: 666.0509