10 - Sunday, June 30, 1985 - North Shore News inquiring reporter by Barrett Fisher THE FEDERAL government received a great deal of criticism for planning to not index old age pensions until inflation was higher than three per cent. But Prime Minister Brian Mulroney anneunced Thursday the gov- ernment made a mistake and would index pensions as inflation rises. Today’s question is: Do you agree with pension de-indexing? Micheline Stubblefield North Vancouver That’s a great move. | don’t think they should go after the old people — they have the least money. i’m a volunteer — I can see old people do need help. Toby Snelgrove North Vancouver I think they were absolute fools for what they did initially, and they're less of fools now. Mrs. B. George North Vancouver Old age pensioners need as much money as they can get with the price of living. J} think it’s good. Let’s face it. We're all going to be old one day. Dan Mewhort Toronto It’s a good move, because old age pensioners are pretty hard up, especially in B.C. where the economy is not so good. Kay Dunn North Vancouver I don’t think it’s a good move. I think it should be indexed because it’s the young people who will be paying for it. I don’t think the old people are suffering that much, but maybe that's because we have an adequate fund for ourselves. Trial set for November From Page 1 Watch, the Top Dog, and the Sea Esta—had been moved “and items pilfered from them."' Reliability of that evidence, he said, was therefore very much in question. He emphasized that because charges against Davidson appeared to be grounded in flimsy evidence, “it is vital we get this matter attended to as soon as possi- ble; my client's life is being seriously interfered with because of these charges."* In heated rebuttal to Tevlin’s submission, Clark said he took “great exception to some of the things said by defence counsel.” Clark said he had been more than open with infor- mation in the case, making copies of expert reports available to defence counsel even though he was under no obligation to do so. As to the number of Crown witnesses, Clark told the court he was quite sur- prised that defence counsel was not aware of his inten- tions: *l never left: the im- pression that I would not be bringing in that number of witnesses.” Clark said moving trial date forward to July 25, as requested by Tevlin, would result in important Crown witnesses being unavailable. Clark added that he would be busy with other trials until November, and expressed surprise at defence counsel's sudden decision to make sub- mission to have the case brought forward: ‘‘My friend here agreed to the November dates yesterday. Now he wants to change. Why?"" Tevlin said he did not make opposition to. the November dates the previous day because defence had first to consult with Davidson as to what course of action defence should steer in the face of new Crown strategy. Clark's unavailability to proceed with the trial on September 24, prompted Teviin to remark: ‘‘The at- titude of Crown counsel ap- pears to be that if your case is being tried by a senior Crown counsel, you lose your right to an early trial."' Clark said he realized the delay in trial was a tremen- dous imposition to the accus- ed, but added ‘the public is involved here too. There are innocent witnesses whose plans will have to be changed if trial dates are changed." 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