A4 - Wednesday, June 29, 1983 - North Shore News

VICTORIA - Opposition
critics opened fire on the
Social Credit government
._Monday after premier
William Bennett ap-
pointed a close confidant
to a key public post in his
hometown.

New Democratic party
leader David Barrett said
the naming of Tony Tozer
as government agent in
Kelowna had made “a
travesty of the civil ser-
vice”.

“This is a direct ap-
pointmeent, with political
inference, into a non-

VICTORIA - British Col-
umbia will adopt ground-
breaking legislation
within a month requiring
alcohol blood tests for
people involved in traffic
accidents, provincial
Attorney General Brian
Smith said Monday.

Smith said he expected
a constitutional challenge
to the blood testing
legislation. “There's no
question that there will be
attacks on that under the

Oo T T A W A
Conservative leader
Brian Mulroney is uhkely
to learn this month when
a federal by-election will
be called in Nova Scotia
to enable him to run for
Parhament for the first
time.

Prime Mimster Pierre
Trudeau reaffirmed his
promise Monday to call a
by-clection “reasonably
soon”, but flatly refused
to set a date before

WASHINGTON — The
FBT ois investigating
Southam News reporter
Donald Sellar for disclos
ing an agreement to per
mit cruise missile testing
in Canada the FBI and
LS offiesals said Moo
day

Phe five year umbrella
agreement that opens the
door to testing of cruise
missiles and a wide range
of other

advanced
weapons mn a
uninhabited tract of
Alberta waa signed feb
101n Washington It trig
gered protests by Cana
dian ant nuclear proups
Sellar. the Washington

largely

‘Barrett
appointment

political civil service that
must abide by the normal
hiring process of panels
and selections,” Barrett
Said.

“There are people who
have spent 30 years of
their life waiting for jobs
like this and they are not
relatives of the premier.”

Tozer is a long-time
family friend of Bennett
and the brother-in-law of
the premier’s sister.
Before acquiring the
$43,116 job as govern-
ment agent, he ran the
premier’s Kelowna office.

B.C. blood tests
‘ground-breaking’

Charter of Rights,” he
said.

“Despite those road-
blocks, we have legal ad-
vice that we're on solid
ground and we'll be going
ahead,” Smith said.

“We will be in the
forefront in Canada with
that kind of legislation,”
Smith told the legislature
in response to an opposi-
tion question and a
demonstration by a lobby
group called Mothers
Against Drunk Drivers.

By-election blues
for Brian

Parliament adjourns for
the summer June 30.
Trudeau told the House
of Commons he would
consult the Cabinet
within two weeks on a
date to fill the vacancy in
the riding of Central
Nova. The riding was
vacated when Con-
servative MP Elmer
Mackay resigned carher
this month, clearing the
way for Mulroncy to seck
ascatin Parliamcnt.

FBI investigates
Southam reporter

bureau chicf of Southam
News, Canada's biggest
newspaper chain, disclos
cd in a story March 10,
1982, the two countries
were ncpotialing the sen
sitive agreement The ar
ticle angercd Canadian
authonties but US and
Canadian offictals said
Ottawa did not request an
Investigation

On June 8S the TBI
summoncd Sellar torts
office bias
dele rferpaatacrn
by two apents has led to
comcern by the Canadian

Washington
SO manute

bumbassy tbat we oomay
have been singled out un
faurly because he ts not a
US citizen

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cil.

“This kind of housing is
needed in the municipality
and this is a suitable area for
it,” she said.

Strong opposition came
from Alderman Joan Gadsby
who had attended the June
14 public meeting. She noted
that 42 out of the 45 people
who spoke at it had been
against the plan.

She said, that, in her
mind, there were six reasons
why she was not gomg to
support the scheme.

She claimed residents
were against a possible in-
crease in traffic. It would
mean a change in character
of the neighbourhood; it was
not appropriate to locate
high-density housing near
the backend of a shopping
area; there was no desire for
a multi-family development:
the detrimental effect on
real estate values and
removal of a green-belt area.

“The existing
neighbourhoods need to be
heard and | heard them loud
and clear,” she remarked.

Alderman John Lakes said
there was another point
which came up at the public
meeting — that the develop-
ment would be out of scale
with the rest of the area.

“It would be totally incon-
sistent to ignore that scale,”
he commented.

Mayor Manilyn Baker said
the site was presently zoned
for nine single family RS4

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lots and the proposal could
have a maximum of 55 units
on it.

She said she saw Norgate
as a community prepared
to protect itself from traffic
and commercial and = in-
dustrial encroachment.

“I believe it's a community
that needs to be protected,”
she remarked.

Mayor Baker said she
would like to see council
decide the future of the site
in consultation with the
Norgate Ratepayers Associa-
tion.

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