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Bob Mackin
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WHAT was billed as
G0 Minutes of Joy
was over in less than
an hour.

Bur no one the News spoke
with felt shortchanged by
finance minister Jov
MacPhail’s private Wednesday
night engagement with North
Shore NDP) members at the
Capilano branch of North
Vancouver Library.

The event, which was
planned betore police searched
Premier Glen Clark’s cast
Vancouver house on March 2.
«was closed to the media.

Dennis McGann, president,
of the West Vancouver
Capilano NDP assectation,
said the session was part of an
ongoing series of educational
acetings for party members
and friends to discuss: provin-
cial issues.

The meeting was not called
in reaction to a controversial
government decision to give a
casino licence to a close friend
of Clark’s. McGann said) he

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D rejects referenda

Martin Millerchip

News Reporter
martin@nsnews.cam

AN angry group of approximately 35 direct
democracy supporters left North Vancouver
District hall Monday yelling insults at coun-
cil.

“Your cheques are in the mail,” shouted one. “See vou in

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Council votes to deny its citizens
their say on direct democracy

November,” velled another, reterring to the municipal election.

A split 4-3 vote had just seen council ignore the recommends
tion of its own Gisk force and direet staff not to proceed with an
form of a direct democracy bylaw,

North Vancouver Reform Party MP "Ted White was more polite
than those doing the shouting but delivered the same message to

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“They hijacked the agenda. T guess there will be some account-
ability at election time,” said White.

Suggested by Coun. Ernie Crist, a “citizen's task force” to
investigate the possible implementation | of direct democracy was
unanimously endorsed by council Nov. 3, 1997,

‘Task force members were generally involved in local polities
and included White, Coun. Pat Munroe, former council candidate
Ene Andersen, community association representative Corrie Kost,

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