other band OLD snake eyes watch- es with amusement and bemusement the antics in The House of Lies in Victoria. Was there ever such a bunch of “wretches? Compared with them, burglars are experts in ethics. We're talking about the way they plan to steal $400 million from the Forest Renewal B.C. (FRBC) fund; and the whoppers they were handing out during the elec- tion on the happy state of provincial finances. - . According to'a Globe & Mail story the FRBC . “offered” the money to the government. Sure. In the same way that banks offer 1eir money to holdup men. ! This exercise in semantics “has been well reported. But it ears repeating that the NDP wore, hand on heart and may God strike them dead, , that they would never, never, ever touch that money for ny purpose but forest renew- “The quotes dug up by. Vancouver Sun reporters Jim Beatty and Gordon Hamilton “should be enough to curdle your cream, "2 . “There won’t be a politi- cian next week, next month, “next-year or 20 years from snow who'will dare to put their hands into that pocket Of money.” © Thus Dan .. Wedriesday-Saturday i . oriside Reem -Jocated within the "Seven Seas Restaurant | Sept.-27 Knutson ‘ Greenhouse Effect “ FOOT. OF, LONSOAL Deputy Premier. “This money will be dedi- cated by law to the forest workers and communities. That money can't go some- place else.” Thus Dennis Streifel, now the social services minister. But the bit 1 liked best came from the minister of forests, David Zirnhelt. It contained the immortal words that “government can do anything.” An NDP ‘government caz do anything, of course. And does. It can prove how many angels can dance on the head of a budget pin, ignore a Nanaimo bingo scandal, remove the sceret ballot from union certification votes, talk about restraint after having handed out huge raises to government employees, pass anti-free speech laws that. Mussolini would have licked his lips over, take autonomy away from local hospital boards, and plan to hand the provitice over to the Indians. ‘All while Glen Clark -Smiles every night on un- Candid Camera. Meanwhile, there is no sign of funds being denied to the likes of Alan Dutton and his Canadian Education and Research Society Association (CAERS), . Courtesy of your tax dol- DRAPERIES lars, CAERS chases “racists.” Bur it had been dissolved by the Registrar of Companies for not filing annual returns, which is a “must” for any organization getting money from the provincial govern- ment, That didn’t prevent it from getting over $200,000 in B.C. multiculturalism “According to a. Globe & Mail story the FRBC ‘offered’ the money to the government. Sure. In the same way that banks offer their money to holdup men.” * grants in 1994 and 1995 (and more from the feds) even though it didn’t legally exist. In addition, Dutton. falsely claimed CAERS was incorporated when it acted as trustee for a loony “anti- racist” group that got a grant & BLINDS BY S.LAURSEN 8 SON TF For. Free Estimates call 987-2966 Ask about our spe cial of the month and Seniors discount. Free Installation. Serving the North Share for 25 years OFFERS AND COUNTER OFFERS ‘Many of the offers writen by prospective ratified. (for detalls on the use of M buyers are not exactly whai the seller Subject Chauses, see our next column) wants, The price may be lower than seller is asking, or there may be terms ttiat will require some negotiating. 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Not enough to raise a stink about it in the legislature, anyway. Charlie Smith of the Georgia Straight has been beavering away on the story and has discovered that four other multicult groups have been getting provincial funds even though they too had been dissolved for not filing returns. They included our old friend Aziz Khaki and his Committee for Racial Justice in Vancouver, which got $10,000 for 1995-96 “despite being dissolved on April 28, 1996.” How were those groups spending the money? Who knows? What has been done? Not much, Mary Clare Zak of the multiculturalism and immigration community liai- son branch said they have been told to get their acts straight. They just didn’t CELEBRATING 31 | THis LIMITED TIME OFFER INCLUDES: °| yt know they weren't incorpo- rated! ; She elaimed, too, that the situation was not too bad, seeing that the branch pro- vides funding to over 150 groups of which “only five” claimed to be incorporated when they weren't. 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