Wednesday, November 21 , 1990 - North Shore News — 7

_ Sager question no smear campaign

Dear Editor:

Re: West Vancouver Municipal
Election

! am shocked and dismayed at
the content of the Friday, Nov. 16
article in the North Shore News
which, in many respects, is at
odds with the information which |
provided to the news reporter
concerned, Ms. Elizabeth Coll-
ings.

At the West Vancouver All-
Candidates meeting held at St.
David’s Church on Tuesday, Nov.
13, 1 identified myself by name
and asked Mr. Sager about a
lawsuit in the Supreme Court of
British Columbia and the ultimate
Judgment therein, rendered Feb.
24, 1984, wherein the Honorable
Mr. Justice MacKinnon held that
Mr. Sager was “incredibly naive,
irresponsible and negligent”’ in the
representations he made to the
Plaintiff in the case, Mr. Chris
Nielsen.

He was therefore found liable in
damages to pay the said Mr.
Nielsen some $231,000.

Our law firm acted for the said
Mr. Nielsen in his case against
Mr. Sager and my partner, Mr,
Richard Twining, actually was
counsel on the case on behalf of
Mr. Nielsen. It was as a result of
our firm’s involvement with this
case that it came to my attention
on the very date of the aforemen-
tioned All-Candidates meeting.

Your bus:

I determined that | would ask
Mr. Sager about his involvement
in this matter on that date as it
seemed to me that the Judgment
of the Honorable Mr. Justice
MacKinnon spoke volumes about
the character of Mir. Sager who
was, of course, running for mayor
of the Municipality of West Van-
couver.

When I posed the question to
Mr. Sager at the All-Candidates
meeting | prefaced the question by
clearly enunciating the fact that
anyone putting himself forward
for public office is open to
scrutiny, and that that includes his
past record. Mr. Sager, in turn,
prefaced his reply to my question
by agreeing completely that of-
ficials seeking public office are
open to review of their past and
public record such that the elec-
torate can determine the character
of those who would put
themselves forward for office.

In concluding his answer to my
enquiry, Mr. Sager then told a
“*half-truth”” to the assembly at
the Ail-Candidates meeting by ad-
vising that he had ‘won the
case.”*

In fact, Mr. Sager had not
‘*won the case’’ that I was refer-
ring to, and he knew that. In fact,
the Judge in the case ruled that
Mr. Sager was responsible to pay
our client some $231,000 in dam-
ages and that, as quoted above,

Mr. Sager was “incredibly naive.
irresponsible and negligent.”

There is no way tbat the
aforementioned Judgment of the
Honorable Mr. Justice MacKin-
non could he characterized as a
‘win’? for Mr. Sager as he repre-
sented at the AN-Candidates
meeting. Mr. Sager and the North
Shore News now characterize this
completely relevant question
which goes to the character of an
individual offering himself as a
mayoral candidate as ‘“‘A Pure
Smear Campaign.”’

I submit that nothing could be
further from the truth.

Subsequently, when questioned
by Alderman Rod Day, [ advised
Mr. Day that I was supporting
Mr. Macdougall for mayor. | did
not advise Mr. Day that I was
representing Mr. Macdougall in
asking the question nor that I had
been instructed by the latter to ask
any question.

Bryan S. Shapiro
West Vancouver

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