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Wednesday, March 13, 1996 — North Shore News ~ 3 NEWS photo Cindy Goodman NORTH SHORE students display flags to be auctioned Sunday at the Squamish Naticn Recreation Centre. The event is a fundraiser for the Lifeboat Flotilla, a floating environmental conference for youth, including (left to right) Analise Saely, Fiona Akins, Monica Richardson, Bree Wellwood and Athena Macapagal. Green flotilla feast planned Squamish Nation hosting ‘environmental conference OCEANOGRAPHER JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU is the scheduled keynote speaker on Sunday at. the Squamish Nation Recreation Centre in an event to help launch a floating environmental conference. By Deana Lancaster . Contributing Writer The dinner, hosted by Burrard Chief Leonard George, will also feature an auction of flags painted by B.C. youth and artists such as Robert Bateman, Carol Evans and Amold Shives. "The event will raise money for the Lifeboat Flotilla, an envi- ronmental conference for more than 200 youth from across the province. The flotilla is organized by Leadership Initiative For Earth, a Vancouver-based youth project. On Monday the conference will haul anchor and set sail for Victoria on nine ships. Throughout the five-day trip, the students nvict’ S Deportation a no-brainer, NORTH VANCOUVER MP Ted White applauds the deportation last month of a con- victed home invader and heroin trafficker. By Anna Marie D'Angelo EC News Reporter “They finally realized he was a danger to the . public,” said White on Monday. will join in activities designed to make them more aware of the environment. Carson Graham’s Bree Wellwood and Monica Richardson are two of the students from the North Shore participating in the flotilla. In order to participate they had to complete 25 hours of volunteer work, read a book, and raise part of the money need- ed for the trip. “We do the pop recycling and the paper recycling ‘for the entire school," said Richardson. “On Saturdays we go down- town and do Food Not Bombs, in which we give out free food.” The Grade 12 students have been friends since they were in junior secondary at Balmoral. They started the environmental club when they got to Carson Graham two yeaxs ago. This. won’t be the first environmental conference they've been to, but it will be the first one on a boat. “We're going to meet some really interesting people,” said Wellwood. Life Founder Jeff Gibbs said the inspiration fur the flotilla came from a boat trip during his own youth. “{t really transformed how 7. saw the natural world and emphasized the importance of it for those of us who live in cities.” The launch feast and lecture begin at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available from the Community Box Office at 280-2801. exit ° gS trend White says The appeal panel, represented by Des Verma, Lorenne Clark and Audrey Ho, stated that Le “is a very minimal risk to Canadian society.” They added, “He (Le) is remorseful of what happened, and in light of the evidence before us, we are satisfied that the risk of re-offending is minimal.” Four moaths later, Le was picked up ' for heroin trafficking. Immigration Ceatre enforcement ceais with bans THE GVRD (Greater Vancouver Regional District) water commit- tee picks up on. Friday where it left off a month ago on the prickly issue of unauthorized access to the area’s watersheds. By Michael Becker News Editor The GVRD policy of restricted public access to the North Shore and Coquitlam watersheds was tested last year with record numbers of “unauthorized access inci- dents” into the Capilano, . Seymour and Coquitlam watersheds. : Capilano saw close to 260 . such incursions. Seymour posted just over 70, while the Coquitlam watershed - saw more than 150 people appre: - hended in the watershed by. security guards. A report on the security issue was brought before the . water conunittee in February“ -by water..and- construction “ ‘manager John Morse.. “ Staff. is zecommending - that “in the absence of a sat-. . isfactory explanation being - - _ provided to the water com- ; mittee from those individuals’ ~. : . who breach the provisions of ¢/ ‘the signed waiver form andor. the district's closed - water: | shed policy:. requirements, : further access be denied.” The report’ was tabled to. - - allow for the water commit-\. ° | tee chairman to mect’.with'. ; * groups that would be affected i By the plan to ban accede : Parcontege of teral remevels 7 Source: inumignation Centre ‘Entoreacnent caice . NEWS graphic Cathicon Powel Vu Van Le, 31, was deported to Vietnam in February. He had received a six-month jail sentence last July for heroin trafficking in East Vancouver. North Vancouver RCMP drug squad members arrested Le after he tried to sell an undercover North 08 officer 8.5 grams of heroin valued at Le left Vietnam in 1982 as a stateless person and went to live in Calgary where his sister and brother resided. He was granted permanent residency in Canada in 1987. Le was convicted of unlawful confinement and assault with a weapon in connection with a Calgary home invasion in December, 1990. Le was sentenced to 3% years in jail on, those charges. He appealed and a judge reduced the sen- tence to two years less a day. Six months after Le got out of jail, he was ordered deported from Canada after a Calgary Immigration Act inquiry. Le moved to Vancouver. Eighteen months after he was ordered deported, a Vancouver Immigration and Refugee Board Appeal panel stayed (dropped) the deportation order. manager Rob Johnston said his depart- ment sought a “danger-to-the public certificate” from the immigration min- ister concerning Le after the drug-traf- ficking conviction. On Sept. 1995, the certificate was issued, based on the contention that Le breached the condi- tions set out in his stayed deportation decision. One of the conditions stipulated that Le keep the peace and be on good behavior. In a last-ditch move, Le applied for a judicial review of his case to the Federal Court of Canada. That review was denied on Jan. 25. Le was returned to Vietnam on Feb. 21. . Under a new taw that took effect last July, an immigrant or refugee convicted of a crime carrying a possible sentence of 10 years or more can be declared a danger to the public and deportable without rights of appeal through immigration appeal panels. Said Johnston, “We are having a lot of posi- tive results in removing criminals from Canada. We have fully dedicated our resources to remov- TOTAL DEPORTATION of | non-Canadlans. include falied refugee claimants, poopie who entered Canada illegatty and peopte wh Oo worked in Canada illegally. ing criminals.” Johnston said the aumber of criminals being deported from Canada has increased every year for the past three years, He said that immigration investigation officers are now located within the Vancouver City Police and New Westminster Police departments. Local police officers ‘are instructed to contact the Vancouver Enforcement’ Unit of Canada Immigration when they come across “non- Canadians of interest to Immigration.” These people include any non-Canadian who: @ was charged or convicted of any criminal offence; W is destitute; BB is staying longer than permitted; @ has been previously deported from Canada, @ has a previous criminal record in their home” ccuntry.