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Sex assault trial
decision derided

Dear Editor:

Oh, I get it: if you sexually assaule a woman or two or

three, you

“suffer enough by having trial. proceedings

reported in the North Shore News.” So claims defence
lawyer James Williams, defending Marcel Bouchard on two
counts of sexual assault. Lawyer Williams suggested that,
because of this public embarrassment, Bouchard should
only be given a suspended sentence, not a jail term.
(Probation for Sex Assault, Feb. 23).

Amazingly, Judge Allan Stewart gave Bouchard a mere
24 months’ probation. No wonder Bouchard’s supporters
were. giggling their heads off in court, especially when the

details

the sexual assault were

led out by the prose-

. cuting lawyer, Hey, what could be funnier than genitals and
breasts being mentioned in court, ch? The assault victims?

- Oh, yeah... well .

. jeez, everybody knows that sexual

“ assault victims have no sense of humor, so lighten up, ch?
The Bouchard verdict is yet one more example of why
countless Canadians no longer have any confidence in our

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Bugged by puck boor

Dear Editor:

As the mother of a 12-year-
old hockey player, I witnessed a
very disturbing incident at a
recent hockey game berween a
North and West Vancouver
team.

West Vancouver were the
losers and took out their frus-
tration on a glass ition at
the North Shore Winter Club
as they left the game at its con-
clusion. This thoughtless,
childish and destructive act was
disappointing enough but the
reaction of a male parent to this
act is what prompts my letter.

A female club member
approached one of the West
Vancouver coaches and politely
suggested thar the team pay for

“West Vancouver
were the losers
and took out their
frustration on a
glass partition...”

the damage and the coach
politely agreed.

The immature male parent
overheard the polite conversa-
tion, felt it was his place to step
in and interfere, and used abu-
sive language towards this
woman, which is too disgusting
to repeat in this letter.

To my surprise, he also
came very close to physically
attacking her.

This male parent is a disc
jockey with a very popular focal
AM radio station, which is all
the more reason he should
know how to act as a responsi-
ble adult, instead of an abusive
boor.

Ir was a disgusting display
which upset the recipient mem-
ber so much that she was
reduced to tears and put a real
damper on one of the few
games this Winter Club team
has won.

This is just another glaring
example of how boorish par-
ents like this fellow ruin an oth-
erwise enjoyable sport by their
moronic actions.

C. Storjeoff
North Vancouver

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advertorial, March 12/97

DOUBLE VISION

A few weeks ago, West Vancouver MP
Herb Grubel recommended that | read the
book Double Vision - "The Inside Story
of the Liberals in Power" by Edward
Greenspon and Anthony Wilson-Smith. He

insisted that it was a remarkably accurate”

account of what has heppened behind the
scenes in Ottawa over the past three years,
and that it explained much of the apparently
*un-Liberal” behaviour of the present
Federal Government.
Stunned though | was at the $34.95 sticker
price for the book, a quick scan of the first few
‘pages convinced me that ! would not be
disappointed with my purchase. Messers.
Greenspon and Wilson-Smith have managed to
document an impressive amount of information
from interviews with people who were present
at Liberal Cabinet meetings, ministerial
conferences, and even private dinners,
complete with quotations from the key players.
Much of the material has never appeared in the
mainstream media, but certainly explains the
decision making. process within the Liberal
Goverment over the past three years. As an
MP | have been much closer to that action than
the average Canadian,. and. | agree
wholeheartedly with Hert's opinion that
"Double Vision” is a very revealing read,
and is consistent with the facts as we know
them from our experiences in Ottawa. | have
never before made a “book review" the topic of
one of my reports for the North Shore News, but

"Double Vision” certainty warrants being:

brought to your attention.

DECEPTION OR 277
In my opinion, one of the mest powerful
messages in the entire book — a message
which resurfaces page after page, is that prior
to the 1993 election, and even during the
campaign, Liberal advisors, and dean
Chretien himself, knew that Canada
was on the verge of a fiscal crisis. in the
days running up to polling day, Chretien, and/or
his close advisors, were apparently meeting
secretiy with Finance Department bureaucrats,
while at the same time campaigning publicly on
a fairly traditional Liberal “tax and spend”
philosophy, a position which had to be
abandoned after the election. The present PM
was also dealing, via key advisors, with ihe
President of the Untied States, committing not
to derail NAFTA while promising publicly he
would renegotiate the agreement.
Finance Minister Paul Martin is portrayed as
a major player in the implementation of the
fiscal reforms, influenced by pressures from the
Reform Party, and at times even challenging
the Prime Minister's authority as he drew up his
1995 budget. In one of allegedly frequent
outbursts at staff in his department, who were
reminding him of promises made in the Red
Book, Martin is quoted as yelling, “Don't tell
me what's in the the Red Book, I wrote
the goddam thing. And I know that a lot
of it is crap. Don't be a slave to it." Then,
the day after delivering the budget, and in a
conference call with major clients of the U.S.

brokerage house Salomon Brothers, Martin
explained that the Reform Party constituied his
main political opposition in most of Canada,
that the public were supportive of the position
taken by Reform with respect to the deficit, and
he assured those on the call that he would stay
the course through the electoral cycle.

QUOTES AND CONTENT

There are a great many revealing quotations
in "Double Vision", so it is impossible to list
them ail in this report. Two of my favourites,
however, because of the interesting
background stories which accompany them,
are listed in the next pa-agraph.

On page 281, in an attack on Sergio
Marchi's $975 immigrant landing fee, which had
widespread public support, Davis Matas,
President of the Council for Refugees, is
purported to have said, "I don't see any
vestige of Liberalism in this. It could
just as well have come from the Reform
Party." On page 283, a quote from the Prime
Minister in May of 1996 after Deputy PM Shella
Copps resigned over the GST, “Sheila is a
great politician.” He had already decided to
return her to the position of Deputy PM after the
by-election.

One chapter in the book is devoted to the
period just prior to the Quebec Referendum — a
behind the scenes took at the cocksure strategy
adopted by the Liberals, culminating in the
staged: “spontaneous” public. rally of. October
24th. “ Another chapter... describes Lloyd
Axworthy's. time . as . Minister. of Human
Resources, the plans: ‘he had for - the
Department, and how the fiscal reality deraited
virtually every initiative he tried to push through
Cabinet. It is frustrating enough to be in the
Opposition in the Parliament of Canada, but the
past few years have proven to be a devastating
experience for traditional Liberals like Lloyd
Axworthy and. Sheila Copps, who entered
Cabinet positions in late 1993 expecting to
implement new programs, only to see their
departmental appropriations pared back.

A GREAT READ

If you have an interest in politics, make
sure you read “Double Vision" before the
next election. it is a real eye opener, even if
it does end up feaving you with the same
questions it left with me - "If Mr.
Greenspon and Mr. Wilson-Smith were
aware of cll this stuff as it happened,
why weren't they doing a service to
Canadians by simultaneously revealing
the ‘stories behind the stories’ in the
mainstream media? Isn't that supposed
to be their job, or can we assume that
the mainstream media is so pro-Liberal
that it really didn't want you to know
what was going on - that this
Government really isn't any more
ethical, or any more interested in your
opinion, than the ones which went
before it?”

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