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Dear Editor:
Re: Liberal media
hypocrisy unbelievable.
©. As I clicked on the news
yesterday and. seen Llovd
Robertson announce — the
passing of Pierre Elliott
+ Trudeau, I sat there waiting
“fore the hero worship to

Once Robertson finished
- his remarks, the camera cut
40 the streets to tell people of
the news. And the reporter.
asked. them what. they
thought.

~The typical response was,

a thought he was a Breat
man,”
‘ Reporter, “Why?”

Response, “Because of.

at he did for Canada.”

’ Reporter, “What” did he:

‘do tor Canada?” ©
_ had

isi
Report er, “What kind of

, Response, “I don't know,

e was just a great man.”

erson could say :
ought: he. was”

why * they’. t
great. It was pure emotion.

Everyone was saying how °

reat he “was, but. no, one

could ‘name an‘ achievement

that:this: great man Suppos-
‘edly accomplished.

A little later on in the day

: vatched the BCTV. news

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“Trudeau wasn’t afraid to
tell you what he honestly
thought. If he didn’t like a
reporter he would call him a
creep.”

Both, Parsons and
Oberfeld sat there and
agreed that what made
Trudeau such a great man
was his willingness to call the
media a bunch of a**holes
when he was mad at them.

Now come on ladies and

“gentlemen, does that not

strike vou as being hypocriti-
cal.

Just try to imagine if
Stockwell Day were to hold a
press “conference and call
some reporter a jerk. He
would be attacked by
reporters from coast to coast.
They certainly wouldn't call
him great. :

Another thing [ found
interesting is that the media
did not present any: dissent-
ing voice.

Do you really believe that
all Canadians thought he was
great? What about the peo-
ple who voted against him?

i will be watching | the

‘news’ media ‘in. the coming

days and weeks to see if any. .
of the : mainstream _liberal

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press will have a colunin, or
an article by someone who
didn’t — think
Trudeau.

Earl Banks
2ebanks@home.com

No tears
for Trudeau

Dear Editor:

Headline monotony: A
nation mourns! For what rea-
sons other than ignorance
and hypocrisy?

Trudeau, the wartime
dodger, Mao Zedorg’s dupe.
The man who gave us bilin-
gualism to divide us, metric
to confiise us, and enormous
debt to impoverish us.

Obituaries should read,
“In lieu of flowers, donations
to the national debt.”

Denis Mason
West Vancouver

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Wednesday, October 4, 2000 - North Shore News - 9

ted white, mp.

adverional, October 3, 2000

SIDEWINDER

A number of people contacted me
after reading Leo Knight's Septemksr
13th and 27th North Shore News
columns to ask me to raise the
“Sidewinder” issue in Parliament. In
fact, my colleague in the Canadian
Alliance, Jim Abbott MP, in his rofe as
Critic for the Solicitor General, was pur-
suing the Government over
“Sidewinder” as far back as November
of last year. For anyone who has not yet
heard of "Sidewinder", it was a two year
investigation by a combined force of the
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
(CSIS) and the RCMP. The original report,
now ofticially destroyed, is said to have
identified a connection between organized
crime and national security, with bridges
built to some of Canada’s political parties.

NOVEMBER 20, 71999

Following are excerpts from a speech
Jim gave in Parliament about "Sidewinder"
on November 30, 1999:

"As a result of. coverage in the
neu's media, I and members of the
House have learned that in.1997
RCMP Cerporal. Robert Read
reported a coverup of incompe-
tence, negligence and corruption
within DFAIT and immigration and
complained of criminal misconduct
by his. superiors. This related to

activities that had happened in the

very late eighties and early nineties
in Canada's office in Hong Kong.
The RCMP. did not acknowledge.
that complaint. much less invesii-
gate it. In January 1998, Corporal

‘Read took his documeiited ‘com-
‘plaint ?
Complaints Commission. - He. was

to the. RCMP . Public. :
told it was the wrong venue, and.
indeed it was the wrong venue. The -
reality is that within the purview of |
the government, within the bureau-
cracy of the RCMP, there is no cor--

rect place for that complaint if the

RCMP. hierarchy ‘will not act on: :

allegations of this nature.

Fi. have personally - questioned -
Corporal Read. : He has confirmed

_and detailed his allegations to me. -

Asa matter of fact, Ihave seen_
pages and pages and pages of doc-,'

umenied evidence that clearly sub- “

stantiates: that- there must: bean

“investigation: into his allegations of:
_ cover-up on the: part of the RCMP...
“After two years. of . bureaucratic .

| his complaint. public. What . hap- ©

pened? He was suspended. To the
best. of my. . knowledge: there: has :
never been any further action taken

sto investigate the allegations about ..

Corporal: Read's findings. of : negli-.
gence, ° incompetence * ‘and: corrup-"

tion. It appears: no one will, investi-,

substantial..and ‘has; been docu,

‘mented. Will the current: Solicitor:

General. ‘appoint an. independent

‘will’ the

‘Speaker ei the House order ‘the
* Auditor. General to report. directh

Sidewinder. At the end of two | vears

‘ semeone at CSIS decided to termi-
_nate. the Sidewinder investigatio ,
fas instea ‘Of just terminating the

i

’ Mr

mation on electronic files was also
terminated.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2000

Just 3 days into the latest session of
Parliament, and a week before the publi-
cation of Leo Knight's second article on
the subject of "Sidewinder", Jim asked the
following questions of the Government.
Responses were provided by the Liberal
Government's Parliamentary Secretary to
the Solicitor Generat:

Mr. Jim Abbott (KootenayColumbia,
Canadian Alliance): Mr. Speaker,
Sidewinder was a joint RCMP and
CSIS operation that looked into the
influence of organized crime and for-
eign companies on Canadien compa-
nies and our security. | have had an
opportunity to read the report and it
raises very serious concerns about
Canadians‘. personal. safety, national
security and foreign | influence in
Canada. Why did the government shut
down the report? _ _
Lynn. Myers (Parliamentary
Secretary to Solicitor General of
Canada, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, as you-
know, the member opposite has gone.
on repeatedly about this project.: He
knows full well that. the: Security.
Intelligence Review Committee ‘has’ |
conducted a review. I am pleased to.
_report to the House today that veview:
is now complete and has been submit- .
ted to the Solicitor General.” . fobs

‘There are three points in that sub-
‘mission that I would like to refer to all:
: members of. the House.: The first: is.
that. there: was no political interfer- ;
ence as alleged in the media. The sec
ond_is the _ draft report ‘in’ fact. was. |
deeply flawed, : The ‘third i ‘no 'evl- |
dence of any substai jal nate ire was:
‘port of that draft report, :

Mr. ee

Canada, Lib.): Mr.” “Speaker, clearly the
member posite did’ not ste to'my
answer... and: ‘not get; it: The
answer. is quite simply that there

ROMP and all involved in: this matter.

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theory ' th ‘grassy knellan
things, he should ‘E bear. down on ‘th

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