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not working for us at all, In
fact, it’s working against us,’
>t Tt was brought in by the Mulroney
“conservatives in 1991 ostensibly to
help cut.the country’s - appalling

national debt,”

. Well, guess what? The country still”

has an ‘appalling national. debt of
approximately $600 billion and we
still have the GST, which‘ is: helping
“undermine, not repair, our economy,
-., According to. .the. authors" of
"Underground: Beonomy: ° Global
“ Boddence' of its Size and Impact, the
- GST is the number one fuel driving

- the country’s. now-booming under:
. ground economy, which is running at.

an estimated .20% ‘of the:

| gross domestic product,

country’s

‘That translates into billions, of dol: ,;

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ars lost to Canada’s regular economy — as-anything else,”

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resuine with final arguments on
has yet to be determined.

the causes. > |

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‘and billions of dollars lost in tax rey:
enue, . Re
But who can blame those side-step-
ping above-bourd transactions?
Canadians are staggering under-an
enormous tax load that most right
thinking folk can no longer bear,
We are taxed on every front:
income, sales, service charges, licence
Fees, gas tevics, and on and on,
+ Phe total tax bill for the average

» Canadian: family has gone up an —

“astounding 1,168% since 1961.

_-,¥ Canadians don’t start working for

‘ themselves now until late June, The

. first six'months-of the year are spent
paying off various levels of taxation.

; © Little wonder that more and more

“-people have'turned to underground
dealings. It’s: as .much a protest
against our suffocating tax structure

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of SFU swim coach Liam

imposing off-the-top-of-

cy Plaza’ Hotel, 1015 Burrard St., hast: the-head punishments ”
been postponed because Nitya lyer, the: he i
bunal of one, has failenjill’ The hearing, is set: to

June 23, A location |

» based on “evidence”
that often wouldn't *
stand up for a moment’
in a regular coure of law,

hearing, tri-

OVERHEA

Under all the above heidings the |
Donnelly case is a dilly, The “court”:

9S.

uy

AWE ICE

PMACHINE IS DOWN

"THE HALL AND To
THE RIGHT

ae,

ONE aspect of the titillating case ‘has taken his case to an independent

*arbitration board, which could still over-.,
“turn SEU's lopsided in-house verdict.”
> SFU’s kangaroo court is only one. of
- dozens of quasi-judicial tribunais mostly
toe ttn by specific profes. |
“sions or trades, to disci-
- pline members. ‘The Bar
~ Association, the B.C, «.
“ Medical Association, -
» the'B.C, College of
Teachers are just three
of the many that come
to mind. They are pers.
fectly entitled to exer:
_. tise such discipline —
~ provided it relates solely
to professional or trade

Bat once an alleged offence is clearly
within the sphere of criminal or.civil law, ©

RD AT PRESTON MANNINGS FIRST DIPLOMATIC $0

competence or integrity, . He
“ Cadets, 525 Pathfinder ag)

for being the only newspaper in this arca.that a
importance of the

“Thank you for standing up so courageously for the -:

‘right? ty express an opinion, be that politically cor+

_yreet, (at the moment). dr not. History, is not necessart-

correct when dictated by ane fection ar the ather,
Unless viewed dispassionately, history ean be mere
ictér takes all,’ and may the truth perish”
“}.— Tibor and Anne Gajdics of Vaticouver

ot
"

“Some things are far more important than whether.

: Doug Collins is right or wrong, and L admire you~
preciates the

“v°e” daily newspapers have not seen fit to challenge the legality of
6 the bill under which you ave being prosecuted and fail to

» | _Oppreciate that

ifyoudo not win, their turn will comes?
-... ;—John Forrest of North Vancouver

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main issue. I find it pitiful thar the larger |

(three unidentified persons) was boy-
. cotted by Donnelly on his lawyer's
‘advices tt then heard, in secret, com-
vo, platnant Rachel Marsden’s. “date-rape”

"charge, though how thoroughly her evi-

dence was tested we don’t know,
‘According to the RCMP, Ms.
Marsden waited nearly three months
eater the alleged incident before tiling
Sher complaint — during which time she
sent erotic computer mail to Donnelly.

There was also that widely publicized

‘photo of her in a sexually provocative:
~ pose, Nevertheless, the secret three-per-
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spurned its jurisdiction — “guilty” and

recommended he be fired, a recommen: **

dation implemented by SFU president
“John Stubbs without further probing.

* « Meanwhile, Donnelly — who is sup-
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the courts of law — with all their cen-:
turies-old sateguards for. both accused and

A doctor who accidentally kills a»
patient with a wrong injection is a legiti-_.
inate subject for BOMA disciplinary
action alone (unless, he also faces’a civil
suit from the family). A doctor ungipper-
ing his pants to a female patient in his,
surgery should face his future in BC. +.)
Supreme Courts oF yd

Aside from professions and trades, the
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Tribunal now “trying” Doug Collins and.

the North Shore News — with prose-~-:
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4 Justice mocked by bogus courts

~ less SFU “Judges” any deep concern
about the presumption of innocence
- statutory rules of evidence, cour
due diligence and due process,
- Punishment of political incorrectn
“appears to be their driving 'motiv
Canada’s Criminal Cade — incladi
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laws and the class action’ options:
available under civil law are ‘more than’:
adequate'to right‘all wrongs where the

_. Should be righted. In the law courts

the land with tleir protection. for all
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