4 - North Shore News — Wednesday, January 26, 2000

Woman seeks
termination
compensation

From page 3

The claim goes on to state
that “the defendant did not
follow the steps of progressive
discipline or alleged miscon-
duet.”

At the time Ahmad was
making $45,000) a year.

Ske claims that the manner
of her termination caused her
mental distress aid loss of rep-
utation.

Ahmad is seeking: damages
in lieu of notice; damages for
lost benefits; damages for pain
and suffering and loss of repu-
tation; aggravated damages as
compensation for the manner
of termination; interest; costs
of the action.

North Shore Crisis Services
Society executive director
Maureen Gabriel declined to
comment because the matter
is before the courts. She said
the society intended ww defend
itself against the allegations.

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News Reporter

THE future of the
Reform Party could be
decided as soon as this
weekend.

A convention of the United
Alternative, 2 proposed. coalition
of Reformers, Tories and others,
begins tomorrow in Ottawa and
coincides with this weekend's
annual Reform convention in
the national capital. Draft poli-
cies and a constitution will be
considered, but there is the out-
side chance the UA could be
quashed by its own delegates.

Reform leader Preston
Manning pledged Jan. 7 to
resign if the UA plan isn’t
accepted by a majority. of
Retorm members in a planned
March mail-in referendum. He
believes such a new coalition
would offer the best chance to
beat the Liberals in the next elec-

rin moves ft

ton.

However, Manning’s career
as Reform’s only feader could
end sooner. North Vancouver
Reform MP ‘Ted White said del-
egates to the UA convention
could vote to kill che proposal
altogether.

“We don't knew the mix of
delegates, we don’t know
whether they are truly represen-
tative of the membership of the
Reform party or other parties,
ike the PCs or NDP,” White
said. “They could go for or
against the UA.”

Fither way, he says, either
Retorm will be looking for a new
leader or there will be a race to
decide che UA’s first leader.

Despite threats by the
Liberals to call a fall election,
White said there will be a viable
choice for voters on the right of
the political spectrum. “A lead-
ership race for Reform would do
us a world of good.” he said.
“To have several candidates criss-

crossing, the county, talking
about Reform and the future of
the country would give us more
publicity than ever before. I see a
leadership race, regardless of
whether it’s the UA or Reform,
as being sething but beneficial.”

White hasn't publicly stated
his support or opposition to the
UA because he wants to act as a
scrutineer for the mail-in refer-
endum. However, he said he
hasn’t seen much evidence of
UA support locally.

“There’s not much point in
running for a party if the voters
aren’t interested in it. This whole
UA exercise is being designed
and carried through by political
junkies, for want of a better
name. The experience in
Canadian politics is that sort of
thing is a bad experience — usu-
ally the voters don’t go along
with what the politicians plan.
PU take a wait and see atmtude
after the dust settles in a couple
of weeks and we'll see where the

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