- © Friday: June saat 1988 - North Shore News

WEST. WEST. VANCOUVER-HOWE SOUND MLA

. secant of the B.C.

Legislature John Reynolds

is

reported to be set to step into the cabinet of Premicr Bill
Vander ZAlm, in a senior portfolio.

The i mincat cabinci shuffle
promised / by the premier is duc
“within days of the adjournment of
cthe currént sitting of the House,
which i is now expected on or about

_June'29,

Vander Zalm has stated publicly
that he will initiate a major change
to the existing cabinet structure, to
set up a two-tiered system, with an

inner group of key line ministers, ..

and a’ second level of “junior”
ministers. |.

Reynolds, West Vancouver-
‘Howe Sound MLA, is carmarked -
for one’ of the major portfolios,
py senior government ~ sources,
f,

and the Speaker" docs;not rate out,

[such a move,
'S," He has. made it élear to Vander

ae

%

Zalm that he wi accept a ministry,”

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By JOHN PIFER
From Victoria

if itis tan ‘offer I can’t refuse," tt

’ jy not unprecedented fora Speaker

to resign to take a Cabinet. post —
Harvey Schrocder..was the last (o

‘do 50, stepping into the agriculture .

portfolio. : oy
Reynolds, a former member ‘of
Parliament, has been chairman of

the committee of supply in Ottawa.

(1974), a function handicd by the

finance ministry in provincial poli- .

tics, He was named:§ speaker at the

start of the first session, of B.C.'s

34th Parliament in March 1987.
According to thd government

“sources, it appears the prime casu-—

alty of the shuffle, will be At-

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Bud. Smith, - whose . last-minute
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Whistler. leadership convention in
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premier over the top.

Smith, a former. principal secre-
tary to former premier Bill Bennett’
was fourth in the race at the time
‘he capitulaicd. . “ /

Vander Zalm ‘has said ihe, grow-
ing dutics.and responsibilities. for
the Ministers of State ‘means the
‘task. no longer can be managed by
cabinet members who! have their
plates full ‘Sealing with,’ the -line
ministries.

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