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i feel very confident this issue. is not going to go aw, ay,” he said. “More and more peo- ple are supporting charities because the government has walked away from funding. The private sector is picking up the slack and being penal- ized for it.”

Nebbeling was scornful of a task force's ability to effect

change.

“Quite frankly, T think it’s shameful,” he said. “They wouldn’t get anything done till aext vear. If you want an answer, they tell you there is no answer, and refer you toa committer. Te will disappear

inte the abyss of bureaucracy.”

North © Vancouver-Seymour MLA Daniel Jarvis agreed: “Why is it necessary to have a task force?” he demanded. “It’s simply yes or no. Is it fair that volunteers who gO out and work their butts off to

raise money should then be charged extra tax?”

down and bloody well say, ‘we’re wrong, let’s stop charging PST (on schoot equip-

NEWS photo Julie Iverson

PARENT Marion Cunningham spent all day Tuesday on the phone to local MLAs and government offices in Victoria protesting PST on school equipment.

Jarvis believes “che cabinet should sit

Foes of Vancouver mayor atiack on causeway stance

Katharine Hamer News Reporter katharinc@nsnews.com

COPE /Green party members in Vancouver are accusing Mayor Philip Owen of supporting an

Stanley Park causeway based on polit- ical funding he received from several companies in 1996.

Owen recently backed West Vancouver coun-

_. dil in its bid to have the causeway lanes in Stanley

Park widened. COPE checked out Owen's

financial disclosure statements at City Hall and

discovered the mayor had received a total of

$7,000" in campaign funding: from West

Vancouver and Whis er companies — including

‘Lane ® Investments and. Pa Royal - Shopping in 1996:

COP. 's Dan Rogers said the causeway issue was “thorou uphly studied months ago. It’s back on the. agenda because: the NPA is caving in to

ressure’ fron. their business friends in West

Jat .Vencouver,

“When the NPA accepts campaign donations from Park Royal shopping centre, no one should be surprised that they are more concerned with the convenience of West Vancouver commuters than they are with protecting Stanley Park trom causeway expansion,” Rogers said.

But, said West Vancouver Mayor Pat Boname, “Quite frankly, I think it’s just silly ro believe a donation like ‘that, which is meant for the City of Y Vancouver, would affect someone's judgment on an issue as important as the cause- way lanes.” Boname also pointed out that Larco Investments has a number of properties in Vancouver.

Owen was out of town and rot available for coniment on Friday.

However, his communications assistant, Laurie Rix, said that any connection berween the donations and the mayor’s stance on the cause- way issue was “tenuous at best. The causeway is under the jurisdiction of the parks board. From our point of view there is no direct connection,” she said.

To press time, Park Royal management was

"nor available for comment.

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ment paid tor by fundraising)” They can make a decision very quickly if they want to.” Kinar received a fax from Ministry of Finance tax policy analyst Glen Armstrong on the dav of the protest, inviting him to sit in on the task force. “It’s just a politically expedi- ent way of getting out of an embarrassing situation,” said Kinar.

“Thev're just blowing smoke rings atus -— they have been since the beginning.”

The group's first scheduled meeting, to be chaired by Armstrong, is set for nest week, and is intended to review: current terms of refer- ence for applying taxation to school supplies; school board

funding; and the organization and opera- tion of PACs,

The group will be expected to deliver a final report to Finance Minister Paul Ramsey by Jan. 15, 2000.

Election update

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