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RCMP vessel returns

Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter dangclo@nsnews.com

Vancouver RCMP boat is no longer taking the summer off.

Ts was put in the water on Tuesday, the day before the fireworks finale in) English Bay.

While on their way 10 the fireworks on Saturday, four people drowned and another is presumed dead after a power boar hit a tow line in West Vancouver waters off Point Atkinson.

The power boat capsized after it struck the tow line berween a tug and a barge.

“We are reacting. Unfortunately in this business sometimes we have to react because we don’t always have the resources to be proac-

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Brady Fotheriagham

Contributing Writer

NORTH Shore residents are making their feelings known loud and clear to their members of Parliament after a second ship arrived off the B.C. coast carrying Chinese migrants Wednesday.

Canada’s immigration policy has come under attack by Reform Party MPs Ted White and John Reynolds. They maintain the current system is toc lenient for those secking refugee status.

White advocates his party’s policy that immigration laws should

change, and calls for immediate detention and an expedited hear- ing process that would determine status within 10 to 14 days of

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BRIAN and Vicki Renk show the spot on Seymour Boulevard where cars are turning around at the end of their street trying to get to Mount Seymour Parkway. The Renks fee! that frustrated drivers, seeing the steel posts, are not paying attention. Their Porsche has been hit twice in three weeks. Their courtesy car was hit last Friday. See story page 3.

. a rople who vanish into society, living illegally, that frustrate White Second boatload of Chinese tafe hee’ ne unnetr Rote Ns ¢ s Reynolds’ and White's offices have been deluged by phone calls

migrants Swamps fines to MPs; fom connituens, almost all unsympathctic wih the ‘Chinese migrants bypassing the system. White ived 30 calls on

Reformers seek policy changes Wednesday Tone. Reynolds posted 25 calls over three hours. °

Marilyn Ross, one of White’s constituents said accepting these anyone wishing to make Canada their home. Currently once an migrants makes “Canada the laughing stock of the world.” individual is on Canadian land, he or she can apply for refugee or “[ think immigration laws are far too tax, but Pm not against asylum starus and appeal decisions which often take two years or — refugees coming to B.C. ['m against people coming. illegally more to scttle. bee: it’s a costly process and people don’t turn up tor their “The inumigration aspect of the Immigration Act wi cH heanngs,” Ross said.

but the refugee in disarray and dystunctional,” White said. Unlike the United States which will turns back ships or swiftly Last year Wh id 660 Chinese nationals sta- deport immigrants, if Canadian Immigration Naturalization

tus, Of those 60 were granted refugee status, 95 were

the rest, two-thirds, never showed up for their hearings. It is these See Refugee page

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