22 - North Shore News — Sunday, May 23, 2600

Court challenge could topple NDP

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some interesting political theatre.

Former finance minister Elizabeth Cull told the court that former premier Glen Clark assured her any budgetary deficit could be made up by raiding the Forest Renewal BC

nds.

That was a bombshell because these Renewal funds are supposed to be earmarked to heip logging-dependent com- munities. The NDP has promised that this money would never be used for anything other than for what it was ‘intended. It would never, they said, be used as general rev- enue.

When Clark took the stand he contradicted Cull’s testi- mony, denying he gave Cull permission to use the Renewal

nds

If the NDP members are found guilty it could topple the B.C. government and send shock waves across Canada.

Still, ic may not be long before voters in other provinces start demanding laws that make it illegal for their politicians

to lie. Is this a good idea?

Among political people, there have been a thousand objections to the B.C. law: “Judges shouldn't be deciding

_ this thing.” “It will take all the colour out of political debate.” “Every election could be overturned.”

- But to those outside the process, the law simply makes

- sense. Grossly untruthful behaviour is unacceptable in every other part of our society, sometimes carrying very serious

. legal consequences.

: Shouldn’t politicians be just as accountable for their

- actions as private citizens?

[believe they should. - ... The attitude that politics should be subject to no legal or ethical rules is shockingly widespread among its practition- ers. Citizens should no longer put up with it.

I have joked that, if politicians are not aliowed to lie, it

be.“the end of civilization as we know it.” Frankly, it’s about time. ;

_ Stephen Harper is president of the National Citizens’

Coalition.

incident that took place March 10 in Nerth Vancouver. Two women were struck by

‘Hit and run

ARGYLE student Bobby Nikkhah acted in the filming of a Crimestoppers re-enactment of a hit and run |:

a late-model Land

Rover at the corner of St. Georges Avenue and 17th Street. The driver has yet to be found ad police. -

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“People come and: join the clan and play games together. We have practices and matches against other clans. A big part of the thing

is just communicating and making new friends,” Greenall says.

His first exposure to com- puters came when the family

ought a 486 when he was

12 or so. “I started playing a few small games like cards or blocks,” he recalls.

Greenall’s interest ‘in computers really took off when his best friend Aron Fairclough introduced him to a game called Command and Conquer.

“I got hooked on that

- game and I played it for ages. *Y played -it online with. other

people. I just realized how much fun I was having and how much I was missing out.” .

At Fallen Angels, mem- bers enter name and pass-

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By the Greenall . and Masanz would like. to. be | making money with the pro- ject. Right now they’re

_ spending about $170 a

month on. game’ servers. They bring in about.$80 a month with online advertis- ing and do. some side jobs designing Web sites for oth- ers to bring in some money. Greenall, whose family is part of the West Vancouver Baha'i community, designed the West Vancouver. Baha’i Web - site <wew.westvan.

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