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THE British Columbia Party is the new player in B.C.’s political scene.

In a public meeting on

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Dee. 12 in North Vancouver, the party — an amalgamation of members of the BC Conservative party, the BC Social Credit party, and the BC Party) — introduced itself’ wo the ‘people and sought their support in helping provide B.C. with a -centre-of-right alternative to the NDP-Liberal gridlock.

Jack Dickinson, a retired Lonsdale store-owner and citi- zen who was one of approxi- mately 40 people present at the

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meeting said he was there out of curiosity and also because he was interested to see a party that was non-NDP and non- Liberal. “I would never vote for the NDP or the Liberal party,” said Dickinson.

Joan Gadsby, former North Vancouver District. councillor and author who attended the meeting, said she was there to see “if it (the BC Party) was a viable alternative to the present government,” that: failed’ to properly address the important

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MEMBERS of the Association of North Shore Service Clubs, including Legion Branch 114, Army and Navy 45 club and the Fraternat Order of Eagles 2638 have filled hampers for 85 families. From lett, Bob Strachan, Muriel Werthington, MLA Jeremy Dalton, Dwight Rouse, and North Van District Mayor Don Beli.

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Among the key speakers at the meeting were former party Jeader and policy committee chair Eric Buckley, a mathe- matics professor at Okanagan University; current — leader David Mercier, a financial offi- cer and former mayor of Burnaby, Gary Cross, former leader of the B.C. Progressive Conservatives and_ first vice-

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