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Engineering the agenda is |
puzzling | in North Saanich |
Ly aa istening to North Saanich’s committee-of- the-whole dis- :

i cussions Monday night leaves one with the i impression ae.
| these elected officials are simply too tired to hold an in-
B.__<# formed and.intelligent: debate by the time an important is}
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~The four-item, two-hour committee meeting — — which started |
‘with a 25-minute. discussion where certain politicians demanded an.)
| explanation as to. why municipal staff used Round-Up one day i in“:
| early September to kill weeds on ‘Tatlow Road — was a prime ex- |
{ample of wasting time. (That item, by the way, was referred to EAC @
' for the formulation of a policy: outlining’ alternatives to pesticides, :
when.Round-Up isn’t even considered one.) ap

Referral:has become the trademark of this conc as ‘they 1 re-

peatedly turn minor house-keeping items, which could and should us es . .
eports of the demise 6 recall « seem to ane been: -on the two's campaigns. As 5 well there i is the advice which

: | be discussed privately with municipal staff, int full- blo n debates. y >»
a oflitile Se aeee pe district me nis Ki ee MW | B ‘greatly exaggerated. A disenchanted NDP orga-.. Bridge says was given. by such top aides of Premier Glen fs

~ Take, for example, Councillor Dee Bailin's ; Monday night attack | _nizer named Sami Bridge has revived the two Prince. Clark as John Pollard and Adrian Dix.

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’ {George area recall efforts long after.we all assumed — ~and © - Dix says he gave no advice. Pollard isn t answering ‘calls, ms,
ea Municipal Engineer Jack Parry, Bailin said she'd been tipped off. Be the NDP. devoutly hoped —- they were. dead and buried. = Under recall regulations enforced by: Elections BC, the. ©
Bridge has detailed the involvement of the provincial © - value of volunteer labor need not be declared — unless the -
NDP the premier’s office and several national unions in the’. - volunteers provided services for which they : are normally: bh
‘campaigns against the Skeena and Prince George recall ef. paid. Sette more, ifa third party paid the volunteers’ travel
‘forts to: unseat NDP: MLAs Hi Imut Giesbrecht and: Pau

~ by a district staff member that Parry: was going to come to:council ©
| with a request to widen. Tatlow Road..“It’s not a place that would be
| ahappy place to’ widen, The neighborh od ‘would be Uy in a

| claimed Bailin.:

‘Yet the BC Federation of Labor. paid for ae
-the travel expenses of these as ssistants“-
“and it wasn’t reported: ‘Isn’t this more ille- ck
|. gality, as in concealment and deceit?”

These are the crucial questions the
“forensic auditor to be hired by Elections |”
~ B.C. must determine, Some other issues
_ must be decided by the electorate, how- ae

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» Such as: Do we think iti is OK for the

_ NDP to campaign against the recall ef-
fort with the argument it was funded
and. directed by powerful outside
groups while it organized its own cam-
paign from outside? Bridge is polite
enough to call this double standard
“ironic,” Others might call it ddwnright

ards or Widening of Roads i in’ Nort Saanict Hs i.

After. being scolded like a’ ‘child, ‘Parry. goes on to explain that any | :

_ | requests for road widenings require a report to: council. “There are | "He has raised the suspicion that his costs |

“no plans to widen any roads in: North Saanich — not by me, not be i were notreported bythe organizers ofthe |

anybody. They are dealt with on an individual basis,” hesays. = to -antirecall campaigns, as required by law, |
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‘cial: NDP. to. ete a daily telephone
‘polling system for tracking voter opinion.

- From there, Monday's committee agenda got even. more petty, || “as an expense or a donation from the
“as politicians discussed at length John Stone’s request to narrow, | provincial party. The NDP.is suing the |.
the lane spacing on Bourne Terrace. to provide a Lean lane for. "Vancouver Sun for saying this was deceit: fle
; pedestrians. - Wp ful and illegal... ie

Parry then explains the toad i in ‘question fas: very wide shoul ee - According to Bridge: " was told that
ders all along it, except for in front of Mr. Stone’s residence, “where {my public line was that I was a mem-
shrubs and trees have grown to en inches of the edge of the } “bership organizer on a routine mem-
pavement.” |}. hership drive.”
That discussion quickly turns to one > oF examining “traffic-calm- jf. That sounds | plenty deceitful to me,
ing’ "measures for the entire district, then eventually just the terraces. | ‘but perhaps I m just old-fashioned, The .
~. Despite Parry’s assertion that “motorists always find the line of .; Canadian gut Workers, iat deceitful,
| prrnasied the! lasue ‘s again referred back. . staff in an | Beanie none CT ea aamied: -, Smal, there ist he whole matter, of the letter-writing
a uddy Kitchen to help organize the anti-recall forces in mplates. r ared in the premier’s office:
fg ante jons such a hese Samich Coun Ae ‘Tuth ‘not - Skeena. -.~ arguments against the recall campaign which were to be
. " I} ‘The Kitimat local of the CAW makes no hones about copied by local supporters into letter form, signed and
much does, | '. this, but oddly the official organizer of the campaign knows mailed to the local newspapers. »
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: i j } 4} nothing about Kitchen. Which raises the question: were Clark has already defended it as a routine campaign ploy
. Sanscha Hall, “the difficulties” North Saanich has “are based on | his services included in the donations? If not, then that . engaged in by all parties, So what? Is it right? . ete
some kind of idea we're facing s some kind of deadline,” . would be illegal, wouldn't it? a The forensic auditor will help answer the question of le-

' ~ And what ever gets accomplished when you have those? ~'Then there are an undetermined number of cabinet «gality, The bigger question, of morality, can in only be an-
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