AB - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 4, 2000

Alliance leader absolves
MP Mike Scott from any sins
related to his being at work

CANADIAN ALLIANCE
MP Mike Scott is back in
party leader Stockwell
Day’s gaod bocks.
Actually, he never left,

Scott was the focus ofa -

brief but intense spotlight
two weeks ago. over .te-.
marks Day made’ about
MPs who don’t show upto
work. ,

Day said voters could

very well respond accord- ,
* that Scott should leave.
legislation and the result

ingly if there was recall

would be a by-election.

Those remarks and
others along the same vein
were joined with Scott not
being in Ottawa for the
first five days. of the fall
parliamentary session
which began Sept. 19,

Reporters took Day’s
remarks to be a. criticism
of Scott who, in August,
announced he wouldn't be
running when the next fed-
eral election is held.

But Day, speaking a
few days after his first re-
marks about MPs not.

Trial date finally established
for long running libel action

THERE’S finally a trial
date set in Skeena MP
Mike Scott’s long-running
libel lawsuit against for-
mer MP Jim Fulton.

The defamation lawsuit
is set to be heard by a
judge and jury starting July
30, 2001 in B.C. Supreme
Court in Vancouver. It’s
expected to take more
than a week,

The case dates back
four years to a Sept. 26,
1996 televised debate Ful-
ton and Scott agreed to
have on CBC Newsworld

about aboriginal treaty-

making.

showing up for wark, said
he wasn’t referring to
Scalt.

“There was a gencral
discussion, not something
specific on MPs,” said
Day.

..-He did. add. that he
could sce how a reporter
-could: take: his comments
‘about errant MPs and fac-
_tor in Scott’s absence to
come up with statements

Day did-praise Scott as
having a good attendance
record in Parliament and
for being an effective MP
and that he had indicated
he would be back at work
as soon as possible.

But Day, chosen as Al-
liance leader in July and
elected to Parliament just
a week before it cpened,
admitted he had never met
Scott.

ing a meeting with him,”
said Day who did add he
may have encountered him
briefly at a Reform meet-

Mike Scott
ing or one held by the Uni-
ted Alternalive before the
Alliance party was cre-

ated.
Day said Scott wasn’t

- at an Alliance caucus re-
“No, I can’t recall hav-

treat in Saskatchewan be-
fore Parliament opened,
either.

And he doesn’t recall
any specific contact with

Scott claims Fulton ef- +. public interest.

fectively called him a ra-
cist, and thereby damaged
his reputation. —

Critical to the case is
whether Fultan’s state-
ments will be considered
by the court to be state-
ments of fact or opinion,

“That issue has now
been left for the judge and

jury to decide at trial next ©

year,” said Don Farquhar,
Fulton’s lawyer.

If it’s deemed to be opi- *

nion, Fulton can atlempt
the preferred defence that
his statements were fair
comment on an issue of.

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“that Scott is racist or moti-
. vated by racism.

Also wading into the
fray are prominent narth-
west native leaders like
Joe Gosnell of the Nisga’a
and Guujaaw of the Haida,

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Scott when the Skeena
MP told Alliance officials
he wouldn’t be seeking the
nomination to run. here
again in the next election.

Scott said he wasn’t in
Ottawa for the beginning
of the fall session because
of personal business.

He said he had spent
the summer and early fall
preparing for his pending
libel case against Jim Ful-
ton, a former Skeena NDP
MP.

Scott is suing Fulton for
remarks Fulton made dur-
ing a 1996 televised de-
bate on land claims.

“That takes up a lot of,
time and I'm alse thinking .
of how to pay for it,” he’
said,

Scott added that he’s
also concentrating on whal
he'll be doing to earn a
living once he leaves poti-
tics.

“I’ve made no definite
plans but I have to be
doing something. [’ve got
to make a living,” he said.

Jim Fulton

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