Local firm backs APEC
protesters in legal fight F

A LOCAL BUSINESS is contributing to a
legal defence fund set up for students who
were pepper sprayed and jailed during their
protest against APEC leaders in Vancouver
last November,

Hawkair Aviation decided to contribute
$1,000 to the protesters’ legal defence fund,
said company co-owner Dave Menzies.

Menzies said he considers the muzzling
of the students’ free speech rights by
RCMP officers under instruction from the
Prime Minister's office ‘‘despicable’’ and a
threat to Canadian democracy that must be
countered,

“Tf that’s the only thing I can do to make
an attempt to defend our civil rights, then
that’s the least I can do,’’ Menzies said.

‘Protesters focussed their efforts al the
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation confer-
ence on then Indonesian president Suharto,
They claim they were stopped because
Canada guarantced Suharto no embarass-
ment during his visit,

“Ta have our r civil rights suppressed in

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order to make a brutal dictator comfortable

is inexplicable,”’ Menzies said, c
He said he was disturbed when he went

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“T coutdn’t find anybody that even know |
about this issue in the terminal,’’ he said. I
“T find that a little distressing.’ a
The legal defence fund: was announced [@
Sept 11 by the B.C. Federation of Labour, i‘

which pledged $10,000 of assistance.
Protesters have been denied federal legal

aid money,
Contributions can be sent to APEC Hn
Protesters Legal Support Fund, 4279 Cana- |

da Way, Burnaby, B.C., VSG 1H1.
Federation spokesman Miriam Sobrino
says contributions are coming in from
across B.C.
“People really want do do something,”’
she said. ‘‘There’s a real sense that if they
don’t stop this sort of thing now, what will

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shrink by as much as 0.8 per
cent in 1998, according to a
quarterly report released
Friday by finance minister
Joy MacPhail.

The economic forecast
reflects uncertainty in the
Asian economy, low com- :
modity prices and fluctua-
tions in world financial
markets, MacPhail said.

The report indicates a first
quarter budget deficit of
$402 million — $70 million
worse than expected duc to
weaker than expected
revenues,

Revenue was $4.8 billion.
in the first three months of
1998, down 1,7 per cent —
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billion for the period -——
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ports dropped in value by
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of 1998, and commodities
exported to Japan are down
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ding the government hopes
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Retail sales edged down to
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But inflation has remained
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employment has risen by.
about 0.5 per cent.

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