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The selection of Elsie
McMurphy as the New Demo-
crats’ candidate for the Saanich
North and the Islands constituency
was welcomed by Liberal candi-
date Clive Tanner last week.

Tanner said that McMurphy’s
extreme left-wing platform would
alienate voters and work to his
advantage in the upcoming provin-
cial election.

“The NDP will attempt to be
pretend Liberals as they always do
come election time, but with a
union representative like Elsie it
will be tougher than usual to con

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you might think.

The fact is, our elected officials
have been carving medical budgets to the
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ing, including doctors.

Did you know that of the $581
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notas absurd as

the public,” he said,

He added that Social Credit
MLA and Minister of Finance Mel
Couvelier best represents the inter-

ests of the extreme right-wing,

which would also aid his election
campaign.

“Having two opponents with
such strongly opposing views will
make it easier for me to represent
the majority of the voters, who are
small-L, middle of the road Liber-
als.

“Canadians, from any part of
Canada or from here in B.C., rarely
Support extremism,” Tanner said.

programs?

the Medical Services Plan.

It’s an outrage to you because you
paid those premiums in confidence.
It’s an outrage to doctors because

Everything, in other words, but

An action by the crown to seize
a Deep Cove mansion, cars and
goods once owned by convicted
cocaine dealer Raymond Joubert
starts June 18 in Victoria court,
federal crown counsel Gordon
Macdonald said Tuesday.

On June 18 the date of the
forfeiture hearing will be set. The

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disposal of a waterfront mansion, a
Mercedes-Benz and a Porsche,
plus jewelry and other items will
be decided by the hearing.

On Thursday Raymond Joubert
was sentenced to 20 years in jail
for conspiring to import cocaine

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* Tanner welcomes NDP entry Forfeiture action planned

into Canada. The crown alleges
Joubert’s property was obtained
with drug profits.

An appeal against the convic-
tion and 20-year sentence has been
entered by Joubert’s lawyer Jeff
Green.

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1988/89, one-fourth— $145 million—went
to things like roads, bridges and other

the missing money would have solved
our current fee dispute.

This questionable accounting
comes after a 61% mecrease in premium rey-
enue over the past three years—while health
cate as a portion of government bud-

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steadily dechning.

All of which leads us to conclude
something we've suspected all along. Our
provincial government is more interested
in its own health than yours.

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