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In article <1995Nov4.092931@malad2.mala.bc.ca> dunnett@mala.bc.ca (Malcolm Dunnett) writes:

>    I'm trying to get a handle on exactly who has access to this
>service. I think the first post here about it said something about
>"NDP insiders", Karl phrases it as "on the government side", the
>CBC radio news used the term "150 senior bureaucrats". Clearly these
>phrases refer to rather different sets of people. I would say the
>proper audience for a service like this is the policy makers within
>the ministries (deputy ministers and ADMs) and the MLAs. To not make
>the service available to MLAs from all parties seems an oversight
>(or a deliberate slight depending on your spin on things)

MLAs don't even have terminals!  I bring my own laptop and modem to Victoria.  
I responded to this under a different heading on bc.politics and cross posted 
it here rather than repeating the response.  See the "spy satelite" thread.  
The distortion is mind boggling.
--David
David_Schreck@mindlink.bc.ca   or   Schreck@Wimsey.com
  res 984-8344 NVof 986-2254 VicOf 356-3003
(MLA - North Vancouver Lonsdale)  "Compare between shared ideals but
                                  choose between real alternatives"