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George Slade <George_Slade@Mindlink.bc.ca> wrote:

>I have just had the joy of reading the Parks report section 1-11.  Many thanks
>must go to Karl Pollack for making the report available in electronic form.

Thank you George.  Getting on line was the easy part.  Convincing the
Ministry of Finance to part with a copy was the hard end of the task.  It
took a rather firm call from one of our local Liberal MLA's, Doug Symons to
get the hard copy.

>I feel there are a few excerpts which should be highlighted for those
>who do not have the time to read the report in its entirety.

I think it should be read in its entirety to understand just how deep this
moral putrefaction oozed through the ranks of the NDP.

>�We found that the New Democratic Party of British Columbia was
>responsible, along with NCHS Charities Society, for the diversion of charity
>funds to political purposes in 1983 and 1984�

>This statement is a very strong statement.  One must keep in mind
>the author of the Parks report is a well respected CA.  If there is one

One also has to keep in mind that both the Premier and the Deputy Premier
stated publicly on several occassions that there is nothing in the Parks
Report to link the NDP with the NCHS and its scams.


>trait that seems common with all the CA�s I know is they are very
>very careful with their words.  CA�s are very aware of the effect
>their words may have and take great care not to stray on the side
>of libel or slander. 

You should point out that in this instance CA refers to Chartered
Accountant and not to Constituency Assistant.   :-)


>2.  Much of these activities were going on while the NDP was not in power, there seems
>to have been a political un-willingness on the part of the Social Credit Government in 
>power at the time to act on a large number of reports and allegations.  The un-willingness
>of the past Social Credit to use the NCHS to discredit the NDP indicates that there
>are bigger and dirtier skeletons in the Social Credit closets.  

That is not necessarily the impression I got.  I don't think that it was
the politicians in the Socred government who gave Stupich so much room to
maneuver around the Gaming Regs.  The way I read it it was the civil
servants in the Gaming Branch.  Oddly enough, membres of the largest union
in the province, one that is closest allied with the NDP and one that had
bailed out the ill-fated real estate speculations of the NDP-NCHS to the
tune of HALF A MILLION $$, namely, the BCGEU.

We all know that the Socreds had more than their share of crooks in their
ranks.  But the party itself was never implicated in orchestrating any
scams.  The NDP stands alone to be judged on ALL of its record, not just a
few provincial parks.


Karl Pollak
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