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“Ruthless killer” gets 22 years minimumDale Boyd

Black PressThere were feelings of relief for the family

of a Princeton murder victim after a “long, torturous haul.”

John Ike Koopmans, 51, received two life sentences and will be ineligible for parole for 22 years after Justice Miriam Maisonville handed down Koopmans’ sentence on Oct. 6 in Penticton Supreme Court.

“We’re ready to move forward,” said Cheri Franklin, sister of Robert Keith Wharton, 43, who was shot and killed on a rural Princeton property March 2013 alongside Rosemary Fox, 32.

Koopmans was found guilty of two counts of second degree murder and the attempted murder of Bradley Martin, 51, by a jury in April.

Franklin, who spoke on behalf of the Wharton family outside the courthouse after the sentence was handed down, said she is “unbelievably happy that it’s over.”

“We can maybe go forward and feel good — I can’t believe the Crown did this, he did it for us and wow. I don’t even know what to say. Such relief, such anxiety just lifted off my shoulders,” Franklin said fighting back tears. “It’s amazing, it’s amazing.”

“The justice system finally worked,”

Franklin said. “No possibility of parole for 22 years, he’s going to be an old man.”

Koopmans who wore a brown, collared shirt and black pants at the hearing chose not to address the court when given the opportu-nity. He said nothing through the sentencing proceedings and showed no emotion.

“I’ve known John for quite a long time and he’s never showed any kind of emotion through the whole thing. There’s not been one bit of emotion from him, so I had no expecta-tions of him saying anything you know. He’s a ruthless killer, what can you say?” Franklin said.

Facing two life sentences, the decision Justice Maisonville faced was one of parole eligibility. Koopmans’ defence suggested a 17-year period of ineligibility, while Crown put forward two consecutive periods of 15 years, totalling 30 years before he would be eligible for parole. Maisonville included relatively new legislation in her decision, Bill C-48, which amended the Criminal Code in 2011 aiming to enable judges to use parole ineligibility periods as instruments of denun-ciation.

The new sections of the Criminal Code were first used in 2013 in the case of Travis Baumgartner. It also allows juries to make

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Andrea DeMeerSpotlight Staff

While health care is important to all Canadians, its future is even more critical for people living in towns like Princeton, British Columbia, according to a local health care advocate.

“Absolutely,” said Ed Staples, president of the town’s Support Our Health Care Society. “Health care is such a personal issue because it affects everybody and because people liv-ing in rural, remote areas seem to have the most difficulty accessing health care services. For people living in Princeton it’s a major issue.”

Staples is also a member of the BC Healthcare Coalition, a non-partisan group

promoting health related policies. He said he urges local voters to consider federal parties’ plans for health care as they head to the polls.

The coalition recently published a guide outlining the parties’ stands on five key health care issues.

“The guide reflects what we’ve heard from our local candidates in meetings held with them over the past several weeks,” says Staples. “We met twice in person with Angelique Wood, the NDP candidate; twice with Karley Scott, running for the Liberals, once by telephone and once in person; and one telephone interview with Dan Albas for the Conservatives. We were unable to arrange a meeting with Robert Mellalieu with the Greens.”

SOHC has been talking with voters in Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola over the summer and fall about the future of health care and encouraging them to pledge to vote for better public health care on October 19th. Top concerns voiced by local residents include lack of adequate support for seniors care, hard to get a family doctor, federal cuts to health care budgets, and the movement toward private for-profit health care along the lines of the American system.

Despite a newly released Ekos poll that indicates health care is the number one prior-ity with voters, Staples acknowledged it has flown under the radar for most of the election campaign.

“I think this is a situation, frankly, where an

issue that is critically important to Canadians and especially to rural Canadians and to rural Canadians like people In Princeton that it hasn’t been discussed. When it does come up in debates it gets very, very little air time and that’s disappointing,” he said.

“Certainly the promises that are being made by the various parties , if they can fol-low through on those promises will have a very profound effect on health care in our local community on everything from being able to access a family physician to reducing wait times to being able to access transporta-tion.”

The BC Healthcare Coalition’s election guide can be viewed at: http://www.vote-publichealthbc.ca/election_evaluation.

Robert Keith Wharton, 43 of Princeton, pictured here with his mother, was killed in March 2013 along with his girlfriend Rosemary Fox, 32. Last week John Ike Koopmans was sen-tenced to a minimum of 22 years in prison for the murders and Wharton’s family said the sentence is a relief that will help them move on.

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Lumber industry waits for more information on trade deal Spotlight Staff

Princeton’s largest employer isn’t going out on a limb to pre-dict how recent trade agreement news will impact its business.

“We don’t have a lot to say because it is very early,” said Wayne Roznowsky, manager of public affairs for Canadian Weyerhaeuser, one of the largest sustainable forest products com-panies in the world.

“We will not speculate on what might or might not happen. In general terms Weyerhaeuser sup-ports long-term fair trade in soft-wood lumber across the Canada-US border. A negotiated soft-wood lumber agreement between Canada and the United States will provide trade certainly.”

The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement doesn’t resolve Canada’s long-running dispute with the United States over soft-wood lumber, or remove restric-tions on log exports from B.C.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the Canadian government would like to renew the Canada-

U.S. softwood agreement, expired as of Thanksgiving Day. It’s a side deal outside the North American Free Trade Agreement, and it won’t be covered by the Pacific Rim trade either.

“Obviously we would like to see this agreement move forward, and I think industry on both sides of the border would, but for rea-sons that were not entirely clear, the American administration hasn’t seen it that way,” Harper said in an interview with Black Press.

“In terms of forestry, what the TPP does do is provide new tariff-free access to many Asian coun-tries, including enhanced access to the Japanese market.”

Restrictions on log exports from B.C. are also not eased by the TPP, which includes Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand and Australia. B.C.’s control over Crown land log prices has long been an irritant with the U.S. and Japan, while private and aborigi-nal land log producers are restrict-ed by federal rules.

“B.C. was able to ensure that both provincial and federal log export controls will not change as a result of the TPP, despite pressure from Japan to eliminate them,” B.C. International Trade Minister Teresa Wat said in a statement. “B.C.’s objectives for the forestry sector during the TPP negotiations were to gain market access for forestry products to important TPP markets such as Japan, while maintaining existing log export controls.”

Premier Christy Clark said this week her first call to Ottawa after the Oct. 19 federal election will be about continuing the U.S. softwood lumber talks. Harper expressed confidence that despite the history of U.S. legal and trade actions over the years, the exist-ing deal can be extended.

“We’ve managed to export a lot of lumber over the years and I’m confident we will continue to,” Harper said.

With files from Tom Fletcher, Black Press.

The Canada-US softwood agreement expired on Thanksgiving Day, while the recently struck Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement opens Asian lumber markets.

Tara Bowie Spotlight Staff

A 44-year-old Princeton man received time served for punctur-ing the tires of a family friend with a knife last May.

Kevin Lynch, while represent-ing himself Thursday in Princeton court, pleaded guilty to mischief under $5,000 and possessing weapon for a dangerous purpose. A charge of uttering threats was dropped.

Lynch has been in custody since the incident which occurred May 23, 2015.

Crown Attorney Vernon Frolick presented a joint submis-sion of the events.

A feud between Lynch and a longtime family friend over money resulted in Lynch appear-ing at the man’s doorway with a knife at about 10 p.m.

Lynch lent the man money and there was a discrepancy in the amount. The man paid back $50 and Lynch thought it should

be a $100. “He arrived at his residence

with a knife in hand. The two spoke through the door. Mr. Lynch threatened to slash his two tires and then he went out and punctured the two tires on the driver’s side,” Frolick said.

In open court, Lynch stated an apology to his victim.

“I’m sorry. I lost my temper. I’m sorry. It won’t happen again,” he said from the accused’s box.

His victim accepted the apol-ogy.

Provincial court judge Meg Shaw handed down a sentence of 107 days and stiff probation orders.

Last month Lynch pleaded guilty to breach of recognizance for attending the Princeton Beer and Wine Store, which he was barred from being within a certain distance. He was sentenced to 40 days and used time served at a rate of time-and-a-half for that sentence as well.

Shaw stated she was con-cerned about Lynch’s quickness to temper.

“It’s extremely serious, sir, when anger takes over and you’re involved in incidents such as this,” she said.

Stipulations of his probation include, keeping the peace and no communication with his victim.

For the first month he must obey a curfew and be in his home between the hours of 9 p.m. And 6 a.m. He also cannot possess any weapons including knives except for the purpose of eating.

Lynch cannot consume any alcohol outside of his residence including at friend’s homes, bars or restaurants.

He also cannot attend any store, government or private, that sells alcohol in Princeton.

Lynch has been ordered to take anger management and any other course suggested by his probation officer.

Tire slasher must control temper

Spotlight StaffBy month’s end a trial date should be set for Karl

Gatzke. A meeting between a judicial case manager and

Gatzke’s lawyer will take place Oct. 19. It’s expect-ed a three-day trial date will be set then.

Gatzke did not appear in court or by phone but was represented by his lawyer Paul Evans via cell phone.

Gazke is facing numerous charges relating to a feud in the small village of Coalmont that took place over a period of several years culminating in a street brawl between neighbours.

A special Crown attorney is expected to be assigned to the case in the coming weeks.

“We hope a Crown is specially assigned to these matters but it hasn’t happened yet,” Crown Attorney Vernon Frolick said. “We hope it is in the next day or two.”

Gatzke currently faces charges of two counts of criminal harassment, two counts of criminal harass-ment – threatening conduct, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm and causing disturbance.

Gatzky trial pending

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Seeing the forest and the trees

How fear and ignorance can

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VICTORIA – There was a flurry of excitement in the B.C. legislature last week, as Delta South independent MLA Vicki Huntington released documents suggesting that a multinational manufacturing company con-tinued to buy up B.C. farms for carbon offsets after they said last June they would stop.

False alarm, as it turns out. Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick clarified that three more farms in the Peace and Cariboo region had indeed been bought, but the company was merely following legal advice to close deals on farms that it had already agreed to purchase.

The company, British-based cleaning product and pharmaceutical maker Reckitt Benckiser (RB) confirmed this. A company official reiterated that its program to buy farms and replant them with trees is suspended.

By the time the B.C. gov-ernment became aware of this global public relations scheme, thanks to the work of NDP MLA Lana Popham and others, about 10,000 hectares of farm-land was already planted with seedlings. RB initially said they were buying up abandoned and unproductive farms, but local

g o v e r n m e n t officials disput-ed that.

RB soon realized that u n d e r m i n i n g already pre-carious farm-ing communi-ties was going to provide the opposite of the green publicity they sought, at least in B.C. The company told me it is now looking to switch its carbon offset program to replanting forest areas depleted by pine beetle and fire.

I’ll believe that when I see it, but on the face of it, this sounds almost as questionable as converting farmland back to forests. Pine forests need fire to regenerate, so fires have been part of the regeneration of the ecosystem since the retreat of the last Ice Age.

Beetle-kill areas are already coming back, and they were never completely denuded in any case, so the notion of man-ual planting these areas seems impractical. Most are now criss-crossed with deadfall and all but impassible.

Another situation that received little public attention

was a report issued late this summer by the B.C. Forest Practices Board about forest stew-ardship plans.

The board reviewed 43 stew-ardship plans from all regions of B.C., prepared as required under provincial law by forest tenure hold-

ers on Crown land. They are supposed to deal with things like where roads go and how streams are protected.

This is the management sys-tem put in place in 2003, when the B.C. Liberal government changed its approach to for-est management. Gone was the NDP’s infamous seven-volume “Forest Practices Code,” which attempted to micromanage every detail of a timber licence, right down to inspecting for lit-ter left at a logging site.

In came “results-based” for-est management, where licence holders had to produce a plan showing stream protection and other values. The Forest Practices Board has found these plans often aren’t good for much, although results are generally good when they fol-

low up with on-the-ground audits of actual timber harvest areas.

The investigation found that many of the plans cover “vast and overlapping areas of the province, and were written using legal language that makes them very difficult for pub-lic understanding or review.” Little has changed since a simi-lar finding in 2006.

During that time, the for-ests ministry was turned into Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, with greatly increased responsibility over wildlife, mining, gas drill-ing and so on.

Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald, who traveled the province as NDP forests critic in recent years, says the problem now is there just aren’t enough people on the ground to assess what’s going on in our huge expanse of Crown land.

Meanwhile the city media covers professional protest-ers issuing demands about the Walbran Valley.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tom-fletcherbc Email: [email protected]

The best thing that could happen right now to the Harper Conservatives is for somebody to rob a convenience store while wearing a niqab.

Wouldn’t that just put the M in Majority?Polls indicate most Canadians support Harper

and his red herring positioning on manners of Muslim dress, including proposed legislation to ban the niqab at citizenship ceremonies and more recently a suggestion that a new Conservative gov-ernment would look at extending a prohibition of the niqab and burka to women who work for the federal civil service.

Tough talk – and anyone scanning the headlines in the past week could be forgiven for imagining Ottawa is currently under attack from armies of veiled, robed and ultra-orthodox followers of Islam.

Harper recently conceded to the CBC that the niqab is “not the biggest issue” in the coming vote.

Given that in the past four years 680,000 women have taken the Canadian citizenship oath, and the issue of unveiling has come up exactly twice, it’s reassuring to see the prime minister at least has the crisis in perspective.

The Conservatives are playing to two of the low-est common denominators: fear and ignorance.

And it is nothing more than a carefully crafted strategy to wrong-foot the opposition in a matter of misguided public opinion.

The essential wrong-thinking behind limiting religious freedom and rights of expression hardly needs analysis.

Suffice to say that Stephen Harper is on the record as stating he would not want his daughter to be forced to wear a niqab. The same law that ensures that is not going to ever happen in this country is the same law that protects women from being told they can’t wear one.

Every Canadian should know that.The government of the day is not empowered to

auction off the Charter of Rights and Freedoms just to win an election.

But apparently it’s not above promoting and exploiting xenophobia to earn a few votes.

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One thing nobody stresses enough to women preparing to become mothers is this:

It’s important to pay really, really close attention in the prenatal classes. You are going to need to practice that deep, focused breathing not just during childbirth, but everyday for the rest of your life.

In, two, three, four.Hold, two, three, four,Out, two, three four.This is a strategy that ensures survival

through everything from emergency room visits to calls from the principal’s office and double overtime.

It is also pretty darned important to remember when your kids begin driving any-thing larger than a Little Tykes coupe.

At last count there were three DeMeer progeny licensed by their respective govern-ments to drive.

In, two, three, four.Hold, two, three, four,Out, two, three four.The newest driver recently passed his

beginner’s exam and now there is a large bright “L” in the rear window of the Ford Taurus. As an aside, in our home province of Ontario, there are no “Ls” or “Ns” on cars to warn the motoring public that a driver might be lacking in experience.

There are just those magnets that say

“Baby on Board.” Same differ-ence.

Occupying the passenger seat beside someone you gave birth to requires a calm courage for sure. Gravol helps as well, and not just because it’s a lovely pill that makes you sleppy. New driver are – for lack of a better descrip-tion – jerky. They brake hard, accelerate erratically and have a tendency to bounce between the centre line and the shoulder like the car is one large golf ball at the mini-putt course. Even a quick trip to town is enough to induce nausea, to say nothing of whiplash.

But I’ve breathed through worse and can handle driving with a teenage son.

What is unbearable, however, is driving with a teenage son and a husband in the same vehicle.

A couple of Saturdays ago we travelled to Keremeos to visit the fruit stands. The two DeMeer men sat up front and I was relegated to the back seat much like a child.

We weren’t to Bromley Rock before deep regret took root and by the time we got to Hedley I was unbuckling the seat belt, claw-ing at the automatic locks and begging to be set free.

Let me out. I will hitch-hike to Keremeos. I will walk to Keremeos. I will crawl on broken glass to Keremeos but I will not sit in this car any longer and listen to the two of you bicker about safe driving practices.

Mr. DeMeer has many, many talents and numerous qualities to recommend him as a life partner. Offering driving instruction is not among them.

Doubtless he is well mean-ing. However every time he opens his mouth in a vehicle my father-in-law leaps out. He wants to correct but it sounds like criticism. He wants to impart wisdom and knowledge and it sounds like condescension.

This goes back much farther than having three children of driving age.

The DeMeers met more than thirty years ago when one of us just old enough to drive and the other had been driving for some time. Draw your own conclusions.

When I finally got my “Baby on Board” pass my husband-to-be offered to teach me how to drive his 1972 Dodge Ram pick up truck, with manual steering and brakes.

That lasted a day.In Mr. DeMeer’s defense I did almost

run over an old man, in a small town called Drumbo, Ontario, whose only crime was to be outside at dusk watering his garden. When the truck jumped the curb and careened across his lawn he dropped his hose and ran into the house. (Don’t judge, manual steering is pretty tricky.)

The following week I spent what might be the most significant $500 of my whole life, and enrolled in a Young Drivers of Canada program.

The rest is not exactly history as the story lives on.

We can’t go anywhere, when I’m driving, that every perceived error in judgment isn’t noted and catalogued.

You are following too close. Hmmmmm, you must be in a hurry eh? Don’t ride the brakes, just relax. (Relax????) If I fail to signal a turn in a timely fashion he makes an irritating click-click, click-noise with his tongue, as a reminder.

It doesn’t help at all when I remind him I’ve been driving for more than thirty years and I’ve got the Young Drivers of Canada diploma to prove my competence.

Some old drivers are – for lack of a better description –jerky.

old dog new tricks

ANDREA DEMEER

Teenagers, husbands – they drive ya crazy

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There is a common thread running through both profession-al baseball and party politics in Canada.

When an umpire calls the last “out!” in the 2015 World Series, the players will pick up their fat pay-cheques, retrieve their golf clubs and head to the links. The disci-plined ones will continue their con-ditioning regime. At the manage-ment level, there will be frenzied preparation for the next season of ball. The fans, having cheered until they are hoarse, will go home and focus on other interests until the umpires again call, “play ball.”

When the current federal elec-tion campaign has run its course, the voters, like the baseball fans, will also resume other pursuits.

Having voted, we believe those we have elected will now carry out their duties with an acceptable degree of diligence, having in mind what is best for citizens and the nation.

We need to understand though, that the serious politicians, whether

winners or losers, will now begin planning and strategizing to win the next election. Just as for play-ers, managers and owners, base-ball is about winning, for career politicians, politics is also about winning.

Many of their decisions will likely have little to do with good governance. We should not forget that over the past four years, the political parties have been engaged in an aggressive, perpetual “dog fight,” seeking to score political points.

In baseball it’s not a problem that fans are inactive in the off season. In politics though, when the people are not involved between elections, there is a significant down side. As citizens, we are stakeholders in our nation. If we are not attentive, we may one day understand to our chagrin, politics is often more about achieving and maintaining power than governing prudently.

In contending this, I certainly do not mean to slam the many fine individuals running for election. Recently I attended a local all-

candidates meeting and concluded each is a reputable person with honourable intentions. If the party hierarchy listened more frequently to our representatives, we would almost certainly have a superior form of government.

In our country, as in every coun-try around the globe, there are ambitious individuals aggressively grasping for the levers of govern-ment, whatever its form. And those holding the levers cling to them tenaciously, doing whatever is nec-essary to thwart rivals.

Too often this results in deci-sions designed to gain favour with multi-national corporations, or with particular elements of the elector-ate, not to provide sound gover-

nance. This dynamic has prevailed

throughout history. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire is one of the most thoroughly documented cases of often mutually destruc-tive struggles between ambitious individuals, sapping the vitality of a nation and in time contributing to its down fall.

In “How Rome Fell: Death of a Super Power”, Adrian K Goldsworthy says, “there was never a shortage of men wanting to be Emperor. Being killed by a rival remained the most frequent cause of death of Emperors.”

At times powerful army com-manders challenged the Emperor. If the challenge was successful, the usurper usually had the Emperor killed. Goldsworthy states further, “senior officials regularly arranged for the disgrace and even death of colleagues. Personal survival and success were the foremost goals of most officials.” By the third century of the Empire’s existence, Emperors and their administrations were thinking less of the good of

the Empire than their own survival. It was not a recipe for efficiency.

Goldsworthy sees parallels in our time and suggests “perhaps we should expect more from our politi-cal leaders. If they do not set an example by placing the wider good above personal or party interests, it is most unlikely anyone else will behave any better. A greater will-ingness to take genuine responsibil-ity would be a good place to start.”

Although Canadian political experience is considerably more civilized than that of the Roman empire, the grasping for power is uncomfortably real.

For this reason, it is essential we encourage all politicians to work first for the good of Canada and its citizens, not for party advantage. After this election we need to con-tinue asking questions and demand-ing substantive answers of those elected to represent us.

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ourselves to take to the polling booths once more. It’s been a long haul to the final plebiscite and the candidates must be pretty exhausted by now.

I think that we all feel exhausted, as we now get around to thinking about where to place that all important cross. If we believe in the polls then the NDP has gone from leader to tail end in a very short time, and it appears that “their moment has passed”. The Liberals are galloping, and the Conservatives are sit-ting back awaiting.

What has happened? Well that old expres-sion is that you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, has finally come to roost with Mulcair shooting himself in the foot repeat-edly.

His grand plan of insignificant tax raises, increases in social spending (which is of course standard NDP policy) and a balanced budget has just not cut it with any average thinking Canadian.

These are all of course centrist policies which do not sit well with the old guard lefties, and finally the NDP has now, with no choice left, reverted to their old far left style policy with their decision to oppose (if needed) and renounce any signing of Canada’s participation of the Trans-Pacific

Partnership (TPP) and the power to cancel any such agreement should Canada sign it before the election. This is of course if they get elected into power. It all appears to be like a drowning man grasping at the straw with his last gasp of air.

For those readers who are not yet au fait with the TPP it is briefly as follows.The TPP is the largest trade deal that Canada will ever have signed since the original Canada-US Agreement, and would mean that the NDP could in fact renege on Canada creating the largest free trade area in the world, an area in fact bigger than the entire European Economic Union or NAFTA.

This will cover 40 per cent of the world’s economy (yes more than a third of the entire worlds GDP), and rescues or eliminates bar-riers in a wide range of sectors, which could lead to tremendous increases in Canadian exports of pork, beef, sea food, wood, canola, cheese and high-tech machinery to name just a few.

This is a deal which in reality is going to change the face of the economy of this coun-try for ever, and believe it or not, the NDP is threatening to boycott it in exactly the same way that they threatened to boycott NAFTA many years ago.

Well of course when Mulcair got himself into a tight corner with his apparent devastat-

ing support for the niqab in Quebec, his for-eign policy of Canada’s avoidance of its role in combating ISIL, his ridiculous demand for the boycotting of Saudi Arabia (result-ing in a $15 billion defence contract which Canada will lose), his absolute insistence of a balanced budget over a three year period (but still managing to pay for all his social reforms) and the fact that now he has threat-ened to cancel the biggest trade deal in the world should the NDP get into power, then no wonder he is coming third in the polls.

He has now lost all credibility and my feeling is that he is going to pass into total obscurity post election. This is not a leader of an NDP party that we have grown to know over the years, and certainly nothing like pre-viously entrenched NDP policy. Wow does the party need a Jack Layton now!

According to 60 per cent of Canadians polled, this election really revolves around the question of the economy and the econo-my only.

All the other irrelevancies such as the niqab, the environment, abortion, foreign policy, taxes, electoral reform, big govern-ment, international reputation, the Mike Duffy affair, all remain important in their own right but are secondary in the grand scheme of things.

For Canada to survive in an increasingly

difficult environment, such as the environ-mentalists wanting to destroy our oil and gas industry, with manufacturing jobs fleeing overseas, as well as untested ideology from inexperienced and as yet unelected political parties, then the need for a government which is open to new trade agreements, has steered Canada through difficult economic times, and has some experience with dealing with these weighty issues is patently obvious.

As of the moment of writing this letter the position that Trudeau will take on the TPP was still not clear but he tentatively, and thankfully, appears to be supporting it.

So if we leave the NDP out of this dis-cussion, then that leaves us with the other two parties. Do we go for a “Justin just not ready yet”, or do we go for the “Devil that we know”.

There is no doubt in my mind that we are heading for a minority government probably Liberal. Another election soon after the upcoming one would of course, be on the cards, as we certainly do not have another Trudeau (if elected) who has the power or charisma of his father to go to bed with the NDP to force a majority (1972).

All speculation of course but very interest-ing.

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Forwards (pick 1)__ Crosby, S (PIT)__ Ovechkin, A (WAS)__ Seguin, T (DAL)__ Stamkos, S (TB)__ Tavares, J (NYI)__ Voracek, J (PHI)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Benn, J (DAL)__ Giroux, C (PHI)__ Johnson, T (TB)__ Malkin, E (PIT)__ Perry, C (ANA)__ Tarasenko, V (STL)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Backstrom, N (WAS)__ Getzlaf, R (ANA) __ Johansen, R (CBJ)__ Kane, P (CHI)__ Kessel, P (PIT)__ Sedin, D (VAN)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Datsyuk, P (DET)__ Foligno, N (CBJ)__ Hudler, J (CGY)__ Pavelski, J (SJ)__ Sedin, H (VAN)__ Toews, J (CHI)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Forsberg, F (NAS)__ Gaudreau, J (CGY)__ Nash, R (NYR)__ Pacioretty, M (MTL)__ Parise, Z (MIN)__ Zetterberg, H (DET)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Hall, T (EDM)__ Hossa, M (CHI)__ Kucherov, N (TB)__ MacKinnon, N (COL)__ Schwartz, J (STL)__ Stone, M (OTT)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Couture, L (SJ)__ Eberle, J (EDM)__ Landeskog, G (COL)__ Monahan, S (CGY)__ Palat, O (TB) __ Steen, A (STL)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Duchene, M (COL)__ Kopitar, A (LA)__ Nugent-Hopkins, R (EDM)__ Oshie, T (WAS)__ Spezza, J (DAL)__ Tatar, T (DET)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Bergeron, P (BOS)__ Brassard, D (NYR)__ Plekanec, T (MTL)__ Ribeiro, M (NAS)__ Staal, E (CAR)__ Turris, K (OTT)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Carter, J (LA)__ Krejci, D (BOS)__ Thornton, J (SJ)__ van Riemsdyk, J (TOR)__ Vrbata, R (VAN) __ Wheeler, B (WPG)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Hornqvist, P (PIT)__ Huberdeau, J (FLA)__ Iginla, J (COL)__ Ladd, A (WPG)__ McDavid, C (EDM)__ Nyquist, G (DET)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Backes, D (STL)__ Hartnell, S (CBJ)__ Pominville, J (MIN)__ O’Reilly, R (BUF)__ Ryan, B (OTT)__ Stepan, D (NYR)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Callahan, R (TB)__ Kuznetsov, E (WAS)__ Little, B (WPG)__ Marleau, P (SJ)__ Okposo, K (NYI)__ Simmonds, W (PHI)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Desharnais, D (MTL)__ Gaborik, M (LA) __ Jagr, J (FLA)__ Vanek, T (MIN)__ Saad, B (CBJ)__ Strome, R (NYI)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Filppula, V (TB)__ Gallagher, B (MTL)__ Hoffman, M (OTT)__ Kane, E (BUF)__ Kesler, R (ANA)__ Lucic, M (LA)

Forwards (pick 1)__ Bjugstad, N (FLA)__ Bozak, T (TOR)__ Galchenyuk, A (MTL)__ Scheifele, M (WPG)__ Toffoli, T (LA)__ Zibanejad, M (OTT)

Defence (pick 1)__ Burns, B (SJ)__ Giordano, M (CGY)__ Karlsson, E (OTT)__ Letang, K (PIT)__ Shattenkirk, K (STL)__ Subban, P (MTL)

Defence (pick 1)__ Barrie, T (COL) __ Byfuglien, D (WPG)__ Carlson, J (WAS)__ Streit, M (PHI)__ Weber, S (NAS)__ Yandle, K (NYR)

Defence (pick 1)__ Doughty, D (LA)__ Faulk, J (CAR)__ Josi, R (NAS)__ Keith, D (CHI)__ Markov, A (MTL)__ Wideman, D (CGY)

Defence (pick 1)__ Ekblad, A (FLA)__ Ekman-Larsson, O (ARI)__ Green, M (DET)__ Hamilton, D (CGY)__ Hedman, V (TB)__ Pietrangelo, A (STL)

Defence (pick 1)__ Daley, T (CHI)__ Johnson, J (CBJ)__ Klingberg, J (DAL)__ Kronwall, N (DET)__ Krug, T (BOS)__ Muzzin, J (LA)

Goalies (pick 1)__ Bishop, B (TB)__ Holtby, B (WAS)__ Lundqvist, H (NYR)__ Price, C (MTL)__ Quick, J (LA)__ Rinne, P (NAS)

Goalies (pick 1)__ Anderson, F (ANA)__ Dubnyk, D (MIN)__ Fleury, M (PIT)__ Halak, J (NYI) __ Luongo, R (FLA)__ Rask, T (BOS)

Goalies (pick 1)__ Bobrovsky, S (CBJ)__ Crawford, C (CHI) __ Hiller, J (CGY)__ Miller, R (VAN)__ Schneider, C (NJ)__ Varlamov, S (COL)

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By 2027, the Conservatives will have cut $52.5 billion from federal health funding. This will leave community patients on their own, seniors without residential care, and sick people in hospital halls. Help your family get the health care they deserve. Vote for better health care on October 19th.

Major Health Care Commitments (positive, negative)

PARTY FEDERAL FUNDING NATIONAL DRUG PLAN

SENIORS’ CARE

Conservative $52.5 billion total cut by 2027 from current levels

No commitment No commitment

Green Renew Health Accord with 6% annual increase

Yes Support for home care

Liberal Renew Health Accord Renegotiate funding

Supports bulk buying of drugs

$3 billion over 4 years for home care, prioritize seniors’ facilities in infrastructure plan

NDP Renew Health Accord with 6% annual increase

Yes Homecare for 41,000 more seniors, 5,000 more long-term care beds

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If you are elected but your party is not the governing party, how will you ensure our concerns are heard at the federal level?

My Private Members Bill that opened the Canadians wine mar-ket for our local vintners was passed both in the House of Commons and the Senate with unanimous support. It is rare to achieve unanimous support on anything in Ottawa and this reflects my approach to work with other elected officials and public servants respectfully and collab-oratively. Those who read my weekly reports will know I avoid excessive partisanship and do not use pro-fanity or alarmist language when in the House of Commons. During my four years as a Member of Parliament for Okanagan-Coquihalla I have main-tained a positive working relation-ship with all local mayors and

council, MLA’s, local First Nations leaders and senior staff at various levels of government. In my view the importance of people working together is how things get done. Finger pointing, heavy rhetoric, extreme language and excessive partisanship might make for great headlines however these things all serve as barriers to productive governance. People deserve to be heard and treated respectfully to create positive working relation-ships that get results. That has always been my goal and will con-tinue to be my focus regardless of who forms government.

If a vote arises on a controver-sial issue and there is a conflict between your party’s direction, the dominant view of your constit-uents and your own conscience, how would you make your deci-sion.

I experienced something simi-

lar to this during the previous 41st Parliament. In the 2011 elec-tion I campaigned on a promise from our Prime Minister that if elected, our government would not re-open a debate on the ter-mination of a pregnancy. As some may recall, a motion from one of my Conservative col-leagues came before the House of Commons that in my view if supported, would have broken that commitment that I had cam-paigned on. Although a num-ber of citizens encouraged that I vote in support of this motion, the majority I heard from were opposed. As a result I voted against this motion, a decision that was disappointing to many citizens, including some support-ers. Each week I make a point of writing a weekly report and request feedback from citizens on the issues I raise. This weekly feed-back is what I take to Ottawa and

is part of what I share in caucus, along with my speeches in the House and in my voting record. This is the reason why I make every effort to never miss a vote, a commitment that is important to me as citizens deserve to be represented in a manner they can be proud of.

Why should we trust you and your party to represent us in Ottawa?

Canadians famously will recall the Liberal party once promised, if elected, they would abolish the GST. This is why trust is so impor-tant in this election. Our gov-ernment made a commitment to reduce the GST and we delivered on it. Eliminating the long gun registry, repealing the Canadian wheat board that only applied to western farmers and not farmers located in eastern Canada were also promises made that our gov-ernment delivered on.

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The Liberal Party of Canada contacted me in early 2014 about the possibility of run-ning for Parliament. At that time I had more than enough on my plate with a demand-ing career and a young family so I did not com-mit to anything more than to think about the possibility. Over the course of

a year, the party con-tacted me many more times and I had the opportunity to discuss the possibility with members of caucus, the party executive and Justin Trudeau. Central to all of these discussions was the role of critical and indepen-dent thinkers in cau-cus. I have spent the last several years work-ing towards becoming a lawyer and I value being able to speak my mind. As stated above, I strongly believe that caucus should be filled with critical, indepen-dent thinkers who have the ability to disagree without being disagree-able and a leader who welcomes contrasting ideas. This riding deserves a representative who has these skills and

the freedom to exer-cise them in Ottawa - I believe I am that per-son. I have never been a member of any political party before agreeing to run with this team. I spent the last several years working towards becoming a lawyer and I did not put that on hold to pursue a career that would stifle my voice I am also a strong believer in using fact and evidence to inform decision-making. The Liberal Party of Canada has a plan to invest in growth and Canadians because that is what Canadians are telling us and it is what the evi-dence concludes. I am committed to using my skills to stand up for this rid-ing in Ottawa and the Liberal Party of Canada

is committed to making decisions based on evi-dence – those two fac-tors are fundamental and I hope they instill the degree of confi-dence you will need to place your trust in me.

If you are elected but your party is not the governing party, how will you ensure our con-cerns are heard at the federal level? This is where my abil-ity to work collabora-tively is highlighted. A large part of my role in the 10 years that I worked for the fed-eral government was to develop strong, respectful relationships with all other levels of government and com-munity based organi-zations, regardless of political stripe or objec-tive.

I was often tasked with leading new proj-ects that required col-laboration between all these stakeholders but were very politically charged. I have a proven track record of negotiating agreement between parties with long-stand-ing disagreements and this will be a significant asset should I be elect-ed but the Liberal Party not form government.

I take this responsibil-ity very seriously and I will advocate for this riding to the best of my ability regardless of what party forms gov-ernment. If a vote arises on a controversial issue and there is a conflict between your party’s direction, the dominant view of your constitu-ents and your own con-science, how would you make your decision.

As a lawyer I am trained to ensure that facts and evidence sup-port my arguments and positions. I would look to evidence as the pri-mary lens for any deci-sion, especially where there may be conflict-ing views.

Karley Scott, Liberal

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ArtsSHIRLEY’S ART CLASSES:Wednesday & Thursday @ Riverside Center Call Shirley at 250-295-4076

GARDEN CLUB: Meets third Tuesday of every month, 1 PM, Seniors Branch 30. Call Doreen @ 250-295-1577

ARTS COUNCIL: Meets at Noon on the third Wednesday of the month. Everyone Welcome! Contact Marjorie Holland, Pres., 250-295-6718 or Joann Gabriel, Sec., 250-295-3361 for location. General meetings quarterly as announced.

BUNCHGRASS QUILTERSMeet 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month at the Riverside Centre from 10 - 3 p.m.. Everyone Welcome! Contact Sharon 250-295-4194 or Rosemary 250-295-6511

PRINCETON POTTERS GUILD, RIVERSIDE POTTERY STUDIO:Access to the potter’s wheel or hardwork, workshop op-portunities, group projects. Call Sue for more info or to join. 250-295-0527

PRINCETON TRADITIONAL MUSIC SOCIETY:The Princeton Traditional Music Society puts on the Traditional Music Festival each year in August, featur-ing traditional music from many places. The three-day festival is free and run entirely by volunteers. The 100+ musicians and dancers also offer their talents for free. If you would like to help out with the festival, please con-tact Jon or Rika @ 250-295-6010

Community:INTERESTED IN CHRISTIAN MEDITATION?For people who want to learn to pray with great sim-plicity, for people who would be willing to get to know Jesus who loves each of us immensely, for people who are at a dead end, for people who want to get to know them-selves, for people who want to make a new beginning! We can go to God together and it’s free! Call me: Fr. Harry Clarke at 250-295-3541.

ORL- PRINCETON BRANCH:Tuesdays: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m./ 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.Wednesdays: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.Fridays: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

PRINCETON MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES: 167 Vermilion Avenue [email protected]

WELCOME WAGON! Are you a new to Princeton? If so, we have information regarding local, civic, community services and facilities. We also have gifts for you from local merchants and busi-nesses. Call 1-866-856-8442

HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: Meets second Monday of every month, 1:00 p.m. Hos-pital Board Room. For info., Call Doreen @ 250-295-1577

PRINCETON and DISTRICT COMMUNITY SKILLS CENTRE SOCIETY:Meetings are held quarterly on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m.

HEDLEY LIBRARY HOURS: A reminder that the Library is open every Thurs. from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. and is located at the OAPO Hall on Scott Ave.

Community:HEDLEY SENIORS’ CENTRE: 3rd Monday of every month regular general meetings - Everyone welcome. 2nd Sunday Pancake Breakfast, 8 am - 10 am. Daily Coffee & conversation 6:30 am to 8 am. Every Tuesday & Thursday exercise at 9 am.

SENIORS BRANCH #30 POT LUCK SUPPER: Last Friday of every month, 5:30 p.m. Seniors Centre. Members can invite a guest.

MEMBERS ONLY POOL TOURNAMENT: Last Tuesday of every month at the Senior’s Centre. 10:00 am

WHIST & CRIB: (Seniors Branch #30) First Saturday of each month at 1 PM. Coffee & refreshments included. Everyone welcome.

VERMILION FORKS PRINCETON O.A.P.O. BR. #185: Regular meetings second Friday of every month at 2 p.m.. Pot luck supper every third Friday at 5:00 p.m.

SEARCH AND RESCUE TRAINING SESSIONS: Meetings will be held on the � rst and third Tuesday of every month. Call Arnie Powell at 250-295-6759 for more information.

LITTLE FOLKS NURSERY SCHOOL: Meetings are every third Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. at LFNS. 250-295-3083

PRINCETON LEGION BRANCH #56: Reminds all veterans that the D.V.A. Now makes home visits. For more info. Phone 250-295-6060

JA SCHOOL & COMMUNITY GARDEN:New members invited to volunteer as “garden angels” attend committee meetings and garden their own plots. Phone Sandra 250-295-3779, Sharon 250-295-4080 or JAE School 250-295-6727

CINDY PAROLIN SAFE HOMES PROGRAM: Princeton and area, crisis intervention, emotional sup-port, information, legal strategies and safe shelter in cases of abuse against women in relationships. Call the 24 hour women’s crisis line at 250-295-8211 for con� -dential services.

MONDAY NIGHT BRIDGE:@ Riverside Centre 7 - 9:30. Knowledge of bridge nec-essary. Call Gail @ 250-295-0171

DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB:Wednesdays @ Riverside Centre 10:30-3. Call Arlen @ 250-295-6157

Health

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN:If interested in attending, please call: Barb 250-295-4050 or Del 250-295-3266TOPS: (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meets at Riverside Wellness Centre every Thursday. Weigh-in-Time 8:30 AM Meeting 9:00–10:00 AM. For more information please contact Lynda 250- 295-3658 or Myrna 250-295-7272 Visit www.tops.org

HealthCOMPASSIONATE FRIENDS: Group helps bereaved parents. Will meet as needed. Call Shirley Haker at 250-295-3607. [email protected]

CRISIS LINE: You can call us 24 hours a day, everyday, and your call is con� dential and anonymous. The crisis line is 250-493-6622. Or call collect from locations within the South Okanagan Similkameen: 250-493-6622.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS:Meet Friday & Saturday In Tulameen at 7:30 p.m. at Li-brary call 250-295-7005

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Tuesdays @ 7:30 p.m. United Church. Contacts: Fred 250-295-7272 or Marena 250-295-7663 AL-ANON:Are you concerned about someone’s drinking? Contact Central Referral @1-604-688-1716

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: Meets every Wednesday & Sunday at the Info Centre in Chamber Basement 7:00 P.M. Phone 1-877-234-5809

Club Notes:FREEMASONRY: FOR MEN OF GOOD CHARACTER:Freemasonry has been active in B.C. for over 130 years. It is a fraternity open to men of all races and religions. If you are of good character and want more information, please contact: The Secretary Similkameen Lodge #95A.F. & A.M. C/O Box 174Princeton, BC V0X 1W0

ROYAL PURPLE:Meetings � rst and third Tuesdays 7:30 PM, Princeton.

ELKS: Contact Chris at 250-295-3949.

PRINCETON PERFORMING ARTS: Meet � rst Tuesday of each month @ 7 p.m. in Riverside Theatre. Contact Derek @ 250-295-3037

ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION: General meeting held on the third Sunday of each month at 1:00 PM.

GRANITE CREEK PRESERVATION SOCIETY: Meet the third Thursday of every month at 1:00 p.m. in the Princeton Museum Archive Room (upstairs). Every-one is welcome! There will be no meetings in July & Aug.

PRINCETON LADIES AUXILIARY LEGION BRANCH 56: Meet 2nd Tuesday of the month @ Legion Hall at 7:00 p.m.

HEDLEY MUSEUM:General Meeting, meets the 2nd Monday of each month. 6 p.m. @ The Hedley Museum

THE PRINCETON RIFLE AND REVOLVER CLUB: INDOOR SHOOTING RANGE Juniors & Seniors meet at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Family Centre (behind the legion). Phone 250-295-6150.

VERMILION FORKS FIELD NATURALISTS:Group meets second Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m. at the Riverside Centre. Public welcome.

OTTER VALLEY FISH & GAME:Meetings 3rd Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Club House.

Club Notes:

VERMILION TRAILS SOCIETY:Meets at the Chamber Basement on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. For more info: Contact [email protected] New Members welcome!

PXA MEETING: Held on the third Tuesday of each month. 7 p.m., at the Princeton PXA Grounds. New Members welcome!

PRINCETON FISH & GAME:Princeton Fish and Game Association, meet the second Wednesday of the Month at the Princeton Library, con-tact Al Lay 250-295-0250.

PRINCETON & DISTRICT FALL FAIR ASSOCIATION:Meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month in the of� ce at the PXA Grounds at 6:30 p.m.

PRINCETON ROTARY CLUB:Meets every Wednesday @ 6 p.m. Heartland Restaurant (dining room). For more info. Call Judy @ 250-295-0217. New members welcome!

COPPERHILL LANES:YBC Bowling Saturday 10 AM. Club 55. Mens, Ladies and Mixed bowling leagues. Call 250-295-6500 for more information.

SPECIAL “O” BOARD;Meets 3rd Tuesday of the month. Contact 250-295-7218 for meeting place & time.

LAPIDARY PRINCETON’S ROCK & FOSSIL CLUB:Meetings held third Tuesday of the month. 7:00 p.m. Riverside Centre. Call Franz Hofer @ 250-295-3896 for more info. New members welcome!

PRINCETON COMMUNITY BAND:Meets Mondays and Thursdays 6 p.m. in the PSS Band Room. New musicians welcome!

PRINCETON CURLING CLUB:Leagues start Oct. 20th. Mon - mixed, Wed - Ladies, Thurs - Day League. www.princetoncurlingclub.com or 250-295-6400

RECREATIONAL BADMINTON:Mondays at 8:00 pm at PSS gym, beginners welcome. Adult & Juniors (age 12+)

YouthGIRL GUIDES OF CANADA:Contact: Carol Mack 250-295-7085

PRINCETON MINOR HOCKEY:Lori Gullison 250-295-3977

SIMILKAMEEN (JKA) SHOTOKAN KARATE CLUB: 250-295-3909 or 250-295-7374

PRINCETON POSSE JR. HOCKEY CLUB: 250-295-6544

PRINCETON FIGURE SKATING CLUB:Lynette Boyd: 250-295-7113

KOKANEE SUMMER SWIM CLUB:Lindsay: 250-295-0759

PRINCETON FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY : FAMILY PLACE 120 Kenley Ave. open Tues., Wed., and Thurs. 11- 2. (Pre-natal) 11 -12 Moms help prepare and enjoy lunch together.

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Princeton Pentecostal Church

165 Vermilion Avenueinvites you to join us in

Sunday Worship10:30 am

Pastor Jack McNeil250-295-7951

Princeton Baptist Church

Across from Arena - Old Hedley Road Family Worship

10:00 am

250-295-7752

St. Paul’s United Anglican Church

O� ce: 250-295-7714

WORSHIP - 10:00 AM

190 - 1st AvenueEveryone Welcome

Living Water Community Church

Invites You to38 Kenley Avenue

10:30 AM Morning WorshipPastor Jason Neu� eld

Tel: 250-295-7733Cell: 250-293-6224

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TAX EXEMPTION BYLAW

At the October 19, 2015 Regular Meeting Town Council will consider providing permissive tax exemption for the following properties for the 2016 taxation year in accordance with Section 224 of the Community Charter.

Name 2015 Exemption

Roman Catholic Church 43 Billiter 411.29 Foursquare Gospel Church 38 Kenley 381.67 Foursquare Gospel Church Kenley Ave 139.61 Foursquare Gospel Church Kenley Ave 39.67 Foursquare Gospel Church Halliford Ave 18.58 Pentecostal Assemblies 165 Vermilion 298.80 St Paul’s Presbyterian Church 190 1st St 509.72 Princeton Long Term Care Society 98 Ridgewood 327.05 Interior Health Authority 595 Ridgewood 1,898.28 Princeton Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses 604 Ridgewood 880.34 Crown Provincial BC - trails 19.08 Crown Provincial BC - trails 22.60 Baptist Church of Princeton 160 Old Hedley 460.51 Crown Provincial BC - trails 13.06 Crown Provincial BC - trails 72.32 Princeton & District Community Services 262 Poplar 117.74 Princeton & District Community Services 88 Fenchurch 298.40 Princeton & District Community Services 252 Lachine 133.00 This bylaw proposes to exempt properties from taxation that would have otherwise generated approximately $6,000 annual tax revenue. Shirley McMahon, Director of Finance Town of Princeton

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The Huff and Petersen families would like to extend their sincere and heartfelt thank you to Doctor Black and all the staff at Ridgewood Lodge for their wonderful and loving care towards Roy in his last years. Your compassion and understanding has been a tremendous comfort to our family.

Thank You

20 15CANADAVOTES!

Angelique Wood,NDP


The NDP knows that we need to work on our eco-

nomic stability, and we need torefocus the priorities from subsidizing the gas and oil industry back into our coun-try’s citizens who have worked hard their whole lives. The Parliamentary Budget Office has released a report which shows that the NDP has the best track record in Canada, of both provincial and federal parties for balanced budgets. We can’t even believe the Harper Conservatives when they tell us we’re not in a recession when the impartial reports tell us that we are actually in a recession. If you are elected but your party is not the governing

party, how willyou ensure our concerns are heard at the fed-eral level? I have always believed in working across party lines and will strive to represent the citizens of this area no matter what. My NDP MP Alex Atamanenko was elected for three terms and always worked with the Conservative government, introducing pri-vate member’s bills and mak-ing sure that services were available to our ridings’ citi-zens. He brought the pass-port “mobile office” concept to our riding, helping people to get their passport paper-work filed without them hav-ing to travel to Kelowna or

Vancouver. I will continue to offer such services throughout our riding.If a vote arises on a contro-versial issue and there is a conflict between your party’s direction, the dominant view of your constituents and your own conscience, how would you make your decision. I believe in making evidence-based decisions, and in the greatest good for the great-est number. In the case of a controversial issue, I would look to protecting the rights and safety of the citizens of our area as the first priority. I would stand for my constitu-ents before following a party line.

Working for local interests a universal campaign theme

Why should we trust you and your party to

represent us in Ottawa? Trust is a very big issue with voters. Voters see the corrup-tion in government (not just bad mistakes). I believe this is one of the main reasons that the voter turnout is so low. The Green Party has always been a bea-con of solid science and facts. We make evi-dence based decisions. Being a long time Conservative before being Green I am very careful to ensure we can be accountable

for the dollars and the environment – and to my amazement it works every time. I have run my busi-ness for 23 years in the Okanagan. Many of my clients have been with me all those years. I feel that is also very good evidence that I am trustworthy. If you are elected but your party is not the governing party, how will you ensure our con-cerns are heard at the federal level?

Elizabeth May is the consummate politician. I have watched her gar-ner agreements where the odds were not in her favour. I too have had to work with cli-ents that are very angry about the problems they are having. With Elizabeth at the helm and my skills in conflict resolution we can make a great difference. Politics and democ-racy is about coming to a consensus. It isn’t all about the power – that’s dictatorship – and we have enough

of that. If a vote arises on a controversial issue and there is a conflict between your party’s direction, the dominant view of your constitu-ents and your own con-science, how would you make your decision. If I have to pick between my con-science, my party and my constituents – my constituents win every time. A Green Party Minister is the only one that can make

that promise since we will not be whipped in Parliament. We do not have to vote the same way as our leader. I will not be minion. I will try to not have this situ-ation come forward – this where leadership and patience will work. Very often people have a knee jerk reac-tion – I expect that –

no one likes change. But with patient under-standing, listening and explantions I may get people to see the other side of an issue. I will be a Federal Minister of Parliament and uphold my constitu-tional responsibility to represent my constitu-ents in parliament.

Robert Mellalieu, Green Party

Seven out of twelve jurors sought 30 years without parole in Koopmans sentencing

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recommendations on parole ineligibility peri-ods.

Maisonville told the court that the two con-secutive 15-year periods of parole ineligibility suggested by the Crown and seven of the 12 jurors would be “unduly long.”

She said that the new section in the Criminal Code, which allows judges to use their dis-cretion when determin-ing whether parole ineli-gibility periods should be served consecutively or at the same time “is a new section and it remains to be seen how its applications will evolve.”

“Instead I interpret the jury’s recommenda-tion as an indication that the jury felt that this was a very serious crime,” she said.

She made sure to note that a parole eli-gibility period “means just that.”

“Mr. Koopmans will be eligible for parole, not that he will be grant-ed parole, the sentence

remains one of life,” Maisonville said.

“I think it’s within the range, it’s within the appropriate range of sentence,” said Crown prosecutor Frank Dubenski. “It’s still a significant sentence in this province. Generally cases of multiple murder have attracted minimum eligibility for parole at 20 years.”

Cries of relief could be heard outside the courthouse from the Wharton family.

“He got what he deserved. My family can finally move on,”

Saturday October 17, 2015

HUFF, LEROY (ROY) MARSHELL

October 12, 1921 ~ October 2, 2015

It is with great sad-ness we announce the passing of Leroy (Roy) Marshell Hu� at Ridge-wood Lodge, Princeton

BC on October 2, 2015 at the age of 93.

He leaves to mourn his pass-ing his loving wife Nita of 63 years, daughter Diana, son Kenneth (Jody), also daughter Patricia (Dennis). Roy also leaves to mourn seven grandchil-dren and 11 great grandchildren.

A celebration of life to be held Saturday October 17, 2015

At the Seniors Hall at 1:30 pm

(ROY) MARSHELL

It is with great sad-ness we announce the passing of Leroy (Roy) Marshell Hu� at Ridge-wood Lodge, Princeton

BC on October 2, 2015 at the age of 93.

He leaves to mourn his pass-


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