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OTTAWA (CUP)
With the much-anticipated
resignation of Solicitor General

 

Andy Scott, opposition members
of Parliament are wondering what
took so long—and renewing their
calls for an independent body to
replace the APEC inquiry.

After nearly two months of
intense political pressure, Scott
bowed to the prevailing winds in
Ottawa on November 23 by
announcing he was resigning as
Canada's top cop.

His exit, however, didn't put an
end to political heat over the
APEC affair.

“Why did the Prime Minister
not fire the solicitor general six
weeks ago when it might have

meant something?”

 

 

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Reform Party
Leader Preston
Manning asked
during question
period. Prime
Minister Jean
Chretien replied by
turning the tables
on his political
opponents.

“T did not fire
the solicitor gener-

al,” he said.

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from the opposition he decided
that it was too difficult for him
to do all his work and he decided
to offer me his resignation.”
The government's explanation
didn't wash with student leaders.
“People dont resign over noth-
ing,’ said Elizabeth Carlyle,
national chairwoman of the
Canadian Federation of Students.
“This is a de facto admission of
guilt [by Scott]
In his letter of resignation to
Chretien, Scott said allegations he
had prejudged the APEC inquiry
had made his situation as solicitor
general “untenable.” But Scott
once again denied he had tainted
the RCMP Public Complaints
Commission hearings into the
actions of officers at last year’s
APEC conference in Vancouver.
“The fact is that I have never,

and never would have, prejudged

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the outcome of the commission's
inquiry nor interfered with its
process,’ the embattled former
minister said. Calls for Scott's res-
ignation surfaced last month
when New Democratic Party MP
Dick Proctor said he overheard
him discuss the APEC inquiry
with a seatmate on an October I
flight from Ottawa to
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Proctor, Scott said a police officer
named Hughie—assumed to be
RCMP Staff Sgt. Hugh
Stewart—would be found guilty
of using excessive force against
student protesters at the APEC
conference.

Opposition MPs said the
alleged comments proved Scott
had prejudged the inquiry—a
charge the government has stead-
fastly denied for the last month
and a half. But last week the
Liberal line was weakened when
New Brunswick lawyer Frederick
Toole, Scott's seatmate on the
infamous flight, filed an affidavit
confirming Proctor’s record of
the conversation. Conservative
Party MP Peter MacKay said
Scott's resignation didn't lift the
doud of suspicion hanging over
the troubled APEC hearings.

“The [APEC] commission
itself is still being challenged by
the RCMP,” MacKay said outside
the House. “They're saying they
don't have confidence in the
panel.”

Earlier in November allegations
surfaced that inquiry chair Gerald
Morin had prejudged the hearings
by telling a friend the police over-

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December 9 1998 The Other Press