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	William Vander Zalm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		William Nick Vander Zalm, commonly known as Bill Vander Zalm (born 1934) became British Columbia's 28th Premier in 1986.
		Instantly, Vander Zalm was thrust into the spotlight, as he waffled on whether he would run for the leadership of the Social Credit Party of British Columbia.
		Vander Zalm became embroiled in a conflict of interest controversy over the sale of his Fantasy Gardens flower garden and theme park.
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		His regime was replaced in 1941 by a Liberal-Conservative coalition formed to meet the threat of the powerful socialist opposition of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
		He resigned as premier in 1986 and was succeeded by William Vander Zalm.
		Vander Zalm's government was constantly troubled by charges of mismanagement, scandals, and defections, and he resigned in 1991.
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	Social Credit
		Bennett's successor, William Vander Zalm[?] was a far less successful premier, and is largely regarded with the collapse of the B.C. Socreds.
		Vander Zalm was a flamboyant, energetic figure who held many of the traditional Socred ideologies, especially the focus on Christian values.
		Vander Zalm agreed to step aside, and his successor, Rita Johnston was soundly defeated by the New Democrats in the 1991 provincial election.
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	Bill Vander Zalm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vander Zalm was elected alderman in 1965, and served as mayor of Surrey from 1969 to 1975.
		Vander Zalm attracted considerable attention as he waffled on whether he would run for the leadership of the Social Credit Party.
		Vander Zalm was forced to resign over the scandal in 1991.
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		This move was reversed in 1975 when a revitalized Social Credit Party, led by William R. Bennett, son of the former premier, was swept back into power.
		Vander Zalm’s government was constantly troubled by accusations of mismanagement and scandals, and he resigned under a cloud of conflict-of-interest charges (of which he was later acquitted).
		Rita Johnston succeeded Vander Zalm in April 1991 to become the first female premier in Canadian history, but lost her position after only seven months in an election that returned the NDP, led by Michael Harcourt, to power.
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	William N. Vander Zalm Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		That same year, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Vancouver, as the candidate for the Non-Partisan Association.
		Once elected with a majority, Vander Zalm selected his cabinet, mostly backbenchers who had languished under Bill Bennett.
		He was also accused of influence peddling with his close friend Peter Toigo in the sale of the Expo 86 site.
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	goDutch.com :: Former BC premier Vander Zalm pitchman for BCAA
		Vander Zalm, who has been a BCAA member for nearly fifty years, and the two other former BC Premiers, did not get paid for their acting.
		A garden outlet retailer and nurseryman, Vander Zalm and his family emigrated to Canada in 1947where they joined their father and husband who was in North America on a salestrip when the Netherlands was invaded by the German army in 1940.
		Vander Zalm was a former Social Credit cabinet minister and a former mayor when he won the Social Credit leadership and became BC’s 28th Premier in 1986.
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	British Columbia Social Credit Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Under Bennett's successor, Bill Vander Zalm, control of the party shifted from urban fiscal conservatives to social conservatives, causing the coalition to unravel and this would drive moderate Socreds to the Liberals.
		Vander Zalm was forced to resign in a conflict of interest scandal, and was succeeded as party leader and premier by longtime associate Rita Johnston, who defeated McCarthy to become the first female head of government at any level in Canada.
		In 2001, at the behest of former leader Vander Zalm, the Social Credit Party merged with other provincial right-wing parties to form the Unity Party, but soon left due to dissatisfaction with the way the party was run.
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	Bill Vander Zalm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He became widely known almost overnight for his off the cuff remark that all welfare recipients ought to be given a shovel and put to work.
		In the British Columbia general election, 1991, the party was reduced to 7 seats, and has not won a seat in any election since.
		Curiously, (and trivially) Vander Zalm is a Dutch name, meaning from the salmon.
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	British Columbia Social Credit Party (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This process was exacerbated by Vander Zalm's eccentricity, and the constant scandals that plagued his government.
		As well, Vander Zalm allowed his principal secretary, David Poole, to amass a substantial amount of power, Despite being unelected.
		Vander Zalm's successor as premier, Rita Johnston, failed to win her own seat, and resigned as leader of the party.
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	British Columbia Liberal Party (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Social Credit Party began to collapse in the late 1980s under the leadership of William Vander Zalm, who took the Party in a social conservative direction.
		Vander Zalm was forced to resign due to a conflict of interest scandal.
		During the 1991 provincial election, the ruling Social Credit Party disintegrated under Vander Zalm's successor, Premier Rita Johnston.
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	Writer's Market: Writer's Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An excellent summary of the elementary rules of word usages, principles of composition, and words and expressions commonly misused is The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr., and E.B. White.
		The cartoon, which depicted Vander Zalm pulling out flies' wings, was judged to show him as being cruel and sadistic.
		Little magazines are financed by people whose ideal is to present an intelligent and sophisticated writing platform of new and avant-garde forms that may go unpublished in the larger commercial magazines.
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	ACEC -- Artlcle
		Future provincial premier William Vander Zalm, then minister of human resources, sued the publisher, the editor and the cartoonist of the Victoria Times after the paper's cartoonist, Robert Bierman, depicted Vander Zalm gleefully pulling the wings off of a fly after a major shakeup took place at the ministry.
		The original court decision found that the cartoon went beyond fair comment because it implied that Vander Zalm enjoyed hurting people, instead of just showing that he had indirectly hurt people as a result of layoffs caused by his ministry.
		A year ago, in Saint John, N.B., Josh Beutel, a local newspaper cartoonist, was sued for libel by Malcolm Ross after Beutel produced a cartoon suggesting that Ross was a Nazi.
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	Shields, Craig V. 1988. "A brief history of brokerage."
		These different elements - individualized funding, a systems resource, and consumer involvement - became the core of a concept the parents began to refer to as 'service brokerage'.
		In the fall of 1976, the group developed a proposal for implementation of this concept which they submitted to William Vander Zalm, then Minister of Human Resources.
		The Minister's response was to agree to divert to the new program some funding that normally would have covered the costs associated with institutionalization.
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	Amazon.ca: Vander Zalm : From Immigrant to Premier: Books: Alan Twigg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vander Zalm : From Immigrant to Premier (Hardcover)
		During his time as Municipal Affairs minister he was an autocrat who pushed through the development of an ultra-expensive rapid transit system.
		Through extensive research and interviews with people who know Vander Zalm well, and through conversations with the former premier (1986-91) himself, Alan Twigg presents an engrossing picture of Vander Zalm from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland to the present.
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	Canada Pays for Free Trade
		Although environmentalists are still pressing to protect the whole watershed, the compromise deal covers far more than the 538 hectares MacMillan Bloedel originally proposed as a buffer around the last giant spruce trees.
		William Glenn is a Toronto-based environmental consultant specializing in hazardous waste and acid rain issues.
		He is an award-winning columnist and the author of a number of environmental books.
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	WCELRF Newsletter Volume 15:2 December 21, 1990
		B.C. Premier William Vander Zalm vetoed B.C.'s long-standing commitment to limit pulp mill organochlorine discharge to 1.5 kg AOX per tonne of pulp by 1994, leading to the resignation of Environment Minister John Reynolds.
		On December 15, the gutted regulation was announced by new Environment Minister Cliff Serwa, stopping short at 2.5 kg by the end of 1991 with extensions of up to two years for seven mills.
		December 7-9, 1990: Premier Vander Zalm receives calls from industry and vetoes 1.5.
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	Perils of Premiers
		But his term in government was turbulent, and ended when the conflict-of-interest commissioner ruled that Vander Zalm had violated conflict guidelines over the sale of his Fantasy Garden theme park to a Taiwanese billionaire.
		Vander Zalm left office in April 1991 on the same day the commissioner's report was released; he was later charged with criminal breach of trust but found not guilty.
		Harcourt led his New Democratic Party to power in the election of October 1991, defeating Rita Johnston, who had stepped in as premier following Vander Zalm's departure.
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	NISGA'A TREATY: truly a triumph over the mindset of B.C.'s ugly past
		The Nisga'a First Nation signed a historic treaty yesterday with the federal and provincial governments that is expected to lift them out of poverty and radically change their relationship with their non-aboriginal neighbours.
		Before it is ratified by Ottawa and the province, the treaty is expected to face vigorous opposition from B.C. Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell, acting B.C. Reform Party leader William Vander Zalm, and some federal Reform MPs, a few media pundits, and some people involved in the fishery and forestry industries.
		Some Nisga'a are also critical of the land settlement and the agreement to end their tax-free status under the Indian Act.
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	Green Timbers Arboretum and Nursery
		In 1988, Surrey residents voted in favour of dedicating 310 acres (182 hectares) of the area to be left as an urban forest for everyone's enjoyment.
		On September 9, 1989, the two billionth tree in British Columbia's reforestation program was planted by Premier William Vander Zalm.
		In 1990, the New Commemorative Forest was established to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the original planting.
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	DARK SIDE - Steve Paikin - Penguin Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Some were only temporarily thrown off course, but for others, the devastation was profound.
		Paikin’s profiles include those of former provincial premiers David Peterson, Bob Rae, Allan Blakeney, William Vander Zalm, Roy Romanow, and John Savage.
		He also shows us just how brutal politics can be for women by looking at the fates of Lynda Haverstock of Saskatchewan, Nancy MacBeth of Alberta, and Ontario’s Lyn McLeod.
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	Les Pages Aux Folles: Deadline News: Welcome Aboard, Sherry... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the local scene: Toronto Mayor Art Eggleton is still furious that the federal government intends to give breaks to Montreal and Vancouver to help them become world banking centres, which the Mayor believes will lessen Toronto's international status as the financial capital of Canada.
		In response, British Columbia Premier William Vander Zalm has again accused central Canada of paternal parochialism and not thinking of the other province's feelings.
		Should this inter-provincial ill-will escalate, the federal government is considering asking either American envoy Phillip Habib or Anglican church envoy Terry Waite to negotiate between the provinces.
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	ACEC -- Article
		Then see now, the favorite target was the prime minister.
		The only time that a Canadian politician successful sued an editorial cartoonist and newspaper publisher was the William Vander Zalm suit against the Victoria Times.
		But although Vander Zalm won his case in 1979, the verdict was overturned on appeal in 1980.
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	Amazon.com: Fantasy Government: Bill Vander Zalm and the Future of Social Credit: Books: Stan Persky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Amazon.com: Fantasy Government: Bill Vander Zalm and the Future of Social Credit: Books: Stan Persky
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		Fantasy Government: Bill Vander Zalm and the Future of Social Credit (Hardcover)
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	Hexapedia - William Vander Zalm (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vander Zalm was elected alderman in 1965 before becoming mayor of Surrey, British Columbia from 1969 to 1975.
		Vander Zalm was orginally a supporter of both the Liberal Party of Canada and the British Columbia Liberal Party running in Surrey for the federal Liberals in the 1968 Canadian election (and losing by 5,000 votes).
		After many years out of the spotlight, Vander Zalm again took a stab at office by running in Delta-South in a by-election in 1999 for the BC Reform Party.
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	Why must we always lose? - THR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The closest I come is an 18 Â½" home defense shotgun barrel.
		"Show me someone who doesn't cause any controversy and I'll show you someone who isn't doing anything."-----William Vander Zalm
		A liberal press controls how we are presented...and thus, it becomes incredibly necessary to adopt a very soft attitude, lest we play into the easy to believe stereotypes about gun-owners: Aggressive Rambo wannabes, uneducated red-necks, etc.
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		Calgary Herald (of Canada), Nov. 10, 1989, front page re Dale Getty, son of Premier Don Getty.
		The Globe and Mail (of Canada), April 3, 1991, front page, re Premier William Vander Zalm.
		643 The Globe and Mail (of Canada), Jan. 16, 1993, p.B2 re Premier William Bennett.
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