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One Down and one to go Reform Leader Preston Manning said. Now it is the prime minister s turn to come Chretien s first Day Back in the commons after a 10-Day asian tour saw him repeatedly hit with demands for an Independent inquiry into the police treatment of spec protesters and questions about Why he continued to defend Scott. The prime minister is the Only breathing Canadian who continues to maintain that the former solicitor general did nothing wrong nip Leader Alexa Mcdonough said. How Many More people have to take the fall to protect the prime minister and his staff How Many More people will have to take the fall before the prime minister appoints a judicial inquiry into the spec fiasco at Issue is an ramp Public complaints commission investigation into the handling of protesters and the suppression of dissent during last november s spec Summit in Vancouver. Scott to whom the commission would have ultimately reported resigned Over comments he made to a lawyer Friend and longtime Liberal supporter during an oct. 1 flight from Ottawa to Fredericton. An eavesdropping new Democrat my Dick Proctor was sitting across the aisle and claims to have heard Scott Tell Fred Toole that four or five mounties overreacted for several minutes and that Hughie May be the Guy who takes the fall for Pepper spraying protesters. Those comments Scott conceded yesterday left me vulnerable to accusations that i had prejudged the outcome of the Public complaints commission while Scott asserted he was taking the High Road with his resignation Proctor noted he Only quit after Toole filed a damaging affidavit last week with the commission. Toole confirmed Scott was speaking about ramp staff sgt. Hugh Stewart and did indeed suggest Hughie might have to take a or the hit or Ofalt " for his actions. ? Scott s resignation forced Chretien into a minor Cabinet shuffle that saw Lawrence Macaulay leave his Job As labour minister to take Over Scott s Post. Rookie my 5 a Scott announces his resignation from Cabinet yesterday in Fredericton. Private conversation Public consequences in the words of Andy Scott the former solicitor general a oct 5 to scrum when reporters asked. Scott if he had said what Proctor saying on an air Canada flight of i would t have. I would not have said a oct. 6 speech in House of commons categorically Cler that i engaged in an inappropriate conversation that in any Way would prejudice the outcome of the Public complaints commission inquiry.". A nov. 18 sworn affidavit of Scott although i have no memory of the precise words i May have used in my conversation during the flight at no time did i express to or. Frederick Toole any preconceived options concerning what the pc s panel conclusions would be a nov. 23-scoffs resignation letter to Chretien the disproportionate focus on allegations regarding my role has made the situation untenable for me As solicitor general of Canada and May be undermining Public Confidence in a process in which i strongly Claudette Bradshaw from Moncton was catapulted into the Job of labour minister. Both Macaulay and Bradshaw took their Cabinet oaths in a quickly arranged and secret swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall about a hour before Scott announced his resignation in Fredericton. I resigned As solicitor general of Canada due to my conversation on thursday oct. 1 1998," announced Scott who had been in hiding since last thursday. That conversation made me vulnerable to accusations that i had prejudged the outcome of the Public complaints commission inquiry As i have said repeatedly i did not. I do not accept the ethics that led to my private conversation becoming the source of Public speculation. But i do accept responsibility for my conversation and its Scott added he welcomes the Opportunity to testify before the complaints commission. Chretien continued to defend the Man whose resignation he had just accepted and rejected Calls to end the controversy filled spec hearings in favour of a judicial inquiry. I think he is a Man of great integrity and honour Chretien said. That is Why i am Happy to defend while the Federal liberals May have hoped Scott s resignation would end the controversy swirling around the spec hearings one of the Pepper sprayed protesters said they Are dreaming. It s interesting that the Only minister taking responsibility for their actions is Scott and his Only crime is being a Blabbermouth said Jonathan Oppenheim who believes the Chretien government conspired to subvert protesters constitutional right to free speech. Winnipeg South grit my Reg Alcock said the Liberal caucus was depressed at the resignation of Scott. Alcock said words cannot describe the anger he has for Proctor and the opposition parties for ganging up on the my whom he described As a tireless worker for the disabled and the illiterate. Csc reporter suspended again Over spec Canadian press Vancouver Csc to reporter Terry Milewski has been suspended without pay for a second time Over the spec Pepper Spray Story the Canadian press has Learned. Milewski the network s National correspondent in Vancouver has received a 15-Day suspension apparently for an article he wrote for the Globe and mail sources say. The article which appeared on the newspaper s opinion Page nov. 10, accused the prime minister s office of trying to cow journalists like him. Earlier this month Milewski was suspended for three Days without pay after complaints from the pm about his reports on ramp Pepper spraying of demonstrators at the spec Summit in Vancouver a year ago. 71 perish As Arctic blast bombards Europe associated press Bucharest an Arctic cold wave and accompanying Buzzards were reported yesterday to have killed at least 71 people across Europe. Fountains in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris were completely Frozen and in Mouth temperatures fell to -21 c. About 100 homeless people staged a sit in at the state run medical assistance service in Paris to demand better Protection in Winter. Three deaths were blamed on the cold in Italy. Authorities reported the death of a 91-year-old italian Man who was found in his unheated Home in Calabria in Southern Italy. Weather played a role in at least 24 deaths in Romania and Bulgaria the last three Days. In Poland 36 people died most of them homeless or those who passed out in the cold after drinking alcohol police said. Earliest execution Date is dec. 16 continued from b1 sources at the Justice department say the earliest Date that could be set for the execution is dec. 16, when All Legal requirements including the publication of revised execution rules would be completed. However an execution is unlikely during the Christmas season forcing officials to postpone it until january. Echegaray is the first among More than 800 death Row prisoners to be scheduled for execution. More than 450 of those on death Row were convicted of rape including 159 who abused their own children or other relatives. Under current government rules Echegaray would be informed of his impending execution Only after Sunrise on execution Day. Lawyers have appealed to Ponferrada to inform Echegaray of the execution Date so he. Could prepare for it but the judge turned Down the request. Prison chaplain Roberto Olaguer said Echegaray has accepted his Fate but is requesting that philippine officials allow him to marry a longtime Girlfriend before he is put to death. The woman is different from the common Law wife with whom he has five children including the stepdaughter he was convicted of raping. Cuevas said the request probably would be rejected because it is one of the civil lost because of his conviction. Estrada decision follows Law Between 1924 and 1976, the Philippines executed. 84 people. In 1987, a new Constitution abolished the death penalty but gave Congress the option of restoring it for crimes such As murder kidnapping for Ransom rape and drug trafficking. Legislators alarmed by a Rise in crime took that option bringing Back the death penalty in 1994. Many filipinos say the death penalty will deter crime and that crime remains rampant because no one has been executed. $ Manitoba won t follow Ontario Lead continued from b1 next to Ontario Quebec is the Only other province that has said there will be compensation for All victims. Manitoba health minister Darren Praznik is not shifting from his earlier refusal to compensate people not covered by the Federal plan. A spokesman for Praznik said the province maintains that it is Ottawa s responsibility to Deal with the tainted blood fallout and Manitoba is already covering the Cost of treating people infected with hepatitis c. The number of people in Manitoba who fall outside the Federal compensation plan is unknown. Ontario health minister Elizabeth Witmer said yesterday the province had recognized the real human toll of the like the advocates she called on Ottawa to end the Legal wrangling Over How the Federal provincial package should be distributed and to add More Money to the pot for victims who contracted hepatitis c before 1986. The time for action is now she told a news conference. But in Alberta where Premier Ralph Klein has said he does t get a lot of Calls pushing for More compensation a health official said yesterday that that province has no intention of following Ontario s starting today newspaper and radio ads will advertise a toll free Telephone number victims can Call to receive an application form requesting their share of the $200 million Ontario is offering now. The number is 1-877-2224977. Federal infectious disease experts have estimated that 20,000 people were infected with hepatitis c in Ontario. The number includes the children and spouses of patients who contracted the disease directly through blood transfusions. The $10,000 payout matches the amount Ontario has contributed to the Federal provincial compensation fund for another estimated 6,600 victims. Mike Mccarthy an Ontario hepatitis c victim who is ineligible for Ottawa s compensation said he will invest his $10,000 to provide for his family after his death. Like so Many others who have the disease Mccarthy says he is no longer eligible for life insurance. Ill invest this Money for the Day i m no longer around he said. A m a ;