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MP: Writer has wrong Wong BY NELSON BENNETT
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Richmond Conservative MP Alice Wong has never hidden the fact she considers herself an evangelical Christian. She is on a list of “MPs to help you pray” on the noapologies.ca website. And the Conservative MP admits she has attended functions sponsored by the Canadian Alliance for Social Justice and Family Values Association (CASJAFVA) — a Chinese-Canadian Christian organization that has lobbied against things like gay marriage. But she denies ever raising money for the organization, as suggested in a new book called the Armageddon Factor by Marci McDonald (Random House).
Wong never raised cash for lobbyists
“Now the Conservative Member of Parliament for Richmond, Wong had been an enthusiastic speaker and fundraiser for CASJAFVA, the right-wing advocacy group whose mostly Chinese membership had organized the largest protest against the Corren agreement,” McDonald writes, referring to the B.C. government’s controversial decision to allow Murray Corren, a gay man, help write the curriculum for a class called Social Justice 12. While CASJAFVA members may have raised money for Wong, the Richmond MP said she has never raised money for CASJAFVA. That was the other Alice Wong, she added.
“There was another Alice Wong who was helping them with fundraising — not me. I never raised funds with them,” she said. K-John Cheung, director for CASJAFVA, confirmed that an Alice Y. F. Wong has participated in fundraising for the organization in the past. CASJAFVA may be bestknown for its fight against the implementation of a Social Justice 12 high-school course designed to teach a variety of social justice issues. The organization, led by Vancouver lawyer K-John Cheung, collected 17,000 signatures opposing the course’s implementation. In her book, McDonald suggests the Christian right see Wong page 4
Ewan, 4, gets minted for life
Oval snap wins Royal prize
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The winning shot of little Ewan Mountford, aged 3 at the time.
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Too cool for school ... Henry Zhao, left, and George Li make the most of the school holidays by skipping coins across the surface of Minoru Square’s fountain.
Most of us have a good giggle, perhaps even a cringe, at our old baby photos. But young Ewan Mountford, 4, might have more reason than most to dig out one very special memento of his childhood years when he gets all grown up. For Ewan’s mom, Stacey, entered a cuter than cute picture of her son, all decked out in 2010 Olympic gear, into a Royal Canadian Mint’s national “Face of the Games” contest — and won. Now her little guy, who was aged three at the time of the winning photo, has 100 prized commemorative Olympic Games medallions with his face on one side and the Queen’s head on the other. “We were pretty ecstatic when we found out we’d won,” said Mountford, who lives in South Arm. “I reckon when he gets older, he might be pulling that coin out of his pocket to impress the ladies.”