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POT PLANTS FOUND NEAR MARTIN'S COUNTRY HOME by CanWest News Services 12 Aug 2004 Winnipeg Free Press OTTAWA-- The National Capital Commission is "defiling the memory of the father of Gatineau Park" by failing to stop marijuana cultivation near the prime minister's Harrington Lake residence, a park activist says.  Chelsea resident Jean-Paul Murray, a Senate speech-writer, said yesterday he stumbled upon about 60 marijuana plants last week during a country walk.  The plants are close to Meech Lake Road used by Prime Minister Paul Martin and thousands of other visitors to the park.  Murray said the plants are in a valley once owned by Roderick Percy Sparks who he said played a far more influential role in founding Gatineau Park than Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who is still regarded as the park's founder.  He complained to NCC officials on Saturday after he found the marijuana, bags of fertilizer, watering cans and empty bags of a soil mixture for starting seedlings.  The carefully tended plants were still there yesterday.  NCC spokeswoman Marie Letourneau said marijuana grow operations were discovered in the park in July and the matter has been turned over to the police.  MAP posted-by: Jo-D

Pubdate: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Copyright: 2004 Winnipeg Free Press Contact: letters@freepress.mb.ca Website: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/502 Author: CanWest News Services

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