Copyright: 2004 The Edmonton Journal
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POT GROWER BOUGHT HOUSES WHILE ON WELFARE

VANCOUVER -- An MP in B.C. is demanding action against a Langley man he
says lived off welfare for 10 years while acquiring three homes and running
a marijuana grow-op.

"Phu Son came to Canada in 1994. He was 38 years old and had no money when
he arrived. He has been on welfare from the first time he arrived 10 years
ago. He recently got busted for drug-dealing," Conservative MP Randy White
recently told the House of Commons.

Son owns a home in Abbotsford bought for $214,000 in 2002 and others in
Langley and Aldergrove under names of his wife and son. Together, they cost
more than $370,000.

On March 22 this year, Son pleaded guilty in Surrey provincial court to
producing a controlled substance.