EX-MAYORAL CANDIDATE CONVICTED OF DEALING DRUGS

Former mayoral candidate and Guilty Pleasures sex shop owner William
Walker Perry was found guilty Friday of three counts of trafficking in
marijuana and one count of possession of marijuana for the purpose of
trafficking.

Perry was charged after a two-month police investigation in the spring
of 2008 during which Perry sold marijuana to an undercover cop on
three occasions. Police then executed a search warrant on his business
and found a total of 285 grams of marijuana there, as well as other
drug paraphernalia.

During his trial Perry was unrepresented by a lawyer and declined to
cross-examine any witnesses or to present any defence evidence despite
Provincial Court Judge Pedro de Couto adjourning the trial for half a
day to give him time to consider whether or not to call any evidence
or to get legal representation.

When court resumed after the adjournment de Couto said it was Perry's
choice whether to call any defence evidence but he had given him every
opportunity to do so.

"I note for the record throughout my comments...Mr. Perry has his ears
plugged with his fingers and his eyes closed," said de Couto. "He has
elected to stand mute as he has done throughout this trial."

When Perry wasn't sitting with his hands covering his ears and his
eyes closed he was reading from the Bible, sometimes with his lips
moving as he read.

After the Crown prosecutor made his closing arguments, de Couto asked
Perry if he wanted to make any submissions but Perry ignored him.

de Couto ordered a pre-sentencing report for Perry and his sentencing
hearing has been adjourned until the report is completed. Perry has
been in jail since he was arrested in May.

This is the second time he's been convicted of selling marijuana out
of his sex shop.

Perry was convicted in 2007 of selling marijuana out of Guilty
Pleasures and given an 18-month conditional sentence. Perry has told
the media that he ran for mayor in 2005 after being charged.