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Logo Exploring the Catholic Catechism of the Social Doctrine of
the Church  Week of December 11, 2000  Former top knight had
common touch  Guy Beaudry valued honesty, was concerned for the
poor  WCR Staff Writer  Provincial Court Judge Guy Edmond
Beaudry was a good family man who believed in service to the
community and in standing for the right things.  Beaudry, who
spent 52 years as a member of the Knights of Columbus including
a year as state deputy, opposed Bill 11, the legislation
allowing a larger role for private medicine in Alberta.  He
believed Bill 11 would create a two-tier system which would be
detrimental to the poor, says his son Denis Beaudry, a teacher
in Sherwood Park.  "He was very much against the privatization
of medicare," Denis recalled. "He didn't like what was going on.
He was afraid of the two-tier system."  Beaudry could not have
taken any other position on Bill 1