Exhibit 31.1


 CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER PURSUANT TO RULES 13A-14 AND 15D-14
                     OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


     I, Robert A. Blanchard, President and Chief Executive Officer of BestNet
Communications Corp. (the "Company"), certify that:

     (1) I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year
ended August 31, 2003 (the "Report");

     (2) Based on my knowledge, the Report does not contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make
the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made, not misleading; and

     (3) Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in the Report, fairly present in all material respects the
financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of, and for, the
periods represented in the Report.

     (4) The Company's other certifying officers and I are responsible for
establishing and maintaining "disclosure controls and procedures" (as defined in
Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) and internal control over financial
reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 12a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the
Company and have:

          (a)  designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
               disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
               supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the
               Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known
               to me by others within those entities, particularly during the
               period in which the periodic report is being prepared;

          (b)  have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure
               controls and procedures and presented in this report our
               conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls
               and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this
               Annual Report based on such evaluation; and

          (c)  disclosed in this Annual Report any change in the Company's
               internal control over financial reporting that occurred during
               the Company's most recent fiscal quarter that has materially
               affected, or is reasonable likely to materially affect, the
               Company's internal control over financial reporting; and

     (5) I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal
control over financial reporting, to the Company's auditors and to the audit
committee of the board of directors (or persons fulfilling the equivalent
function): (i) all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of
internal control over financial reporting which are reasonable likely to
adversely affect the company's ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial information; and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that
involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the
Company's internal control over financial reporting.



Dated:   December 12, 2003


                                            By:  /s/  Robert A. Blanchard
                                               --------------------------------
                                                      Robert A. Blanchard
                                                      President and
                                                      Chief Executive Officer