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Newspaper disputes Election Act

EDMONTON (CP) — The
Journal and two federal
election candidates
deliberately violated on
Monday an interpretation of:
a Bectlon of the Canada Elec-
tions Act.

Mike MacDonald, the
Liberal candidate in Ed-
monton West, and Lynn
Fogwill, a New Democratic
running in Edmonton East,
agreed to assist The Journal
in.seeking a court test of a
terpretation

of isla peonstitutes ad-
. Vertis y political can-
didates,

The Journal invited the
thief elections com-
missioner, J. O, Gorman of
Ottawa, to take court action,

The answers to a question

addressed to about 60 can-
didates by the newspaper in
preparing an election sup-
plement were defined by
Gorman as an adyer-
tisement. Publication of such
material on the eve of a
federal election could be
subject to a maximum fine of
$25,000 on summary con-
viction,

The newspaper had sought
answers fo the following
question: What is your stand
on issues of particular im-
pact in your constituency?

Gorman ruled that it is
legal under the elections
act for candidates to respond
to such openended questions
on the eve of an election. He
said the word advertisement
in a section of the act covers

- such questions even when
they

aré run in news
columns.

The Journal said it refuses
to accept a decision not
contained in the act but
arrived at by consultation
between the officers under
Gorman’s jurisdiction that

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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.
(AP) — The Hooker
Chemicals and Plastics
Corp. said Monday a
proposed government
lawsuit against the firm over
the Love Canal chemical
dump ite would be un-
justified,

AUS, justice department
spokesman in Washington.
said earlier in the day the
government is preparing a
major civil suit seeking
milllons of dollars from
Hooker for the dumping of
toxie chemicals at the Love:
Canal dump and other sites
in the Niagara Falls area,

Government lawyers hope
to establish a legal precedent
that would make the original
manufacturers responsible
for the disposal of toxic
materials.

Hooker, In a statement
issued Monday, said: “We
believa that a suit by the U.S,
justice department would be
unjustified and, in fact,
counter-productive.”’

It added: ‘We are already
actively working with local,
state and federal agencies to
identify and correct any
problems that might be
associated with paat
operations. —

would inhibit a newspaper
from publishing certain
material in its ‘news
columns. -

Copies of the two can-
didates’ replies to the
question have been sent to
Gorman. . .

In a letter accompanying
the material,, Journal
publisher J. P. O'Callaghan
said;

“This is clearly in
violation of your: in-
terpretation of the act and
would apparently constitute
a Valid reason for you to lay
charges under the act
against the candidate con-
cerned and the Journal,

-“T will never concede the
right to a bureaucrat to in-
fluence what may, or may

not, be published in news _

columns. .

“Tt is my opinion that it
was never the intentlon of
Parliament to allow
bureaucrats to have
authority to prevent a
newspaper from publishing
in its news columns
responses to questions posed
to candidates by the

newspapers,”
O'Callaghan’s letter

pointed out that the word

ativertisement is not defined
in the elections act,

“It is obvious, from the
meddling by your’ depart-
ment in the proper news
functions of a newspaper
that you have abrogated to
yourself a right to censor the
legitimate role of a

newspaper and we cannot -

tolerate such unwarranted
interference with the
traditional freedom of the
press and the freedom of
speech that every Canadian
has come to expect as a
right.

“The definition you and
your officials have placed on
the word advertisement in
the context of what you refer
to a8 open-ended questions is
totally unacceptable to dny

and ] feel it ia tlme.that such
definition should be tested in
a courtroom. We cannot
allow your definition,
reached among yourselves
in the bureaucratic isolation
of your office, to stand
without surrendering our
cherished editorial
prerogative of free apeech.
We will never tolerate
anything that amounts to a
Gag on the press,

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The Calgary Herald,
following Gorman's decision
that an openended question
such as The Journal’s was an
advertisement, decided not
to publish its traditional
election-eve supplement,

The Journal, rather than
put 60 candidates in jeopardy
af possibly breaking the law
if the answers to the question
were published in Monday's

edition, ran that section ‘of

the questionand-answer
feature in Saturday's paper.
It decided to test the act with
the co-operation of Mac-
Donald and Ms, Fogwill.,

-"T felt it “would” ‘be*-[-:

’ detrimental to all candidates’
if they were prevented from
answering legitimate

Questions of concern to the
public,” MacDonald sald in
explaining his position.

Ms, Fogwill said:

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pretation of the act, at some
personal: risk to

reputation, -hecause
something like this should
not be left so loosely defined
that it's left to the inter-
pretation of a civil servant in
Ottawa. The press should not
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TORONTO (CP) — Union
members that make up the
‘Canadian Labor Congress

- will not give their answer to

CLC president Dennis Me-

’ Dermott until Tuesday, but

many of their trade

- publications have fully en-

~dorsed his plea to support the
’ New Democratic Party in
_ the federal election.

The front caver of
Steelabor, the national
publication of the United
Steelworkers of America
with a circulation of 200,000,
features a color cartoon In a
pre-election
“Mouse Land, s fable as told
by -(former NDP leader)
Tommy Douglas,”

The tale, continued on
inside pages, tells an Or-
wellian saga of a band of
mice who replace thelr
elected cat government with
thelr own species. It also
includes a question-and-
answer interview with NDP
Leader Ed Broadbent.

The CPU Journal, the
publication of the Canadian
Paperworkers: Union,
devotes ita front page to a
message from president
Henri Lorrain, who informs
union members that
Broadbent and the NDP are
“the alternative to Pierre
Trudeau and Joseph Clark,”
the leaders of the Liberal

and “Progressive Con-

servative parties.
The CLC's own

publication, Canadian

Labor’ has devoted its last
two editions to the election,
Like many other union news-

papers, it carries a full-page -

slogan: “The Perfect Union
— Me and the NDP.”

Among its articles is an
imaginary dialogue written
by Ed Finn, public relations
director of the Canadian
Brotherhood of Railway,
Transport and General
Workers.

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would win at least 50 or 60
seats if half the 2.3 million

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favor, .

The article says the PC's
Clark “is even more hostile
to unions, and further to the
right on social and economic
issues" than Prime Minister
Trudeau,

The Public Employes,
published by the Canadlan
Union of Puslic Employees,
features Broadbent on the
cover, while the Brotherhood

Unions pro NDP

of Railway and Airline
Clerk's Interchange fills
seven pages with material
supporting the NDP.

Fred Tabachnik, CUPE
assistant public relations
director, say3 the influence
of the union media would be
questionable without the
backing of the labor body.
But as a part of the cam-
paign, he says he believes its
impact will be felt,

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