| Reform stock | rising IF YOU BELIEVE the traders in the UBC Election Stock Market, Preston Man- ning won last week’s televi- sed debate. Reform Party shares have soared on the market, which acts like a running opinion poll. The computer- administered market was set up by commerce department professor Tom Ross and has been running since . early July. . Traders put up their own Money ito get into the _ Market, They buy or sell shares i in each of the federal political parties based on how many seats they think those parties will get on election day. " If the Liberals are trading at around 40 cents on the market, that. means the traders believe the Grits will ‘win 40 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons — about 118 seats. ' Jn recent weeks the UBC market has traced a Slide in Progressive Conservative support and trading current- ly predicts a Liberal minori- ~ ty government. But the party whose shares moved the most following -the debate was Reform: © Reform shares went up more than five cents follow- ing the debate to nearly 20 cents, “_ “phe Liberals‘ "held a ‘Steady, trading ‘at ‘about Es * ents." "ae Progressive | ‘Conserva- “tive shares fell nearly three -eents following the debate to 25 cents, finished the - week at 20.8 — barely ahead of Reform. The Tories have fallen dramati- cally in the UBC market from a share value of 35 ‘cents immediately after the election was called. ©The Bloc Quebecols slid about a cent following the debate to about 12.5 cents, but rebounded to more than . 15 by week’s end. The party -| has gained strength from early trading at cight to nine cents a few weeks ago. * The NDP is trading at about 6 cents. * ‘Others’ dropped about a cent to 0.4 after an Alberta court declined to order a- - tional debate organizers to let National Party leader Mel Hurtig participate. ' ‘The basic message from debate was the Conserva- tives lost and Reform won,”’ said Ross. __ The analysis of the debate ‘proved even more impor- tant, however. Ross noted that Reform only gained slightly during the debate, but leapt dramatically the next day ‘when some newspapers proclaimed Manning the winner. ‘The party had been trading belbw 10 cents for most of “the campaign. “There’s presently about “$27,000 in the: market and 225 traders participating. HIGHWAY SIGNS point to the convictions of Christian Heritage Party candidate Luke Kwantes. The Smithers resident has lived there for 20 years and has served. on the board of Bulkley Valley District ot Hospital. eat orgie ert stot eh “dew dp-agth w Canuck © makes first | run at office NOT EVERYBODY gets to guard an abandoned immigration centre on a lonely island where, many years before, his grand- parents landed in North America. Mest Isaac Sobol, the Nass Val- ley physician running for the Na- tional Party of Canada. Working for the U.S. National Park Service on New York’s Ellis Island, a national monument, is just one of many jobs held by Sobol over the years. Those jobs have taken Sobol all over North America and Europe with each one adding layers of experiences. | They all contribute to the per- son who is the closest in style and personality to the man Sobol wants to replace as MP for Skeena — New Democrat Jim Fulton. Sobol speaks as well, is as funny and has that passion which is the trademark of Fulton’s long years in Parliament “Body parts in correct location. Wear clean clothes most of the ‘time. Can stand upright, but even so, ] am short,’ writes Sobol in his campaign biography. Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1944, Sobol grew up in Newark, New Jersey. His father was a physician and his mother worked for the New Jersey Depariment of Labour. Sobol’s grandparents came from Czarist Russia, cscapecs from persecution against Jewish people. . Sobol himself converted to Buddhism in-1973 and is now the secretary-treasurer of a Canadian organization involved in helping people in Tibet and. those of Tibelan origin living elsewhere, Sobol began his young adulthood in a conventional fash- ion, graduating with a biology dc- gree in 1966. But that was the last he would see of a university for many years, He worked writing advertising copy for two companies, was gencral manager of a rock group in Berkley, California. _ Sobol worked for the U.S. Na- tional Park Service in three loca- tions and was a park ranger in England. He Frequently found himself be- low the poverty level in the United States and in Europe, The decision to move to Canada to study medicine came for two reasons. , “"T wanted to be a doctor and do it in a way that didn’t resemble what my father or brother (a car-— The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 13, 1993 - AS LUKE KWANTES moves easily in the world of conservative Christian values. Those values have been part of the Christian Heritage Party can- didate’s life since birth and they flow smoothly inte politics. That’s because bearing witness to those values and beliefs {sas | important for Kwanies as running for elected office. “Being a Christian I ses. my Christianity apply to all areas of life,’? says Kwantes. ‘There never was a time when I wasn’t a Christian.”” Bom and raised in Vancouver, Kwantes traveled with a bank un- til the early 1973 when he and his wife, Alyse, looked for a more stable lifestyle. They decided upon Smithers after hearing it had a Christian school. The couple then had two children and now have five. In some ways it was like retum- ing home. Luke’s family moved to Houston from Holland in 1939, before he was born. Luke’s father lost his leg it in an accident in 1940 and the family moved to Vancouver where work would be easier in 1942. Kwantes worked at the PIR mill in Smithers for one year, and then the Groot milf which is now owned by Repap. He left there in 1987 to become the transportation supervisor for Bandstra Trasnport in Smithers. Although Kwantes’ parents came from Holland, he goes to the . Dutch-based Christian Reformed Church in Smithers and a.lot of people of Dutch background belong to the Chris- tian Heritage Party, the candidate Phd aE coe kts a Meade is quick to dispel the suggestion the party’s is dominated by any one group. a “Heather Stilwell, our interim leader, isn’t Dutch and we have a significant «number _-of Roman Catholic’ supporters. We. even have members in Newfoundland ‘and J don’ t think there’s a lot-of Dutch. people living there," said- Kwantes. , The candidatc’s start in public ‘life comes from within the Dutch community of the Bulkley Val- _ ley. Its members, after building their. homes, concentrated’ on churches and then on schools. Kwantes has, over the . years, been the treasurer of the Christian School Society of Smithers- Telkwa and has been the clerk of his church, He also sal on the board, as vice president and then president, of the Bulkley Valley District Hos- pital Board for four years, And that brings up the subject of abortion. Opposition to it is a strong platform of the Christian Heritage Party. “The - ‘sanclity of life is same- thing that is not up for debate,” said Kwantes, **T would say that for me, to be a Christian in politics, [can't compromise my. stance on the sanctity of life. If it means I will not. be chosen to. office, then J don’t consider myself a loser.”* Kwantes. said that. being a Christian can be difficult, particu- larly in a sociely which does not have a lot of Christian influences, The kind of conservative out- look espoused: by Kwantes is manifested in a lot of Christian Hetitage policics. P _Society,”” he said. PROFILES OF candidates continue next week with > Green Peter Mehling and Calvin Danyluk from the Natural Law party. Kwantes and the party are in favour of what he terms tradi- tional family values where a fam- ily unit is made up of a husband, -wife and children. “T think the picture is one of Mom and Dad and the kids and they go to church on Sunday,’’ he says. As. such, Kwantes believes more should be done to en- courage.women to stay at home with their children. More could be done with tax laws, for example, to reflect the Mother staying at home. That means, Kwantes -adds, al- lowing a single income earner to divide his income with his wife. Each would then pay tax at a lower rate. The family is not only strength- ened, adds Kwantes, bit more jobs would be freed up for unem- ployed people. Kwantes also says more people could. then volunteer their time for community or neighbourhood projects. Kwantes also feels that single parent families need encourage~ ment in what he described as *‘a tremendously difficult task.’’ And while the Christian Heritage Party opposes universal daycare, it does promote neigh- bourhood volunteer daycare as an alternative. Kwantes believes that tradi- tional families tend not to end up > onsocial assistance. “They're often not as jobless and they make a better: contribu- tion to society. The family is the building block of society. Any- thing else takes away from Longe A Peer SIGNATURE LICENCE plate identifies the goal of Dr. Isaac Sobol’s madical oractice, He's ; a physician with the health centre in the Nass Valley and has lived there since 1989. This'll be Sobol's first election as a voter and as a candidate. diologis! in San Francisco) are doing,’’ says Sobol. It meant not running from the kind of practice his father had, Sobol continues, bul instead to something Sobol wanted to be — a family physician ina rural arca. His first taste came during a stint in northern Ontario while _ $till in medical school. Upon graduation, Sobol worked in Saskatchewan and then moved to the Nass Valley and its health centre in 1989... He and wife Yeshe also had an admiration for the way Canada was different than ‘the. United Slates. **T saw Pierre Elliot. Tradeau BS a politician to be admired. He was a aa ari of a country and "its people, I thought Trudeau was € great example of. a politician when compared to Nixon, Reagan and Bush,’’ said Sobol. That outside opinion of Canada changed a bit when Sobol arrived for medical studics al Qucen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He had all the cnthusiasm new- comers to a-counlry possess and soon regarded the Tories, Liber- als and lastly the NDP as bad for ihe country. “T thought the country was losing its sovereignty so . that ‘within 10 years, we would look around aud say, what happened to . Canada,”’ Sobol said, “Although the National party is very new, Sobol met Mel Hurtig,. the person who-would become its loader, way back in 1987. - ” “[. heard him speak when he was with the Council of Cana- dians. He had a tremendous in- fluence on me,’ said Sobol. So it was a natural that Sobol would embrace the National party upon its formation. “There should be a voice for people to help form the role of government and that’s not hap- pening,” he said. Sobol practises his philosophy in different ways. He opposes the provincial NDP decision to allow limited logging of the Clayoquot Sound and is a financial supporter of ihe Priends of Clayoquat Sound. Sobol is also a shareholder in a corporation set up to invest in the Shames Mountain Ski Corpora- lion. . “T think what you have todo is , utilize: what you have for. the greatest good for the greatest number of people,’” he said. —‘THE START IS FOR TO READ PEOPLE LEARNING . “mayor "s job here, ~The start — _ the mayor since 1985, | a mayor.. Bretfeld. wants spaces within the city. _saving green space. - There. is a race for the : Be Jack .Talstra bas been _-: But now Lynda Bretfeld - “says she also’ wants to be green -< She says lots of other cles are putting in or It’s a race Talstra did not have anybody running against him in 1988 or in 1990, Other people want to be council members. David ‘Hull is back. He was defeated in 1990, Val George also wants to be a council member. The city elections take ‘place Nov. 20, Watch for more news, Work has started on the new liquor store. It is being built in the parking lot on the comer. of Eby and Park. The store should be fin- ished by late next sum- mer, There will be lots of parking, Started ee eee