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A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Greens have a candidate

FIRST-TIME federal elec-
tion candidate Phil Brienesse

" has received the Green Party

nod and has joined the ‘race
for the Skeena-Bulkley rid-
ing. ,

From Smithers
he is the food and bever-

age manager at the Hudson -
Bay. Lodge, Brienesse isn’t
exactly a newcomer to poli-
' tics.

He ran ‘unsuccessfully for
Smithers town council two.

“municipal elections ago.”

Brienesse has two goals, ,

“one he has. is attainable and.

_ the other he ’ “is shooting

for.”
“My goal I know we will

"accomplish is to increase the

votes the Green Party got‘in .

’ the’ Tiding {last time] by 50

per ‘cent.”«
However, he said he was
still shooting toward unseat-

-ing NDP incumbent Nathan

Cullens =

» Acknowledging a Green
election victory is unlikely,
Brienesse says he’ll actively

_ pursue voters. :
“T think it’ 's possibly an
_ "80° per cent chance we are
_ looking at‘a minority gov-
ernment. In that: situation a ~

. _ Green, candidate will have a-

lot of sway,” he.said. ;
- Skeena-Buikley. - riding’ -
issues that he will be cam-

- paigning on will be develop-

: ‘ment such as ‘the proposed
' Enbridge pipeline-and pro-

posed ‘the Blue Pearl. moly:

_ mine on the side of Hudson
Top guys -
_ stake out
ground ©

-° NDP INCUMBENT

Na-.
than Cullen and Conserva-

_ tive challenger Mike Scott

stay” away from the Liberal |
and Green candidates,. say-_

staked out different election;
ground last week.
Cullen urged voters to.

ing. that only strengthens’
Scott’s chances. ..

“T urge traditional Liberal
and Green voters who know

that Mike Scott,. Stephen

Harper. and , the Conserva-
tives. are: wrong, on the issues
to'this time consider voting
NDP,” said Cullen.

‘And he said Scott didn’t

have a sterling. attendance

record in Ottawa, claiming
it was less than 50 per cent
during Scott’s previous stint
as a two-term Reform/Cana-
dian Alliance MP. .

“For eight years, the voice -

of the people of the north-
west was barely a whisper in
Ottawa,” said Cullen.

. For his part, Scott drew a -

connection between himself _
_ and Phil Eidsvik, the execu-

tive director of the B.C. Fish-_

_ eries Survival Coalition and

the Conservative candidate -
in the lower mainland riding
of Newton-North Delta.

~ “I’ve worked very closely
with him during my time in
office and I know that he has
a tremendous knowledge of

- the issues,” said Scott.

Eidsvik has flown the Ca-

‘ nadian flag upside down and —

and has opposed native-only

commercial catch systems, .

saying they are a form of
workplace racism:
Scott said the federal Lib-
eral government has done
little to stop the Alaskan
commercial fishery from

taking B.C. salmon stocks”

while B.C. boats are tied up

_ at the docks.

where

- “T think there are some
votes to be taken from envi-
ronmental Conservatives,”
he said, adding that the
Greens have “a good, sus-"
tainable fiscal policy.” .

Brienesse’ was the only
person to put his name for-
. ward for the Green nomina-
tion in the Skeena-Bulkley
riding. 7 5.

stead of health care.’

This could be achieved
‘through i improving air qual-
‘ity, leading to prevention as
opposed to hospital costs, he
said. .

_On splitting the left-lean-
ing vote with NDP, Brie-
nesse said the Greens could
take as many votes from the
Conservatives.

Bay Mountain in Smithers.

v“The Green Party talks
-about sustainability.” —

Although the Green Party
are yet to release their plat-
form for the coming elec-
tion, Brienesse hinted to-
wards a’ preventative health
care policy.

“The main thing the Greet
party focuses on is health in-

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