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Page 4, The Herald, Tuesday, May 22, 1979

TERRACE/KITIMAT

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EDITOR. Greg Middleton
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EDITORIAL

This country is facing a difficult decision.

On the ane hand we have a party which has been in
power too long. It has come to feel that it rules almost
by divine right. On the other hand we have an op-
position leader who inspires jokes rather than con-
fidence, The third party can certainly not win enough
seats to form a government. It has in the past,
however, won support for some long-term and socially
valuable programs in exchange for its votes in the
house, Many people see a minority government as
holding the power of an otherwise over-bearing party .
in check.

To be realistic and somewhat cynical though, it is
worthwhile to have a cabinet member in parliament, if
you think the cabinet minister has real power and is
doing things for the riding.

The issue in this riding are coastal transportation,
economic policies as they effect the North and the
management of fisheries. We also must look at the
broader perspective and balance the parties’ stands on
national unity and international affairs as well as look
at what they do for us.

It is up to you to look at the record of the incumbent,
weigh the merits of the challengers and make your
choice. This paper, unlike many others, won't'te who
to vole for, We've tried to give each candidate a fair
hearing. We've then taken a look at the people who are

running. The choice, however, remains yours.

If you have not made up your mind yet, and we
realize many already know how they will vote, take a
few minutes to really think about all these questions
before you go into the polling booth.

ELECTION
ROUNDUP

Almost 15 million voters go
to the polls today to deter-
mine Canada's political
destiny for the next year or
four.

They will decide whether“
Prime Minister Trudeau’s
Liberals deserve to be kept
in office after 11 years or
whether he should be

. Peplaced by Joe Clark, 39,

and his Progressive Con-
servatives, .
Or they couid say it is time
for a real change and name
Ed Broadbent and his New
Democrats to lead the
country.
In the eight weeks of
election campaigning
Trudeau, 59, asked the public
to return his Liberals to
power so he can continue to
protect Canadian unity.
Conservatives, who last
formed the government
between 1957 and 1963, asked
that they be returned to end
the confrontation between
Trudeau and the provinces,
most of them headed by
Conservative governments.

The Trudeau government
“deserves a rest,” Clark
said Monday in his final
campaign speech at scenic
Jasper, Alta.

Clark obviously was tired
but confident at the end of
the hardfought contest.
Trudeau wra apped up up
campaign Sunday in Ghetph
Ont., with a quote frem the
Bible — “Love ye one
another." ;

In the wake of a public
opinion poll that showed
Liberals and Conservatives
even, Trudeau taiked about
the need for strong
leadership to deal with the
threat of Quebec separation.

Broadbent, campaigning
in Toronto, "refused to say
what he will do if the
Liberals or Conservatives
form a minority gov-
ernment, A minority would
pul Broadbent and Social
Credit Leader Fabien Roy in
pivotal positions because the
survival of the government
could depend on their sup-

rt.

A minority government
could be expected to last a
year or two before the prime
minister called a new
election. A majority would
mean that the government
probably would remain in
office at least four years.

The Commons has been
expanded to 282 seats from
264 and redistribution has
made predictions more
difficult. A majority in the
Commons would be 142 or
more seats.

Trudeau turned on the
charm In the final days of the
campaign, winning kisses
and bouquets from women.

Road-weary Clark was
quieter and more
philosophical and Broadbent
spent a casual weekend,

Who | fire. t

by Greg Middleton

Today is the day you will
choose one of the five can-
didates running in the
federal election here in
Skeena to represent you as
your member af parliament.

Opinion polls, although
they vary in accuracy, show
that while the majority of
voters have their minds
made up inadvance, there is
always a significant number
of undecided, Those un-
decided will swing a close
race such as this one.

Federally the polls show
the election is a toss-up
between the Liberals and the
Progressive Conservatives,
but with — the New
Democratic Party having
made noticeable gains.

In Skeena, however, the
situation is different. This
riding was traditionally an
NDP stronghold. Frank
Howard held it tor years
despite a scandal when he
confessed to serving time in
jail,

Howard says he lost to
newcomer Iona Campagnolo
because he got too com-
placent and didn’t bother to
campaign. Others say the
Native Indians in this riding
put Campagnolo in because
they wanted to make some

progress on the land claims

isgue.

opening a baseball. game, . [il

attending” a“ music’ festival”

and going to an outdoor
entertainment centre
Monday...

Clark, speaking to a crowd
at a chilly outdoor pancake
breakfast in Jasper, accused
Trudeau of: ‘'selling the
country short.”” If he wins
the election, Clark plans to
retire to the luxurious Jasper
Park Lodge to meet his top

advisors and plot the take

over of the government.

Mid-way through the cam-
paign, Trudeat said he
would consider trying to
continue as prime minister if
the Liberals finished a few
seats behind the Con-
servatives. However, the
next day he said he regretted
having made the cling-to-
power statement and added
that he was only speaking
about his ‘‘inner-most
feelings” and not about firm
plans.

A Gallup poll taken after a
live television debate bet-

ween Trudeau, Clark and -

Broadbent showed the

Liberal and Conservative | on

leaders tied, each with the
support of 37.5 per cent of the
decided voters. Broadbent
was heartened by the 19-per-
cent support for his party, up
from the 16 per cent of the
popular vote his party badin
the last election.

Clark said the poll in-
dicated the possibility of a
Conservative majority and
Trudeau aides said a Liberal
majority was still possible.
Broadbent said the public is
tired of both oldiine parties
and is seriously considering
the NDP alternative.

Clark said the Gallup poll
indicated his party was most
popular in all provinces and
territories except Quebec,
where Liberals dominate.

Trudeau ended his fight to
stay in power with a three-
day blitz insouthern Ontario,
He spent Monday with his
three young sons.

Trudeau drew large
cheering crowds evarywhere
he went in his final campaign
appearances. His appeal for
national unity became less
academic and more
emotional.

Alberta i9 traditionall
Conservative country ar
Clark, on the eve of the
election, could not resist a
few final shots at Trudeau.

“Go get him,” yelled a
Conservative supporter in
Jasper.

Broadbent said his party's
major theme is its pledge to
fight for Canadian control of
the resource industry.

. prenticeship.

When Liberal leader
Pierre Trudeau was here a
few weeks ago he confessed
that in his 1974 campaign
tour through this area he
didn't give Campagnolo

much of a chance. He said .

that he felt a sense of regret
that she was going up
against such a strong in-
cumbent as Howard, as he
sensed a dynamic. and
competant individual in a’
hopeless cause,

Campagnolo pulled off one

_ of the most surprising upsets

in that campaign though, She
turfed Howard out of office.
and went on to become a star
in the Trudeau cabinet.
While the amount of real
power’ Campagnolo wields.
may be questioned, that she
went into the cabinet in her
first term in office is
remarkable. Except for rare
occasions when a member af
parliament comes _ into
government with a special
expertise, the first term in
the house is an ap-
Many new
MP's spend that whole term
finding their way around and
learning the rules, Many
hardly every speak. They
are simply there to support
the party lines.
Campagnolo, however, has
been exceedingly high
profile. That she is an at-

tractive woman certainly |

helped in a world where the

lona Campagnolo campaigns

members of the press, and

‘particularly photographers

and editors, are male. To be
fair, however, she is algo one
of the more high-energy
people you will meet.
In-her first meeting with
the editor of the Herald, a
meeting forced after he tore
astrip out of her local public-
relations man because she
had. made’ np effort to
communicate with the paper

‘and didn’t answer calls, she

talked almost non-stop the
entire time. Campagnolo is

one of those people who can —

ingest huge amounts of

‘material, facts and figures, :

and regurgitate them at will
theyway- a mother bird
coughs up partially digested
insects for her young.

It is impressive. - It
demonstrates a high level of
brain power and a
tremendous command of her
area of interest, It gives the
impression of sitting across
from a telelype designed by

the people who make Barbie -
dolls.

After a few meetings,
however, one realizes that

perhaps she was just ner-
vous or thought this was the
way to

impression lingers (hough.
She is addicted to her own
adrenaline. She is a power
junkie.

Campagnolo began to
campaign the moment she
was elected. Her newspaper
column, a service most

‘papers offer the member of:

parliament so they can keep
in touch with ‘their con-
stituents, is campaign
literature,

Among the achievements
Campagnolo relies on is how
much she has done for this

.iding; She makes‘no bones

_ about bringing home~ the

bacon. Her columns. read
like a completed shopping
list. She flaunts the grants
and subsidies the federal
gavernment has made to
firms and individuals in this
area as though it is her own
largess, She gives the im:
pression she is signing
cheques on a trust fund she
aione is empowered to divide
up. '

Progressive Conservative MP leaves Cousins holding the bags

impress. “ She -
becomes more human. One -

ese people?

Her main opponent in this
‘race, Jim Fulton, the New
Demoneratic eandidate,
claims her apprent pork
barrelling hasn’t brought
much more gravy this way
than would haye come

“naturally, no matter who

was representing this area.
Fulton, a doctor's son who
came up to the Queen
Charlotte Islands because
his father staked oul some
homestead land there, has
been campaigning against
Campagnolo almost since
the day she was elected.
Altough it is his first time
as a candidate, Fulton was
bound. to run, and for the
NDP, sooner or later, He has

’ worked in a number of

campaigns and just slipped
into this one as a candidate
the way a vaudville per-
‘former's child goes on stage,
it’s all just part of the act.

’ Campagnolo got into
politics later in life. The 46-
year-old mother of two went
to work after raising her
family. She got involved in
broadcasting and ran for
school board. Fulton went to

Franz Colet

ane of the mes poiltically
‘aware 'universitles in
Canada, the then newly-
formed Simon Fraser
University in Vancouver,
There he saw the turbulent,
student activism of the 1940's
through and. went the route
of exploring a number of
disciplines. tie drifted from
sciences, .something’ he
probably enrolled in because
it was the most prestigious
and expected of a doctor’s
son. He tried English
literature and then moved
into something with more
substance, political science,
in order to understand the .-
turmoil: around him.

A government ruling that.
you had to build a house on |
homestead lease sent him to
the Charlottes to build. a

house after he had his ° -

degree. He returned to the
University of Victoria to
support his wife as she
finished her academic
requirements.

The probation service, to
which the young Fulton |
turned for a job, had the

rfect opening for him on
Re islands, a place to which

‘itis hard to convince people’

to move.

Fulton says the provincial
government was a little slow
at getting him his moving
allowance so he took
deputy minister of the at-
torney general's department
to court and successfully got
a garnishee order, lifting the
man’s paycheque at source: |
to give Fulton his money. He
offers a copy of a letter
saying that unless the
probation service open an
office in Baffin Island,
Fulton will not geta transfer
toa more sought-after area.
That, however, suits Fulton

just fine, except that the
probation service doesn't
offer him the challenge he

. Seeks, And that is why he is

running.

_- Fulton lays out his ex-
perience with the probation

service as his background
research into what the
problems and needs are in
this area, The bearded, now
30-year-old, and socially
conscious young man is
being suggested as a
younger and more sensitive

‘version of provincial NDP
leader Dave Barrett. It is a_

good comparison. .. -

a Rod Cousins, nase ei

doing. him much mi
however, Cousins is being
mockingly touted as a Joe
Clark younger brother, and
seen as a bungler like Clark,

Cousins confessed his
nalvete the first time he
approached this” paper ta
introduce himself. He went
. on to demonstrate how little
he understood about politics
and the newspapers that
report on politicians by
trying to hire a reporter
away from a paper for the
campaign. When comments
were made about his inep-.
titude he cried “foul” and

wondered why we had done-

it. After expressing his shock
and horror at what he per-
ceived as attacks by other
candidates and saying how
much it upset him that this
would happen, he went on to
-issue press release after

press release that were such .

Bross altacks on Cam-
pagnolo as to be almost
parodies of political attack.
While Cousins has in many
ways the best background a
would-be member of
parliament for the North
could ask for, more than'a
decade working for the
Federal Business
Development
hasn't put his wealth of

experience and knowledge ©

across.

Cousins even administered
the coup de grace to himself
by himself In admitting that
even if he won he would hot
Tun again.

The political analysts who
have been following the
election campaign here,
members of the national
news media, say Cousins
has. been left out here to
lovee all onhis own and that
the Tories are not investing
much morethan they have to
for appearances’ sake. This
riding was conceded by the
Tories before the campaign
begun.

A on. issue candidate,
independent Tony Organ,
who started his campaign to.
plug his personal vendelta
against those who advocate
and would allow abortion on
demand, actually got into
dealing with some of the
other issues, but not enough -
to bring him out of the
basement he'll share with
independent Franz Colet |
when the votes are counted.

And the most kindly thing -
we cat say about Colet was
that he provided some en-
lertainment with his pro:
marijuana
campaign.

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