_ Two candidates running — for Reform party position TERRACE — Reform party members meet this Saturday in Terrace to choose a Skeena riding candidate for the next federal election, :-The party has gained a lot of popularity in the last two years ‘in: the northwest and now says : alt has more than 700 members. "Below are profiles on the two candidates. . Alan Forsyth “Forsyth i is retuming to his fam- ay’ '$ populist roots by running for the Reform party’s nomination in “the Skeena riding. “My Dad’s family had been » CCF in Saskatchewan. The CCF was a populist movement on the prairies,’”-said Forsyth, 25, a lum- -ber grader with Repap’s Camaby ~ mill in the Hazeltons. “The family followed its CCF . Connection by voting for the NDP when that party was created after the.CCF merged forces. with organized labour. Forsyth voted for Skeena NDP _ MP. Jim Fulton in the 1988 elec- - ‘tion and his grandmother was a “friend of Fulton’s. ~ But. -Forsyth. and his family -changed in 1989. when his brother brought home a Reform party “publication. outlining its’ princi- : les ‘and policies. <'When the CCF started it was a movement of the people as op- posed | to a, movement of the elite. * Now-the NDP has little or no évi- ‘dence of the populist tradition,” said Forsyth. “He's found the kind of policies he wants in the Reform party. SL like. the idea of recall over __MPs. and that MPs “if they go against government or a party lines,” said Forsyth. “us This is critical to Forsyth be- cause. he says MPs, once in Ot- tawa, are tied to a, party machine at the expense of the people who ‘elected them. “Freedom. on voting is impor- - :tant when it comes to moral deci- ‘gion making such as abortion or = Capital punishment, And the party. | says_ it will balance the budget -~ oi WH thin three years.or.call an elect ilicy ~tion,”” Forsyth:continued. “controlling spending is backed by Forsyth because of the need to ~ reduce the deficit. “Of all the poticies covered by the Reform party, | could either agtee with them or be neutral. I © think that’s pretty rare,’ Forsyth i vadded. "The candidate isn’t j in favour of | - ‘a loan guarantees such as the one ~ --;Orenda Forest. Products wants”: “vs from: the provincial government | > “for * its. planned pulp and paper aoe mil, oo-ean’t see any reason why the pro- : ject. couldn't be viable on its ‘own,’’ said Forsyth. avery: compelling reason for a not a very good idea,”” ‘Yet Forsyth said that if Orenda ‘applied to the federal government for a loan guarantee and if he was the MP, he would listen to his constituents. ‘stituents even if [ differed with ‘them,”” said Forsyth, ‘cept of native land claims. kind of settlement at least in terms of it being a justice issue.”’ “Tf you look back at B.C, law ‘In’. the ..1880s there was Homestead Act. Indians weren't allowed to go off the reserve and claim ‘land and make it a homestead,’ he-said.. .. But the difficult part comes in the type of settlement to be nego- tiated, Forsyth continued. (Will it be fee simple or is it to be some kind of sovereignty over latid as-the provincial government now tiolds land?”’ he said. - : ‘And, whatever settlement there ‘Forsyth says the end result uld not: be the creation of a new elite, p-people at the individual level rattier, than a settlement that bene- fité leaders Which, like our lead- If chosen as the Reform candi- dini re Nke Scott : “way ue development, says | one: of should _ represent their. constituents even - The’ Reform party’s belief in’ ae } “Unfortunately they very com- ‘monly become a direct expense. I. 247 think there would have to be _ ‘loan guarantee. At first blush, it is “T-would vote with my con-— “The* candidate “backs the con- “There is some basis for some , fhe. .. AT'd like to see a direct benefit don't: represent people,” he * ate and if elected, Forsyth said - ms fie will take a 10 ‘per cent pay cut® ©. as a sign of the need to cut federal. ; Tt’ titite to stop standing in the: ; Alan Forsyth the Reform Party’s prospective candidates for Skeena. Mike Scott, 38, is president of the Kitimat Chamber of Com- merce: and district manager for Kentron Construction. He says a vote for Reform is a vote for more free enterprise and less government. “Government does not create jobs,’’ Scott said last week. ‘‘The only jobs government creates are jobs that are paid for out of tax- payers’ pockets.”’ The only way we’re going to have meaningful jobs created in the future, without dipping into the taxpayers pocket, is to move aside and allow rational develop- ment to take place.”’ - We must reaffirm our com- Mike Scott mitment to our primary resource industries,’ Scott said. ‘These are the industries that drive our economy, Without them we have nothing,’’ He pointed to what he called the mishandling of resource issues such as the proposed Windy Cragey copper mine and the Orenda paper mill proposal. “‘Orenda’s one of the most en- vironmentaily neutral projects I’ve ever seen in my life,” Scott said, adding government inter- ference with Orenda set the pro- ject back more than a year. “We have to welcome expansion, not put roadblocks up in its way.”’ But Scott said a Reform government would never agree to the type of government loan guar- antees Orenda is secking to get the project built “The Reform party docs not and never will belicve in taking tax dollars to invest in private companies,’ he said. ‘We don’t believe in grants, subsidies and loan guarantees.” Scott says-- various © political parties have failed in their effarts to be fiscally responsible, Cana- dians still face large annual deficits and a staggering and growing national debt. He calls Reform the last real hope for meaningful political change in Canada. Another key issue in Skeena is the resolution of native fand claims, “We recognize that a new deal has to be struck with aboriginal people,’’ Scoit says. But he said the interests of all constituents must be well represented. He points to the handling of the Nisga’a land claim negotiations. “They're taking place behind closed doors between two parties or three parties. But one of the most potentially affected groups of people. isn’t at the table — the non-aboriginal people,’’ Scott says he also wants to see reform of the criminal justice sys- tem. “We sce dangerous, hardened criminals out on day passes. We ' gee convicted criminals — con- victed of violent crimes, sexual abuse crimes — out on the sirect with very short sentences.’’ The Terrace Slandard, Wednesday, March 3, 1993 - Page A7 Kids & Tobacco It's a crime. Baby's Namen Tony Alfred Tait Parents! 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