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BRITISH COLUMBIA

The Lower Mainland’s organized peace
Movement has achieved two major victories
a8 a result of a questionnaire on nuclear

ament distributed to the area’s 60
federal election candidates, the umbrella
Peace group End the Arms Rae said
Monday.

"We have succeeded in making peace a
Campaign issue,” said EAR vice-president
Carmela Allevato to reporters at the EAR
Office in Vancouver’s Fairview Baptist
church.

And, said Allevato, pressure from con-
Stituents has succeeded in causing some
Candidates to change their minds on disar-
Mament issues.

The leaders of the 190-group member
Peace coalition also termed as “very inap-
Pfopriate” Prime Minister John Turner’s
Fesponse to the questions.

Early this month EAR distributed its
questionnaire to candidates for the Com-
Munist, Green, Liberal, New Democratic
ne Progressive Conservative parties asking
their Opinion on: whether, as MPs, they
Would ask for immediate cancellation of the,
“Tuise missile testing agreement; if they sup-
Ported Canada becoming a nuclear-
Weapons free zone; if they would urge

Nada to support a bilateral freeze on the
Production, testing and deployment of
Nuclear weapons.

_ Both Communist and NDP candidates
in all the ridings answered “Yes” to all the
questions, Allevato noted.

An accompanying tally sheet noted most

€en Party candidates responded favora-

ly to all questions, with a few exceptions
Where Green party candidates did not
Tespond at all.

Not unexpectedly, Liberals and Conser-
Vatives were the biggest truants, with nine

iberals failing to return the questionnaire,
and nine Tories not answering.

Letters

However, of the big-business party repre-
sentatives who did answer almost all of
them answered “‘yes” to each question. A
few of these were qualified, with three PC
candidates calling for either a “verifiable”
or “at parity” nuclear weapons freeze, or
both.

PC candidate and incumbent MP for
Vancouver-South, John Fraser, gave no
answer to Question 2, — “Will you support
Canada becoming a nuclear-weapons free
zone?” — instead asking one of his own:
“What are the implications?” Fraser has
been outspoken as a Tory opposed to the
cruise missile testing in Canada.

Vancouver-Quadra, featuring as it does
the election bid of Prime Minister Turner,
drew the most attention at the press
conference.

In a letter to End the Arms Race, Turner
rejected the question, and the implied call
voiced by dozens of peace groups and a
majority of Canadians, concerning the can-
cellation of cruise missile testing.

“The cruise testing is a commitment by
Canada in support of our NATO obliga-
tions contributing to progress towards the
balance of deterrence,” Turner wrote.

“That’s based on a false premise,” said
EAR vice-president John Broderick, a Uni-
ted Church of Canada leader. “Cruise test-
ing has nothing to do with commitment to
the NATO alliance,” he said, pointing out
that even former Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau had made this clear in a recent
speech.

Frank Kennedy, EAR president and
president of the Vancouver and District
Labor Council, said the cruise tests had no
military significance.

“The first cruise test simply tied Canada
into a policy that goes against its own inter-
national obligations and commitments,” he
said.

Can Ice Capades

pavayne Duzita, promotions manager,
coniti¢ National Exhibition, writes: I. sin-
shel enjoyed Ald. Rankin’s article to res-
Te the Pacific National Exhibition as a
a K to the people of Vancouver (Let’s Get
peters out of PNE, July 18). However,
P any financial and marketing aspects of the
Were ignored in his report.
ae Rankin is absolutely correct that the
a Was originally established with cash
aod from city council, but he fails to
a ee that the PNE is presently paying
Va Million per year in taxes to the city of
tip Acouver and that we also maintain and
a the facilities from the profits gener-
ti throughout our yearly revenues. For
ae over $3 million is being spent this
the SS improve the Coliseum and upgrade
oll Orum, Food Pavilion, Showmart and
See complexes. We have also allo-
the $700,000 for the installation of ice in
hocy, erodome to improve minor league
€y in Vancouver.
* ur current balance sheet shows lease-
milli and equipment spending of over $20
(000 to the annual Agricultural Show
ae free parking on the south side
ie pe anes Street as a park-and-ride facility
7 €city. We support an annual payroll of
~‘ Million, not including people employed
a Racetrack, Playland and the Van-
enn. Canucks. A third of this payroll is
of t €d by people who live within 10 blocks
he PNE. All of these costs and expenses
< eee from the net contributions of the
Ibition,
Ald. Rankin indicates that the park
Id be an exhibition which is open on’a
en round basis, should be interesting,
Ttaining, and informative for children

and

10n net of disposals. We contribute.

be called ‘superficial?’

and adults alike and not just for the shallow
hucksters out to make a buck with their skin
and show games. Obviously he hasn’t taken
the time to investigate the fact that we are a
year-round facility and skin shows went out
with the 60s.

I am sure that organizations such as the
Auto Show, Boat Show, Horticultural
Show, Garden Show, Travel and Trade,
Telecommunications, Home Show (a var-
iety of retail extravaganzas), union meet-
ings, religious organizations, and the fair
itself, which includes hundreds of local,
domestic and international companies,
would question his perception of the PNE.

Can he honestly call’ Woodward’s, the

. Milk Producers Association, Labatts, Car-

lings, Grey Beverage, Kodak, Canada
Safeway, Super Valu, Shoppers Drug Mart,
7-Eleven, Nike, Air Canada, Ward Air,
Toyota, General Motors, Chrysler, Roth-
mans, the federal government (the list goes
on), hucksters?

Are Kenny Rogers, Elton John, Willie
Nelson, Ice Capades and NHL hockey shal-
low entertainment?

Ald. Rankin wants to do away with all of -
this so that we may have a static display of
models showing our major industries in
British Columbia.

We are again changing to present a new
image for 1984. and beyond. We area living,
breathing, exciting vehicle for the people of
Vancouver, British Columbia and all the
world to see, visit and enjoy ona day to day
and year round basis. The Pacific National
Exhibition is a park for the people.

We are alive and well in 1984 and are.

looking at the financial support by major
corporations. We sincerely question Ald: >
Rankin’s report from city hall.

election issue’

Allevato said the prime minister’s
response of Question 2 was simply
“confusing.”

He wrote: “Yes. Through the replacement
of the nuclear-equipped CF-18 fighter air-
craft, Canada will soon be the only country
in the world to have rid itself of its nuclear
weaopns.”

(Turner’s baffling response seems based
on the fact that the last of the U.S.-owned
nuclear missiles are being removed from the
armed forces base in Comox. The CF-18
fighter aircraft — the double-fuselage air-
craft notorious for malfunctions — are
being purchased rather than replaced, and
some are at the Comox base.)

Allevato noted that Turner’s response
ignored the important question of testing
nuclear weapons, a key component of the
nuclear-weapons free delcaration.

Turner gave as “‘qualified” his answer to
the question on Canada signing a bilateral
nuclear weapons freeze, stating, “On this
one issue we will continue the pursuit of
peace in consultation with our allies.”

EAR was puzzled by that statement, and
disappointed with a note at the end which
announced, “‘These responses are from the
Prime Minister of Canada. He has inter-
national commitments and world wide
responsibilties. A candidate whose only
responsibility is to get elected would not be
thusly constrained in his or her answers.”

““We should be able to trust candidates’
statements,” said Allevato, terming the
prime minister’s response “inappropriate.”

“If John Turner wants to be prime minis-
ter, he’d better be much clearer on the peace
issues,” Kennedy said. :

The peace organization also welcomes
the conversion of Bill Clarke, Tory MP and
Turner’s rival in Quadra. Clarke, citing a
9,000-name petititon from constituents,
answered “‘yes” to all questions.

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