lt | ‘Peace now major shoy 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. For Jobs, Peace and Canadian Independence Vote Communist on Sept. 4th If you need a ride to the polls. call 254-9836 Published by the authority of the Chief Agent of CPC Classified Advertising COMING EVENTS SEPT. 11 — Commemoration of coup in Chile. 7:30 p.m. La Quena, 1111 Victoria. Spons. by Canadians for Democracy in Chile. 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