It’s out with the old and in with the new WHILE MOST people are crossing off items on their Christmas “to do” list, Lorne Sexton has another one to com- plete. The president of the Canadian Al- liance’s Skeena constituency assoctation has to arrange for a new constituency as- socialion, a new election readiness team, 4 new candidate nomination meeting and take part in the creation of a new politi- cal parly now that the Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada have agreed to merge. -The work began Dec. 13 when the con- Slituency association held its final meet- ing under.the Canadian Alliance, banner. The constituency association cease to exist.as of Dec, 31, 2004 and a gathering of the new party, the Conservative Party of Canada, takes place Jan. 17 to elect a new Skeena riding execulive, “There's not much time,” said Sexton with a federal election looming -next spring. Current members of the Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party in good standing automatically become members of the new party, Sexton said he will run for a spot on the new executive and added that most other members of the Alliance executive will run as well. The new parly must also write a new constitution and hold a leadership race before newly-named Prime Minister Paul Martin, as expected, heads to the pells next year. More than 95 per cent of Alliance members and more. than 90 per cent of Progressive Conservative party members voted several weeks ago to merge. “T must have been the only ‘no’ vote,” commented Sexton on the result. He’s been wary of the new parly proposal, say- ing that the West’s voice must be pre- served. Airport users THE NUMBER of passengers going through the Northwest Regional Airport here should top last year’s total of 89,252 and close in on the 90,000 mark, says air- port manager Laurie Brown. “T think we're going to have a pretty good year, all things considered,” he said last week, ‘As of the end of November, 81,872 people had used the airport, about 300 méretthan for fiestine peridd tit 2002. If December traffic equals that of Dec. 2002,.the annual figure will ‘be, 400 peo- ple shy of 90, 000. , “them i into our “Soturda 7 ica GAME VO CHER * FREE GAME VOUCHER * FREE GAME VOUCHER ec ON DOWN...IT’S FREE! This game is free, that’s right, FREE! | 1 Use this voucher to redeem your free 3-up card ~. that could win-you an easy $200,001 Bring... hemnoon’ évent and. Phone: 250-635-2411 _AA10 Legion Ave., Terrace, B.C. “That was F the reason — for the .Re-§ form party in the first place,” said § Sexton 0 Western Ca- nadian_ al- ienation whic h brought about the § predecessor § to the Cana- dian ~ Al- liance. Sexton = said the real purpose be- hind the merger was to front a new parly for the Ontario battleground because of the large number of seats it has in Parlia- ment. High-level political operatives have said the only way to defeat the federal Liberals is to create a party combining Canadian Alliance and Progressive Con- servative votes in that province. Also facing Sexton and others is the outstanding issue of federal riding boun- daries. Skeena will become much larger, stretching east-to Vanderhoof, as of July 1 under federal legislation which adjust boundaries'every 10 years according lo census population statistics. That meazs if Prime Minister Paul Martin calls an election before that date, the current boundaries will be used. A bill was introduced in Parliament to create the new boundaries on April] in- stead.- It was left hanging when Parlia- ment went into recess last month. The bill can, however, be revived when Parlia- ment retutns early on in the new year. Lorne Sexton slowly rise That would still be a drop from the 2001 ‘figure of 95,814 passengers but more than that recorded for 2000 and 1999, Passenger traffic hovered around the 97,000 mark in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Brown attributed some of this year's increase to a new instrument landing sys- tem, installed a year ago. It’s cut way. back on the number of cancelled landings | because of weather. : To the end GF November, there"Were 23° flights which could not land because of weather compared to 140 for the ‘same’ period in 2002. Fax:. 200-635-7882 Jackp ot Info. Line Ext. 27 Britseh Columbia in pariarship with g Aottary Corporation lFHDnOA IWV9 334d « YIHNOA IWVD JIYd * YIHDNOA IWYD Fy! 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