4 Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 26, 1988 ‘ fe B This =: week | on the | campaign trail Liberal candidate Odd Fidsvik was setting up shop last Friday in Prince Rupert, getting his campaign office organized. The grand opening is this Satur- Tom Brophy Skeena Christian Heritage candidate Tom Brophy has been spending time talking to small groups in the riding. Last Satur- day, he attended a breakfast meeting in Smithers then return- ed to Terrace for an evening meeting. Tomorrow night, he will be speaking at an open meeting at the Christian Reform Church ‘and next Tuesday and Wednes- . day will be taking part in all- ‘candidate forums in Queen Charlotte City and Masset. The party is in favor of both astrong defence and multilateral “disarmament. ‘‘We’re now un- der, the defence umbrella of the ” United States,’? Brophy explain- ed. “The armed forces should be ~evaluated,. and could be used more to assist in domestic emergencies.’’ He says Canada ‘should expand its rote of being a “mediating, or peace-keeping na- tion. And he said we’ve been liv- “ing under the threat of nuclear - ‘destruction, long enough — “Wisely, the nations. are work- ing towards eliminating nuclear : ‘} and 2, day afternoon. ‘Camnaion -werker Margie » reat} oD Oevering was busy mailing out letters about free trade to Liberal members, and to businesses in Kitimat, Smithers, Prince Rupert and Terrace. Eidsvik was in Terrace and Kitimat over the weekend, distributing pamphlets and knocking on doors. On Sunday he attended a bingo in Kit- wanga. Monday morning he had two broadcast interviews, a radio chat in Kitimat and television in- terview in Terrace. Eidsvik intends to participate in a number of all-candidate forums, including those in the Queen Charlottes on November Prince Rupert November 3, and the television debate in Terrace” -.° | — Christian Heritage weapons,” Tax reform ideas include eliminating waste in govern- ment, such as duplication of ser- vices, and restricting grants to special interest groups. Al- though he declined to specify or define '‘special interest groups”’, Brophy said, ‘‘There is a myriad of groups that have been receiv- ing grants | for a decade or 15 years, who have developed un- necessary bureucracies, some have become institutions. Hun- dreds of them are funded from year to year, with no one really evaluating what they’ve done.” Tax loop-holes would also be eliminated, with every individual or businesss earning over $10,000 paying the same flat tax rate. Controlling the deficit: is the best way to ensure the con- tinuation of social programs and maintaining Canada’s ‘sovereignty, Brophy says. ‘‘At the other end of the in- justice of big corporations and wealthy individuals not paying taxes, is the injustice of able Canadians being handed a wel- fare cheque. and not being brought into a productive and healthy life.”? One plan to battle this would be the creation of.a Canadian Conservation Corp, for young people and others to work in areas such as recycling, planting windbreaks on the prairies, reforestation, and other public works. Brophy’s party would also like to seea breakdown of where ‘the dollars go on. each dividual’s tax form.’ jon 1968 Jim Fulton - — ~ New Democrat” ' Last ‘week the NDP’s Jim i Fulton returned to the riding from ‘Little Buffalo, Alta.,- where he was showing support for the Lubicon, Lake Indian Band in their land claims settle- ment effort involving a bar- ticade against oil drilling. He was in Hazelton last. Fri- day night at a dinner celebrating the Gitksan Wet’suwet’an Tribal Council victory -in obtaining a On Oct. 17 and 18, Pro- gressive Conservative candidate Ray Halvorson was in Terrace working in his campaign head- quarters and later in the day go- ing door-to-door, meeting local residents. Halvorson spent the following two days in Kitimat and Prince Rupert meeting local residents, and on Friday, Oct. 21, visited Kitimaat Village. Halvorson spent last weekend at home with his family before returning to Terrace on’Monday to work out of campaign head- quarters and meet more local — residents. Yesterday, he travell- ed to Prince Rupert for the of- ficial opening of another cam- paign headquarters, a Rotary luncheon and a meeting with commercial fishermen. Today he is scheduled to go door-to- door in Prince. Rupert. - ‘court injunction’ to stop Westar Timber’s bridge building plans to obtain access to timber on the. north side of the Babine River. — Fulton spent. last Saturday canvassing. in Smithers, and ‘Sunday in the Hazelton area. On . Sunday night a public meeting was held in Hazelton. Today Fulton is in Kitimaat, Village and: Terrace and-tomor- — row he heads to - the Queen Ray Halvorson — ~ Progressive 7 Tomoiiow, Halvorson Will Bed working out of his Kitimat of- fice prior to a noon hour meeting with city council and will return to Terrace. in the. evening to attend the Chamber of Commerce Businessman of the Year banquet. Halvorson says his govern- ment’s commitment to continue the availability of the flow- through mining shares through ‘the Canadian Exploration In- centive Programs means a bright future for the resource rich area of Northwestern B.C. In addi- tion, he says he is proposing development of the Hwy. 37 cor- Charlottes for the. stcandinie , ‘forum. He’s also going to bea. : re judge, handing out prizes forthe. - best costume ‘at. a Hallowe’en dance in Queen Charlotte City _ October .29. an Campaign _ worker Norma Randle says Fulton will be going | ’ to'the coastal towns and south- ern part-of the Tiding early: in. oe November, - Conservative — An watian’ v panies the ACCESS they need to tap the resources of the Stewart/Iskut area and further develop Terrace. and Stewart as service centers. ; According to Halvorson, Ter- _ race and Smithers stand to gain . substantially from developments in the mining industry, but he pointed out that even though there were 500 exploration jobs and $55 million spent on equip- ment, wages and supplies in the Northwest. by the mining in- dustry this year alone, only a small fraction of this benefited Terrace or Smithers because of poor or no road access. 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