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TERRACE _ About ‘40 anti-

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.abortion protesters gave NDP

leader Mike Harcourt a
welcome he didn’t expect during
his ‘visit to the party's local cam-

_ paign’ office Saturday.

2° Local pro-life nurse Isobel

; “Brophy: led the demonstration,
demanding to know why Myrna
George — a local native woman
who died here from abortion

-complications - last. month —

wasn't given more information
about the. procedure.

_//NDP supporters jostled for
position amid a forest of signs
while demonstrators chanted:
**Pro-choice is a lie, Myrna did

‘not choose to die.”"

**We have the family here of
a girl who died here on Sept. 14
from an abortion," Brophy told
Harcourt. “She did not know

the risks of abortion before she

got up on the table.

* We want it mandated: by
‘legislation that wornen have the
right to be informed about
abdrtion,”’ Brophy said, ‘She's
the one who lives with the con-
sequences of her decision for alk
the rest of the days of her life
and God help her that she
doesn’t have to offer up her life
for that decision as Myrna
George has.’’

Harcourt said that ‘‘difficult

choice’ shouldn't be made by
politicians” but rather by the
woman in full consultation with
doctors and counsellors.
. ¥ou and I agree to
disagree,’’ Harcourt told
Brophy, ‘‘Whatever our per-
sonal positions on abortion,
New Democrats believe that’s a
woman’s choice.”’

He said he would as premier
ensure hospital boards are never
again allowed to restrict abar-
tion in B.C,

out Brophy had been
reprimanded last year by the
registered nurses’ association
for counselling women at Mills
Memorial Hospital not to have
abortions.

Inside Helmut Giesbrecht’s
campaign office, Harcourt was
questioned on the Liberal Par-
ty’s apparent sudden surge in
popularity.

The narrowing of his party's
margin in recent polls doesn’t
make him nervous, Harcourt
said,

He was responding to the
latest Angus Reid poll which
showed the NDP still leading
with 38 per cent, the Liberals at
30 per..cent and the ‘Socreds
trailing at 29 per cent,

Dismissing the opinion poil as
unimportant, Harcourt added,
‘The only poll I'm interested in
is next Thursday, Oct. 17,”

He also disagreed the claimed
swing to the Liberals was in fact
happening at all. He said the
message he was getting going
round the province was British
Columbians wanted to see a
change ‘‘and the only guarantee
of that is with a vote for the
New Demacrats.’’

“People are realizing they
just can’t carry out what they
say they are going to do. You
can’t cut taxes and increase
spending and give up on the
deficit,"’ Harcourt said of
Liberal policy.

Asked whether he would
strike a deal with the Liberals in
the event the New Democrats
fdund themselves in a minority
position, Harcourt replied, ‘‘l
haven't even thought about
that. The only way I think is
win.”

Jack Kempf also favoured

Pro-lifers greet Mike

An NDP supporter pointed _

PRO-LIFE ADVOCATE Isabel Brophy, in the background, makes a
point to NDP leader Mike Harcourt, foreground, during his stop
here Saturday. Harcourt was met with pro-life and NDP signs as he
got off 2 bus for a campaign workers’ pep talk.

Poll gives NDP the edge

TERRACE —NDP candidate
Helmut Giesbrecht should win
the Skeena riding in tomorrow's
election, suggests a poll taken
for The Terrace Standard..

“GRR MHeOMY TAG he Sh ppai't OF
4Siper cent of deided* voters
compared to 38 per cent for
Socred incumbent Dave Parker.’

The poll was taken Oct. 9-11,
after the televised party leaders’
debate, by Educomp, a lower
mainland opinion survey firm.

Giesbrecht and Parker both
lost voters to Liberal: Juanita
Hatton when these new figures
are compared to earlier polls.
Hatton had the support of 16
per cent of decided voters and

one per cent said they wanted to
vote for another party. Six per
cent of those contacted -were
undecided. n

In the Bulkley Valley-Stikine

-feding! former Sweved tandidate
~“JackKempf, rhewittunnting avian

‘independent, had: 40 Per: cent of

the decided vote.

NDP candidate Jackie Pe-
ment is two points behind with

38 per cent of the vote while ‘

Liberal candidate Alice
Maitland had 22 per cent sup-
port. Five per cent of those con-
tacted in that riding were
undecided.

And in the North Coast
riding, NDP candidate Dan

Miller leads Socred Linda Mar-
-Shall Lutz by a 45 to 30 per cenit
margin.

Educomp says Liberal ‘sup-
port grew during thispolling
-périod (bit thhdit ‘Io iripossible
bo. belli if:ie-will day: Wine halt

parly.: The: number of ‘undecid-
' -ed-votersifellze" 0 06 esa

Educomp contacted between

150 and 170 in each constituen-
cs: That, it says, gives a max-
imuny errai capacity of plus or
minus eight per cent, 19 times
out of 20. .
' Across the “north the poll
shows the NDP leading in five
seats and the Socreds in four
with Kempf leading in Bulkley
Valley-Stikine.

CFTK wasn’t improper

TERRACE — CFTK wasn’t ac-
ting improperly when it didn't
carry NDP opposition leader
Mike Harcourt’s speech the
night the election was called,
says the federal body which
regulates broadcast outlets,

The Canadian Radio-
television and Telecommunica-
tions’ Commission (CRTC)
made the ruling following a
complaint filed by Skeena NDP
MP Jim Fulton.
: CFTK carried Premier Rita
Johnston's Sept. 19 election an-
nouncement beginning at 6 p.m.
and went back to regular pro-
‘gramming, at its conclusion.
Harcourt spoke about 13
minutes later.

~-But ‘the CRTC found CFTK
had no knowledge that Har-

court was to speak after

Johnston.

+ “There does not seem to have
been a deliberate intention on
(CFTK’s) part to ‘‘silence” the
Qpposition Leader,’’ said a let-
ter from a CRTC cfficial.

“We therefore find that to
date the licensee has not acted
improperly. and, therefore,
there, is no.action for the com-

inission to take at this time,’’
thie letter said,

 Fulton’s. complaint letter cail-
ed. the. failure to to carry Har-
court's speech ‘broadcast
manipulation.”

- CFTK spokesman Bryan Ed-
wards said that while there was
speculation. about what
‘Johnston. might say, “there was

no ‘knowledge of the content of -
Johinston’ s.speech before she

went.on the air.

“He said the CBC-TV station -

in Vancouver, from which it
draws’ ogramming as ‘part of
being a ¢
schedule a formal news special,

the night ‘of Sept. 191 nor: did.ie-

CBC affiliate, didnot.

ask its affiliates to clear time for —
Johnston's speech.

“We picked it up on aur own
initiative. All we were told that
it was an address from the
premier. Only Premier

Johnston knew what she was~:

going to say. There is no elec-
tion until the writ is dropped,"
added Edwards, ,

And he said CFTK would
have carried Harcourt’s
remarks if it knew he was going
to speak,

“‘Fulton’s accusing us of par-
tisan politics when the election
was only 15 minutes old. The
rules by which we operate are

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continued.

‘He said CBC affiliates in
Prince George and in Kelowna
also went back to regular pro-

-gramming after Johnston
spoke. The CBC affiliate in

Kamloops did not carry her an-.,

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