The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 5, 1996 - A7

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Social Credit rides again

Dear Sir:
Well it is over, but before

son three in the next federal

Arthur David S
eleclion as the NDP sweeps imat ne

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD Kitimat, B.C,

my coms stop aching and all
the - dust settles, several
items need addressing and
correcting,

The 60 to 40 per cent solu-
tion once again holds true,
and right of centre voters,
and their financial backers
with more money than
sense, better not forget as
they are prone to do. Grace
McCarthy and her new
found Liberal friends got
walloped, as they will again
and again until they get the
simple message, ‘That
when you mun a_ federal
political party flag up the
B.C. political flagpole, only
half of the free enterprise
vote will salute, and the
other half will have high
blood pressure from anger,
and rightly so,”’

The unfortunate fact is
that had the Liberals buried
their silly pride and come
home to Social Credit most
Reformers would have, too.
The extremists would dis-
solve into a rump. I guess
Mr. Rick Wozney would
rather blame Reform than
accept the simple fact that
Blues will not salute reds,
and Reds will not salute
Blues.

Mr. Helmut Giesbrecht
and the NDP are quite right
when he says ‘They will
take it any way they can”
and I salule the fact that
they make no such mistake

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of dividing the 40 per cent
support they enjoy, Fifty per
cent of the right of centre
vale would nol vote for a
Liberal though their policies
came from Jesus Christ
Himself and no Liberal for
Reform or Conservative
vice versa,

By Mr. Wozney blaming
Reform for his demise he
solidifies this open hatred
the Biues have for the Reds
and the Reds have for the
Blues, This will carry over
to the federal election, and
with a half-assed candidate
the NDP will take Skeena.

Put simply then, what is
Social Credit?

When you take nitric acid
and mix it with glycerin you
get @ very unstable ex-
plosive mixture ¢alled nitro-
glycerin. One shake and you
can blow yourself and
whatever building you are in
to kingdom come,

If you mix the nitric acid
into “kieselguhr’? or in
English ‘'Fullers Earth’’
then add the glycerin you
get a very stable product
called TNT which needs a
blasting cap to set it off,

Social Credit is the Fullers
Earth of the political ex-
plosive business. It absorbs

the Blucs and Reds in a
Stable but damnable ex-
plosive force as the NDP
well know. It kept them in
the political wilderness for
42 of the past 50 years,

The financial backers of
Reform and Liberals must
lick their wounds over the
sea of red ink their two
parties cost them to secure a
back to back NDP govern-
ment. The sad fact is that for
half the cost Social credit
would have done the job.
Better still, Liberals and
Reform would be sharing
power right now and form-
ing the government.

Winning the popular vote
is sad consolation and a
false premise upon which to
formulate future strategy if
we sincerely wish to defeat
the NDP.

We in Social credit have
already done our homework.
As you wipe your teary
eyes, it is only wishful
thinking of Liberals think
the Reform/Conservative
vote will just disappear to
make the Liberal delusion of
grandeur ever become more
than just that,

This was Poli Sci 101, les-
son one, Lesson two will
come in November, and les-

Spending limit valid

Dear Sir:

You have decided to chal-
lenge the new provisions of
the B.C. Elections Act limit-
ing third part spending on-
partisan election advertising
to $5,000 during an clection.
Your challenge has con-
sisted of breaking the law
and then foudly asserting
thai fact in order to test both
legal and public opinion,

Doubtless it is the job of a
free press to question the
law when you see it to be

blatantly unfair or
dangerous to our civil
liberties.

This law is neither. It en-
hances the fairness of the
electoral process in British
Columbia by ensuring that
all points of view can be
heard more or less clearly
and equally.

There are many examples
of abridgment of free speech
in Canada, Try mentioning
‘bomb’ in an airport line-up,
for example, or bringing
pomography into a school
classroom, This kind of
limitation to free expression

. fails to excite your indigna-

lion. Consequently the of-
fence you have taken to the
new election rules is net

simply one of principle,

The new election mules do
not forbid election advertis-
ing of any particular kind by
any third party; they merely
control the quantity.

In any formal debate both
partics are granted equal
time in which to make their
case, Rules of debate are
scrupulously applied ta
ensure that the judging
audience has an opportunity
to hear both sides of the is-
Sue equally,

Kt would be absurd to al-
low one party to arpue its
case for 20 minutes, the sec-
ond party to reply only for
ten and then to end the
debate expecting an objec-
tive and impartial judgment
from the audience.

Yet that is the principle of
election debate you are (wit-
tingly = or unwittingly)
defending by your action,

The corporate sector has
consistently and fairly suc-
cessfully influenced the out-
come of electoral decisions
in Canada by weighing in
with millions of dollars in
third party advertising.

Corporate Canada is fond
of quoting the saw about
playing “‘on a level playing

field.’* They can always be
counted on to do so as long
as they can field more, bet-
ter equipped players and pay
flashier, sexier cheerleaders.
If the goal of a democracy
is to enable people to vote in
their self-interest based on
knowledge of the issues pro-
vided by relatively equal ac-
cess to the various parties’
advertising, then this new
legislation is probably some
of the most valuable the
NDP has passed in its recent
tenure in government,
Al Lehmann,
‘Terrace, B.C.

B.C. federally.

As a lawyer Mr. Wozney
should understand the in-
violable laws of political na-
ture.

(Editor's note: Mr, Serry
was the Social Credit candi-
date in the May 28 provin-
cial election.)

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