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The three leaders may have given it only

Passing mention during the televised debate

put peace is very much an issue in the Sept. 4
€deral election,

And groups throughout the province are

determined that candidates address the

- Ssue on the hustings — and not just peace

general but policy initiatives that will lead
to disarmament.

The massive upsurge in the peace move-
Ment since the last federal vote in February,
has given a new prominence to disar-
Mament issues that has been reflected in the
Ouse of Commons debates and in former

. me Minister Pierre Trudeau’s peace

Mitiative. It was even echoed at the Liberal
Convention,

But as the recent votes on cruise testing
and on Tory MP Walter McLean’s private
_Member’s bill on a nuclear freeze have
*monstrated being “for peace” and sup-
Porting initiatives to achieve disarmament
are two different things.

“Peace has much more importance’ in

's election compared to 1980. We've been
Uccessful in getting politicians to talk about
ch ce and the arms race,” said Gary Mar-
F ant, vice-president of the 190-member-

"Sanization End the Arms Race.

ae it’s one thing to talk about it and
a €r thing to initiate and support poli-

<8 that will halt the arms race and lead to
~ armament.”

s

weak which has organized the historic
alks for Peace in Vancouver in successive

“pris, is one of a number of organizations

and coalitions which are hoping to make.
‘Sarmament issues a major centre of
ebate during the federal election.

- The coalition just took delivery from the

Printers last- week of thousands of leaflets

Which, although they will be used even after
© Vote Sept. 4, focus on candidates’ cam-
218n positions on three key initiatives.

th “Will your elected representatives take
_. -© three simple steps for peace?” the leaf-

*t asks. Those steps are:

° “Will you ask for the immediate can-
Cellation of the cruise missile test agreement?
‘i ® “Will you support Canada becoming a

Uclear-weapons free zone? ;

ae “Will you urge Canada to support a
_,ateral freeze on the production and test-
Ng of all nuclear weapons?” .

ae for a position of support for disarma-
| Saad said Marchant, adding that EAR
a wbers will be taking the questions to
fo “Candidates meetings and other election

"ums and pressing candidates to take a

| “finite stand.

ti The leaflet also includes a brief explana-
_ (9 on each point. On the last question, it

| <™Phasizes the United Nations support for

: FAR will be sending out this week to all

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jon tear freeze as well as the May, 1984

ei ee declaration by Argentina, India, Mex-
‘| ..° +4nzania, Sweden and Greece — the

if

RS d six-nation initiative — which called

R the U.S. and the USSR as well as Britain,
fence and China to halt the production,
Thane and deployment of nuclear weapons.
4, © federal government, however, refused
_~ €ndorse it.

qbven where the issue does not arise at”
“aggcndidates meetings, candidates will be
€d to respond directly to a letter which

‘Andidates in the Lower Mainland.
1 will ask them the same three questions
3 at which time EAR will publicize the
| Onnaire and: the replies. Marchant
Nat the answers would likely be public-
i an advertisement “although our

1) they will be requested to reply by Aug.

Reg

— Mdget is limited.”

“We think those three points form the _

_ Peace groups press candidates
__ for policies on disarmament

Ask
them

it is fashionable for politicians
to speak glowingly of peace.
But fine words are often not
matched by concrete actions
and a genuine commitment to
end the arms race.

Three major planks proposed
by the Canadian peace
movement — halting cruise
missile testing, making Canada
a nuclear weapons free zone and
supporting a bilateral, verifiable
nuclear weapons freeze — area
comprehensive and realistic
plan to help end the arms race.

Individual politicians from all
three federal parties have
supported the three-point plan.
But many more have not.

You can make nuclear
disarmament a priority. by
supporting only those
politicians who really are
committed to ending
the arms race.

EAR LEAFLET...asking candidates to put
sentiments into policy.

Another, more extensive questionnaire
that is being used in ridings across the coun-
try in a project called “Election Priorities”,
has been drawn up by the Canadian Coun-
cil for International Co-operation.

Although initiated at a national level, it is
intended to be taken up locally by peace and
development groups in various areas.

It also asks candidates to commit them-

‘selves to a position on cruise testing, a

nuclear weapons free zone and a nuclear
freeze but also asks ten additional questions
on Canada’s role in the arms race, in inter-
national development and in disarmament
negotiations.

Peace groups in the riding of Vancouver-
Quadra will be sending out the question-
naire and there is likely ‘to be considerable
interest in the answers provided by the Lib-
eral candidate, Prime Minister John
Turner.

Marchant also noted some interest in
Vancouver-Centre since three candidates
— the New Democrats’ Johanna den Her-

tog, the Communist Party’s Maurice Rush

and Green party candidate Paul Watson
— have declared support for the End the

_ Arms Race position. ‘

Tory incumbent Pat Carney has claimed
she opposes cruise testing “but she was
absent for both the vote on the cruise
agreement and on the McLean motion, so
she has really not committed herself,” said
Marchant.

Elsewhere, action by peace groups in
North Vancouver has already brought a
response from Liberal party president and
North Vancouver-Burnaby candidate Iona
Campagnolo who told demonstrators from

’ the North Vancouver Citizens for Peace

who turned out to her nomination meeting
July 20, that she opposed cruise testing.

But she will undoubtedly be asked to
reaffirm that position and commit herself to
other disarmament policies at an_all-
candidates forum scheduled for Aug. 21, 8
p.m. at St. Andrew’s. Church. All candi-
dates — sitting Tory MP Chuck Cook,
New Democrat David Schreck and Com-
munist Party candidate Reg Walters, as well
as Campagnolo — have been invited and
the debate could be particularly lively since
Cook is a declared supporter of U.S. Presi-
dent Reagan’s “peace through re-armament”
position. é

The meeting is being sponsored by the
North Vancouver Citizens for Peace, the
North Vancouver Neighborhood Peace
Committee, the Burnaby Peace Committee,
the Burnaby Peace Coalition and the Bur-
naby Christian Peace Council.

One week earlier, On Aug. 14, the Van-
couver Peace Assembly will be holding an
all-candidates forum for Vancouver-
Kingsway at 8 p.m. in thé Trout Lake
Community Centre, 3350 Victoria Drive.
NDP incumbent Ian Waddell, Tory Colin
Wong and Communist Bert Ogden — who
is himself a peace activist and a vice-
president of the B.C. Peace Council — have
been invited to take part along with the
Liberal candidate who has not yet been
nominated.

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