important to Skeena,”

eta at

A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Scott defends record |
when he was an MP |

CONSERVATIVE
HOPEFUL Mike -: Scott
says that while he didn’t

keep track of his Ottawa |

attendance as an’ MP in
the 1990s, NDP candidate
Nathan Cullen’s assertions

‘that he wasn’t on the job are

wrong.
“T-can tell you I was in

[Parliament] , for all of the:

votes on the issues that were

Scott last week in response

‘to earlier -statements ‘from .

Cullen, that his parliamen-
tary attendance. record was

‘below 50 per cent.

“His figures are wrong.

o Anybody that was involved

with me during that time and

' followed what I did knew
that ] was there’all the time, |

working 12 to 14 hours a

day,” said Scott who was the .

Reform/Canadian . Alliance

_.. Member of Parliament for
* _ Skeena between -1993 and

2000. -
And if. Scott was away

from Ottawa, it was on busi- .

ness connected to stints as _
. the: Reform/Canadian Alli-
“ ance’s critic for Indian: and
Northern Affairs issues and
then on fisheries issues.

“Those: are duties that you

_ leader

vincial NDP back from two
seats to 33 this spring.
Two of those seats, North

Coast and Skeena, are in|

ithe: large... _Skeena-Bulkley
‘riding ° ‘and ‘James - expects
the volunteers who worked
‘on those campaigns to help
Cullen keep the seat he won
in 2004...
“B.C. should be an inter-

~ esting’ place to watch elec-

tion night. We have a good

_ chance at a lot of seats,” said

James.

B.C. voters elected five
federal NDP MPs in. 2004,
making up about a quarter

of the party’s Ottawa con-

tingent.

Hi

CF

said

bolstered |

TERSS | }

” Mike Scott

. take on and they require you
‘to be at town hall meetings.

I spent a lot of time .in At-
lantic Canada and in B.C.,”
he said. .

“I’m proud of 1 my atten-
dance record. I never took
a holiday at any time. I was
either in the House of Com-
mons’ doing my job or out
on the trail. I didn’t take any.

\, junkets to: foreign destina-
- tions.”
“T. wasn’t sitting on a -

beach in’ Costa Rica’ or
someplace like Mr. Cullen

-was,” added Scott.in refer-

ence to the NDP candidate’s
working in Central America

in the 1990s. |

_ Carole James

James spent Dec. 16 in

Terrace and spoke. at a ban-.-:

quet that same-evening held
to raise money for Cullen’s
campaign.

“Unlike the federal and
provincial Liberals, there is
a strong connection between
the NDP provincially and

- federally,” said James.

She’s already been help-
ing the NDP candidate in her
hometown of Victoria and
will be back after the Christ-

‘mas break to assist other

federal hopefuls.

James called. Cullen a -

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ScottsaidCullen wouldn’ t
know about his previous re-
cord as an MP, claiming he
hasn’t been in the Northwest
that long.

“I can see why Mr. Cul-
len is saying ‘those things.
He didn’ t live here then. He
just got to Smithers just be-

fore the last election. He’s
only been here a short period -

of time,” said Scott.

“He. has no“understand-

ing here of how. people make
a living here. Whether it’s

_ logging or mining or hydro .
. power in Kitimat, it all relat,

ed to resources. Mr. Cullen
has no idea about that and
voters have a right" lo know
this.”

Cullen’s comments ‘about
Scott and Scott’s rebut-
tal come as they and other
candidates prepare to close

down campaigning for the

Christmas period. |
The campaign takes on

new energy early in the new °
year leading up to the. Jan. -

23 election date. .
- Terrace’’and area resi-

dents should mark their cal-

endars for Jan. 11, the date
of an all-candidates meeting

sbeginning at 7 p.m. at the -

R. E. M. Lee Theatre. .

Cullen gets a boost >
from Carole James -

FEDERAL NDP candidate .
* Nathan * Cullen’ s election
a ‘campaign was’
last week . by. ‘a visit from
provincial party.
“Carole James.

_ “Certainly there’s an n op- -
* timism. around the..province
‘<"and in this region from the
.- May-~ election ‘and that. ex-°
*. citement is carrying on into-
_' .the.federal campaign,” said ©

' James who brought the pro-

“terrific representative in a

_ very large riding: Nathan has
. put a lot of time in travelling

through the riding. That’s

' one thing I hear — that Na-
’ than is visible as an MP.”

“You'll find the federal
and provincial wings of the

NDP agree on a lot of things
and are working together on ~ |"
issues such as health care,

offshore oil and gas and fish-
eries,” James continued.

On oil and gas, both lev-—

els of the NDP support the
current moratorium on off-
shore drilling being main-
-tained for now.

“The moratorium should
remain. There are more en-
vironmental studies, there
have to be discussions with
First Nations,” said James.

She added that studies
done for East Coast oil and
gas can’t be easily translated
to the West Coast because
the geography is different.

James is spending the
Christmas break in’ Burns
Lake, which is her husband’s

home town. Her plans in-

clude ice fishing.

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