Two seek fed Liberal nod

By JENNIFER LANG SO FAR two candidates will be vying for the fed- eral Liberal Party namina- tion in Skeena.

But the riding associa- tion still hasn’t set-a date for the nomination meeting where members will de- cide which Liberal will run in the next election.

Prince Rupert CIBC bank manager Dave Mc- Guigan and Gwaii Trust Society employee Cliff

Fregin, an Old Masset re-

sident, have officially de- clared their intent to seek the federal Liberal Skeena nomination, riding asso- ciation president Ray Jones said.

There’s still time: for additional candidates for

the nomination to come

forward,

Jones said at this point, there’s no’ deadline for a nomination meeting — un- less the government drops the writ, signalling the start of the 32-day election campaign.

It’s still anyone’s guess when that will happen,

“Some days you antici- pate it, and some days,” Jones said, pausing briefly “it looks like it will be in the spring.”

The riding association's priority is to naw concen- trate on building up Lib- eral membership numbers in Skeena and amassing a volunteer base for a fed- eral election campaign.

Federal Liberal riding associations across the country have been permit- ted to set namination meeling dates since Aug. 15, provided the riding as- sociation meets the party’s membership and financial criteria. :

Jones said federal Lib- eral memberships in Skee- na sits at about 100 mem- berships right now, about 30 short of what’s required.

“That’s why one of our main activities is building membership in the riding,” he said. “There are a lot of people whose member- ships have lapsed in the last few years, for one rea- son or another. We need to contact these people and get them re-energized.”

Skeena’s federal Lib- erals meet at 7 p.m. this Friday in Terrace at the Muks-Kum-Ol -Housing Society office to choose delegates — and issue po- licy resolutions — for the party’s B.C. convention in Whistler,

Jones hopes the riding association chooses its candidate sooner, rather than later.

“I personally prefer to have it prior to the annual convention at the end of October, so that our candi- date will start getting things in motion.”

Well-known Liberals such as Terrace mayor Jack Talstra and Kitimat mayor Rick Wozney, both

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on the riding association's execulive, have given no indication that they intend to seek the federal nomi- nation, Jones said.

Past federal candidate

Rhoda Witherly, who curr-

ently co-chairs the party’s B.C. campaign committee, has twice run far the Skee- na-MP spot, and lost.

Witherly has not ruled out the possibility that she may seck the Skeena Lib- eral nomination a third time.

Witherly said Skeena

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isn’t the only federal Lib- eral riding in B.C. that hast set a nomination meeting,

“We just really haven't scl any meetings for Brit- ish Columbia yet,”. she said.

“It doesn’t seem likely there will be any meetings until late fall or even later,”

That would rule out a federal.election in the fall

_ because. ridings’ wouldn't

have enough time to pre- pare. The Liberals hold just seven seals in-B.C., all in the lower mainland. Witherly said she sus- pects those will be the-first ridings fo request nomina- tion meetings, but the B.C, campaign .co-chairs are still waiting to hear from them, too. ' She said if the next fed- eral election gets pushed back to next year, B.C.’s federal Liberals could lose steam as political candi- dates step forward to run for the provincial election, which must take place in spring 2001 at the latest. “I just can’t see [Premier Ujjal] Dosanjh going until the last minute,” she added.

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