FERRACE — Norm Lavalice has declared his candidacy for the NDP nomination in the federal Skeena riding,

Lavallee, 48, is an ironworker and has lived in the northwest off and on since 1975,

The NDP nomination came open this spring when Jim Fulton, Skeena’s Member of Parliament

retirement from politics. Lavallee’s the firs! person to announce his candidacy, There’s been no date set for the NDP nomination meeting. “There’s no question. (Prime : Minister Brian) Mulroney’s really changed the whole face of the country, And if the Reform party gets in, itll. continue,” said Lavallee last week. . "We've got to get some of the _ caring back for all of us. We've

TERRACE — Federal Liberals are meeting here June 12 to gauge their progress in signing up new members, says the party’s: new constituency president for the federal Skeena riding.

Kitimat resident Barry Pankhurst said the party needs to increase i's membership and raise money before deciding when it should hold a nomination meeting to select a candidate for the up- coming federal election.

“For. the first time we have a legitimate chance of winning,” said Pankhurst. He was elected at the constituency association’s April 3 annual general meeting,

The association is also being

’ held back from nominating a can- didate because it doesn’t have 300 members, That's a require- ment of the party’s constitution.

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" party’s provincial officials send out a notice to hold nomination meetings or if an election is ~«,alled, said Pankhurst. co “We want to be rally »::” organized. We want all the com-

‘maunities in the riding working to- “gether,” he added.

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Lavallee supported the pro- posed constitutional changes of last fall.

“Tf Canada is a signatory to the United “Nalions principles, we have to follow those principles — fair wages, medicare. These are the basic things for everybody,’” he said. 2.0 2...

Lavallee said he was disturbed by the effects of the free trade deal with the United States and is worrled about the newest free trade effort involving the United States and Mexico,

From Manitoba, Lavallee first arrived in Terrace to work on a Mills Memorial Hospital expan- sion in 1975,

Lately, he’s been at Kemano as parl of the crew looking afier mothballed equipment.

—a man and a woman — are in- terested in Pankhurst. He declined to give names but Kilimat mayor Rick Wozney, Terrace mayor Jack Talsira, Hazelton mayor Alice Maitland

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and Prince Rupert councillor,

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