Poll indicates

Liberal

surge

Local support among decided
voters jumps from 7% to 42%

NORTH SHORE News poll resulis show the B.C. Liberal
Party surging ahead of the pack in decided voter support

on the North Shore.

Cf the decided voters who
agreed to reveal a party preference
in an Oct. 9 News poll, 42% voic-
ed support for the Liberals, 32%
backed the Sacreds, 25% said they
would vate for the New Demo-
crats and 1% supported the Green
Party of British Columbia.

When asked if the performance
of party leaders during last week's
televised leadership debate chang-
ed their voting decision, 80% of
the decided said the debate did
not change their minds, 20% of
the decided said the debate did
change their voting decision.

Jn a poll conducted Oct. 6,
prior to the televised leadership
debate, 41% of decided North

Shore voters supported Social
Credit, 29% backed the Liberals,
29% supported the New Demo-
crats and 1% said they would vote
for the Green Party.

In a Sept. 22 News poil, 54% of
decided voters said they would
back Social Credit, 38% backed
the New Democtats, 7% backed
the Liberals and i% supported the
Green Party.

Close to 500 North Shore resi-
dents were randomly surveyed
from Beep Cove to Horseshoe
Bay in each of the polls.

The News polls do not reflect
voter preference in specific pro-
vincial constituencies.

N. Shore polling stations

THE B.C. provincia] election will be heid tomorrow. The
following is the list of all polling stations for the fcur

North Shore electoral! districts.

‘All polling stations will be open
from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

A special two-page feature on
ali 19 candidates running in the
four North Shore provincial con-
stituencies was published in the
Sunday, Oct. 13 News.

West Vancouver-Garibaidi:

@ Anderson Lake Resort, D’Ar-

cy.
@ Bowen Island Elementary

School, Mount Gardner Road,
Bowen Island.

@ Copper Beach Office, Britannia
Beach.

@ Caulfeild Elementary School,
4695 Keith Rd., West Vancouver.
@ Cypress Park School, 4355
Marine Dr., West Vancouver.

@ Eagle Harbour Community
Centre, 5575 Marine Dr., West
Vancouver,

@ Gleneagles Etementary School,
6350 Marine iDr., West Van-
couver.

@ Hillside Middle School, 2295
Queens Ave., West Vancouver.

@ Irwin Park Elementary School,
2455 Haywood Ave., West Van-
couver. .

@ Lions Bay Municipal Hall, 400
Centre Rd., Lions Bay.

@ Hitching Post Motel, Mount
Currie.

@ Signal Hill School, 1410 Por-
tage Rd., Pemberton.

@ Squamish Civic Centre, Cen-
tennial Wzy. Squamish.

@ West Yasacouver Presbyterian
Charch, 2893 Marine Dr., West
Vancouver.

@® Whistler Conference Centre,
Parkhurst Room, 4010 Whistler
Way, Whistler.

West Vancouver-Capilano:
@ Balmoral Jr. Secondary
School, 3365 Mahon Ave., North
Vancouver.’
@ Canyon Heights Elementary
School, 450! Highland Blvd.,
North Vancouver.
@ Cedardale Elementary School,
595 Burley Dr., West Vancouver.
@ Cleveland Elementary School,
1255 Eldon Rd., North Van-
couver.
© Collingwood School, 70
Morven Dr., West Vancouver.
@ Highlands Community School,
3140 Colwood Dr., North Van-
couver.

® Hollyburn Elementary School,
1329 Duchess Ave., West Van-
couver.

@ Larson Elementary School,
2605 Larson Rd., North Van-
couver.

@ Masonic Hall, 1763 Bellevue
Ave., West Vancouver.

@ Montroyal Elementary School,
$310 Sonora Dr., North Van-
couver.

@ Woodcroft/Capilano, 2024
Fullerton Ave., North Vancouver.
@ Ridgeview Elementary School,
1250 Mathers Ave., West Van-
couver. :

@ Royal Canadian Legion, 5380
18th St., West Vancouver.

See North page &

photo Nelli Lucente

ERIC USTAD, campaign manager for Socred MLA John Reynolds, surveys vandalized cam-
paign signs. According to Ustad, signs have been knocked down, torn up and even torched
for more than two weeks. See page 5 for story.

Ree calls it quits after 12 years

North Van-Capilano MLA says

current campaign ‘not good’

AFTER /2 years of serving as the MLA for North
Vancouver-Capilano, Social Credit’s Angus Ree has
decided to retire from politics.

Ree, 62, said he decided one
year ago that he was not going
to seek re-election. In a wide-
ranging interview with the
News prior to the Oct. 17 pro-
vincial election, Ree discussed
his political career, his obser-
vations about the current pro-
vincial election campaign and
his own future.

NSN: Why have you decided to
retire from politics?:

Ree: ‘‘The fun’s gone from it
for me. If you’re not enjoying
what you’re doing then change.
Do something you’re going to
enjoy if you can afford to do
that. I hope I can afford to. I
don’t enjoy it anymore.
There’s different people; it’s
gotten dirtier. It’s sotten into
personalities and not into ac-
complishments and policies..

“It’s into name calling and J
don’t want to be a part of

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

that.’’

NSN: What has been your
greatest schievement as MLA?:
Ree: ‘tl guess it was when I
was solicitor general. I felt I
brought in an awareness on
traffic. They asked me on my
first day as solicitor general
what my priorities were in the
office I held. To me it was
traffic safety because of the
number of people we kill and
injure.

“If that’s my biggest
achievement then I guess my
biggest downfall was not being
able to continue in the job for
a greater period cf time.

“*] guess another main
achievement was the Lonsdale

overpass. I worked at that for
12 years and fortunately it was
finished before I left office,
but the disappointment was
that we should have had the
Westview overpass finished
too. We would have if the
money had not gone to the
Coquihalla Highway.”’

NSN: What do you think of
the current provincial efection
campaign?:

Ree: ‘‘The current election
campaign is a result of the last
five years and the different
people we’ve had in the last
five years. (Premier Johnston)
Rita’s been tarred with an
awful lot of what’s happened
under (former premier) Bill
Vander Zalm. Maybe the par-
ty’s entitled to be tarred with
that because the party picked
him as leader, but 1 don’t think
Rita personally has to.

“The present campaign is
not a very good one. I watched
the leaders’ debate and 2fter it
was over I turned to my wife
and said that was one of the
best. comedy hours I had wat-
ched in a long time. (New
Democratic leader Mike) Har-
court clearly didn’t win and

Rita didn’t show any class and
she should have. She won
points by default.’’

NSN: What are your plans for
the future?:

Ree: ‘I’m not going to get in-
volved with politics. think I
have tremendous experience .
and background knowledge
that could be put to some-
body’s use. I have no firm
plans at the moment. J hope I
could get some sort of board
appointments, do some
research or negotiations.”

NSN: Are you going to miss
political life?:

Ree: ‘‘Not at all. {t’s been very
time consuming and it takes an
awful lot of your energy. The
general public really doesn’t
know what their elected repre-
sentatives are involved with.
It’s not an easy job. I had a
two-month period as solicitor
general and | think I had 36
plane trips in that time.

“MLAs, I’m_ not talking
about cabinet ministers, are
under paid. If you want your
MLA to do a good job and be
responsible, you should be pay-
ing him more.’*