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ACCORDING to Elections Canada, the
federal riding of North Vancouver is

home to 122,713 people.

The ridings area is 442 sy. kia. There are 217
polling divisions in the nding. The estimated
number of electors this time out: 77,004.

In 1997 the riding saw a voter turnout of

7UB83%.

Ted White, Reform Party of Canada. carned
27,075 votes (48.86%); Warren Kinsella, Liberal Party
of Canada, received 18,806 votes (33.94%), Martin
Stuible, New Denioeratic Party, found 5,075 sates (9.16%):
Dennis Prouse, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, won
2,740 votes (4.95%); Peggy Stortz, the Green Party ef Canada

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collected 982 votes (1.77%); Dallas Collis, independent, attract-
ed 365 votes (0.66%); Wayne Mulherin, Canadian Action Party,
took 203 votes (0.37%); Ken Chawkin, Natural Law Party of

Canada found 162 ve
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5 (0.29%),
cs Canada 1996 Census informa:

tien, North Vancouver is relatively: afluent. The
average household income in the riding is $56,594.

Mast, 82.3%,

in the riding speak Engiish as their

mother tongue. French is the first language of
1.2% of the nding’s population. Non-oflicial lin-

guages are spoken

Vancouverites,

of North

by 15.4%

Most living in North Vancouver are the marrying
kind. The statisties shaw that 53.7% are married, 29.9%
are single, 7.6% are divorced and 5.6% are widowed.

When iccomes to spictual matters, 44.2% in the ciding iden-
tify themselves as Protestant, 18.9% are Catholic and 29.7%
express no affiliation, Most people own their homes in North
Vancouver: 62.7% own and 37.1% are renting.

Prior to the election call lat’ month the Liberals held 161
seats in the 301-member House of Commons.

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Bill Bell
Liberal

Place of residence: North
Vancouver

Age: 46

Occupation: Consultant
Family: Married. Four chil-
dren.

Quality and accessibility to
health-care services: “(It's) a

_ Clear choice between a
Canadian one-tier health-care.
system (Libera!) or an

- American two-tier system’
(Alliance). We must protect
and enhance our health-care
system which is why the

-. Liberals have put in over $1
billion toward the purchase
of new high-tech equipment

. and dramatically increased
funding to health care.”

Protecting the environment:
“My record on protecting the
~ environment is clear, both as
a city councillor and as a
‘environmental consultant.
- Improving our environment
must remain a top priority,
~ not only at the federal level
but right down to every fami-
ly. We must all do our part,
: whether it is conirolling
reenhouse gases through
- legislation or ensuring that
“we properly recycle our
“waste.”

Tax reduction: “As a small
business owner I respect the
fact that we afl work hard for
our money. Lowering taxes is
part of the “Mini Budget”
ensuring we all have more
money to stimulate further .
growth of our economy.”

Representing B.C. interests in
Ottawa: “I believe that every
vote counts and that the MP
must attend parliament to
ensure that North Vancouver
voters’ concerns are heard in
Ottawa. if we are to ensure
that Ottawa pays its fair share
of our transportation infra-
structure costs, we need an
MP that fights for that fund-
"ing, not rejects it.”

Dalias Collis
independent

Place of residence: North
Vancouver

Age: 42

Occupation: Small business
owner, part-time teacher at
BCIT

Family: Married. One daugh-
ter.

Quality and accessibility of
health-care services: “Return
funding to pre-1995 levels.
Keep the system public; pri-
vate care is more expensive.
Bring in a community and
home-care act. Move away
from fee-for-service and
towards salaries for doctors.

. Support community-based,

primary health-care centres.
Give health-care workers
and the public a greater say.
Create a national drug plan.”

Protecting the environment:
“Develop and implement a
wasta-management program
to clean up cities’ solid and
liquid waste. Create an alter-
native energy ministry.
Support organic farming.
Ban genetically-engineered
foods until a long-term
health study can be done.
Support Canadian famil
farms. Respect the bio-diver-
sity protocol and Kyoto sum-
mit agreements.”

Tax reduction: “Massive tax
cuts without a more self-
reliant domestic economic
strategy is a feolish, short-
sighted, vote-buying mistake.
Instead, we need to rebuild

.the Canadian economy,

increasing Canadian owner-
ship and control which will
increase revenues and
strengthen the Canadian dol-
ar.”

Representing B.C. interests
in Ottawa: “There are
already too many voices
pulling this country apart,
mine is a strong and passion-
ate voice for democracy,
sovereignty and unity.”

Diana Jewell
Canadian Action Party

Place of resitlence: North
Vancouver

Age: 60

Occupation: College instruc-
tor

Family: Married.

Quality and accessibility of
health-care services: “CAP
vehemently opposes the
two-tiered Alberta model.
We would completely
restore the draconian cuts to
ou: world-class public sys-
tent: restore jobs, promote
alte ‘native and preventive
medicine, increase spending
for research, and cancel FTA
ard NAFTA — the main rea-
sen our systen. ‘3 being ‘har-
rionized’ with the unfair,
‘axpensive U.S. system.”

Protecting the environment:
“Get out of FTA and NAFTA
to protect our environment,
not the profits of foreign cor-
porations. Create money to
und the environment min-
istry dismantled by previous
overnments. Promote and
und organic agriculture,
recycling, and sustainable
goods. fe would abolish
iMO's and clear-cutting,
and would tax po!luters.”

Tax reduction: “Our money
reform would cut our huge
debt to banks and allow big
tax breaks for all Canadians,
particularly the bottom 75
er cent to redress the shift

: tm tax burden from wealthy
to lower- and middle-income
Canadians. CAP would scrap
the GST and pursue full
employment to increase the

. tax base and reduce the
need for welfare and E!.”

Representing B.C. interests

in Ottawa: “All except confi-

dence votes would be free,

not dictated by a party whip.
“We need reforms in scrap-

ping the unelected senate;

above all, get the money out
of politics!”

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Laurence Putnam
Progressive Conservative

Place of residence: North
Vancouver

Age: 18

Occupation: Actor
Family: Single.

Quality and accessibility of
health-care services: “it is
absolutely essential that uni-
versal health care be
restored to appropriate lev-
els. It would be a great
tragedy to see us switch to a
two-tier health system. A PC
government would immedi-
ately restore health-care
funding to 1993-1994 levels,
and guarantee stable, consis-
tent funding.”

Protecting the environment:
“The Progressive
Conservative Party has a
long-standing commitment
to the environment. When
we left power in 1993, the
department of the environ-
ment was the sixth largest
department in Ottawa.
Under the Liberals it has fall-

en to 21. A PC government

would impose a safe air act,
a safe drinking water act,
and mandatory labelling on
genetically-altered foods.”

Tax reductions: “Canada is .
one of the most heavily
taxed nations in the world.
High taxes are killing busi-
ness, and have fed to the
‘brain drain.’ A PC govern-
ment would lower taxes by
raising the personal exemp-
tion to $12,000, from the
current $7,231. We would
eliminate the Capital Gains
Tax, making Canada a more
business-friendly place.”

Representing 8.C. interests
in Ottawa: "The best way to

" represent B.C. interests in

Ottawa would pe to elect a
Nationai government that
will work with Ottawa. Joe
Clark is a westerner himselt
and is a national leader who |
will listen.”

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Sam Schechter
New Democratic Party

Place of residence: North
Vancouver

Age: 19

Occupation: Assistant to Tim .
Stevenson, MLA Vancouver-
Burrard, Minister of
Employment & Investment
Family: Single.

Quality and accessibility of
health-care services: “! will
work to bring a national
Pharmacare program to all
Canadians, and reinvest in
our national health-care sys-
tem. We've made a firm
commitment to stop two-tier
health care, and create a
national home-care orogram.
Our health care plan
addresses the needs of our
aging population and the

need to take health care seri-
ously."

Protecting the environment:
“We will develop and insti-
tute a national water strategy
to keep our drinking water
safe, and implement a com-
prehensive air quality stan-
dard. We will work to stimu-
late green investment, and
hold corporations responsi-
ble for the environmental

Ted White
Canadian Alliance

Place of residence: North
Vancouver .
Age: 51

Occupation: MP

Family: Married.

Cuality and accessibility of
health-care services: “The
Liberals have cut $25 billion
out of health care, diverting
the money into departments:
like HRDC, which Canada’s
Auditor General says wasted .
about $1 billion. The
Alliance has promised to put
an end to wasteful spending,. -
restore full funding to :
Medicare, and guarantee sta-°
ble funding.” ; ;

Protecting the environment:
“The Alliance has committed .
to work with the provinces’ *
to establish national stan- °

‘ dards, and to back those up .

disasters that they cause, and ©

we'll expand and invest in
public transit.”

Tax reduction: “We cannot
build consensus if we are

“governed by those who are

only concerned with region-
al priorities and grievances.
We need a strong central
government that is represen- .
tative of all provinces and
regions of Canada.”

Presenting B.C. interests to
Ottawa: “As a Member of
Parliament, | would stop
waiting for Ottawa to tell us
what we want to hear, and
start making them listen to
what we have to say. We
need better representation in
North Vancouver to hold the
government accountable.”

with vigorous enforcement
and meaningful penalties.’
We will also encourage _.
industry to develop conser-
vation solutions while pro--
tecting endangered species <
through community-nased *-
stewardship programs.”

Jax reduction: “We would 25.

raise the personal exemption ....
from $7,231 to-$10,000 and ©.
the-spousal exemption from”.
$6;140 to $10,000. We are.
also committed to a $3,000 .
per child tax deduction and =
the phased introduction of a:

-single 17 per cent rate of tax.”

Our plan means an average ..: -
of $1,550 in tax relief for.“
every working Canadian ‘and ..:: -
No tax at all on families :

earning less than $26,000.”

Representing B.C. interests \..;
in Ottawa:.“As the MP for
North Vancouver | routinely
read the opinions of my con-.
stituents into my speeches in
Parliament, and have writte

’ hundreds of informative *

reports about the workings ot
Ottawa for the North Shore.
News.” wo