Al6 - Sunday, April 24, 1983 - North Shore News BS election 83 What the Liberals ‘Storefront’ office for W. Van are promising POLARIZATION in B.C. polincs has gone on long enough, says Jean Driscoll- Bell: Liberal candidate in North Vancouver-Capilano in the May 5. provincial election. “The choice between the left and right has excluded the majority of British Columbians,” she declared at her nomination meeting last week, “because issues are not black and white: that’s too easy and, as in all things, there are many shades. “A liberal philosophy stresses the importance of self-determination of all individuals, no matter who they are and what they do. Each issue must be weighed carefully on its own merit in relation to its relevance to society as a whole” “T invite you,” she told her audience, “to swing to the centre with me.” “PROFOUND PUBLIC cyncicism and_= distrust” confronting both the Socreds and the NDP trouble Stuart McNish, Liberal candidate in’ North Vancouver- Seymour. He told his nomination meeting last week that the time had Clearly arrived for a moderate, third party op- uon. “I plan,” he said, “to stress the need for an even-handed approach to all groups in society. Economic recovery demands cooperation and will be hampered if the governing party, whoever it might be, shows favontism or special hostlity towards business or labor, towards rich ofr poor, or towards occupational groups ~ “PING PONG” politics must be ended. says Mort Graham, Liberal candidate in| West Vancouver-Howe Sound “We need legislators, not gladiators © His campaign = platform appears to have two main planks The firsts the need ta break the negative bitter and (wo party polarization between Socreds and NDP which has dominated provincial wy with Liberal MI As to provide a stabthzing balance of reason and integrity in the cooductot public affairs Aside from that) Gsraham charges that important bo al Issucs arc being tgnored by polos since cnough Candidates meetings scheduled A PUBL IO MEE PING. to be addressed by all candidates inv the West Vaneoouser Howe Sound riding wall be beld Luesday May ) at Ww pain the South Mall of Park Royal The mecting is spousored by the West Van © hamber of Commerce Meanwhile Corson Coraham School is holding a meeting for North Van candidates ot LO 30 (Monday Agrrab OS) at the se tre vcd Care ved oth, lomorrlow Victoria. He cites West Van's single ambulance for serving the entire municipality from Cedardale to Horseshoe Bay. And he sayS iS imperative to give serious thought to an alternative route to Squamish. Graham also demands full disclosure of what has gone on in the so-called “Whistler bail-out” by the Socred government. He lays heavy stress on the priority for maintaining a high standard of education and accuses the Socreds of being “totally insensitive” in their handling of school cut- backs. “I promise that, if elected, I will devote my full ume to the riding,’ Graham declares. “] will) not spend the public's purse or the next four years getting re- elected.” ONGOING DIALOGUE between the elected and their electors is an important plank in the platform of John Reynolds, Social Credit candidate in West Van- couver-Howe Sound in the May 5 provincial election. Reynolds says that one of the real issues in the local campaign is to keep the lines of communication between the mding and _ Victoria permanently open. If successful on May 5, he proposes to establish a year- round storefront office in NDP candidate insists incineration can work THE PREMIER STREET landfill must not be ex- panded, says David Schreck, North WVancouver-Seymour NDP candidate in the May 5 provincial election. In an “open letter” to neighbors of the landfill Schreck promises to work with provincial, regional and municipal officials to find a solution to the traffic, noise, odor and health hazards associated with the dump. The answer, Schreck says, lies in recycling and in- cineration. Incineration, he claims, can be made economically realistic by using’ the resulting heat to generate electricity. Under an NDP govern- ment, he continues, B.C. Hydro would be required to buy such electricity at replacement cost, thus making incineration economical. 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