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ELECTION PROFILE
Liberal’s Brousson

says experience key

*‘IN THIS riding, | suggest regardless of how you
feel about change, you should compare the can-

didates and their track records,

where they’ve

come from and how they’ve participated in the

community.”’

Capilano Liberal can-
didate Dave Brousson
believes he has the necessary
community experience and
solid track record to offer
voters, which explains why
he is now seeking to repre-
sent the riding after the
September 4 election.

Brousson, a former B.C.
MLA from 1968 to 1973 for
North Vancouver-Capilano,
was approached by Prime
Minister John Turner to re-
enter active politics. The of-
fer caps a long and varied
career in both business and
education.

A native of Creston, B.C.,
Brousson was raised in the
Victoria area. He taught
school for two years in the
Peace River-Hudson Hope
area, before enlisting in the
Canadian Army.

After the war, Brousson
enrolled at UBC where he
later received a degree in
electrical engineering. It was
while he was serving as
president of the UBC Stu-
dent Council that Brousson
first met John Turner.

In 1950, Brousson found-
ed Century Sales and Con-
trols Ltd., building it into
one of B.C.’s_ leading
distributor of heating and air
conditioning supplies and
equipment, before selling it
in 1975.

While an MLA, Brousson
figured prominently in the
fight to save Skagit Valley.
Despite opposition from the
government, his efforts were
later rewarded by the recent
U.S./Canada treaty which
prohibits the Nooding of the
Valley.

In addition to his work as
an MLA, Brousson has also
served as one of the three
orginal trustees appointed
to the Island Trust,
established by the provincial
government to protect and
control the development of
the Gulf Islands; as Dean of
Continuing Education at
BCIT; as trustee of the
Discovery Foundation which
established research facilities
at educational institutions,
and as co-founder of the
BC Innovation Office
which provides services to
assist entrepreneurs and in-
ventors

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By JOANNE MacDONALD

He has also served as a

businessman, and I unders-
tand something of that, and
the frustrations the small

businessman has in dealing
with government.’’

He also intends to make a
special
voters.

‘‘In this riding, there’s not

appeal to NDP

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

DAVID BROUSSON carries Liberal hopes in Capilano at

Joho Turner’s request.

director or president of sev-
eral community organiza-
tions. Married, Brousson has

four children and five
grandchildren.
Brousson says since

Capilano does not have a lot
of internals problems, that he
will focus on how the riding
is affected by problems on a
national scale.

He says he also plans to
focus on fiscal responsibili-
ty, the reduction of the defi-
cit over a reasonable period
of time to a more manage-

able level, and productivity
and efficiency in
government

‘*A tremendous number of
people in this mding aré in.
volved in vanous levels of
management and they know
a little bit about the pro-
blems of that sort and they
look at wo with concern
Another matter of = great
concern and closely alhed to
that would be small
business) We've got, I’m
sure, hundreds of people in
this arca who are small
businesspeople and their
problems are paramount,”’
says Brousson ‘‘l spent 25
years as a smatli

a great many of them. Very
clearly, they’re not going to
have any opportunity of
making their vote count for

an NDP candidate in any
way at all because in the
present practical situation in
this riding, a vote for the
NDP is exactly the same as a
vote for the Conservatives,’’
says Brousson.

Concern for people with
social problems will also be
stressed by Brousson.

**The Liberal philosophy
is one of fiscal responsibility
but still with a very strong
social conscience. And what
we have to do is balance
those things, because | think
sometimes we may go too
far in developing those social
services and the social securi-
ty measures — maybe we try
to go beyond what we can
afford. There has to be the
balance,’’ says Brousson.

Brousson defends his par-
ty in relation to the com-
ments of some that it is time
for a major change in gov-
ernment in Canada. He says
the internal changes which
have occurred since lona
Campagnolo became party
president — ‘‘the way its or-
ganized, the it functions, the
processes by which the party
operates’* — have
strengthened the Liberals.

‘Never again will there be
the opportunity for the
separation of the leader and
the way he operates, and the
party. It’s geared for much
more accountability and a
much closer relationship .”’

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