Al0-Sunday News, February 10, 1980

inquiring
reporter

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by
Ellsworth
Dickson

So far it looks like President Carter is
going ahead with the plan to draft young
people into the armed forces. During the
Vietnam war Canada harboured between
50,000 and 100,000 U.S. draft dodgers. Many
Canadian government officials don’t want
this to happen again.

This issue the Inquiring Reporter asks:

“Should Canada accept
American draft dodgers?’'

Bill Stockdale
Richmond, B.C.

Sure. I didn’t mind them
here before. I think a
person has a right to
refuse to go to war and
kill.

H. Voigt
North Vancouver

No, I don’t think so. The
present situation in the
Middle East can't be
compared to Vietnam. I
don't think we should
accept them.

Corinne Campbell
North Vancouver

Yes, I think so. I think if
American draftees
‘disagree with their own
foreign policy, they
should be free to come
here, as long as they
accept the responsibilities
of living in Canada.

Kevin Paterson
North Vancouver

No, we should not accept
them. It ts an internal
Amenican policy and we
should not interfere. We
should go along with the
U.S. policy to aid in a
general awareness of the
world situation

Mike Boardman

Vancouver

I} don't really know, but I
am sympathetic to
someone who doesn't
waanl to go to war

election countdown

DAMAGE TO CN RAIL BRIDGE over the Second

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Mazankowski (centre) and North Van-Burnaby MP Chuck Cook (right) during the minister's recent North Shore
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urgency for speedy completion of the $6 million repair job.

Gibson lashes out on PetroCan

North Van-Burnaby
Liberal candidate Gordon
Gibson lashed out at
Conservative plans for
PetroCan, the state-owned
ou company, in a statement
issued last week.

PetroCan has been a huge
financial success for all of its
owners ~— the Canadian
people through their

Advance polls open Monday, Tues

Advance polling for voters: ::

unable to vote on polling
day, February 18, will be
held on three days prior to
polling day for the 32nd

about our reasonable prices

government — Gibson said.

“The investment is made
up of about $750 million in
taxpayers’ cash, plus the
value of federal investments
in Syncrude and Panarctic
Oil, for a total of about $950
million,” he said.

“By contrast, the current
value after only four years is

federal general election.
The: advance polls were
open Saturday, February 9,
and will be open again
Monday, February 11, and

about $3 billion by the
estimate of the Con-
servatives’ own task force.
To triple our money in four
years isn’t bad, and that is
owned by al! of us — a $2

billion capital gain for
Canadians,’ Gibson
declared.

Now, he charged, the
Conservatives wanted “to

Tuesday, February 12, from
12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m.

Information about ad-
vance voting may be ob-

give it away and sell it off” at
a distribution cost alone of
$125 million.

“It is not mght for an in-
strument of national policy
like PetroCan,” Gibson said.
“It cannot do its job as an
ordinary bottom-line oil
company and a_ Liberal
government will not allow
that to happen.”

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