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TO RUN AGAINST DAVIS | -
Schreck acclaimed as NDP candidate

Elementary School,
.twice-defeated NDP’ can-
jdidate told an enthusiastic

DAVID SCHRECK was acclaimed as the NDP’s

Joined by provincial NDP

‘leader Bob Skelly at North

Ridgeway
the

Vancouver’s

‘candidate in the provincial _North Vancouver-
Seymour.riding Tuesday night.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

audience of over 200 that the
Socred policy.of ‘short: term
pain for long term gaiit’’ had

been long on pain but short
on gain. .

“There are 50,000 fewer
jobs today than there were in
1981 and those that do have
jobs don’t have any money
left to spend.”

The Social Credit gov-
ernment, he said, had in-
creased its tax take by 55 per
cent in the same period and
driven the cost of living up
by 44 per cent.”

Schreck, general manager
of the CU&C Health Ser-
vices Society, dubbed
Premier Bill Bennett the
‘billion dollar per year man,
because that is what the
provincial deficit has been
for the past three years.’’

DICTATORSHIP

Another electorial man-
date for the Social Credit
government, . according to
Schreck, would open the
way for a provincial dic-
tatorship. He characterized
the major difference between
the two parties as philosoph-
ical: ‘‘We are humble. We
recognize that we don’t have
all the answers. Instead, we
believe in people involve-
ment and creating a political
environment in which people
can solve their problems.”’

In introducing the provin-
cial NDP leader, Schreck
pointed to recent polls show-
ing the NDP 7.3 per cent
ahead of the Socreds and
told the audience that Skelly
was the party’s secret
weapon, .‘‘a_ reasonable
human being’’ as opposed to
a political entertainer.

Skelly responded to a
standing ovation by
reiterating the importance of

. the next provincial election.

He waded into the recent po-

rotating” “strike <
thes West”
ie hospi

litical track record of the
provincial government say-
ing the welfare budget had
gone from $440 million in
1975, the last year of the
NDP’s short-lived B.C. gov-
ernment, to $1.3 billion in
1985. B.C. resources, he ad-
ded, were being run
hopelessly into the ground.

PREVAILING GLOOM

Skelly quoted Premier
Bennett as saying he wanted
to return education to where
it was in 1976,

Despite the prevailing
gloom, there was hope on
the horizon, according to
Skeliy. He pointed to a gov-
ernment-labor accord in
Australia that had created
487,000 jobs in three years
and said a similar agreement
was vital to reversing B.C.’s
economic slide into oblivion.

Skelly unveiled an NDP
three-part strategy for
economic renewal of which
‘he said job creation, through
areas such as forestry,
municipal overhaul, and
housing revitalization, was
the top priority and could
create 20,000 jobs in the first

three years of a $500 million

NDP job program.
SACRIFICE

Phase two of the.strategy,
he said, was to restore vital
economic functions such as
health care, education, and
government services; the
final stage was long-range
economic planning, ‘‘not a
four-year plan: that lurches
from mega-project to
mega-project.”’

“We are not prepared to
sacrifice a whole genera-

tion.”’ :

In an interview after his
speech, Skelly said there was
a good possibility of his par-
ty’s winning a provincial seat
on the North Shore where
the NDP has not won since
1972.

“There is a political

realignment taking place in ~

“resolved ::

this province and a general
dissatisfaction even aniong
Socreds. There. is a- solid
possibility of winning on the
North Shore.”’ a a

Skelly added that .NDP
membership had. increased
by 10,000 since January .and
vas at its highest point since