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By Robart Gaister
News Reporter,
rolwri@utnewseom

WEST Vancouver-Sunshine
Coast voters elected Reform
~~ Party candidate John
Reynolds to represent them
in Ottawa last Monday -
night, concluding a typically
© urbane campaign,

UWerything and everyone i West
Vancouver Is civilized, including. its
polithes and politichins,

And while acrimony between
candidates seeklig the nelphboring
North Vancouver seat never let up,
elvility prevailed In West Vancouver
where Liberal Phil Boname and
Reyalds quietly agreed ta have the
losing candidate join the winner for:

yo round ofsineere congratulations.
“Those” congratulations . weren't
made until nine o’elock as the race
vy.) proved to, be a close ane, with the
‘ Winner not declared umil well after 8
-. pan The final tally showed
“oe Reynolds receiving 20,091 votes to
Boname's 17,314. Boname made: eo
ua the two-block trek (rom his campaign office ro that of Reynolds with the new
MP tn the inidst of ¢ cellular phone frenzy which had bin doing an on-air,
. radio Interview while another featured Reform Party leader Preston Manning, °
on hold. rr B we
“He went against the Liberal trend ,. because he gave me a batele here,”
sald Reynolds of his opponent. “He has done a better fob than most Liberals
could have done,” = ar o

Ronan quipped back, “PU! know who to a
tum to for campaign manager next dite.”

On.a more serious: note, Boname
later added “1 trutycbelieve though
that we were on a bit of.a momen:
tum, Ifwe had three or four more
days, we could have done it”

Fay For his part, Reytolds quickly
i seized the first, opportunity to
puta positive spin on: Keform's
domination of B.C, De
" “We may be for B,C, butwe're
‘still, Canadians’ first;". said.
Reynolds, “We'll look at making
_ Sure everyone's treated fairly,”
os Inerestingly, a Liberal insider more

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doubt —_

MP White

from jue 1

whihed the battle agalast White hid
focused more cn iysues that the
name-calling and general flewill hat
developed berwveen the two men,

“Denocraey Is not served “by
negative start,” Kinsella saicl, acting
he would “sit down and break breac
with ‘Ted any cine”

Ag for ‘Ted, Monday. night saw
fim breaking bread with hundreds
Caf supporters and wellwishers tna

~stelp null on Mountain Highway,

“Tt was never In doubt, Wy Y knew
from day-one that we had dt.won,”
sald as fubsilant’ White as the celebras

+ ton roared around hin, “Wher the

© election wad called we had mare val-
unteers on day one thin we had in the
entire campaign last tine around,”

Was ita tougher fight than he

2 had expected? - an
Ste was: al nasder tghe than 1
“expected: but It wast tougher,"
White sa 1, 7
2 White added ‘that he too wished
«he and ‘Rinsella had debated: issues
rather than asestioned each other's
characters, With White preparing for
another! term in Ottawa, Kinsella
says he is looking forward to putting
the election behind him, ,
“Pan going to spend some tine
with my family, sleep ina little bit and
BO, hack to work and earn a living,”
the advertising firm employee said,
©, For White, his second victory asi
Member of Parliament is his sweetest,
“PE put my heart and sout inte it for

three-and-a-half years and it was time

for people to pass fudginent on what
Ve done, and they have sald they’ve
liked what {ve done,"stte said
As for, Reforni's new position as
the afficial oppasitiony White sees it
-as a measure of respec fora party
that many wrote of
tion fad,
“We're obviously on the .next
wave of growth, and they, have to
treat us as a viable force.”
« — Tronically, just 30 minutes cartier

and just afew blocks. away dn?

Lonsdale Avenue, Warren Kinsella

asa one-elee-!

0.“ concerned with expressing how he felt
See than the civility. gripping ‘both candidates,

: ‘commented that Boname “would have been wiped, '
off the map if Reform had nominated anyone other than Reynolds.”

_ Reynolds’ previous political stints included a fi
Conservative Mr and a nine-year visit to the legislature in Victoria. While his

« career as an MLA ended with his defeac at the hands of current Liberal MLA
Jeremy Dalton in 1991, Reynolds voluntarily left his federal seat in 1977 say-

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four-year stay in Ottawa as a

_ SOHN Reynolds, surrounded by supporters at his West Vancouver

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campaign headquarters, anxiously awaits results of Monday's vote.

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I'wenty years later things have changed and Reynolds'ts once again ready
to resume his parliamentary duties,

“When you're a young guy with five kids things are difficult,” said

Reynolds'on the night of his re-election, “The kids, they're inaking, more

paid respect to that “viable force.”
**We were up against a riding that:
hadi’releeted @ Liberal in 22 years,
We were up against an incumbent,
We were up -vagainst the very. real
feeling “that Westerners have that
they've been left out of the national”
“government,” Kinsella” told can *

ing “it’s extremely tough” to cover one’s expenses on an MP"s salary, money than me.”

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SMALL PARTY CANDIDATES

Politics on

_ By lan Noble
News Reporter
jan@nsnews.com

AT the campaign office of North
Vancouver Independent. Dallas

Collis on Monday night, all the

election night essentials were pre-
sent, ; ¥

The beer was cold, the balding head of
Peter Mansbridge filled the flickering TV

‘sereen and the candidate held court.

But that’s where the similarities ended

between. Collis’ largely solo’ effort and
. those of the big boys and girls vying tor the
major parties, :

Instead of'a storefront location populat-
ed by a sweltering gang of half-boozed
campaign workers and hangers on, Collis
was Joined by his wife, five-year-old daugh-
ter and a couple of friends at his apartment

~ suite on a quiet dane off Mount Seymour
Parkway.

‘ Instead of arrivals being greeted ata

INDEPENDENT candidate Dallas Collis had the sup-_ © campaign fete by an earnest executive assis-

port of wife Tracy and daughter Pavlova on Monday.” tant, Collis himself, ‘cridling a Kokanee,

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extended a hand and drink offer,

‘While focal Liberal.and Reform candi-
dates on the North Shore watched their
names and vote totals scroll across the tele-
vision sereen, Collis, seated in his small den,

_ tealized his name woulda’t appear.

So why would Collis, or any indepen-
dent. or small: party candidate, subject
themselves to the expense and turmoil of
the political campaign?

For Coltis, who rose at 4:30 am, many
mornings to drop off pamphlets: before
going to work at 8 am, it’s all about stand:
ing up for what he believes in.

“If you believe in what you think you
stand up and shout it,” he said.

He said the mainstream, short-sighted
politicians are tearing the country apart.

The optimistic Collis addect Canada’s
natural advantages compared with other
countries in areas stich as resources is being
squandered,

Instead of shrinking away trom political
life, Collis plans to sink his fe
the fray next time. He looks forward to cre-
ating his own party, or running for a party
he believes in, es

. The hairdresser raised the money for his

the fringe

et further into

paign workers and supporters,

a

campaign from friends, family and a raid on
his own piggy banks He said he spent less
than $2,000, well under the $63,858.95
maximum, ;

«Collis, who received a respectable 585
votes, pointed to Preston Manning and his
success with the Reform party when asked
ifhe was wasting his tinie.

“Pye got -fo start: somewhere,” said
Collis, who garnered 2,220 votes when he
ran for the National Party in 1993, °

The story of the lonely campaigner
extends to Edgemont, where the Canadian
Action Party’s Wayne Mulherin lives.

On Monday, as the polls were closing, :

the 62-year-old candidate was getting ready

to make the 45-minute walk to his cam:

paign manager's home to down a few beers
and watch the election results pour in.”

Mulherin doesn’t resemble a charged
political animal.

With his party’s campaign pamphtets
snugly ensconced in boxes in his carport,
Mulherin candidly admitted that if his party
had found someone else to fly its banner,
he wouldn't have run,

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