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Speculation mounts that the PM will
cali a November federal eiection

Katharine Hamer
News Reporter khame:@nsnews.coms

WITH rumours of an end-of-November federal elec-
tion rife, the North Shore’s two MPs have their
campaign preparations well under way.

Both: Ted White — MP for North Vancouver — and Jonn Reynolds (West
Vancouver-Sunshine Coast) iold the News thar they had already ordered their
signs and billboards.

Elections: Canada are said to be looking over office space in North
Vancouysr, However Elections Canada spokesman Francis Charette said that 10

lease could be signed until an official election announcement was made in
Ontawa. .

Reynolds, who with North Vancouver resident Mike Burns is co-chair of the
Alliance Party campaign in B.C., said he had also had several campaign meet-
ings.

Political pundits nationwide have been speculating since Wednesday that
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien will call an election for Nov. 27.

‘The Canadian Alliance Party — of which Reynolds and White are both
members — launched a new platform and a series of television ads starring party
leader Stockwell Day ‘Thursday.

The ads show ay at hore with his family and cogaged in recreational activ-
itics such as chopping wood and whitewater rafting.

“The party plattorm, said White, centred around such mandates as tax reform,
parliamentary reform (in particular, allowing MPs a free vote in the House of |
Commons on “everything but the budget”), a crackdown on crime and on the
refugee processing formula which “allows criminal refugees to enter Canada.”

See White page 3

Royal Hudson idle while
funding options argued

Annette Martin
« Contributing Writer
THE Royal Hudson locomotive 2860 may have
4. taken her last ride on the rails.

And the uncertain fate of the train is starting to resemble the restricted
out of a toy train track, with arguments going around in circles.
‘The popular and photogenic tourist attraction has been out of service since
January 2000, sitting in North Vancouver’s Pemberton rail yards awaiting the
completion of boiler vepairs.
‘Tue cost of repairing the Royai Hudson has been estimated at $900,000,
Nand BC Rail, the company that operates and maintains the train, wants the
a aa : = : . Watiraoen mM provincial government to fund the cost.
th onan ih fen Da : eae | NEWS photo Mike Wakefield Alan Dever, Director of Comraunicatiuns with BC Rail, said discussions are
.PAIME Minister Jean Chrétien was awed by the beauty of a 390-foot Dougias Fir tree during a tour .
of Capilano Suspension Bridge and Park Friday morning, along with 80 eager schoolciiiidren. = _ See Hudson page 3

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