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VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

NORTH VANCOUVER City Ald. Dana Taylor
has called for rules and limits on municipal celec-
tion campaigns.

In two motions to council “-municipai election spending,

candidates should have to
account for financial back-

if,

By BARRETT FISHER |

ing they receive, and sup-
porters should have to regis-
ter their names and expenses
with the city.

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Taylor made the motions
as a result of the campaign-
ing that preceded Saturday's
city election, where Daon
Developments supported a
slate of four candidates
sympathetic to its shopping

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centre proposal for Park and
Tilford Gardens, but denied
that support.

The campaign, which
promoted Ald. Stella Jo
Dean, Ralph Hall, Allan
Blair and candidate Elko

returns to

North Van
PAGE 55

Kroon as the only aldermen
interested in saving the Park
and Tilford gardens, was
carried out through tele-
phore solicitations, glossy
brochures and paid ads.

But Taylor said the cam-
paign was a lie, because all
city aldermen were interested
in preserving -the Park and
Tilford Gardens, but not at
the expense of rezoning the
39 acres of industrial land to
commercial to allow for a
shopping centre.

“It is evident from the
municipal election im-
mediately past,’? Taylor said
in his motion, ‘‘that per-
sons...or organizations are
able to inform and perhaps
influence the voting public
through a campaign of lies,
distortion of fact, deceptive
practices and alleged illegal
acts and misinformation, all
the while advocating support
for certain candidates.”'

SILENT BACKERS

Smithrite, which hoids the
garbage contract for the city,
Super Valu, CUPE and
other companies and
organizations were also
alleged to have been silent
backers of various can-
didates.

Taylor said that since such
campaigning can go on
‘‘without the apparent
knowledge or concent of the
candidate(s) who is the in-
tended beneficiary of such
efforts,"’ city staff should
draft an Elections Advocates

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A GOOD snowfall can-
not reaily be ap-
preciated unless it’s
walked on, siedded
through, thrown upon
and generally used for
the merriment of a cou-
ple of young boys.
North Shore kids made
good use of the snow on
Grand Boulevard ‘Wed-
nesday.