WEATHER: Morning low cloud, mostly sunny. Increasing coud Thursday and Friday. CAR MARKET: Cl A look at some of the gems from the automotive world. REACHING: CI A North Vancouver team hopes their efforts will put them over the top. A3 - Wednesday, January 23, 1985 - North Shore News ETIQUETTE: C2 The last werd on what’s appropriate when wedding balls ring. urner turns MEMBERS OF the Liberal Party in the riding of Capilano were given the challenge of rebuilding the constituen- cy association from the ground up by president Brian Baynham Saturday. Baynham, addressing a crowd of 250 just before Opposition leader John Turner spoke (see ac- companying article) said members of the party would have to re-explore “what Liberalism means to them’ in resioring the party to a@ more promi- nent place on both the federal and provincial scene, Baynham was re- elected president at the end of the annual general meeting, heading a 25. member executive. “We have to ask ourselves if there is room in the centre of the politi- cal spectrum and what policies are needed to ap- peal to moderate Cana- dians,"* Baynham told the group in outlining the challenge the party faces over the next few years. Business..........B8 Budget Beaters.....C7 Car Market........B Classified........A15 Mailbox..........A7 Miss Manners......€2 Sports............B5 TV Times........BI What's Going On. ..B9 ithful “7M NOT concerned about all this speculation about image,’’ John Turner told a crowd of 250 in West Vancouver Saturday. ‘‘One thing T-can assure you is here I am, what you.-see is what you get and that’s the way it’s going to: be.” The partisan crowd liked what it saw: Turner made his statement at the end of a 30-minute speech Saturday Sand it helped. bring them to .. ‘ their feet for a standing ova- tion. Turner’s speech was the © highlight of the Capilano Liberal constituency associa- tion’s annual meeting as he combined calls for Liberal renewal with at- tacks on the Conservative government, the provincial government and the United States. “We want ta become an open, mass, populous par- ty,’’ Turner said. , “We need a renewal in policy and a renewal in peo- ple,’ he said. “1 want this party to be a moderate, progressive, open, account- able party.’* On policy, Turner said the reality of B.C. politics was being reflected at the na- tional level. “In B.C. we have lived with this left-right polariza- tion for years,’’ he said. ‘The Conservative and New Democractic parties are ideological opposites and there is really not a sincere commitment to the middle ground on the part of either party."” Turner hit the federal Conservatives for their “hidden agenda’’ of changes, saying it was only the determined effort of the 40-member Liberal party that forced the government to change its policies on the universality of social ser- vices. Turner’s attack on the provincial government came as he addressed the issue of technological change and the importance of education. “{ have given a personal undertaking that when that block funding for post- secondary education comes up for renewal between the federal and the provincial governments. we're going (o general: have to find some way con- stitutionally so that the pro- vinces of this country, beginning: with B.C., use those. 50. cent dollars from the taxpayers of this country as they. are-supposed. to - be used,’ *hesaid. "Turner saved his strongest “words for the NDP, the Conservatives and the Unit- ed States military when he spoke on disarmament. “The NDP were so far left on the peace issue that the resolution that they © pres- ented to the House of Commons did not only in specific terms deny the peace efforts of (former prime ministers) Mr. Trudeau, Mr. Pearson and Mr. St-Laurent, but they also called: for our withdrawal from NATO,” Turner said, “The Tories were so far right on the issue that they were willing to follow the United States blindly no matter what. “We seized the opportuni- ty to put forward a detailed proposition for Parliament and the country (on disar- mamient). Every member of the NDP voted against that motion. Every Tory member — including your own — voted against it. “The two parties against us were locked into a right- left ideological polarization. We missed the chance to send a message to the world that we wanted a censtruc- tive dialogue and real prog- ress toward lasting peace."’ Further, commenting on reports that American war planning includes plans to place nuclear weapons in Canada, Turner called on the government to remind the United States ad- ministration that Canada is a nuclear-free zone. “The Canadian goverum- ent should be demanding explanations of the United States." he said. The ques- tion is too darned impartant to be left to che U.S. military at the last moment.”’