‘IT'S THEIR FAULT’
Trudeau and

Bennett both

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PIERRE TRUDEAU,
Bill Bennett, union
leaders and Easterners
all came in for heavy
criticism when the
Western Canada
Concept brought its
separatist message to
the North Shore
Wednesday night.

Doug Christie, founder of
the Western Canada Con-
cept (WCC), and Brian
Westwood, a new WCC
convert who used to lead the
provincial Progressive
Conservatives, delighted a
fnendly crowd of about 100
people with their vision of a

healthy, independent and
free enterprise Western
Canada.

The meeting was held at
St. John’s Anglican Church
Hall in North Vancouver,
and was one of several the
WCC has held across the
province in recent weeks.

The message from
Westwood and Christie was
plain: Trudeau's federal
Liberals and _ Bennett's
provincial Social Credit are
leading the West down the
road of economic ruin, and
spend all their time blaming
each other for the mess
instead of doing something
about it.

“They (Trudeau and
Bennett) are nght about one
thing.” Westwood said. “It is
their fault, both of them.”

Westwood and Chnistie
recited a long list of

grievances they said the
West has against central
Canada, including
Metrication, bilingualism,
lack of representation,

overtaxahion, unfair tanffs,
and handouts to eastern
provinces in the form of
equalization grants totalling
$4 billion a year

But the present provincial
government is no better,
they said. because it sup-
ports the Liberal policies

Westwood complained
about the “total
Mismanagement and total
neglect by the federal
Liberals and the hybrid

Liberals in

bia
Christie said the WCC is

the only party that stresses

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where “we give to others
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accountability, he said. The
people should have the right
to recall the members of the
legislature, and the right to
decide issues — including
western separatism itself —
by referendum.

Eastern Canada (meaning
Ontario and Quebec) is
stealing the resources of the
West, Christie charged.
“Why is it that always a
Western resource becomes
Canada’s resource, while a
Quebec resource stays as a
Quebec resource?”

Throughout Canada’s
history, Western Canada has
been forced to support the
East, which has the most
seats in the House of
Commons, Only with
separation and free trade

will the West achieve
economic prosperity,
Christie said.

Though most of Christie’s
wrath was reserved for the
Socreds and the Liberals (the
Soviet Union is the only
other country where one
party has ruled for so long as
in Canada, he said), he also
attacked union leaders,
though not their members.

“The attitude of throwing
rocks at unions is fine — up
to a point,” but John Fryer,
general secretary of the
British Columbia Govern-
ment Employees Union, and

other union leaders are
dictators, Christie said.
Most of the audience

loved Christie’s speech,
often interrupting him with
loud and long applause and
cagerly responding to the
appeal for donations at the
end of the meeting.

A provincial election was
much on the minds of
Westwood, Christie and the
audicnce. Westwood
predicted the WCC could
win any upcoming election,
and Christic was cqually
optimistic.

He denied that the WCC
would split the Social Credit
vote in the election, allowing
the New Democratic Party
to squeak in. “We're not

SEPARATION
dy? Western Canada
Concept Party's Doug
Christie explains the
party’s aims to the
crowd at St. John's
Church hall, which
warmly received his
message (Eric Eggert-
son photo).

going to split the other votes,
we're going to smash them.”

The voters have three
choices, he said. “We have a
big union party, we have a
big business party, but this is
the party of the people.”

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