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YOUR NEIGHBORS across town
the community what they realiy
politicians running in the curre
campaign.

BUT THEY CAN'T.

-Your local community group
“would like to tell you what it

| thinks are the important issues
| in the current election

‘Your local newspaper would
like to provide you with a full ©

would like to tell

think of the
nt election

range of political input from its ©

" Hotablished political parties want to wallpaper your
~ home with their political message this election

- campaign.

AND THEY CAN.

* except that the legislation is invalid under the Charter

The new Election Act, proclaimed July 13, 1995,
with hardly a whisper of protest from opposition
parties, has ensured your right to {ree expression i
will be muzzled during election campaigns —a
time when it is 3 most critical to our democratic

system — by placingan
arbitrary $5,000 limit, which i in
practice is really a gag, on the.
amount of money i individuals or

~ groups: can: spend on promoting
oF. opposing any. carididate, or |

- party, directly or indirectly, -

_ Of course candidates, politcal
parties and constituency: :

- associations are different, «

- Panties, for instance, can ‘spend
$2. 5. million doing the same thing.

ify you ‘think that S ait 80. back:

If you want to continue to express yourself: free
during election campaigns, help t us get rid of the

Election Act. ©

And those: zesponsible for its institution.

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. THE FOLLOWING HIST TELLS You HOW YOUR MLA VOTED ON THIS ATTACK ON Your CHARTER OF RIGHTS.

io Bill Barlee (Okanagan-Roundary)
Ee . Jim Beattie (Okamagan-Penticton)

4 Lois Boone (Prince George-Mount Robson)
| = Gretchen Brewin (Victoria-Beacon Hill)
A «John Cashore (Coquitlam-Maillardville)

‘fg. Art Charbonneau (Kamloops)
"Ed Conroy (Rossland-Trail) .

Dr. Barbara Copping (Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain)
‘Elizabeth Cull (Oak Bay-Gordon Head)
Ujjal Dosanjh, (Vancouver-Kensington)
Jira Doyie (Columbia River-Revelstoke)
Corky Evans (Nelson-Creston)
Mike Faraworth (Port Coquitlam)

@ Colin Gatelmann (North Island)

Bi Frank Garden (Cariboo North)
Helmut Giesbrecht (Skeena)
Anita Hagen (New Westminster)
Sue Hammell (Surrey-Green Timbers)
Mike Harcourt (Vancouver-Mount Pleasant)

_ Bill Hartley (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows)

Fred Jackson (Kamloops-North Thompson)
Gerard A. Janssen (Alberni)

Barry Jones (Burnaby North)

Leonard Krog (Parksville-Qualicum)

Harry Lali (Yale-Lillooet)

Margaret Lord (Comox Valley)

Norm Lortie (North Detta)

. Joy MacPhail (Vancouver-Hastings)

Dan Miller (North Coast)

Shannon O'Neilt (Shuswap)

Jackie Pement (Bulkley Valley-Stikine)

Paul Ramsey (Prince George North)

Fred Randall (Burnaly-Edmonds)

Joan Sawicki (Burnaby Williagdon)
David Schreck (North Vancouver-Lonsdale)
Moe Sihota (Esquimalt-Metchosin)

Bernie Simpson (Vancouver-Fraserview)

Joan Smallwood (Surtey-Whalley)

Rev. Val Anderson (Vancouver-Langara)
Gordon Campbell (Vancouver-Quilchena)
Bob Chisholm (Chilliwack)

Jeremy Dalton (West Vancouver-Capilano)
Michael de Jong, (Matsqui}

Gary Farrell-Collins (Fort Langley-Aldergrove)
Len Fox (Prince George-Omineca)

Fred Gingell (Delta South)

Lyall Hanson (Okanagan-Vernon)

Wilf Hurd (Surrey-White Rock)
Dan Jarvis (North Vancouver-Seymour)

Ken Jones (Surrey-Claverdale)

David Mitchell (West Vancouver-Garibaldi)
Richard Neufeld (Peace River North)
Linda Reid (Richmond East).
Cliff Serwa (Okanagan West)

Lynn Stephens (Langley)

Doug Symons (Richmond Centre)
Judetine Tyabjt (Okanagan East)

John van Dongen (Abbotsford)

Allan Wasnke (Richmond-Steveston)
Gordon Wilson (Powell River-Sunshine Coast)