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VEN BEFORE the last chair was

folded at the Hyatt Regency in Van-

dcouver following the B.C. Liberal leadership convention last Saturday, the undercurrents. of provincial politics had dramatically shifted.

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‘ British Columbians proved once again their ability to separate traditional party ideology from outright pragmatism in the face of dealing a blow to the status que in Victoria.

. The overwhelming first ballot support Vancouver Mayor Gordon Campbel! received over the phonelines at the conven- tion is another example of a party’s stray- ing from its roats in search of the win- ability factor. -

ell’s coup

Campbell beat out Gordon Gibson — and beat up Gordon Wilson — not because | of his liberal philosophy or intellectual prowess, but because he can win, baby.

With Mike Harcourt limping along in Victoria, Campbell and his newly-acquired party will pose a substantial threat to the NDP majority currently resting their behinds in the legislature. .

Espousing such populist themes as 2 legislated balanced budget, self-reliance and personal responsibility, the provincial Lib- ~ erals are currently experiencing the joy of driving fast and still having more of the pedal to push.

Just where, and how far, that drive takes them depends on their ability to make sure that everyone has a seat — and a seatbelt.

LETTER OF THE DAY

Make it fashionable to honor young today

Dear Editor:

1 was sad to hear of Dan Culver’s untimely death and sad- dened further and frustrated to

Wouldn’t the; world be a better place if we started making it fashionable to honor our young people today? |

and direction for a. change?

1 say honor our young people today — loud and clear ... make it a whole section in aff of today’s

read of Coun. Paul Turner warn- ing against the potential for ‘honoring whatever is fashion- able.”’

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“JOBS, JOBS, jobs’’ is the demand of this fall's edgy, foul-tempered voters. For Kim Campbell to have any hope of clinging to her own job, she'll kave to get much more

specific on the subject.

Last week the PM kicked off the Tory campaign with a depressingly pessimistic — and incomplete — message.

Although reducing the deficit, creating jobs and economic growth were ‘‘key priorities,’’ she warned Canadians against expec- ting much relief from high unemployment before the year 2000. For that she’s been dubbed Canada’s Marie Antoinette (‘let them eai cakes!'"),

Just across the street Jean Chre- tien offers $2 billion worth of jobs “tomorrow morning.’’ At the NDP lemonade stand Audrey McLaughlin promises 200,000 jobs by 1998 at a cost of $10 billion.

If you were one of the 1.6 mil- lion on pogey — or fearing you might be any day —- which mer- chant would YOU spend your vote with?

Campbell’s trouble is her failure so far to deliver with nearly enough impact the message prov- ing that she’s right and that Chre- tien and McLaughlin are merely pulling a cruel hoax on the jobless.

The message — unpalatable to many voters — being simply this:

Until the $30 billion-plus feder- al deficit finally starts to be

KIM CAMPBELL... promises prolong agony.

clawed down, there isn’t a cent in the government coffers with which to create a single new job.

At the same time, the level of taxation needed simply to hold the deficit in check has now reached the point where it stifles the ability of the private sector to create jobs.

In short, it’s the deficit that is robbing Canadians of work. And if it continues much longer to swell our half-trillion doUar debt, Canada faces bankruptcy accom- panied by even greater unemploy- ment.

In the 1990s the policy of ever more borrowing paid for with ever higher taxes — the Oitawa lifestvle patented by Trudeau governments — belongs to the age of the dodo bird.

The ONLY way te stimulate job creation today is to eliminate the deficit as fast as possible, and then start paying down the debt and reducing taxes.

Since any more taxes are out of the question, it can only be done

reckless jobless

HITHER AND YO

by slashing government spending. This, of course, is the part all old-line politicians shy away from, because bribing voters with their own money is the easiest way to get, and stay, elected.

So while Campbell bravely waf- fles about eliminating the deficit within five years, her finance

‘minister, Gilles Loiselle, warns , that it ain't all that easy. In fact,

he says, details of the Tory plan will have to wait until after the election. . os

This is why the Tories — facing the thunder of the jobless — need a prod to get them on the right path and keep them there. In the not entirely unlikely event that they wind up as a minority gov- ernment, that prod can be sup- . plied only by Preston Manning and his Reformers.

Manning is the only party leader . to clearly analyze the cause- i and-effect link between : unemployment and the deficit-fed national debt. Moreover, his is the only party to have developed a detailed item-by-item program of

‘spending cuts to reduce the deficit

to zero in three years, thereby easing taxes and stimulating employment. ——- .

Should the Reform party wind up in a balance of power position, it would be Kim Campbell’s elementary duty to the unem- ployed to form a working coali- tion with Manning.

The alternative — an election won on reckless promises guaran- teed to bankrupt Canada — can only prolong the agony of our jobless.

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SCRATCHPAD: Puppet shows, musical entertainment, rededica- tion of the Second World War memorial and ribbon-cutting at 2 p.m., guided tours and refresh- ments mark the official opening Saturday, Sept. 18, of West Van’s expanded library — join the fun. ... Inducted 1993-94 president of the Kiwanis Club of Capilano is David Carter, along with veepees Derek Thomas and Bill Spratt. Vic Nygaard continues as secretary and Keith Muir as treasurer, with Lloyd Goodings as past prez.

WRIGHT OR WRONG: “Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil and you'll never be a TV anchor- man,"’ says Dan Rather,

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