DAVID SCHRECK shakes hands with supporters after the North Vancouver-Burnaby wing of the party made him their official candidate Wednesday night.

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DAVID SCHRECK was named the NDP can- didate for North Vancouver-Burnaby by acclama- tion Wednesday to the enthusiastic approval of

over 150 supporters.

And he wasted no time in- forming the crowd that he intends to carry out the par- ty’s obligation of telling the

people of Canada ‘‘what we stand for.’’ “IT want Chuck (Cook)

and lona (Campagnolo) to know there will be a fight in this riding and we expect to win,’’ said Schreck. ‘‘The NDP could be part of a mi- nority government ‘and hold a balance of power role.”’

He focussed on. three issues during his acceptance speech — Medicare, interest rates and abortion.

He said he worries that with Health Minister Mom que Begin leaving her post that the new Canada Health Act and Medicare ‘‘may go down the tubes °"’

As for high interest rates, Schreck said, ‘“‘There ois nothing that prevents Canada from having an in- dependent interest rate from the United States At to- day's rate of inflation, peo- ple shouldn't have to pay more than a nine per cent tn- terest rate.”’

But tt was on the abortion issue that Schreck spoke most passionately Although he said he did not believe the subject would be a major issuc in the summer cam- paign, he said if was impor- tant that voters realize that the NDP clearly supports a woman's right to choose

He said B.C. currently has the highest abortion rate in North America, primarily because there is no choice for women He said with women being the ‘‘victims of aggression ranging from wife abuse to pornography ,”" that

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‘‘The cards are stacked in favor of abortion,’’ said Schreck. ‘*Right now there is no choice between poverty and abortion.”’

In an interview following the meeting, Schreck told the News he is in favor of the right to choose a therapeutic abortion because of the lack of economic justice that cur- rently exists for women.

**People don’t go out and just decide to have an abor tion,’’ said Schreck ‘‘What we have to do ts everything in our power to help women from having to choose abor tion "’

Keynote speaker, Burnaby MP Svend Robinson told the crowd Schreck will be carry ing forward the great legacy of Tommy Douglas, a former MP in the riding, saying the party could not have found a stronger can. didate than Schreck ‘‘He’s been a national spokesman on both social and economic issues and his record speaks

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Robinson assailed the Liberal and Conservative parties for their failure to provide varying points of view to Canadians and for their similarities in style, ad- ding, ‘‘Progressive Liberals are only Tories in disguise.’’

Citing the 1979 election battle in which NDP can- didate Jim Fulton dumped then Liberal MP Iona Cam- pagnolo in Skeena, Robin- son called on Schreck, the underdog, to do the same to the Liberal Party President in the coming election

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have 50 candidates and the rest will flow from there.”’

The Green Party, while on- ly a couple of candidates away from their goal of 20 in B.C., must have 50 nation- wide to become a registered federal party and appear on the ballot form in September.

According to Thomas, the B.C. party had about 1,500 members during the provin- cial election last year, and though their numbers drop- ped to 650 afterwards, they had climbed by abou. 100 by Wednesday evening.

In February of 1983 the firs’ Green Party in North American was formed in

Vancouver. Since then the Organization has grown nationally.

Party spokesman Ted Mousseau admitted that ‘‘the party policies are not all finished and tailor-made, but added that ‘‘everything we want to do is based on what the Earth can sustain.’’

Organizer Stephen Sell who added that the Party is ‘‘small but tough’’ pointed out that the Green Party is neither beholding to the

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