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Castlégar News _Jonwory 30. 1985

New Democrats face

some tough decisions

By NICOLE BAER

OTTAWA (CP) — New Democrats, dreaming of
vietory in their historic quest to overtake the Liberals as
the dominant left-of-centre political party, face some
tough decisions if their goal is to become reality.

The classic third-party debate pits ideological
pursuits, who would forgo power but insist on embracing
all fringe and special interest groups, against political
pragmatists, who say the party must bend to win the
power needed to implement its policies.

Somewhere in between is NDP Leader Ed Broad-
bent, who vigorously defends the party's often-contro-
versial stands and its doors-open structure. Yet, he also
wants to see the party go all the way to the top in the
wake of its surprising revival in the Sept. 4 federal
election and subsequent decline of the Liberals.

Some experts argue there are fundamental ideologi-
cal barriers to a democratic socialist party ever taking
power in Canada and say the NDP must change to attract
more middle-ground voters. They note the party has
never got more than 20 per cent of the popular vote at
election time.

REAPPRAISAL BEGINS

The party is embarking on a reappraisal of its
finances, is going high-tech with new computer systems
and is plotting ways to help spread the NDP gospel in
provincial byelections. At the same time, the party leader
and other MPs are stumping Quebec in pursuit of that
province's elusive support.

But thoughtful people in the party admit that if it is
to shake off its third party mentality, the NDP must
determine if it can — or even wants to — carve out a new
identity to reflect changing political realities.

Part of that debate could centre on the NDP’s
historic ties to labor and almost certainly will include
efforts to formulate a credible, long-term economic
strategy.

Last summer the NDP nearly doubled its share of
popular support and successfully resisted the Conser-
vative tidal wave in an election campaign that saw
Broadbent gain convincingly in national prominence.

While the Liberal majority was chopped to just 40 of
the Commons’ 282 seats, the NDP to only one of its 31
members. For the first time, the NDP is within striking
range of the Liberal party, and opinion polls since the

Broadbent, who will seek a renewed mandate as
leader in a July national convention, wants the party to
become the official Opposition in the next election with
the eventual goal of forming the government. But some
people in the party sound a more cautionary note.

“If people have recently thought you were on your
deathbed and now you're up walking around, that looks
pretty good,” says Jim Laxer, a former party research
director now teaching in Toronto.

“But we haven't yet seen the historic breakthrough
that people have said would make the NDP into a party
that can challenge for power.”

But the party isn't sure whether it can, or even
wants to, challenge for power.

Former NDP secretary Gerry Caplan points to a
“basic ideological limitation” which, for 50 years, has put
a lid on tolerance for left-wing parties.

“It is very hard to see how anything that calls itself
democratic socalism can win quite enough votes in the
context of a North American society to form a
government.”

Caplan wants the party to strive for power only if it
could do so without compromising its principles.

Broadbent insists the NDP cannot forever languish
as an opposition party.

“The people who founded the . . . NDP did not want
to be the conscience of the nation but to transform the
nation, and to transform the nation means to achieve
political power,” he said in an interview.

“The whole purpose of democratic socioalist polities
is to transmit values into power. We are not an
intellectually organized group designed to obtai

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LE AGREEMENT

There appears to be agreement that with four years
until the next federal election and its general mood of
self-confidence, the party can well afford to take a hard
and thorough look at its structure, policies, membership
and aspirations. But despite that consensus, there is no
broad agreement on the need for changes in those areas.

Although Toronto historian Desmond Morton warns
that the party could lose its “product identification” if it
bends too much to accommodate disaffected voters from
other parties. Instead, he says, the NDP should strive to
embrace the country’s many interest groups like those

election indicate the two parties are ‘k-and k in
popular support.

As the party plots strategies to capitalize on the
opportunity, key to the plan will be a series of national
policy conferences to listen to Canadians within an
outside the party.

A caucus group is trying to make contact with
grassroots social democrats in Quebec and another is
crisscrossing the country to determine what Canadians
think should be done about the economy

$120,000
Police recover

stolen gold

LONDON (AP) — Police
igating a PEs

headquarters that Fordham,
: :

dollar gold robbery — the
biggest in British criminal
history — have recovered
gold worth about $120,000
near a house where an
undercover policeman was
killed on a stakeout, Scotland
Yard said Tuesday.

Although police were not
positive the gold they found
was part of the huge haul, the
discovery appeared to be the
first lead to the hoard worth
about $47 million taken from
a Brinks-Mat warehouse
near Heathrow airport in
November 1983.

Three men have been sen:
tenced to prison for taking
part in the robbery, but the
loot was never recovered and
police feared the 6,800 gold
bars would be melted down
into ingots that could not be
identified as coming from
Brinks-Mat.

Police conducted raids in
London and three other cities
and took in 12 people — 10
men and two women — be.
ginning Monday night, Scot
land Yard said. In addition,
two men and one woman
were being questioned in
connection with the killing of
Detective John Fordham, the
Yard said

No charges ‘were immedi
ately brought against any of
the 15.

Assistant Commissioner
John Dellow told a news con
ference at the London police

WEIGHT-LOSS
PROFESSIONALS

sur expert who
was stabbed to death Satur-
day night, had been part of
the investigation into the
Brinks-Mat robbery.

While searching the
grounds of the mansion near
Dartford in Kent, southeast
of London, where Fordham
was killed, police found about
$120,000 worth of gold, he
said.

“At this stage the gold is
not identifiable as being from
the Brinks-Mat robbery,”
Dellow said.

He said Fordham had been
keeping the mansion under
observation “in preparation
for the execution of a search
warrant — which had already
been obtained — and formed
part of the continuing in
quiries conducted following
the robbery at Heathrow air-
port in November 1983.”

Police believe six men car
ried out the robbery, sli;
into the Brinks-M:
house with the help of one of
the guards.

Pp g women, peace activists and the co-operative
movement.

“There are all sorts of sticks for the bundle but
there's nothing to tie them together with,” he says.
“People in those little fragments have to understand that
they have to make common cause with other people.”

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