Ny. ‘ Castlégar News November 23, 1988 November 23, 1988 Castlégar News CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP CLASSES Bact poreb by the Castlegar Multicultural Society Filling out of o forms tor-CANADIAN CITIZENSHP wll take place at lica WOODLAND PARK SCHOOL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, FROM? TO 9 P.M Applicants should bring: Otticial documents; a cheque or money order made ov! to the Receiver General for Canada in the amount of $40 for adults and $25 for minors (under 18) and $10.80 for photographs which will be token—ot Woodland Park School Nov. 28 between 7 and 9 p.m CLASSES WILL BE HELD IN 1989 AT A TIME NOT YET DETERMINED. For information Contact Marti Howard 365-3029 © Mary Beth Small 365-3800 Mulroney makes plans BAIE-COMEAU, QUE. (CP) — The Conservative majority govern. ment has a clear mandate to proceed with the free-trade agreement and will do so, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Tuesday. Parliament will be recalled the week of Dec. 12 and the government hopes to have the Canada-U.S, trade deal passed with royal assent before the end of the year so it can come into force Jan. 1, “We will also be getting on with Thank You for Your Support! will also give special attention to our environment.” As well, Mulroney said he would push for the ratification of the Meech Lake accord, the constitutional deal Sincerely, DOREEN SMECHER which still has to be passed by two provinces, Manitoba and New Bruns. WE ARE SEARCHING wick Free trade and the constitutional accord were the two key issues in the THE WEST KOOTENAY election, the prime minister said, ECONOMIC COORDINATING GROUP adding that the election results send SEEKS PROJECT PROPOSALS FROM INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS TO a strong message to Manitoba and UNDERTAKE A ONE YEAR CONTRACT FOR THE MANAGEMENT New Brunswick to ratify the accord. AND DELIVERY OF A PROGRAM DESIGNED Mulroney also rejected 4 sugge COMIAITETY Or Parte ann Cees stion that he is indebted to business TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT CREATION INITIATIVES. and others who promoted the free. trade deal during the campaign Recent studies undertaken by the Community Futures Committee of Central “I don't think that we owe any Kootenay and the Greater Trail Community Futures S8ciety determined o more to those who were in favor of protound lack of awareness of provincial and tederal employment related ., . the sow! : programs amon ye Fagion s business community and concluded the need for a free trade than we owe to those who were against it,” he said. Program Aware ‘0-ordinator operating in the geogrpahic area defined by the Regional District a Central Kootenay and the Regional District of Kootenay The prime minister said he spoke Boundary with U.S. president-elect George Bush on Tuesday and that Bush had expressed the hope the two could meet soon, possibly before the presi dent-elect's inauguration Jan. 20. Additionally, Mulroney said _re- ducing the federal deficit, now at $28 CHECKING ane aif billion a year, and lowering interest Bob Brisco takes a peek over campaign worker rates were his government's econ. Dennis Prouse’s shoulder at latest election results PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED UNTIL DECEMBER 13, 1988. THE CONTRACT START DATE IS FEBRUARY I, 1989 For more information or the terms of reterence,\contact H. Stan ot THE WEST KOOTENAY ECONOMIC COORDINATING GROUP Coenen ne VIN 3H4 Telephone 365-3959 * FAX 365-3868 omic priorities. For a Limited Time Only! It’s Warehouse Prices AND ON APPROVED CREDIT... 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(AP-AFP) — President-elect George Bush wel comed Tuesday the election of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's second majority government, saying the Progressive Conservative victory “was most interesting because to a degree it was a referendum on getting the free-trade agreement through.” Push, in Port Clear for a meeting with 20 Republican governors and two governors-elect, also said that he and Mulroney have a “special kind of friendly personal relationship.” Ratification of the Canada-U.S. agreement was the dominant issue in Monday's federal election Mulroney's victory with a majority paves the way for final parliamen. tary approval of the pact, which has already been ratified by the United States. Mulroney is a friend of outgoing President Ronald Reagan and Wash. ington had privately expressed hope that the prime minister would be re. turned to power with another major ity. Recount unlikely VANCOUVER (CP) - Even though Johanna den Hertog lost by 279 votes, the NDP candidate in the unpredictable Vancouver Centre riding doubts she will ask for a recount Conservative candidate Kim Campbell, who resigned as the Social Credit member of provincial legis. lature for Vancouver Point-Grey, won with 23,532 votes. Den Hertog, the NDP national party president, received votes. “We will look at our options but I'm being politically realistic to say that I think in all likelihood Kim Campbell will be elected member of Parliament,” said den Hertog, who had gone to bed early Tuesday still not knowing the final result. The outcome in the riding, held in the last Parliament by former Treas. ury board president Pat Carney, wasn't finally known until 4 a.m Den Hertog said Tuesday after noon she had heard of some ballot box irregularities, but won't press the issue unless her lawyer advises otherwise. “There were complaints, as there often are in elections, of some difficulties at some polling stations, but whether they were of enough merit, I don't know,” she said > ELECTION KRISTIANSEN WINS . Newly elected MP for Kootenay West- Revelstoke receives a hug and COALITION ANGRY AT BROADBENT CALGARY (CP) Elections Can ada officials are frustrated by reports from polling officers that voters trying to cast ballots in several provinces for Monday's federal elec. tion had to be turned away. The problem — at least in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskat: chewan and Newfoundland was that voters were recently enumer. ated for other elections and mistak enly thought they were on the federal voters’ list. “We had people showing up at the polls thinking they could vote be. cause they had provincial enumera tion slips in their hands,” said Cal gary West returning officer Sylvia Langlois. Albertans were enumerated by the province in September and that led to confusion, elections officials said. “It was a problem simply because people mixed them up,” added Cal gary Northeast returning officer Eileen Thompson, who heard several similar reports from polling stations congratulations on election night from a suppor- ter at the Steelworkers hall in Trail. CosNewsPhoto and in calls from spurned and angry voters, Even some people who got warn ing in media reports of the looming Different lists confuse voters problem refused to get on revised voters lists, Thompson noted. “A lot of people said, ‘I got on the list once already. I'm not giving you the same information twice.’ " Elections Canada spokesman Christine Jackson, reached in Ot tawa, said the problem was repeated across the country Newfoundland residents recently. underwent provincial enumeration and residents of Ontario, Saskat chewan and British Columbia have all recently been enumerated for muni cipal elections. Jackson said there was little that could be done since the other enumerations had long been sched. uled — but to try to spread the word as much as possible. The parliamentary agency will be pushing to have amendments to the Election Act, under Bill C79, finally ssed by the House of Commons and Senate. Those amendments would have eased the problem by extending registration to the last Friday prior to an election, and would have streamlined and opened up the elec- toral process. REGINA (CP) — Federal NDP Leader Ed Broadbent's decision not to fight for di s to the the mandate to implement free trade, adding that he won't fight for d to the deal. Canada-U.S. free-trade deal is a “be trayal in the first order,” anti-free- trade crusader David Orchard said Tuesday. The fiery leader of Citizens Con cerned About Free Trade said he feels betrayed, claiming his organ ization was responsible for putting NDP candidates in office in Monday's election. He said now that the party has promised not to fight for amend ments to the Canada-U.S. deal, he's withdrawing his support for Broad bent and the NDP, which finished in its traditional third place behind the Liberals and Tories in Monday's general election. Orchard gave his group credit for the NDP’s defeat of Saskatchewan incumbents Ray Hnatyshyn in Sas. katoon-Clark’s Crossing, Don Ravis in Mackenzie and John Gormley in The Battlefords-Meadow Lake. NDP candidates “were elected to fight against this deal,” Orchard said. “My Mulroney got 43 per cent of the vote and our side got 57 per cent. They do not have a mandate for free trade.” Final election results showed the Tories with 43 per cent of the popular vote Canada-wide, the Liberals 32, NDP 20, Reform party two and the Christian Heritage party one. The rest went to other fringe parties or independents Broadbent told reporters. in Oshawa on Tuesday that the Con servative election victory gives them Canada WANTS EXPLANATION Orchard said his coalition, which claims a membership of 5,000 across Canada, will ask the newly elected NDP candidates to explain why the party is backing down on free trade. Evidence that his group was res- ponsible for NDP success in Saskat- chewan is found in the attendance of anti-free-trade rallies in the province, Orchard said. He said the NDP-sponsored rallies drew fewer than 100 people, while rallies backed by the organization drew crowds in the thousands. “Ask Ray Hnatyshyn who defeated him. The reason people believed us is because we're non-partisan.” When told of Orchard’s comments, Regina-Lumsden MP Les Benjamin of the NDP replied: “I guess that means we didn't do any work, eh?” Benjamin, who won his seventh term as an NDP candidate, said he doesn't know how much influence Orchard and Citizens Concerned About Free Trade had in the province because “I haven't paid any attention to him.” As for Broadbent's statement, Benjamin said the NDP caucus will have the final say on whether the party presses for amendments to the deal, scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1. “We might want to force amend- ments just for the vote for the record” so, when the effects of the deal are felt, “we can say, ‘I told you so. pressed to curb exports By JOHN VALORZI WASHINGTON (CP) — The United States will continue to press for curbs on imports of Canadian steel despite the free-trade agree. ment, a senior U.S. senator said today. While he welcomed Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's second majority government — which means quick ratification of the trade pact — Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz said he would press the incoming Republican administration to include Canada in a voluntary restraint pro- gram to curb steel imports. President-elect George Bush has already promised to extend the pro- gram, which includes the world’s major steel producing countries but exempts Canada, when it expires next Sept. 30. The American steel industry and its supporters in Con- gress have been pressing to have every major steel producing country in the program. Heinz, a Republican whoses family founded the world's biggest ketchup company, said at a news conference in the U.S. Senate building: “Will president-elect Bush as pres. ident continue the voluntary re: straint agreement program? He has indicated he will seek to do so. “Will he seek to engage all coun- tries including Canada? I would an- ticipate he would, but that’s his decision. During the Canadian election cam- paign, Mulroney warned blue-collar steelworkers that Canada would be included in the U.S. steel import program if his Conservative govern- ment was defeated and the free-trade deal collapsed. “Without that agreement I wouldn't bet a nickel on the Ameri- cans continuing to exclude Canada from import quot on steel,” the prime minister said in Sault Ste. Marie, a Northern Ontario steel town hit hard by recession at its biggest employer, Algoma Steel Corp. Ltd. 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