, S. as__Castlégar News October 22, 1986 Dispute hurts people WASHINGTON (CP) The Canadian people will be hurt the most by a govern ment decision not to seek a negotiated settlement to the lumber dispute with the United States, a U.S. forest industry spokesman said to day. Bill Lange of the U.S Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports said the decision means Canada is forfeiting to the U.S. Treasury at least $600 million Cdn a year in penalty duties when it has a chance to keep the money in Canada. “The real loser here isn’t the U.S. lumber industry, it's the Canadian people,” Lange said. “A negotiated solution could have resulted in that money staying in Canada and being used in Canada for re forestation and other things which are very much needed.” Ottaw agreed, legal and diplomatic fight to get the U.S. duty thrown out rather than try to resolve the dispute through negotiations The U.S. Commerce De partment issued a prelimi nary ruling last week that nd the provinces Tuesday to wag put a 15-per-cent duty on imports of Canadian soft wood lumber, worth about $4 billion Cdn last year. The Canada had offered to raise its lumber export prices by about 10 per cent before the ruling but the proposal was rejected as being too low by the U.S. industry. 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Advance voting average By CasNews Staff Advanee polls were open a day longer this year than in 1983 but voter turnout was not heavier, Rossland/Trail returning officer Barbara MeKay said. A total of 666 voters turned out at advance polls this year in the Rossland/ ‘Trail riding compared to 638 in 1983. Polls opened Wednesday, Oct. 15 and closed last Satur- day, Oct. 18. Advance polls were at the Fireside Place in Castlegar, the Crown Point Hotel in Trail, and the LeRoi Mall in Rossland. Voter turnout was as fol lows: Oct. 15 — Castlegar 66, Trail 101, Rossland 19; Oct. Castlegar 41, Trail 97, Ross- land 22; Oct 18 — Castlegar 41, Trail 73, and d 41. By RON NORMAN Editer Tom Esakin all but conceded today’s provincial general election before it began: But the Liberal candidate for Rossland-Trail says he’s running more with an eye to the next election than today’s vote. “We've got to be realistic,” Esakin said in an interview. “The chances of myself winning are awfully slim. The Liberal candidate in the 1983 general election in Rossland-Trail, Sergio Cocchia, polled just 394 votes from the more than 17,000 cast. Esakin says he's running to allow those voters who can't vote for either the Social Credit or New Democrats to vote Liberal. “Without a Liberal candidate, they would be disen. franchised,” he said. Asked if a vote for the Liberals would be a “wasted” vote, Esakin responded: “Not at all,” and explained that his party could win as many as six seats in B.C. “It looks quite favorable on the Lower Mainland,” he said, ially in V: -Little in where he says the Liberals have a chance at one or both seats. That is where Liberal leader Art Lee is taking on Deputy Premier Grace McCarthy and incumbent Doug Mowat “A vote for a Liberal is no longer a wasted vote.” Esakin insisted. However, he admitted he would like to see New Democrat incumbent Chris D'Arcy win Rossland-Trail, though not because D'Arcy is the better candidate. “I think in Victoria we need opposition members,” Esakin said. “I don't want to see for the sake of the ridin; Credit candidate) Audrey Moore in,” he sai she's just going to cater to Castlegar itself.” Esakin also said local Socreds view him with some concern, saying that when he paid a “courtesy call” on the (Social T think All polls were open from 1 p-m. to 9 p.m. each of the four days. McKay said the sealed ballot boxes were returned to each advance polling location today and ballots will be tallied after 8 p.m. d-Trail Socred ters, they said they wished he would leave the riding. Esakin said the Socreds are concerned he will attract votes that would go to Moore if he wasn't running. The 22-year-old political science student at Simon Fraser University, slammed both Moore and D'Arcy. “What's she done? he asked. “If she's pro-Castlegar, what's she going to be doing as an MLA? TOM ESAKIN realistic He also asked what has D'Arcy done for the riding. “He seems to pop up every election and that's about it,” Esakin said, adding D'Arcy has a poor attendance record in the legislature and “hasn't come in Hansard (the official record of a legislature proceedings) 4 lot.” While Esakin admits he is an “outsider” to the riding, he added that his father grew up in Grand Forks and he is aware of the issues in the area “I would stand up for Rossland-Trail Esakin said, saying he would also move to the riding if elected Esakin didn't so much decide to run in Rossland Trail, but was asked to run here when the local Liberal constituency had trouble fielding a candidate. “After much discussion they came up with me,” he said A member of the Liberal Party since 1980, Esakin says he has worked on former provincial leader Gordon Gibson's campaign and was an aide to federal Liberal party president Iona Campagnolo. “I believe in Liberalism, all its ideas and philosophy,” he said. 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About 1.6 eligible voters were choosing between the promise of blue skies from Premier Bill Vander Zalm and the earnest attack on B.C.’s economic and social problems pledged by NDP Leader Bob Skelly. Eleven political parties fielded 231 candidates, along with six independents. They are vying for 69 seats, 34 of them in dual-seat ridings, where voters choose two candi- dates. The Socreds and the NDP are the only parties which nominated full slates. The old legislature had 57 seats. At dissolution the Socreds held 32, the NDP21, the Progressive Conservatives one and three were vacant. After some final campaigning, party leaders headed to their home ridings Tuesday. GIVES PEP TALK Skelly gave campaign workers on Vancouver Island pep talks before going to his Alberni riding where his Socred challenger is popular Port Alberni Mayor Gillian Trumper. Vander Zalm pitehed his “fresh start” campaign theme to Vancouver businessmen before going to his Richmond riding. Vander Zalm's By GARY KINGSTON VANCOUVER — Premier Bill Vander Zalm, the made-for-TV politician preaching a fresh start, entered the British Columbia election campaign under a full head of steam Everything was going right for the born-again Social Credit leader and when NDP Leader Bob Skelly suffered an embarrassing anxiety attack in front of reporters the day the election was called, all bets were off. This wasn't an election, said some writers, it was a coronation. Now, as the campaign nears its end, some of the sparkle surrounding the Vander Zalm effort has faded. Among other Liberal Leader Art Lee concentrated on his home riding of Vancouver-Little Mountain, where analysts give him chance of taking one of the two seats. Tory Leader Jim MeNeil, who spent a lonely four weeks as the free enterprise opposition to the Socreds, was in his Central and 48 seats, an estimate pooh-poohed by Skelly. “Mr. Vander Zalm has had a tendency to be overcontfi- dent,” Skelly said Tuesday. “I think we'll probably see some surprises for Mr. Vander Zalm.” Skelly was confident the NDP could win but despite the narrowing gap between the two parties reflected in recent polls, the Socreds are favored. Except for an NDP administration between 1972 and 1975, the Socreds have governed for 34 years. GET OUT THE VOTE Vander Zalm has urged Socred workers not to be complacent and to get out the vote. “I think this election is about defining the base vote of the NDP,” said political scientist Kev Carty. The NDP’s share of the popular vote has edged upward to about 45 per cent in 1983 from 34 per cent in the 1966 election. Except for the 1972 loss, the Socreds have ranged in the mid-to-high 40s, drawing about 50 per cent in 1963. Carty said NDP’s challenge will be retain its voter share in the face of the somewhat faded “Vandermania” which gave the Socreds a big lead early in the campaign. Vander Zalm called the election as he rode the wave of euphoria generated by his challenge for the Socred leadership, which bucked the party establishment but tapped a vein of populism, as well as the party atmosphere of Expo 86. sparkle fading past 11 others on a wave of populist euphoria to become leader at age 52. Sliding Socred fortunes that had left the LECTION ‘86 to be replaced VANCOUVER (CP) — The paper says in a story pub- lished today. Poole currently is execu- Lampert is a former execu- tive director of the Social Credit party who returned to British Columbia earlier this year following a stint as na tional director of the federal Progressive Conservative party. Arsonist attacks office SAANICH, B.C. (CP) — Armed guards patrolled tional, long-in-the-tooth government trailing the Opposition New Democrats in public opinion polls were quickly reversed, largely on the basis of Vander Zalm's simple charm, sincerity and toothpaste-ad smile. He kept saying he didn't want to go to the electorate. But a province still battling both the psychological and economic doldrums of recession and Socred restraint seemed to be buying his prescription for recovery. It was based on a sound evangelical principle — trust in leadership. A public opinion poll conducted just days into the things, criticism has d over his ful inter vention in several union disputes. But while talk of a landslide has been muted, it seems only a cataclysm could avert a Social Credit win as the province — home to the only Socred government in Canada — prepares to vote Wednesday. Vander Zalm was elected party leader in late July to replace the retiring Bill Bennett who had guided the mix of free-enterprise, anti-socialists for 13 years, the last 11 as premier. A hard-line Bennett cabinet minister with a penchant for shooting from the lip, Vander Zalm quit provincial politics in 1983 after eight stormy years in cabinet. He returned as a moderate with his hot tongue cooled and swept paign indicated the uphill fight the NDP faced. It suggested the Socreds, who had taken 35 of 57 legislative seats in 1983 despite only a 4.7-percentage-point advantage in popular vote, were 21 points ahead of the NDP. At dissolution, the Socreds held 32 seats and the NDP 21. There was one Progressive Conservative and three seats were vacant. Redistribution and the addition of a second seat in 10 ridings, all but one of them held by the Socreds, has increased the number of seats this time to 69 from 57. The Socreds fail NDP are running full slates amd.are expected to take most seats. The Liberals, with SO” Candi dates seeking election, appear to have the best shot at breaking the two-party stranglehold with leader Art Lee running a strong in V. Little Mount election ters in the Victoria area Tuesday night after fire hit the Oak Bay-Gordon Head office of Attorney-General Brian Smith. Both the Social Credit and NDP hired private security firms after the blaze that “was definitely arson,” said Detective Jim Arnold of the Saanich police. Arnold said no one was seen near the office at the time of the fire. Smith said the party lost records and lists of people who needed to be phoned today and reminded to vote in the provincial election or given rides+to.the polls. The Socreds later opened another campaign office less than a kilometre from the paig fire d h ters. SAFEWAY SPECIALS OPEN SUNDAYS 1G A M.-5 P.M — Safeway Quality Meats — Stewing Beef $499 4** ‘kg Ib. 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