yi Castlégar News November 29, 1989 4 Sas In the heart of Alberta's newest resort area, midway between Calgary and Banff The Perfect Setting! Sweeping mountain vistas. Magic by day and by moonlight! Fishing, hiking, horseback riding Cycle paths through the woods. Superb visitor facilities. 4 The Ideal Hotel! * 96 rooms and suites, all with beautiful views, some with fireplaces and private whirlpool * Indoor pool and whirlpool ¢ Steam room * Exercise toom ¢ Underground parking * Unwind in Woody's Pub © Scenic dining at reasonable prices ~ YOU’ LL LOVE OUR RATES! av ins 55 fe cae (‘Double occupancy, Canadian currency, plus tax et 12 = Dee, 2! Buss Kananaskis Village, Alta. TOL 2HO (403) 591-7500 Abortion bill clears hurdle OTTAWA (CP) — With a boost from Brian Mulroney, the gover- nment’s abortion bill cleared a key legislative hurdle Tuesday, winning approval in principle by 164-114 in the Commons. But obstacles remain, with anti- abortion MPs promising amendments to tighten the legislation before final passage next year and free-choice sup- porters promising to scuttle the bill. The loudest protests came not from the floor of the House, but from the public gallery, as pro-choice demon- Strators interrupted Mulroney during debate with chants of *“*No new abor- tion law, we're never going back About two dozen were quickly ushered out. But a second group of four renewed the attack, hurling leaflets to the Commons floor and clutching at seats until security guards pried them loose and carried. them from the chamber. Later, Mulroney wrapped up the seventh day of debate on the issue with an appeal for tolerance and com- promise — and a warning this is the best law MPs can expect from his government. The to free-choice backers who want him to use the Canada Health Act to ensure equal access to abortion across the country by cutting off medicare fun- ding to provinces that won't go along. And Mulroney issued a blunt war- ning that if MPs decide to kill this bill, they won’t get another chance until af- ter the next election. “If this bill does not succeed, it is hard to see what other bill could win the approval of the House and survive achallenge in the courts,"’ he said. Don Boudria, one of 18 Liberals who joined 146 Conservatives suppor- ting the bill, warned he and others will th support t is toughened. “The only reason it got this far is because some of us are still hopeful we can alter it and make it into a bill that would protect the life of the unborn,” the Ottawa-area MP said. SOFTER LINE Several Conservative backbenchers, led by John Reimer of Kitchener, Ont., are taking a softer line. 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But other anti-abortion Tories com- plain Mulroney and Lewis have already indicated they won’t accept amendments that guarantee a fetal right tolife. “The bill is doomed,” said Bill Domm, a veteran defender of right- wing causes from Peterborough, Ont. “*The bill will never pass . . . because it will never be substantially amended.” Domm was among 11 Conservative backbenchers who took advantage of But y, echoing by Justice Minister Doug Lewis, war- ned such amendments could violate the constitutional rights of women. Similarly, he rejected arguments by Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212! the free vote to oppose the bill. The 37-member cabinet maintained solidarity. But Transport Minister Benoit Bouchard agreed the legislation “could be defeated”’ if more backben- chers defect. Standing in the 295-seat Commons is Conservative 167; Liberal 82; NDP 43; Reform 1; vacant 2. November 29, 1989 Castlégar News 4s As Briefly Health minister under pressure VICTORIA (CP) — Provincial Health Minister John Jansen says the Yeueeaver AIDS ‘Conference has shown that some groups are not getting range page vl Jansen said he isn’t sure yet whether he'll release a controversial AIDS video paid for by the government, yet still on the shelf. Health Ministry figures show the number of B.C. teenagers contrac- ting the AIDS virus has doubled since last year. The NDP is pressuring Jansen to release a 60-second rock video on AIDS. Premier Bill Vander Zalm earlier banned release of the video, saying he thought it was just an ad for condoms. Jansen said he has seen the video but he’s not sure it delivers the message its t id "He said the government has to find an effective way to talk to teenagers about the AIDS threat, but he doesn’t know if releasing the video to movie theatres is the best method. Murder charge laid KEREMEOS (CP) — An A charged with d-degs murder in the death of his father in Washington state has been i to the Unit ing Canada in th: hl Thomas Heidy, 25, of C Othello, Wash., was deported Monday night and turned over to U.S. authoritiesin Blaine, Wash., south of Vancouver, RCMP said. He was arrested last Friday after crossing the border near Keremeos, about 260 kilometres east of Vancouver. John Heidy, 64, died of ‘tone shotgun blast to the head at close range’’ last Thursday evening, chief deputy Bill Wiester of the Grant County sheriff's office said Tuesday. The shooting occurred in a farming community about 180 kilometres west of Spokane in east-central Washington. Heidy’s bail has been set at $50,000, Wiester said. Nukes were ready, paper says WASHINGTON (Reuter) — The Soviet Union put its battlefield nuclear forces on 10-minute alert in 1968 out of fear of possible Western intervention when it invaded Czechoslovakia, the Washington Post said. The Post cited a classified-U.S. Defence Department study on the East-West military balance in Europe. It said the study had been prepared for Defence Secretary Dick Cheney on the “‘lessons learned’’ from U.S, and Soviet military crises. The Soviet Union was “prepared to resort to theatre nuclear weapons, if necessary, to prevent NATO’s taking advantage of (the) crisis . to launch a surprise attack” during the August 1968 invasion of Cc ja, the study ed as saying. Blenkarn offers tough choices OTTAWA (CP) — If Canadians want a lower federal sales tax they’re going to have to swallow a tax on all kinds of housing, Don Blenkarn said, calling the proposal to tax only new housing a “bag of worms.’” “*You want Blenkie’s goodies, you pay Blenkie’s rate,”” the Com- mons finance committee chairman said one day after releasing a 250-page report on how Wilson should overhaul the proposed nine-per-cent goods and services tax. 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He said the premier hasn’t visited the riding yet to campaign for Social Credit candidate Susan Brice, and there’s only two The Socreds have lost five consecutive byelections since the 1986 Communists lose monopoly PRAGUE (Reuter) — The Czechoslovak parliament voted today to The 350- ber Federal on political power. The Management and Staff of Georama wish for you A Peaceful and Joyous Christmas maven aes ro the abolition of Article 4 of the constitution which states that the party shall Ousted party leader Milos Jakes and several hardliners who lost their posts on the ruling Politburo after massive anti-Communist protests were among those who voted for the move. NDP may need more than a new leader Editor's note: The New Democratic Party must do much more when it meets in Winnipeg Nov. 30-Dec. 2 than pick a successor to leader Ed Broadbent. The party must consider what its role is to be in the next decade, and perhaps beyond. By JIMCOYLE The Canadian Press It's bad when outsiders say the Outlook for the New Democratic Party has never been bleaker. It’s worse when senior-party members agree the D ion-born ,that i medicare, old-age pensions and unemployment in- f di of short-term contests do little to encourage fa: debate. The NDP usually has had the make-the-rich-pay ginger groups, unabashedly committed to socialism, trying to push the party further left. They're pitted against those who yearn for office — those who can hardly speak the S-word and cringe at the mere mention of nationalizing a bank or withdrawing from NATO. “I'm happy if (the debate’s) getting a little more serious,’ Sears says. '‘Even if that means a few more sparks at some point down the road."" Among the problems for the NDP, Bliss says, is hh world. surance is stuck in of an just- bowl. ‘Canada has a level of political debate ‘‘a mile wide and an inch deep,”’ says Robin Sears, principal secretary to Ontario New Democrat Leader Bob Rae. ‘And the NDP is as much a victim of that as any other political ty. “Much of what happens in Canadian political life is shouting bumper-sticker slogans at each other. “*As it heads to Winnipeg to choose a successor to Ed Broadbent on Dec. 2, the NDP is looking for more than a leader. It’s in search of a reason for existence and a revised road-map to Utopia. While the most rigid eastern European regimes crumble and pay homage to market economies, Canadian socialists agonize over the NDP’s role in the next decade and beyond. “Their prospects are grimmer than they’ve ever been,’’ delcared Michael Bliss, a University of Toronto professor and economic conservat “The word socialism has referred to a non-market “It doegn’t want to be caught to the left of Gor- bachev,”’ he says. ‘‘So many of their traditional policies hese are people who despise free-market economics when everybody knows that markets are the way to increase wealth."" Few true believers concur with Bliss’s bleak assessment. But many concede a crossroads has been reached. Picking a leader — even in a contest that one New Democrat described as akin to ‘midget wrestling’? — will be the easy part for the NDP, Sears says. Charting a path is more complicated. NEED VISION The NDP should devise creative new versions of rather than turning its back on — traditional policies such as public ownership, says John Conway, a politics professor from the University of Regina. “The NDP has been mired in an overly economic life and planning, and it’s so clearly failed.”” HAD HIGH HOPES to public ownership,”’ he says. Similarly, Conway says New Democrats have been The party’s seemed so ising in the 18 months leading up to the 1988 federal election. For one delicious moment, Broadbent even enjoyed an unaccustomed spot atop the polls. But although the NDP won a record 43 seats, the elec- tion results were disappointing. The NDP support stalled at the usual 20 per cent — about 2.7 million voters. The party elected no members in Quebec and Atlantic Canada. Even in Ontario the party got only 10 S. Some of the current malaise is rooted in the overall election results, says Alan Whitehorn, a political scien- tist in Kingston, Ont. “Expectations were so high — naively high — and they’re paying for that,’’ says Whitehorn, who is wrap- ping up a book on the pary. In several forums, inside the party and out, New Democrats are wrestling with the future — and the past. How valid are the old dogmas of public ownershi: nationalization and huge tax hikes for corporations and the rich? Do privatization, public spending cuts and in- vestment incentives have merit? Can jobs and social programs be preserved in a tough global economy without unbearable debt? Should Broadbent's drive to win a foothold in Quebec be continued? UNDER REVIEW In Toronto, political economist David Wolfe is part of a policy study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a non-partisan left-wing think-tank. Everything from public ownership and income- security programs to global trade policy is being reviewed. “*We’re a long way from having any consensus,”’ he says. “There are some people who feel quite strongly that now is not the time to reject any of the traditional values and virtues that social democracy has been associated with.’” Such exercises have been kept at arm’s length from the leadership race, the fear being that political demands about devising new social programs and in- come redistribution schemes that really work. Other questions have to be answered. “If the NDP continues to oppose free trade and argues that Canada should leave the agreement,’’ says Conway, “‘what are the alternatives, what’s the economic strategy?”” Ubiquitous party guru Gerry Caplan says the NDP is looking for a true believer, a new leader who “‘must not even hint at an interest in watering down these prin- response to public opinion polls.”’ Yet, even in departing, Broadbent said last March that the debate on the merits of a market economy was closed. “We New Democrats believe in the marketplace, including private investment decisions, reduced tariffs, private property, the free disposal of assets, the right to makea profit, decentralized decision-making,’’ he said. “*As the world evolves so must our polici There is clearly no consensus on that evolution. Former Saskatchewan premier Allan Blakeney and Yukon Premier Tony Penikett — New Democrats both — sketched decidedly different visions in recent essays. OPPOSITE VIEWS Blakeney outlined a plan even a Conservative would applaud.— ordering finances and. shaping the economy for an increasingly competitive world. Penikett, on the other hand, says the limitations of the market system will become increasingly evident in the 1990s. Back to Bliss. “They want to sort of genuflect towards the market and the private sector, but then they keep coming back to more use of state authority as virtually their only policy.”* Gains were made in Quebec in the 1988 election, but it is testimony to the structural inequities of the elec- troral system that almost 500,000 NDP votes — 14 per cent of the total in the province — produced no parliamentary seats. Policies come with job OTTAWA (CP) — The next leader of the New Democfatic Party tT to find the job comes with a lot of ec. Whoever is elected to the top job by party delegates in Winnipeg on Satur- day will find in that baggage the collec- ted policy of the party, Be it with- drawal from NATO and NORAD or the nationalization of a bank, those policies are drafted by delegates to par- ty conventions, Like them or not, the leader is stuck. And while the leader gets his or her Say at. policy conventions and has leverage for some arm-twisting, there’s no veto. . Some policies can be tough to carry, especially during elections. Ed Broad- bent was known to downplay some of the NDP’s more radical ideas — with- drawl from the NATO, for instance — while campaigning. But the policies are there. Other parties have policy conven- tions, too, but the resolutions adopted are often used more as recommen- dations than as firm plank nailed to the party’s platform. The NDP, though, carves resolutions in stone. Some of its long-cherished policies, once thought radical, have actually ended up as hallmarks of the Canadian status quo. These include medicare, old-age pensions and unemployment insurance. Other policies, such as nationalized banks or leaving NORAD, remain un- fulfilled. Over the years, some policies, such as the party’s stand on the Con- stitution, have produced knock-down, drag-out fights at conventions. DEBATE PACT This week’s gathering promises more of the same when delegates thrash out the Meech Lake agreement on Friday, beginning at 2 p.m. The policy, drafted at the federal council meeting in Saskatoon last Sep- tember, is a general one. The fight will be over what it means. It says the NDP should support Meech Lake if the deal is amended to include women’s rights and if a parallel accord is drawn up to deal with native rights and make it easier for territories to become provinces. 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