day, October 16, 1991

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EDITOR

Democracy

not served

When the leader of the Libéral party called the CBC decision to give full status to the Liberal point of view in the television debate a “victo- ry for democracy,” I thought of Bernard Crick, a British writer who thought “democ- racy” was the most promiscu- ous word in politics.

“She is everybody's mis- tress and yet somehow re- tains her magic even when her lover sees that her favors are being, in his light, shared by another.”

When the Liberals were excluded, they felt scorned. Suddenly all is well in the land.

However, this victory is a Liberal victory. Democracy would be served by yet a broader representation.

When pollster Angus Reid discovered a major shift in the thinking of the electorate two years ago, his long expe- rience suggested to him that this change was historic.

All across the industrial- ized world, he said, for the first time, roughly 15 per cent of the electorate said they “would definitely support” a political party that “made preservation of the environ- ment its primary objective,” and 50 per cent of the elec- torate “would consider” sup- porting such a party.

These figures emerged in B.C. as well.

The Green party is the on- ly political formation in the world whose “primary objec- tive” is preservation of the environment.

Greens were not repre- sented in the leaders’ debate and, for that matter, will not even be represented in the televised debate focusing on the environment. This is a bitter pill to swallow for those desiring the Green point of view to be heard.

The Green movement roust share some of the blame for the Green party point of viewbeing excluded.

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The most vital spiritual leaders we have scorn politi- cal life and question whether political leadership is possi- ble at all.

Our best speakers refuse to be associated with a politi- cal formation in its infancy saying, as David Suzuki once told me, they “need some- thing more substantial.”

Many of our most capable activists have made deals with political formations hos- tile to fundamental ecological principles and say that the scraps from the tables of pow- er are infinitely better than nothing.

Many others refuse to sup- port any political party as if this made their political ac- tivity more pure. In

babysitting his children. I asked him to bring them along and said I would pay for their dinner if they came. He declined, but said he would come out to visit me soon. He has not come yet and the invitation is still

open.

is do not have anything per- sonal against either Ed Con- roy or Socred candidate Walt Siemens, I just feel that Chris D’Arcy has the best chance to win this riding and that he is the right person to represent it.

For those that might not agree with my views on other matters remember, you are voting for Chris D’Arcy not

for Iris Bakken.

Isn't it wonderful that a person such as Chris can ac- cept support from, and work for, all of us no matter what our views or political affilia- tion?

Iris Baki

manager assured me two days ago Mr. Siemens would be attending. Mr. Siemens did not have the courtesy to inform me personally that he would not attend.

Perhaps before Premier Rita Ji the

Salmo

Siemens afraid

Opposition of being gutless she should check out the in- testinal fortitude of her own

“land-Trail, would not be at-

with the experience of other political organizations find- ing themselves in the politi- cal wilderness, Greens. expe- rience factional disputes as energy tends to focus inward rather than outward.

A Green voice cannot be heard unless the movement comes together, allows its tal- ent to assert itself and de-

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Conroy’s comments puzzling

I am puzzled by Ed Con- roy’s comments that my at- tacks to his campaign through radio spots have backfired and have made my candidate look pretty bad.

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candidates. Mr. Siemens, if he were elected MLA for this area, should be representing all of us. How can he repre- sent us when he is afraid to

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This afternoon (Tuesday) I received a phone call from a reporter to inform me that Walter Siemens, the Social Credit candidate for Ross-

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Ed Conroy has i that Chris D’Arcy would be a poor choice of MLA because I am supporting him.

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had been recorded. “Every con- tract is a new one.” D’Arcy spent much of the night

in Trail radio listening

standing beside a portable

as results poured

in. It took only a couple figures for

D’Arcy to realize

he was in trou-

ble.

“We should have won that one,” D/Arey told his wife, Andrea D’Ar- cy, when the numbers for Salmo came in, showing he had lost by

votes.

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Rossland-Trail MLA for the first time in 19 years. “Tomorrow is a new day,” D’Ar- ped said of starting his life over 20 years in politics. “There's no ‘poll like the one on election

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