Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free priss saturday june 22, 1968 a Campaign of Wacky moments from ban Anas to speeding tickets. Ottawa up All election campaigns have their Wacky moments and this one has had some gems. There s the prime minister of Canada in Green swim trunks showing off on the diving Board and inviting a Young coed to come on the Buff. Or there s a mountie in Ham Ilton accidentally losing his re Volver at a rally just at the time when Security for prime minister Trudeau was heaviest. It is still not known authoritatively How he explained that one away. Or there s the dignified conservative Leader Robert Stan Field ducking a banana some body pitched at him. Or nip chief Tommy Doug Las getting a speeding ticket on the lonely Road from Kapuska sing to the Lakehead. Campaign travel of course has been a massive stomach ache Ever since the fading of the wonderfully staid old Campaign train. Jet age dashes from one Cor Ner of the country to another Are a curse on the nerves and digestive systems of reporters organizers and maybe even the candidate himself. There was the night in Yar Mouth n.s., for example when a reporter who was late used his umbrella to Flag Down or. Trudeau s dc9 Jet on the air port Tarmac. The Jet swung around Dis gorged a ramp and picked my up Cape a retch Mist has been the villain in two of the most hair raising incidents of the Campaign. But the Little 01 fog maker of port can at. Least claim to be impartial. Last week or. Trudeau s helicopter went up and Down like a the Delight of neigh the Pilot tried to find the backyard of a Friend of health minister Maceachen. He never did. Just a week later and Only a few Miles away or. Stanfield and his party made a hair Rais ing Landing on a misty Hill on the trans Canada Highway. This time another mountie had the distinction of dropping the Best one liner of the Campaign. You landed in the wrong he said. The Campaign has been enlivened by a couple of offbeat candidates including a 22-year-old Independent Liberal Norman Braden running in Halton went Worth on a platform of sex re form including legalizing prostitution. In Longueuil Quebec a 23 year old Folk Rock Singer Rob Ert Charlebois is running for the Rhinoceros party. His program free Beer daily for anyone Over 60, legalization of marijuana and reduction of the voting age to to the average mental age of North t singers also got into the More serious campaigning. A record called go go tru Deau by a Montreal group called the sinners was banned by the Csc for reasons of impartiality. Conservative retaliation came with a record called the Man from Nova Scotia by a Toronto group called the Canterbury tales. And it was the kissing Campaign brought to the ultimate with organization of a kissing poll in Montreal. Even or. Stanfield and or. Douglas had their share of kisses but former prime minister John Diefenbaker would have none of it. He said shaking a Fin Ger As some Gay nineties girls bore Down on him in Saskatoon. I m not going to enter the of curation liberals tories surprised credit stes gaining strength on the hustings prime minister Trudeau lectures separatist demonstrators who interrupted a rally in Joliette que., Friday night with chanting and heckling. Be Devoir supports tories Montreal up Claude Ryan publisher of be. Devoir has come out editorially in sup port of the progressive conservative party in the june 25 Federal election. He says the election is a Par tial expression of opinion on the constitutional future of Quebec and it is not enough in this elec Tion to make an absolute Choice. One must also consider party has a serious Chance of forming the next government and would be the most Likely to resolve the Constitution Al problem. Faced with such a Choice our preference is the conserva Tive or. Ryan says the new democratic party is More explicit than the conservatives who Are far from being perfectly United from coast to coast concerning Quebec s status in confederation. However he says the conservatives have adopted a bet Ter approach to the matter than the liberals the Only other party with a Chance of forming the next government. He feels that in Quebec the main fight will be Between liberals and conservatives. The conservative party has successfully recruited in Quebec a team candidates most o the new can basically con Vinced of the need to defend the distinct aspirations of Quebec in forthcoming constitutional Nego London bound London. Up a chunk of London Bridge sold earlier this year to a . Oil corporation was flown to. Canada tuesday for presentation to the City of London out. London Bridge is to be rebuilt in Lake Hatasu City ariz., As a tourist attraction. Concrete Steps and wrought Iron railings make old Homes new Homes look better step Are precast and can be installed in 2 to 3 hours. Non skid finish. Wrought Iron railings Are available in a wide selection of designs and guaranteed rust proof. No Down payment Concrete products 930 Nairn ave., Winnipeg see Larkman dealer or Quebec up dismissed As a finished political Force a the Start of the Federal election Campaign real Caouette s Cre Dit stes have come Back to haunt the High Hopes of both the Liberal and conservative Par ties in some Quebec areas. During the last week of the Campaign liberals and conservatives alike expressed sur prise at the apparent strength in several Ridings of the Rallie ment Des credit stes led by the unflappable 50-year-old car dealer from Rouyn. Or. Caouette has been pack ing the people into meeting Halls in a Campaign that opponents say gained momentum after the social credit firebrand livened up the Dull television de Bate Between National leaders june 9. His Campaign to improve on the eight Man credit Ste band in the last House of commons has focussed on Quebec province outside the Montreal Region where the credit stes broke through for 26 seats in the 1962 general election. Opponents claim the Caouette crowds come Only to see a Good but or. Caouette says the turnouts Are graphical evidence that another Credi taste wave is rolling across que the Strong platform speaker tells enthusiastic audiences that 25 or 30 credit stes will be elected this time tit hold the balance of parliamentary Power in what he claims will be a House of minorities. He Oten phrases his election forecast this Way the two old parties will arrive to at Ottawa june 25, and we the credit stes will be right in Between the two noses where they will be obliged to smell although the credit stes have 70 candidates in the province s 74 Ridings the party s chief organizer Robert Beaule of que Bec City says the Campaign has been directed at 28 Ridings where credit stes chances seem greatest. Or. Beaule a former Credi taste my said his party s Campaign in these 28 Ridings extending from Gaspe through Quebec City to the Eastern townships and Northwestern Quebec has been under Way since january. In january or. Caouette began his weekly television pro Grams carried each sunday at hours when advertising rates Are lowest. His Campaign blaming the economic system for All ple s economic problems his proposals for no interest on Public borrowing his Harangue against the traditional parties All hit Home at credit Ste rallies. Credit Ste strength poses big problems for the conservative who say they must take vote Naper answers candidate questions the answers Given by Harry new democratic party candidate in Provencher to the questions asked Federal candidates by the free press were received too for inclusion in the special pages in papers earlier this week. Below Are or. Blake Knox s replies q. Are you in favor of a medicare program As Laid Down by the Federal govern ment if so Are you in favor of it starting july 1? a. Yes be s. Seriously now does anyone have to ask any of the nip candidates this question q. Do you support the recommendations of the Carter commission on Taxa Tion particularly the imposition of a capital gains tax a. Yes with minor Reserva ions. It is not widely realized that Canada is the Only Western country not taxing capital gains larges that this kind of tax will retard incentive Are not substantiated by results in other countries where a tax on capital jains is applied. Q. Are you in favor of a guaranteed annual income for All canadians a. Yes a guaranteed income or All is certainly an interest ing possibility if the Economy were really rolling in top gear in Canada. Q. Do you favor an end of deficit budgeting in Ottawa if so How would you achieve it a. Deficit budgeting has its Dace in the Economy and without its use in the past ears unemployment and re cession generally would have Een even greater today. A balanced budget could be achieved easily and1 painlessly Hirough implementation of most of the proposals in the Carter report. Q. Favor unlimited foreign investment in can Ada if not Are you afraid of. The eventual political take Over of Canada by the United states a. No i do not favor us limited foreign investment in Canada United states Parent companies for instance Are subject to United states Law and must answer to United states authorities for the acts of their Canadian subsidiaries. Hence foreign economic control is a link through which United states policies and Legal Deci Sions Are imposed on the Canadian for example american controlled companies can t Trade with China or Cuba and have been subject in the Case of Canadian industries limited to dissolution by United states court decree. There is clearly some loss of political Independence involved Here. Q. Do you favor constitutional change in Canada to strengthen the Federal sys tem without conferring special status on any one group or province or should Quebec have special status a. This question is under constitutional review now by the provinces and the Federal government and i am prepared to leave the eventual solution of it in their capable hands. To regard the question of parti Cular status of any province As a burning Issue is in my Humble opinion making a Mountain out of a Molehill As in the Case of q. What in your opinion Are the three major issues facing Canada today in order of priority a. 1 Good truly representative government. 2 tax re form along lines Laid Down in the Arter report. 3 economic growth. The Lawn of a Liberal supporter received an unexpected addition this week in the form of prime minister Trudeau Hung in effigy. Away from the credit stes in most Rural regions to catch incumbent liberals. And any Cre Dit Ste wave could swamp Liber Al incumbents say Liberal organisers. However other factors unique to this Campaign Are pointed to by organizers As making it though for the credit stes to translate polarization of the pro test vote into election victories for their candidates. There is the Riding by Riding conservative Campaign organized with the open help of the Union National which used this tactic in Rural regions to upset the Liberal government in the june 1966, provincial election. 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