Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 24, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2004 Federal election a14 thursday june 24, 2004 your vote counts Martin Harper have stature for change Black says by Eric Beauchesne Ottawa ? Conrad Black sees Canada As being on the verge of electing either its most left Wing government Ever ? a Liberal minority supported by the nip ? or its most right Wing government in four decades ? a bloc backed conservative minority. Either however would be headed by a Leader with the stature to implement the change in the direction of Canadian policy that their election would entail Black says in a relatively flattering appraisal of the leadership qualities of Liberal prime minister Paul Martin and conservative Leader Stephen Harper. The nearly 1,500-word analysis by Black who gave up his Canadian citizenship to sit in the British House of lords and who has recently been at the Centre of a corporate scandal appeared in the influential Wall Street journal yesterday. A Liberal new democratic arrange ment would be the most left Wing government Canada has Ever had Black writes. The conservatives even sustained by the bloc would be the furthest to the right of any Canadian government in More than 40 and whichever does win Canada will have a prime minister of appropriate stature for such a distinct policy Choice he adds. Paul Martin is a serious Leader who deserves much credit for Canadas Strong economic performance Over the last decade he writes. The conservatives Stephen Harper is Well spoken and moderate but not in fact Black has Praise although much More faint for the leaders of the nip and bloc As Well. The nip and bloc leaders the latter was previously Best known for being photographed in a woman a bathing Cap while visiting a cheese factory. Are at least rather pleasant and articulate whatever their policy limitations he says. Black however makes it Clear which Choice he thinks canadians should make. The conservatives Are a moderate right Center party advocating tax reductions increased defense spending Scal ing Back of the country a draconian gun control measures ? which even ensnare Farmers protecting their Ani Mals and authentic antique gun collectors ? and consecrating the savings to anti crime he also notes there is a real possibility of a conservative government despite the fact they Are outnumbered ideologically by the parties of the left and the Center left by almost two to one and that they Are the targets of Liberal fear tactics. The liberals have tried to rebut the electorates natural temptation for change by portraying the conservatives As primitive anti abortionist anti Gay and anti gun control Black writes. ? can West news service northerners lament years of neglect bad roads Scarcity of doctors among voters top concerns by Mary Agnes Welch 2004 Federal g Rand rapids ? a Federal elec Tion is a whole different beast in Northern Manitoba. Election while the National leaders rage on about the sponsorship scandal and the Riding profile Lyndon Brinkworth / for the free press right Wing tory Agenda people like Hutcheson with Desjarlais says school is overcrowded fire trucks Are dated and roads Are a repaired. Grand rapids teacher Andy Hutcheson just want their potholed gravel roads 38 during the course of the Campaign. Paved a doctor closer than a Day Long there Basic concerns about health care drive and housing that a not ramshackle. Affordable food paved roads and Safe Hutcheson who is also in charge of drinking water dominate. The towns Small fire department says its getting worse not better because he has fire trucks that Are 40 years old. There a no one at the decision making the local school is so overcrowded its table said Evans. That a Why i a run had several new additions All jutting out Willy Nilly. Churchill Thomspon mayor Bill Comaskey says they spent $4.5 million on the newest the North needs a National policy or addition and the rest of the school is strategy something Akin to the Winnipeg falling apart said Hutcheson. There a 2000 election result development agreements which direct a Guy who has a $1,500 municipal tax billed Money from All three Levels of gov and All he gets is a weekly pump out. Bev Desjarlais nip 10,477 Ern ment to the downtown Over several there a Only 15 of us on the tax Elijah Harper Liberal 7,514 years. Comaskey also says Money i across the pretty Inlet that opens into Doreen Murray conservative 1,198 needed to address Urban aboriginal Lake Winnipeg lies the grand rapids Jason Shaw Canadian Alliance 4,126 issues such As homelessness which Reserve where Many residents of Thompson readily Many Homes the liberals complain about. Have plywood the election comes so late in the sum Gas tax share instead of win spent $4.5 Mil Mer. Inco Thompsons principal employ Desjarlais is also calling for a share Dows dirt and lion on the or begins summer shutdown Friday and of the Federal Gas tax to be spent on debris instead newest addition both candidates tried hard to lure Vot Northern roads ? not just repaving pro of Yards. Ers to the Advance polls before they took jets but actually replacing the Hundred grand rapids and the rest of off on holidays. Of Kilometres of gravel with Asphalt. Has Many of the the school is the Riding which is bigger than Ger the liberals have traditionally tried same problems Many is 65 per cent aboriginal Accord to convince voters especially in com plaguing the 50 falling apart ing to 2001 census data. Unities that could use a Little Federal or so commune grand rapids its a false stereotype to assume the help that its better to have an my in ties that make teacher Andy Riding a first nations people Don to vote. Government. Since its unlikely the grits up the Churchill Hutcheson in 2000, turnout was abysmal on some will form a majority government that Riding where reserves ? about 33 per cent in Norway argument is less effective. Nip incumbent Bev Desjarlais is run House ? but above average on others. The nip say even people in Remot ening for re election against Liberal Ron voters Are concentrated in Thompson communities Are angry about the Spon Evans the chief of Norway House. Flin flon and the Pas All of which voted worship scandal and know National poll Desjarlais a former Hospital staffer overwhelmingly nip in 2000 and tend to show a vote for Evans far from Guaran with three grown sons was first elect elect new democrats provincially. Tees a voice in government. De in 1997 with Strong Union support. The aboriginal establishment ? the you have All these shortages ? hous Evans a Fisher who also has three grown Manitoba Keewatin ook in new Oki ing roads schools health ? and people children is counting on Strong support mowing the Manitoba Metis federation look at the accountability and think and voter turnout in the Riding Saborit Bers allege they did to know about the Al and jokes that she is a big Sucky band leaders even the grassroots news what could that Money have been Spe tinal communities. Donations. Also stirred the pot last year when she paper ? is actively backing Evans. The on Here ? said Desjarlais. Also running Are Bill Archer for the Evans said the Money was used to buy bucked her party a policy and spoke out Moo which represents the Northern Evans dismisses the notion that nation conservatives and c. David Nickarz for tickets to fundraisers which Grants against same sex marriage. It was a bands almost always endorses the lib Al trends hold Sway in the Churchill race. The Green party. Access to political leaders and Money decision she said was made Over time rals but the stamp of approval did to if you Are just barely making it living the Campaign is surprisingly Low key was spent on All parties not just the for reasons of Faith though she says she help re elect former la Elijah Harper crowded 14 or 15 people to a House i ? Desjarlais Calls it there Are grits. Is not homophobic. She acknowledges who killed the Meech Lake Accord by Don to think you Are sitting there watch few signs even in Thompson and a the chief has also faced a Challenge even her kids Don to agree with her voting against it in the Manitoba legis ing to wondering what a going on in the Quick Chat with people at last weekends by dissidents who gathered More than though the Issue has to really come up lature and eventually became Churchill a polls said Evans. Nickel Days festival revealed a sense of 1,000 signatures on a petition calling for on the Campaign Trail. My for a term. The Norway House chief came under apathy about next weeks vote. New band elections and a rival election Evans has campaigned hard in Abo fire recently for donating band funds to voter turnout barely 50 per cent in was almost held earlier this year. Original communities trying to visit All the Liberal party. Some Council Mem. 2000, could be even lower this year since Desjarlais who is Apt to get emotion famous goalies Campaign signs disappearing by Keith Leslie Angelini in tas reluctant As Dryden to admit that the Campaign team has had Toronto a oldest and most bitter hockey rival. Dryden has also been involved in to replace Many signs that he suspects the upper management echelons of the Toronto ? there a been a lot of boast were taken by hockey fans. City a beloved Maple Leafs since 1997. Ing by political parties about so called you might have essentially collectors Angelini said Dryden a signs seem to Star candidates but Only former nil coming around and taking a Lawn sign disappear closer to weekends for some goalie Ken Dryden who a running As a for their collection of Memorabilia said unknown reason. Liberal in Toronto York Centre has had Angelini who is also president of the you have to run Down a list of Possi to worry about fans stealing Campaign York Centre Liberal Riding association. Abilities it could just be schoolyard signs. Can to resist pranks or just be kids ripping them off As he canvasses door to door for the june 28 election the soft spoken dry Den downplays his status As one of the Best goalies Ever to play the game Sug Gesting there a nothing unusual about missing Campaign signs. Signs disappear in a Campaign any some people were asking did you Guys take them Back its not surprising some fans can to resist Dryden a signs which like All lib eral banners sport a team Martin logo across the top but also have a picture of the bearded former Montreal canadians he said. They can pass them around As gifts or they be got something to talk about when people come Over for a Angelini could to put a number on the problem but said there a Little doubt some Ken Dryden signs Are finding their John Morstad / Canadian press archives Dryden walks past one of his Campaign signs that had to yet been taken. Way on one Side or another they do said Dryden. I had to realized that they were Dis appearing More so than one might have but his Campaign manager Eric goalie. After All no other candidates in this Campaign Are members of the hockey Hall of Fame or can boast of having six Stanley cup championships under their Belt even if they were won for the habs Way into basement hockey shrines. We have a funny feeling a lot of these signs Are going to somebody a basement or for future Sale on ? Canadian press ;