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AU srtick to previou.ly announced istands on the issues.... WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1984, PAGE 3 Forum offers . Over 450 people crammed into the coun- cil chambers at the Whltby Municipal Building last Thursday night to hear each of the three men seeking elec- tion to the local seat in House 0f Commons put forward their respective party's platform. This was the first and only tiîne ail three got together to debate local and nation issues in Whitby prior to next Tuesday's election. The event - which was hosted by the Whitby Jaycees (who similiar meeting prior to every federal, provincial and municipal election) - was nôt overly exciting and each of the three candidates looked tired. As expected, many of the questions were soft and dealt with traditional issues and none of the candidates sald anything different :from whamt was said before. The New Democratic Party's Geof Rison, Liberal Party standard bearer Gary Herrema and the Progressive Conservative incum- bent Scott Fenneil spent some time attacking each other but probably did not convert a major number of new voters. The first speaker was Rison, who re-iterated NDP Leader Ed Broad- bent's dlaim that there is no difference betweenà Liberal leader John Turner and P.C. leader Brian Mulroney. Most voters, he said, were undecided. 1"They see Brian Mulroney and they see John Turner and they see no dif- ference."' Rison said the Liberals have moved away from their refor- mist image and under Turner are moving to the right of the political scale. He told, the crowd that the NDP had five major opportunities in this election: jobs; equality for wonien; the main- tenance of quality public service and social service; fair taxation; nuclear disarmament and peace. The NDP, lie promised, would keep interest rates at two points above prime and would introduce legisiation making the banks more receptive to the needs Of homeowners and small businesspeople. Scott Fenneil latin- ced lan attack against the iberal government during his openlng ad- dresa. The Liberals top- pied the short lived government 'of former Tory Prime Minister Joe Clark over the plan to increase Canadian gas Price by 18 cents a gallon. Two months after the Feb. 1980 election, lie said, gas prices had risen 59 cents a gallon under the newly re- no polige instated Liberal regime. That government, Fenneli added, also imn- posed "6 and 51, on the Canaclian people while allowing government expencitures* to in- crease by 13 per cent. Between 1980 and 1984, he continued, the federal budget in- creased from $80 billion and $100 billion. If that's called cutting goverument spending, then I don't understand the English language. " The incumbent MP also accused the Liberals of -having a "hidden agenda" which produced the National Energy Program which he clairned destroyed the Canadian oil in- dustry. Since 1968, Canada has lost its share of world trade which caused the loss of an un- told number of jobs - jobs which a conser- vative govermnent would brig back into the economy. Fennel sald that Canada's share of world trade fell from 6 Per cent to 3.9 per cent during these 16 years. "If we were stili at the six per cent level we would have no unem- ploYmnent in this coun- try, " he said. Liberal candidate Gary Herrema said it was time for the politicians to regain control over the gover- nment. The bureaucracy, he 0 y surpris es by local hopefuls AUl three candidates in the Sept. 4 federal election were on hand at the Whitby Municipal Building last Thursday night to take part in the Whitby Jaycees'ail candidate meeting. The three men running for the Ontario Riding seat in the House of Commons are: Progressive Conser- vative Scott Fenneil, Liberal Gary Herrema, and New Democrat Geoff Bison. Fre. Preus Staff Photo claimed, has been in control too long. As a show of economie leadership, Herrema pledged to get rid of in- dexed pensions for MPs if he was elected and to bring about dloser ties between the federal government and the ridings four municipalities (Whitby, Ajax~, Pickering and Uxbridge) and Durham Region. The area, he said, is of some federal money for a variety of projects. The Foreign Invest- ment Review Agency, Herrema said, should be kept but the rules for foreign investment should lie lossened a lit-' tle to encourage more money te, come into the country. "But I don't want us sold out and bought out by the Americans," lie said. Herm6losi hi tnso h tw 6CONT'Da ON0PC. 4- SUNOCO PRESENTS UNOC 509 DUN DAS ST. W. NO SPORTS WEEK, CHARITY CAR WA SH SEPT. 1ST 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. 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