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By MICHAEL KNELL Pree Press Staff Holding no punches and sparing no barbs, Walter Baker told an enthusiastic crowd of Tories that the Liberals were finished and that the New Democratic Party was nothing but their handmaiden. Baker, Deputy Prime Minister, president of the Privy Council, and Minister of National Revenue in Joe Clark's Progressive Conser- vative government was the guest speaker at incumbent Ontario Riding MP Scott Fennell nomination meeting. A meeting which saw a crowd of approximately 400 Tory supporters acclaimed Fennell as their candidate in the February 18 general election. From the start Baker repeatedly lashed out at what he termed to be Liberal arrogance and greed for power. "Welcome," he said, "to the longest and most expen- sive Liberal Christmas par- ty in the history of Canada and one which will produce the greatest hangover when its over on February 18. "Having foisted this $65 million binge on the election - weary people of Canada, the Liberals and the New Democrats immediately jumped to make the fall of the government look like the fault of the government, and Liberal greed grows up like Liberal patriotism." Baker laid the fault of the government's defeat at the feet of the opposition parties noting that to him they acted like one party. "The NDP moved a motion that could have been written by any Liberal," he said, "and the Liberals obligingly dragged the people out of hospital beds to support, and yet it's our fault the governnent fell. That's staggering logic." "To believe that you have to believe that we enjoy the prospect of fighting an elec- tion before the solid policy initiatives we have taken can emerge." Baker also accused the Liberals of sabotage and that they did not want the government to make any progress. "The idea was to destroy the government's legislative program by fillibustering everything that came for- ward, and then say, 'See, they didn't accomplish anything," he said. "This was done through the hypocritical expedient of consuming days and days in interminal debate on the old financial business left un- done by the Liberals them- selves." The 49 year old MP for Nepean-Carleton told his applauding audience that the Liberals were not willing to wait for the election until after their leadership con- vention because of their "distaste for opposition." If they had waited Baker said that the government "would have been long enough in office for both our successes and failures to be well known. People might have had some hesitations about Joe Clark, but his record as the leader of a government would have been there for everyone to see." "Our government has been in office only seven months. No reasonable per- son can say that we have had a fair chance." Baker also claimed that former prime minister Pierre Trudeau manoeuvered the Liberals into accepting him as leader JOHN BANDURCHIN Ckartered Accountant SUITE 103 MARY-BROCK BUILDING 185 BROCK STREET NORTH WHITBY, ONTARIO TELEPHONE 668-4341 atter he had announced that he would retire in March. He also discredited the present Liberal attempt to change their image into a team image, away from Trudeau's one-man leader- ship. "The people who have brought this election are the people who derive their power from Pierre Trudeau and were afraid that a new leader would discard them," he said. "You can bet that Allen McEachen, Jim Cout- ts, Keith Davey and Marc Lalonde were all anxious for an election." He went on to point out that Davey and LaLonde are to head the election cam- paign and that the policy committee will be headed by McEachen. "The new team is the old clique. Nothing has changed for them. They may be hungrier, but they are no leaner," he said. The Liberals were not the only ones to suffer attack; the NDP and their leader, Oshawa MP Ed Broadbent were also criticized strongly by Baker. "Ed Broadbent is fond of saying that in this election he is facing Joe Trudeau and Pierre Clark," Baker said. "What he is trying to disguise is the fact that the NDP and the Liberal Parties are about to fight over the same ground. "Broadbent had boasted that he is taking his Liberal Democratic Party to the right to win wider acceptan- ce. The Liberal policy com- mittee is pushing the New Liberal Party to the left. "Watch for the return of that great coalition that tried so unsuccessfully to spend the country into prosperity between 72 and 74. "This time it will be the New Liberal Democratic Party led by Herb Broad- bent and Ed Gray. "The deficit coalition will lead us into the eighties trailing renewed inflation and galloping debt charges behind them. They offer us * COLLIIONRiJI, Bring your dam.ged car to MAACO and we'll do the rest. 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"The government fell because we refused to repeat past Liberal/NDP coalition mistakes," Baker said. ~ Baker said that the Tories had kept their election promises or were in the process of keeping them. "In the May 22nd election we made two general promises," he said. "First, we would divert this country from the disastrous deficit economy that the Liberals had concoeted and move to reduce the deficit and spend the money of Canadians with more care." He claimed that when this was accomplished the government could adopt stimulative economic measures as needed adding that the Progressive Con- servatives had brought in incentives for small business and had restored stability so that Canadians could invest and built. He also maintained that the government has saved hundreds of millions of dollars through a temporary freeze and improved spen- ding controled. "After only seven months in office change is visible," he said. "But we have much to do, and the budget is a necessary part of our national recovery." Baker claimed that all this was done and that the promise of mortgage and property tax deductability was being kept. "Our second major com- mittment was to open, responsible government. That promise has been kept. I personally introduced a freedom of information bill which is balanced and workable, and which I guarantee will be delayed of gutted if the Liberal Party is returned to power," he said. Baker accused the Liberals of letting the bill die and that they will not resurect it if they are retur- ned to power. H1e told his audience that CONT'D ON PG. 3 âll6lq-m mý- --qqqmwý -qmw-