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Ontario election campaign in Durham East riding Insurance, free trade issues for candidate Durham East New Democrat can- didate Marg Wilbur says the high cost of auto insurance and uncer- tainties about the free trade issue rank high among the concerns of voters in this riding. In an interview with the Star last week, Mrs. Wilbur said farmers and people employed in the manufactur- ing sector, especially the auto in- dustry, are afraid of what a free trade deal with the United States might do to their livelihood. She noted that NDP leader Bob Rae is the only leader of the three provincial parties who has come out flatly opposed to free trade as voters head to the polls in the Ontario elec- tion September 10. "The first problem is that we don't know exactly what's on the agenda table in the free trade negotiations' (between the federal government and the United States). "We (NDP) suspect the Auto Pact and agricultural product import controls may be on the table. "But it's more than that," she went on. "There's the cultural aspect of our identity that must be protected. What we are talking abdiit is the future of the country. We should know exactly what is go- ing on" (in the free trade negotiations). As for the auto insurance issue, which has received a high priority with the provincial NDP this cam- paign, Mrs. Wilbur didn't hesitate when asked point blank if she believes the insurance companies are ripping people off in this coun- try when it comes to auto insurance. "Yes, I believe that," she stated. The NDP is proposing to create a driver-owned insurance plan based New John Deere AMT 600. It's almost on those in place now in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Va "Just about everyone that | have talked to (in the Durham East dur- ing the election campaign) feels the (present) system is infair," said the candidate. "People are being penalized," she said, noting that in those provinces where the NDP brought in a driver owned plan, successive govern- ments have not dismantled them. Mrs. Wilbur said she believes the new Durham East riding, which takes in all of Scugog Township, is pretty much representative of the cross-section of voters found throughout Ontario. It's a big riding with a mix of ur- ban and rural voters, farmers, small business people and people employed in manufacturing. Mrs. Wilbur is running in her third provincial campaign in this area for the NDP and she senses that public sentiment towards the Party is shif- ting for the good. She said people are accepting the fact Ontario has a three-party system and they see the NDP as representing the ordinary working people in Ontario. And Mrs. Wilbur says there is a certain amount of fall-out from the rapidly increasing popularity of the party at the federal level, a factor which doesn't hurt her chances for election. 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She essentially has been campaigning ever since, but stepped up her efforts once the elec- tion was called for September 10. Along with the free trade debate, auto insurance, more affordable day care and improved safety for the workplace, Mrs. Wilbur ranks en- vironmental protection high on the list of issues for Ontario. - - She is especially concerned about quality of water in rural areas as more and more housing developments sprout up outside the main urban centres. She says homes in Courtice and Pontypool are ex- periencing serious water problems this summer. Mrs. Wilbur believes that municipal government, with subdivision control and approval powers, must take more respon- sibility to assure that new housing development doesn't create adverse affects on water supplies. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, August 18, 1987 -- 3 | Marg Wilbur A.W. BROCK mA =V- N= \ I \ Apel] (TOT T-Ta RR =f Aol=T-1 AC = Jo ol A = 1-1 oV) your first stop when looking for ... CLOTHES ... 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