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a : ---- 22 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, October 5,1993 ae = 1 XS ony Se | with 1.6 million unemployed, this is a drop in the bucket. "| particularly if our social programs are to have any chance at LUCY RYBKA-BECKER candidate for the New Democrat Party Canada is truly at a cross road. We can move | slowly back into the status of i 2 third world country as -- globalization and multinational firms would have us do or we can face our problems head on. Conservative policy on free trade has been a colossal mistake. We must attempt to heal the damage this has caused. Whatever brave face we may try to put on it, Canada's deficit is a problem. With a federal debt of over $600 billion, and a Gross National Product (GNP) of $700 billion, we owe almost 90 per cent of a full years' production. Approximately $270 billion is owed to foreigners, the balance to Canadians. And it does no good to point fingers. Successive Liberal and Conservative governments saw fit to spend during good times. Approximately 40% of our debt can be traced to John Crow's ill- advised high interest rate policy and the absurdly high value of |: the Canadian dollar. The problem exists. We must deal withit. [ It is useful to place the size of the debt in historical perspective. After all, our main concern is how our children will | pay this large sum. It might be useful to consider just what level of debt our parents left us. Canada's GNP in 1945 was $11.8 | billion, and our debt was $21.1 billion - almost twice the GNP. | By 1960 our GNP had grown to $36.3 billion, and our debt |: ballooned to $37.8 billion. : : Our parents left us with a greater proportional debt than we | now burden our children with. The real question we face is not | so much the debt itself, but whether or not we can provide our | children with the opportunities that allow them to pay for it. The Reform Party believes that it can chop the deficit in three years. What this simple minded approach ignores is that this | drastic cut supports almost 500,000 jobs, and the taxes these | jobs generate. Unless we enjoy massive growth, unemployment { will grow to over 17 per cent. This is unacceptable. : The recently announced Conservative policy hardly dents the | deficit. The Liberals will try to stimulate the economy by | increasing spending by $2 billion, but this would have a minor | effect on unemployment translating into 50,000 jobs. Compared Of course, it is easy to criticize, and harder to offer concrete solutions. It is possible to construct a scenario in which the Reform solution will work. This involves a further 10 cent reduction in the Canadian dollar, and a very restrictive set of exchange controls. Even then, it might not work without a well defined industrial strategy aimed at expanding labor intensive manufacturing sectors and the service sectors that they support. Unfortunately, this cannot occur under the current trade structure which includes bad trade deals like the Free Trade Agreement and the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement. Canada currently suffers a $35 billion trade deficit in manufactured goods, and it will soon get worse. We match this with a surplus in production and export of raw materials, which does not provide many jobs. Canada's situation will not improve until we adopt an industrial strategy that uses Canadian raw materials to produce Canadian manufactured goods for Canadian consumers. We need to invest in our greatest resource -- the people of this country, this province and this community. We need a long term strategy that will create high skilled, value-added jobs. Only the NDP offers these solutions. Only the NDP realizes that a long term problem is going to take a long time to solve, conversation to point to all the malaise of our society, from unemployment to drug abuse, few people have any idea of what the term actually means. : when | realize that my political opponents similarly have the |: same misconceptions. A deficit isn't a thing. It is not something you could try in a |: record. Itis worth a look. oo lunch bag and carry around with you. In other words, itis not |:{ In the last parliament they voted against virtually every something fixed; in fact it is fluid. It describes a relationship -] measure for saving taxpayers' dollars. They opposed putting a between income and expense, the latter exceeding the former. The real question is what did we spend the shortfall on? It is similar to the differences between throwing a good party or buying a computer. After the event we would still have the computer to use but we would barely remember the party. If the |: lid iberal Durham ALEX SHEPHERD ROSS STEVENSON candidate for the candidate for the LIBERAL PARTY | Progressive After being on the | Conservative Party campaign trail talking to a |: "You cannot divorce 9 great number of the || yourselffrom your record." 4 electorate, | have discovered }| According to The Toronto . :| Star, that's what Liberal 2 leader Jean Chretien told a | crowd as his election campaign began. His words were aimed :{ at Prime Minister Kim Campbell, but rather reckless for a man This is even more astonishing }:{ with so many years as a Liberal M.P. and in Pierre Trudeau's government. This was an open invitation to check his own and his party's that while we use the word "deficit" quite freely in our | ceiling on government spending, making the public service "1 more efficient, ending the public service strike and freezing MPs | salaries, salary reductions for the prime minister and cabinet, and putting a two-year freeze on public sector wages. -{ with youths who commit murder, and tighter parole for violent grows another. For instance terminating John Jones' job with f: support for farmers. the Ministry of Supply and Services without having another job || What a strange record for a political party claiming it has the : for him to go to will simply see him added to the Welfare rolls, a | | same priorities as most Canadians. They said "No" to the new §: dubious result of the current slash and burn mentality. Indeed, || Child Tax Benefit for lower income families, improved | my opponents seem to be falling all over themselves to see || Unemployment Insurance maternity benefits, financial aid for who tan promise to eliminate the annual deficit the fastest. Five f- years? Three? Who will increase the ante? +] the less wealthy provinces. Everyone can agree that we need to make government more i] Amazingly, they even voted against Income Tax cuts, efficient at delivering the services they are empowered to provide. |: allowing Canadians to borrow from an RRSP to buy a home, John Merrit, an unemployed computer operator out of work || and against an increase in child care deductions. for a year and a half; Sally Ems, laid off from Johnson Controls fi] Which leaves one wondering what the Liberal party really" = after 17 years of employment and without work for almost two f:| stands for. The answer lies in Mr. Chretien's personal record |: years; Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who fear for the future of their 22 | | during 15 years as a minister in Pierre Trudeau's tax-and-spend |: year old son graduated from Durham College but only having | { government. This was the era when the federal Auditor General part time work who wonders if he will ever be able to own a | warned: "the government has lost...effective control of the }: house; John Sweat, who has run a successful dairy operation }:| public purse." : for years but is now under pressure because the bank wants to || Jean Chretien was Treasury Board President, responsible for get out of agricultural lending and he happens to be in their -| controlling expenses, during two years in which government way; or Jane, who runs Jane's Gifts not turning a profit for a -| spending shot up by one-third. He claimed they showed "great year and waiting for the bank to seize on her collateral (her | restraint" by permitting a 16% spending jump in one year. house). While these names may be fictitious, the people are || In two years as Minister of Finance, he oversaw spending real members of our community, here in Scugog. They are not }: some intellectual concept they are your neighbors and friends. | | national debt. The Liberal agenda? To provide a climate where job growth Saving taxpayers' money is not on the Liberal agenda. Mr. and new business can foster. Assistance to small business by || Chretien was among those who joined with the NDP to vote | removal of personal guarantees on certain new business loans, | | down the Clark government's budget, because it proposed an |: sourcing alternate capital markets such as credit unions and -| 18 cents per gallon gasoline tax, for deficit reduction. But when over the counter equity markets. The formation of a Canadian |: the Liberals and Mr. Chretien formed the next government, and technology network making world technology available to small [| brought in their National Energy Plan, gas prices did go up -- by business. 2] about $1 a gallon! That's part of his record. Increase funding for research and development; we could | When Prime Minister Kim Campbell is compared with Mr. turn Durham College into a genuine research facility. Formation of a Canadian apprenticeship program and a Canadian youth || agree she has the clearest, most straightforward, and the best core to get our youth into productive and meaningful jobs. || program for Canada. Institution of a work-fare program to get those able bodied off | Her goal is building a healthy economy, creating new jobs, §: the Welfare rolls and re-employed as useful members of the || new opportunities, and greater hope for fulfilling Canada's f: | future. She is committed to preserving our world class quality of |: workforce giving them their dignity and self respect back. ; life, holding down taxes, and providing a government that lives | All of these programs while at the same time reducing the = current deficit, this is the way to the future. #1 within its means, like everyone else. TEE "vy § vr RAE ERR DURK BRUINSMA candidate for the Christian Heritage Party It may seem somewhat strange there are people in our day who talk about a Christian Political Party. Let me try to explain. There are first of all in the pre-amble to the Canadian Bill of Rights words to this effect: an addendum to the constitution). In the second place, there is the objection that church and state must be separate. We do agree! Church and state are separate entities and as such must serve in different areas. The church should be con- cerned with God's laws about our corporate lives as citizens of this nation and therefore with gov't. Church and state must be kept separate. But not "Whereas Canada is founded upon God and state, for He is principles that recognize the supremacy of God Lord of the whole creation. That is what we and the rule of law..(CH.P. favors the believe and confess. Not only the church was adoption of the 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights as created by God but also the state. Humanity owes Him obedience in all areas of life, for He ples, and the way they conduct their business. ~ is the creator. Too many have forgotten this He has given His rules for this whole area. and have become creators in their own right, It has, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, been - §: as can be seen from the problems we the right of peoples to chose their own experience in this country. government. Not to govern, but to choose, by There can be no doubt, here is the who they want to be governed. The present handiwork of the Great Designer, Who created tendency by the governed to take government it all. Almighty God, as revealed in the Bible! into their own hands, leads to anarchy. The Creation witnessing of it's mighty creator! That duty of the government to govern is one of the is why this is a Christian Party. stronger planks in our platform. But this is also the Christian HERITAGE Western civilization has also left us the Party because our roots are found in Western benefits of a democracy. We have the right to civilization. Never has the world enjoyed more vote. According to statistics, a sizable liberty and freedom than did those nations that percentage of the Canadian people believe in : were part of Western civilization. The whole the existence of God. It is upon you who world still enjoys its blessings. However, we believe there is a God, a Creator who gave are living on borrowed capital. If we do not laws for all of life that we call to cast your vote change our practices we will lose it all. for the Christian Heritage Party. And for those That is why we are the Christian HERITAGE who think differently, the Christian Heritage Party. Party assures you that a Canada ruled by our The Creator is a God of governments, peo- men and women will be a well run Canada. They also voted against seven other bills to cut spending and : 450 billion dollar federal deficit was offset with increased |:| reduce the deficit. Liberal MPs never once voted for less |. productive capacity (airports, roads, mines, etc.) we would be in | government spending. : k fairly good economic shape. Unfortunately, we have spent the | They opposed bills to increase public safety, including §: money on things like Unemployment Insurance and Welfare; || strengthening the Young Offenders Act to deal more effectively that is paying people to be non-productive. = Without some plan to create new productivity, i.e. jobs, the [| offenders. 3 deficit is not unlike a star fish; you cut one arm off and it simply |:| They voted against at least five bills to provide income §: east coast fishermen, and to higher equalization payments for | hikes of 19.2 per cent, leading to a 50 per cent increase in the i Chretien and other party leaders, I'm sure most Canadians will 2 RAR 3 eee rater ea Rn