HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-09-02, Page 24PAGE 24. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1987.
Hundreds of volunteers
behind campaigns
Continued from page 5
iocal events where the candidate
can meet people.
The demands on the candidate
are enormous and so every mo
ment must be planned. Each party
has someone involved with book
ing the candidate’s time, usually at
least a week in advance. For Mr.
Peters it’s his wife Gerda. Mr.
McQuail handles scheduling for
Mr. Klopp. Mr. Riddell’s schedul
ing is arranged by Mr. Fitzgerald.
As the campaign comes down to
the last days the emphasis turns to
getting out the vote but before you
can get out the vote, you have to
identify it. For the Conservatives,
Dr. Jasper says, the poll captain
has the responsibility of going over
the voters lists as soon as they are
available to identify who are likely
supporters (and make sure no
known supporters have been miss
ed.)
Canvassing, Mr. Hogan says, is
one of the ways the party tries to get
an indication of who is a likely
supporter. Then come election
day, volunteer drivers are avail
able to take people to vote who
might not otherwise get out.
Mr. McQuail admits getting out
the vote is one area his party
suffers. Identifying the vote is an
area his party needs to do a lot more
vork on, he says. He feels people
are changing long-time family
party allegiances and there are
people out there who might swing
to his party that they don’t know
about. Still, he says, once the other
parties drive someone to the polls
they don’t know how they are going
to mark their ballot in the privacy of
the polling booth.
To make an election run, even an
election in Huron which is cheap by
big city standards, takes money
and the fundraising aspect of a
riding association is crucial. The
NDP, Mr. McQuail says, is
dedicated to the working people
and feels it should get its donations
from working people. It cannot,
underitsownrules, take money
from large corporations. The party
also finances from the grassroots
up. Twenty per cent of all the
money raised by the local riding
association goes on up to the
provincial level. It means that the
Huron association is left with even
less money to spend on a cam
paign. Mr. McQuail estimates his
party will spend about $4,400 for
the entire campaign, $2,500 of
which will go to the printing and
distribution of its newspaper.
The Liberals, Mr. Hogan says,
will spend about $35,000 on its
campaign. Mr. Jasper would not
divulge how much his party will
spend, saying only that there is no
difficulty raising money and that
the party will be within the
spending limits laid down by the
elections expenses act (about
$43,000 for Huron, Mr. Hogan
says).
W7// the bridges remain
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to now each other too much.
Exchanges like the one our
daughter is taking part in, on the
other hand, are designed to break
down barriers, to let people get to
knoweachother on a one-to-one
basis. When that happens, when
people get to know each other, we
usually find that language is about
the only real difference we have.
People care pretty much about the
same things, family, friends, what
the latest fashion is, fear of
growing old, a need to feel wanted
and needed.
With the general acceptance of
the Meech Lake agreement (by the
politicians anyway although I’ve
found few ordinary people who like
it) it will be a race to see if the
undercurrent of openness that has
seen things like this exchange
program and the huge popularity
of French immersion courses in
many parts of English Canada has
been established enough to keep it
from being eradicated by the forces
of regression. We can only hope
that despite petty politicians, the
good will of Canadians, French and
English, is too strong to turn back
the clock to the bad old days. #
Ontario Minister of Health Murray Elston was on hand for the ceremonial sod-turning at Clinton Public
Hospital on Friday, officially signalling the start of construction on the hospital ’ s new $1 million obstetrics
wing. Assisting Mr. Elston with the ceremony were Mary De Jong, left, head nurse in obstetrics at the
hospital, and June Boussey, a member of the CPH fund-raising committee. In the background are hospital
Board chairman Bill Hearn and Trudy Elston.
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