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Even when the annual federal budget is balanced and the govern- ment starts paying off the approxi- mately $500 billion national debt this doesn't mean government will have money for more programs, said Cardiff. He said government would then have to reduce the burden on taxpayers. He also pointed out that federal legislation prevents governments from using revenues from the GST (Goods and Services Tax) for anything except deficit reduction.. He also emphasizes that the vis- • ible GST. replaced a hidden tax, the federal manufacturers' sales tax, which made Canada uncompetitive, he said. Governments could raise the previous tax without public RR1N 'ED •CRSS i Er, • EMRROIDE RED. rorrrN •CoRouROv Caps With your Co. Name, Logo etc imprinted from 6 & up many styles & colors to choose from, also Golf & T -Shirts 4110.1 Great for fund raising, Cups• Mugs Co. advertising or GLASS • PIASIR: • ('F RAMI( • TRAVFL MI1(;S for Clubs, with your logo etc. .t. -I COFFEE MUGS SPECIfiL only $2. ea. imprinted + set up charge. Dettweiler says •from page 6 taxation. "That is one of our policies - less government." On the subject of what he and his party might be able to do about the unemployment situation in Huron - Bruce and in the country as a whole, Dettweiler noted that also relates back to scaling down the size of the government, as with less taxes being charged to the citizens, "it gives more money in people's pockets", which ' in turn can be spent to strengthen business and create more job opportunities. He admitted this wouldn't be an over- night process, and said that at least if people see taxes going down, it will give them economic con- fidence, which will result in job creation. At the same time, with less government, there would be fewer grants and subsidies to the people of Canada, which would also help reduce government costs and taxation. He explained the Libertarian Party is interested in having the government stay out of people's lives, and letting the private sector create jobs, as he feels private sector jobs are those that are more long term. Economic stimulation, too, would be in the hands of the private sec- tor, Dettweiler 'said, under a Liber- tarlan government. "We're not there as a guy enuutent to slimulatc.-We d get out of that stimulation and management, and let the public do that." While the party would support "true free trade'", Dettweiler noted that he has some misgivings over the current Free Trade agreement and NAFTA. "True, free trade, absolute free trade - there's nothing .wrong with it," he said, adding that the party does not feel they have any right to take away trade. "We don't feel it 'is a thing we should control. "Certainly I'm not in support of NAFTA as it stands, but absolute free trade would be wonderful." If his party were to be elected, he said .that at the end of a four-year term he would hope the party "would,be remembered for achieving what they had aimed for. "That is less government, really, (and) that we're not there to run their life in every way," he stated, later adding, "I would like to be remembered as the first party that brought taxes down." Cowan Printing t At'verNaing lacknow f2s lflo CARS - $40 TON TRUCK $45-$50 Sf:eeietti SATURDAY $5 off Appointment NILE GARAGE RR 6 Goderich - 529-7355 uproar whereas Canadians can see when the G ST rises. "You could certainly see the public reaction that would arrive from (raising the GST)," "he said. "No tax is popular but as long as we've got a debt and deficit we're going to have taxes." The PC government has helped to create jobs through programs like Community Futures, which recently. launched a project in Huron County. (Community Futures has already been located in Bruce County). Small business loans have helped businesses Create jobs, he said. "We've tried to develop programs that will take us through the '90's and the year 2000 and beyond," said the PC candidate. Two necessary keys to business expansion, low interest rates and low inflation, are already in place, said Cardiff. He called them the most favourable in 30 years. Cardiff says his government has made moves to assist agriculture - - through relaxing rules of the Farm Credit Corporation and is hoping to increase the farm gate price for goods through value-added pro- grams. The I-luron-Bruce MP recounts many success stories of firms located in the riding which he says have benefitted from the free trade environment encouraged by the Free Trade Agreemtent. "We've increased our market to the United States considerably," he said. "We have companies in the riding doing very well because of the trade agreement." The PC candidate says he would like to see the high rate of unem- ployment reduced but cautions that unemployment is present in all of the world's economies. He described the lower rate as a goal to work towards. "It would certainly be wonderful to achieve a lower rate (but) we don't want to create false hopes.." Cardiff, of RR 1 Ethel, is a life- long resident of the Brussels area. Lobb says... •from page 6 reduced under the Reform plan. Lobb explained the Reform Party campaigns under a slogan of 'Zero in Three' to pay the national deficit. "The Zero in Three deficit reduc- tion plan is a step by step plan. to balance Canada's budget over a three-year period. It trims $19 billion in spending and allows for $16 billion in economic growth over a three-year period to bring our $35 billion deficit to zero in three years." "Lobb said that unemployment insurance and the Canada Pension Plan are both areas where the present government is over -spen- ding. "There are proper, actuarially sound business principles that have been ignored and federal funds have been heaped and loaded: into UIC (Unemployment Insurance Canada). There are going to have to be substantial changes to the rates and it's got to return to a program that's funded • and operated between employers and employees, which it was originally intended to .be. UIC was supposed to be self-funded, as was CCP (Canadian Pension Plan) On Free Trade and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Lobb said the Reform party supports both, but not right now. "We are probably one of the biggest supporters of freer global trade," he stated. He said that the only Reform MP presently holding. a seat in the House of Commons voted against NAFTA when it came up for a vote. "It's important that we get our in- house trading between the provinces in order fust. We need a NAFTA but we need a new.in-Canada trade arrangement first. We entered the Canada -US Free Trade Agreement improperly prepared and we've since seen the results," Lobb said. The Reform Party takes a stance of `trickle down econemics' on the subject of job creation. "I'm a firm believer that real jobs will only come when government gets out of the pocket of consumers - leaves them a higher percentage of their paycheck as spendable income - and then gets off the back of the businessman, allowing him to'make, a profit, keep it and reinvest it in growing his business," said Lobb. "Any other method of spending money to motivate the economy is merely old politics and is the cause of the bottomless pit that is the dobt hole that we're in.... Unemployment will only genuinely stop with tax relief.", He said that the Reform Party will offer true democratic represen- tation. The Reform Party '.will explain.the•wifl of their constituents . to Ottawa rather than explaining the will of Ottawa to their constituents, said Lobb. He criticized federal Liberal leader Jean Chretien for his candidate selections. "We've had a democratic candidate nomination as opposed to Chretien's appointments. I'm morally opposed to any party that would override democracy for appointments." McQuail says... .from page 6 pointed to the Jobs Plan again. "You have people who are working and now able to contribute to in- come tax and other taxes they pay on 'purchases to support a government and services from government. So you actually do a better job of dealing with the deficit," said McQuail. "People become tax contributors rather than depending on unemployment in- surance or welfare. McQuail says his party is the only major federal party that would • cancel the Free Trade deal and not proceed with NAFTA. "We would manage our trading relationships with the U.S. and the rest of the world through the general agreement on trades and tariff. We think it's very important in that area to preserve our ability to use our supply, management 5'ystem in agriculture. While it's certainly not perfect and could do with sonie improvements, supply management has done more than anything else to ensure reasonable returns and fair wages for agriculture." He doesn't think Canada can afford to proceed with NAFTA opening its doors to exporting a resource such as water, which he terms a "critical environmental issue. That . would mean the U.S, instead of having to live within its own environmental resources with regard to water, can wait until it exhausts Canada's water resources before it learns to handle its economy," McQuail said. McQuail's goals, . within the riding, include working with people in the community to set up a local exchange or trading system, that would "let people strengthen .their local economy and their ability to contribute, particularly those who have been marginalized by past economic decisions. This can be done immediately following the election he said. "We don't have to wait . for the. Jobs program to be fully implemented ... or for the global economy to recover. It's a 'way of getting economic activity started at the grassroots level and ... building for a long -tear[ sustainable economy." He would also like to convene a group to work on the theory of farm economics of the National Organization of Raw Materials, based on the principle that if the farm community earns a fair return then it contributes and is 'an active part in the economy. McQuail and his wife Fran run a mixed farm with sheep, horses and apple orchards. They have two daughters, Rachel and Katrina. He became a member of the NDP in the late 70s and was a federal candidate in 1980 and 88 and a provincial candidate in 1981.