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Pr need L:arknow, Ontario, Wedues4ay, August 29,, 1984.
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Sentinet staff talked with the, candidates in
Huron -Bruce in the past few 4,ueeks..and
invited thorn'' to outline their positl'oa : and
ideas on several, „major campaign issues.
Look. on• page -2 for an introduction to IN
fourth" candidate tanning' in Huron -Bruce,
Libertarian Jae Yundt. •
BY D,11Kloeze-.
`Unemployment
Unemployment, • jobs,. whatever you want
to call it, that: s one' of the major .concerti',
not only -to this'riding, but all across:Cana la, s
It's a nationatconcern and'l00,41,co0cerii.•'We
should ; have job •training `gas much , as
possible, and- hopefully we will, have. mean-
ingful jobs afterthose job training programs
'we've instituted.
There's many things thak come before you
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�,get the. real j ',yob .e. have; to get :meaningful;
:, employment, we„ have to hopefully get the
dollar stabilized. And investmentgoing.
Government'' can't ,create jobs, they can
create the environment, ,for. the small
business sector to expand and improve
employment: The small business sector, for .
instance, from the, years of 1975 to '83
generated 50 per cent Of the new jobs. in that
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time. So that's one of the ways that, in .•
supporting small business and certainly an -
environment that our large businesses:or
corporations can work in, will give meaning..
ful` employment. • •
;.We have to •have,, viable industry to
.compete: on. world markets, and many of our'.
jobs will be created through similar things
like this; certainly training 'programs in the
high tech area or areas that we see a lack of
training for' certain jobs•now research and
devellipment. and things such as this...
Too many times in . the past it seems that
we have had job. retraining programs 'very
often almost knowing, full'.well"there would
not be a job .for that person that was
retrained, We want to try. to get our people
who have been unemployed back . to mean-
tngfui employment, and for our young .,
people Coming;out:of universities, we have=to
do as much as we' can to get them into
meaningful employment . as Dwell. " '
The: Deficit
.The deficit has. -to "be brought under •
control, and that has to start with °respon-
sible spending. Before you •;can'°do, anything
with our national debt;yolthave to bring our 7
current 'situation under-.Tcontrol. We would
look at responsible. spending as an invest-
'ment, that hopefully will allow our tax base
to expand and generate more revenues to.
bring the • deficit and eventually our debt
under control. -
That will take some time to+do, because we
know that with a deficit of $30 billion a year;
you . just cannot all ' of a sudden stop your
deficit. ” You have to take measures for
responsible' spending, and the spending .that
takes, place will be classed as an investment
that will eventually return as much as
possible, •
The deficit has.to be brought under control
before- • there is any possibility of debt
reduction on- our national debt We have to •
!take a- strong position on that because so
much of out earnings are going to pay the
interest on the national debt. There is such a,
competition for funding within Canada, for
those other expansion programs that private
industrywould be doing, the farming home 1
owner. or the building tradesman or what-
ever. The, competition for money in Canada
seems to be one ,of, the things that.:
contributes to the . higher ,cost .of money.
With government being such , a huge
borrower, then it's hard to find dollars for
other people inthe private • sector,
Interest rates
The lower our dollar goes the.,higher the
interest rate seems to go. To get investment.
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to the '>r.eoP le of Hu
rron-Brece but to people
'all. across Canada! The problem has to be.
addressed, especially youth unemployment.:
Long term` unemployment for anybody;.
after a, while, becomes' a . social '.problem,.
because they lose confidence in themselves,
and, especially for young people who never
had a job, it then is self destructive.
Mr. • Turner has made . ,a couple of,
announcements, especially to do with youth
unemployment. , D'iie.. is the First Chance
program which I think is a very positive Step
in terms of creating 'a national apprentice-
ship programin conjunction with business
and with unions, for young people to give
them that first job to get them .some exper-
ience to put on their resume. They can go out
in the labour farce and say I've had some
experience in ascertain industry and.1 can,do
that job.
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. The other thing he's announced is the
Young. Entrepreneur's prograrn.• Money up
to $10,000'person is'availableto helptltem in
start up costs in the ' initial start , of their ,
business, if they want. to. ` start their
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Valerie Bolton
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r,etiee±`apie' will` spend' more ` many,
busin ss people will invest 'in plants and
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invest 'in equipment; "thatwillget things
going that willcreate jobsright acrosss the
country. If : everyone has a positive outlook
on sthe future thenthey're willing to do
things and take risks which creates jobs.
The ;Deficit ,
Following that same theme, if therewas a
higher level of confidence in the Canadian
economy among the business community,
.among , • investors, among the ' ` Canadian
,population in general, there's going to be.
more jobs, and.'that'll do .two things: it will
automatically, without raising taxes, create
more wealth and will raise more .money for
the government tohelp (the .deficit) in that
way. The other thing it does is take people ,
off the unemployment rolls, which will
naturally decrease the deficit.
There is no question there are many areas
of government that can be run much better,
that . can be more efficient, mare effective,
and: there needs ;to be major reappraisals of
many government . programs to make sure
they're doing what they are ,intended to do.
Murray Cardiff
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,r defici teid81 igh Vity irnittexit` needs
• run better.,� .i ..,
.. tt I think i4lr.` Turner has ��tite .o
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combination of political experience, �busi�pess•�
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combination
and international expe rience, of
all the -leaders,' and'le can do the job , the
best. I think he's the kind of man we need it$
Prime Minister at this time, because of that.
Interest rates
Interest rates are a great concern to the
business people and if interest rates tend to
be on the upswing it dramatically reduces
confidencein the economy: I; think that's one
of the reasons why Mr. Turner thought he
had to calf this election when he did. Until
the election was over there was noquestion
there was not going to be any new renewal of
confidence in the Canadian economy be-
cause we had to have a government with a
.new mandate. Everyone knew the election
was going to occur very 'soon.
Interest rates to small businessmen . and
farmers are : arune concern in
p this area. I
personally hope to see, in the, not too distant
future, some' kind of cap placed ' on farm
credit interest rates. There has to be more
and better. viable .programs for financing
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r the :workingpeopk in Huron -Bruce.
By Sharon Dietz
Unemployment.
I think unemployment is an important
issue. 'If we don't have people working, how
will we ever 'reduce the deficit? We are just
going to bleed the country dry.
• The i4DP is the party that has a voice for
working people. Work shouldn't' be a
privilege. Work is so important to, people's
self esteem and their participation in the
country. It's very ithportant to put people to
work. It's an absolute priority.
The . NDP government of Premier Pawley
in Manitoba has been able to reduce unem-
ployment by 21/s per cent. They have the.
lowest unemployment rate in the country,
and that is because they had the political will
to set targets and made lowering the unem-
ployment rate a priority. In the first year
they were able to do this through the
creation of a $200 million Jobs Fund which
had a mandate to create jobs either sheet
terns or long term. Now they are changing
the focus of that program trying to create
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permanent long term jobs: ,
Locally I think one of our biggest problems
with unemployment is that farmers are not
getting a fair returnfor their products, and
this Jokes farmersand other 'family
members to work off the farm: If farmers
were getting a fair return, it would free them
from working off . the farm to .support
themselves, and would open thosejobs for
other People.
With farmers earning, a fair wage, there is
a trickle . down effect throughout the
economy and you have healthy small busii
nesses and a healthier rural economy..
• What our government fails to recognize is
the importance of having afair return for the
agricultural dollar. Historically the farm
income just hasn't kept up with industry and
if farmers do not have parity, there is no real
'growth in the gross national product. We
' have to address the issue of farm income
because that is the basic production in our
country. Jobs throughout the economy grow
out of agriculture.
The NDP will move to stabilize interest
rates and farmers and small business people
will be able. to operate theirfarms and
businesses with confidencebecause their
profit will not be bled off by such high
payments.
The NDP will also introduce restrictions
on banks so they cannot just come in and
take people's farms; away from them.'
The NDP will increase the security of
income on the: farm: and to simian business by
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