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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-07-09, Page 6* 11AG1 6--GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, JUL ',-1986 News ree tra e will never happen, John Turner tells local farrners John Turner was the guest of honor as the Huron -Bruce Liberal Association sponsored Lunch in the Park with the Liberal leader in Goderich's Lions Harbour Park Tuesday. Hun- dreds of party faithful turned out for. the event. (photo by Dave Sykes) committee will meet at the town hall. On Monday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m., Goderich town council will meet at the town hall. On Tuesday, July 15 at noon, the Goderich tourist committee will meet at the town hall. On July 15 at 7 p.m., the Goderich works and property committee will meet at the town hall. On Wednesday, July 16, a landfill site meeting will be held at the Bedford Hotel. CIVIC CORNER On Wednesday, July 9 at 1:15 p.m., the Goderich traffic committee will meet at the town hall. On Thursday, July 10 at 8 ,a.m., the Goderich administrative and personnel BY SHARON DIETZ Federal Liberal leader John Turner told local farmers Tuesday, he doesn't believe Canada will have free trade with the United States despite the Conservative government's ongoing trade negotiations. Turner said the agricultural industry won't support free trade if it means dismantling marketing strategies and he doesn't think any government could afford to reopen the Auto Pact. "The government that does is in deep jeopardy," he com- mented following a meeting with represen- tatives of local farm organizations and - commoditygroups at the farm of John Westbrook in Goderich Township. Turner took a swing through the area Tuesday, meeting with local riding delegates and pa¢ty workers at a breakfast followed by the session with farmers and farm groups at the Westbrook farm. In the afternoon he attended a picnic to meet the public and local Liberals in Harbour Park. The opposition leader is spending his summer attending county fairs, barbecues and picnics and meeting with various in- terest groups- including farmers and fishermen. Turner, who doesn't think comprehen- sive free trade is achievable, said the government is caught with excessive rhetoric by the prime minister on the free trade issue. When asked if he thinks Prime Minister Brian Mulroney knows what will be on the ,;table for negotiation, Turner remarked "I'm beginning to think ndbody knows what is on the table." Turner said the Liberals are in favour of lowering trade barriers, liberalizing trade and discussing trade with the United States. "We prefer world., discussions on trade instead of head to head discussions with the United States." said the opposi- tion leader. "We've got to get sanity into the market on an international basis, reassemble trade producers and stop the trade war and high subsidy to farmers. " Turner said the Liberals recommend an Federal Liberal party leader John Turner shook hundreds of hands Tuesday as he was in Goderich to meet with Huron -Bruce Riding Association representatives. After a breakfast meeting here, Turner Met with farm group reps and then spoke with a large partisan crowd at Harbour Park. (photo by Dave Sykes) international free trade tribunal and a definition of countervail "so we don't have this harassment .g on both sides of the border." He believes in the stability of comrriodity prices to provide some predic- tability and preferential rights for farmers. He also wants to see -some form of taxation policy which will allow farmers to pass the family farm from one genera- tion to ,another. Turner said he does not forget the family aspect of the business. He recognizes what farm families are going through. In the western provinces grasshoppers are destroying farms and good farmers, "not sloppy farmers" are being wiped out. Turner stressed that government and farmers have to focus their attention on getting the -story of the Canadian farmer out to the rest of the country. "We have great difficulty impressing on the metropolitan areas of the country that we do have a crisis on the farms in Canada." he said. Farmers are caught in the cost - price squeeze, the backlash of a trade war with the European Economic Community and, the concerns of free trade negotiations with the United States,, Turner said. "I want to encourage people like the Westbrooks to stay on the farm. I don't want state farming to replace the family farms in this country." Grassroots will rebuild party • from page 1. - Party, he says, and "we'll be discussing it at length in November" at the Policy Conven- tion in Ottawa. The Party is looking to show flexibility in terms of day care centres in the neighborhood, public centres, or at the place of work. "We're exploring all the options," Turner notes. In the middle of a busy summer of picnics and Liberal get-togethers, Turner says his • free time is ata minimum but cherishes it Canada is a great country, Amer says, that has yet to meet its potential. "Many may be enticed to work, or live south of the border. Why is it that we choose to live here?" Turner asks. "It's because we're proud of being different, proud of ,our freest democracy in the world, proud to call - ourselves Canadians." • At the picnic. at Harbour Park, several hundred Liberals from the Huron -Bruce and. nonetheless. i«.: Grey; riding associatiops p'", as well ,as in- "Geills and -I t f fur days atGeorgianl '•te"'restedAnlookersi �pat&$5 eaeh"for, the,. Bay during Canada eek. I like to play ten- nis about twice a week, and I take the family to the Northwest Tei ritories for a canoe trip every summer," he says. He says summer picnics are a "relaxed way to meet and listen to Canadians." L11 a o- -Good.. ,.hne�-_.._ m. - oriumL Downtown Kincardine - At the raffic Lights Phone - 396-8142 Gilley's/Molson'S are celebrating their BIRTHDAYS! Fun starts at 8:00 p.m. ,PRIZES -PRIZES -PRIZES. Gilley's presents: Ladies' Nite "`The Foreplay .Revue" lc ets Available the Bar G'a A Las Vegas . style ALL MALE. STRIP SHOW Singing/Dancing/Comedy "7of tantalize your fantasies" I°NIT MISS IT! , K to 1 1 liP.Mii event. Turner mingled in the crowd before making a short,speech.• Several in the crowd, including John Adams of Goderich, say they've voted, Con- servative before, but Mulroney is changing that. "I just wanted to see Turner. The inactivi- ty of Mulroney really bothers me. No one wins an election, they lose it, which I think Turner did," in 1984 states. John Adams. "Politics is in a sad state because politicians only have two purposes: one is to be elected, the other is to be, re-elected." He adds he gives Turner a lot of credit for the work he's doing for the Party. 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