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BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
Anson McKinley, a Stanley
Township farmer who is a.
past warden of Huron County
and the brother of R,E.
McKinley, federal MP for this
Riding; believes his cam -
palm.. for the Progressive
Conservatives in the Riding
of Huron-Middlesex,is picking
up momentum. What's more,
McKInley now feels he's
gaining the support he needs
to carry him to victory in the
provincial election June 9.
"When I started out 1 was
the underdog," McKinley
said in an interview Friday.
"But I'm certain that every
day now we're adding support
all across the Riding."
McKinley's working hard.
There's no doubt of that.
criss-crossing his terri
again and again, endeavo
to meet the voters in t
surroundings at their
venience.
He's spending a c
siderable number of valua
campaigning hours in
Goderich area, He's alre
told•the local party work
that the town is a "v
corner" in his campaign,
On Friday, he was. in, to
specifically for the "bear
session with students
„•,.voting age at GDCI atten
by his opponents in the ra
Liberal Jack Riddell and N
▪ Democrat Shirley . Wea
Next Tuesday he will
returning to GDCI for
public "debate" with Ridd
in the auditorium at 8 p.
arranged by Kim Ainslie
Goderich and design
primarily to focus attenti
on the issues of region
government and heal
services.
"Riddell is using region
government as fear tactic
says McKinley, looki
pensive and perhaps a litt
angry. "There are
pressures for regionalizati
in this area. And I do not thi
regional government is be
for I-turon-Middlesex as yo
paper reported last week.
McKinley, • a long tim
member of Huron Coun
Council, was in favor
taking a look at restructurin
in Huron County. While h
was warden, he and a cernmittee travelled to Esse
Kent, Oxford and Middlese
as well as to Flambor
Township, a restructure
township, to see firsthand th
systems of municipa
at work in thos
areas.
McKinley admits th
committee had its critics, bu
he persisted with the wor
because he believed it wa
important and necessary.
"The result was that th
committee didn't see how an
of the changes, we saw in th
other areas could possibl
benefit Huron County,
McKinley explained. "Mos
of the services provided
through the changes in the
areas we visited were already
provided ..in Huron. County
under council's jurisdiction.
We found that Huron ..had
about the best system of any
we'd seen on our travels."
When the committee report
was presented to Huron
County Council, decision was
reached by the reeves and
depkuty-reeves there to leave
things as they were in Huron.
"And I've found that. a vote
taken in county council ` is
about as close to the views of
the people in the county as
you are going to get,"
McKinley said.
The PC candidate insists
regional government is
S.
delega,tion that went to
Toronto to meet Frank Miller
and plead for the hospital's
. continuance here.
f ' Herwas also involved with
the Clinton hospital
problems, and said that after
studying the.situation there,
he'd advised Doug Coventry,
administrator of Clinton
Public Hospital, that the best
way to save this hospital was
to•challenge the legality of the
S
•
government's order to
closure.
"And that's what they dig,"
said McKinley.
He ;charged that Jack
Riddell, the sitting member
in Huron -Middlesex, "did not
stand up and counter even bis'
own party`` when a vote was
taken in the Legislature
concerning the hospital
closures.
"I'm prepared to counter
my party, particularly it' it
adversely` effects the people
of this Riding," said
McKinley. ,"No party'is right
all the time.". '-
Where the problem of arena
roofs is concerned. McKinley,.
said that'" the local
m.unicipalities,�had been told
since 1969 ,to make certain'
their arenas met safety
standards,
"I'm afraid some of our
. PC's Anson McKinley
issue in this election, nor was
it an issue in the,last election,,
He's, Strong leadership in Ontario
tory for the next few critical years
ring is the issue and. McKinley is
heir convinced that Bill Davis is
con- the best man to lead the
province at this time,
on• And there's another issue,
ble according to McKinley, perh-
the aps closer to the people of this
ady Riding. That's the threat of
ers socialism in an area which is
ital primarily agricultural.
"Farmers do not want a
._ socialized system," stated
pit McKinley. "Farmers are
of very suspicious of left-wing
ded policies," -'
ce, McKinley says that the one
ew thing farmers in.' Huron-
ry. Middlesex want most is for
be. the provincial and federal
a governments to "get together--
ell on policies". He insists it is
m., imperative that trade
of negotiations be reached to
ed 'give a "fair deal to
on agriculture".
al Last year, says McKinley,
th beef from Australia and New
Zealand was brought into
al Canada, lowering the price of
Canadian produced beef
ng which was in turn sold to the
le United States.
no • "The -beef farmers were the
on losers," says McKinley. "And
nk when any segment of our e
st farming population is hur-
ur ting, the others are hurting as
well."
e , "Farmers want to be 'free.
ty , to use their own resources as
of they see best,'. McKinley
g went on.
e He believes that Huron
- County has done more to save
x, agricultural land in this
x county than "all. the NDP
e politicians put together" -And'
d he's convinced the same thing
e could be true in other counties
a1 in'Ontario.
e McKinley does agree,
however, that it has been
e good to put more emphasis on
t saving agricultural land„ for-
k he feels that matter was
s "rather ignored" until recent
years.
e The Davis government
y hasn't been a perfect
e government, McKinley says,
y and cites hospital closings in
' Ontario as one example of .;
t poor judgment in recent'
months. McKinley expressed''-:
his "blanket disapproval" of
hospital closings in Huron
County which he termed is a
rural Riding with important
differences.
- "There' has to be a better
way of controlling escalating:"
costs," McKinley said. "And
I think the government knows
now it was a mistake,"
McKinley was warden of
the county when Goderich
Psychiatric Hospital was
closed down by the Minister
of Health at that time, Frank
Miller. McKinley criticised.
the government for the
"rough deal" it handed the
employees of GPI•I as well aa'.
the community it served, and'
not an said he'd been a member of a
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McKinley said.
He wasn't particularly
pleased though, that the -
building code was changed .In
the -Midst of it all, and that the
.municipalities did not se.eni to
be fully. apprised of the new
situ. iqn;
"That is a bit of an
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