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at a reasonable rate.
She also advocated using Canada's resources
to create more secondary industry, at the same
time providing employment for more
Canadians.
She said the NDP party plans to establish a
Fair Prices Commission to investigate items
which are priced -questionably high and to
"investigate the costs between the farm gate
and the consumer."
Graeme Craig, told the audience while
Canada's inflation rate has been attacked, last
week it was only nine per cent in Canada
compared to a 13 per cent inflation rate in the
U.S.
He said while campaigning he hadn't had as
many questions about Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau as he had received about the com-
petency of the leader of the Progressive Con-
servatives to be prime minister of the country.
He said the Agricultural Export Council,
announced by the prime minister in April, will
be working with marketing boards and
provincial governments in the future to
negotiate better access to foreign markets for
Canadian agricultural products.
Mr. Craig told the audience he would even-
tually like to see lower interest rates for both
the beginning farmer and for small
businessmen.
In response to a question from the audience
which criticized Prime Minister Trudeau for
promising he would cut back on the civil ser-
vice in 1968 and then having 110,000 more civil
servants today Craig jokingly replied, "that's
job creation!". The Liberal candidate said
while government spending has increased in
the past decade, individual salaries have also
gone uphto the sarpe degree. -
Another audience member asked each
• candidate to give their views on the gun control
laws now in existence.
Bob McKinley said the PC's were opposed to
the current law, since they felt it was too
restrictive for gun collectors, hunters and
farmers protecting livestock. He said he had
raised the issue of a person taking a gun in for
repair and then needing an acquisitions cer-
tificate in order to reclaim it. Mr. McKinley
said the solicitor general introduced an
amendment to the act following his question.
Mr. McKinley said the gun control law "still
has to be straightened out so it will not affect
the average person."
Mr. Craig said, "if you're going to shoot
someone, then ,it ,won't make a -difference that
you have to go out and purchase a certificate
first.". He told the audience he is hopeful
.legislation can be brought in making gun
control less of a burden on hunters.
Moira Couper said she felt there should be
more training available.. on how to use guns
properly and carefully. She said personally she,
felt the government needed to work to improve
conditions in society so people wouldn't be
shooting in anger.
Candidates were asked for their views on the
abortion question by audience member Dirk
van der Werf.
Both Graeme Craig and Bob McKinley said
they did not agree with abortion on demand.
Mrs. Couper said she believed abortion was a
matter between a woman and her doctor.
In response to requests for candidates'
opinions on capital punishment from Bluevale
area farmer Bev Brown, Graeme Craig replied
he understood capital punishment was enforced
only in the murder of a prison guard or police
officer. Saying, "I wouldn't want •to be the,
person to pull the plug on someone," the can-
didate called 'for harsher sentencesrather than
the death penalty.
Bob McKinley said it wasn't true about
capital punishment being enforced in the case
of guards and told the audience that both times
the vote on capital punishment came up in the
house, he had voted for the retention of the
death penalty andwould do so again.
Mrs. Couper said the NDP party voted
against capital. punishment and said she
believes "we rnust do something about the
condition of our society...that's where we must
start."
T-ony McQuait asked candidates whether they
would recommend that incentives be provided
to encourage energy conservation on the farm.
Graeme Craig said $250 million had already
been allotted to solar heating research in
Canada and that he had noticed in his door-to-
door campaigning that people are becoming
more energy conscious in regard to home
heating. He said he doesn't know how to en-
courage energy conservation on the farm.
Bob McKinley agreed educational programs
are needed on energy conservation and said the
province had had a program to encourage
farmers trying to experiment with alternate
energy sources. He said, "we must stand by the
tried and true methods -until a -lot more work is
done."
Moira Couper said the NDP party recom-
mends an increase in the energy research
budget.
Tony McQuail said he didn't feel any of the
candidates had answered his question fully.
"As a farmer I feel somewhat concerned that
the agricultural industry' may be being
neglected... without incentives and en-
couragement we will never see the develop-
ment of alternatives we can turn to," he
commented.
Another member of the audience referred to
the gun control issue again. He said a rabid
coyote had been sighted near Londesboro
Thursday morning and although the ministry
had been notified of the sighting immediately,
no one showed up to look into the situation until
evening.
"I feel we (farmers) have got to have a gun
around," he said adding, "you can't take a stick
to a rabid animal."
Bev Brown, second vice-president of the
federation, said she was pleased when an
Agricultural Export Council was formed by the
federal government but said she was disap-
pointed in its advisory role. "What we need is
money spent on salespeople overseas
marketing our superior Canadian farm
products," she told the candidates.
Graeme Craig said plans for the committee
still aren't completely formulated, but he
pointed out the majority of directors on the
committee are farmers. He said hopefully the
committee will have the same results
marketing other farm products as the
Canadian Wheat Board had in marketing grain
overseas.
Bob McKinley criticized the fact the com-
mittee would function only in an advisory
capacity. He told the audience, "we (the PCs)
believe embassies and trade missions already
in place can play a major part in selling
agricultural products."
He called the new committee "a public
relations operation by the government."
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The local candidates for the upcoming federal
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Left to right are Federation -president Merle
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