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The Huron Expositor, 1988-11-23, Page 5THE HURON EXPOSITOR, NOVEMBER 23, 1988 — 5A KEN DUNLOP with his family at his side, spoke to his supporters shown on his behalf as the Liberal candidate. Mr. Dunlop lost the at the Lucknow Community Centre on Monday night. Mr. Dunlop election to Conservative incumbent Murray Cardiff. Hillman thanked his supporters for the hard work and dedication they had photo. Brian MacDonald, right, accepts a cash award from Ford marketing representative Dan Olsen. Brian received the award for achieving the highest mark in the region in a recent intensive three hour exam. The exam was part of an ongoing Ford Motor Company training program designed to update technicians in the latest mechanical, electronic and diagnostic techniques. Brian, a Seaforth resident, is an automotive technician at Hart Ford Mercury. NDP supporters undaunted BY MONA iRWIN "Oh, no - not again." That was the reaction of Goderich resi- dent Brian Petrie as he watched the elec- tion results roll in at the Huron -Bruce NDP headquarters Monday night. Petrie said his family has traditionally, been PC supporters, but he supported McQuail because "I think (he) can do the best job." Like many people, he had believ- ed that the Tories would squeak back in with a minority government. About 35 NDP supporters and workers crowded into the small back room of the Lit- tle Bowl Bowling Alley in Goderich (NDP headquarters had been moved from the original Dungannon location) to watch the returns come in. Candidate Tony McQuail and his wife Fran were there, offering refreshments and answering a steady stream of phone calls from NDP scrutineers. At one point, as another call came in, McQuail's campaign manager, Robin Dunbar, cracked "It's Murray (Car- diff) - he's conceding." After thanking the people who worked with and supported him on this campaign, McQuail said the NDP would "continue to do what we've been doing for the past eight years - we'll continue organizing." Support for the NDP is "clearly rising," he said, "but we've got to do a better job of communicating between elections. We've got to build a better organization from the ground up." The Canadian people have been disap- pointed and disillusioned with Mulroney for the past two and a half years, McQuail said. "We've seen scandals and a leader who clearly demonstrates his lack of commit- ment to the electorate. But three months before the election they spend $30 billion to push themselves up in the polls." CHP says society has a heavy burden to bear The newest party in Huron -Bruce is the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) which finished in fourth spot with approximately 2,576 votes. Although he finished in last place, can- didate Tom Clark was not unhappy with his results. I think we did as well as could be ex- pected, being a new party," said Mr. Clark in an interview on November 22. "We only got started five weeks before the election." Mr. Clark continued by saying, "You always hope to do better, but compared to the other CHP candidates in Canada, we did quite well. I think we (Huron -Bruce) finished in the top 10." Mr. Clark credits his supporters and ex- ecutive, as well as the media, for helping him get as many votes as he did. As for his future plans, Mr. Clark plans on staying with the CHP. I believe (in what the party stands for) quite strongly. If we (society) keep going down hill as quickly in abortion and the deficit ... we'll have a very heavy burden." Liberals Shortly after calling the election the PCs started to collapse because. "they had little to run on," he said. But big business and the Tories spent "a pile of money" to push free trade, and `obviously the electorate can be bought with their own money," he added. "We're going to pay for this trade deal." The NDP has to look at each election "in terms of building," McQuail said.'The pro- cess of building is slow, but if we're going to have the kind of society we believe in, if we're going to have the kind of democracy that really does put people first and not just make them pawns in an economic organiza- tion, we have to keep working." Part of the work will be to educate the public as to how few differences there real- ly are between the Liberals and PCs, he said. The lack of such information can be traced in some part to the media - especial- ly the larger media - which does little in the way of "critical analyses" during elections. "We've got a lot to do, but we can do it," • he said. "See how much we've built in the last eight years. We'll go into the 1992.elec- tion stronger and better prepared. There's lots of opportunities to take our message out there." Beth Fulton is an East Wawanosh housewife and mother, a lifelong NDP sup- porter and a volunteer with Women Today, a county -wide organization dealing with the needs and concerns of women. She said she's worried that such an overwhelming majority will mean lack of representation for many small groups. "I was hoping for a minority," she said. "I believe (a minority) can foster coopera- tion, and that it means we'll end up with legislation more pleasing to a majority of the people. The idea of a majority says a lot of people won't be listened to for the next four years." Dean Walker, a mason who lives in the rural Goderich area, agreed that a minori- ty government would have produced more discussion, particularly on free trade. "The PCs only got 42 per cent of the popular vote," he said. "1 find that kind of representation inequitable." A minority government would have "sparked new discussions" on free trade, he said. Walker is also a lifelong NDP supporter, but said he has reservations about the Canadian par- ty system as a whole. For one thing, "people who are elected should be free to vote on an issue the way their constituents want them to" rather than having to "toe the party line," he said. He added that elections are also becoming too Americanized in the sense that regional par- ty candidates are almost invisible next to the national party leaders. "Elections are becoming a 'leader' issue," he said. • from page 1 Congratulating McQuail and Cardiff on running „clean" campaigns, the Liberal candidate said he was proud of his own campaign. Now the election is over, Dunlop said Tuesday morning he will go back to being mayor of Port Elgin for another 10 days. He did not run for reelection in Last week's municipal election. After that, he said, he will focus on runn- ing his business. Number of municipalities won Returning officer Art Bolton Tuesday morning said there was a total of 202 polls for the federal election including 192 regular polls, eight advance polls and a vote in the office of the returning officer and a service vote for those in the Armed Forces and other similar groups. Of 43 municipalities in the enlarged Huron -Bruce riding, Progressive Conser- vative candidate Murray Cardiff won 32 municipalities and Liberal candidate Ken Dunlop won 11 municipalities. Included in the total number of municipalities won, Dunlop captured the advance and service polls and Cardiff won the vote in the office of the returning officer. There were 61,424 registered voters and 77.5 per cent of those registered cast their ballots, Bolton said, up by two per cent over the last election. 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