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Newspaper disputes Election Act

EDMONTON (CP) — The
Journal and two federal
election candidates
deliberately viclated on
Monday an interpretation of-
asection of the Canada Elec-
Hons Act.

Mike MacDonald, the
Liberal candidate in Ed-
monton West, and Lynn
Fogwiil, 1 New Democratle
running in Edmonton East,
‘agreed to assist The Journal
in seeking a court test of a
controversial interpretation
of what constitutes ad-

- vertising by political can-

didates,
The Journal invited the
chief elections com-

missioner, J. 0. Gorman of
Ottawa, to take court action.

The answers ta a question
addressed to about 60 can-

didates by the newspaper in.

preparing an election sup-
Plement were defined by
Gorman as an. adver-
dsement. Publication of such
material on the eve of a
federal election could be
subject toa maximum fine of

' $25,000 on summary con-

viction,

The newspaper hod sought
answers ta the foliowing
question: Whatis your stand
on issues of particular im-
pact in your constituency?

Gorman ruled that it is
illegal under the elections
actior candidates to respond
to such openended questions
on the eve of an election. He
said the word advertisement
in a section of the act covers
such questions even when
they are run in news
columns.

The Journal said it refuses
to aecept a decision nat
contained in the act but
arrived at by consultation
between ihe officers under
Gorman’s jurisdiction that

Hooker
lawsuit
disputed
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.
{AP) — The Hooker
Chemicals and Plastics
Corp. sald Monday a

proposed government
lawauit against the firm over

the Love Canal chemical

dump site would be un-
justified.

AU.S. justice depariment
spokesman in Washington.
said earlier in the day the
government is preparing a
major elvll suit seeking
millions of dollars from
Hooker for the dumping of
toxic chemicals at the Love:
Canal dump and other sites
in the Niagara Falls area,

Government lawyers hope
to establish a legal precedent
that would make the original
Manufacturers responsible
for the disposal of toxic
materials,

Hooker, in a statement
issued Monday, said: ‘We
believe that a suit by the U.S,
justice department would be
unjustified and, in fact,
counter-productive.”

Itadded: ‘We are alread
actively wo with local,

state and federal agencies to
identify and correct any
problema that might be
associated
operations.

with past

would inhibit a newspaper
from publishing certaln
material in its “news
columns. -

Copies of the two can-
didates’ replies to the
question have been sent to
Gorman.

In a letter accompanying

the material,, Journal
publisher J. P. O'Callaghan
said:
“This is clearly In
violation of your — in-
terpretation of the act and
would apparently constitute
a Valid reason for you to lay
charges under the act
against the candidate con-
cerned and the Journal.

“I will never cancede the
right to a bureaucrat to in-
fluence what may, or may
not, be published. in news .
columns. .

“It is my opinion that it
was never the intention of
Parliament to allow
bureaucrats to have
authority ta prevent a-
newspaper from publishing |
in its news columns
responses to questions posed
to candidates by the
newspapers."

O‘Callaghan’s letter
pointed out that the word

afO

advertisement is not defined
in the elections act.

“Tt is obvious, from the
meddling by your depart-
ment in the proper news
functions of a newapaper
that you have abrogated t to
yourself a right to censor the
legitimate .
newspaper and we cannot
tolerate such unwarranted
interference with the
traditional freedom of the
press and the freedom of
speech that every Canadian
has come to expect as a
right.

“The definition you and
your officials have placed on
the word advertisement in
the context of what you refer
to as oper-ended questions is

totally unacceptable to any
free-born, newspaperman.
and I feelit is time that such

definition should be tested in
& courtroom. We cannot
allow your definition,
reached among yourselves
in the bureaucratic isolation
of your office, to stand
without surrendering our
cherished editorial]
prerogative of free speech.
We will never tolerate
anything that amounts to a
gag on the preas.

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“I trust that you will lay
whatever charges you- feel
are necessary in order to
have this matter resolved in
a courtroom.”

The Calgary Herald,
following Gorman's decision
that an openended question
suchas The Journal's was an
advertisement, decided not
to publish its traditional
election-eve supplement,

The Journal, rather than
put 60 candidates in jeopardy
of possibly breaking the law
ifthe answers to the question
were published in Monday’s |
edition, ran that section of
the questionand-answer
feature in Saturday's paper.
It decided to test the act with
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‘Questions of concern to the
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explaining his position.

Ms. Fogwiil said:

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pretation of the act, at some
personal: risk to my
reputation, -hecause
something like this should
not be left so loosely defined
that it’s left to the inter-
pretation of a civil servant in
Ottawa. The press should not |
be hampered in Its news
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TORONTO (CP) — Union
members that make up the
Canadian Labor Congress
will not give their answer to
CLC president Dennis Me-
Dermott until Tuesday, but
many of their trade
publications have fully en-

. ‘ dorsed his plea to support the
' New Democratic Party in
_ the federal election,

The front cover of
Steelabor, the national
publication of the United
Steelworkers of America
with a circulation of 200,000,
features a color cartoon ina
pre-election edition —
“Mouse Land, a fable as told
by (former NDP leader)
Tommy Douglas.”

The tale, continued on
Inside pages, tells an Or-
wellian saga of a band of
mice who replace thelr
elected cat government with
their own species. It also
includes a question-and-
answer interview with NDP
Leader Ed Broadbent.

The CPU Journal, the
publication of the Canadian
Paperworkers : Union,
devotes its front page to a
message from president
Henri Lorrain, who informs
union members that
Broadbent and the NDP are
“the alternative to Pierre
Trudeau and Joseph Clark,"
the leaders of the Liberal

and Progressive Con-

servative parties. :
The CLC’s own

publication, Canadian

Labor’ has devoted its last
two editions to the election,
Like many other union news-
papers, it carries a full-page

slogan; “The Perfect Unton .

— Me and the NDP.”
- Among its articles is an

imaginary dialogue written
by Ed Finn, public relations
director of the Canadian
Brotherhood of Railway,
Transport and General
Workers.

Finn's answer to a query
on the NDP's chances in the
election is that the party
would win at least 50 or 60
seats if half the 2.3 million

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to unions, and further to the
right on social and economic
issuea”’ than Prime Minister
Trudeau.

The Public Employee,
published by the Canadian
Union of Public Employees,
features Broadbent on the
cover, while the Brotherhood

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