-| Peace: the crucial federal election issue

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Vol. 51, No. 41

Taxes seen’ Trade deal’s opponents
les into slump

- aS mass

| assessr
appeal set

The Committee of Progressive
_ Electors plans to make skyrocketing
_ Property values a key election issue,
charging that high taxes are going to
| | drive current homeowners out of
| | Vancouver.
| COPE aldermanic candidate Bruce
_-| Yorke said Wednesday that a mass
appeal of land assessments, a major
public meeting this week and a possi-
_ | ble demonstration over the tactics of
| | the B.C. Assessment Authority are in
_ the works.
And the economist and former city
| | alderman charged Vancouver city
_ council with being derelict in its duty
for not opposing assessments that
_have seen land values increase by as
- muchas 100 per cent. This is mainly in
_the city’s west side, but it affects many
low-income homeowners and repres-
ents a danger for the entire city, he
_ Said.
__ “Any (municipal tax) system based
_ On property values is inequitable and

~ DAN KEETON

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_ tegressive,” Yorke, flanked by COPE :
aldermen Libby Davies and Bruce :
_ Eriksen, told a press conference at the :
_ COPE campaign office. =
| Yorke treed. an attack as well on

Surrounded by handlers and security agents, campaigning Tory leader Brian Mulroney is hustled through demonstrators
demanding the scrapping of the Canada-U.S. trade deal. Some 150 members of anti-free trade coalitions joined with
community activists and trade unionists outside Surrey Inn on Tuesday where Mulroney addressed local Chamber of
Commerce faithful. An even bigger crowd of more than 400 protested the pact outside a location that evening in
Vancouver, and protests continued to dog the prime minister on Vancouver Island. Conservative Party standings witn
Canadians have declined during the past two weeks as opposition parties have hammered the government on the
agreement. See editorial, page 4; free trade and water, page 12.

the B.C. Assessment Authority, which
dismissed his request for specific
_ information, such as on land sales in
_ ach neighbourhood, to help a mass
_ assessment appeal he is filing on
_ behalf of all Vancouver homeowners.
see CITY page 2

p, says CP || Aral Sea:

The unprecedented involvement of
Canadians in the campaign against the ~
Canada-U:S. trade deal has “forced the Confronting
Tories on to the defensive” and prompted
business to “launch a rescue operation,”
Communist Party leader George Hewison

ee rally in Vancouver Wednesday a man-made

And even though that scare campaign

Nanoose action, page 3

a
by big business is going to intensify in the ecol Og. ! Cal

final two weeks of the election, the change
that has already come about shows that
the Tories and the trade deal can be
defeated, he declared. di S$ a S ter
“We’re not going to be hypnotized by
the polls — we’re neither going to be
lulled into a false sense of security nor are
isd we going to overwhelmed,” he said,
: “We're going to do everything we can to
Communist Party leader George Hewison at rally Wednesday. see WILSON page 3

TRIBUNE PHOTO — SEAN GRIFFIN

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