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- He bas no assistants or a fax machine. You won't fmnd a single Green Party carn- paigo sign anywhere. Mr. Smith understands be's an underdog in tbe election, but tbere's a bit of an ulteri- or motive to thse way he's nmnning bis caro- paign. "Essentially I've been rnnning the caro- DOW N OF 2 031paign myself," said the six-foot-one-inch TDOWN OTH 20031 iMr.~i Smith. "I tink it' iportant you can't mun a campaign on a low budget, bow can you expect to mun a provincial budget?" Mr. Smith, a first-time voter, doesn't want to give bis age. "Is age actually important?" he asked. What is important, hie said, is providing Haiton an bonest politician that will try to serve everyone's needs. "I would put people ahead of myself," be Isaid. "If someone wants to be an ethical politician, they can." Issues like bealtb care, education and the environment go straigbt to the bearts of residents in Halton, he said. (F The riding is massive in size, represent- 2003 ECH mngmore tban 150,000 people fromn Milton, 2003ECHOHalton Hilîs and nortbemn portions of Burlmngton and Oakville. It's been Tory A. r blue since 1995. 2003 AMRYWitb Halton's educated population, Mr. P Smith said bie wants to see altemnative O S rO V ER' t formns .of medicine, like bomeopatby, L M OST Y accessible in the heath-care system. ~ ~ "Why aren't.we using tbings like that?" be questioned. MM To tWe some of tise financial pressures FjI&off the7health-care systemn and to create a healthier population, bie said bis govero- ment would work to reduce greenhouae mrissions that contribute to, smog. Fewer smog days would mean leas peo- ple aI home due to sickness and would yuan"" nc aseproducfivity in the province, h 400 Stees Avenue 9o05 875-1700U saîd. 1I tbink Halton is so beautîful that if qMffl we destroy it, it would be disgusting," r <LiAtR u OUTwww.ltIontLoyot.a.coml Smith said. = Ë2~nS df2d ner'@miltoncanadianchampion.com. -Smith says he would be honest, serve needs By JASON MISNER The Champion- Matt Smith rolls into the dniveway of his parent's Oakville home in his 1990m Toyota Corolla. The young Green Party Halton can- Mt mt didate for the Ml mt October 2 provincial election apologizes for being late for an interview. He dropped off a promotional campaigo video to a tel- evision station in Hamilton. The third-year TV and broadcasting Mohawk College student lives at home and has taken over his parent's rather large basement to serve as bis campaign office. Mr. Smith gingerly sidesteps an ironing board, a laundry basket and a partially- unfurled vacuum before entering the base- ment. Laid out everywhere on the blue carpet are neatly-stacked piles of ail kinds of stuif like brochures for the Green Party, contact naines, newspapers and somne videos. Mr. Smith is the only person working on bis campaign, wbich be's operating ion a shoe-string budget. U 0 AV4