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Trudeau Clark take turns P4 79 Trudeau could keep power but OTTAWA tCP Con stitutionally Prime Minister Trudeau would be free to try to continue governing even if he wins fewer seats May 22 than Joe Clarks Progressive Con servatives But history suggests he may be playing with fire if he tries Trudeau says he may use at Commons vote to test his strength if say Clark wins five or 10 seats more than the Liber als on election day Clark has attacked Trudeau for the suggestion accusing him of playing games itli de mocracy But precedent and con stitutional theory say Trudeau could cling to power if for ex ample there were enough NDP or Social Credit MPs sup porting him to give him majority of votes in the 282 member Commons In 1972 Trudeau continued to govern with razorthin minor ity ltltl seats compared with Tory Itobert Stanfields to For days until final polls came in it was unclear whether he or Stanfield would have the most seats in the then zosrseat onir mons Nominations close in some ridings By THE CANADIAN PRESS Nominations for the May 22 election in 23 remote federal tidings closed luesday si days before the official deadline in the rest of the country to allow extra time for ballots and other electoral gear to be in place before voting day The ballots will carry the names of 97 candidates an all time high for early nominations and an indication of record field in the rest of the countrys 282 constituencies on Nomi nation Day April 30 The record field is expectablc because redistribution sincethi last federal election in 1974 has increased the number of parlia mentary seats from 263 In ad dition large number of inde pendent candidates and those from smaller parties have al ready filed or declared their in tention of running For example in the north western Quebec riding of Abir tibi where nominations closed Tuesday no fewer than eight names will appear on the ballot Besides the Liberal Progressive Conservative New Democratic Party and Social Credit candidates there are representatives of the Union Populaire the Rhinoceros party MarxistLeninist and an independent The Liberals Conservatives and NDP fielded candidates in all 25 of the remote ridings be fore nominations closed 67 women nominated OTTAWA tCPl While hun dreds of women are involved in campaign organizing and doz ens of others are pushing to make womens rights an elec tion issue only 67 female candir dates have been nominated so far to run for the three major parties They are battling against his tory Only 28 of about 1700 MPs elected since women got the vote in 1918 have been female For the May 22 election the Liberals have nominated 21 women the Conservatives have 14 and the NDP 32 There are 282 seats to be filled At least 700 men are running CAN CANCER BE BEATEN Almost 40 years earlier Lib eral Nlllackenzie King gov erned with the support of other minor parties even though he won 15 seats fewer than his Conservative opponents in the 1925election That government fell apart after constitutional crisis in 1926 After fight with King tiovieii Lord Iiyng called on Conservative Arthur Meighcn to form government STIIIIEI ASIDE By contrast Liberal Louis St iaurent relinquished power gracefully in 1957 after John Diefenbakers Conservatives won only seven seats more than the 105 captured by Liberals in the election that year Although he could have continued in of fice St Laurent stepped aside Lester Pearson succeeded him as Liberal leader few months later Soon after Pearson was hit miliated in the louse and on the huslings following move to take power from the on servatives despite Diefenba kers sevenseat edge Pearson acting on the advice of veteran minister Jack Pick ersgill moved motion calling on Diefenbakers government to resign in view of the dcsir ability at this time of having government pledged to iniple nieiit Liberal policies Diefenbakcr promptly made what has been described by such longtime Liberals as Paul Martin as one of the greatest most devastating speeches of his career accusing the Liber als of being party saturated with fear of what the electorate will do to it He just fore as to pieces Martin said later NUTRI By THE CANADIAN PRESS Prime Minister Trudeau and Joe Clark took turns backp0 dalling Tuesday on separate is sues which have surfaced dur ing the campaign for the May 22 federal election Trudeau was soundly criti cized by his opponents for say ing Monday he would try to re tain power if the Progressive Conservatives won few more seats than the Liberals but failed to win majority of the 282 seats in the Commons During Williams Lake BC news conference the Liberal leader said he would have been wiser to have refused to discuss such scenario His Monday statement to reporter was my innermost feelings rather than political decision actually being contemplatai Progressive Conservative Leader Clark accused of being afraid to meet other party leadlt ers in television debate an nounced in Grand Falls Nfld he had changed his mind and has agreed in principle to par ticipate Ilowever it will likely not be known until the end of the week if the debate will actually be held ATTACKEI IIOTII From St Johns Nfld Ed Broadbent New Democratic Party leader hurled insults at both Clark and Trudeau for their original positions on the television debate and minority government respectively Broadbent and Clark both campaigned Tuesday night in Chicoutiini Quc traditional Liberal stronghold before My ing to Toronto for appearances today Trudeau remains today in British Columbia Fabien Roy Social Credit leader campaigned in Acton Vale Que saying he is pleased recent CBC public opinion poll shows 15 per cent of committed voters in Quebec support his party Caution greets debate decision OTTAWA tCP decision by Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark to accept in principle the television net works format for election leaders debate was greeted with some caution Tuesday Mike Daigneault CBCs director of news and current affairs said in telephone interview from Toronto that Clark apparently still has problems with the format of the debate with Prime Minister Trudeau and New Democratic Leader Ed ltroad bent We are obviously going to have to go back and look at the way it has been structured anti see further whether it is pos sible to meet these concerns Clark originally rejected the latest network debate proposal but changed his mind and an nounced in Irand Falls Ii Monday that he has tolti ton servative officials in Jttawa to accept the idea in principle But he still had serious concerns about the formal proposed by the lit and IV networks and Global of Ontario At this point we dont know if his conditions are major ones or minor ones Daigneault said The political parties and network officials are to discuss the debate issui again Friday ltolnn Sears NDI national campaign director said his party is pleased with Clarks decision We hope he doesnt change his mind before Friday he said UNIMINISIS IRUTICSI Meanwhile 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