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Announces natural as find PM continues attack on PetroCanada plan By THE CANADIAN PRESS Prime Minister Trudeau an nounced major new natural gas discovery in the North Ijiesday night as he continued his election campaign attack on the Progressive Conservative plan to sell the governments oil corporation PetroCanada Conservative Leader Joe Clark attacked the Trudeau an nouncement as irresponsible and inaccurate as he received renewed support from Ontario Premier William Davis Meanwhile New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent heard threats of violence from Northern Manitoba Indians an gered because they say tradi tional hunting rights are being eroded Social Credit Leader Fabien Roy appealed to voters to elect bloc of Social Crediteis to de fend Quebec interests in the Commons Weaknessespoint to swing votes here TORONTO CP Uberals and Progressive Conservatives are counting on what they per ceive as weaknesses of each others party leader to swing the crucial Ontario vote their way in the May 22 federal elec tion New Democrats by contrast say the strengths of NDP Leader Ed Broadbent will in crease the partys share of the provinces 95 seats come elec tion day Conservative Leader Joe Clark couldnt lead hungry man into restaurant says Senator Royce Frith the Liber als Ontario campaign chair man The Torys mortgage interest and property tax deduction pro gram is still the sexiest thing weve got going next to the anti Trudeau feeling says Walter Gray former newspaper man working on the Conservatives Ontario campaign committee Party spokesmen consider southern Ontario and Metropolitan Toronto in par ticular as the key to which party will form the next government and both the Grits and Tories profess to be op timistic about winning majority of Ontario seats CONSIDERED PIVOTAL With the Liberals dominant in Quebec and the Con Abortion cool issue so far TORONTO CP With the federal election less than week away antiabortion and freedomoIchoice factions promise to heat up efforts to elect candidates who support their views Abortion controversial is sue among Canadians for the 10 years since Pierre Trudeaus Liberal government amended Canadas abortion law has been cool issue in this federal election campaign All three major parties report only smattering of public pressure for abortion to become crucial subject at the polls May 22 but groups opposing abortion say it is grassroots concern that can influence votes Antiabortionists plan blitz of leaflets in selected ridings and newspaper advertising to inform voters of each candi dates position on abortion Freedomofchoice sup porters will counter with in formation and visits to can didates to encourage them to withstand antiabortion pressure The Criminal Code permits abortion when hospital thera peutic abortion committee agrees that womans health or life is endangered by preg nancy Since 1969 the number of Ca nadian women undergoing therapeutic abortions has climbed steadily From 1974 to 1977 the number rose to 57564 from 48136 Statistics Canada says THREE GROUPS EMERGE Three national groups emerged to act as political lob byists Two of them Cam paign Life and Coalition for Life are antiabortion They call for an end of abor tions in Canada except when woman is dying from her preg nancy and say the current law has led to wholesale abortion Meanwhile members of the Canadian Association for the Repeal of the Abortion Law urge taking abortion out of the Criminal Code and making it private matter of choice be tween woman and her doctor Liberal party policy favors the current law and in antici pation of preelection con frontation on the issue Liberal candidates have been told their personal views are matter of conscience and need not follow party lines Ouellet forecasts Quebec Liberal sweep QUEBEC CP Even though party fortunes appear to be waning elsewhere Liberal organizers expect to sweep Quebec in Tuesdays federal election Andre Ouellet minister of public works and chief Liberal organizer in the province fore casts that the Liberals will take as many as 70 of the 75 seats In 1974 Liberals won 60 of Que becs 74 ridings under the for mer electoral map Social Credit main op position to the Quebec Liberals doesnt dispute the Liberal lead But they are hoping they can reduce the margin with new leader Fabien Roy Social Credit organizer Jac ques Nadeau predicts the party will win between 25 and 30 seats most of them in tradi tional areas of Creditiste strength away from the den selypopulated centres of Man treal and Quebec City Social Credit has candidates in all ridings but Bonaventure IlesdelaMadcleine Liber als Progressive Conservatives and NDP are running full slates Tory spokesman said it was not party policy to project how many seats will go Con servative in Quebec In 1974 they won three but held only two at dissolution following Claude Wagners appointment to the Senate BUILDING BASE spokesman for the NDP said the party hopes to place strong second in number of ndings and build base for the next election The NDP and the CCP before it have never elected MPs in Quebec In addition to the four major political parties five other par ties are contesting the election inQuebec The Union Populaire makeshift separatist party disowned by the Parti Qucbccois is running 69 candidates but without PQ support is given little chance of success MarxistLeninists are run ning 51 candidates and the Communist Party of Canada hasttl Indians talk violence THE PAS Man CPI Inv dian Leaders told Ed Broads bent Tuesday some Northern Manitoba natives are prepared to destroy reserve property if the federal government can tinucs to ignore protests against erosion of hunting rights The campaigning New Demo cratic Party leader was told MERYLE DOLAN that some Indians have talked of blowing up bridge and wrecking railway that runs through their Swampy rec rc serve in this community of 7000 about 325 miles north of Winnir Pog Broadbent promised to take up their case immediately after the federal election next Tues day Come and Hear Evangelist MERYLE DOLAN with Soloists Carlos Figueiredo May 1316 20 Lloyd Knight May 17 18 19 I1 WT ORO BAPTIST CHURCH Edgar Village Con Oro ng13Nay 20 745 pm nightly aumru Wat Knight May 17 ll Nanny Eaclttiu Avalablo Everyone Welcome servatives strong in the Prairies Ontario is considered pivotal At dissolution the Liberals held 48 Ontario seats the Con servatives 32 and the NDP eight Redistribution has added seven seats In the 1974 election Ontarios 88 seats were divided as folv lows Liberals 55 Con servatives 25 and NDP eight In federal byelections held in the province last October the Tories took six of seven seats in the process knocking off such Liberal heavyweights as for mer Scarborough Mayor Paul Cosgrove and former University of Toronto president John Evans Its not the same story at all in terms of last fall Frith says adding that Prime Minisr ter Trudeau is no longer arouse ing the same antiTrudeau pas sions that led to the partys hu miliation in the byelections Its been continuing im proving picture for us he said attributing it to faltering noncatchingon Tory campaign Baybielil wwwwwwww aaxmmxx Pure adventure is back For the c1rnii ADULT ENTERTAINMENT IIIIIIMII The leaders were on their fi nal search for votes with the federal election only week away In Kamloops BC Trudeau said consortium largely fi nanced by PetroCanada found more than three trillion cubic feet of gas off Melville Island WOULDNT HAPPEN He said if Conservative gov ernment had been in power the gas would not have been dis covered because Clark would abolish PetraCanada Clark who has said Con servative government would put PetraCanada into private Canadian hands rejected Trudeaus remarks in speech in Kitchener Ont He said PetroCanada has only small interest in the con sortium Trudeau was irre sponsible in making his an nouncement before the stock market was closed and had bro ken agreement that any an nouncements would be made similtaneoust by all con sortium partners Broadbent listened to mem bers of the Swampy Cree re serve at The Pas say that facil ities on their reserve have been threatened by Indians angry because the federal govern ment is enforcing the Migatory Birds Convention Act which is in conflict with Indian treaty rights Broadbent said he supported the Indians and would take up their case as soon as the elec tion was over Davis made an unscheduled appearance at the Clark rally to express support There has been wide publicity about ap parent differences of opinion between the two men on patri ation of the constitution from IIIIIIMA 7269944 nxxx fun of it HIGHWAY 89 igtlw mun Ibltaumhttul WARNING Some it ottomtvo Thoctru Iranch OM Natta wasaga Phone 43514 II II AlllSIONL ONTANI LMARL H113 HARRISON FORD LESLEYANNE DOWN CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER HANm LR STRUT JttllN HARRY PALi Loans mumsm was MILES EAST OF ALLISTON shim llHtlSnm Mini um 11 PFITR HMS In MI nutwmiuin ll P4 79 Ottawa checking medicare costs OTTAWA CP The federal government is checking the medicare spending of all prov inces but Health Minister Mo nique Begin plans no new threats of withdrawal of federal funding spokesman for her office said Tuesday Miss Begin has threatened that the Liberal federal govern ment will withdraw medical in surance payments to Ontario and New Brunswick if erosion of medicare does not stop The spokesman said the threats were result of an accel eration of routine checks of pro vincial spending that started in 1879 each 1283 lPc Swimsuits r7 71 900 lllb Save 383 on Bikinis Jr style with ring trim on Bra Top and Pants Halter neck back tie l00 polyester print in red or royal Sizes to 13 Our Woolworth Reg Price OUR WOOLWORTH SALE PRICE Save 483 Classic Jr style Nylon Lycra Spandex favorite Brown or navy to 13 Our Woolworth Reg Price ea 1783 OUR WOOLWORTH SALE PRICE NO CHARGE UNDERGROUND PARKING ELAIIII HU 1977 when the method of federal support for medicare was changed The study was speeded up earlier this year when it was clear doctors in Ontario were opting out of the provincial health insurance scheme in large numbers in order to charge more than they would receive in health insurance fees The spokesman said Ottawa is reviewing provincial budgets to judge whether lumpsum fed eral payments are being used to pay for medicare that is avail able to all citizens the examiner weanesday May 176 1979 I8 women could win seats in Commons TORONTO CPI If pre dictions by the three major po litical parties are correct 18 women will be elected to the House of Commons in the May 22 federal elect ion Lynn McDonald president of the l70member National Action Committee on the Status of Women told news con ference Tuesday her group asked the three parties which women candidates have the best chance of winning All consider as do we that the nine incumbents have good chances of being reelected Ms McDonald said in an inter view later She said the following women are expected to capture seats for the first time 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