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p4 tribune march 28 199a x survey not a waste a 12000 housing survey dubbed a waste of public money by local politician margot mar shall is worth the expense and despite some good points raised by the councillor the big ger picture could be drastically different to that we see today in the stouffville community indeed a lack of sewage capaci ty limits growth prospects within the town but volumes can be said and planned with the results of the survey using it as a blueprint for the future survey results canhelp town officials look beyond the year 2000 it could also be used as ammu nition against regional and provincial groups when grappling for muchneeded funding or growth opportunities there is no doubt that stouf fville like most communities in york region is sorely lacking accessible affordable housing developments to help alleviate the strain dont necessarily have to add up to unwanted growth nor do such development s have to be built at the expense of other pro jects with the study at least stouf fville will have a clearer picture family feud gets ugly for liberals its been six lonely years since the federal liberals last gov erned this country and six hun gry years since they last snorted at the public trough s during this time the grits have engaged in political mudfling ing eyegouging and backbiting of the worst kind thats why whenever liberals gather at a cocktail party or political event they always have a certain look its the look of a man who is nervously petting a pit bull with one hand while groping for a rock with another recall the hatchets planted firmly in john turners back and the bitter nomination battles of less than two years ago includ ing one in this riding which pit ted many oldtime stouffville grits against their newer guest column paul pivato brethren in markham witness the daily squabbles over the meech lake accord and the current scramble for leader ship candidate delegates this is a party gnawing at its own tail local liberals will gather about a month from now at mil- liken mills high school to elect 12 delegates to attend the leader ship convention in calgary this june odds are that most of the dele gates will be jean chretien sup porters and odds are that none of the delegates will be from stouf f villeuxbridge twbune publisher editorinchief editor director of advertising retail advertising mgr administration mgr dlr of promotionsdistribution patricia pappas don bernard stephen houston debra weller susan berry chris bertram jennifer hutt published every wednesday by metroland printing publishing and distributing at 9 heritage rd markham ontario l3p 1m3 tel 2942200 second class registration number 1247 the stouffville tribune published every wednesday at 54 main st w stoufmbe is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes the acton free press ajaxpkaerlng news advertiser aurora banner brampton guardian burlington post etobicoke advertiserguardian georgetown 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john turner defeated jean chretien she supported john roberts a former trudeau cabinet minister and a distant runnerup in the race this time around mrs boyd is supporting tequila sheila copps a streetsmart grit with political nerves of iron and more moxie than all the other candi dates combined she was originally backing clifford lincoln the former bourassa cabinet minister who resigned on principle when the quebec government decided to maintain its frenchonly lan guage law despite a supreme court ruling that it was unconsti tutional politicians with that sort of backbone are rare indeed lin coln addressed a gathering of about 35 local liberals last octo ber in mount albert like many of the liberals who attended mrs boyd became an instant convert but lincoln dropped out of the liberal leadership race last month after losing his bid to win a seat in parliament most of his supporters including mrs boyd have since gravitated to copps its highly doubtful however that any copps delegates will be elected to represent die riding overall the riding of markham which includes whitchurch- stouffville has been relatively quiet compared to some other metro area ridings where the camps of rival candidates have waged heated and often dirty campaigns some of the guerilla tactics used including phoning members on the night of a delegate selec- tion meeting and telling them the meeting has been cancelled pay ing for memberships and from the bigbuck candidates the offer of financial assistance to delegates who cannot fully afford the 850 delegate registration fee liberals in many toronto rid ing have resorted to the same old streetfighting they perfected during the nomination meetings attempting to disqualify new members from voting busing in instant liberals to stack a meeting and signing up ghost members as a ruse to allow peo ple to vote twice up to this point markham rid ing has been spared and riding president khalid usman is hope ful that the delegate selection process will go smoothly instant liberals says mr usman are not really bringing in the wishes of the public or the riding and while things may be calm there has nevertheless been some political evangelizing in the rid ing durhamyork mpp bill vballinger has been discreetly lob bying on behalf of pault martin ontario premier david peterson is anchoring his big red machine behind the martin team and most of his caucus including mr ballinger are promoting martin as the best candidates any firstterm mpp who did otherwise could expect nothing less than backbench banishment former markham liberal can didate jag bhaduria however is not impressed by martin we should not pick a leader he says we should pick a prime minister and that future prime minister he argues is a little guy from shawinigan jean chretien mr bhaduria says the message he received during the last elec tion campaign was clear bring back chretien and the voters will return the liberals to power as far as mr bhaduria is con cerned martin is cut from the same cloth as john turner a businessman with backroom clout and boardroom muscle but little support among the grass roots elva boyd bristles as the men tion of chretien who stuck more than a few hatchets in turners back chretien she says has done more to split this party than hes ever done for it id like to know what his magic formula is to put the party together she adds i dont think he has one youve got to wonder if any liberal does paul pivato is a former jour nalist who currently works and writes in york region