Barrett proves his leadership.

Leadership takes hard work. Guts. The • Public profits on natural gas exports of drive to keep fighting for a fair deal for aIl $155.8 million through July 1975. Earnings British Columbians. come from the new B.e. Petroleum Dave Barrett has shown that. He won't Corporation. back down. He's proved it. • $20 million in natural gas revenues for The record is clear. local communities. Don't let them take it away. • A Co-ordinated Law Enforcement Unit • Pharmacare-free prescription drugs for fighting organized crime. aIl senior citizens. • North America's toughest consumer • A new provincial ambulance service. protection law - backed up by storefront • Mobile dental clinics in remote areas. offices. • Income assurance programs for farmers. • A strict Human Rights Code that cracks • Reduced tax rates for small businesses. down on discrimination. • Preservation of farmland in agricultural • Religious freedom for trade union land reserves. members. • Automobile insurance at rates you • The right to sue the Crown. Never can afford. allowed before. • More than 2 1/4 million acres of new parks. • Reform of the legislature- a full Hansard, • 25,000 summer jobs for students. daily question period, an opposition • 3,620 permanent jobs saved at Ocean Falls, member heading the public accounts Prince Rupert, Nelson ... the list goes on. committee. Never allowed before.

They never did it. E~ The record is cleéŒ And fights inflation for yon.

If you want to fight inflation, fight it • Mincome, pioneered by your New head on. And make it fair for aIl. Democratie government, increases tQ $265 Dave Barrett has backed that message with for individuals, or $530 for couples, tough action. on January 1. Rent controls. Increased Mincome • Minimum wage jumps to $2.75 December 1 payments. A higher minimum wage. Stable this year, and to $3 in June. transit fares. A lid on fuel priee hikes. • Priee freezes on gasoline, home heating fuel A freeze on grocery and drug prices. and propane. No natural gas priee hikes Help to those who need it most. Restraints to homeowners. on those who can best afford it. Don't let them take it away. No one ever said it would be easy. It takes That pro gram is backed with an absolute leadership, the kind of guts that can only priee freeze on essential goods until come from a man committed to equal justiee January 1: and fair play. • Food and beverages. Dave Barrett knows there are times when • Prescription drugs. you have to be tough - a time to crack down • Proprietary or patent drugs. and end work stoppages in 's • ProvinciaIly-owned ferry and bus fares. key industries; a time to impose price freezes • Passenger and freight charges on and make it work. provinciaIly-owned railways. We're aIl in this fight together. The future Further programs are ready to go: requires courage already demonstrated by • Land banking and servieing to cut out Dave Barrett. the speculators. Look at the record: • A new government housing corporation to • Rent controls that work. British Columbia build more homes. has set the pattern for the rest of Canada. • Lower cost mortgages through the new Rent hikes limited to eight per eent. B.e. Savings and Trust Corporation. Dave Barrett can't do it atone. He needs your help. To maire it fai~ A message from your Premi~

Leadership is knowing what must be increases. done and having the determination to do it. The opposition voted against them. Who This is what counts in government. were they fighting for? Three years ago, you said it was time for Farmers, smaIl businessmen and a new deal. Time for a government that independent sawmill opera tors called for a cared about people. fair shake, a chance to compete. You said our elderly citizens had been Your government eut taxes for small ignored. We said it was time to act. Your businesses. Created the B.C. Development government established Mincome and Corporation to create jobs. Set up Pharmacare to ensure decent income and insurance programs to protect farm help in times of sickness. incomes. Established fair prices for You said your towns needed new wood chips. recreation centres, new skating and curling Why wasn't this done before? rinks. Places to get together as neighbors. You said your basic rights as citizens We set up the new Community needed protection. Recreational Facilities Fund. H's helped Today, a tough Human Rights Code build more than 700 facilities in 213 is enforced. communities. Nearly $40 million has Today, you can sue the Crown. They been spent. wouldn't let you have this freedom before. Why didn't they do it before? Who were they fighting for aIl those years? You said rents were climbing and The New Democrats you sent to Victoria tenants had no voice. in 1972 have worked hard to serve you. We said it was time to do something We come from aIl walks of life. about inflation. Time to control rent We say we can work together. That's why your government saved Ocean Falls. To save jobs for British Columbians. That's why we didn't let them close down the pulp mills in Prince Rupert. Sometimes we've had to make tough decisions: Saving the farmland, or getting both management and labour back on the job. Bill 146 wasn't easy. But it had to be done. 1 believe you want leadership. A government that tells you where it stands on the issues. That's why we're doing our part in Canada's fight against inflation. But it must be fair. For everyone. To see that equal sacrifices are made. To ensure that no one carries an unfair burden. Our record of leadership is clear. With your continued support we'll win ~g~this fight. David Barrett Premier Somewords on Nelson-Creston fromLorneNicolson,your MLA

ln 1972 1 pledged to speak out for Nelson-Creston and to provide strong local representation. Since becoming your MLA, 1 have taken your concerns to government and have brought back positive results. My first concern has been the main- tenance and expansion of our local economy. lnvesting in Swan Valley Foods and Kootenay De-hy in Creston. Saving Kootenay Forest Products in Nelson. Developing a new pole treatment plant in Harrop. These are just sorne of the employment initiatives taken by your government. Such actions, coupled with increased financing for local communities, have improved services and secured jobs for the people of Nelson-Creston. Other positive actions include: • Recreation grants of over $1 million providing ski, golf, curling, swimming, community hall, and other facilities B.C.'s fourth public university, providing a throughout the riding; full four year program. • 71 new senior citizens housing units; During my three and a half years as • Over $100,000 in sewerage grants; your MLA, my greatest concern has been • More than $50,000 in aid for public with the many individu al "people prob- transit. lems" that continually arise. Through my The tax dollars that we have always constituency office and by making regular paid are now being returned to our area. tours of the riding, 1have been able to Our commitment has been to people. resolve hundreds of these problems in a And we've proven that by providing direct and personal way. services to individuals. A doctor in Riondel. 1have worked hard on behalf of aIl lmproved Homemakers service to help people in aIl areas of Nelson-Creston. shut-ins. More day care for children. With your support on December 11, 24 hour ferry service to Harrop. Assistance 1 will continue to do my best on to permit the Kootenay Society for the your behalf. Handicapped to acquire the Silver King Lodge. Preservation of Fry Creek. When Notre Dame University was ~~4"~ ~ threatened, your government responded. Nelson will now become the location for MLA Nelson-Creston Dave Barrett has the toughest job of ail.

Nobody seemed to care when the town of • Saved 450 jobs at Panco Poultry in Surrey. Ocean Falls was going to die. Dave Barrett • Kept 130 ferry workers on the job with the cared. His government saved 420 jobs in Princess Marguerite in Victoria. Ocean Falls. • Kept British Columbia shipyards busy It took guts to keep people on the job and building new ferries. A total of 672 jobs off welfare rolls. were created. It took guts to step in when American • Helped 262 workers build for the future interests wanted to close down the pulp mills with jobs at Plateau Mills in Vanderhoof. in Prince Rupert. • Created 220 new jobs for B.e. workers A They didn't care that 2,700 direct jobs were to make our own rail cars for the BCR going to be lost. Dave Barrett's government in Squamish. cared about saving those jobs. • Financed construction of B.e.'s first Native Today, Canadian Cellulose-your company, Indian co-op fish cannery at Port Simpson not theirs- is keeping men and women on the and created 180 jobs. job in Prince Rupert. • Created 275 new jobs at Babine Forest Keeping the economy of the north strong. Products in Burns Lake and helped Your government under Dave Barrett's establish a native job training program. leadership has: It took guts. And it was worth it. Don't let • Saved 503 jobs at Kootenay Forest Products them take it away. in Nelson. New freedom for British Columbians.

They're going to talk a lot about freedom Now, under your New Democratie in this campaign. So let's make sure the whole administration, these basic rights are story gets told. guaranteed: Dave Barrett and his fellow New Democrats • A fuIt written record of all debates in fought for years for a democratic legislature. the legislature. You gave him the chance to keep his • A daily question period. promise. He kept it. • An opposition member in charge of the public accounts committee. • Travelling committees of the legislature to hear your views in your town. There's more. Your freedoms have been enhanced in other ways since Dave Barrett promised a just and open era for British Columbians. Now you have: • The right to vote on money bylaws regardless of property ownership. • The right to inspect the public disclosure records of your elected officiaIs. • The freedom to sue the Crown. • Respect by law in matters of religious • The right to inspect your credit files. conscience for trade union members. • The right to equal access to consumer credit • The right to fight back against discrimin- regardless of sex. ation under a tough Human Rights Code. Every single one of these rights has been • The right to elect local citizens to established under Dave Barrett's leadership. Community Resource Boards and have a Why didn't they do it before? say in setting social service policies for Without Dave, we've got a lot to lose. your neighborhood. Don't let them take it away. And urban transportation improvements.

Your New Democratic Government has • No increase in bus fares for and lifted public transit off yesterday's drawing Greater Victoria. At 25

Governments exist to serve people. That's expanded to include fishermen. what it's aIl about. • A new provincial ambulance service where You gave us the chance, and we responded. no patient pays more than $5. Your New Democratic government has Why wasn't aIl this done before? Isn't this brought in new, innovative programs to care the kind of leadership we need? for people. • Programs such as day care for young children, with fees scaled to income. • Homemaker services for children, the elderly and infirm. This means you don't always have to leave your home when you need someone to care for you - such as after a long illness. • Assistance for senior citizens' housing and personal care homes. • Activity centres for the disabled. • Workers compensation benefits Part of the team. Lorne Nicolson

ln 1972, thousands of British Columbians up 30 per cent. New and innovative programs were clamoring for homes. Dave Barrett have created thousands of low cost units. acted. He announced B.e.'s first housing Land throughout the province is being readied department. And he called Lome Nicolson to for residential development. set it up. To join the Barrett leadership team. Lome Nicolson has produced results- ln just two years, Lome Nicolson has for Nelson-Creston- and B.e. delivered. Housing starts in the Interior are For Information CalI: Nelson 352-2921 Creston: 428-5511 Salmo: 357-2311 OnThursday Decemberll Re-electLorneNicolson British Columbia has strong leadership. Lets keep it that wa}t