The Standard from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada • 45

45 THE ST CATHARINES STANDARD Wednesday May 23 1979 5 AP laserphoto Ed Broadbent relaxes in Ms Oshawa hotel room last MgM an election reterm winner Broadbent mum on says Margaret Roy and the PCs similar ideas marred by PQ? cabinet? Metro Toronto delivers Canada to Clark Jim five ister Jean Luc Pepin won back Ottawa Carleton from Con servative housing critic Jean Pigott The list of Liberal casualties began to take shape early in the night as Dan MacDonald 61 year old minister of veterans affairs lost his Prince Edward iwj gets on with the task as soon as He congratulated dark and Trudeau for his gracious accep tance of defeat But having done that he re fused to answer any' questions and invited his dose aides to Join him at his mother's home Broadbent and his wife were whisked away by aides and security guards out a back door and into a waiting car The New Democrats moved the news conference to the room after it was dear the Diefenbaker 83 coasted to an easy win in the Saskatchewan riding of Prince Albert return ing to the Commons where he has sat since 1940 The anti Liberal tide swept away Otto Lang 47 minister of transport and wheat who lost his Saskatoon East riding to Bob Ogle of the NDP The Conservatives evened some old scores in their sweep of all 21 seats in Alberta Their win Included Jack Horner's Crowfoot riding won by Arnold Malone and Bow River where former Con servative Stan Schumacher was running as an independent Schumacher failed to win theConservative nomination after a public spat with Clark over who would run in the riding Clark ran in nearby Yellowhead where to no one surprise he won easily Cotret had captured the tradK tionaDy Liberal seat tor the Conservatives in last October's byelections ormer Liberal cabinet min By JULIET OSHAWA Ont (CP) New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent hap py at the increased Com mons representation gained by his party in federal election went home Tuesday night still keeping secret how he will act in a minority Commons run by Conservative Joe Clark Broadbent called a brief late night news conference after it was clear that Prime Minister Trudeau had con ceded the election to Clark but said little but that his party would to fight for its programs New Democrats appeared to feel that they would not hold the power they expected to hold after Tuesday's voting because Clark ended only a handful of seats short of a majority The news conference was called in a room away from a campaign headquarters that had been left in a mess after hours of drinking and dancing by celebrating New Democrats Broadbent whose forces won 26 seats compared with 17 when the Commons was dissolved for the election call March 26 said he was delighted with his party's performance The NDP's popularity had increased faster than the vic torious Conservatives he said Margaret Trudeau estranged wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau dances at Studio 54 in New York early Wednesday morn ing A few hours earlier her husband conceded defeat in the Cana dian elections Nevertheless the opposition Liberals will be able to use the suggestion that the Clark gov ernment is dependent on Qred itists who have the backing of Rene Levesque when the new Parliament sits Like Clark Roy is a firm believer in private enterprise and be shares with the Con servatives a dislike of Liberals Roy should be able to work with Clark but the Con servatives may want to keep their distance began corning in With him is ids wife Lucille CP Laserpboto Island seat of Cardigan in a Tory sweep of the island 1 province's four seats Quebec Liberals including Prime Minister Trudeau and nine cabinet ministers held strong But Social Credit leader abien Roy captured the Eastern Townships riding of Beauce from Liberal Incumbent Yves Caron The mood of the electorate quickly became evident in On tario however as members of the cabinet woe bowled over SEEKS JOB going down to the man power office in the morning to see what they have on the said Defence Minister Barney Danson 58 one of the first to go down under the Conservative onslaught in To ronto Danson beaded a list of de feated area cabinet ministers that included Labor Minister Martin O'Connell Norm Cafik minister of multiculturalism Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie John Roberts Trudeau's secretary of state Tony Abbott minister of na tional revenue and small busi ness and Hugh aulkner min ister of Indian affairs and northern development NDP leader Ed Broadbent won personal re election in nearby Oshawa despite some suggestions the amount of time he had spent campaigning for the party outside the riding might have hurt him In Southwestern Ontario Judd Buchanan president of the treasury board held on for the Liberals in London West But Bud Cullen lost the Sarnia riding he had held since 1968 to Conservative Bill Campbell Prominent Liberals fared better in Northern Ontario Ec onomic Development Minister Robert Andras was reelected in Thunder Bay Nipigon and John Reid minister of federal provincial relations held onto Kenora Rainy River after a see saw battle with John Parry of the NDP JEROME HUNG ON Liberal speaker James Jerome held off an NDP assault in Sudbury where pundits had predicted be might have trouble because of critical remarks Trudeau had made about Inco Ltd workers involved to a bit ter strike to the nickel city Next door to the riding of Nickel Belt John Rodriguez was easily re elected for the NDP Each of four cabi net ministers in the West suc cumbed to the volatile mood of the voters Two were knocked over by Conservatives and two by the NDP ormer prime minister John By KEVIN DOUGHERTY QUEBEC (CP) The Social Credit party under abien Roy fell short of its 25 to 3(Meat goal but the six Quebec ridings the Creditistes held may assure Roy a key role in the next Parliament The rural based popular vote dropped to 144 per cent from 162 per cent in 1974 when Creditistes took 11 seats but the fate of the Clark government could rest with the six Social Credit MPs from Quebec When the federal election was called March 27 Roy was 1972 74 reclaimed it by 'more than a thousand votes New Democrats also had expressed high hopes last week saying Broadbent's showing in the debate and the Toronto en dowment of the party would increase their popularity and standings But the Conservatives clung to their predictions three downed cabinet min isters and a Metro clothed to Tory blue Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie a 10 year Commons veteran lost Etobicoke Cen tre to PC Michael Wilson 1 man touted by Clark as possible cabinet material TIME OR A DRINK hasn't been our night" Gillespie told his crestfallen supporters you and have a In another tight race Labor Minister He said be would continue fighting to Parliament for the serious and important issues he had fought for during the eight week campaign He would show the same vigor and determina tion to protect medicare to seek reduction of food prices to regain control of resources he had to the past He would continue cam paigning in Parliament the way he had campaigned across the country wish Mr Clark well The task is serious and I hope he Martin O'Connell was defeated by Tory Gordon Gilchrist to Scarborough East the riding O'Connell lost in 1972 but regained two years later The NDP hung on to Broadview Green wood but lost to the Beaches where it had expected to retain the seat All three party leaders had concentrated their pursuit of votes to southern Ontario particularly in Metro where many of the Seats were wide open Trudeau swung through Metro more than a half dozen times during the eight week campaign raising Liberal hopes when a rally at Maple Leaf Gardens drew an estimated 16000 while 3000 more waited In the street Broadbent had spent more campaign time in Metro than Clark or Trudeau but it pay off By AL COLLETTI NEW YORK (CP) Her companions tried to shut her up but Margaret Trudeau likes to talk even from a moving cab It was 4 am today when the estranged wife of the defeated prime minister and two burly companions rushed out of Studio 54 into the waiting taxi While Pierre Trudeau was losing the election to Joe Clark Margaret was dancing at the disco hang out a guest at a private party At closing time her companions shuffled her into the cab and it started to move back door open as she tried to talk in reply to a questions Mrs Trudeau managed a few words of praise for her husband of six years before they were separated two years ago She was muzzled somewhat when asked the question whether for her own sake and the future of their three sons she was happy that he had lost Tuesday's federal election "I think the most wonderful man in the she said will be the finest leader of the opposition the world has One of her companions a heavily bearded individual kept insisting that she had no comment about the election MANAGES TO TALK But Margaret managed a few more words before the trio took off the body Ijalf in the cab and the wheels starting to move "He lost anything" she said of the defeat of Liberal government at the hands of Progressive Conservatives she insisted the She said she is certain that as opposition leader Trudeau will stay on and fight In a recent television talk show interview in New York Mrs Trudeau said she was of two minds about the political fate of her husband "or our country I would like him to she told talk show host Phil Donahue our little boys I would like him to She explained that it might be better for their sons if he lost because he would be able to devote more of himself he wasn't able to do to me in our Mrs Trudeau has spent several weeks in New York promoting her new book Beyond Reason Studio 54 is one of her favorite spots for relaxing and meeting friends Triidpnii cabinet ohnnnedin English Canada nSs a Pierre TIME TO CHANGE But he was unable to overcome the apparently widespread feeling English Canada at least that it was time for a change after 16 years of Liberal rule real good news is that democracy is still full of vitality to Trudeau said to conceding to Clark But he rejected the idea that the election results the Liberals won less than 50 seats outside their traditional power base of Quebec polarized the country Marc Lalonde justice minister and Liberal campaign chairman said the Parti Quebecois will try to portray the election outcome as a rejection of rench Canadians by English Canada Lalonde and Jim Coutts Trudeau's principal secretary and chief political adviser said the Liberal party will have to work hard to explain to Quebecers that this was not the case Pointing to Liberal seats to Ontario and the Maritimes Coutts said he thought it was unfair to talk of polarization have a right to vote Conservative if they want to to one election and I don't think the country is going to fall Cbutts said Both Liberal strategists said Trudeau will probably stay on as Opposition leader prime minister has talked about the joy of leading the Coutts said "I'm sure he'll do it with Lalonde reminded reporters that for 20 years before the prime minister entered politics Trudeau was an opposition leader to Quebec as editor of Cite Libre an intellectual journal harshly critical of the federal and provincial governments think the prime minister would prove a formidable Opposi tion Lalonde said Speaker There were rumors Tuesday that the Tories would approadr Liberal James Jerome to continue in the position he has held since 1974 Jerome was wen reported by most MPs in the last Parliament An appointment from the Liberal ranks rather than the Conservatives would mean the Tories would not have to farther deplete their numbers Graceful end for losing PM Horner 51 who represented Crowfoot for the Conservatives since 1958 enraged party mem bers when he crossed the Com mons floor to the Liberalsin 1977 and was made minister of industry trade and commerce In British 'Columbia En vironment Minister Len Marchand lost Kamloops Shushwap to Conservative Don Cameron and Iona Cam pagnolo minister of fitness and amateur sport lost Skeena to Jim ulton of the NDP USED PLANES Lang who ran into stiff criticism for his use of govern ment planes to his travels throughout the country includ ing an attempt to send home his children's nanny on an Armed orces transport plane said he was the victim of a sentiment for change By DIANE WAYDA TORONTO (CP) Metropolitan Toronto voters delivered their crucial support to Joe Progressive Conservatives on Tues day and finished a task they began last October electing Tories in 12 of 23 key ridings Wooed to the end by Clark Pierre Trudeau and NDP Leader Ed Broadbent Metro voters made their choice in the process knocking off three Liberal cabinet ministers Grits and Tories had been counting on what they perceived as the weaknesses of each party leader to swing the crucial vote their way It was reminiscent of last five byelections to Metro when the Liberals lost four seats to the Conservatives while the NDP retained the other By JOHN ERGUSON while pined mist considered a contender fX THE CANADIAN press ns enough seats for a minority a top economic portfolio in a A powerful anti government government the Conservative Clark cabinet tost Ottawa Cen Asm rwUnraHnl 4a vaial Ishn Itikmw alA wave swept away 13 Liberal cabinet ministers in English Canada Tuesday leaving nine members of Prime Minister Trudeau's inner circle high and dry as survivors in Quebec By KITTY McRNSEY OTTAWA (CP) Prime Minister Trudeau conceded defeat early today to boyish rival Joe Clark but said he thinks he will make a good leader of the confronting a minority Progressive Conservative govern ment "It is my duty at this time to recommend to my colleagues that we hand the government Trudeau told disappointed Liberal party workers and a national television audience as for me I think I will be a pretty good leader of the It was a graceful and dramatic finish to his 11 years as prime minister His defeat ending 16 years of Liberal rule immediately raised questions about a future Liberal leader But party officials insisted a leadership convention was out of the question immediately The party rank and file may have other views Trudeau said he counts on loyalty of every member of this party" spilling coolly as Liberal supporters buoyed by two local wins cheered and yelled give up" RE ELECTED Trudeau won personal re election in Montreal Mount Royal the riding he has held since he entered politics in 1965 to fight Quebec separatism as a federalist Eleven years later the separatist threat looms larger than ever and Trudeau's dream of bringing home the constitution from Great Britain seems as elusive as ever Trudeau admitted be may have lost some support by concentrat ing in the last days of the campaign on national unity and his desire to create a constitution made by Canadians in Canada for Canadians" But he defended his campaign strategy We took the risk of failing greatly and perhaps we did in the short run But in the medium and long term this is the course that Canada will have to Trudeau said Clark know his duty and that will be I take it that he will want to seek the confidence of Parliament" There the Clark minority will face a combined Liberal New Democratic and Social Credit majority STILL BELIEVES Trudeau said he still believes his party was right to campaign for a strong central government to handle the Quebec separatist threat The Conservatives retained their two Quebec seats while they made heavy gains to Ontario and scored western victories despite NDP inroads The party had much to be proud of because didn't give up an inch on our principles as Liberals" Trudeau said He quoted from the poem Desiderata as he did on the night of the 1972 election when he was returned to power with a minority government all its sham drudgery and broken dreams it's still a beautiful world" he told Liberal workers in the ballroom of the Chateau Laurier to be Throughout the campaign polls continued to show that voters saw Trudeau as the most competent and attractive of the three party leaders The Liberals took 10 Metro seats three less than at dissolution two months ago and seven less than in the 1974 federal election The New Democrats who were hoping to make major inroads in Metro lost one of the two seats they held at dissolution BACK IN THE OLD Ironically the Grits recaptured two seats they lost to the byelections bringing Eglinton Lawrence and Parkdale High Park back into the Liberal fold In St considered a bellwhether riding Secretary of State John Roberts was toppled by Tory Ron Atkey in a closely fought race Roberts had been jubilant a week ago claiihtog the leaden debate had turned the tide in his favor But Atkey who represented the riding in interim leader and the only sitting member of the Popular National Party a small con servative splinter in the Quebec national assembly He had been considering an offer to become Social Credit leader and with the election call he resigned his Quebec provincial seat to take the reins of the party that Real Caouette led from nowhere in 1962 to win 26 Quebec seats Premier Levesque praised him and wished him luck Later outlining the posi tion of the Parti Quebecois cabinet on the federal election the premier endorsed the "re Social Credit party under Roy In concrete terms PQ support for Roy did little Only in the Saguenay Lae St Jean region of north central Quebec did the PQ machine actively work for Social Credit RESULTS MEAGER Despite the candidacy of Magella Tremblay chief or ganizer for PQ Justice Minister Marc Andre Bedard in Chicoutimi riding the only Creditiste elected in the region was A Gauthier who has represented Lac St Jean riding since 1962 By STEPHEN SCOTT THE CANADIAN PRESS With two exceptions the people who Joe Clark had been expected to call on to form a Conservative cabinet were elected Tuesday night The so called shadow cabinet of MPs who acted as critics of the government when the Conservatives sat in opposition in the last Parliament survived almost intact The Conservative leader whose party won 196 seats In the 282 seat Commons Tuesday and will form a minority government will choose from that group in the next few days to form the cabinet that will surround him as he governs the country The losers were Robert de Cotret and Jean Pigott in Ottawa De Cotret former head of the Conference Board in Canada and slated for a senior economic post to government was defeated by Liberal John Evans to Ottawa Centre Mrs Pigott one of only two women in the shadow cabinet fell before Liberal Jean Luc Pepin to Ottawa Carleton De Qotret was a special disappointment for Clark He is bilingual and was one of the men Clark used to communicate with Quebecers But Clark has plenty of material in his caucus to choose from with the exception of rench sneaking Quebecers He has made two undertakings A Conservative government would appoint rench speaking cabinet material to the Senate to make up for the fact that only two Conservatives won Quebec seats And he said he would appoint an inner cabinet of about a 20 ministers Appointment of these influendal persons would be followed by naming junior ministers who would not have fall cabinet rank COMPARE WITH LIBERALS TTiis cabinet would compare with the 30 member Liberal cabinet that worked with Prime Minister Trudeau Clark appears to have a choice of two persons for the contoversial position of finance minister Sinclair Stevens the financial critic of the last Parliament and John Crosbie former Newfoundland finance minister plans partying supporters had left a mess that could not be shown on television Broadbent had waited until both Trudeau and Clark had made their statements before meeting reporters He had been cheered by his supporters earlier when he won personal victory to Oshawa a constituency he has represented since 1968 He beat Conservative Souch a car dealer and other candidates Social Credit Party leader abien Roy chaired by rapporters after winning Beauce Riding seat In Ste Georges de Beauce last night CP Laserphoto leader lost two potential caor tre to uoerai uonn tvansue net ministers utuwa nomgs where federal employees voted against his plan to slash 60000 public service jobs Robert de Cotret an econo gKz Ar Mi Ms it fry A1 r' BmSK mil wmfih I illlBBBBMBk'M Blah a ft BiR I i a ai 2 iw I i i BSBUR.