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BRENDAN WOOD
STAFF WRITER
er to resolve them,”he said.“I don’t see why
there couldn’t be good, solid cooperation
amongst us all. We can accomplish a lot by
working together.”
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ild Rose MP Myron Thompson
said that Monday’s Conservative
win is a big victory for Alberta, the
A key issue for voters in Wild Rose, and Al-
berta in general, is agriculture. The Sundre All of our 140+ vehicles in stock go through
West and his constituents. native plans to make sure that the people’s
“We’re quite a proud bunch out here,” concerns in that area are effectively ad-
dressed.
our rigorous 159 point inspection for our
Thompson said. “We have a prime minister
from our province, which has been a long
time coming.”
“I can promise people in agriculture that
your voice will be heard,”Thompson said,
peace of mind and yours.
After serving four consecutive terms as a adding that many Albertans within the in-
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for each and every member of his party to national drug strategy going. Let’s get a na-
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supporters across the country are ing the intimidation and the profanities that
celebrating Monday’s federal we’ve faced at the door,” McMahon added.
election victory, not everyone is impressed “They want more women to be running for 2002 Toyota
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especially the campaign team for Wild Rose want to run when we get faced with that?”
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manager said that she was shocked at how
some Wild Rose constituents crossed the line.
type of attacks she’s been subject to in the
past few weeks.
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Susan McMahon said that she and her “Last time we did get a little bit of rude-
colleagues were sworn at, received “nasty” ness, but nothing that was disturbing,” she
gestures and insults and were even mooned
on the campaign trail.
said.“This time it was very disturbing.”
According to McMahon, the cause for the
If you’re looking for a pre-owned TOYOTA or
“It’s been a grind, I have to admit, this time
around,” said McMahon, who also cam-
change this time around was a negative cam-
paign run by the Conservatives. your next vehicle and you haven’t looked at
“The Conservatives have been calling the
paigned with Stewart in 2004.“Being a Liber-
al candidate in Wild Rose is not pleasant. Liberals crooks and criminals and corrupt for Country Hills Toyota - You Should.
We’ve taken a fair amount of abuse.” two months,”she said.“If we have the leaders
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lights a more fundamental issue. corrupt, what does that make the rest of the
“We have a privilege and a right to stand
up and say that we believe in certain things,”
population think? I mean, they are setting the
example.”
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she said.“We should not be abused for having

her seventh campaign at various levels of gov-
our beliefs. If this was any other situation,
this would be called hate crimes.”
Although some were crass in their attacks,
ernment, will cause Stewart to end her polit-
ical career, the future is unclear.
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McMahon said that many non-Liberal vot-
ers were a pleasure to deal with.
“In many, many areas we have had ab-
McMahon said. “Nothing would surprise
me.”


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