Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 26


     
     1        media.  I used the media because they asked me to tell them
     2        my story, and I did.
     3
     4   Q.   Did you expect or hope that people who were entitled to
     5        vote in the ballot would see and read what you had said to
     6        the media?
     7        A.  Actually, that never really crossed my mind for them to
     8        see it.  The one thing that was -- the one part of the
     9        media that was publicised for the crew to watch was when
    10        I went to Vancouver and did Front Page Challenge, a
    11        television show; and that was done by the lawyers of
    12        Cornish Advocates.
    13
    14   Q.   The union lawyers?
    15        A.  Yes.
    16
    17   Q.   The union and you took every opportunity before the
    18        election to put across your point of view?  I am not saying
    19        it is wrong.
    20        A.  No, I am not saying it is wrong either.
    21
    22   Q.   It is the fact, is it not?
    23        A.  Yes, we did.
    24
    25   Q.   Well, why do you complain that Cam did the same thing?
    26        A.  I am not complaining that he did the same thing.
    27
    28   Q.   Did the union come on the day of the ballot, which is
    29        24th February 1994, did the union come and give you help?
    30        A.  Rui Amorim, the organiser for the union -----
    31
    32   Q.   Rui -- sorry, I did not catch the other name?
    33        A.  Rui Amorim -- that is his full name -- was the
    34        representative from the union at the ballot box, and the
    35        rest -- Mark Ortlieb, the Director of Organising, did not
    36        come to help until later in the afternoon,.
    37
    38   Q.   Was there not also a lady called Ellen Gardiner there, from
    39        the union?
    40        A.  Yes.  She was -- she was not really involved though;
    41        like, she was doing sort of a story for the local union
    42        paper, for their local union paper.
    43
    44   Q.   Did they provide you, for example, with a mobile telephone
    45        or help you make calls to get people to come to vote?
    46        A.  No.  They were supposed to, but they did not.  They
    47        were supposed to help me control -- what they were supposed
    48        to be there for was to help me control the media, because
    49        obviously I had never experienced anything like this; and
    50        I wanted to make sure that each and every person had the 
    51        ability to come down and vote, because there was not a bus 
    52        day that day at school; it was really snowy in Orangeville; 
    53        so, for people that had depended on getting to school from
    54        the school buses, could not depend on them any more that
    55        day.
    56
    57   Q.   You wanted to be as sure you as you could that all the
    58        people who might support your side of the argument turned
    59        out to vote?
    60        A.  That is true.

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