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.
