lt’s not hard to tell who won and who lost in this photo. Liberal Barney Danson, left, congratulates a beaming Progressive Con- Economics will play as much a part in Bruce‘s decision to continue to seek public office as anything. Before moving to Markham, he held a seal on Pickering Town Council and was involved heavily with the People Or Planes group # the lobby responsible for blocking the building of the proposed Pickering airport. “We have to get at least 15 per cent of the total vote. That‘s the im- portant thing at this point. If we do, we‘ll recoup all the money spent on the campaign.“ By STEVE PEARLSTEIN Liberal Staff \l‘ritel Bruce Searle said he'll be spending the next two months analyzing the results of the general election â€" as his wife ‘looked on in admiration, ‘he wasn‘t totally sure he had had enough of politics. "We‘ll want to deter- mine if it was an anli~ government vote or if it was a polarized vole. We‘ll also look at my performance as a canâ€" didate â€" was it good or poor? I! may take four years to figure it out.“ said the NDP hopeful. Sear/e will analyze the election results The NDP candidate spent $1,100 of his own money and a total of $10,000. mostly donations. Barney Danson and John Gamble each parted with $27,000 for their cam- paigns. What hurts Bruce is that of the nearly 56,600 .votes cast. he collected Superior puts it All TOGETHER for you Model C-QOOOD o 450 sq. in. cooking area 0 dual “radiant heat" cooking 0 twin controls Beautiful stylingâ€. rugged design‘ A If you missed our first big sale of the season here’s your Chance to pick up the popular 4353â€"2 with full tank. assembled and delivered ï¬zzwm We don't just hand you a box. Canadiana Bar~B ~ atasuperiordeal We make sure everything is working and ready. We demonstrate the operation of the grill too. We deliver within 20 miles. . . C We assemble and install it. ,Use your'Chargex â€" or Master Charge ‘1 DDnDA kll: I ' Thurs. & Fri, til 8 PM Saturday til 5 PM Whitby- Saturday ‘til 1 PM 3 Hours -' ' PROPANE LTD. Dally 8 ‘ 6 Stu mile north 012:7) jusl over 7,000 or 12.5 per cenli Though Ihe final figures from the (‘hief Returning Officer in Ottawa were nol available. it is unlikely he‘ll gel any of the money back. The finaltally shows he was consistently above projections for those areas. For example. of the to polls in Oak Ridges. he had final figures for eight and he managed to get over half the votes picked up by the winner of five of them. His workers cam- paigned hard across most parts of the constituency and by the time the election was four weeks away. Bruce had lost 13 pounds. “We feel we ran the best campaign we could with the money available. We elected to use a certain type of strategy and we want to look at the voting to see how well it worked.“ he said. ‘ From lhe outsel. he felt he would do strongly in bolh Richmond Hill Ithe main reason he placed his headquarters in the Allencourl Plaza) and Oak Ridges. In a West Woodbridge poll. traditionally a Liberal stronghold. Bruce garnered 61 votes com- pared with Danson‘s 131 and Gamble's 11. And while he did well in four polls in Maple. picking up at least 30 per cent of the votes in each case, he was sorry he couldn't win at least one poll in the riding servative John Gamble, following Gamble’s convincing York-North victory in last Tuesday’s federal election. “We didn't get fewer votes than in the last election k this is the best campaign the NDP has run here and across the country. We would like to have received more of the popular vote, especially in areas where we weren‘t expecting to do well,“ said Bruce. Subdued melancholia was the only way to describe the atmosphere headquarters as polling resulls lrlckled in last week. About 18 com- millee workers nervously wailed for the phones to ring and manned a full board of well-prepared grids showing each poll. how strongly it had been canvassed and the break- down of voters by gender. Bruce also paced the floor like a cat in a roomful of rocking chairs. He frequently walked the length of the building to catch a glimpse of the national returns on television Retrieving a slip of paper from one of the phone‘ operators, he exclaimed: “Hey. we almost won this one Ipoll). At least we beat Danson. though." That was practically the height of the evening for him, however. by 9: 15 pm. victory was already in the hands of PC John Gamble. Before leaving to congratulate the winner. Bruce remarked that he hadn‘t won a single poll. 669-1145 Whitby 505 Victoria St. 668-3328 ‘ ‘béï¬Ã©bn Won '2‘ remain » unemployed for long John Gamble will go to Ottawa within 10 days to be sworn in as the member of parliament representing York-North after upsetting Liberal Barney Danson Tuesday night. Mr. Gamble is eager to assume his respon- sibilities and told The Liberal this week his area of interest is the matter of the economy. Economy needs fixing 5MP One areav he felt par- ticularly strong about is By LARRY JOHNSTON Liberal News Editor Barney Danson has had “about four careers" in his life and he is about to slarl a fifth. The only question is what will it be. While he joked about collecting unemployment insurance (exâ€"cabinet members are not eligible). job offers are likely to pour in for the defeated defense minister who served York North as its member of parliament for 11 years. Mr. Danson sold his own highly successful plastics company when he entered the cabinet in 1975 and a new career in private business is likely. But he has not ruled out running again Late last week. he and his wife drove l0 ()llawa # no more government aircraft A wheré lhere were some people he wanted lo say goodbye to. His hardworking staff. having closed the conâ€" stituency office he pioneered, followed on Friday for a last weekend in the capital. Mr. Danson spent the “best 11 years of my life" in parliament. He rode Ihe crest of Trudeaumania into his first term in 1968 and was reâ€"elected in 1972 and I974. He serVed first as parliamentary secretary 10 the prime minister. then as minister of state for urban affairs and finally as minister of national defense. his favorite post. The re-equipping of the military. part of his mandale as Trudeau‘s defense minister. is being done with an eye on long- ierm benefits for (‘anadian manufacturers. He played a role in the takeover of Canadian aircraft plants to keep them operating, in tur- ning Harbourfront from a vacant lot into a success. and 'in meeting federal housing targets for the first time in years. Meanwhilé. his con- stituency office was By SHAARON HAY Liberal Staff Writer expenditure in the civil The service. memb “It is absolutely essential to eliminate the preferred treatment given under the present scheme to people such as members of parliament and civil servants,“ he said. “I will work assiduously to convince my colleagues in caucus lo eliminate the pension indexing scheme," said Mr. Gamble. “II is a millstone around the public‘s neck." he added. dealing with complaints about unemployment insurance. immigration, or the post office, cutting through the red tape to get the Johnsview con- dominium registered. or trying to get external affairs to persuade a European government to find three paintings by a Thornhill artist that it lost on a cultural exchange. A major breakthrough on train noise in Don- caster. lo move the most annoying train assembly to Brampton, came too late to help Mr. Danson in Ihe election. He may have been able to move a train, but he couldn‘t stand up to the Tory tide which swept Toronto‘s suburban ridings. His plurality of more than 7.000 votes in '1972 was turned into a 7,000 vote loss May 22. 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He hopes to develop a scheme whereby civil servants would be promoted only on reducing the expenditure of their departmentsLnot already showed Progressive Conservative John Gamble 2,000 votes ahead shortly after 9 pm. when Mr. Danson con- ceded defeat. “We won three and we lost one.“ he lold a long- faced crowd of sup- porters. _ He told them lhe loss wasn't their fault. “1 can‘t tell you how much we appreciate everything you have done. We had the best campaign we possibly could but the voters wanted a change." Always a gentleman. he congratulated Mr. Gamble and also Joe Clark. “1 hope he does a good job‘ The country is loo precious." Then a woman sup- porter held up a sign‘ “you're still a nice guy. Barney.“ Embraces and a few lears followed. Ontario on the growth of departâ€" ments as he feels is the practice now._ > Mr. Gamble also in- tends to follow up on one of his campaign promises immediately. 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