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> Alliance executive calls Atlantic Canadians 'lazy'
>
> Party to investigate remarks attributed to strategist
>
> By ALISON AULD-- The Canadian Press
>
>   Alliance controversy
>
> A Canadian Alliance strategist has stirred up a hornet's nest in
> Atlantic Canada.
>
> KENTVILLE, N.S. (CP) -- Stockwell Day breezed through traditional Tory
> country Monday, eager to make an impression in this farming heartland
> and distance himself from a party member who called Atlantic Canadians
> lazy.
>
> The Canadian Alliance leader said statements made Friday by a party
> official during a meeting in Vancouver don't represent the Alliance's
> views.
>
> "This isn't Canadian Alliance policy at all," Day told reporters
> outside a coffee shop where he met residents on the final leg of his
> four-day Atlantic tour.
>
> "I have advised our president to contact them and find out if that's
> exactly what they think . . . and if it is, then they have nothing to
> offer the Canadian Alliance."
>
> John Mykytyshyn said during a conference on political campaigns and
> training that the Alliance will "never change the mentality" of lazy
> easterners.
>
> "The simple reason is that eastern provinces believe in handouts and
> 'Give me a cheque for doing nothing,' " he said during a round table
> discussion.
>
> "They don't want to do like their ancestors did and work for a living
> and go where the jobs are. Probably, the Alliance won't go over as
> well there."
>
> Mykytyshyn, a member of the party's national council and a strategist
> for Tom Long's failed leadership bid, attended the conference as
> president of the polling firm Canadian Voter Contact.
>
> Mykytyshyn said in an interview Monday he didn't mean to offend
> Atlantic Canadians.
>
> "What I said in content and context was not wrong," he said from
> Vancouver. "Certainly some of my words were poorly chosen and I
> totally and completely apologize."
>
> Mykytyshyn, 41, said he spoke to Alliance president Ken Kalopsis on
> Monday and the party was investigating. He wouldn't say whether he
> would keep his position on the council.
>
> He also admitted he was fired from a position with the Conservative
> party in Ontario for the way he worded a survey prior to the last
> provincial election.
>
> "I had a poor choice of words on a questionnaire," he said, declining
> to provide more details. "I was stood aside."
>
> Day, who made a four-hour tour of the Kings-Hants riding, called the
> remarks "off the wall" and said Atlantic Canadians have a reputation
> for being some of the hardest-working people in the country.
>
> Still, the comments couldn't come at a worse time for the Canadian
> Alliance leader, who will likely have a hard time stealing votes from
> federal Tory Leader Joe Clark.
>
> Clark, who was out of the riding Monday, will run in a Sept. 11
> byelection in Kings-Hants. Gerry Fulton is expected to be named the
> Alliance candidate during a nominating meeting Tuesday.
>
> The byelection was called after Tory MP Scott Brison stepped aside to
> allow Clark to run in one of the country's safest Conservative seats.
>
> Clark criticized the Alliance on Monday, saying the comments showed
> the party's true political colours.
>
> "Anyone who wants to know the fundamental differences between that
> party and my party -- their party is one that seeks to divide
> Canadians, to play on old prejudices," Clark said during a news
> conference in Ottawa.
>
> "Ours is a party that tries to draw Canadians together for common
> purposes."
>
> News of the remarks travelled quickly through Kentville, a small rural
> community surrounded by farmlands and rolling green hills.
>
> Two young men stood outside a local pub where Day was speaking and
> carried placards that said: Go Away Stockwell Day.
>
> "Comments like that are hurtful and not good for the area," said Joey
> Archibald, 23, who lives in the area.
>
> "It's something I find deeply disturbing and I hope something is done
> about it."
>
>
>
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