a On the 95th birthday of our country, the Communist oy declares that the dreams of the workers and farmers ae Canada out of the wildernesscan be fulfilled. Can- ae fan be ‘a land of hope for all who toil.” Canada can be! iia and free.’ Canada can live at peace with all the Grip MS of the world. Even though the country is now in the nei @ deep-going political and economic crisis, aes Com- Party is confident that Canada and its people can ve, the Revival was the real issue of the election. This remains ‘sue now. Qnly the Communist Party placed squarely mths people of our country the need to fight for those ae Of peace and independence which alone can make Sible the Survival of our country. t pu the results of the election in themselves are evidence hefo Poli, Pos , . Sreat U.S. and Canadian monopolies by the united 10N of its People. in . € Communist Party is proud of the part it is nlPviAg t : Stowing movements of the people aginst e Mor, ™°ncpolies, That movemnt found expression: in the agaiy than a million votes cast for the New Democratic Party tthe old Parties of monopoly capital. farme © Communist Party believes that” the workers, wie tuals *S, the small businssmen, the professionals and intellec- tionay Rur: land will find the way of uniting to win sare ae tions Policies of neutrality, of disarmament, of pencaity ae Control trade with all countries, of restoring to Canada ij U, of our own economy through the nationalization of the geste in Canada — so that Canadians may be fully em- Tich Aaa developing and processing the vast resources of our Hee Z the way to put Canada First. This is the way to : € monopolies and their old parties who run our T now in the interests of U.S. imperialism. e 1962, s Communist Party rededicates itself on Canada na Pathan Working for the fulfilment of the task begun by : Con pot Confederation. We renew our call for a new pact ie Wil) portion between French and English Canada whic Whi, SUard the rights and interests of both our nations, for p Will spell out the right to national self-determination rench Canada. Sunt *S must be the basis of a new constitution for our v; drawn up by the Canadian people, enshrining within. tights Bbot Rights to guarantee their inalienable democratic * 8nd ending forever all remnants of colonial tes with Untry CANADA DAY MESSAGE OF THE COMMUNIST CANADA CAN BE ‘LAND OF HOPE FOR ALL WHO TOIL’ Si PARTY Britain. Such a constitution, proclaiming ihe full sovereignty of Canada, upholding the freedoms of Canadians, uniting in equality the two nations of our couniry, will be the most powerful weapcen in the defense of our independence from’ U.S. domination. The Communist Party call upon the people of Canada to join together for these goals so that when, five years from now. we come to the centennial of Confederation the forces that now threaten the destruction of our country and its people will be curbed, and we will be able to look forward in security and freedom to building a Canada that will be truly great in a world at peace. Waticnal Committee, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA. Kankin Says 4 year ferm no solution City lawyer Harry Rankin was sharply critical this week of the proposal before Van- couver City Council to ex- tend aldermanic terms to four years from the present two. Rankin, writing on behalf of the Central Council of Ratepayers — of which he is president — charged that to institute this change would not even ‘‘begin to touch the issues affecting civic govern- ment in Vancouver.” “It must long have been evident to you, Mr. Mayor, and to members of Council, that basic representation in the city of Vancouver is of prime importance. Also im- portant is the question of an expanded body of aldermen to administer the many tasks which cannot be adequately handled by council now, be- cause of time limitations and the growth of civic govern- ment generally,” his letter continued. The letter also stated that council should “put. before the electorate the question of the ward system” and other improvements. Continued from pg. 1 At the time of his release by the Diefenbaker govern- ment last month, Gen. Mc- Naughtcn presented figures from the government's stu- dies to show the Door Diver- sion Plan (which he advo- cates) would provide 2.4 times as much power, with half of it generated in Can- ada and firmly under Cana- dian cecntrol; at one-third~ lower rates; and with 39% more employment in the ini- tial stages of constructon alone. U.S. CONTROL “My other grave difficulty with the Treaty .. - is the arrangements which places contrc! over the operation of the reservoirs in the hands of pf the Uss.4.ne declared. “The Treaty calls for operating plans ‘designed to achieve optimum power gen- eration in the United States of America — ’ until power generation facilities are in- 0 to - Stowing anxiety of important sections of our people as Our future. These results give us cause for confidence that C of ©ountry in the coming years will be freed from the grip stalled in Canada. There is not the least objection to this as on harm would be done to any Canadian interest. “Then, after at site power is developed in Canada, pro- bably first at Mica, the oper- ating plans are to be changed ‘to achieve optimum power generation at site in Canada and down stream in Canada and the United States of Am- erica—’ “The words ‘OPTIMUM POWER GENERATION’ in the above criteria do not im- ply that the releases are re- stricted to any specific kind of benefits, whether share- able or not. The term is GENERAL and so, as the U.S. needs shifts from operation to Firm Power to operation for Thermal replacement or Peaking the regulation or- dered by the U.S. may alter accordingly quite regardless of the fact that the require- ment in Canada may still be Firm Power. Apart from this ° eoooe or coeseserree vy We _... TAILS YOU LOSE ad = SSVI VALS - June 29, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 TREATY the timings of the flows from Canadian storage required by the U.S. may be out of phase with Canadian needs. RUINOUS TO CANADA “Just how serious this may be to Canada in a later phase is well brought out in a state- ment by the Chairman B.C.- P.C. (B.C. Power Commis- sion) at Hearings on the High Arrow license when he said in effect that Mica with flow regulated to U.S. require- ments would produce only 100 to 200 megawatts of Firm Power for the Canadian load but by freeing the regulation from U.S. requirements by regulating the flows at High Arrow then the Mica production could increase to 1000 megawatts of Firm Power, as he said ‘A MORE THAN FIVE FOLD’ increase. “I do say with all emphasis that the effect of regulation which is open to the U.S. to impose in their own interest ‘could be ruinous to Canada. I say also that such an order if given by the U.S. entity must be obeyed by Canada or Canada will be liable to damages under the provisions of Art. XVIII. “In these circumstances there would be no purpose in an appeal to the IJC or the other Tribunal for the reason that where a breach of the Treaty is involved it is on the terms of the Treaty itself that judgement would be given. Here equity is not a consideration at all. ANNOUNCEMENT In keeping with last year’s practise, the Pacific Tribune will appear dur- ing July and August as an eight page paper. This: arrangement is necessary to enable our hard work- ing staff to take their summer holidays.