jews hood In The Evening Standard, Londen _ PACK IN NATO _Kierans’ arguments be d? Will the Canadian ment use its influence to ‘© and other defense es packed up? Or, fail- at, will. it at least drop its ATO and NORAD com- ts and establish some temporary and mean- | cornerstone for Cana- foreign policy? jably not this time around. G bit more questioning of | assumptions, however, ver, we may be ready for ns by the time we have xt review of foreign po- and defense. Who knows, ay even be ready to make ise the servant, not the er, of foreign policy, oc- fing a small slot in an Ex- | Affairs department that béen rechristened the “De- tment of Peace.” iz Pauline Jewett, Macleans A ALUTE TO SCIENTISTS he strike called by scien- Gt a number of universi- 48 q stirring challenge to § Policies of devastation iQ pressed by Washington Business. action reflects the determination among © Nation’s scholars that their mts shall not be misused lestruction and death.... ‘call for the strike de- Misuse of scientific and Nical knowledge presents jor threat to the existence Nkind. Through its ac- in Vietnam our govern- has shaken our confi- @ in its ability to make Gnd humane decisions. fe is also disquieting €Nncé of an intention to 2 further our immense ve capacity.” entists are demand- to the’ anti-missile’ program, to increasing the nu- clear weapons arsenal and chemical-bacteriological war- ware projects. They urge the transference of federal funds from military research to pro- grams that will fulfill the social needs of the people. In their action the scientists are on the same side as the majority of their students. Joint and continued action by the two groups will further the the cause of peace. Daily World. WIRE TO TRUDEAU The following wire was sent by Norman Brudy in the name of the Metro Toronto Commit- tee of the Communist Party to Prime Minister Trudeau in Washington on March 24. "U.S. ABM system will ac- celerate arms race. Canada and its people are not expend- able, Canadians expect you to defend our sovereignty. Can- ada must work consistently for disarmament to promote world peace.” HIGHER HYDRO RATES “Hydro-union peace to raise rates.” This headline greeted the readers of The Windsor Star on March 11th when Lo- cal 1000 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees reached an agreement with Ontario Hydro after a five week rotating strike. The settlement provided for 15.5 percent wage increase in a two-year contract. The union had sought 16.5 percent. But the biggest issues developed over Hydro's insistence that a cost-of-living escalator clause be dropped from the new con- tract, and, that a 6 percent wage differential between. re- gions be maintained. The’ and comment... 2 esia union also asked for a job eva- luation plan. , George Gathercole, chair- man of the Hydro-Electric Pow- er Commission of Ontario said all costs incurred as a result of the strike, including the higher wages and improve- ments in fringe benefits, will ultimately result in higher rates to customers. For the record it must be pointed out that this is a high- ly unjustified attempt to make it appear as if the union in this case started a wage-price spiral. It is doubly objection- able coming from a crown cor- poration which only last Nov- ember raised its price by 8 percent. It is a well known fact that Hydro is a heavy borrower of capital, at growing interest rates, which now amount to the tidy sum of $500,000 per day. This is a far greater item than wages, in the cost picture. But oddly eniugh, or perhaps not so surprising in our circum- stances, capital investors never have to go on strike to get higher interest rates. Bruce Magnuson, Ontario leader, Communist Party. WE'RE “SAFE” One of the big reasons be- hind the current boom—or at least the interest—in oil stocks is the heating up of oil activity in the Arctic. One analyst speaks of some of these issues as “Arctic Red-Hots.” In a recent appraisal, Stand- ard & Poor's Corporation, in noting “milestones of pro- gress’ during the last year or so, stated: “Developments in the Alas- kan and Canadian Far North continue to encourage expec- tations that this politically stable region will open up as one of the most promising oil frontiers.” New York Times. His master’s voice Assuming the Trudeau government was hon- estly looking. for foreign policy options which would take Canada out of the North Atlantic Treaty O ization, and of this, there is precious little evidence, and even assuming that the government wanted to construct any viable _ risen ga ip role for Canada anywhere, the touch of cold reality freezes such assumptions and illusions. Pierre are quite a curap other capi and he may be quite a dandy in the Ottawa-H _ area, but his cuteness turns to pure sludge when he is down in Washington listening to his master’s voice. Canada’s abject relationship to the United States, has never been more starkly illustrated than with this state visit to Washington. It is no wonder, since this was the first state visit Nixon received, that the main political specula- tion in Washington concerned the table man- ners of the new administration. There was simply nothing for Nixon to dis- cuss with Trudeau, although he may have had a few a to tell him. A case in point is the de- e cision to deploy the ABM system, which in effect gives the U.S. the right to explode apie warheads over Canada. Canada can either like it or lump it—so what’s to discuss? Given the political and economic relations that have developed between the U.S. and Can- ada throughout the last 25 years, a slight twitch of American displeasure can mean economic ruin. Two million dollars of American capital flows across the border daily, eapital investment literally without Canadian control or restraint subject only to American laws and regulations and whims. Thus we have become an economic dependency. A current expression of this prob- lem is reflected in the current dilema of oil production and supply. In the absence of a national oil policy that, since Canada is rich in oil, would logically be based upon self sufficiency, we are completel at the mercy of purchasing policies of the U.S. Eastern Canada has no access to western crude. In the absence of an independent wheat ex- port policy, Canadian agriculture is thrown a on because of the dumping practices of the U.S. The list is as endless as the resources of our country, but it all adds up to the same thing: Within the framework of past and present policy, economic and political decision making does not reside in Canada. It is in this area that ' the root and branch of Canada’s satellite rela- tionship exists. The essential message that Canadians should grasp from the Trudeau-Nixon tete a tete, is that there must be some basic policy changes in Canada, and the time for these changes is running out. Uy, / | | - The Wall Street Journal - PACIFIC TRIBUNE=-MARCH 28; 1969—Page 3