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VOL. 22, No. 34

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1962
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of the U.S. forever.

With these words read
from a letter at a Revelstoke
by-election meeting last
week, Gen. A. G. L. Mec-
Naughton blasted the draft
Columbia River Treaty.

Gen. McNaughton made it
clear in his letter that he
intends to appear before the
External Affairs Committee
at Ottawa, when Parliament
reconvenes, to state the
grounds for his opposition to
the sellout pact.

Meanwhile, this week B.C.
Premier Bennett held talks
in Ottawa with Justice Min-
ister Fleming and Works
Minister Fulton aimed at
reaching agreement to push
the Treaty through in the
early days of the Parliamen-
tary session.

Both Fleming and Fulton
issued statements after the
meetings backing Premier

Bennett to Ottawa
to speed sellout

‘COLUMBIA TREATY
CALAMITY FOR B.C.’

CHARGES McNAUGHTON

“Ratification of the Columbia River Treaty would
be a major calamity for B.C. and for Canada. I intend:
to do everything in my power to oppose and prevent

“The present treaty places the management of the
-water resources of the Columbia in Canada in the hands

“Not only are we placed in servitude on the Col-
umbia, but the pattern and precedent is set for a similar
debacle on all our great rivers crossing the Panhandle
and including the Yukon... .

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Bennett’s statement that the
two governments were now

closer together on the

Treaty,
Before leaving for Ottawa
Bennett made it clear that

while the B.C. government -

was prepared to make minor
concessions, the sale of
downstream benefits to the
U.S. and plans for the Peace
and Columbia had not
changed “‘in principle’.

Bennett’s big pitch with
Ottawa was made on the
need for Canada to get more
U.S. dollars to meet the
“austerity” crisis, and that
sale of downstream benefits
would be one way of getting
more dollars. Through this
form of political blackmail,
the B.C. Socred government
hopes to win the Tories to
quick ratification of the
treaty.

See COLUMBIA, page 2

Thousands of BC lumber jobs on
| block as US presses import curb

SEE PAGE 12