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The Canadian government ‘“‘has
betrayed the vital interests’’ of the
Canadian people by signing an um-
brella weapons testing agreement
Which paves the way for the United
States to test the cruise missile here,
the Communist Party of Canada
has charged,

In a Feb. 16 statement the CP
a the federal government “‘is

urther tying Canada to the nuclear

War strategy of U.S. imperialism

with all its catastrophic dangers to

and the world.”’

The Canada-U.S. (CANUS)

“st and Evaluation Program was

fxd in Washington Feb. 11
ollowing an exchange of
Plomatic notes between the U.S.

ey aument and Canadian am-
‘assador Allan Gotlieb.

Fae agreement leaves little doubt

i a the primary focus of the treaty

cruise missile, The cruise, hot-

Y Protested in peace demonstra-

tions around the world during the

ie year, is the sole weapon men-
Oned in Gotlieb’s note.

«qUnder the CANUS agreement,
flight corridors in Canada to be
€d for the testing of cruise

Missiles shall be selected to ensure

eum disruption to civil air-

i Operations and minimum
turbance to persons on the

&round,’?

Elsewhere the agreement states
fee ‘in no case shall nuclear,

lological or chemical warfare

materials be brought into Canada
under the agreement. Cruise
missiles shall be unarmed.”

The cruise has been the target of
mass peace demonstrations in
Europe, particularly West Ger-
many where it is to be deployed
along with Pershing Il missiles in
the latest round of the Reagan ad-
ministration’s arms buildup of
theatre nuclear weapons.

Canadian peace activists have
also focused on the cruise, a
relatively small, unpiloted aircraft
with the ability to avoid radar
detection and change course accor-

6 | DISARMAMENT
Cruise pact ‘betrays Canadians’

February it drew storms of protests
and united several MPs from all
parties, including the Liberals, in
opposition to the project. That
protest helped mold public opi-
nion, and a Gallup poll last month
showed that 52 percent of Cana-
dians were opposed to cruise
testing.

That sentiment forced external
affairs minister Allan MacEachen
and prime minister Pierre Trudeau
to downplay the cruise issue and to
stress that Canada has the right to
opt out of cruise tests under the
umbrella agreement.

ys

ding to a pre-programmed flight
pattern. It can deliver a 200-kiloton
warhead with ‘house address ac-
curacy’? and is designed specifically
to attack Soviet missile silos.

As such, it is a_first-strike
weapon and constitutes a
dangerous escalation in the arms
race to which the Canadian govern-
ment should not be party, disarma-
ment activists have charged.

When news of the proposed
agreement came to light last

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The CANUS agreement is
covered by existing NATO ar-
rangements and_ specific
agreements between the Canadian
department of national defense
and the U.S. department of
defense. While Canadian forces
“command and control’? Cana-
dian facilities at which the tests are
carried out, any test involving
“U.S. classified information
and/or material’? will be under
U.S. security control.

A campaign to make Canada a
nuclear weapons-free zone will be
the focus. of activities. by. the, B.C.
Peace Council, executive members
from around the province decided
at a weekend conference.

The campaign calls for the
removal of all nuclear weapons
from Canadian territory, the pro-
hibition of weapons tests and pro-
duction in Canada, and the
cancellation of ‘‘any and all treaties
and agreements which either direct-
ly or indirectly make Canada part
of a first-strike nuclear strategy.”’

They have an ally in the Toronto
city council, which has declared the
city a nuclear weapons-free zone
and has requested every
municipality in Canada with a
population more than 100,000 to
initiate the same action.

The Toronto council made its
decision following requests from
four organizations including the
Canadian Peace Congress, the
B.C. Peace Council’s parent body.

The information was contained
in a letter sent to several B.C.
municipalities, including Van-
couver, from Toronto city clerk
Roy Henderson. }

A nuclear weapons-free
Canada, according to the Cana-
dian Peace Congress, would mean
the “‘storage, installation, deploy-
ment, transit or possession ...
testing, development or production
of nuclear weapons”’ would be pro-
hibited.

The CANUS pact is to remain in
force for five years, and will be
automatically renewed for another
five years.

MacEachen has claimed that the
agreement was signed ‘‘so that the
Soviet Union will come to the
bargaining table,’’ the Communist
Party statement notes.

“The truth is that the widening
people’s movement for peace has
given further impetus by the peace
initiatives of the Soviet Union and
the Warsaw Treaty countries.
Their latest proposal is that both
NATO and the Warsaw Treaty
countries sign a non-agression
pact.

“These latest peace initiatives,
added to the Soviet Union’s earlier
pledge never to be the first to use
nuclear weapons, have all so far
been rejected out-of-hand by the
U.S. Reagan administration and
NATO.

“These facts expose the false
argument that the Soyiet Union
and the United States are equally
responsible for the present
dangerous international
situation,’’ states the CP.

The Communists call for ‘‘a
mass people’s protest with mass ac-
tions to refuse the cruise, to annul
the U.S. weapons-testing agree-
ment, to make Canada a nuclear
weapons-free zone.”’

hes nuke-free drive

This would include the ‘‘control,
handling or involvement with
nuclear weapons by Canadian
Forces personnel, at home or
abroad.”’

The campaign also calls on the
Canadian government to “‘sign
treaties with nuclear weapon states
recognizing and respecting our
status as a nuclear weapons-free
zone ... and on that basis ex-
cluding Canadian territory from
their targeting plans.”’

For Canada, such a position
would mean the withdrawal of all
U.S. nuclear warheads currently
stored in Canada, prohibit the U.S.
from flying nuclear-armed aircraft
over Canadian territory, and
disallow from Canadian ports or
territorial waters any nuclear-
armed vessels, such as the U.S. Tri-
dent submarine.

The testing of the cruise missile
and other nuclear weapons systems
of foreign states would also be pro-
hibited, the Congress states.

The B.C. Peace Council ex-
ecutives also decided to send bet-
ween 10 and 15 delegates the
“world assembly for peace and
life’? in Prague, Czechoslovakia
this June, and pledged to mobilize
its members for the Apr. 23 peace
march in Vancouver.

Additionally, the council plans
to host a delegation from the Soviet
Peace Committee at the end of
March.

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