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HE “joint communique” issued

‘for public consumption at the
close of the Diefenbaker-Kennedy
“talks” last week confirmed the
worst fears of the Canadian peo-
ple. :

Tucked away behind the flowery
wrapping of fine words was the
sinister bill-of-goods U.S. Presi-
dent Kennedy had come to Canada
to sell.

An “extended” and consequently
a more costly NATO, fully equip-
ped with nuclear arms, a proposi-
tion which must have sounded like
Sweet music to the West German
Hitlerite nazi generals of Konrad
Adenauer, who now command
NATO’s European ground forces
and clamor loudly for nuclear
weapons to carry out their revan-
chist aims against the countries of
Socialism, and first and foremost,
Soviet Union.

Moreover nuclear arms for
NATO in the Kennedy prospectus
means nuclear arms for Canada,
smuggled in via the NATO “back
door”.

For the past decade or more
under successive Libera! and Tory
rule, Canada has poured approxi-
mately $1! billion dollars down
the NATO-NORAD drain annually
for so-called “defence”, which all
sane people already agree is no de-
fence at all. Kennedy’s demand for
an “extended” NATO will up that

figure considerably — unless de-
ciSively rejected by the Canadian
péople.

“The other prime piece of ‘soiled
geods in the Kennedy sales kit was
the inclusion of Canada as a “mem-
bér” of the U.S.-created “Organ-
ization of American States”
(OAS), an instrument by and
through which U.S. imperialism
seeks to perpetuate its economic
and political domination in the
countries of Latin America.

In all the countries of the west-
ern hemisphere, almost without
exception, tremendous _ hostility

and revolt is boiling up against the -

long years of U.S. exploitation, in-
terference and open military ag-
gression. :
Hence the urgent need express-
ed by Kennedy, for Canada to get
into OAS; to serve as an able
stooge and flunkey for U.S. im-
perialism in Latin America; to sell

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JFK's ‘hot seat’ sale

the “American way of life” to the
Latin American people, and to rep-
resent U.S. imperialism as a “ben-
evolent” entity, having nothing
but the best of intentions towards
Latin America. In short, to assure
the Latin American people that
they are free to choose any form
of government and social organ-
ization they desire — just so long
as it conforms to the Pentagon
concept of “American interests.”

A sorry and contemptible role
for Canada, but one which Tory,
Liberal and (regrettably) CCF
leaders have already voiced their
readiness to accept.

Of course the Kennedy sales kit
and the Dief-Kennedy “talks”
were profusely wrapped up with
“mutual” pledges for “peace, ex-
panded world trade, improving the
lot of under-privileged nations’,
etc., etc, but a “streamlined
NATO” and an OAS stooge chair
for Canada were the “piece de re-
sistance” on the Kennedy bill-of-
fare for Canada.

In the cause of peace, in Latin
America and elsewhere, the task
facing Canadians is crystal clear;
a nation-wide demand that the
Diefenbaker government reject
outright the Kennedy NATO-OAS
“hot seat” assignment.

N this era of high-salaried ‘“ex-
perts” who in the main derive
their well-padded
the public treasury, the question
often projects itself, “who are
they ‘experting’ for?”

It is already well known, for
instance, that the Bennett govern-
ment is working round-the-clock to
secure for the B.C. Electric sole
priority in the export of Columbia
River power to the U.S.

It is also known that the Diefen-
baker government demurs on the
question of power export, not be-
cause it is not ready and willing as
always to serve the interests of
grasping monopoly, but because in
the nature of capitalist politics,
the sellout or giveaway of the peo-
ple’s resources must always be ac-
companied by the maximum of
political kudos to the partisan
hucksters of these resources. Thus:
at the moment there is a sort of
political deadlock between Ottawa
and Victoria on which, or who, will
do the monopoly-exporting to their
U.S. compraderos.

Now another factor enters the
debate, that of the “experts”. At

its first annual convention in Tor-.

onto last week, the Canadian Nu-
clear Association heard Dr. John
Davis, BCE “research and _ plan-

incomes from -

BCE views ‘scenery |

ning director” unlimber some dole
ful news. That unless we get busy
developing the Columbia and oth@:
B.C. hydro projects, and expo!
our power while opportunity &%
ists, much of these resources will
merely be the “scenery... of 10”
morrow”. In short, that electtt
power developed from nuclear
ergy would be so cheap by 1965-7
that all our present hydro-electtlt
potential, capital investment, pre
duction and jobs, would be com
pletely kaput by 1970. d

q

The “moral”, if such it may Pi
termed, of the BCE “research at
planning” doctor, is to get. on with
the Columbia, the Peace, or wh#
have you, and get on with the bus!
ness of giving the B.C. Electric tt
monopoly export of kilowatts as !
has in natural gas, transit al
other services to rook the publig
otherwise nuclear energy WF
catch up with us in no time flaby -
and because of its dirt-chea
rating, turn all our potential hyd!
sites into nothing more tha
“scenery”.

e the

. We would prefer to leav
Columbia as “scenery” rather thal
hand it over to Messrs. Grauer al
company to cash in on. But thers
is another alternative; why ™,
develop it for Canada’s use noW'}
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Tom

McEwen

HERE may be some excuse for
the errors of our modern map
makers. The Socialist and colonial
revolutions sweeping Africa, Asia
and other vast areas of the globe,
also sweep away old border lines,
faster than the map makers can
reassemble them. :

When the old map makers: (who
certainly had more time on ‘their
hands than the modern carto-
graphers) sketched out Canada’s
prairie provinces, they either took
in too much:or not enough in their
cartographic sweep. At least that’s
the opinion‘of an increasing num-
ber of Canadians living in the
growing territories of Canada’s
Northland. .

“Citizens” of the Territories
Unite” reads a Northwest Terri-
tories bulletin over the signature
of Doug Finlayson, vice-president
of the Yellowknife Board of Trade.
“Let our slogan be... “South to
49.”

Some 60-years-ago the “empire”
map makers just ran a line south
of the.60th parallel and east of the
Great Divide, and designated the
areas so mapped out as Alberta,

Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Now

the North West Territories demand
«, . the return of our lost lands

. so that we can fulfill our
destiny . . . (and) the righting of
an old wrong.”

"South to 49.” Sounds a bit
funny, but it isn’t. At least not
more so than the swiping by an
early foraging Yankee imperialism
of a large chunk of Canada known
as the “Alaska Panhandle.” The
comparison isn’t the most accur-
ate, but it does show how reck-
less imperial map makers can be
when not held in check by the
people.

The NWT and the Yukon have a
case. Their people and lands (much
like the Indian people) are actu-
ally ‘wards’ of whichever Liberal
or Tory outfit holds: sway in
Ottawa. The industrial, economic,
social and cultural development
(or lack of it) rest entirely upon
the whims of monopoly resources
hunters and their yesmen in
Ottawa.

Provincial status for the NWT
and Yukon is pooh-poohed, ridi-
culed, or ignored, by the political
poobahs in Ottawa. Such _ indus-
tries as exist in our Northland
are mainly in the grip of US.
monopoly, and these tetrritories,
militarily speaking, under the
supreme command of Pentagon
brass. Even a Canadian member of
parliament has to have ‘permis-
sion’ from Washington before he
can tour Canada’s Northland, just
as this writer in: the federal elec-
tion of 1945 had to have a “pass-

port”
U.S. military before he
meet the Yukon electorate along
the route of the Alaska Highway?

Yellowknife and other NWT and

from the

(fingerprinted)
could

Little wonder that the people of i *

Yukon territories get a bit im
patient and demand a “South 10 ©

49” remedy for their ills, They are —

the last to be accorded demo-
cratic status and its social benefits
on an equality with other Cana
dian provinces, and likely the
first to be nuclear barbecued
should the H-bomb maniacs of
Yankee imperialism break loose.
No one is likely to take very
seriously the idea of “South of 49”

with its return of the three prairie” ~

provinces to the NWT. But Cana
dians have also many doubts and
suspicions when they hear Socred
Messrs Bennett: of B.C. and Ma-
ning of Alberta muttering about
“taking over” the NWT and the
Yukon. Both have given
enough of B.C. and Alberta ab
ready to home-grown and foreig?
monopoly, without handing the™

more of Canada’s territory and

resources to give away.

But theré can be no doubts
about the need and the right of
the peoples of the NWT and the
Yukon to provincial status; that
is, the right of self-government an
the democratic development 9%
their own territory.

In stead of “South to 49” the
NWT slogan should be “Masters

In Our Own House.”

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