PQ leader Rene Levesque’s ques-
tion to Quebekers is incomplete.

irresponsible on its part for it to
advocate a ‘yes’ vote.

Big Business Says ‘No’
‘On the other hand, the Pro-
_ Canada committee, advocating a
‘No’ Vote, is financed by multi-
nationals and monopolies like the
Aluminum Co. of Canada, Bell
Canada, Gulf Oil, Northern
Telecom, Canadian Interna-
tional Paper, Dominion Textile,
Pratt and Whitney, Dominion
Bridge, Kraft, Simpsons, Sears,
Hilton, Mercantile Bank, Robin
Hood, and Dupont, to name only
the best known. This is clearly a
committee of the monopolies,
which the Quebec provincial
Liberal Party under Claude
Ryan, by law, controls.’’ Quebec
law recognizes only two posi-
tions — yes or no — and assigns
the ‘‘no’’ campaign to the official
opposition. _

It would be incorrect, the
Communists concluded, to cast a
**no’’ vote along with this camp
aiming at the continued inequal-
ity and subservience of Quebec
(The Liberals and Tories agree
on not recognizing French Cana-
da’s right to self-determination,
hence the shocking sight — at
least to Joe Clark — of Ontario’s
Tory premier lining up with
Quebec’s Liberal opposition
leader on the ‘‘solution’’ to
Quebec.)

Offers a Real Choice

The Communist Party of
Canada supports the Parti Com-
muniste du Québec in its demand

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Communist Party of Quebec
leader Sam Walsh. ..can’t answer
‘yes’ or ‘no’ to question.

that the PQ government “‘give
the people a real choice, a chance
to vote ‘yes’, by including a ques-
tion such as: Are you in favor of
the negotiation, on the basis of
equality, of a new made-in-
Canada Constitution, based on
the right to national self-
determination for the two na-
tions, and the guarantee of

~ economic, social, cultural and

linguistic equality; as well as the
democratic rights of minorities
and the right of self-government
on their territories of the Native
peoples?”’

The Communist Party’s 24th

Convention called upon ‘“‘all

Canadians who love their coun-
try and justice to write to their
federal and provincial members
of parliament, to their municipal
councillors, and to get their
union or other organization to do
likewise, asking them to take a
stand for a new Canadian Con-
stitution embodying the principle
of unity through equality of

Quebec and English Canada.”’ _

Copies of letters and resolu-
tions, the CPC points out, should
be sent to the Quebec National
Assembly to help its members
understand ‘‘that democratic

opinion in all Canada with with —

Quebec in demanding an end to
the oppressive status quo, and
Stands for a new equal partner-
ship which will respect the dig-
nity and right to  self-deter-
mination of our two nations in a
democratic,
Canada.”’

independent _

Across the country

Saving détente

TORONTO — Party candi-
‘dates and campaign strategists
from Toronto and southern
Ont. met here with Communist
Party leader William Kashtan
to assess the election campaign
in light of recent world de-
velopments.

Kashtan pointed out that
Clark had declared his full
support for Carter’s doctrine
that the United States will take
all necessary means including
force, wherever the U.S. na-
tional interests dictate.

The Party leader also drew
attention to the NDP’s Broad-
bent public declaration in sup-
port of Carter’s position. Lib-
eral leader Trudeau now has
joined the camp of the other
two.

Noting that the Carter doc-
trine includes the demand for
an extension of NATO’s polit-
ical and military jurisdiction to
include the Middle East
Kashtan charged the U.S. with
abandoning détente, returning
to acold war and confrontation
position in the service of
imperialist expansion, the es-
calation of the arms drive to
maximize corporate profits
particularly those of the oil
corporations.

Kashtan noted that Clark
has publicly stated that Cana-
da’s contribution to the U.S.
effort will mean a big additional
expenditure of funds for
armaments and armed person-
nel, including an additional
commitment to NATO:

The Communist Party ‘‘is
the only Party in the country
that is advancing a genuine
foreign policy alternative serv-
ing the true interests of Canada
and her people. He stressed
that ‘‘the number one task in
the remaining weeks of the
election campaign is to project
the Party’s proposals for a
genuine independent foreign

With William Kashtan
Communist Party leader

policy as being a key to Cana-
da’s future, linking this posi-
tion to our economic program
and the defence of the people's
living standards.”’

Scrap auto pact

WELLAND — At a press
conference with local candi-
date John Severensky Kashtan
said Canada should scrap the
auto pact and draw up a new
deal guaranteeing this country
a share of research and
development in the industry.
He also advocated nationaliza-
tion of Canada’s auto industry
plus the development of Cana-
dian automobiles.

Commenting on Quebec, the
Party leadér said he supports
Premier Rene Levesque’s right
to have a referendum, but the
Communist Party is opposed
to the Parti Quebecois
sovereignty association
scheme. Kashtan called in-
stead to abolish Canada’s se-
nate and replace it with a house
giving equal representation to
both French and English
speaking Canada.

The Communist leader
knocked the Clark govern-
ment’s claim that the country’s

deficit would be halved in four
years if the Conservative
budget had passed, and he
knocked the 18-cent per gallon
gasoline tax hike.

He said gasoline prices have
risen 400% since 1973 and not
cut consumption, so there is no
reason to believe more price
hikes will do it. Kashtan
charged that the gas price hike
is. merely to cover the
mortgage interest plan, a plan
he says will only benefit the
“‘well-to-do homeowners in
Canada.”

Kashtan called for the reten-
tion of Petrocan, nationalize
its resources and set up an in-
dustrial development fund. He
also advocates building a
coast-to-coast oil and natural
gas pipeline.

Can’t recommend vote

When approached for advice
on how to vote in an area
where there is no Communist
Party candidate running, Wil-
liam Kashtan said that because
of the cold -war posture ad-
vanced by all three major polit-
ical leaders, voters would have
to decide for themselves.

“As a Party we can not re-
commend voting for any of the
political parties in parlia-
ment,’’ said Kashtan.

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For a sane foreign policy

Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World

The daily press for January 24 re-
ported that Prime Minister Clark de-
clared that his Tory government is ‘‘cer-
tainly contemplating a substantial
beefing-up of Canada’s role as a Western
- (read capitalist) nation with Wester val-
ues tO protect a world where it is be-
coming more and more clear those val-
ues are under assault.”’

By January 28 Tory president Stevens
of the Treasury Board was quoted in the
press that a ‘‘new Conservative govern-
ment would increase military spending
by 17%.” This statement followed a
January 25 statement by Clark that if re-
turned to office his government would
not raise pensions to senior citizens.’’ In
other words guns before butter.

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What is the Clark Tory government
committifig Canada and Canadians to in
speaking so glibly about ‘“‘Westem val-
ues’? Are guns before pensions a West-
em value? Are guns before adequate
children’s allowances a ‘“‘Western val-
ue’’? Are guns before universal medicare

__- a ‘‘Westem value’? Are corporation

profits before people's welfare a ‘‘West-
em value’’?

Perhaps ‘NDP leader. Ed Broadbent ‘

should explain Joe Clark’s ‘‘Western
values’’ for us: For, he also supports
U.S. foreign policy ‘‘100%”’ as enun-
ciated by Carter in his recent State of the
_ Union address to the American people.
That policy simply put, is based on the

stated premise that the ‘‘United States
will take all means including force if
necessary wherever the U.S. national in-
terests dictate’. Thus, it turns out that

’ so-called ‘‘ Western values’’ boil down to

“U.S. national interests’’. Broadbent
certainly should explain the relation be-
tween ‘‘U.S. national interests’? and
‘*Wester values”’ for he told Canadians
that they should stand ready to ‘‘go to

war’ to protect those alleged “‘Western

values.”’
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U.S. President Carter’s foreign policy
is one of scrapping détente, returning to
cold war and confrontation in the service
of U.S. imperialist expansionism, escala-
tion of arms production, the use of force
to protect the profit interests of U.S.
imperialism anywhere in the world, par-
ticularly those of the giant oil corpora-
tions such as Exxon. It includes also
the extension of NATO’s military role to
embrace the Persian Gulf, the Indian

-Ocean “and the Middle East area in an

alliance with the most reactionary
forces in those areas. This is the nature of

those ‘‘Western values’’ Joe Clark, Ed

Broadbent and Pierre Trudeau would
commit Canada to support.

And to put this swindle across they
deny the sovereign right of Afghanistan

to seek the aid of their neighbor — the
Soviet Union — with which they have a
treaty of friendship and -mutual assis-
tance including military assistance in
case of need. They deny the legality of
this treaty. But what is the difference
between this treaty and the NORAD
agreement between Canada and the
USA? Do Clark and Broadbent think the
latter is legal in international law? Of
course they do. Even though it commits
Canada to military action beforehand.
* * *

Canada has nothing to gain by going
along with the Carter doctrine. It has
everything to lose. Those who advocate
following Carter's foreign policy should
be denied the vote of those Canadians
who long for and work for a peaceful
world; for a,policy of détente, peaceful
coexistence between states with dif-
fering social systems, an end to the arms
race and the beginning of disarmament,
for ratification of SALT II and an early
start on SALT III for the elimination of
the stockpiles of nuclear arms, mutually
satisfactory trade relations, cooperation
and exchanges with the Soviet Union
and all socialist countries.

There is only one party in this election
that advances a sane foreign policy for
Canada — a foreign policy serving the

_ true interests of Canada and her people.

That party is the Communist Party of
Canada.

Communists in Parliament will fight
for measures to end the arms race based
on equality of security for all countries,

‘large and small. They will uphold the

sovereign rights and territorial integrity
of all countries, large and small. They
will uphold Canada’s integrity and inde-
pendence against those states that would
dictate to Canada, undermine her inde-
pendence and sovereign rights, be they
threatened on the economic or political
front.

Communist MPs will work for the ex-
tension of mutually satisfactory trade,
exchanges and cooperation with the
socialist countries and the newly-
developing countries, such as Afghanis-
tan. They will work for Canada’s with-

_drawal from NATO and NORAD and a
_ just and lasting world peace.
* * *

The Communist Party of Canada has
fielded 52 candidates in this federal elec-
tion. If you support a sane foreign policy
for Canada, vote for the candidate of the
Communist Party of Canada if one is
running in your riding. If you are a sup-
porter of the NDP demand that Ed
Broadbent forsake his support of U.S.
President Carter's suicidal cold war pol-
icy aimed at establishing U.S. domina-
tion everywhere it can.

Fight for peace as for life. Vote Com-
munist for a sane foreign policy.
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