Graduation Gift Canada's good neighbor The subordination of Canada’s interests to those of the mono- polists and militarists of the United States has been carried out with the help of the old “Stop thief!’ ruse. Ballyhoo about a dreamed-up “Soviet threat” has served to cover up and justify the very real threat to our sovereignty, indepen- dence and security coming from the U.S. imperialists. Those who attribute Canadian efforts to free ourselves from U.S. domination to “anti-Ameri- canism” are simply confusing the issue. What patriotic Cana- dians demand is that we should be masters in our own home, build our economy to suit our people’s interests, establish our relations with the United States, as with all other countries, on the basis of equality and mutual benefit. In other words, our relations with our neighbor to the south should be founded on the same principles as those on which we are developing our relations with our neighbor to the north, the Soviet Union. Powerful forces operating in Canada are still striving to hin- der and hold.up the normal de- velopment of Canadian-Soviet relations, - but those relations must and will develop neverthe- less because they are in- Cana- da’s interests. Our exchanges on opening up the Northland are for mutual assistance and not an exercise in discovering natu- ral resources to be exploited by foreign corporations. Our scien- tific exchanges are for sharing know-how and not a brain drain. Our trade is to complement each other’s economy and not to turn us into dependency of foreign monopolies; it is based on buy- ing and selling what each needs, SHS %- ~ Pacific West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune- striving for a balance between export and import. Our diploma- tic relations are directed to pro- mote peace and mutual secur- ity. . That’s the principle governing the Canadian-Soviet agreements, and it is being put into prac- tice. If the development is too slow, let us face it squarely, it isn’t because the Soviet side wants it so. If our trade is yet too small and not evenly bal- anced, it is Canada that still wants to sell more than it buys. If Canada’s membership in NATO and support. (to a greater or lesser degree) of U.S. imper- ialist aggression does not square with the obligations we have undertaken, that’s our own gov- ernment’s fault. These are things which we must correct as we develop an independent foreign policy based on our own inte- _rests and the cause of world peace and harmony. Our relations with the U.S. should be based on the same principles. The development of proper Canadian-Soviet rela- tions will also help us to over- come the present improper Can- ~adian U.S. relations. It is not an accident that im- proved relations with the USSR at every turn coincided with Canada’s basic interests: the growth of trade, the defence of democracy from fascism, the eat for survival in World War I All the opposition to the fur- ther development of good Cana- dian-Soviet relations comes from those who are deliberately agents of U.S. imperialism or diehard reactionaries who want to maintain the “cold war’ for ideological reasons. In either case, they’re against Canada’s interests. (J.W.) Tribune . Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year “Second cl if rm — _of the financial structure. Canadian workers will fight a freeze here as the workers in ¢ and Britain are doing, where if already been implemented in 0” or another. They will have to to survive. A The NDP leaders thus find them aligned against the workers ape struggle. That’s because they, @*" capitalist instead of a Wor’ ath yardstick. They fail to understa if what is wanted is fundamenta a a and not tinkering with the Sy" ne Noy Labor can’t go along with | on that tack. hee That’s why reliance simply | ¢ election of the NDP govern ads e ba this time, would no more sly threct problems facing us than ; of Labor governments in the : in Britain. ot 9 Psy That’s why the call to eler nu ; gressive bloc, including ©? obit? and NDP members, is realisti¢ rn iy | For our own secur Canada has twice in this conti sth) drawn into wars that started.) 0 It is of the utmost importan© sta tablis q peace in both Europe and ined obo", sid P ing the war by the U.S. “wor! 0 age man” of capitalism were they cal carry out general disarma?™ cout this vil be hele by collectiv’ ‘ 50° agreement of both capitalist purl (| ist countries, beginning W!) yo! Canada is on record fer of a European security con “é alled if Summit meeting in MoscoW in put it. Practically every coun ry ghow! has expressed agreement. longer be delayed. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1972—PAGE 4 = ARR NOES (as OE ORS US A ei Sia eu WIS FIG Ie org oeaWdeNy ¢ iba rier Nise .