Chart-a new course for Can-
ada! That is the call of the Com-
munist Party’s election plat-
form. And it underlies every
other of the platform’s propos-
als, including public ownership
and democratic control of key
industries.

A serious effort at charting
such a new course for solving
today’s most burdensome prob-
lems demands a flood of con-
sciously-cast votes on election
day — votes for candidates
pledged to fight monopoly capi-
talism. For monopoly has de-
monstrated that it is the barrier
to a new era of stable prices,
guaranteed incomes and a poli-
tical climate in which people of
all ages can truly be planners
and masters of their own future.

Setting out on such a course
demands not only election of a
progressive bloc to parliament,
although election day July 8
will be a landmark from which
to launch even stronger ‘cam-
paigns for the economic, social,

In 69 constituencies across
Canada, the best, most effective
vote you can cast on July 8, is
a vote for the candidate of the
Communist Party of Canada. :

The first reason for this is to
be found in the platform of the
Communist Party. Unlike other
parties, we are not releasing our
platform in: dribs and drabs
through leadership pronounce-
ments. Unlike other parties, our
local candidates are not picking
and choosing the points they like
which are supposed to be in ac-
cord with party policy mysteri-
ously decided somewhere. On
the contrary, the Communist
Party of Canada is distributing
its platform, the same platform
in English and French and some
other languages, in every consti-
tuency we are contesting. And
we are taking over a million
copies of that platform to the
homes of the people everywhere
we are running.

It is a platform to curb mono-
polies, to stop their rampant
profiteering. It says plainly that
the cause of high prices is the
profit-taking of the giant corpor-
ations, not the wages of working
people. lagging as they are be-
hind the cost of living. It says,
therefore, that it is entirely
possible to roll back prices on
food, fuel, clothing, footwear
and housing by at least 25%.

People Before Profits

It is a platform to shift wealth
from the handful of rich to the
majority of people — to put
people before profits. It calls for
democratic tax reform, for a full
capital gains tax and an excess
profits tax. It calls for more,
much more, money to be spent
on pensions, on housing, on bet-
ter health services, on day care,
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 28

ethical and cultural gains now
attainable.

Among the big centralized
corporations which dictate our
lives are the millionaires oil and
gas companies, Canadian Pacific

Railway, Bell Telephone, the
banks, trust and insurance com-
panies, and the pharmaceutical
industry. ;

Looking at it without bias, do
not the natural resources of a
country rightfully belong to its
people? How can any clique
dare claim otherwise? In pres-
ent circumstances in Canada,
such natural wealth is grabbed
and held by the giant corpora-
tions as though it were their
own, most of them foreign-
owned at that.

Getting Rich
on Desperation

‘And what about the commu-
nications and __ transportation
system in a country the size of
Canada? Can they be left in the
hands of those who gouge mil-
lions in profit out of the work-

on the educational and cultural
needs of Canadians.

It is a platform to advance the
interests of the working class, to
cut the hours of work to 32
without loss of take-home pay,
to raise minimum wages to $3.50
per hour, to enact a Labor Bill
of Rights to give workers a say
in technological change, to guar-
antee all workers the right to
Strike. :

It is a platform to advance the
interests of the Canadian nations
to bring our resources, and first
of all our energy resources, un-
der public ownership, to build
industries in Canada to open up
2.5 million new jobs over the
next decade processing our re-
sources at home — and all this
means to wrest from the great
U.S. multi-national corporations
the stranglehold they have upon
our economy.

Democratic Solution

It is a platform to strengthen
Canadian democracy, to strike
down all that discriminates
against women, against our Na-
tive peoples, against new immig-
rants. Alone among all the poli-
tical parties, it is a platform that
advances a truly democratic so-
lution to long-standing problems
of relationships between our two
nations in a freely negotiated
confederal pact, a new constitu-
tion based on the right of self-
determination for both nations.

It is a platform which serves
world peace by calling for a new
independent Canadian foreign
policy that will take us out of
the NATO and NORAD war
pacts, and put Canada on the
side of the peoples of Asia, Af-
rica, and Latin America strug-
gling for national liberation.

Therefore, if you agree with

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ing people? CPR doesn’t even
want to be bothered with pas-
sengers — just the luctative
freight; now Mr.Trudeau is
promising to accommodate by
letting CPR make the money,
while the taxpayers pay the
shot.

How long must the sick pay
extortionate prices for, or go
without, -.needed medicines?
What about housing, the special
domain jof the land shark and
the real estate parasite, getting
rich on the desperation of fam-
iles for that basic need, a home?
And the purse-snatching food
monopolies — meat packers,
canners and dairy interests, rob-
bing the public, knowing that

' food’ must be bought even at

high: prices — how long are we
to put up with them?

These are the deeds of mono-
polies and their spokesmen, the
Liberals and Conservatives
merely aid them. Trudeau says
nothing can be done about in-
flation. And Stanfield threatens
to freeze this as is, with profits

these things — as a great many
Canadians in fact do — it is
only logical to vote for the can-
didates who stand on this plat-
form.

But there is more to the argu-
ment that this.

This is not a simple platform
of promises upon which to get
elected. It is a platform of strug-
gle. It is a platform on which
the Communist Party works. for
united action with all other pro-
gressive forces now in this elec-
tion, and beyond July 8. We do
not claim that the Communist
Party by itself alone is going to
solve all the great problems
facing our country. We work for
an anti-monopoly coalition of
people from all walks of life and
organizations, the needs and in-
terests of which are under at-
tack from monopoly capitalism.
We see the coming to power of
such an anti-monopoly coalition
as the first stage which will open
the way to the establishment of
a socialist society in Canada.

Shift Politics Left

It is in this spirit of unity that
we want and ,work for the elec-
tion to parliament of a large
progressive bloc, including Com-
munists as well as NDPers. We
do not contend that we are the
only progressive force in this
election. We consider as progres-
sive those who are prepared to
support positive action to im-
prove the living standards of the
Canadian people, to curb mono-
poly profiteering and roll back
prices, to work for Canadian
independence through the exten-
sion of public ownership, to de-
fend the cause of peace and
international détente.

The election of a large pro-
gressive bloc, we see as essen-
tial to the process of shifting

soaring and wages trailing.
Even the NDP, which should be
putting up-a strong fight for
working-class rights, appears as
a whole, satisfied with slogans,
and shuns the idea of basic
change in monopoly-dominated
society. —

Corporations Shape
Lives and Futures

More than the working class
are affected. Great numbers are
deéply -concerned — workers,
farmers, students, profession-
als (who are strait-jacketed by
monopoly capitalism), business
people (who. are squeezed often
as mercilessly as the workers),
and those receiving social ben-
efits (pensioners, welfare recip-
ients, -etc.); all have a right to
demand the advantages that the
creations of mankind can -pro-
vide.

State monopoly capitalism,
a system, depresses an ever-
growing proportion of the popu-
lation, promotes militarism, col-
lusion with the USA and NATO,

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your ballot count-vote Communist!

politics in Canada to the left, a
process which is of key import-
ance if those are at this time
grouping themselves miainly
around the Tory party are to be
soundly defeated. The best out-
come of the election would be
another minority government be-
cause it is in such conditions
that the united pressure of the
working class and democratic
forces can be most effectively
brought to bear.

Now, this you see is the posi-
tion of a political party of the
working class which not only
which are really needed for the
Strives to advance the policies
country and its people, but
which also concerns itself deeply
with the whole complex problem
of how the working class and
the democratic forces allied with
it — farmers, intellectuals, aver-
age Canadians, who can in unity
move forward to bring about the
great changes which Canada

needs. :
NDP Proposals

This concept of working-class
strategy, the New Democratic
Party does not have, despite its
many good proposals (which are
also marred too often by ambi-
guity and unclarity — like David
Lewis’ statements that he is con-
cerned most for the unorganized
workers, not the organized, as if
the organized working class has
not always been the strongest
force in raising the standards of
living of all sections of the peo-
ple). Indeed, the New Demo-
cratic Party as a party (as dis-
tinct from left-thinking indivi-
duals and groups within it) does
not accept the need for united
working-class and democratic
Struggle. They would have us
believe that all that is necessary
is to elect an NDP government.

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