Seerceian an Th

TRIBUNE 4

NDP_ LEADER TOMMY DOUGLAS SAYS:

[° a speech in Toronto rec-

os T. C. Douglas, lead-
er of the New Democratic
Party, called on Canadians
to regain control of their
\ fconomy from the United
| States and become ‘masters
| in their own house.” ,

He warned that economit
‘control led to cultural and
bolitical control and he scor-
ed the U.S. state depart=
Ment’s Jan. 30 press release
- a an example of political in-
terference.

The question of, nuclear
arms, he said, has to be set-
tlegd and will be settled by
the Parliament elected April
8. But, he asserted to loud
applause, “we must have the
right to make a decision
Without any interference or
advice from any country
anywhere in the world.”

The NDP leader also used
his Toronto speech to outline
his party’s position on French
Canada. He called for a Con-
federation council to ‘‘em-
body in a concrete way the
idea of equal partnership in
Confederation.”

Douglas. directed severe
Criticism against the Liberal
Party and its attempt to
Make “stable’’ government
the issue in this. election.

The Liberals, he said, ‘had
a stable government for 22
years — “so stable it never
Moved.” They had been talk-
ing about national health in-
Surance since 1919 without
€ver doing anything about it.

They had also used their sta-
bility to sell out the trans-
Canada natural gas pipeline
to Texas promoters and had
"rrogantly invoked closure
to accomplish this end.
_-*“When you remember how
4 stable smells, you . won't
Want stable government,”
Douglas declared.
~The Toronto speech was
_ Seen as probably the most
| ‘Younded-out presentation of
NDP policy expressed by
Douglas so far in the federal
election campaign.
This was particularly so

Ae

and NORAD air squadrons.

US. President Kennedy and the
Liberal Party say YES. Prime
Minister Diefenbaker says NOT
Now. The Socreds say NO ir
Quebec, and YES in the rest of
; Canada. The New Democratic
Party and the Communist Party

Say NO.

“ The Communist Party fights >
efor a favorable outeome of the
“lection around the slogaris: Step
Unitea States’ Interference! No

Uclear Arms! Put Canada First!
~ Below the Pacific Tribune gives
§Nswers to some of the questions
Yelative to the nuclear issue:

N’T WE NEED
A-ARMS FOR DEFENCE?
Becte Bomare missiles and ABE

Ss The burning issue in this
~~ Canada is to accept U.S. nuclear warheads
are missiles based on Canadian soil and fo

on the question of Canada re-
gaining its economic inde-

pendence, which he said was ~

the main point he wanted to

discuss.
For years, he said, the

economy has been falling un-
der foreign control at an
alarming rate. This had be-

- gun under the Liberals and

continued by the Conserva-
tives. :

Before the war Canada had
been able to use its favorable
trade balance with Britain to
even out its. unfavorable
‘trade balance with the U.S.
But since the war Britain
had ceased to be a great
creditor and each year Can-
ada is now buying $600 to
$700 million more from the
U.S. than that country buys
from us, which deficit can no
longer be paid off from Brit:
ish credits.

The Liberals should have
faced up to this situation and
brought our trade in balance.
But they took the easy way
out and said to the Ameri-
cans: Why not leave the mon-
ey we owe in Canada?

We became like the farmer,
Douglas said, who every year
mortgaged part of his farm.
Not only do we owe to the-
U.S. $700 million each year,
but we also owe them. that
amount in interest per year,
making a total of over $1 bil-
lion per year.

“Sixteen years of mortgag-
ing this country “has brought
us to the point where we no
longer own a large part of the
country,” he said.

Douglas also hit out at in-
dustry that moves from area
‘to area as a result of decis-
ions “taken in some big
board room outside Canada.”
PROUD CANADIAN |
In Windsor the next day
Douglas said an NDP govern-
ment would enact legislation
to prevent runaway industry.
He said the NDP would tell
Ford: ‘You have wounded
Windsor: enough and you
shall not move.”

His Windsor speech follow-

The election and

election is whether or not
for the Bom-
r our NATO

Voodoo interceptors
were never intended for our de-
fence in the first place. As Prime
Minister Diefenbaker pointed out
in the House of Commons, they
are for the defence of the U:S.
“deterrent‘‘ weapons. The job of
the Bomare equipped with nuclear
weapons ‘would be to shoot down
manned ~ bombers _ before they

reached the U:S. border, burning
Canadian éities, countryside “and
people te radioactive ashes in the
process.

Now it is clear that if nuclear

war breaks out, it will be a war
of missiles. Against these the Bo-
mares and Voodoos are useless.
To arm them with nuclear weap-

in Canada

ed by only a few hours an
announcement by Ford that
it will transfer its parts and
accessories division from the
auto city to Bramalea, near
Brampton, next year, involv-
ing the jobs of 395 workers.

When you mention these
things, said Douglas, you are

called anti-American. But, he
said, this is not being anti-
American.

‘It’s simply being proud of
being a Canadian and con-
cerned to do something about
the destiny of Canada when
you say it’s time Canadians
became masters in their own
house.”

Anyone who wants to con-
duct economic planning, he
said, must face up to this prob-
lem, since no such planning
could be carried out so long as
major decisions are - taken
outside Canada.

One of the dangers of being
“owned, bought and paid for”

_was that the owning country

tended to dominate: you cul-

turally.

Douglas stated that Canada
with its two-nation culture,
has a great contribution to
make and does not have to
become a melting pot.
FRENCH CANADA

In this connection he spoke
of the NDP policy of equality
for French and English Can-
ada. He warned against being
misled into thinking separa-
tism in Quebec is a creed of
a small minority. This would
miss the point, as the separa-
tists are the peak of an ice-
berg of discontent.

Two-pronged action was ne-
cessary. First, there must be
more federal aid to the prov-
inces and this aid equalized.
Within this framework, how-
éver, there must be great flex-
ibility, particularly in relation
to French Canada. °

Second, bilingualism should
become the rule rather than
the exception in all top gov-
ernment positions. Bilingual-
ism is now more of a myth
than a reality.

Canada, he continued, must

ons would simply be to EeYy
more of the taxpayers’ money for

‘the greater profits of U.S. monop-

olies.

SHOULDN’T OUR NATO
FORCES BE A-ARMED?

The Honest John Rockets and
the CF-104 strike reconnaissance
planes are in the hands of Cana-
dian forces in the NATO army in
Germany. They would be deadly
weapons equipped with nuclear
warheads. (The Honest John
rocket can carry a warhead
three times more powerful than

the bomb the United States drop-"

a%

ped on Hiroshima in 1945. )

'Let’s be masters in our own akg

also insist on retaining its pol-
itical independence. When-
ever a country has economic
control over another country,
the controlling country must

begin to exercise political in-.

fluence to safeguard its eco-
nomic interests. This was why
the U.S. was becoming more
and more embroiled in Latin
America.
A-ARMS NO DEFENCE

In Canada’s case, with the
U.S. owning two-thirds of this
country, there is a danger of
political interference. Here
Douglas cited the example of
the Jan. 30 statement of the
US. state department.

Nuclear arms do not defend ~

us, Douglas said, either in
‘NORAD or in NATO. They
can only add to spreading the
danger of war. —

He said Canada is being
pressured into accepting these
‘arms as a prelude for pressure
on this country to accept

us into the ndclear holocaust.
WHY ALL THE U.S. PRESSURE
TO GET US TO TAKE A-ARMS?

1. The U.S. militarists, besides
threatening the socialist countries
and all peoples struggling for
their independence, want to domi-
nate the other capitalist countries
by controlling the means of wag-
ing modern nuclear warfare. In
this they are meeting increasing
resistance from their own NATO’
allies, including France and now
Canada.

In this situation, the U.S. mili-

tarists refuse to entertain the
- thought of Canada following an

But they have nothing to do, independent military policy. If

with the defence of Canada. They
could be used in a war of aggres-
sion started by the West Ger-
mans to conquer socialist East
Germany and Western Poland —
a war Feo would anes all of

Canada, the USA’s closest neigh-
bor geographically and in terms
of economie integration, culture
and origin,- cannot be kept in
economic bondage to the U.S.A.
what ee can?

the bomb

ICBM’s from the U.S.

These will be called defens-
ive, he said, on the grounds
they will be able to knock out
the other fellow’s weapons he-
fore he can strike at us.

Along this road, Douglas
asserted, lies destruction. If
ever the salt of sanity was
needed it is now.

The Liberals, he continued
are committeed to acceptance
of nuclear weapons with the
Bomarcs being only the be-
ginning. The Tories are also
ready to accept them, he said,
the only difference being the
Liberals will accept them in
April while the Tories want
to wait until May. ~ :

The NDP, he declared, will
never stop fighting to keep
Canada from joining the nue-
lear club, to keep the spread
of nuclear weapons from con-
tinuing and to prevent the
spread of nuclear destruction
throughout the world.

2. Once Canada took U.S.-con-
trolled nuclear warheads for the
Bomarc, it would be but a short
step to putting U.S. nuclear arm-
ed inter-continental ballastic mis-
siles on Canadian soil, as General
Guy Simmonds pointed out two
weeks ago.

3. If Canada agrees to accept
nuclear warheads for its forces
in Germany, it will pave the way
towards. equipping all NATO
forces with these weapons, includ-
ing the revenge-seeking nazis in
power in West Germany.

WHAT ABOUT HONORING
OUR COMMITMENTS?

There can be no commitment
to commit suicide. Lester Pear-
son, when he talks this way, is
hoping people will forget about his
own commitments. in the last
election, when he said he saw no
present need for Canada to ac-

See ELECTION, pg. 8

ES eeeioceee

March: 15, 41965-—PACIEFIC: TOUNE fae Bet