LPP NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE

Health insurance tops

demands on Ottawa

TORONTO

Four measures — national health insurance, public ownership of the Trans-Can-
ada gas pipeline, sale of the country’s surplus wheat and establishment of diplomatic rela-
tions with People’s China — are placed as popular demands before parliament by the
New Year's message of the Labor-Progressive party. .

Full text of the message, issued this week by the LPP national executive over the

signature of national leader Tim
Buck, reads:

On January 10 parliament |
opens its new session at Ottawa.
The improved: world conditions,
following Geneva, give parlia-
ment the green light for big,
new legislation.

Four, new steps are, especially,
desired and expected of the new
session of parliament. They are:

@ National health insurance.
@ Public ownership of the
Trans-Canada gas pipeline.

@ Sale of Canada’s surplus
wheat.
®@ Diplomatic relations with

People’s China.

Out of the months and years of
political argument on these is-
sues, the majority of Canadians
now definely take & stand in
favor of them. They want par-
liament to act on them. They
are weary of Ottawa’s delays.

Labor is foremost in demand-
ing action.. The farmers want
these measures. Storekeepers
and housewives, office workers
and small businessmen, in their
majority, strongly support them.

A strong people’s effort can
now finally break through and
win health insurance in the new
session of parliament.

Last April, Prime Minister St.
Laurent still argued that national
defense leaves no money for
health insurance. But in Octo-
ber his attitude was changed and
now actual negotiations on health
insurance are taking place be-
_ tween the provinces and the fed-
eral government. Peace is strong-
er. The was scare can’t be used
now to justify putting it off
again. 2.

Health insurance will fill the |
main gap still remaining in
Canadian social legislation. No
Canadian families, except the
very rich, can meet the heavy
costs of medical and hospital’
care. '

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favor health insurance.

Premier Duplessis is still op-
posed. He has a padlocked mind.
His stand should not hold up
action by Canada’s parliament.

Our call to parliament is: “Pass
health insurance this session!”

Parliament must heed the ris-
ing protest against leaving the
trans-Canada natural gas pipe-
line in American control. Cana-
dians everywhere insist that, not
only the Ontario link, but the
whole line should be Canadian.

Some startling facts have
come to light. American con-
trol will rob Canada of any
benefit from the pipeline. High
rates will be charged in Can-
ada; cheap rates in the USA.
In other words, American con-
trol will compel Canadians to
subsidize delivery of cheap fuel
to American industries and
homes.

We are not opposed to ordin-
ary foreign investments in Can-
ada, serving to develop our coun-
try. But this is different.

It is a false argument that
Americans are able to take over
our resources because Canadian
capital is afraid to take risks.
Admittedly .Canadian capital
shows little faith in Canada. But
that is not the whole picture.

When big billionaire Ameri-
can interests come into a small
country, it is up to the govern-
ment to protect the national
interests, not up to private cap- °
-italists. In a vast country like
ours it is the government that
should mobilize capital for in-
vestment in big nation-build-
ing projects.

Influential newspapers now call
for public ownership of the whole
pipeline. Ontario has taken the
same stand. The Canadian peo-
ple want a great all-Canadian
pipeline, bringing cheap fuel to
Canadian industries and Cana-
dian homes, built and operated
by Canadians, for the benefit of
Canadians, ;

Parliament must face the need

AUDITORIUM —

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The first

for action on Canada’s billion
bushels of surplus wheat. Ottawa
has not lifted a finger to take
advantage of the new trade pos-
sibilities now open ‘to Canada.
Washington has erected barriers
to, Canadian trade, taking full
advantage of Ottawa’s inaction.

Canadian farm leaders are
fighting to break through one of
these barriers. They are de-
manding that we sell our surplus
wheat for sterling and stop ‘in-
sisting on payment in, American
dollars. Most Canadians now
support this.

Canada’s surplus wheat must
be sold or a serious farm crisis
will get started affecting the
whole country.

At the same time, parliament
should discard: the U.S.-imposed

restriction on trading with coun-
tries having a social and econ-
omic system different from Can-
ada’s. This cuts off trade with
a large part of the world—China,
the Soviet Union and the coun-
tries of central and eastern Eur-
ope. Parliament should broaden
out Canada’s trade policy to sell
our surplus wheat and other pro-
ducts, offering long-term credits
to India, China and other coun-
tries. ‘

One vital step in the interests
of peace and Canada’s securi-
ty which parliament can take
at once is the recognition of
the People’s Republic of China.
‘This would give support to
those forces in the U.S. that
wish to discontinue the policy
‘of encouraging Chang Kai-shek
and his plans for an invasion
of China.

The representatives of Chiang |:

Kai-shek in the United Nations
vetoed Canada’s plan for the ad-
mission of new member nations.
With nation-wide and world-wide
approval, Canada’s parliament
should now ask that the Chiang
Kai-shek clique be excluded from
the United Nations.

Canada can play a vital role
in promoting peace and disarma-
ment. Canada should speak out
against those who want to turn
the clock back before Geneva.
Canada should work to go for-
ward, not backward. Our real
security lies in working for new
steps towards agreement on the
prohibition of atomic weapons
and world disarmament.

We put forward these four pro-
posals for the new session of

parliament because on them, we}||

believe, the majority of -Cana-
dians have reached the widest

unity and agreement.

Now is the time to start work-
ing hard to make sure parliament
acts oh them. Everything must
be done to impress on the MPs
and the government the fact that

Canadians want them. Pass re-|.

solutions in your union or lodge.
Send a letter to your MP. Write
a letter to the paper you read.
Support delegations to your MP

and to parliament.

In wishing you a Happy New
Year, the Labor-Progressive par-
ty asks you to do everything you
can to help ‘develop a nation-
wide people’s lobby of MPs in
favor of these new measures. Let
us work together to make the
New Year one of new successes
in the fight to Put Canada First.

s

In VANCOUVER CENTRE
on JANUARY 9

VOTE
GILLETT

LABOR-PROGRESSIVE

i

@ To save B.C. natural resources from foreign
ownership. 3

@ For cheaper gas and electricity through
public ownership. re

@ For repeal of the 5 percent sales tax and a
new deal for Vancouver. )

e For peace and reduction of arms spending
to provide for people’s welfare, schools,
housing and health. »

@ For action to clean up Vancouver's scan-

dalous crime wave.

Inserted by Vancouver Centre LPP Constituency Committee

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