By MEL COLBY

‘Pretty subversive stult

INQUIRY AS TO LEGAL STATUS OF COMM

UNIST PARTY

(Excerpt from Hansard, April 27, 1964)

Mr. Maurice Coté (Chicoutimi): Mr.
to the Minister of J ustice?

Speaker, may I direct a question

Would the minister inform the house if the communist party is legally
recognized as such in Canada, in view of the fact that it submitted a brief

to the royal commission on banking?

Hon. Guy Favreau (Minister of Justice): Mr. Speaker, I feel that the

answer to that question is known by all and I wonder
legal opinion. On the other hand, if I
it is not a legal party.

I would not be giving once again a
had to give such an opinion, I would say no,

[{Later:]

if, by answering it,

Mr. R. W. Prittie (Burnaby-Richmond) : T would like to ask the Mini-
ster of Justice to clarify his previous answer to the hon. member for

Chicoutimi. I think the translator may have misint
ing the communist party is illegal.

Mr. Favreau: It is not an illegal party.

it aside with a courtly gesture
and indicated a chair as he lis-
tened to our inquiry.

“J recall the incident,” he told
us. “That was the day poor old
Guy didn’t have his hearing aid
plugged in when the question
was originally put. He thought
he was being asked if the Com-
munist Party of Iran was legal
in Canada. That’s where the con-
fusion arose.”

rIHIS, we thought, is worth
looking into and rang the
Minister’s office.

“Sorry,” we were told, “but
he’s in the House of Commons
Law Library and cannot be dis-
turbed.”

“Looking up constitutional
law?” we asked hopefully.

“No. Reading a new James
Bond thriller. Why don’t you
discuss whatever it is you want
to talk about with the Minister’s
close friend and associate, Sena-
tor Blowhard.”

The Senator was reading a
copy of Fanny Hill but he put

“But the Communist Party of
Canada,” we persisted. “There’s
no question of its legal status?”

“Of course not,” agreed Sena-
tor Blowhard. “But Guy has
some pretty strong opinions

BES

Training for Olympics

Torontonians Frank Anderson and Zvonko Vranesic are :
watched closely by Verna Libman as they practice up for the
World Chess Olympics to be held in Israel Nov. 2-24.

erpreted him by say-

about some of the members sit-
ting on the Royal Commission
on Banking. Thinks they should
be banished to somewhere’s
around the Polar Ice Cap.”

We looked as bright as pos-
sible.

“Some of those fellows,”
mused the Senator, “have some
pretty communistic ideas. One
of them even thinks interest
rates should be lowered.”

“Shocking,” we agreed.

“Actually,” continued the Sen-
ator, “that’s the problem with
the Communist Party: it wants
lower interest rates, better so-
cial security, nuclear disarma-
ment and full employment. Pret-
ty subversive stuff.”

“But,” we objected, “a lot of
people who aren't Communists
also want those things.”

“You've put your finger right
on: ite
“That’s what makes the ideas
subversive. Take Tim Buck,” he
continued. “If he had stopped
agitating 40 years ago he’d have
received the Distinguished Fly-
ing Cross by now.”

“But Mr. Buck isn’t an avaia-
tor,” we told him.

“What's the difference,’ snap-
ped the Senator. “Don’t we give
people doctorates who aren't
doctors; don’t we hand out hon-
orary degrees to brokers who
aren’t broke? The main point it
that Mr. Buck and his associates
are agitators.”

“But how about the thousands
of people who agree with the
Communists but who are not
Communists themselves?”

“All agitators,” said the Sena-
tor firmly. “They should be pun-
ished.”

“How?”

“Confiscate their copies of
Fanny Hill,” boomed the Sena-
tor triumphantly. “And as for
you,” he scowled, “stay away
from the Royal Commission on
Banking. It’s a pretty subversive
outfit.” .

beamed the Senator. »

side by

J. $. Wallace

The carrion crow flies high, flies low,
Wheeling over the battlefield
With beaks well sharpened and talons steeled

To find the corpse of a bo

y we knew

(Ah, but his mother knew him too)

Finding the corpse and dining off it
And the name of the carrion crow is

HAVE THE DEEPEST AFFE
you share, for General Death C
can owned) which last
few odd thousand dollars
for munitions.
owned) which got only 24

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and

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profit.

which 1 am
(wholly amet
million 2%

the Canadian g0 m

CTION,
orporation

And for Hawker-Slayer (wholly

a half million more

for Imperial Spoils Ltd. (wholly Canadian diso
fell below the 19 million mark, sad to say. And fc i
rest of the kind corporations that join them in sin

O Canada, glorious and free,
O Canada we stand on guard for thee
O Canada we stand on guard for thee

ES, THERE THEY ARE, push-button-ready
down those Russians when. they invade

our wheat and t
sneaking in the backdoors of British Columbia t0 buy
million more. And all the rest of the socialist soU

buy $500 million of

to st
ana
hose Chin
dous

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If I had my way the presidents of all these coro

tions would receive a Nobel peace prize and t
Canadian Senate.

dents be allotted a seat in the

he vice?

But I don’t have my way and that is W

hope that Ottawa will head a sug
make it completely unnecessary

gestion of mi
to spend a §

bombers or Bomarcs or billionaires.

Y PLAN, simple in its brill
men from the RCMP, the

others of their ilk right across Canada.

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iancy, is to pick th d

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provincial poli ‘nen |

invasion starts I would have these picked nen
warhing (it won't be heard, of course; it never ha ai

Then they would follow this up

not at the invaders but over their heads or

ith rnin shots °
with wa et theif

: e
That would fix them: every shot would ricochel

invader bite the dust.

Latest evidence in support of my plan is T
the respectable Mr. and Mrs. Hansen of Toronto.

called them but they didn’t hea
warning shot. Naturally,

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r. Then they

it ricocheted and went f

their windshield. Multiply that by all the cases you

“Look, won’t you introduce me
offer her a job in my circus.”

to your node:

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May 29, 1964—PACIFIC T

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