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tear ® central executive commit-
Ha the Communist Party of
aiste a and the Parti Commu-
es du Quebec have issued
ik Teleases, stating their po-
on on the kidnappings. Signed
the a Kashtan on behalf of
ofc . the Communist Party
i: Bees statement reads:
"Choe € kidnapping of Messrs.
hae ped Laporte by the FLQ
event rought about a turn of
S which could spell danger
eee democratic rights of
oe Troops -have been
ees into Ottawa and now
iw 3 18 talk of imposing martial
fees Quebec, It would appear
Fas the kidnapping incidents
an nie used as a pretext for
civil Back on democratic and
ee ents, rather than on the
in that made. the kidnap-
wes Possible in the first place.
terronnaPPing and other acts of
Sm are not the forms of
a ele the working class and
Striy; Ommunist Party adopt in
Ing for social change. These
anarchistic methods of strug-
ri ich have nothing in com-
ing poh the necessity of unit-
Allies © working class and its
ly er ecust Canadian monopo-
acts U.S. imperialism. Indeed,
Din Of terrorism and kidnap-
8, irrespective of the motives

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are
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cee ‘behind it, merely give
its ate a pretext to perpetuate
anti-pe seat
Policy, People and anti national
Those French Canadians who
cr @ Socialist solution to the
Ta lems of Quebec, and in Ca-
thee aS_a whole, need to ally
selves with the Communist

Sea’

‘Seven more necessary to
inequality — na-
Which social and economic —
Minj exists in Quebec. Prime
h ‘ster Trudeau thought he
ae the problem solved by his

Posals on language. Premier
hi Urassa and those who backed
thought they, too, had

Slick the problem by their
| _ lection manoeuvres and

nontese manoeuvres solved
le hing. The heart of the prob-
: In Quebec is national and

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prea equality, and no amount

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The kery can push it aside.

— Communist Party has cam-
re
di. *nch Canada for a new Cana-

; ay Constitution based on the

inca, voluntary partnership of

. LE wires Greene

C.S. Jackson, president of the
aaj member United Electrical
Union and Machine Workers

N (UE), charged in a tele-
ee to Energy and Resources

tale ter J. J. Greene that the

i wit Of natural gas to the U.S.

Can accelerate the sell-out of
rena’s resources and _ sov-
weaty to a foreign power.

The beneficiaries of this
» Jackson said, ‘are’ U.S.-

Co;
Prettolled corporations who will

Rive Kil; ; z
| Yhicy, billions of dollars with

| ont to further fasten their
Tol on our economy.”

[Terrorism is pretext
to attack democracy

ned for years in English and .

ty vo nations, based on the”
Bht to national self-determina- ©

* dians.”

tion. It has long campaigned fo:
far-reaching structural changes
which would wrest control of
the economy from monopoly,
Anglo-Canadian and U.S. mono-
poly alike. It has long campaign-
ed for those measures which
would overcome the inequalities
in wages, educational standards,
health, housing, and employment
opportunities. The refusal — of
the federal and Quebec govern-
ments to act on these proposals
has aggravated the crisis in
Quebec.

“The Communist Party disas-
sociates itself from the tactics
of the FLQ, tactics which do
harm to the struggle for mean-
ingful social change in Quebec
and throughout Canada. But the
main criticism must be leveled
at monopoly and its parties, all
of whom have brought this
crisis about. :

“Democratic Canadians — in
English and French Canada need
to unite their efforts around a
truly national and democratic
program, such as the Communist
Party advances — a program
which is directly linked to the
battle of Canadian independence.
We also need to be vigilant and
guard against any effort to un-
dermine democratic rights in the
name of law and order.”

In a statement signed by Pres-
ident Samuel Walsh of the Parti
Communiste du Quebec said in
part:

“The kidnapping of the British
Trade Commissioner by the
Front de Liberation du Quebec
has lit up danger signals which
people concerned with the fu-
ture of our country and its two
peoples ignore at great peril.

“The Trudeau Government and
the big business interests behind
them together with their coun-
terparts in Quebec stubbornly
continue their policies of na-
tional and social injustice to-
wards the people of Quebec.

“Because of the national and
social injustice there is bound

to be a certain sympathy for |

those who risk everything to do
away with it. But insofar as such
actions achieve partial success-
es they tend to sow the disas-
trous illusion that the masses
need only stay on the sidelines
and applaud the ‘noble young
men’ who would liberate them.”

“The road to social and na-
tional liberation for Quebec and
for Canada as a whole is the
united struggle of the working
people of ‘both nations on the
basis of equality and genuine
respect for the national aspira-
tions of the French-Canadian
nation.”

Blast natural gas deal

Jackson said press reports at
the time of the sale strongly sug-
gested that Canada has mort-
gaged all of its natural gas sur-
pluses for some 15 years in the
future leaving Canadian develop-
ment and expansion dependent
on new exploration.

“This is criminal act,” the UE
leader said, “that eliminates
Canada’s independence and sov-
ereignty and reduces: this coun-
try to a hinterland supplier of
raw materials and energy with a
consequent drastic reduction in
the living standards of Cana-

Government stays blind

to jobs, markets issues

The Trudeau government intends to
do little or nothing about the essential
needs of Canada’s working
That much is clear from the
from the Throne. Couched in language
which was too embellished even for the
leathery stomachs of Ottawa’s politi-
cians, it promises to do a vague some-

thing to assist the cities,

by workers and farmers outside
of Parliament, and during up-
coming elections,.to win them.

.The real author of the Throne

Speech is big capital. To com-
pel Parliament to act for the
people demands a united fight by
organized labor, farm unions
and ‘wide masses of the people
for housing, jobs, independence
and peace.

The elements of crisis in Can-
adian social and economic life
are so severe, and dissatisfac-
tion is so widespread that, given
leadership and unity in struggle,
the people can win new’ policies
and defeat those who stand in
the way. |

The central task is to compel
the Government to adopt poli-
cies based on peaceful co-exist-
ence. It is in the basic interests
of all Canadians that Ottawa
adopts a policy of peace by op-
posing the US war of aggression
against Indochina, by demanding
that Israel lives up to the UN
resolution of November 1967,
and by opting for withdrawal
from NATO and NORAD, and
for a European Security Pact.

Canada’s’ working people need
a million jobs. Those jobs can
be had. They are being denied
the working people by the Tru-
deau Administration, just as it is

By WILLIAM BEECHING

peaplst
peech

to combat

pollution and foster individual rights.

A Minister of State for Urban Af-
fairs and Housing and a new Depart-
ment of the Environment will be creat-
ed. It is doubtful that either will do
much more than increase the load the
average taxpayer has to bear.

If the problems of the people are to
be overcome, it will require mass action

The people need a million low-
cost, low-rental homes. .If Tru-
deau had intended to do any-
thing about it, he would have
said so. Hospitals, schools, doc-
tors and nurses, recreation—all
are badly needed. There is no in-
dication in the Throne Speech
that the people will get them.

Pollution is a major threat to
the health of the people and the
environment in which we live.-
While the Throne Speech tips its
hat to it, the odds are that the
Government will procrastinate
and avoid compelling big  busi-
ness to clean itself up, and will
continue to try to divert atten-
tion by blaming it equally on
everyone. This is the way the
Government has been laying the
foundation for sticking ‘the tax-
payers with the costs of cleaning
up after monopoly. \

We are promised a special de-
bate on abortion. What’s needed
is a law to give women the right
to abortion, to rid the country of
the medieval laws which rest in
the monstrous prejudices of reli-
gious dogma.

But women need much more
than that right. The fact is that
the minimum wage becomes the
optimum wage for most working
women. Women’s wages, on the
average, are only 60% of the

destroying Canada’s traditional ayerage annual wage of men.
agricultural economy. This puts most working women

PEOPLE MUST ACT!

By WILLIAM KASHTAN

The Speech from the Throne gives scant comfort to the Canadian
people. According to Prime Minister Trudeau the Just Society is now
a “distant ideal.’ As proof of this there will be no guaranteed an-
nual income proposed, and democratic tax reform, based on ability
to pay is likely to be thrown overboard in the interests of big busi-
ness profits. The much talked about problem of foreign ownership
may finally end up in some legislation in respect to uranium. At the
same time the Government in line with its sale of natural gas, con-
tinues to explore possibilities of selling other energy resources to US
monopoly. .

Under pressure of public opinion the government proposes to
set up departments on housing and urban affairs, on environment
and on science policy. It is likewise being compelled to deal with
technological change as it affects the workers, and with amend-
ments to the Unemployment Insurance Act. It remains to be seen
what actual proposals will be forthcoming, because based on its
connivance with and capitulation to monopoly pressures only the
organized and united action of labor can give some assurances that
some of the proposed legislation will reflect what is required today. .

The Speech from the Throne was compelled to recognize that gov-
ernment economic policy has brought about a serious downturn
the economy. “It would be irresponsible”, it says, “to suggest that
the economy is now in a satisfactory condition.” However, these
words are not. matched by deeds. Indeed, Prime Minister Trudeau
continues to reiterate that present economic and social policies will
continue, that its anti-inflation program will be retained, the exact
policies which the Globe and Mail says has brought the economy
to a “precarious state”, which the Winnipeg Free Press states has
“led us into a business slump,” and which Montreal Star declares
is taking Canada into “‘an economic crisis.”

The Communist Party warned that this would be the end result ‘of
government policy. Strong people's action will be required to reverse
this policy and prevent a growing crisis from being placed on the
backs of the workers and farmers throughout the country.

‘It is not the Speech from the Throne which is important; What is

decisive is powerful people’s action to compel government and par-

liament to reflect and act upon the real needs of the Canadian

. people.

in the poverty class, which num-
bers an appalling 5,000,000.
Working women not only live
in the misery created by low
wages and sub-standard housing,
but also are faced with the day-
to-day burden and extra exploi-
tation created by the lack of
adequate child care centres,
Something will be done about
the cities, we are told. With the
rural urban shift since the Sec-

ond World war, 75% of Can-

ada’s population now lives in ur-
ban centres. These new condi-
tions involving growing de-
mands for housing, city services,
transportation, schools and hos-
pitals, and adequate recreation,
all require a considerable shift
in the proportion of the tax dol-
lar obtained by city govern-
ments. The problem of the cities
involves basic problems:‘of demo-
cracy in our country, of giving
the working people a say in how
their lives will be lived.

The vast energy sell-out —
which is the export of Canadian

jobs when there are a million un- *

employed, and which involves
the future development of indus-
try and manufacturing—is care-
fully avoided by Trudeau.

The sell-out of energy means
that, instead of embarking on a
course of industrial develop-
ment that would cement national
unity and bring the standard of
life in the Maritimes on the
prairies, etc., up to that of the
most developed centres, the Tru-
deau Government has decided to
sacrifice the interests of the na-
tion for profits for the monopo-
lies.

There is no indication that the
far-reaching and deep-going agri-
cultural crisis will be dealt with
in the interests of the farmers.
Nor could there be. Everything
the Trudeau -government has
done indicates that the interests.
of Canadian workers and farm-
ers will continue to be subordin-
ated by his government to the
dictates of big monopoly capital
—both Canadian and U.S.

Nonetheless, the Trudeau gov-
ernment is increasingly compell-
ed to manoeuvre and twist. Not
all the speeches of J. J. Greene
on gas and oil were made be-
cause the Canadian bourgeoisie
want to get a ‘“‘better deal” from
their sale to U.S. monopoly. The

government is increasingly for- —

ced to try to hide and cover up
with the flowery Aesopian lan-
guage of the Prime Minister fhe
real betrayal of this government.

The fact that it is compelled
to do this is testimony to the
great strike struggles, the huge
farmer demonstrations, the new
burgeoning of the women’s pro-
test movement and the wide-
Spread student activity.

In unity and struggle the
working people will win through
to compel Ottawa to act for peo-
ple’s needs.

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