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A machined ‘choice
I hes Tory leadership convention ended last Saturday

night with a 5th ballot, a new leader, tons of waste
paper slogans and a lot of hurrahs for ‘a bright future’.

Operating a well-oiled machine, party president Dalton
Camp achieved his objective — to relegate Tory chieftain
John Diefenbaker to the political scrapheap, and replace him
by Premier Robert Stanfield of Nova Scotia.

Dalton Camp was not much in evidence in the Tory leader-
ship convention, but his ‘strategy’ was very much in evidence;
designed to see to it that runner-up votes on the 4th and 5th
ballots went to his man, “Unshrinkable Underwear” Stanfield
of Nova Scotia, In this contenders Fulton and Hees played out
their star roles in the ‘Death of Caesar Dief,

Pe If some tory Brutus were to parody Dief’s political assas-
} it sination in the Roman style it would be‘not that I loved Quebec
a less, but that I loved Canada more’. _

An ingrained Victorian vision and rhetoric did not permit
Dief to grasp the simple mathematics of ‘One Canada’ — the
recognition of two founding nations united as one under a new
Confederation with constitutional guarantees to both of full

What a well-machined tory convention may do with its
‘two-nation’ resolve, largely designed to woo Quebec votes,
Canadians should not forget that in all old-line parties in
Canada (and some not so old-line), convention resolutions
seldom if ever cut much ice in the parliamentary party caucus
— except insofar as it serves political expediency. It may
therefore be taken for granted that the tory ‘two nation’
resolve, so vociferously opposed by Dief, was basically intend-
ed as bait for votes in Quebec rather than any great concern
for the aspirations of le bon Habitant;

In his life membership and service to a party which has
elevated the art of duplicity, doublecross and political throat-
cutting to a science, with himself its latest victim, one would
have expected the old chieftain not to have taken the conven-
tion’s ‘two nation’ resolve too seriously, But the old Victorian
tradition weighing upon him like an Alp, obscured the reality
that in a changing world Canada is also changing — and within
its own ‘two nations’. borders must also change — if it is to

The new Tory leader in Canada, Robert Stanfield, the nearest
facsimilie we have seen in 30 years to the notorious and
saturnine Arthur Meighan, exhuded about as much enthusiasm
about a ‘two nation’ Canada or other pressing issues as one
might expect from a clam, He was ‘Camp’s choice’ and that

But to the Tories in the political wilderness dreaming of
a return to the ‘spoils of office’ he is ‘new’ — with the old chief
prostrate and protesting —‘Et tu Brute’.

City hospital by-law a”
‘share poverty’ scheme ~

By ALD. H. RANKIN

If you are a property owner
in Greater Vancouver’ you will
be asked to vote for a $51 mil-
lion hospital bylaw on Oct. 4,

The bylaw is sponsored by the
Fraser-Burrard Regional Hospi-
tal District, a recent creation of
the provincial government com-
prising 16 municipalities andter-
ritories. Membership is com-
pulsory.

If the bylaw is passed the pro-
vincial government will put up
60 percent of the $51 million,
The balance of about $20 million
will be raised through an increase
in property taxes,

I support the bylaw and will
vote for it but with some serious
reservations,

e The $51 million is pitifully
inadequate, Spent over a four year
period it amounts to less than
$13 million a year for an area
with a population of well over half
a million, To cover 16 munici-

palities it will have to be spread
rather thinly,

Originally 15 hospitals in seven
of the municipalities concerned
prepared. hospital construction
programs totalling $300 million,
The new metropolitan hospital
district cut this down to $100
million, Then the government
operated B,C, Hospital Insurance
Service pared it to $66 million,
Now the provincial government
has stepped in and reduced it to
$51 million,

e We don’t know where or
how the $51 million will be spent,
and whether much or any of it will
be spent in Vancouver although
our property owners will be asked
to put up $10 million, approxi-
mately as much as all the other
municipalities put together.

It is estimated that the average
Vancouver homeowner will pay
$7. a year instead of $5.25 as
at present, But we may end up
getting less for the $7, than we
are getting now for the $5.25.

Tom

he late and unlamented

Alfred Emanuel Smith,
better known as “Al Smith”, one-
time governor of New York State
and notorious in U.S. political
mayhem, is alleged to be the
originator of that now famous
political weapon known as the
“Kiss of Death”,

Whether Al coined the cliche
or not is of little import. What
is important is to keep in mind
that this “Kiss of Death” hokum
has become a very handy weapon
in the arsenal of those addicted
with the multiple sclerosis of
coldwar anti-communism and
rabid reaction. Even in last
week’s Tory leadership circusin
Toronto this so-called “Kiss of
Death” floored more than one
aspirant for the Diefenbaker toga
more effectively than a double-
header of LSD,

While it is no new experience
for the PT and its editorial staff,
we got a squirt of this “Kiss
of Death” lipstick ourselves last
week from an unexpected source.

Commenting editorially on the

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fine job being done by Alderman
Harry Rankin in Vancouver civic
affairs, the Highland Echo em-
phasized that it had been plugging
away for years to.get Harry
Rankin elected, “. . . But each
time an election rolled around
the Pacific Tribune heaped its
doubtful blessings on our Van-
couver East aspirant and that
was enough to end the campaign.”

What brought on this Highland
Echo “Kiss of Death” fever at
this particular time we have no
way of knowing. Perhapsa delay-
ed hankering for “respectability”
(in quotes), an attribute certainly
not in evidence in the work and
forthrightness of Alderman Harry

- Rankin,

We share the editorial conclu-
sion of the Highland Echo that
#... we are backing a winner”
at City Hall, and whether the Echo
editorial sanctum agrees or not,
we’ll continue to do so— and help
add to the winning numbers in
the interests of the people of
Vancouver come the next elec-

INE—Poge

tion, without worrying about who
“kisses” what, who or where.

A dear friend of ours down
Toronto way sent us a bundle of
Voice of Women literature deal-
ing with the activities of the On-
tario Voice of Women organiza-
tion and what they are doing for
the children of Vietnam,

In cooperation with the Cana-
dian Aid for Vietnam Civilians
the VOW bulletins list the hun-
dreds “, . . of knitted vests,
helmets, sweaters, shawls, cot
blankets .. .etc.” they have sent
to Vietnam, The closing sentence
of this paragraph drives home a
terrible lesson ... if we only
sit down and think about it for a
minute, This knitting is “ALL IN
DARK COLORS FOR CAMOU-
FLAGE PURPOSES”,

We knew many grand Canadian
women of an earlier era (one
loved one in our own home) who
knitted endlessly, even when she
could scarcely see the knitting
needles, for Canadian boys in
Spain, fighting to stem the first
flood tide of Hitler-Mussolini-
Hirohito fascism before it en-
gulfed the world, Knitting for
the heroic boys of the “Hagana”,
fighting to create a new State
of Israel, free, independent and
progressive, Knitting, always
knitting,

But this knitting was for fight-
ing men — to bring them some
little comfort in the agony and
hurt of battle.

Today Canadian women knit
for little children; babies in their
mothers’ arms, but the knitting
must be “all in dark colors”
in order to save aS many as
possible of these little Vietnam
toddlers from the napalm and
all the other death-dealing bombs
rained down upon them and their
country by the “civilized” sav-
agery of U.S. aggression and
genocide in Vietnam,

In every Canadian community,
on our streets and in the home,
we love the joy and fantasy of
color, and particularly our chil-
dren, Color expresses in its own
way the joy and beauty of life.

Not so with children of Viet-

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Editor—TOM McEWEN

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