he federal election of April, 1968 replaced a Lester B.

Pearson witha Pierre Elliott Trudeau; an old-school- .
tie mediocrity with a more ‘‘youthful swinger.’’ But this
replacement changed nothing in the Establishment. What
Canadians “gained” in the electoral switch, they lost in the
rebound. We’ve been doing this every four years or so, since,
and even before Confederation (1867), and will probably keep
on doing it for a few more years yet.

Pearson’s forte, if such it may be termed, and which won
him some little notoriety in certain select circles, lay in the
realm of “‘diplomacy’’; that is, secret deals secretly arrived
at. The polite term for this sort of thing comes under the
general heading of ‘‘compromise.”’

If U.S. monopoly wanted an empire in any field of Canadian
resources, Pearson ‘‘compromised’’ and gave them a half —
“the rest to be picked up at a more opportune time gentle-
men.”’

By the end of his political term as a compromising PM,
Pearson had just about struck rock-bottom. In leadership
stature, general mediocrity, and above all on the monstrosity
of the “‘federalism”’ he sought to ‘‘father.”’

Therefore something had to be done; Liberal stalwarts
labored long over the problem— and came up with a dilettante
to replace the crotchetty old-school-tie incumbent — their selec-
tion of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

The NPA majority on-City
Council is coming up with one
trick after another in its determi-
nation to bull through the Four
Seasons project despite the
Opposition of the majority of
Vancouver citizens.

Instead of asking all voters
(tenants as well as property
owners) whether they want a
hotel-apartment complex
cluttering up the entrance to

_ Stanley Park, only property

owners will be allowed to vote in
the plebiscite. This is done on the
spurious grounds that tenants
don’t pay taxes. Yet every time
tenants get an increase in rents,
the excuse used by landlords: is

‘that taxes have gone up.

Secondly the NPA majority,
led by Mayor Tom Campbell, is
making wild, exaggerated and
ridiculous statements about the
cost of the land being held by
Four Seasons. Our landlord

If we buy the Four Seasons
property, taxes may go up. If we
don’t buy it, they will go up a
great deal more. But if we do
buy it, we will preserve this
choice property for the use of the
people as an extension to Stanley
Park.

If we don’t buy it we will get an
eyesore, traffic congestion, addi-
tional taxes — all of it for one
reason — to give a group of
eastern financial interests a
chance to fill their pockets at our
expense. The whole: business
stinks to high heaven and a City

Council that puts through this

kind of a deal.has ceased to serve
the people who elected it.

If the members of Council who
support this shameful seil-out
had any self-respect they would
resign and call for another
election to let voters decide
whether or not they are fit to

‘continue in office. That sort of a
‘vote would have more meaning.

Like the fabled kings of Old France, why not give the
rabble a circus with Pierre as the lead clown; a grand illusion
(charisma), and the old Liberal barge will be sea-worthy as -
ever to weather any and all political storms. ;

Pierre Elliott Trudeau has now been in office, just entering
his fourth year. Already there is talk of a general election
sometime ‘‘this fall.”’

Those three years have been fruitful years— of disillusion-
ment. The sheen and glitter of the Trudeau ‘‘charisma”™’ has
faded, nay, disappeared in its entirety.

What Canadians were conned into voting for— and what
they have really got, are as apart as the poles wide.

A staggering total of unemployment, welfare recipients,
and the millions depending on this jobless total, ‘‘is the price

or to put it more correctly, the inflation that stems from
steadily rising living costs and skyrocketing profits.

Only last week Trudeau’s top banker, Louis Rasminsky,
repeated the dictum for the umpteenth time: “A margin of
unemployment needs to be maintained’’ to hold inflation in
check. While millionaire Trudeau galivants around the world in
search of new thrills, and boosts his own and MP salaries in
general by six, eight and ten thousand per annum, (the half of
this stipend hike tax free) the working people are lectured,
conned, and ultimately deprived of the right of collective
bargaining (if Trudeau has his way) to deny them wage
increases to meet rising living costs.

For the farm people of this country the treatment has
been the same. a shrug, a wise-crack, a threat, an insult — but
no remedial measures emenating from Ottawa. A dilettante
prime minister doesn’t even extend the courtesy of listening to
legitimate farm grievances, let alone doing anything about
them: a code of behaviour that expresses the peevish boor
rather than the ‘“‘charisma’’ intellectual.

Having invoked the War Measure Act against the people of
Quebec (in peacetime) allegedly to put down an FLQ
“insurrection,” where no such insurrection existed, and later
a Public Order law for the same purpose, Pierre Elliott
Trudeau the French-Canadian, has alienated himself from all
thinking Quebecois. To them he has taken on the political color-
ation of a traitor, to them, his is the hand that subjected them

to a reign of military-police terror, unparalleled in the history
of Canada.

Now while M. Trudeau attempts to make some amends to
Quebec’s high ratio of jobless, to the victims of his military
and police terror, for the FLQ murder of a leading Minister, it
is too little and too late.

The ‘‘charisma”’ has vanished, and all that is left in its
place is anempty husk—a third-rate Kerensky.

.

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mayor says it may.come to $10
million, which is about five
times its assessed value. What
he is trying to do, of course, is to
scare property owners by telling
them that if the city expropri-
ates the Four Seasons property,
taxes will go up.

’ The speculation on this piece
of land could quickly be ended by
the city rezoning it for park use.

Will taxes really go up if the
city buys this piece of property?
They could. But I’m absolutely
certain that they will go up a lot
more if the Four Seasons project |
goes ahead.

Just consider for a moment
some of the expenses that this
project will incur for the city:

Additional police protection.

+ Additional fire protection.

* Sewer and water connections
and services.

-A real possibility of a new
school for the children of the
people who will live in the three
high rise apartments. Just
imagine what it will cost to build.
a school in the West End.

«New traffic apprcaches to
take care of the thousands of
additional cars that will be going
in and out of this complex right
at the entrance to Stanley: Park.

So what it all adds up to is this:

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Warning of the danger that new repressive legislation is still possible
despite the government having allowed the Public Order Act to lapse, William
Kashtan, national ieader of the Communist Party charged this week that the
government's decision is a public admission there was no “apprehended
insurrection” in Quebec last October. _ - :

The text of Kashtan’s statement fc!lows:
“The decision by the Trudeau government to allow the Public Order

Temporary Measures Act to lapse is a not so crude effort to avoid public and °

parliamentary debate on the hoax perpetrated on the Canadian people by
the Government's claim of an alleged “apprehended insurrection”. There was
no “apprehended insurrection” in Ovebec in October and there is none now.

“The Government's decision to let the Public Order Act die is a public
admission of this as it-is a forced recognition of the widespread democratic
opposition against this repressive piece of legislation.

“However, coupled with the decision to lapse the Act the Government
intends to set up a joint Parliamentary and Senate Committee ostensibly to
bring in proposals to deal with “acts of terrorism’. Under this title new
repressive legislation is likely to be advanced.

“Democratic opinion needs to be alerted to this danger and take action
to oppose it.

“The country does not need repressive legislation. What it needs are new
economic and social policies which would overcome inequality, a new
Canadian Constitution based on the equal voluntary partnership of the two
nations in a democratic and sovereign bi-national state, and a Bill of Rights
which would guarantee the democratic rights of the Canadian people.”

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