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of British Columbia will preserve
its right to sell water to Alberta
if it so desires and the provinces
‘agree upon the terms. In short,
the McNaughton plan is the plan
to use the Columbia River for
Canada.

This is not- what the United
States interests and their govern-
ment want. They want to restrict
the production of power on the
Canadian side and increase it to
the maximum possible on the
United States side and they want
to have control of the regulation
of the flow of the river. They

want the dams built in Canada to ©

be located to correspond with
their aim to regulate the flow for
the greatest constant flow on the
United States side.

The treaty that Prime Minister
Diefenbaker has now promised -to
sign is the one that the US.
interests want.

What U.S. control of regulation
will mean to Canada has been
described by General McNaughton
in the following words:

“But I do say, with all empha-
sis that the effect of the regula-
tion (which the treaty) authorizes
the United States to impose in
their own interest could be ruin-
ous to Canada. I say also, that
such an order, if given: by the
United States entity, must be
obeyed by Canada or Canada will
be liable for damage under the
treaty.” ;

It’s for keeps’

General McNaughton’s explana-
tion that if the Socred-Tory-U.S.
treaty is signed it will give the
US. legal authority to regulate the
flow of a great Canadian river
put; the record straight on this
question.

It needs to be put straight in
another respect also. The Socreds,
the Tories and the Liberals all pre-
tend that the deal with the Uni-
ted States is for 20 years only.
The majority @ people believe
this.

The shadow-boxing of the Die-
fenbaker government encouraged
an illusion that there is a ques-
tion of how long the U.S. should
control the Columbia. The truth is
that if the proposed treaty goes
into effect it is for keeps!

First of all, it will decide that
the dams in Canada will be loca-

THE POWER SELL-OUT ©

ted where the U.S. wants them
to regulate the flow and not where
Canada needs them to generate
the power here.

Secondly, and this is the vital
question, the basic treaty between
Canada and the United States—
“The International Boundary
Waters Treaty’”—provides that in-
dustries “and communities which
grow up as a result of the export
of water or power have a vested
interest in the water or power on
which their existence depends. -

It is well known that the Uni-
ted States government is striving
to secure a treaty providing for
the export of power and sources
of power now, before industries
are established in Canada, pre-
cisely on this basis.

All our waters

are endangered

The Columbia treaty is in rea-
lity a deal t6 sell control of our
water to the U'S. instead of build-
ing industries here. It has been
established already beyond any
legal question that such a treaty
will not be reversed.

If it is ratified, the families,
cemmunities and the massive
capitalist investments that will
be dependent upon the Columbia
on the American side 20 years
from now will resist any attempt
to revoke their right to control
the flow—perhaps even to the ex-
tent of war.

If the Diefenbaker government
ratifies Bennett’s Columbia River
Treaty it will not be able to for-
bid any other provincial govern-
ment from doing the same as Ben-
nett has done.

This is the really big prize that
the U.S. monopoly interests are
seeking. They want a green light
to negotiate deals for the export
of electrical energy from Cana-
da to the US.

This would open up. to them,
and the get-rich-quick capitalists
who serve them in ‘Canada, the
possibility of exporting power
from the Grand Falls on the Ham-
ilton River in Quebec, the vast
potential of the Hudson Bay-Great
Lakes complex, the Nelson River,
the rivers of northern British
Columbia, etc.

This helps to explain why the
Diefenbaker government has
come around also to accepting

»the idea of a nation-wide electri-

cal power grid. The aims of the
U.S. monopolists include trans-
forming a Canadian-wide grid
from an instrunient for increasing
the economy in production and
distribution of electrical energy
in Canada to that of distributing
the load so that Canadians can
use energy produced in ‘the Far
North and make the energy gen-
erated further south available in
the United States at the lowest
rates.

Preparations in the U.S.

Clear proof that powerful inter-
ests in the U.S. are scheming to
achieve a stupendous “take-over”
of Canada’s water powers is pro-
vided by certain activities in U.S.
governmental circles. Secretary of
the Interior Stewart Udall has or-
dered “intensive research on the

techniques and possibilities of ex-

tra-high-voltage transmission of
electrical energy” with a view to
the possibility of making power
generated in Canada available in
“power hungry California’. —

The U.S. Senate has set up a
special committee to deal with
the whole problem of maintaining
the supply of electrical energy in
the United States at prices which
will keep industries there. A re-

Act now to stop |
Columbia Sellout!

e Ajl signs point to a
Tory-Socred agree-
ment to push the
Draft Columbié
Treaty through Par-
liament as quickly as
possible.

@ There is no time to
lose to bring the full
weight of publi¢ opin-
ion to bear on Mem-
bers of Parliament.

@Clip the coupon on
this page and mail it
today.

October 19, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 10

SS AND MAIL

W.H. Herridge,

M.P. Kootenay West,
Parliament Buildings,
Ottawa, Ont.

,

two governments.”

| Name

General McNaughton on April 6, 1962 publicly
denounced the draft Columbia River Treaty.

“It amounts to servitude in perpetuity of our vital
rights and interests. Canada was sold down the
river by the government, in fact, you can say by

I SUPPORT ‘YOUR STAND AGAINST THE CO-
LUMBIA GIVE-AWAY. BLOCK THE EXPORT
OF HALF A MILLION CANADIAN. JOBS TO
THE UNITED STATES. SUPPORT
McNAUGHTON’S PLAN. :

Address

GENERAL

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(This postcard distributed by the Columbia River for Canada
Committee. No postage required.)

Behind American pressure for ratification of the Columbia River treaty is U.S
poly’s aim of engineering a stupendous “take-over” of Canada’s water: powers, In
Tim Buck describes what is behind this scheming of Washington and its agents in

port prepared for this committee
points out that there is a limit
to the distance that electrical
energy can be transmitted econo-
mically.

-The engineers and economists

who prepared this report propose |

to circumvent the problem by in-
ducing certain U.S. industries
which consume a lot of energy to
move part of their operations to
Alaska or to the Alaska-Panhandle
where they will be able to enjoy
cheap power generated by Cana-
dian rivers and be close to both
Taw materials and tide water
while still being in U.S. territory.

I am reminded here of a strik-
ing example of the manner in
which developments are vindicat-
ing the policies advocated by the
Communist Party. Our party has
called attention to the’ need to
develop our power resources con-
tinuously. We wrote about this
particular national issue in the
following words in 1955:

“The availability of abundant
power, preferably cheap power,
has become the decisive consider-
ation in locating great industries.
In the United States energy for
Sey. is now a major prob-
nivessy

“The ‘above explains why the
United States is striving to secure
control of Canada’s energy re-
sources. It illustrates, also, the
significance to Canadians of our

country’s tremendous energy po-

tential . ..

“.. If we use our resources
and opportunities properly and
in. the national interest, Canada
will become the locale of most of
the great new basic industries
that will be built in North Ame-
rica during the coming 50 years.
The one indispensable condition
is that we put a stop now to the
process by which Prime Minister
St. Laurent’s policy, mis-named in-
tegration, is facilitating the syste-
matic transfer of ownership and
control of Canada’s resources to
the United States.”

(National Affairs Monthly, July,
1955, pp. 15 and 16.)

There is still time

There is still time to prevent
the surrender of Canadian control
of the rich power resources of our
country and the Canadian people
have the power to do it. This is
an issue that should unite all
Canadians, particularly those who
are concerned to preserve provin-
cial rights.

Furthermore, this issue has
been placed squarely before the
people by the governmnt although
Diefenbaker gave no indication

-in the course of the 7,
‘paign that he intende
the treaty. :

Fortunately, the 22
promise has not yet be
The forthright statem@
Herridge in the Hous
mons that the New #
Party will fight to
umbia River under Cal
trol can be made
cry for a great natiom

“In the conditions PU
day such a crusade ®
resistance to the sell-0!
da could force an elect
issue. At the heart
troversy is the ques
dian sovereignty and #
our country. Y

If the NDP fights
the principle expré
House leader’s state!
rally very broad circl
ic Canadians and
vocal balance of P
House of Commons. ~
‘fighting for the positi
its House leader,
the balance of pow
sue, it will have take!
towards identifying
the fight to prese
eignty of Canada
pensable key to the
perity of our count

Every. patrioti
should join in the
prevent the signing
bia Treaty.

Press your membé
ment to speak aga!
House of Commons §
himself with oppos!®
the country at largt
question of the Colu
and its relationship ©
of the development
energy in Canada in 3
zations. Bombard thea
ernment. with prote A
ters as an individua
press, to the feder
and to your membe
ment.

Make this one of the
in the next federal ;
tion. Save Canadas
resources for the 4
Canada. :

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