PRINCE RUPERT set has a $25 keeping to itself details, it is not the installation a broad, plain (population 500). on just outside lation's purpose The Queen Charlotte town of Mas- million top def- ence project that Ottawa is Though no official] an- nouncement has been made of secret that Dillingham Corp. of Canada is building a military flat Masset What is secret is the instal- Masset's SECRET PROJECT IN NORTH ‘| ABM BASE IN BC? Secret project rising Mayor Ray Hanson, knows that it is a defence depart- only that it is a defence department “communications project.’’ Ottawa, he says, won't say anymore. But why a US. firm to build a Canadian defence pro- ject of this size? And why the intense se- crecy? Says Hanson: “It’s really anybody's guess. We've had only a terse federal notifica tion about the project and I know as little about what is FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1969 Ottawa silent on U.S. Masset base Why is Ottawa keeping silent about the $25 million military installation being built by a U.S. company near Masset on the Queen Charlotte Islands? going on as anybody “General speculation how ever is that is isn’t really a communication centre but a major radar sight possibly On April 2 the Vancouver Province carried the story linked to our Norad agree shown here on the left. Since then not a word has been uttered by Prime Minister Trudeau or the Defence Department. The press has suddenly stopped talking about it. Why? Mayor Ray Hanson of Masset says the project is “really anybody’s guess general speculation however is that it isn’t really a communication centre but a major radar sight possibly linked to our Norad agreement with the U.S.” Two weeks ago the Pacific Tribune quoted an article written by the well-known Canadian writer Peter Newman who said that Canada’s membership in Norad ment with the U.S.” Either way the project is already having an effect on the small island community. Hanson says nearly 200 new houses will be being built to accommodate the 300 to 400 workmen and their families and a new 20 yoom school is also scheduled Se) cational.” Sa Condemnation of the anadian government ‘Over its decision to remain in NATO and for its failure to oppose the ABM system ‘Were at the centre of the Oreign policy positions adopted by the Communist arty in its 20th conven- ion held in Toronto last eekend. : Inhis keynote address, William ‘Kashtan, later ‘re-elected as ‘leader of the Party, said the following about the statement of ‘the government on NATO: _ “The general expectation of a Change in policy has not be fulfilled. After nine months Teview, one could expect a robust child to be born. Instead we have What appears to be a miscarriage with a few trimmings and a bowing to public pressure. ‘Trudeau seems to have taken Over the mantle of MacKenzie King —NATO if necessary, but not necessarily NATO — but in the end no basic change in policy. “The fact is that the Overnment never intended to change its policy towards NATO. All the motions it went through ‘Were part of a calculated game of horsetrading with the Nixon _ 80vernment based on the idea lat if a deal would be worked out oil and wheat, the Canadian 0vernment would remain in the TO alliance. Whether this des acquiesence with the NATO decision hit Communist Party Convention report -See pgs. 6 to 9 ROI EC NARADA Ee CARTERS RAGN TC ABM system, including a possible agreement to allow them to be placed on Canadian territory, remains to be seen. ‘In any case the statement of Prime Minister Trudeau that he still has to make up his mind whether the ABM system is good or bad, politically and morally, is not a good omen, particularly in light of the fact that missile automatically makes us a part of the ABM arsenal and weapons system. Is the huge military project at Masset actually a major radar site for ABM missiles being built under secret terms of the Norad agreement? If it is Canada is being made a target for nuclear bombs and Canadians should know about it. While Prime Minister Trudeau says he still has to make up his mind whether the ABM system is good or a bad it has now been disclosed that missile research work ad for the U.S. has been going on for some years in Canada. ; It now appears that work on U.S. radar sites for the ABM system has also been going ahead. The Canadian people want a clear cut statement research work for the U.S government has been going on for some years in Canada, in Quebec in particular “On both counts it is a new type of barter deal with world peace and the Canadian people the victims. Whether it comes off remains to be seen. This depends on the Canadian people. In the Canada __ to interests.” See NATO, pg. 2 Re-open forest contract say woodworkers —See page 12 meantime, the Canadian people from the Prime Minister about the base at Masset— and which subordinates Canada to the F § defence which is another name End war now Many thousands of Canadians in Vancouver and Toronto joined will continue to be saddled with they want it now. ye imperialist aims of the Washing- for further subordination of ca with anti-Vietnam war marchers in over 40 U.S. cities and in other the NATO military alliance ‘ 4 ton-Bonn axis, and to continental U.S. imperialist [ weekend to demand the war be major world centers on Easter stopped now. condemn the war. The parade Largest Canadian demon- which started from Ceperley stration came in Toronto wherea Park converged on the united sponsoring committee courthouse carrying placards brought out an estimated crowd which read: “End Canadian of 10,000 people to the square in Complicity,’ ‘‘Withdraw U.S. front of the city hall, after Troops Now,’ “Vietnam for the marching from Queen’s Park, to Vjetnamese.’’ hear speakers condemn the The Vancouver rally was Vietnam war and demand the ¢haired by Bob Clair, 2nd vice withdrawal of U.S. troops. It was president of Vancouver IWA the biggest peace demonstration jocal 1-217. New Democratic in the city’s history. Party MP Mrs. Grace MacInnis : In Vancouver a rally at the (Vancouver Kingsway) said that ni courthouse attracted about 3,000 ‘jn Canada our hands are bloody wa people Sunday to hear speakers See VIETNAM, pg. 2