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tion, health, welfare and their
entire standard of living.

For Ontario to avert disaster
and to protect the workers, pro-
fessionals and small business
people, there is a need to com-
pletely recast our economic and
trade policies.

We need to align ourselves
increasingly with the socialist
world and all progressive forces
which are arising to challenge
imperialism.

* * *

Our education system is in a
mess!

Schools are overcrowded, un-
derstaffed and most undemo-
cratic.

It is a crime of monstrous
proportions for the Davis gov-
ernment to introduce the divi-
sive issue of separate schools
into the Ontario elections. It is
being done to cover up the de-
liberate government policy of
cutbacks in education all down
the line in this province. It is an
attempt to hide from the very
crisis for which the premier
himself was responsible while
minister of education in Ontario.

The position of the Commun-
ist Party on separate schools is
clear and unambiguous. We are
now — and have always been,
for complete separation of
church and state—of school from
church. Our party stands for a
single unified secular public
school system in Ontario.

At the same time we support
the right of French Canadians
to their own French schools in
Ontario where needed. This is
a distinct right arising from the
bi-national character of our
country, which is a reality that
must be recognized. This is a

matter quite distinct from non--

secular schools.

Separate schools is not the

light for French rights

necessary that all subjects be
available in French. ;
cate

Students I spoke to sta
that the Abitibi Pulp and Paper

i in
Company, the only industry
Seon, Falls, has threatened
to move out if a new gchool.
built, and has presented a eae
to the Nipissing Board of e
cation opposing the svadeee
tion of a French-bilingual school.
They also feel that the Sy ends
is putting pressure on its : :
ployees to stay neutral in t a
struggle, and that the es a
mayor, John Valiquette, + :
rectly influenced by the one
sions of the company due to
fact that he is an employee 25
Abitibi and lives in one of com

pany houses. -_

issue. Government action to
take over the full costs of
primary and secondary educa-
tion and remove it from real
estate taxes along with costs of
welfare, arterial highways, mass
rapid transit and hospitals, is
what is needed immediately.
This must be accomplished by
new overall tax policies which
Fedistribute the provincial re-
venue in favor of the people,
not the big .monopolies as_ is
presently the case.
The provincial government’s
record on ‘municipal govern-
ment is both a crime and a
farce. It has staggered from one
crisis to another in a consistent-
ly cynical effort to keep the

main burden of municipal costs
on the worker, farmer and small
businessman, and not levy them
against wealth-producing pro-
perty of the big corporations
who -are beyond the reach of
municipal government for effec-
tive taxation purposes.
Municipal democracy is being
destroyed by the _ provincial
government. Regional govern-
ments have been exposed as a
scheme to pass additional costs
on to taxpayers while restrict-
ing their ability to determine
the course of development of
their municipalities. Municipal
assessment functions have been
taken over by the province to
further shift the costs of ser-

Labor protests Bill 167 now made law by the Tories.

Elizabeth Hill argues
neighborhood issues

In an open letter to Hamilton
City Council, Don Stewart, Com:
munist candidate for Hamilton
West, criticized reported plans
by City Council to use public
funds to lower living standards.
Stewart quoted press reports
which say city council intends
to employ labor for repair and
maintenance work at rates below
those established for tradesmen.

He contends that land specu-
lation and mortgage rates, not
labor costs, have been respon-
sible for soaring housing prices
over the past number of years.

‘ «what is really needed is that
Sites concerned with the
housing problems, starting with
the organized labor movement,
unite in a demand that money
pe provided by the federal gov-
ernment for low cost and low
rental housing. This also to, in-
clude the cost of iter te
and repairs. That land specula-
tion be curbed, that land Soy
tiation be carried out by the

housing construction,
our jobs creat t
ties _ furniture, appliances,

etc.”

It can be said that Elizabeth
Hill’s voters came themselves
for the first leaflet of her elec-
tion campaign. Of course it was
a coincidence, but the Commu-
nist candidate’s message to St.
Andrew-St. Patrick constituents
was just “hot off the press”
when the Ross St. folk last Sun-
day came asking whether they
could use the yard of the Dr.
Norman Bethune House (head-
quarters of the CPC and of the
Young Communist League, of
which “Liz” Hill is secretary)
for their community frolic. Per-
mission was readily granted.

Over 200 neighbors gathered
despite intermittent showers to
watch the dragon dance (there
are many Chinese Canadians in
this area of Toronto) and enjoy
other items on the program. A
policeman appeared and wanted
to know why the affair was be-
ing held_on these premises.

“We don’t have a park, you
know,” was the spirited answer.

Aside from banning the loud-
speaker, the police did not furth-
er interfere. Lizz Hill mingled
with the crowd and distributed
her “red hot” leaflet.

Alongside provincial issues, in
the leaflet she raised questions
of special interest of the imme-
diate neighborhood, such as the
plan to “re-zone” the Grange
Park area.

vices on the ratepayer. More
and more municipal preroga-
tives are being assumed by
Queen’s Park.

Farm income is declining as
is acreage under cultivation,
and farmers are being pushed
out while big agro-business are
taking over the land. The refusal
to give farmers a voice through
direct membership leaves them
with no effective say in deter-
mining their conditions.

As the crisis deepens and
working people and farmers are
brought into a struggle to pro-
tect their living standards there |
is an increasing tendency to re-
strict the democratic rights of
all people. Police activities are
being extended and “special
forces” established to impose
“law and order’. The big ques-
tion is whose law and order?
The courts are increasingly be-

’ ing brought into action against

organized labor and an alarming
patterh is emerging which
heads in the direction of a
police state directed against the
people.

All this is in the richest
province in Canada, and by all
accounts, one of the wealthiest
pieces of geography. in the
world.

* * *

Ontario, which produces the
largest portion of - Canada’s
wealth, most of its manufactur-
ed goods and much of its raw
materials should provide pros-
perity, not only for its own in-
habitants, but also for less well
endowed parts of Canada and
for underdeveloped countries
trying to establish minimal
standards of life.

Instead of this it provides mass
unemployment, mass poverty,
insecurity and gross inequities
for a large part of Ontario’s 8
million people.

“I am entirely opposed to any
giving away of public streets or
lanes to private developers, who
have already shown a callous dis-
regard for residents in the area,”
she stated.

“Instead of tearing up good
repairable houses and destroying
stable communities these homes
should be renovated and brought -
up to city standards. This reno-
vation policy has already receiv-
ed assistance through recent pro-
vincial legislation — no increase
in assessment resulting there-
from.

“At the same time, I must
clearly state that I am not
against development which is in
the interests of the people. What
I am against is the private devel-
opers making all the prior deci-
sions and subsequently receiving
City Council approval.

“Renovation of older proper-
ties and the building of new pub-
lically owned homes for the peo-
ple of Toronto will provide
meaningful jobs in construction
and related industries.

“The stopping of the Spadina
Expressway in this riding due to
the mass public action over the
past two years was a victory for
the people which placed neces-
sary curbs on the plans of devel-
opers. and their profit hungry
plans.” 4

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