On February 26 Soviet aircraft took off from Moscow airport for Cairo carrying medicine, food supplies and blankets for the families of the workers of the metallurgical plant bombed by Israeli planes. (see photo page 6-7) valienation § is Public ownership of Canada’s uranium industry as part of an over-all plan to stop the sellout of our natural resources is pro- posed by Communist Party na- tional leader William Kashtan in a statement to the press. “Government action to block a United States takeover of Denison Mines can only be con- sidered the first step in what is decisive for Canadian control and independent development— the establishment of public ownership over the uranium in- dustry within the framework of a publicly operated Canadian energy policy embracing all sources of energy,” he stated. “This should be done through OS legislation establishing a Cana- dian Development Corporation. Such legislation should spell out clearly that the main sectors of the Canadian economy: must be under Canadian ownership and control and that no foreign investment will. be permitted to impinge in any way with Cana- dian control of industry, natu- ral resources and economic and trade policy. “Canadians would welcome such a ‘forthright statement of policy by the Trudeau Govern- ment which would thereby put an end to the disastrous policy of integration and continental- ism and the bargaining away of Canada’s resources, its_sover- eignty and independence.” US. YOUTH tig BE 4 tg CZ e 3 Ms Ai =? By ALAIN PATRIE The French and the English working people of Quebec are being driven by the menacing force of Anglo capital which constantly’ maneuvers to widen the gulf between them. One of the levers in this operation of blatant racism based on the legislation pending in the field of education with Bill 62. In the past few weeks Mon- treal has been blitzed with meetings, debates, panels, ral- lies and solemn sermons by the toastmasters of the dominant English group. The gist of this verbal storm is simply that if Bill 62 is promulgated it will be the swan song for English language and culture in Quebec. Couched in the most abusive, chauvinist and downright ra- cist terms, the text of the mes- sage is designed to-pander to every anxiety, fear and dis- trust the English of Montreal may harbor towards the French. QOUUECEEUEUEUOUQUUEOGUEDEEUECEEUOUEEETEREEEEGEG FORM OF OPPRESSION Historically one of the feat- ures of national oppression in the province prevailed most notably in the terms of ‘educa- tion. While Quebec’s financial and industrial sectors lay under the iron grip of the English, the common schools were under the control of the Roman Catholic Church. The English were de- termined to give as little help as possible to the common school and surprisingly they were supported by those French 2lements who were expressing the popular anxiety of the popu- ation against “Anglifying” and ‘Protestantizing.” The English Slite of course fostered their awn schools paid for by the gublic purse.. Thus the French were doubly penalized, there arose two insular and stratified school systems in, Que- bec, both confessional and sep- arate as to language. The French schools were priest-ridden, fin- ancially handicapped and ex- tremely sectarian. The English system on the other hand was wealthy, secular in practice and science oriented. Montreal became the living laboratory in which the upper crust of the English minority, with the stupid arrogance that makes special beings out of people, appropriated ‘all ‘the wealth and power. Being the sovereign owners of most of the corporations and _ large real estate holdings, the property taxes paid into the Protestant school panel were enormous. The inequities of the system were plain to see, rich and poor boards, overcrowded and under- used schools existed side by side. Under these circumstances the Anglo capitalist class in Quebec, top heavy with capital, arrogant in its actions and ra- cist in its culture, settled down to a corpulent -monopolistic thievery of the ‘quaint deni- zens of the province.” And so the gulf which separ- ates the two languages in Que- and: Politics in Quebec bec is underlined by the two highly unequal school systems. Bill 62 has as its primary aim the liquidation of the\ two sys- tems and instead proposes a unified school system. UOUOUOUETCDEEEEEEOOO CETTE TEEPE EEE WHY INTRODUCED At this point a question might arise inquiring into the motives of the Union’ Nationale and par- ticularly Minister of Education Jean-Guy Cardinal’s insistence on the Bill. Briefly there are objective and subjective factors. With the evolution of state monopoly capitalism there was a need to change the nature of instruc- tion in. the Catholic schools. The pedagogy that once stressed theological philosophy oriented itself to the demands of the in- dustrial age. As well, the world revolutionary spirit could be felt in Quebec. The late Pre- mier Johnson sensed the chang- ing demands in the socio-econo- mic formation and feeling the hot breath of an uneasy popu- lace for Bill 62. Cardinal, the Minister of Education and spokesman for large French Canadian capital, introduced the Bill much to the chagrin of certain English interests. Que- bec Premier Bertrand, a more ambivalent type of politician, came under heavy fire from the Anglo capitalists who support- ed the party financially. The need to pacify the English up- per class led to a compromise agreement between Cardinal and Bertrand and created a po- litical standoff» between them. Bill 63 was then _ hurriedly passed by parliament. PTE AIM IS UNITY The object of Bill 63 is to en- sure children of English-speak- ing parents acquire’ French. It also confirms, for Bertrand’s satisfaction, a parent’s option to choose either French or Eng- lish as the language of instruc- tion Parents who request English may have it. Finally and -most important of all, that French be the working language in Quebec. Now Cardinal was ready to submit Bill 62. The City of Montreal is the initial site for this legislation. After 200 years of blatant, churlish division, the democra- tic fact of unification is to ex- ist. This alone is enough to war- rant the support of all the work- ing people in Quebec. The Bill goes further. It will eliminate 45 separate and disparate school boards to replace it with ~ 11 school boards for 11 new school municipalities. The school boards will be elected by a general vote of the population— a precedent for Quebec. The school. boards are to be co- ordinated by a Montreal School Council to consist of 15 persons It is this council that smacks of political abuse. The nece sity for the people to struggle for an amendment of this pat of the Bill so that the count too shall be elected, is evident | Lastly, Bill 62 states that henc® forward taxes will no longer be directed towards Protestant Catholic panels but into the unh fied school system. Why then do the English 1P circles fear Bill 62? : auenavanenuenaavaveneauanyanevenaseanegiiilll! WHY OPPOSED? Why are they calling Bill 62 vicious, undemocratic, rotte? education, cultural genocide. In short, a ghastly paradox, Wl pot calling the kettle blac The exploiter imbues the & ploited with its own sins. The English language media have launched a massive splenetic 2 tack against the Bill in desP® rate effort to enlist all the En lish into its crusade. All of this becayse the rock ribbed Anglo-Canadian b0vr geois is determined to retall the status quo. It is the loss ® their bloated privilege and @ augury of things to come thal infuriate them. It is significant’ that one of the vociferou spokesmen against Bill 62 15 ~~ Reid Tilley, the chairman of t Protestant School Board. 4 Tilley just happens to also nol the position of Vice-Preside? of the Imperial Tobacco C0- ue Montreal, a firm notorious {f - its plunder’ of French-Canadia® workers for 100 years. What Bill 62 is all about appointed for four years by thé Quebec government. suvacuagcancenecnnanceneencaneaneanesnnetsiill! DEMOCRATIC MEASURES The saddest commentary ee of course, those English work: ers who fall victim to the 5/7 der and hysterical insinuatiO? against the quality of Pret education and_ the inevitaby’ lowering of the English stay ard of education in Montre@: The Montreal Teachers Assoc tion a union of English sper. ing teachers, called this “stuPl arguments,” and stressed “ fact that there is “no signifi, differences in the two system The basic principles of BE 62, besides enfranchising 4 jority of people who have be historically disenfranchised, Wes pool financial and materia sources, centralize teaching ministration and democra community control. Over 80 percent of the por lation in Quebec speak Fron. In Montreal there are 325 French-speaking students 78,000 English-speaking te dents. These figures accent the historical tendency: ip will be the working language Quebec. Those who fail t® ing this must run the risk of D& ¢ ; pre tossed out of the mainstre@ 4 French Canada today. tize