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West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune

-COMMONS DEBATES
FEBRUARY 17TH, 1970

Hon. Otto E. Lang (Minister
without Portfolio): Mr. Speak-
er, the whole question of the
cash and income position of
the farmers on the prairies is
under review. The point, of
course, which the Leader of the
Opposition seems to have
missed is that the farmers to
whom | was particularly speak-
ing have sufficient grain on
hand already to meet the quo-
ta they are likely to have for
this year and next year. So
their gross income is fixed by
the fact that they have this
grain on hand. By the non-
production of their land they
will- have less costs forthe
period and therefore this will

improve their net income posi- .

tion,

Mr. Stanfield: . .. perhaps |
did not quite grasp the point
of how a farmer can farm with-
out farming . . . what measures
he has to advance on behalf of
the government to enable the
farmers to accept his advice
and survive. with any accept-
able standard of living?

Mr. Lang: . . . it is my hope

‘at an early date that we will be

able to. make further state-
ments concerning government
policy...

Mr. A. P. Gleave: Mr. Speak-
er, in view of the fact that the ©

income of the western farmer
is not only fixed but is rapidly
approaching zero, can the
Minister without Portfolio tell
the House what real objectives
the government has in terms of
selling wheat and providing
adequate income so that the
farmers do not all go broke?

Mr. Speaker: It seems to me.

the Hon. member is reiterating
in substance a question just
asked by the Leader of the Op-

position.

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Editorial Comment...

ARE WE DOOMED?

According to the Canadian Press the
Defence Research Board at Ottawa re-
fused to make public its report on the
estimated consequences of any nuc-

lear attack on Canada because of its’

“alarming” nature, namely that about
8,500,000 Canadians would be killed
outright while the less than 12 million
that survived would ultimately suc-
cumb to radiation effects ...

Alarming? What a mild word for a
report of a government body report to
the effect that our country’s entire
population may soon be exterminated!

The fact that this secret report has
been published (seemingly in contra-
vention of government orders) may in-
dicate that there is a purpose behind
that revelation. Such as conditioning
the people by fear that verges on panic
to accept the relative “flea bites” of the
Trudeau austerity program, police state

~ measures, and continued attacks on

our standard of living. What are those
after all. the argument may run, when
compared to wholesale death?

Another purpose could well be the
conditioning of the public mind to new
and extremely dangerous military ad-
ventures. As though at a single com-
mand the politicians and the press are
again beating the anti-Soviet drums,
egging People’s China to sharpen its
hostility to the U.S.S.R., fanning the
flames of war in the Middle East to
the verge of a general conflagration,
etc., with Nixon openly and brazenly
calling the tune for “confrontation”.

This campaign of building up fear to
near-hysteria would serve to condition
the public for “brinkmanship”, to jam
the Nixon ABM program down Cana-
dian throats. for continuation of mili-
tary aggression, perhaps for the justi-
fication of “preventive” war—‘“to save
ourselves”, so to say.

While not ruling out such considera-
tions behind both the report and its
“leaking out” to the press, the fact re-
mains that any nuclear war in which
Canada is involved — and it is not con-
ceivable that a Soviet-American conflict
could be non-nuclear or that it would
not involve Canada — would be de-
vastating in its. consequences, killing
millions of our people and destroying
our country.

The peril is real enough!

The capitalist interests and _politi-
cians that are playing with the idea of
atomic war to preserve their privileges
and compel the people to pay still more
are the same ones who brought us to
the present alarming position. To fol-
low them further by acceding to their
blackmail and accepting the austerity
and war policy of the U.S. imperialists
and their Canadian yes-men is the road

to disaster.

- The only way to avoid it is to make
a sharp turn in the direction of peace-

ful co-existence, an immediate end to

the U.S. war in Vietnam and the U.S.-
directed war in the Middle East, the
establishing of trade and cultural rela-

\

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tions with the countries of the socialist
half of the globe, the rising peoples of
Africa, Asia and Latin America. -

We must opt for life!

MASS MURDER LAB

After the U.S. long refused to si
the Geneva Protocol outlawing ae
cal and biological weapons, Nixon _re-
cently signed it with a number of
reservations, after which the Pentagon
found further “loopholes” which per-
mit them to continue defoliation, ete.,
in Vietnam, and to prepare still great-
er horrors for future wars. The British
govenment also announced it would re-
tain full rights to use chemical wea-
pons of a “non-lethal” nature—against
civilians in Ulster and elsewhere. °

An article in the Globe Magazine
reminds us that Canada — a signatory
of the Geneva Protocol and member of

the International Control Commissi
—operates one of the main labors
les for testing agents for germ and
poison warfare at Suffield, Alberta.

While engaged in helping to put out
the fires that are today raging in vari-
ous parts of the world and threatening
to grow over into a third world con-
flagration, can we allow this piling up
and perfecting of chemical and biologi-
cal weapons that: can destroy entire
peoples and everything that lives and:
grows? Can we sit idly by- while our
own country is being used as the base
for these weapons which together with
nuclear devices are the most pernicious
and abominable ever conceived? -

Close down that mass murder labor-
atory at Suffield! .

HOUSING SCANDAL

The average cost of a new home in
Metropolitan Toronto has gone up by
$7,000 in the past year and has almost
doubled in the last six years. In Janu-.
ary last year the average cost of a new
home in Toronto’ was $85,118. This
January it had risen to the staggering
figure of $42,805. ae

_ The main reason given for the huge
jump is rising land prices. A 60-foot
lot, which fetched $8,000 in 195, today
gets $18,000 and more. _

The working man cannot buy housin
at that price. The poor, forceaah live “4
wretched hovels, don’t even dream of it
at that price. Carrying charges on
houses from $30,000 up, range from
$200 to $300 a month, and down pay-
ments range from $10,000 to $15,000.
The average family in Canada now
spends 32 percent of its entire income
for.housing. In Metro Toronto the per-
centage is more like 40 percent.

So-called private enterprise will not
provide working people with the homes
they need, Housing starts across Can-
ada declined by 40 percent this Janu-
ary. Nearly 18,000 families are on the
list for decent, low-cost housing in the
city of Toronto. There is no need for a
single person to be unemployed while
this situation exists. The demand must
be for a publicly-owned, government-
subsidized, low-cost housing program.

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