Island news, views and comments By V. VICTOR TIME AND TIDE; Wait for no man; if it did the tidal wave was a bit premature for it took Northern Affairs Minister Ar- thur Laing over a month to get to Alberni to inspect the devas- tation. After viewing the damage to the accompaniment of placard- carrying citizens who showed they are thoroughly fed up with Federal Government procras- tination: this magnanimous min- ister stated he will ask the fed- eral cabinet to consider donat- ing a ‘‘sizeable sum of money’’ to the Alberni Valley and West — Coast Disaster Fund, Anything Laing said was mut- ed by evasion, his weak voiced speech was a far cry from the man who was making promises to the gullible voters just one year ago when Liberals were very loud and clear in their speeches and promises. It would also be interesting to know if this was the same chap who advised the Prime Minister to inform our southern neighbours that Canada was prepared to assist the Al- aska Earthquake victims in their hour of peril, Mr. Laing says he gave that advice to Ottawa. * * * During the tour of Valley, of- ficials and the Minister they showed more concern over the damage to Somass Auto Court than all other damage. And why not? The owner is one of Al- berni’s ex-mayors, his loss seems to be more important than the homeless labourers many of whom, lost everything they owned. One thing is very evident, if anyone gets one hund- red percent coverage for damage it will be the Somass. They certainly should get full cover- age, just as every person’ who suffered loss of property ordam-— age. The whole issue has turned imto a political football, and that is very bad omen for Alberni residents. Canadian politicians have too much stamina when it comes to this type of game. In fact they play the game so long and so well the layman is in- clined to forget when or why the game started. Once again it seems good advice to invest in a bit of paper and time .and then write a short note to your Par- liamentary representative re- questing action on Alberni flood relief. CAPITOL COMICS: Are just getting warmed on another issue soon to become serious. Arthur Laing is telling Victoria of the potential flood danger in the Del- ta, while Ray Williston thinks he is just ‘‘calling wolf’’. That could be, but the whole kit and caboodle will be in sheeps cloth- ing when the Fraser does go on a rampage. Should such be the case, pity the Delta residents when it comes to restitution for flood damage. That's when one football game will: overshadow the other at the expense of the little man. : * * * COURTENAY COURTS: Re- cently a young man was hauled into the cop-shop for distribut- ing the peace. It-seems he had called to a friend who somehow was in possession of the ‘‘peace disturbers’’ cars keys, In court the police couldn’t agree whether the culprit had said, ‘‘Ya-ha, or Ya-hoo’’, so the young fellow’s case was dismissed. In Courtenay there is concentrated effort to apprehend anyone youthful for the most ridiculous charges, partic- ularly if the young person had participated in the demonstration against the storage of nuclear arms which was held last year. The minions of law and order have all participants listed for future action, if and when there is the least excuse for arrest, such as ‘‘Ya-hoo, or was it Ya- ha,’’ But that is not nearly so peace disturbing as an accident could be when nuclear arms are stored at Comox Air Forcebase. Such an accident would disturb: the peace as far south as Seattle, National women’s parley The Congress of Canadian Women has issued a call asking all women across Canada to par- ticipate in its Eighth National Convention to be held in Toron- to, at the King Edward Hotel, on Saturday and Sunday, May 23 Enjoy Good, Home-Cooked Meals at Jennie’s Cafe 335 Main St. @ Modern equipment @ Dining room service ae ROOFING & SHEET METAL Reasonable - Guiters and Downpipes Duroid, Tar and Gravel ( (Nick BITZ 277-3352 \ n'a SP SD DTD DS ee AE A A A ee and 24, “A great challenge faces Cana- dian women today,” states the call. “Our country is moving into the new age of electronics and automation. This_calls for a look at the problems this raises for women and how we are going to meet these problems, And over ’ and above all is the ever-pres- ent danger of thermonuclear war against which we must stand on constant guard.” The agenda proposes three main points of discussion; (1) Women as mothers, work- — ers and citizens; (2) The well-being and educa- tion of children: (3) Peace. PRIOR GARAGE & SERVICE 219 Prior St. MU 3-2926 COMPLETE AUTO SERVICE & REPAIRS Auto Body Work LEE, Proprietor . a JOHN NORRIS, former provincial NDP candidate, said Canada needs a new federal structure which would recognize equality of French-Canadian nation. CHINA POLICIES HIT BY DUTT A new and still more dangerous stage in the controversy within the international Communist movement has been reached with the publication of the most recent documents of the Chinese Com- munists, said British Communist leader R. Palme Dutt last week, Pointing out that “We are not fighting ‘for Russia’ or.‘for Khrushchev’ ‘against China,’ ” Dutt says: “We are fighting for international Communist unity; for the unity of every Communist Party against disruption and fac- tionalism; for the principles of . Marxism-Leninism as set out in the 1957 declaration and the 1960 Statement; for the principles and program and Congress decisions of our own Party.” Dutt’s article, which appeared in the British Communist Party journal, Comment, answers point by point the wrong positions taken by the Chinese Communist Party, including their claim that there is only one path to socialism, the path of violent revolution. Dutt takes the Chinese leaders to task for their attack on Soviet Premier Khrushchev and their charge that capitalism is domin- ant in the Soviet Union. pact says NDP’e The lines below are culled from an article in the recent issue of The Democrat, written by John Norris, NDI candidate in Vancouver Centre during the last provincial election. The Democrat is the official organ of the B'C. NDP. Norris’ articie, dealing with the crisis of Confederation, was headed: ‘Moderation and Revolution.” French Canadians, of almost every shade of opinion, are ina mood of heroic nation-building. If Canada is to be preserved— and most informed opinion on both sides of the Ottawa River still seems to believe that it ought to be — this heroic mood must be matched in English Canada, The English-speaking majority must want independence and dy- namic growth as much as do the French-speaking minority. It must be a partnership of equals. This doesn’t mean an anti-French campaign, *but matching their energy and their ambition, and their willingness to plan, and their use of the enormous re- sources of the state to remake society. Quebec is not just another prov- ince; it is a nation, and we will need a new federal structure that recognizes the fact. If the constitution of Canada needs re-writing—and it does— get on with it. And if the fiscal arrangements of the last 23 years don’t. have any relevance any more—and they don’t—get rid of them, and make some different ones. If we were not so parochially- minded, we would be trying out an experiment right now in bi- national statism, instead of con- tenting ourselves with submitting piously hopeful and thorou unyepresentative represel tions to the Laurendau-Dum Commission on pi-culturall ntel We could celebrate our cent nial in 1967 by writing 4 Bs, ution that would give ¥° a hope for dynamic develr in the last strenuous year? | the twentieth century. : srograll As the Winter Work prost says: ‘*Do It Now.” The situation doesn’t call {0 moderation of the old @ Canadian type. 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