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‘Vive le Quebec libre’

rior to the much-heralded visit of French President

P Charles de Gaulle to our shores, there was quite a flap

in Establishment circles on the matter of protocol whether
Ottawa or Quebec should play host to France’s Head of State,

In government circles in Ottawa this concern about protocol
had a special purpose other than just playing host to de-Gaulle;
to “indulge this old man” as much as possible away from the
cauldron of French Canada’s struggles and aspirations for free-
dom and equality within the Canadian Confederation,

Unlike Ottawa, this “unpredictable old man” had publicly and
without reservation condemned U,S, military aggression in
Vietnam, rather brusquely kicked us and our NATOallies out of
France, given full recognition to the Peoples Republic of
China (to whom we sell a lot of wheat — but at U.S, insistence,
consistently refuse to recognize).

Therefore, in Ottawa’s opinion, le bon Charles might not be a
good “influence” to be let loose in la belle Province unless
properly chaperoned by central Establishment control, Any
other arrangement might easily “blow the gaff” onits bilingual
and bicultural musical chairs approach to French-Canada; right
of full freedom and equality within a two-nation Canada,

It didn’t quite work out that way, however, Quebec was the
main host to President de Gaulle, if not by protocol at least by
an affinity of language, culture, and a centuries old national
traditions and ties, Thus from Quebec City, where he disem-
barked from the French warship “Colbert” at historic Wolfe’s
Cove, de Gaulle was enthusiastically acclaimed by tens of thcu-
sands of French-Canadians all along the route to Montreal,

Naturally there was much “Vive la France” in his speeches,
and audience responses along the way, since to French-Cana-
dians de Gaulle was the living symbol of their national origin,
There was also the hopes expressed by le bon Charles that
French-Canada would yet “control its own destiny,” which it
certainly hasn’t up to now, no matter how the Ottawa- centered
Establishment may try to slice it,

But what has apparently got the old Orange- Tory- Liberal

City Hall, when among numerous “Vives” he is alleged to have
got in a most pungent one — “Vivele Quebec libre”, (Long live
free Quebec), and the thunderous applause from the thou-
sands in his audience,

That is now being branded in Pearson government and reac-
tionary circles as “an inexcusable intrusion in Canadian af-
fairs”, and (at press time) a special cabinet meeting has been
called to consider what steps can be taken to put the quietus
on this “old man”,

In fact there is just a possibility that the Pearson- Martin
twins may say to the President of France what they have never
found the guts to say to the Yanks, (whose intrusions) are a
million-fold greater than de Gaulle’s — go home de Gaulle
and leave us hornswoggle Quebec’s destiny inour own BNA way.

dander up was de Gaulle’s oration on the steps of Montreal

Tom §
McEWEN }

ome concepts sprout in

queer soil, and the more
barren the soil the more dis-
torted the concept,

Naval officer Eck Morrison
(retired) tells a story of anelec-
tion campaign which illustrates
the point, As a Communist can-
didate Eck was on his way to
address an election rally, one of
those all-candidate gatherings,

On his way to the rally Eck’s
taxi picked up two old lady hitch-
hikers, also on their way to the
rally, and both quite ignorant
of Eck’s identity, Enroute Eck
noted from their conversation
that both old ladies had strong
coldwar concepts about Com-
munism and Communists, But
they were curious to see what
a real live Communist looked
like,

Imagine their surprise when
they found their hitch-hiking
benefactor was the Communist
candidate. “My”, commented one
after the meeting, “who would
have thought he was a Commu-
nist, He’s such a nice person
and the only one in that lot
‘who’ made.sense.”

Eck drove them home after
the rally, noting that both were
less talkative on their earlier
concepts about communism,
Clearly their preconceived no-
tions about communism had been
badly jarred. And so it goes,
Ideas and concepts which have
their origin in the barren soil of
coldwar ideology invariably crack
up when confronted with the reali-
ties of life,

Today some wild ideas and con-
cepts are being tossed around
regarding the origin, aims or ob-
jectives etc, of the Hippies —
young boys wearing long hair,
beards, necklaces, barefooted,
jobless, seedy looking. *Who
would want to hire them? thun-
ders an apostle of private prop-
erty, “lock ’em up,”

Teenage girls in mini-skirts,
dungarees, blankets, barefoot-
ed — apparently unreadable,
“Disgraceful,” snorts the over-
stuffed dowagers of our “free
enterprise” sector as they daub
on the war paint to cover up
their own defects; “disgraceful,
something should be done about
ity”

July 28,, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2

00 monopolies dominate
ives of every Canadian

By MAURICE RUSH

Just how free Canada’s “free
enterprise” system is not was
revealed in a summary of the
100 largest corporations pub-
lished in the July 15 issue of
the Financial Post,

Here are some points made
in the study which should be of
interest to every citizen:

e “There is no denying the
domination this relatively small
number of large companies (100)
exercises over the Canadian
economy.”

e “Combined sales of the 100
largest industrial, resource and
utility companies total $21,940,
million, This accounts for about
42% of sales of all Canadian
companies (excluding merchan-
dising and financial firms.”

e “Combined earnings for the
96 companies for which figures

e “Aggregate assets of the 25
largest financial firms equal 82%
of all assets held by all Canadian
financial institutions,”

e “Perhaps the most startling
fact that emerges from the com-

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pilation is the heavy ep i
foreign ownership among iy
ada’s largest firms . +* For i
two of the 100 industrials es
known to be controlled ou! i.
Canada, mostly in the U.S. vate
are substantial foreign s
holdings in another five.

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Many of the 100 companies studied by the Financial Post oper
in B.C,, but the following companies, which are among the 10
of particular interest to British Columbians. The list below sh
how these companies rank by sales and assets:
RANK ie
COMPANY BY 1S
SALES ss
Imperial Oil 1 4
_ Alcan Aluminum 4 19
George Weston 6 y)
Canadian Pacific Railway 8 53
Canada Packers 9 8
B-A Oil 10 9
Shell Canada 11 12
MacMillan Bloedel 14 14
Domtar Ltd. 15 34
Texaco Canada 24 91
Cominco Ltd. 29 35
Crown Zellerbach 34 54
Dominion Bridge 38 > {54s
B.C, Telephone 50 oo ae
B.C, Forest Products Da 98
Southam Press hy 91
Westcoast Transmission 78 31
Columbia Cellulose 81
os yy

are available total $1,552 mil-
lion, These companies, subsid-
iaries and major affiliates, prob-
bably accounted for 65% of earn-
ings of all Canadian industrial,
utility and resource companies.”

The Hippies themselves are
still going through a sort of a
testing period in their working
out of a basic concept or phil-
osophy. In this all the forces
of the state — big business, ed-
ucationalists so-called, the po-
lice — and an overwhelming seg-
ment of that stoic mass we call
“the public” are arrayed against
them, their “cults” and their
concepts, Parodying the Hungry
30’s the Hippies are erroneous-
ly described the “Lost Gen-
eration” of the 60’s,

The Hippies are not “lost”
and the difference between them
and the youth generation of the
Hungry 30’s is fundamental, In
the 30’s at the end of the box
car line, the relief camp, the job-
less line, etc. was the trump
card of capitalist politics at its
highest level— World War I with
its insatiable demand for youth-
ful cannon fodder, The job of
killing or be killed had a top
priority, with a modest wage and
“food, clothing and shelter” all
found.

The Hippie philosophy of “love”
(not in a sex concept) in place of
hate and killing, now being widely
demonstrated in their “love-ins”
—the concept of a world without
war, free from the lust to kill,
free from a dog-eat-dog exploi-
tation, This is the revolutionary
kernal in the as yet not too well
defined Hippie philosophy; to sub-
stitute love for hate, and to that
end become voluntary “drop outs”
from the gawd awful mess this
world is in as a, result of the

The picture that emerges from the Financial post "al
that 100 big monopolies dominate the economic life
a major control is held by foreign capital, mainly
that B,C,’s economy is controlled by these same 100
some home-grown monopolies included,

misleadership of this and past
generations,

It is this concept of *love your
fellow man” and the Hippie de-
termination to be “drop-outs”
from the mass murder of modern
warfare which makes the Hippies

and all kindred youth groups

anathema to the powers-that-be,
It is all very popular to rant
about unwashed faces, long hair,
beards, mini-skirts, dungarees,
etc, It all provides the Establish-
ment and its “respectables” with
excuses for depriving the “un-
washed” of the job that doesn’t
exist — even for the well-wash-
ed,

But when the Hippies (or any
other youth group) take this busi-
ness of “love your neighbor” too
seriously, instead of showing a
willingness to kill him (or her)
should the war hawks so decree,
that becomes a problem of the
gravest magnitude to the latter,

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Editor—TOM McEWEN

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