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When Tim Buck, LPP national leader,
was nominated to contest Toronto-Trinity
in the forthcoming federal ‘election, he
outlined the main points of LPP eleciora!
Policy in his acceptance speech. This state-
ment is based on that speech. Since it was
issued, of course, Bill O of the Senate has
become Bill 93 of the House of Commons

- and widespread opposition to its anti-demo-
¢ratic clauses has compelied the govern-
ment to lay the bill over.

HE Labor-Progressive Party calls upon

the people of Canada to vote in the com-
ing federal elections for an end. to Liberal
and Tory misrule, and for the adoption of a
new national policy: a policy of Canadian
independence, people’s welfare, democracy
and peace!

The Liberal and Progressive-Conservative
parties serve only big business and its pro-
fiteering monopolies. Their policies endanger
the welfare and security of Canada.

For the sake of increasing still further the
already fabulous profits of the monopolies,
prices of the necessities of life are raised to
fantastic heights, though the warehouses are
stocked fu}l of them. A backbreaking tax
loadg bears upon the people at the yearly
rate of $1,300 per family (in federal taxes
alone), robbing the worker’s table of neces-
Sities, but scarcely noticeable to the well-to-
do. Layoffs are growing, leading to mass un-
employment. Farm markets are imperilled by
Ottawa’s trade policy.

Canada’s civilian economy is being sacri-
ficed to an armaments program of over
$2 billion a year. People’s welfare is being
scuttled in the interests of the munitions
makers. Over 1,000 sons of Canada have
been killed or wounded in the Korean war.
U.S. imperialism, having started this aggres-
sive war against the Asian peoples, now de-
liberately prolongs it, rejecting every pro-
posal for cease-fire and peace in Korea. _

The St. Laurent government and Parlia-
ment have voted for the rearming of German
naziism, for the inclusion of West Germany
in NATO. °

NATO commits Canada to maintain armed
forces. overseas on the continent of Europe

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to serve alongside Nazi-officered West
German divisions.

The St. Laurent government and Parlia-
ment have voted for the Japanese Treaty
which opens the road to the revival of
Japan’s imperial armed forces.

The generals clamour for conscription
while they recruit 16-year-old boys into the
army. They want Canada’s sons to ‘be
cannon fodder for the U.S. military machine.

These Policies Can
Only Lead to Disaster

"THEY are anti-Canadian policies—inspired

and dictated by a foreign power; the
power that has established war bases from
Newfoundland to the Yukon, that is grab-
bing our priceless natural resources, from, the
oil of the Prairies to the iron ore of Steep
Rock and Ungava; the power that has or-
dered Ottawa to enact repressive legislation
to impose police-state thought control; the
power that dictates Ottawa’s trade and for-
eign policies, which are dragging us to crisis
at home and abroad; the’ power of Wall
Street, of the money-mad U.S. billionaires!

The LPP calls for a break with the St.
Laurent policy of national betrayal, which is
making our country an economic and poli-

“tical dependency of the United States in its

insane drive to war!

Halt U.S. Economic
Aggression

HE Labor-Progressive Party calls upon

all. patriotic Canadians to support the
fight for the all-round economic development
of our country—for the development and
rapid expansion of facilities to process our
raw materials at home.

The economic policy of the St. Laurent
government is aimed at reducing Canada to
a raw material hinterland for the industries
of the United States. We must stop the
present policy of selling our country as she
stands, piecemeal, to be dug up and chopped
down for shipment to blast furnaces or fac-
tories in the United States.

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An end to U.S. do-
mination of Cana-
da’s foreign trade is
called for by the
LPP. “All of the
900 million bushels
of wheat now hang-
ing like a sword over
the prospects for
_ prairie agriculture in
1953, could be sold.

greatest markets are
open to Canada in
the British Com-
monwealth and Em-
pire and in the so-
cialist countries.”
But today, the U.S. -
is allowed to dictate
Canada’s trade poli-
cies.

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(CANADIANS must put an end to U.S.

domination of our foreign trade poli-
cies. Canadians know from their own ex-
perience during the war and since, that dif-
ferent and better policies are open to us.
The growth of mass unemployment could
be prevented, we could have continually
expanding opportunities for employment,
security for every Canadian from the cradle
to the grave and steadily improving condi-
tions of life. Hundreds of millions of people
in dozens of countries want to buy from us. ~
The St. Laurent government refuses to per-
mit Canadians to trade in those markets—
as part of its imperialist war program. All of the 900
million bushels of wheat now hanging like a sword
over the prospects for prairie: agriculture in 1953,
could be sold. Great, potentially the very greatest,
markets are open to Canadians in the British Com-
monwealth and Empire and in the socialist countries.
The anti-Canadian policy of allowing United States
interests to dictate Canada’s trade policies, must be
rejected. Canada’s trade policies must be ‘based upon
the interests of Canada’s people, not upon the aims of
United States imperialism. Canada must trade with
all nations that want to buy our products and have
exportable products that we need.

Re-establish the Supremacy
of Parliament .

O STOP the betrayal of Canada, patriotic Cana-

dians must unite to re-establish the supremacy of
the Canadian Parliament.

In the course of its calculated betrayal of Canada
to Wall St., the St. Laurent government is trying to

' foist upon us an anti-Canadian interpretation of the

stitution to the effect that the federal Cabinet
does not derive its ‘power from the people of
Canada through their elected representatives as-
sembled in Parliament.

The Labor-Progressive Party calls upon all patriotic
Canadians to repudiate this anti-Canadian scheme!
Fight to restore our country’s sovereign independence,
to make the elected representatives of the people
assembled in Parliament the supreme governing
authority in the land, to fly a Canadian flag, to have

a new Canadian Constitution and a Canadian Bill
of Rights. . ™

This same reactionary government, which seeks to
set itself above Parliament, is out to trample on the,
democratic rights of Canadians. At the behest of the
U.S. government, it is introducing legislation—Bill
O, that would turn Canada into a police state.

Bill O is the deadliest threat to Canadian démo-
cracy—aiming to strip labor of the right to organize
and strike; to make criticism of the government a
crime of sedition or treason, punishable by death; -to
muzzle all patriotic opposition to U.S. war and en-
slavement of our country.

_ The Labor-Progressive Party calls upon all Cana-
dians to fight the fascist measures of Bill O, to
compel Parliament to reject them, to win a Bill of
Rights that will uphold the dearly-won democratic
rights of the Canadian people to think, speak,
assemble and organize. :

The Labor-Progressive Party calls upon all demo-
cratic Canadians to cooperate in the development of
a new national policy to make Canada great. The LPP

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