By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

The Solicitor-General of Canada
has just released a report on
juvenile delinquency prepared by a
committee appointed by — his
department. Titled “Young Per-
sons in Conflict With The Law,” the
report contains 104 specific
proposals aimed at developing a
more liberalized approach to the
treatment of juvenile defenders, as
well as a draft of a new act to
replace the present Juvenile
Delinquents Act.

Many of the proposals are an
improvement over what we have
today. They deal with matters such
as the rights of young people to
assistance and representation;
notices to parents, relatives or
friends when a young person is
arrested; the privacy of youth
court proceedings; limiting of-

TORONTO — The Communist
_ Party of Canada submitted its
brief to the Royal Commission on
Corporate Concentration on
January 12.

Speaking for the party were
party leader William Kashtan,
Alfred Dewhurst editor of the
Communist Viewpoint, and
_ Richard Orlandini, the party’s
central organizer.

In an introduction to the brief the
party took off on the. note of
_ multinational corporations as ‘a
threat to the well being of the
people and of democracy”’ becaiise
the extent of their economic power
allows them to make their own
rules and ignore the laws in the
countries where they operate.

The introduction then went on to
outline three major points which
_ had been made in the -brief sub-
mitted and considered earlier by
the commission.

The first point made by the
Communists was that the- much
mourned “‘free enterprise” system
had definitely come to an end and
_ was replaced by corporate con-.
_ centration in all major sectors of
the economy and finance. The
dominating force in the economy

today, the brief noted, were
monopoly and multinational
corporations who dominate all
aspects of the Canadian economy
and are the source of the crisis
afflicting Canada today.

The second point made by the
Communist delegation was that a
specific feature of monopoly
concentration in Canada is the
decisive influence and high degree
of foreign, primarily U.S.
ownership of the commanding
heights of the economy.

As a result the Canadian
economy was underdeveloped in
the processing and manufacturing
industries as U.S. investment
policy has ‘‘been directed to fasten
control over Canada’s priceless
natural resources.’’ The brief
noted ‘‘foreign ownership has

. proven to be detrimental to the
creation of new jobs in Canada.

Other distortions resulting from
this high degree of foreign control,
the statement showed, were
aggravated inflationary ten-
dencies, high prices and profits
‘while wages decline and unem-.
ployment worsens.

dependence the party called for

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To uphold sovereignty and in-

Corporation concentration hit

“large scale state intervention (in
the economy) directed to
assert sovereign ownership and
democratic control over these
corporations and conglomerates.”

Specifically the party called for
amendments to the Combines Act
with measures to forbid mergers
and takeovers which undermine
Canadian. sovereignty and the
‘public interest and which would
include provisions for the
nationalization of the holdings of
corporations in violation of the law.

Secondly, the brief proposed that
the Canadian Development Cor-
poration be authorized as the
vehicle for carrying out such
nationalization of the law breakers
and that all aspects of economic
development be subject to
Canadian laws.

The brief also clearly pointed out
that the party’s goal was not the
replacement of foreign corporate
concentration with Canadian
multinational corporations, but
democratic control through public
ownership of the Canadian
economy in the interests .of
national independence ' and
sovereignty, and stable economic
growth without inflation.

policies that are inimical to the interests of private sector
employees, such as socialism, nationalization of industry,
trends towards the despotism of communism, etc.

e Heed the warnings of Mao Tse-tung and “‘face up to

the fact” that Russia may soon make war against us’’, an

M C E WE N outlook “that demands appropriate rearmament” and the
_Canadian army reorganized into the ‘‘role of combined

operations commandos’’.

New approaches needed
to crime among young

fences to the Criminal Code and
other federal statutes and

regulations (thereby excluding all’

offences under provincial statutes,

territorial , ordinances and
municipal by-laws); applying the
act. uniformly across Canada to
young people ages 14 to 17 in-
clusive; and so on.

In most cases today, youthful
offenders are released in the
custody of parents or other
responsible persons. But in more
serious crimes, or where no one
can be found to take custody of
them, young offenders are
detained. The question then is —
what do you do with those who
must be detained?

This vital question is not an-
swered in the report. It is not even
asked.

As I see it, dealing with offences
in the legal sense is only the first
step. The second and equally
important step is to help these
young people overcome their
problems and attitudes and
become useful members of society.

Belisario Enriquez, Chilean exile
who came to Canada in January,
1974 after the fascist coup, and
continued his struggle for the
freedom of his country, died at
the age of 42 in Toronto on
January 4. Enriquez spoke at a
public rally in Vancouver in
support of Chilean democracy in
March, 1974. Before the military
coup he was vice-dean in the
Department of Philosophy at the

civilization”, and if we persist in them, will be at the
“mercy: of another horde of barbarians.”’ ey

The above abbreviated notations from the ten-points of
gauleiter Porter, not only illustrate a deranged mind, b
a hired scribbler completely out of touch with
world events, past or present.

That, of course, is of the least concern :
“free press”’, since all such anti-union or anti-communist.

We need some detention centres
in B.C. for young offenders. The”
few we have today are entirely
unsatisfactory. They are not much
better than youth prisons. When
young people complete their terms

in these institutions, they often”
drift into more serious crime, and
before long they land up in Oakalla
or the pen at New Westminster. —

These institutions should be
places where these young people
(many of whom lack education and’

are school drop-outs) can continue)

their education and learn a trade. |
They should have gymnasiums and ©
other sports facilities. They should”
learn how to do useful work and be ~
paid for it. Such institutions would
require an enlightened staff, of
course, not just jail guards. :

But that still doesn’t complete
society’s responsibility. When
these young people get out, a job”
should be found for them and they ©
should be helped to make the
transition. Ef

I know that some people will say >
that all this costs too much and that
these young people aren’t worth it.

Aside from the view that such a *

humane treatment for young of- .

fenders is in itself reason enough, -
there is the fact that it would cost a”
lot less to rehabilitate these young
people than to keep them in prison”
in their later years for long
stretches. ae

Finding good jobs for them at
decent wages won’t be easy, of —
course. It points to the need for new ©
government policies to encourage
the building of secondary
manufacturing and processing ©
industries, a Canadian merchant ©
marine and so on. 4

The reason that reports like
“Young Persons in Conflict With
The Law,” lead in most cases to a.
dead endis that their proposals are
limited by what will fit into present
legal policies and practices, fail to

deal with broader social problems.

They are designed to operate ;
within our present economic and
political system when what we
need are some fundamentally new _
approaches to the whole society in —
which we live. 3

local and ©

toa self-styled |

: ; : ; prejudices, bias or other asinine stupidities, properly
ae : te - a SrnOnSE a enOnt Ces ception =~ ane: an directed, are of much more greater import it is this.
_ fhe irate voice of a Vancouver longshoreman made the reality” ... underground movements of our Com- meeting-of-minds which :

phone sizzle the other morning. “Say, did you read that 1 = Pas Gini ea

munists enemies, and as such “unity of the East and
West” is essential when the “time for attack is ripe’.

eA declaration of war upon all internal political
movements ‘‘in possession of arms’’ and/or seeking to
“overthrow our constitution’? who, failing to cease and
desist, to be ‘‘shot on sight’”’ by our security forces.

e Restore corporal punishment — the lash, to which
“deterrent”’ only brutes, both animal and human,
respond. But go easy with the noose, since that could be ‘“‘a
negation of Christian belief.”

e Distinction in attitudes towards execution of the
common criminal — and the “enemy fifth-columnist; the
‘links’ between the Communist and the union — and the
union and the Mafia.”

e Promotion of a genuine Feuhrer to ‘‘smash” the
Mafia and the unions, with a time limit to accomplish the
job, or replace a Goering with a Himmler.

e (Point 9is a treatise on the ‘debilitating symptoms of
disease’ in capitalism, consequently appropriate in any
New Year resolution).

e All ‘woes’ of the West apparently stem from well-
intentioned but misguided Liberal polices, too idealistic
and impractical for the ‘defenders of a threatened

hungry seagulls around a municipal garbage heap!
For the few Canadian “realists”? who may have a
tempted to concoct a New Year resolution with Porter’
ammunition, by courtesy of the Vancouver Sun, our read
condolences. Herr Adolph Schickelgruber expired in his
Berlin Chancellory rat-hole a good 30 years ago, anda
socialist and capitalist world are agreed in a common
detente, to assure that he won’t happen again. But, as a

humble longshoreman said, to make doubly sure, we must
not neglect our homework! i

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_ Stuff in the Vancouver Sun on Jan. 9 by some McKenzie

Porter or other with his proposals for Canadian realists on

_ their New Year Resolutions? No? .. . you didn’t read it?
_ Then you're slipping up with your homework'..

When I had perused that ten inches of double column
bilge as had been urged, I wasn’t a bit surprised that ’76
had got off to a bad start. It was inevitable that with the’

second coming of the Social Credit in B.C. that well-known

and not so well-known species of microbes should emerge

__ from the woodwork or from under rocks to resume their
natural function as a reincarnated Doktor Goebbels.
Especially so since they find ready to hand a well house- -

broken press to give ample coverage to their mental
abberations, plus a relatively complacent public, which,
like myself, too often neglects its homework.

This self-appointed dictator Porter lists 10 points as his
Select subject matter for 1976 New Year resolutions.
Achtung! :

e A ban on all strikes of all persons employed in the
public sector, and at all levels of government.

__ @ Deprive all the aforementioned persons of the right to
. vote, for it they are enfranchised they might vote for

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