This is a critical federal election. Canada is at
a crossroads. We have a choice — massive
and permanent unemployment and the
threat of nuclear destruction, or a new path in
pursuit of jobs and peace.

A majority Liberal or Tory government
would bring no solutions. Their answer is to
drive politics to the right. The corporations
would be the winners, the Canadian people
the losers.

The Communist Party stands for the
second path — policies of real change, for
jobs, peace and Canadian independence.

Liberal and Tory economic
policies have proved bankrupt.

Unemployment and inflation continue to
grow. Real wages have declined. More
Canadians live in poverty. Canada’s survival
is endangered by Liberal and Tory support
for U.S. Cruise missile testing.

“Recovery”; now petering out, has only
been real for the multinationals and banks.
Canada’s economy is suffering the effects of
government restraint and the U.S. high
interest rate policy which finances Reagan’s
dangerous militarization program. This has
deepened Canada’s economic crisis.

Calls for’closer economic integration with
the U.S. via free or freer trade lead to further
loss of Canadian independence. Mulroney’s
proposal for closer military ties with the

Reagan course of cold and hot war could lead -

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William Kashtan, Leader
Communist Party of Canada

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to destruction. The interests of Canada
her people are not those of U.S. impel

The Liberal and Tories place the :
profits of big business first-__—

They tell us that profits, free enterpis”
technological change produce jobs. be
lower wages produce jobs. That militariz i
produces jobs. But all they have produe
and will produce is recession, more a
unemployment, more corporate profits 5
more misery for the people. Militarizat
distorts the economy, creates inflation ©
could lead to fascism and war. ig

Mulroney would take us along the 108
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These are the Communist candidates acro

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Cninox BOWIE RIG! . Calgary East . (excluding Metropolitan (Metropolitan Toronto)
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Esquimalt-Saanich _ Edmonton East . BoE ENOOD GORDON Eos t
ERNIE KNOTT DAVID WALLIS jt Eglinton-Lawrence
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Fraser Valley West Edmonton North Het :
VIOLA SWANN NAOMI RANKIN EOI ate
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~ Nanaimo-Alberni Edmonton Strathcona sd 7 oe : ,
MARK MOSHER ANNE McGRATH Parkdale-High Park
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New Westminster-Coquitlam Pembina. ee Rae , 3
ROD DORAN. LAURENT St. DENIS Rosedale > an
SYLVIE BAILLARGE
North Vancouver-Burnaby Vegreville — crear ee : a
- REG WALTERS TIM FIRTH ee : St. Paul's: a
| Surrey-White Rock-Delta Sees DE Camarines Seon Ae 3
RAY VIAUD SASKATCHEWAN MELDDIP Scarborough East —
: NORMAN BRUD
Vancouver Centre Regina West age Sean :
MAURICE RUSH - KIMBALL CARIOU ass ; _ Scarborough West
Vancouver East welans oe ea es
MIGUEL FIGUEROA MANITOBA JOHN MACLENNAN Trinity
i WILLIAM KASH
Vancouver Kingsway Winnipeg North MOORE em [i a
BERT OGDEN PAULA FLETCHER . York East
: ean jes Hace) STATHIS STATHOPOULOS
- Winnipeg-Fort:
_FRANK GOLDSPINK | York South-Weston
~ MIKE PHILLIPS
’ Winnipeg-St. James © os |
PAUL PUGH York West
| c JACK SWEET
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