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Unity or Lib PR?

- The squabble continues between politicians of the
federal Liberal government and the most vociferous of
the provincial Tory regimes over who gets the spoils
from constitutional change. There are legitimate con-
cerns involved in such change, the concerns of the
non-exploiting majority for democratic guarantees, for tps,
example. There are real concerns for the rights of the
French Canadian nation; and for regional needs and _ B
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Above all there is the need to strengthen the unity of
Canada on the basis of an equal voluntary partnership

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discussion.

The recently-begun $6-million advertising campaign,

sponsored by the Canadian Unity
Information Office, which reports to
Justice Minister Jean Chretien, furthers
the tussle.

What the $6-million worth of ads, paid
for by the Canadian people, will not say,
and should say, is as follows:

This country needs a new constitution,
a made-in-Canada constitution, drawn
up with fully democratic participation,
designed to recognize Canadian in-
dependent development, and to cement.
relations between English and French
Canada. ;

It should recognize the national
aspirations and right to self-determina-
tion of the French Canadian nation in
Quebec, and should be. based on the
equa! voluntary partnership of the two
nations. Only a united Canada can de-
velop independently of U.S. imperial-
ism. .

| peoples must be an integral part of constitutional | ————— KS N & ——r

The constitution must embody all-
sided economic development combined
with nationalization of all natural re-
sources, administered by joint federal-
provincial crown corporations.

It must include a Bill of Rights pro-
tecting economic, social, cultural and
linguistic equality, along with the rights
to a job, health protection, education,
housing, and equality of rights for wo-
men.

This kind of approach to constitu-
tional change is needed, whereas a $6-
million ad campaign which, initially,
looks more like Liberal public relations,
is not needed. There is a more urgent
need — and it won't be fulfilled by Liber-
als or Tories — and that is to spread the
word that there is a sound and sane ap-
proach to Canadian unity under a new
constitution.

Answers to the job crisis _

When the capitalist system is stricken
by crises, unfortunately it is working
people, not the capitalists who suffer.
The system partly will not, partly cannot,
find solutions to its crises.

So mass unemployment, a result of,
and contributor to, economic stagnation
is given token attention (for public rela-
tions only) by the parties of the past —
Liberal and Tory. The de-industriali-
‘zation of the country goes uncorrected
and unchallenged. Wild inflation, how-
ever frowned upon by analysts, has not
interfered with record profits for the
biggest of the big — the monopolies and
multi-nationals. For the working people
it means ever deeper cutbacks and
harassment.

For workers, the unemployment crisis ©

(staring the young in the face when they
emerge from school, hitting veteran

workers years away from _ pensions,

wrecking the life plans and living stan-

‘dards of growing families), for workers -

unemployment is a curse. And it’s the
exclusive property of capitalism;
socialism eliminated it along with private
profit. —

There are some immediate answers.
Stop plant closures by law! Seize outfits
like Houdaille in Oshawa as the United

Auto Workers Union has urged. Freeze

the export of profits! Prevent corpora-
tions with foreign loyalties from sucking
the economic life out of Canadian com-
munities, then running away. Offer
young people genuine paid training for
real, and guaranteed, jobs! There’s been
enough of this “make work” charade,
which fails miserably either to face up to
unemployment, or to provide worth-
while training.

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Davis and our $14-million

Isn't there something amiss when the
Ontario Tory government can hand out
$14-million-of taxpayers’ money to cor-
porations, but it can’t stop runaway
plants, it can’t cause Houdaille Indus-

tries to give its workers respectable
severance pay as they’re thrown out of
work, it can’t come up with any viable
means of putting the province’s jobless.
back to work?

‘ Tory William Davis, premier and
_ buddy to big business, handed over

$850,000 ‘to Canadian Marconi Co.,

which had an after-tax profit in the year
ended March 31, 1980, of $12,170,000!
What is he doing giving away the public
treasury to his corporate friends? _
The pretext is that these corporations
will provide jobs and thereby make the

_ Tories look successful. But everyone

knows what happens: instead of jobs we

_ get layoffs and shutdowns. And the cor-

porations use public monies to_ realize

bigger profits.

FLASHBACKS FROM

THE COMMUNIST PRESS

Was

25 years ago...

SPACE SHOT CLOSE
SAYS USSR EXPERT

The Soviet Union has already
carried out experiments with
space ships carrying animal pas-
sengers. She may be ready be-
fore America with her satellites
— perhaps in two years. \

This latest news in the space
travel drama was given to an en-

thralled press conference in
Copenhagen by leading Soviet

- astro-physicist, Professor Leonid

Sedov who is leading a delega-
tion from his country to the sixth
conference of the International
Astronautical Federation.

He said “the realization of the
Soviet satellite program is to be
expected in the near future”,
and offered that cooperation be-
tween the USSR and the USA
was “quite possible.” Professor

Sedov said the common task was "
‘to “turn the military potential-

ities of the rocket to suit peaceful

AMS

The Tribune,
August 15, 1955

‘

50 years ago...

CANADIAN WORKER
JAILED IN USA
For two weeks now, Lily
Himmelfarb, a young Canadian
worker, is being held in jail by

the Immigration Department of |

‘the United States at Niagara
Falls, N.Y. Her “crime” was that
she spoke in Niagara Falls, N.Y.,
August | on behalf of the Cana-
dian Communist Party and

Young Communist League.

She called for solidarity of Bs

Canadian and American work-
ers in the struggle against the
imperialist war preparations.
Lily Himmelfarb is being held by
American authorities who have
given no explanation for her
imprisonment. So far, efforts to
have her freed and returned to
Canada have been without suc-
cess. ;

The Canadian Labour De-

with the International Labour

Defence of the United States to
have Lily liberated.

The Worker,

August 16, 1930

Profiteer of the week:

rates and in

* 1980.

It’s not hard to discover what working
people do with their money. They spend it on
necessities. And what do banks do with theirs
— or ours? They lend it out at high interest

the case of Bank of Montreal,

squeezed $124.6-million profit out of the
economy in the six months ended April 30,

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements.

Editor —

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