svn Mites Serta tring ltMd 7 Ake Oe ae) iy \ 4 a IE CANADL ' Nation or satell Paveet ee So Aaa OEP BS cba to both nations’ The firm class solidarity of the American workers with their Canadian brothers against the U.S. imperialists is clearly demonstrated in this editorial, “Monopoly Mission to Canada” in the April 14 issue of the United States work- ers’ paper, the Daily World: President Nixon’s trip to Canada does not mean, as some wit has suggested, that Canada’s loss is our gain. The truth is that Nixon and the economic forces he represents are a debit to both nations. The monopoly corporations which own the means of production in the United States own - $35 billion of Canada’s wealth — including most of the auto industry, and much of its petroleum and tire industries. U.S. corporation aggression against Canada has not only plundered that nation but has de- formed its economy, especially its foreign trade. As a result, Canada depends on U.S. markets for 60 percent of its exports. ‘Now the White House is attempting to com- pel the Canadian people to accept new economic burdens because of the U.S. economic recession. Secretary of the Treasury John Connally, in his unique mule-driver courtesy, has demanded that Canada reduce its exports to the U.S. to help salvage the U.S. balance of payments, and insists that Canada increase its imports of U.S. war goods to the same purpose. Clearly, with a common enemy such as U.S. monopoly capital, joint self-defense by the U.S. and Canadian labor movements is necessary in their common interest. The recent joint state- ment by the Communist Parties of Canada and the U.S. is worthy of emulation, we believe, on a broader front. Editor — MAURICE RUSH . Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. ° Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year.: All other countries, $7.00 one year #420 be ce heen The real Canada told Nixon on Parliament Hill: End the dirty war against Vietnal End economic aggression here! Who spoke for the conscience of Canada when the U.S. president was in Ottawa? Who protested for our people, appalled at the demented sav- agery of the U.S. bombings of Viet- nam? Not the government. Not the leader of the opposition. Two days after Mr. Nixon’s departure, Canada’s Minister of External Affairs admits the issue “did not come up.” Only after Mr. Nixon’s departure did Mr. Sharp de- clare that the Canadian government, aware of the revulsion Canadians feel about its silence, opposes the U.S. re- sumption of the bombings of Vietnam. It was on Parliament Hill — not in the House of Commons and not in the Prime Minister’s office—that Canada’s conscience was heard. It was the leader of the Communist Party who spoke for Canada on the day the U.S. spokesman for the mad bombers in the Pentagon addressed our Parliament. To the Communist demonstrators, joined by others wanting to hear his party’s message, William Kashtan said: “Tf we insist on the right for Canada to decide its own affairs, then we must also support the same right for the people of Vietnam.” The call for peace and for Canada rang out on Parliament Hill: “End U.S. imperialism’s military aggression against Vietnam! End U.S. imperial- ism’s economic aggression against Can- ada!” How to measure the falseness, the boundless perfidy of the U.S. presi- dent? In what the fawning Toronto Star calls “his friendly speech” to Par- liament, Nixon told applauding Liber- als, Conservatives and Social Crediters that “every great power must follow the principle that it should not encour- age directly or indirectly any other nation to use force or armed aggres- sion against its neighbors.” The world knows Nixon’s “prin- ciples.” While uttering his lecture, pa- tently addressed to the Soviet Union whose policies are the main safeguard of world peace, the U.S. presidents orders had already gone out for B-52’s to drop death on Hanoi and Haiphong - in North Vietnam. So much for “the Nixon doctrine” and its claim to reject coercion. What came out of the Nixon visit to Ottawa? Mr. Trudeau now has it on the ree- ord that the United States claims to recognize Canada’s separate identity, that we have the right to chart own economie course. But the Canadian people ne@ neither Nixon nor Trudeau to tell what our rights are to genuine # pendence. What stands in the way of suet dependence is monopoly’s conthOy the economy, the sale of Canag@iy Canadian monopoly to U.S. impel ism. It was the Prime Minister who? ed Nixon’s assurances, to use i! federal elections against Conserv4 and monopoly reaction’s charge he has antagonized the USA. Mr. Nixon got favorable publidy exposure that he may be able to ust fc the presidential elections. More tethhy diately, he needs to have his We vif allies appear to be on good terms ot him. His May visit to Moscow 18 © | ing up. Nothing firm, but plenty of platiti about the resumption of Cana ath i trade talks, about the Auto Trade © ae! Nothing ‘about NORAD, up for Ty al next year, with its chaining of q ada to U.S. military command. . A Dey While Canadians welcome the into of the Great Lakes Water Qu Why, Agreement to reduce the lakes Ov tion 50 percent by 1977, nothill. ' done about the dangers to our 13 Coast involved in the sea-going nis port of Alaska oil to west-coast © ports. The hollow pomp of the Nixon ® visit is thankfully behind us. What cries out for action now ° Canadians? First and above all, to demand United States end its horrendous 5, inal war against the peoples 2 5 china, that it immediately resul™ Paris meetings with the repre tives of North and South Vietn@ : The Canadian government mus! : so, now. : There is need for vigilance Rath: F when it appears that trade nego! on oath the United States may be ed. : Ee Canadians must be alert to the d ger that some deal on the aul? and other questions will be madé le. expense of Canada and her peo?’ The answer to Canadian mono | and to U.S. imperialism is to set forging, in the united struggle 0 and the democratic forces, a né k tion for our country; and, to ma ont | a reality, the election to Parliam inf) | a large progressive bloc, 1n¢ Communists and NDP’ers.