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untry. Right: Fernand Daoust, general secretary of the Quebec Federation of Labor
collects signatures outside of Pratt & Whitney in Lonqueil. The company is one of the
biggest armaments producers in Canada. The collection was part of a one-week blitz, at
the end of September to collect signatures.

OTTAWA CALENDAR

Speaking, as Tories so often
-do, at a $100-a-plate dinner,
Stevens spread the threadbare
line that, ‘“‘It will facilitate
job-creating equity investment
= plc:

He said that the private sec-
tor must take the lead. But

to’s 45,000 petition signatures before passing them onto the Caravan for the last leg of its
trip to Ottawa. Connell told about 100 peace supporters gathered at Toronto’s city hall
square, Oct. 16 that Metro’s signatures would join the 300,000 already gathered across

Shultz takes all
in talks — Kashtan

TORONTO — Summing up the
exchange of opinions between
External Affairs Minister Joe
Clark and U.S. Secretary of State
George Shultz, on October 16, the
leader of the Communist Party of

A chronological indicator of federal government direc-
tions. What the government is saying, doing and en-
acting.

Still sweeping out Libs

The victorious Tories are en-

Latin America will not fail to note
that the Canadian Government
stands with Reagan and U.S. im-
perialism, not with the aspirations
of the peoples of Latin America

for freedom and independence.” yay pay pruuroney =

A ht. i 3 joying the sport of Liberal- riding? their track record shows they
Genede, eee an The Communist Party leader bashing, not just wiping out The town of Gagnon’s 2,000 lead in an opposite direction.
Silt anaes Reaean admin: also called attention to Clark’s Liberal programs but shooting residents might wait a long ee

, remark that Canada does not as- d i i h ime fi italism’ isi
: what : c ‘ own high-level Liberals who time for Capitalism’s partners Some government decisions
istration. But about pire to be a mediator in East-West 3

Canada?” ,
In response to the Tribune’s
request for an appraisal of the

* meeting, he noted that ‘‘Prime

Minister Brian Mulroney’s deci-
sion to support U.S. economic
and foreign policies is already
bringing ‘some results’:

“On acid rain — the U.S. will
continue to pollute and destroy
Canadian lakes and the environ-
ment as before.

“On Central America — the
Canadian Government is ‘not con-
cerned about U.S. aid to the
counter-revolutionaries in
Nicaragua. This should please the
Reagan administration.

“As to the Contadora proposal

relations. ‘‘He should have said
the government, not Canada,”’
commented Kashtan. ‘‘After all,
the Canadian people have cause
to be concerned with the danger-
ous foreign policies pursued by
the Reagan administration, poli-
cies which could lead to world
nuclear disaster and destroy this
country.

“Instead of showing this con-
cern and recognizing that im-
proved East-West relations is the
key to peace, Mr. Clark chose to
take a position which fits in with
Prime Minister Mulroney’s de-
claration that he stands with the
U.S. on foreign policies,”’
Kashtan said.

got appointments as a parting
Trudeau gesture to which the
new Liberal PM John Turner
was committed. That was be-
fore the Tory sweep of Sept. 4.

And so, on Oct. 11, three
Liberal appointees bit the dust.
It’s not so much a matter of
philosophy as personalities,
since both old parties are de-
vout imperialists.

In the Oct. 11 massacre, an-
nounced by External Affairs
Minister Joe Clark, Bryce
Mackasey, Liberal appointee
for the job of ambassador to
Portugal, Eugene Whelan, cho-
sen ambassador to the Food
and Agriculture Organization
of the UN in Rome, and

to get together on this deal
when the system is facing
breakdowns country-wide.

* * *

The reason the seven-
week-old Tory federal

government can’t live up to its:

promises of no social cut-
backs; jobs, jobs, jobs; and all

‘the other electoral promises,

we are told, is because the Lib-
eral forerunners left the cup-
board bare.

We. are indebted to the
Globe and Mail’s Thomas
Walkom who pointed out Oct.
13 that, for example, while
both Finance Minister Michael
Wilson and Prime Minister

offer. mixed blessings. The
‘Mulroney Tories in Ottawa are
about to scrap the former Lib-
eral government scheme to put
$20-million into a so-called
tax-break scheme encouraging
profit-sharing among workers.
This was revealed on Oct. 16.

Class-conscious workers
know that profit-sharing is a
gimmick to deprive them of
bargaining rights, make them
pay for the bosses’ bad years
with only a nod in the years of
gluttony.

The reason the Tories want
to scrap the scheme is because

that kind of bait is a failure in

Canada. As an example, in

1981 the government estimate
was that in 90 per cent of pro-
fit-sharing schemes there were

for peace in Central America, a
proposal supported by Nicaragua
and rejected by the Reagan

Brian Mulroney used the ‘‘bare
cupboard”’ metaphor to blame
the Liberals, Industry Minister

- Maurice Dupras, appointed
consul-general to Bordeaux,
France, are out.

“To top it all, Mr. Clark re- »
peated the government’s inten-

administration, Mr. Clark tion to change the energy and for- wee Sinclair Stevens ° discovered yw OE ch Ue nian peers!
chooses to attack some of its eign investment review laws to : é é $15-million which he promptly ok aoe ees
provisions rather than pledgingto meet U.S. objections,” said Prime Minister Brian Mul- slipped to a Montreal petro- bah oper eae
work for the Contadora proposals Kashtan, calling it ‘‘not a bad day roney, the architect ofthe mass Che rnical plant. as

and compelling the Reagan for ... the Reagan administra- funeral for Schefferville, ines 2

administration to accept them.
“The people of Central and

tion,” and noting the damage to
Canada’s interests.

Parks giveaway hit

TORONTO — In a statement
decrying the privatization of On-
tario provincial parks, the. Com-
munist Party of Canada (Ontario)
called, October 17, for the return
to the public sector of those parks
already disposed of.

“Without any debate, dis-

“This underhanded robbing of
the Ontario public of one of the
‘best networks of provincial parks
was passed in a little-known
Cabinet directive in 1975. (When
the same process took place in the
USA, prices trippled for use of
the parks.) After a great outlay of

Quebec, when he was presi-
dent of the Iron Ore Company
of Canada — he shut the mine
there and produced mass
unemployment and a ghost
town — has beneficently or-
dered ‘‘all possible assistance’’
to 1,000 residents of his riding
who are victims of a second
major shutdown.

Employment Minister Flora
MacDonald announced Oct. 12
that Mulroney wasn’t going to
let folks suffer in his con-
stituency because it would be
political suicide and so, each

The government has also is-
sued 74 construction contracts
worth $40,862,558: and
Employment Minister Flora
MacDonald located $250-mil-
lion ‘‘job creation’.

Some cupboard!

I

On Oct. 15, Tory Industry
Minister Sinclair Stevens was
blunt about his opposition to
the Foreign Investment Review
Agency’s screening of take-
overs of Canadian enterprises
by U.S. monopolies and other
foreign investors.

Members of the Canadian
Employment and Immigration
Union picketed federal build-
ings in Toronto, Oct. 17 and 18,
to protest the laying off of 100
Ontario-based employees of
the Employment and Immigra-
tion Department’s employment
development branch. Renaud
Paquet, union president, said
the $430-million announced
Sept. 24 by Employment Minis-
ter Flora MacDonald, is ‘‘less
than last year,’ when more
than $1-billion was spent.

The current layoffs are tak-

FIRA, now re-named In-
vestment Canada to attract
U.S. dollars to buy up this
country, was a “‘negative sym-
bol”’ in the eyes of the trans-
nationals and their Tory
government.

cussion or any input by the public
the Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources has handed over since
1976, 14 provincial parks to ‘free’
enterprise. As many as five more
are slated to go to the private sec-
tor in 1985,’’ the statement

charges.

public funds to set up a very good
system of provincial parks,”’ the

_ Statement says, “‘the government
is handing them over to the pri-
vate operators who are replacing
union staff with students who
make the minimum wage.

laid-off worker will get, it’s
said, up to $9,000 in relocation
assistance ‘“‘if’’ the govern-
ment is able to negotiate
“‘mobility agreements’’ with
the companies involved and .
~ the provincial governments.

ing place only in Ontario be-
cause contracts in that pro-
vince run out at the end of Oc-
tober, whereas in other pro-
vinces they expire at later
dates, for example, in Quebec
at the end of March.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE, OCTOBER 24, 1984 e 5