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Allowances?

Mog Minister C. D. Howe

y fan attempt this week
ee popular Canadian
1 thi U.S. domination
hp Uatry. In a speech to
ae Club in Chicago
hy ¥ dled to US. corpora
iy oa greater Canadian
Sting E in their branch op-
“lng ‘ ere, The national
hi Canadians, he said,
he t “good business’ for
NN potan subsidiary of a
4 ‘tPoration to become
Madian as it can.”

Ne :
ty ieee, Howe’s speech was
Hy. -28 to American business

te , that popular opposition
h ting it more difficult
“ite, a Carry through the St.
ty: _ S°Vernment’s ‘‘integra-
inane It is doubtful if
tad; ave any weight with
i, ie who see in Howe
Sey architect of their

reduction to a sup

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Isn’t it about time the federal government increased Family

Hypocritical appeal

plier of raw materials for U.S.
industry.

The fundamental issue is not

U.S, investment in this country ”

nor yet Canadian investment in
U.S.owned Canadian subsidiar-
ies. It is development of Can-
adian resources in the ‘interests
of the Canadian people. Until
that becomes national policy,
Howe's appeal has all the hyp:
ocrisy of the robber's accom:
plice begging the robber to
spare his victim's pride.

No guarantees

HEN the St. Lawrence Sea-

Way agreement -was_ con-
cluded, the St. Laurent govern-
ment capitulated to Washing-
ton and agreed that the key
locks in the St. Lawrence deep
waterways should be on U.S.
soil. There was one saving
grace: Canada reserved the
right eventually to cut an all
Canadian canal.

Now by fortuitous circum
stances, and «persistent negotia-
tion by Canadian Seaway au-
thorities, the St. Lawrence Riv-

er is to be deepened north of °

Cornwall Island, making pos-
sible, with little additional work,
they long-desired all-Canadian
Seaway.

But the full victory has not
yét been won.

It is reported that before
the official announcement can
be made, the Canadian and U.S.
governments must confer on the
American demand that Canada
guarantee it will not proceed
with the all-Canadian route
until traffic through the U:S.

locks becomes too heavy to
handle.

This is a guarantee the Cana-
dian government must not give.
To do so would be to compound
the original mistake. It would
give the United States the right
to say when we should build
our own waterways. That is a
question Canada should decide
for herself — and the decision
should be to complete the Corn-
wall Canal.now.

Millions of dollars could be
saved by completion now and
we could not only regain sow
ereign control of our own river,
we would become independent
of U.S. control over rates, im-
migration laws and similar fac
tors. The growing industrial
development of this country
surely warrants such a move.

But above all: the federal
government must not be per-
mitted to give Washington any
guarantees. It must reserve the
right to build the canal when-
ever it is in Canada’s interests
—and we believe those interests
would best be served by com-
pleting it now.

Hal

in our schools.

awa

Ottawa.

Griffin

NE consequence of the St.

Laurent government’s efforts
to “integrate” Canada with the
United States has been to im-
press upon most of us the need
for filling the gaps in our know-
ledge left by indifferent courses
of studies on our own country

The men at Ottawa and Vic-
toria know the extent and worth
of the resources they are giving
y. So do the men in New
York and San Francisco who
are seizing them. Many of us
are learning only .as the re-
sources come up for disposal in
the political auction rooms at

The route and construction of
the national gas pipeline, the
future development of the Col-
umbia and Yukon rivers, have
become issues intimately affect-
ing all of us, our jobs, our homes,
our.own future and the future

of our children. The questions
they pose — the questions we
ask — force themselves into
every political debate. And upon
the answers: that we ourselves
must shape hangs our future as
a nation.
* x *

The labor movement is being
impelled to deal as it never has
had to deal before with prob-
lems of national planning which
once would have been consider-
ed the prerogative of industry.
Men and women faced with the
loss of their ~jobs, now -or in the
future, because of American en-
croachments are demanding new
policies.

All across this land. wherever
we see. our iron ore going to U.S.
steel mills, our natural gas flow-
ing to U.S. industrial centres,
we are being shocked into an
awareness of the enormity of
the betrayal. And out of it the
Canadian dream, which is your
dream and mine, struggles to be
born.

The dream itself is as broad
as the Jand, but for many a labor
man the threads fact and fila-
ments of figures from which it
must be woven means delving
into the statistics of production
and the intricacies of corporate
and government finances. It
requires a knowledge cf history
and a grasp of geography. The

&

betrayal of our heritage is drawn
from the studies of geologists
and engineers, from experts of
every calling, and labor must
have facts to support its plans
for developing our resources for
ourselves.

That is why two publications
just issued by the B.C. Natural
Resources Conference deserve
the widest reading and study in
the labor movement. They
bring together facts which hith-
erto have been scattered through
hundreds of government and
trade publications.

One, the Natural Resources of
British Columbia, is now on the
press. The other, the British
Columbia Atlas of Resources, is
already published.

The atlas is at once a geography
and a history.- In addition to
maps detailing each of our pro-
vincial resources, it shows British
Columbia’s growth from pre-
colonial exploration to establish-
ment of the united colony in
1886, the sequence of settlement
since 1871 and the distribution
and economic life of the Native
Indians from pre-colonial times
to the present.

All the facts are there, from
raw material to manufactured
product. Only the deepening
pattern of U.S. domination is
hidden. And that is the fact we
have to change.

OCTOBER 19, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 7

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