* William Askin, 28-year-old teacher, has been nominated by the Communist Party in Edmonton East for the com- ing federal elections. The following are excerpts from his acceptance speech. As a classroom teacher, I have ac- cepted the nomination of the Commu- nist Party for the June 25th election, not just because of the sorry state of education in Canada. A wide range of factors has led to my accepting the honor of a Communist nomination. Of great importance is the fact that the Communist Party of Canada has the program .and policies which point out a new direction for Canada. Now, some people think that Pierre Trudeau is some kind of socialist in disguise. If he is a socialist in disguise, it is a damn good disguise and he sure keeps the fact well-hidden. Some peo- ple think that the goals of democratic Canadians are going to be achieved through the efforts of a Trudeau Cabi- net. But, “Puckerlips Pierre” has actu- ally said nothing to indicate that he is going to rescue Canada from American economic enslavement. On the contra- Some By CHARLES BOYLAN “This is the year, baby. Some campus is going to blow.” So says Andy Wernick, Education Commis- sioner of the Student Administrative Council at the University of Toronto. And over a hundred turned-on dele- Union of Students national seminar at the University of Manitoba held last week all agree. Canada won’t be left out of the world-wide student revolt. But don’t get frustrated looking for hidden caches of dynamite. Or even for mind-blowing pot. Because you won't find it. As Terry Campbell, editor of CUS’s paper, Issue, says, “It’s people power. People want to contro] their own lives and that’s where it’s at.” Actually much of the debate at the seminar evolved around the differ- ence between where people °and their institutions “are at” and where/how they are “becoming.” The seminar itself was a good illus- tration of the difference. In the be- ginning the seminar was “at” an analysis of education, “Rhetoric versus Reality.” Two tours of the Winnipeg school system provided an eye-opener of both. The rhetoric of equality of op- portunity and reality of stream- lined schools where working-class kids are trained for industry and lower-paid service work, while the middle class prepare for university training to fill the technocratic and administrative levels of our corpor- ate society. gates to the eleventh Canadian - ry, he has given reassurance, over and over again, to the American monopo- lies, that he will not tamper with Ame- rican-controlled enterprises in Canada. What about the Conservative Party? What about Robert Stanfield? Will this crew help Canada escape the strangle- hold of American domination? Well, Bob Stanfield, underwear king of the Maritimes, doesn’t make any pre- tence of being anything else than a Bay Street Boy. He has indicated, over and over, that the Tories don’t pose a threat to Yankee investment in Cana- da. American monopolies in Canada must be nationalized. Profits gleaned from our vast Canadian industry can and must be used to better the stand- ard of living of Canadians—not to line the pockets of American speculators and financial buccaneers. Some people say that our standard of living is high enough now. Some people say, “We’ve never had it so good.” But, do these people know the facts? Do they have a good notion of what they are talking about? The average yearly income of the average Canadian worker is only 70 percent of the average American worker. This means, in dollars and cents, that if you are a worker in Canada earning $5,000 per year, you would be earning, per- haps, $7,100.00 per year in the U.S. ‘American ownership of Canada’s in- dustries is cheating the Canadian worker out of a higher annual wage; it is cheating him out of a higher stand- ard of living. One unique feature of the Com- munist Party’s election platform is its attitude towards Canadian youth. No Party in Canada is as devoted to the question of bettering the status of Canada’s youth as is the Communist Party. At the present time, nearly 50 percent of Canada’s population Seminar delegates also saw the reality of Jerry Farber’s description of the student as “nigger,” as slave to an impersonal, dehumanizing set of institutions to which teachers are also chained. Authoritarian con- trol of public schools has been made efficient and “modern,” but authori- tarian it continues to be. And the kids know it. They don’t fully know who “The Man” is yet. But a few predictable headlong confrontations with the school system will prove “Mr. Char- lie” isn’t “Mr. Teacher, sir’ in front of the class. The seminar -