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New wine — old bottles

W ith the old-style vote-catching political campaigner (Tory or

Liberal) itching to cast himself in the “‘image’’ of a devoted

grass-roots family man, kissing babies was considered an easy route
to the mother’s heart — and vote.

The closer it came to election day the less aversion these parti-
san “image” makers showed when planting a resounding smack on
the grubbiest little face, e ven when the latter loudly protested such
unwelcome overtures.

Now all that had changed with the Liberal party’s election of
Pierre Elliot Trudeau as leader and Prime Minister, plus the fine
achie vements of his “‘image’’ makers during and since the Liberal
leadership con vention.

On Prime Minister Trudeau’s visit to Vancouver last week the
new “‘image”’ building technique of ‘‘aye fond kiss’ (well ad vanced
from the baby-kissing technique) got front-page top billing in the
May 13 edition of The Pro vince. Actually in point of fact, there was
little else to write about.

In Vancou ver to address the Council of Forest Industries on May
10, Prime Minister Trudeau had nothing to say on the massi ve export
of B.C.’s forest resources, raw logs and lumber, (and with it B.C.
jobs), to foreign monopoly, and especially to Japan. The Prime Min-
ister had no comments to make on B.C. mills closing down for lack
of logs — while shiploads were being exported to Japan almost daily.
Like his predecessor Mike Pearson, Trudeau had no comments other
than a charming tacit appro val.

His plea that Canada should ‘‘recognize’’ China is also not new
in Liberal political circles, since his predecessors have been ped-
dling that line for years — and depending upon the agile ‘‘diplomacy”
of Paul Martin to weasel them out of it every time Washington ob-
jected. Thus Canada under both a Tory and Liberal regime has
managed to sell millions of dollars worth of wheat to a country and
people we don’t ‘“‘recognize’’ exists, thereby avoiding a major wheat-
growing crisis in our own backyard. Now the “image” of change re-
peats an old well-scrambled shibboleth ‘“‘we should recognize
China.”’

On the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) war alliance
with its ruinous drain on Canada’s peace-time economy, and to
which we have just tenewed our ‘commitments.’ Trudeau gives
full approval in keeping with Liberal-Tory policies. Of course,
“Nato must ha ve changes,” quoth M. Trudeau, but he was careful
not to spell any of these out.

On the vital constitutional issues of Confederation and the unity
of French and English Canada within Confederation, Prime Min-
ister Trudeau had nothing to offer other than the ‘‘Bi-Bi”’ platitudes
of his predecessor. That is easily understandable when it is remem-
bered that the Liberal hierarchy in their majority specifically chose
M. Trudeau as the ‘‘man most likely to succeed’’ in bamboozling
French Canada out of its heritage of equality of nationhood within
a two-nation Canada, and the rest of Canada voting in its majority
for the “image” rather than the substance.

Thus we are treated to the kissing techniques, which a Pro vince
writer warns can be “a frightening and potentially uncontrollable
force of unmeasured dimensions.” But not half so “frightening”’
as the new Liberal “image,” created specifically to distract the
people of Canada from the real issues besetting them.

The old guard Liberal hierarchy betrayed Canada by kissing
the boots of Yankee monopoly. The “‘new’’ pursues a similar aim
and, like Judas, does it with a kiss.

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ANOTHER SOCRED GIVEAWAY

Mine company gets big

chunk of Manning Park

Continuing its policy of opening up
parklands for mining development,
the Socred cabinet recently passed
an order-in-council which would turn
over 2,880 acres of Manning Park on
the Hope-Princeton highway to a
subsidiary of Giant Mascot mining
company.

It is reported that the company
expects to.mine an ore body which
holds an estimated 2.1 million tons of
ore containing copper and
molybdenum.

Included among the Board of
Directors is A. J. Chilcott, president
of C. M. Oliver, who is also a
governor of the Vancouver Stock
Exchange. Interesting too, is the fact
that Chilcott is a director of the
Buttle Lake Mining Co.

‘Clean up
dust at
Brighton’

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Elevator dust in the New Brighton
Park area in the north east corner of
the city is more than a nuisance: it’s
become a menace to the health and
well being of citizens.

Bomeowners along McGill, Eton, —

Cambridge and Oxford Streets
complain that the dust is even
causing paint on their homes to peel.
The dust originates from the Alberta
Wheat Pool elevator, just west of the
south end of the Second Narrows
Bridge.

There is no excuse for this
pollution of the air. Other elevators
have installed what is called “‘bag’’
houses to control the emission of
dust. The Alberta Wheat Pool has
failed to do this. This is a multi-
million dollar company and there
can’t be any question of it not being
able to afford an expense of a few
thousand dollars to instal systems to
control dust.

New Brighton Park is the only
waterfront park in the east end of the
city. To subject east end users of this
park to this dust hazard is simply
inexcusable.

Grain elevators are under federal
control, but the city of Vancouver
can regulate concerning air
pollution. City Council now proposes
to make a study of the elevator dust
problem with the assistance of
consultants of the federal and
provincial government and, it is
hoped, with the co-operation of the
Alberta Wheat Pool.

This study should be carried
through speedily and the city should
not tolerate any stalling or
obstruction from any source. Irate
east end residents want action now,
not a few months from now or next
‘year. They know that if the same
problem occurred in any of the
wealthy areas of the west side of the
city, remedial action would be taken
at once.

They expect Council to act with
equal promptness in the east end and
compel Alberta Wheat Pool to toe
the line and protect the health of our
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The action of the Socred
government in turning over a portion
of the park at Buttle Lake to a
mining company about two years ago
stirred up a major storm on
Vancouver Island. Apparently, the
mining group involved have
considerable political influence in
high places in the government, and
are moving from one park site to
another.

Other members of the Board of
Directors are Dr. William
McElmoyle of Victoria, who is alsoa
director of Bralorne Pioneer Mines
and Highland Bell. Secretary of the
company is Allan H. Ainsworth, a
former conservative candidate and
an influential member of the
Conservative Party.

It is not yet known what contracts
the company has for the ores or
whether Japanese capital is
involved.

This week NDP MLA Dave Barrett
called on the federal government to
Pass a law barring mining in
provincial parks. He said the
situation has reached ‘‘the crisis
Stage’. Charging that not one major
Class A park in B.C. had escaped
mining encroachment, Barrett
accused the. Socred government of
“consistent ravaging.”

Parks which have so far been
invaded by mining developments on
approval by the Socred cabinet are:
Tweedsmuir Park, Garibaldi Park,

Strathcona Park, and now Manning .

Park.

MORE PARK AREA CUT. Soon scenes like this will be fewer if the Socred government is allowed
to continue to give away huge areas of parklands for industrial purposes. Last year there was
_Buttle Lake. Now nearly 3,000 acres of Manning Park is earmarked for mining purposes.

Huge forest sellout
scheme near Kitimat

A vast international cartel —
known as Eurocan — heavily
financed by U.S. and Scandinavian
capital — has started construction of
a $100 million mill in the Kitimat
area on the basis of a forest
giveaway of .473,000 acres granted
by the Socred government. The Tree
Farm Licence (No. 41) was granted
to Prince George promoter and
millionaire Ben Ginter.

The ground-breaking ceremonies
were participated in by Lands and
Forests Minister Ray Williston. The
mill will be located two miles north
of the Aluminum Company of
‘Canada’s smelter at Kitimat.

Not only will Eurocan have the
timber from its highly productive
‘473,000 acres, but it has also been
assured, of additional timber from
the nearby Ootsa public sustained
forestry area. These public forestry
areas were created to enable small
logging companies to acquire logs,
but in recent years the forestry
monopolies have been encroaching
on the public sustained units with the
result. that: the: small ,operators-are
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While Scandinavian enterprises

are involved, the major financing is

being done through a group of U-S.
banks who will raise most of the
money, and likely, retain most of
the control of the new huge forest
empire in the north.

Eurocan, according to company
spokesmen, will produce 75 million
board feet of lumber annually;
450,000 units of chips a year; an
estimated pulp and paper capacity of
760 tons of pulp daily; 180,000 tons
annually of unbleached draft paper
and liner board; and 85,600 tons an-
ually of dried, baled unbleached
kraft pulp. The company will also
build a $6 million bulk terminal at
Kitimat for export of these huge
quantitites of raw and semi-
processed forest products.

This latest announcement bears
out the warnings issued by the PT
that big giveaways are being planned
by the Socred government which
would see our forest and mineral
resources exported abroad on the

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