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THERE'S NOTHING “COMPLEX” IN
OUR RELATIONSHIP

Power resources, key to Canadian growth

The Central Executive of the Com-
munist Party has bluntly condemned
the Hickle Plan for pooling continental
energy resources and calls for quick
public action to prevent at
- As far back as

formed newspaper

1963, Stewart Udall,

then U.S. Secretary of the interior, in-
reporters that the
U.S. and Canadian governments had a

Z as

Quebec Liberal leader.

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By ALAIN PATRIE

The Liberal Party of Quebec
y elected a new leader in Ro-
tt Bourassa who won on the
ot ballot with 843 votes, 53.1
ae of the total. Bourassa
Sea his _two erstwhile if
4 competitors, Pierre La-

Orte and Claude Wagner.
p The taint that. managed to
Saeed Bourassa’s opposition
- imparted by the ‘“équipe
a (team of thunder)
Are Lesage. The sectors of
= that sit in the back
nee these conventions were
ee to efface the Stain
brtyee ism from the Liberal
: ine, Coliseum in Quebec City
ss. eo the pandemonium of a
ee as that convinced this re-
Eni at not only American
al and culture had penetrat-
uebec, but too, the American

ay of conventions. All the bour- ’

pas boosters of the province
: Hees on Quebec’s capi-
Toa has recorded such
Pade eee as these in other
4 aes are ready to sell our
eSourc €ritage, our wealth, our
* bane and labor to the high-
oncern a8 a with as much
I colinter, a shirt is sold across

What a sad exhibition this

-On .
| vention presented. A satur-

14a of toadies, unprincipled
ner ies servile salesmen!
eee ee of the Quebec
Piste former slogan, “Put
S fe first, is now “Sell Que-

Tst.” And the chief sales-

$ an for ; : .
elected, Just this job has been
There ;
is
amon a theory extant

aay PUbTEROs intellectuals to
wit ourassa subscribes, to

» the stage of capitalism
€d today denies the owners

industry any share in policy

of

waking. This power has been in-

er
ted by the managers of in-

Ty who are the _ intrinsic

Bob” Bourassa said it all in

ee 1969 at the Couchiching
hands age Power is not in the
Bdminis the owners but in the
5. . stration. The management

in Power! There is no use
& Money to buy business-
Stee we are only the

€rs who will have prac-

Ps in

ally no say. So I would say
hat the first thing now is to
uebec presence in key
f management) such as
d energy. This way we
tdi uence the economy ac-
ng to our goals.”
Ree of John K. Galbraith!
Tassa believes that a new

Tedit an
an inf]

SS ey} :
no €xists in Quebec. A tech-

| .
gical class that will usher in

Peaussance of capitalism.
€ only has to ask, what

leans to U.S. capital

relation does this ‘‘class’” have
to the means of production? As
in the working class, some tech-
nocrats do represent a pillar of
the bourgeois, for they have been
bought and bribed. But for the
balance, practical necessity dic-
tates that the majority of this
group, the managers and techno-
logists, will find its alliance with-
in the working class.

Quebec’s dilemma? Bourassa
states unequivocally “all that is
lacking is the competent people
in the right places.” And so the
phenomenon of state monopoly
capitalism in Quebec is again
obscured. And outside the con-
vention hall, across “la belle
province,” 152,000 breadwinners
shuffle around in search of a job.

Robert Bourassa, as a member
of Quebec’s National Assembly,
represents a large working class
district in the city of Montreal.
It is instructive to look at his
riding in an attempt to under-
stand the problem of urban
Quebec. oe

Mercier, Bourassa’s riding, has
a population of 111,000, of whom
94 percent are wage earners.
Forty-eight percent of them have
annual incomes of less than
$4,000, while 35.6 percent earn
less than $6,000.

Bourassa is reported to have
spent upwards of $250,000 on his
campaign. He is an admitted
multi-millionaire and proud of it.

The average dwelling in Mer-
cier consists of two and a half
bedrooms, yet more than one-
third of the families in the dis-
trict consist of seven persons. In
absolute numbers, the district
contains 345 dwellings with
neither bath nor shower. This in
the metropolis of Canada in the
year 1970.

Bourassa in a speech to the
students at the Couchiching Con-
ference said, “Take into consi-
deration the fact that now you
have 83 percent of the mana-
gerial class which is English-
speaking in Quebec. Entirely
English-speaking. This is non-
sense. Quebec people should be
able to work in French .. - but
this cannot be done in one day.

He is an evident gradualist. His
pragmatism is one of rapid ac-
commodation and slow change.

Lawyer-economist Robert Bou-
rassa__ believes in productive
map

spending mainly. To.
through this ambiguity is to
plumb his mind. He states, We
must spend our tax dollars in
petroleum, gas and other sec-

-tors. We must choose between

rivate and public spending.”
: What it boils down to 1s that
are going to pay for

Quebecers :
private industry at the expense
of social welfare. Bourassa’s

e@ Cont'd on pg. 8

Vo Thieu Lien, 12 years old, was one of the few survivors of the

massacre perpetrated in the South

Vietnamese village of Song My

by the U.S. military on March 16, 1968. The little girl told her recol-
lections of that horrible day over Soviet television when she came to
find shelter in the U.S.S.R. Above, she is shown surrounded by Soviet
Young Pioneers when she visited the Moscow Pioneer Palace earlier

this month.

Peace in Nigeria

FAILURE FOR
IMPERIALISM

The Central Executive Com-
mittee of the Communist Party
of Canada hailed the conclusion
of the civil war in Nigeria as a
contribution to the cause of li-
beration in Africa, and some-
thing that would strengthen
world peace. The press release,
issued by the CP, stated:

The conclusion of the civil war
in Nigeria should help the cause
of freedom and national libera-
tion in the whole of Africa and
strengthen the cause of peace.
The war would not have taken
place were it not for the efforts
of the imperialist powers and the
oil interests they. represent, to
organize the secessionist break-
away of Biafra as part of their
long term aims of partitioning
Africa and dominating it through
weakened states and puppet gov-
ernments. The Communist Party
of Canada warned against these
imperialist machinations . from
the very beginning.

The efforts of imperialism
failed. Peace has been restored
in Nigeria and the Nigerian
people given an opportunity of
working out their own destiny
on the basis of a united country.
The consistent and principled
position of the Soviet Union and
other socialist countries was an
important factor in the outcome
of this struggle.

Imperialism, however, has not
given up. It is now pursuing a
new tack, using the issue of re-
lief and starvation as a weapon
with which to interfere in the
internal affairs of Nigeria. What
they could not achieve by force
of arms through the civil war,

they are now trying to accom-
plish by other means. Here in
Canada as in most capitalist
countries, the press, radio and
TV are working overtime to
rally support for such interfer-
ence, disguised in the form of a
desire to help alleviate the suf-
fering of the victims of the civil
war.

This shameful and cynical ef-
fort smacking of racism and
white man superiority, should
fool no one.

Who in their right minds can
believe that the imperialists and
their hangers on are really con-
cerned about genocide, starva-
tion and the sovereign rights. of
people? Do we need more than
Vietnam to make the point?

It is unfortunate that many
Canadians including many in the
NDP also were taken in by the
false cry of genocide, as they
were taken in by thg false cry
of national self determination
emanating from imperialist quar-
ters and also unfortunately
echoed by some NDP leaders.
There was no genocide and there
is no issue of national self deter-
mination involved. What was and
is involved is the right of the
Nigerian people to work out
their own economic and social
policies free from imperialist
domination, based on respect for
the rights of all peoples inhabit-
ing that country. What is involv-
ed is that the whole of Africa
be freed from imperialist domi-
nation.

A federated and united Nigeria
created the best conditions for

@ Cont'd on pg. 8

»lan to pool their combined natural re-
sources — a plan which would turn
Canada’s energy resources over to U.S.
monopoly. When asked at that time
about it in the House of Commons, the
Canadian government replied that it
was seriously considering it.

There is reason to believe that many
of the preliminary steps required to

make such a. plan operational
may have already been complet-
ed. The Communist Party of
Canada states clearly that the
future of Canada economically
and as a sovereign state is in-
volved in rejecting the plan. Its
press statement reads as fol-
lows: s

“Prime Minister Trudeau’s
statement that the government
is not ‘negotiating with the
U.S.A: on the sale of Canadian
waters evades the basic issue
before the Canadian people—the
policy of Continentalism pur-
sued by the government.

“The Hickle Plan proposes to
integrate Canada’s energy re-
sources with those of the U.S.A.
It is a carrot and stick proposal.
Give us your water, it says, and
we will give you a larger mark-
et for oil. If ‘this plan were
adopted it would, in the name of
Continentalism, hand over con-
trol and ownership of Canada’s

irreplacable energy resources to
U.S. monopoly. The net effect of
such policies would be to seri-
ously undermine independent
economic development and ex-
pansion in Canada.

“The Hickle Plan was made
possible because of the policy of
Continentalism pursued by the
Trudeau government, and by its
negotiations with the U.S.A. on
energy resources in which it took
the initiative. It spread the illu-
sion that Continentalism could
be carried out on the basis of a
partnership of equals. In practice,
however, the policy of Contin-
talism has resulted and will con-
tinue to result in undermining
Canadian independence and sov-
ereignty and stultifying Cana-
dian development.

“Continentalism is a _ disas-
trous course, and is on a par
with Prime Minister Trudeau’s
austerity program. Both slow
down growth and expansion.

“The Hickle Plan, which is
just one aspect of the mounting
pressure of U.S. imperialism on
Canada, should serve asa warn-
ing signal to Canadian people.
Canada cannot afford another
Columbia River sell out. Can-
ada’s resource energy should be
geared to independent economic
development and expansion, the
development of secondary indus-
try and the expansion of job op-
portunities for a growing labor
force. .

#240 achieve these objectives, .
in fact to guarantee them, re-
quires public ownership and
control of these energy resour-
ces. It is this the Canadian peo-
ple should call upon parliament
to undertake. What the Cana- —
dian people need are not policies
of integration with the U.S.A.
but policies of independent eco-
nomic development, based on

public ownership and control,
and an independent foreign pol-
1GViws

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