Ontario campaigning begins Tories good deal’ Y STEWART (10 RUN IN HAMILTON {for ty Pred in nter, Hamilton Communist Party official an- Hamilton on Tuesday of this week that his " HEN you live in Ontario you’ve got a good deal Are you one of the directors of an insurance company? Do you make your money by specu- . Nor is that all. You will find many towns where such a modern convenience as indoor Wou Ray ‘ ‘ oing for you.” the font contest the new riding of Hamilton-Mountain So Fs e: ae appearing in lating in land? Do you own a_ plumbing is missing from a good The candid? Provincial election. Ontario newspapers during Aug- mine or two or perhaps some number of houses, "Need the, ate will be William E. Stewart, who has an- ust inserted by the Conservative big company? If that’s the way Such areas as Northern and he will campaign around the issues of high Party. ' you live then sure you’ve got it Northwest Ontario are comple- Noerg 8, skyrocketing taxes, adequate housing and The ad went on to say: “On- good in Ontario. tely neglected. They lack both My Sey POF legislation. tario Progressive Conservative For your very best friend is in basic and secondary indus- join, eld who was born and raised in Hamilton- policies mean more schools, the present Ontario premier— ha and depend mainly on the re Ment.” inded the Tory government as the “Robber more kospitals, more highways, and he never forgets you. sale of raw materials. : ey are Robin Hoods in reverse” he said. more opportunties for relaxation. No nasty talk of capital gain Not only is there no attempt toh thd the Poor to reward the rich, squander the natur- Bee P 5 . } en qponsible for economic progress which has | The 7.” SPite, not because of them. Han : ‘tity 4 Wd kick them out, turn left and elect a labor a of “tll, democracy, equality and rising living standards Physi 5 acal resources of the richest province in Canada, Services and then have the gall to pretend first he Liberal big-business twins have pock marked Ce, The red years of Ontario life as a Canadian inn; OSt important centennial project for every © Ontario Legislature to usher in a new Omi, ting yp Ountain is a constituency largely made up ibite 2" And. women and it is fitting that it should Communist voice to that labor majority.” Wages are 18 percent higher per capita than the national average and our standard of living is second highest in the whole world.” This was the opener in the campaign for re-election by the government of John Robarts. Later he announced the date as Oct. 17—allowing for the maxi- mum assistance from the Tory convention publicity for his On- tario aims. So, is there a “good deal going for you” in Ontario? Well, it really depends on who "you are. : Student meet reflects — taxes from Robarts, no thought of stopping wheeling and deal- ing in land, no horrible govern- ment medicare schemes. This is a good safe place to reap in the profits and sit back and enjoy them. So who has been paying for all the schools, hospitals, high- ways, etc. that Robarts takes the credit for? First of course are the high municipal taxes which fall most disastrously on the worker who is struggling to own his own home. Then there’s the sales tax —and again it’s the workers who pay. Just at the end of August the Windsor Star’s commentator on happenings at Queen’s Park wrote under the heading, “High- er hospital insurance premiums seen.” He pointed: out that once the election is over the govern- ment “will have to face the dis- tasteful task of considering an in Ontario to diversify industry, to spread it across the province, but also there is no protection to the consumer at all. When the women of Ontario, along with others across the country, were asking for a consumer’s price review board they got no help from the government. In- deed even on such a question as ending the trading stamps which the women rightly com- plain add to the cost of their purchases, Robarts refused to go along with legislation which had been introduced in the house while he was sick. Obviously, as is his habit, his concern_for the women of the province was overridden by his deep friend- ship with the big chain store owners. And he won't do any- thing about the new car price increase either. On every side one hears of the need to do something about air and water pollution. But . everyone knows that the main Cy ‘ a os } ARLES BOYLAN together with other radicals, fail- creasingly more involved in et in hospital insurance source of pollution is the indus- Cage Congres ed to organize their point of fighting out democratic issues gi spe ae = ee Se trial waste and that the only yan Unio S of the view in any meaningful politi- with government and adminis- | “For this,” he said, “will be effective solution can come by fH tle @Ndeg n of Stu- cal way. trations. CUS, much more than the first year of a new adminis- putting some controls on indus- tytn Saturday Regardless of the purity of its U.S. counter-part USNSA, tration and it is in this first year try—and getting them to spend following an election that tax some money in the interest of bing Gy orge Ander- Tepresen- On the Ntario any one group’s ideology, it is clear the majority of English Canadian students are still in- experienced in any kind of poli- tical action. The favourable res- ponse Edmonton’s reactionary group of observers elicited from some of the small colleges in- dicates a clear, corporate analy- sis of the student movement based on the assumptions of the Great Society ideology, still has wide support among thousands of university students. The political division of the Congress found expression too when the last Plenary session reversed a Social Action Com- mission resolution to remain out- side both the International Stu- dent Union and_ International does respond to the local cam- pus situation. As such, this Con- gress of CUS indicates the long road ahead before a united na- tional student union will become a militant force for Canadian independence and radical social change. increases customarily are put ine : Twenty-two years ago the Tory premier of this province, George Drew, promised that half of the cost of education would be paid by his government. Not only did he not live up to this, but neither did his successor Leslie Frost nor does it seem as ‘if the present holder of that position will do any better. At the beginning of this year, from Queen’s Park came lots of noise about “total development strategy” and “attainment of the full economic potential of every region of Ontario.” But the facts show that at least four-fifths of the province, leaving aside the so-called Gold- the health of the people. But their friend at Queen’s Park of course is more concerned about the health of their profits. Not only does the bragging of the Tories about all the hospitals ring sort of hollow if you are living in one of the big urban centres where it’s almost im- possible to get a bed, but you also know that most of the cost has come not from Tory gener- osity but from your municipal taxes. As for the opportunities for relaxation, just imagine how this looks to the worker who not only has his wife working but has to “moonlight” in order to make ends meet. And if Robarts thinks the voters of Ontario are 0 Tam eg: th : é ridin < : : : : : a Like tiepeears oe aya and en Horseshoe, is characterized 8°'N8 to give him credit for the om sident ies of : d:alinost bounteous provisions of nature ting 8 Bre 0UZ Ward Toronto, the two largest cam by much: poverty AR SUNOS sn. the parklands and” lak Vig All thsident, Hugh Puses, the Congress re-affirmed complete economic stagnation. Ontario. ne better Spa Ca of Make the are com. last year’s decision to apply for Writing in the Globe and Mail jt»; now fashionable to say “God Mlitien Me Campus q associate status. What was cru- ‘on eastern Ontario in a seri€s ji, geaq” Robarts never could byes tiversity to de. ial was whether ous pats entitled oe Loken have been mistaken for God tit: Zovern. Simply “opt out” of the “co Barbara Moon had this to say: : Miri OD fees and war,” which would have been a “It takes a wrench of the a What this all adds up to is ff Oft-spoken Concession to those who argue imagination even to begin to the recognition of the fact that lea h powered Student leaders have no man- credit the extreme poverty and there’d be a “good deal” in On- tongs Studen Warrian date, or whether CUS would try extreme conditions of social and tario if there was another sort hey “Sus of S will only to relate its programs of social economic disadvantage chronic of government at Queen’s Park hi ery ey Cial prob. action to the world student com- throughout an area as big aS -pone that was more concerned y ty en Onfront their unity. Belgium right in the heartland with people not profits, with wise Poseq ent. He The Congress also voted over- of the richest province in Can- gocial welfare not the welfare i Unig but e US. whelmingly to support a union ada.” of insurance companies, with the thie 2 to dnoud not Member's fight for his held But it’s not just eastern On- home owner and not the land gue” any othe @ posi. Ship, denied him by the Libera tario. These same conditions can speciation : “ as e time to get that “g government, apparently because of his membership in the Com- munist Party of Canada. The politics of CUS will con- tinue to reflect the sharpening conflict of ideas on Canadian Campuses as students become in- be found in Hastings and Bruce counties of Southern Ontario, Temiskaming and Cochrane of Northern Ontario and all the way up to Rainy River in the northwest of the province. deal” is near at hand—just make sure that Oct. 17 sees the de- feat of the parties of Bay Street and the strengthening of labor’s voice in Queen’s Park. September 22, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9