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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

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thd the Poor to reward the rich, squander the natur-

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} en qponsible for economic progress which has
| The 7.” SPite, not because of them.

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‘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

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: 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.

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