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THs election is “unreal”. That’s how one lead-
ing Canadian newspaper columnist has de-
scribed it.

Here is what he said:

“Nowhere is it evident that the people who
will vote on Nov. 8 are listening to what is being
said. In truth, very little is being said that is
worth listening to.”

Are there no issues on the minds of Cana-
dians?

What about the way automation swallows up
jobs?

What about the million and a half new jobs
that have to be created by 1970 to meet the needs
of an expanding work force?

What about the cost of medical care? How
much longer will you tolerate the fact that your
health has a dollar sign on it? .

What about Quebec? How soon will it be too
late for English and French speaking Canadians
to sit together at a single table to discuss and re-
solve our relations as brothers in a single country?

And what about Vietnam?

Is this election unreal because there are no
important issues which need to be resolved, or be-
cause the old-line parties are living in and speak-
ing about a world of their own which has no
relation to the problems of the people?

As the Communist Party sees it there are
many important issues in the election. Let us
examine some of them.

Canada and the world

LESTER Pearson won a Nobel Peace prize for

his role in solving the world crisis in which

the British and French invaded Egypt in
1957. He won this honor because he was able to
dissociate himself from the British and French
entanglement and to work for a formula which
brought an end to the fighting in the Middle East.

Nobody today can propose a similar award
for Canada or its representatives in world coun-.
cils in connection with the Vietnam crisis. We are
enmeshed in the whole dirty business. Despite the
fact that we are members of the three-nation
truce commission in Vietnam we have become
polluted by the American adventure.

We supply war materials for the American
war machine. We are to train a police force for
the South Vietnamese puppet government.

If our present prime minister is ever cushion-
ed by a majority government we may well find our
armed forces directly engaged in South Vietnam.

So much for peace prizes. So much for Can-
ada’s neutral role on the Vietnam truce commis-
sion.

But why isn’t this a subject for election
debate? Surely the Canadian people are con-
cerned about he war in Vietnam.

What about the Dominican Republic? Where
was Canada’s voice when that country was in-
vaded by 50,000 U.S. marines?

What about nuclear weapons on our soil? No
longer an issue, the old-line parties say. In 1963
Pearson promised to renegotiate the question with
the United States. But the Bomares are still here.
In 1957 it was admitted that these missiles are
obsolete and can provide no defense. Why are
they still situated in Canada in 1965?

Is there a single Canadian who still believes
that Chiang Kai-shek is still the president of
China? Yet he still has an embassy in Ottawa and
this year again Canada will vote against the
admission of China to the United Nations if
either Lester Pearson or John Diefenbaker suc

ceed in becoming prime minister. What a twisted
morality in international affairs! It is alright to
sell wheat to China, but not to recognize that

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