Van. Pack

Charles Caron

The Communist candidate in
Vancouver East is an iron worker
and plasterer by.trade, and
secretary, during the war, of the
Marine Workers and
Boilermakers Union. Charles
Caron was born of French
Canadian parents and has lived
in B.C. most of his life.

In his present job as Vancouver
Secretary of the Communist Party
he has made many submissions to
City Council for lower taxes,
better housing, improved transit
and on other civic issues.

Comox-Alberni

Van. South

Robin Smith

Robin Smith was born 23 years
ago in the mining town of
Britannia Beach, B.C. Daughter
of a mine union organizer, she
spent her early years in many
mining and smelting towns. She is
an office worker and takes an
active part in the youth
movement.

She attended Vancouver's
Kitsilano Secondary School,
where she served on the Students’
Council. She graduated in 1963.
She worked in industry for a time
and knows the problems of
Canada’s youth.

N. Westminster

New faces .

. . same old policies

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Mark Mosher

Mark Mosher is a member of the
Alberni School Board and
executive member of the
Longshoremen’s Union. He is a
long time trade union leader and
with his wife Rosalyn, is an active
community worker. He has three
daughters.

He says he is in this election
because he “feels the Communist
platform corresponds with the
real interest of our country and
the people of Comox-Alberni
amongst whom | live.”

Robert McLaren

Robert McLaren, 45, was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland and came to
Canada when he was five years
old. He came to B.C. in 1958 and
has taken an active rolé’in local
and municipal affairs. He has
four children and is a printer by
trade.

He has strongly advocated
federal aid for education, federal
aid to control flooding in the
Fraser Valley and action on
pollution. He has also urged new
industries for. processing raw
materials in B.C.

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A billion dollar program of low rental
housing, to slash interest rates on home building
loans, and expropriate land speculators without
allowing them to benefit from present inflated prices.

Implement universal medicare to cover all
health needs. :

A radically new taxation system based on
ability to pay using the principle of taxation on
income and capital gains and not on sales, along
lines suggested by the Carter Commission. _

A guaranteed annual income sufficient to lift
every Canadian in industry and agriculture out of
poverty immediately.

Abolition of university fees; stipends for
student's living expenses.

. Start nationalizing U.S. companies: in
Canada, to win back Canadian control of the
economy.

Compel all foreign companies in Canada to
obey Canadian law.

Quebec Sovereignty: in a new confederal
pact.in a new constitution.

Adopt'a Bill of Rights to guarantee the right
to organize and strike; to free speech and assembly;
no discrimination against any racial, national or
religious group, or on account of age.

Amend labor laws to give workers the right to
a voice in all company. decisions affecting
employment and working conditions.

Establish the right of students and teachers to
participate in the making of policy in their institutions.

Democratic controls over prices and quality.

Total dissociation of Canada from the U.S.
aggression. in Vietnam. End Canadian arms sales to
the United States. Withdraw. from. NATO and
NORAD. Cut arms spending to meet the needs of the
Canadian people.

Elect a
progressive

bloc of MP's

The Communist Party progra™
with an appeal to voters to elect #
large progressive bloc is being
widely distributed this week #
ridings where the Communist
Party is not running candidates:
Signed by national leader Willia™
Kashtan, the message says:

“We have said why we 4F€
sincerely convinced that the most
meaningful vote that can be ¢a>
in this election is a vote for thé
candidate of the Communis!
Party.

“But where we do no run, We
are by no means indifferent to the
outcome of this election. .- "
think that there is no doubt that if
if either the Liberals %
‘Conservatives win majority
control of parliament, they ¥
use that majority to carty
through policies’ which will be
very popular with the big
corporations, and very harmft
to the people... .

“‘So we say that the interests of
Canada and its people will be best
served if-once again, the voter
deny either of the old parties ?
majority, and this time elect *.
large group of progressive MP’*
including of course Com”

munists”’ ;
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