or ‘opportunity for peace?

Mes to Canada

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mee part of Mr. Ball’s plan for the
of ‘la away of the state in favor
found multi-national corporation. He

the nation-state irrelevant to

wh necanics ‘of the modern world,
Statele € multi-national corporation—
Profits SS, rational and loyal to its own
pe eoncred mankind the most ef-
t way to use of world resources.”

A eetoine this.
ational state is
Saad has the multi-national corpora-
it ig ued the state irrelevant? Where
ie Bertie. Freely elected public
eir 9 nat give the people a voice in
vant eg destiny—these are irrele-
nage a ut armies, police forces, espio-
lo apenas prisons—these not only
they ar Wither away, they multiply,
dictators wehly relevant to corporatist
Poration’ ip, to the multi-national cor-
he n’s free-wheeling profit-making.
of a efficient way. to make use
National resources: Truly! Multi-
s int corporations turn lakes and
life of rs cesspools, even poison the
@ ocean: they poison birds,

irrelevant.

Hu
Wa, tg the atmosphere, erode and
Prairie away. mountains, turn fertile

Buieaicmine lifeless dust on the wind,
Phalt one ons of square miles of as-
i iia eee earth or build pollut-
Natural ¢ ies on it, convert human and
8aton wad into the energy of me-
in the ane, and train humans more

const s of destruction than in those
Could aceon ‘and creation. One
Aiciencieg» isting the endless “ef-
ration, j of the multi-national corpo-
Poisonous wane _the atmospherically
recreation! Shriekingly noisy, parkless,
eine e oephalt. jungles called

i is which people are sucked to
5 ae and moral asphyxiation,
Sree co andplay.
Corporatio, only that: The multinational
Teeling ¢ n economy is an economy
economic a dead stop! By policy! To
; 1¢ bankruptcy. By policy! To

Uring

Creasi
To mane unemployment. By policy!
Mendeq ,> Policy. And this is recom-
as efficient!
@
Where

Perialists ne aims and hope of im-

ere the le is amply illustrated by
every $10) put their investments. “For
two cae of military output, these
tates) in Ties (Britain and the United
For ae vest $50 and $60 in research.
ing outpy, ‘ 100 of general manufactur-

tockhol, they invest only $5 to $8”
Search |} m International Peace Re-
and aie cited in The Globe

editorial, Nov. 19, 1969.

. wages.

What of people in this paradise?

People, that is, apart from the corpo-
rate owners, figure as costs. Now,
costs are things that cut into profits,
hence the multi-national corporation
rules that “labor” will be employed
“wherever it can be found at the low-
est cost”; so, highly processed goods
are shipped from place to place around
the world to the areas of lowest labor
This is also recommended
as efficiency. This practice has elimi-
nated one in eight of New York’s popu-
Jation from the payrolls of the multi-
national corporations, and there in the
great Metropolis of the multi-national
corporation paradise they rot as social
outcasts on what is euphemistically
called ‘‘welfare.”

Efficiency! ‘This efficiency has pro-
duced the highest crime rate in the
world, the highest rate of decline in
decent housing, and the fastest rate
of increase of strike struggles in ‘the
world. :

And Mr. Ball emphasizes that it is
Canada’s manifest destiny to knuckle
under to this!

e

Editorializing on Mr. Ball’s state-
ment and on the leak regarding Cana-
da’s oil relations with the U.S., The
Montreal Star remarks (Jan. 17, 1970)
that “our independence will be the
chief issue facing Canadians over the
next decade . . . Canadians had better
decide now how far they are willing
to go to preserve their country’s in-
tegrity.”

It is more than unfortunate that not
one of Canada’s governments or bour-
geois parties disagree with Mr. Ball.
Mr. Trudeau, Mr. Greene, Mr. Mar-.
chand, to name a few now in power at
Ottawa, are no enemies of continental-
ism. On the contrary, they are the in-
heritors of that Liberal policy of “in-
tegration” launched by Finance Minis-
ter Abbott in the late 1940’s. Apart
from Walter Gordon, who’ is there in'
Liberal circles that fights or fought
for an independent Canada? Unfortu-
nately, the siren song of Mr. Ball is
listened to only too readily in Cana-
da’s high economic circles also where
ambition regards acceptance into the
Anglo-. and French-Canadian partner-
ship with U.S. capital as the mark of
“arrival,” and where shortsightedness
prevails when the interests of the peo-
ple and the use of the resources of
Canada and the political sovereignty of
Canada are in question.

These people however, are not Cana-
da; at the most they are 15 percent
of Canada. What then are we, the
close to 90 percent of the people of
Canada going to say to Mr. Ball?

e ;

Mr. Ball has put it to us straight.
Imperialist U.S.A.—the multinational
corporation U.S.A. — wants Canada
NOW. We can let ourselves be taken
and sucked dry and destroyed by this
corrupt colossus, or we can stand up
for ourselves as a sovereign, two--

nation state, a people’s democracy, a

a

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force for peace in the world. In such
a stand we will clasp hands with the
60 percent of the people of the U.S.
who are beginning to challenge the
rule of the multi-national corporation
in their own land; we'll win to our
support the militant anti-imperialist
peoples of Africa, Asia and South
America—and we'll be helping them.
We'll have the friendship and aid of
the socialist states of the world—
peace-loving,
tive, motivated by the principle of peo-
ple’s democratic control and ownership
of the materials and instruments of
production; production for use privat-
ly, and for progress socially; the cre-
ative application of science to resolv-
ing the secrets of nature and natural
development to make humanity and

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the earth flourish together and evolve
to new higher forms of being, in a

- world freed from war.

How can we set Canada on this
path? We who seek this are many. We
make science and labor function pro-
ductively. We comprise the bulk of the
membership of all organized groups in
the country. But politically we are un-
organized. As we have seen, both ma-
jor parties are bourgeois to the hilt:
both the Liberal leadership and the
Conservative leadership have bowed
to the dictates of the multi-national
U.S.-dominated corporations. They are
selling out Canada and its people to
inevitable destruction. They will al-
ways betray us. Jean Marchand, for
example, abandoned Quebec labor to
live humbly in the shadow of the mil-
lionaire playboy, Trudeau, and cate-
gorically called the formation of an in-

constructive and crea--

dependent labor political organization ..

“immoral.” Think of it! For 90' percent
of the people—the employed people,
the workers, the producers by hand
and brain, the skilled and the unskilled
who actually produce our wealth—the
non-owners of industry, the non-pro-
fiteers, the givers of themselves to the

creation of social substance—it is im-

moral for them to be politically organ-

ized as an independent force, a demo-

cratic 90 percent majority.
We must opt for a coalition that can

include all dissenters from the domin- -

ant sell-out and war policies of the
Liberal and Conservative party right-
wingers, and can federate all people’s

organizations loyal to Canada. Essen-

tial to the establishment of such a po-
litical body is the active participation

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and leadership of the trade union move-
ment, for it is only under the leader-
ship of organized labor, the largest
and most basic democratic organiza-
tion of the employed people, that such
a movement can hope realistically to
solve the sovereign and basic prob-
lems and serve the real and progres-
sive interests of our country and peo-
ple as a whole.
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Vietnam holds Wall Street at bay
and will never be defeated; defiant and
armed Cuba stands proudly in sover-
eign security on the offshore of the
U.S.A. the people of South America
shout ‘Go Home!” and they harass and
reject the visiting representatives,
sell-out | governments and _ toadying
corporations of  military-industrial
America.

Canadians too can stand up—and be
free!

Where there’s a will there’s a way!

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