< : EDITORIAL Tories in power. Remember how, during the elec- tion campaign we were painted pictures of jobs galore, of getting rid of nasty Liberal restrictions which made our lives miserable, of how patron- age would disappear, and life for the average Canadian would improve? The government was going to stop wasting the taxpayers’ money and get the economy cranked up. Well? About wasting money: the so-called defence budget has risen from an annual $8.8 billion to an all-time high of $9.4 billion — and counting. The _ distinctive uniforms of the forces were to cost $36 million (and some people suggested better ways to spend that much) but the actual cost will be _ $55.6 million. At the opposite end of the teeter-totter sat the pensioners. They were supposed to go down with a clunk and never be heard from again. They were heard from, and foiled one of the govern- ment’s and the Wilson budget’s nefarious plans. Tests of the U.S. military’s cruise missile will take place on Canadian territory between Janu- ary and March of 1986 whatever the opinions of Canadians, a Canadian mouthpiece of the U.S. Pentagon told the press Aug. 27. In effect, the Defence Department in Ottawa is telling Canadians that they can protest as much as they like but the military will do what the hell it chooses and democracy be damned. Canadians have demonstrated massively against cruise testing in Canada, against Star Wars, and increasingly have protested the Mul- roney Tories’ subservience to NATO and the sellout of Canadian sovereignty on the North Warning System. It was established in earlier incursions into Canadian territory by the cruise testers of the U.S. and their Canadian collaborators that the purpose is to plot a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR. That is not what the majority of Can- adians demand. We do not seek war against the Year two — more fightback Sept. 4, 1985: One year of the Mulroney federal - The Tories did succeed in sabotaging Canada’s energy program, and they’ve done away with the Foreign Investment Review Act on their way (if they are not stopped) to free trade and integration into U.S. continentalist plans. With its spineless talk in lieu of action against apartheid the government reached an all-time low which should long be remembered by all who struggle for human rights. And for its attempt to dump universality of social programs and budget threats to family allowances which still stand, this government's first year is also remembered. _ The labor and democratic movements should make sure that this government’s second year goes down in history for the biggest fightback to date. Withdrawal of the Wilson budget, and a demand for rejection of any Canadian support for, and participation in the Star Wars program, are good starting points. It’s still no to cruise Soviet Union and the Soviet Union does not seek war against us. In the matter of cruise testing the people of Canada have not finished speaking. While the Washington militarists are telling Mulroney what to do, the anti-cruise, anti-Star Wars and anti- nuclear war movement is spreading and strength- ening. What Canadians do want is a declaration that Canada shall be a nuclear weapons-free zone. As well, Ottawa should be pressing the U.S. to take the no first strike pledge as the USSR has done. The Mulroney government should back a nuclear test ban at once. And, Canada must support the proposal of the Soviet Union declaring that space shall.be used for peace, not war. Cruise testing is only one aspect of Pentagon efforts to integrate Canada into U.S. military programs, but it is a crucial one and needs to be - fought, as Canadians have fought it before. Suffi- cient outcry will force Mulroney to listen. Ae VER 2g N SB Se 2. GOO BUCKS A DAY TrevRE INL PANO O OFA Grant” TEED PNN VAL wane RAO. oF ce AG coe laksa fe THEN LAID “OFF Some banks have it and some haven’t — profit that is. Tak Continental Bank of Canada, Toronto. In just nine months endé July 31, Continental’s after-tax profit was $12-million, comparet with $10.6-million in those months a year earlier. And we thoug they wanted us as customers because they liked us. IRRIBUNE Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN Assistant Editor — DAN KEETON Business & Circulation Manager — DONALDA VIAUD Graphics — ANGELA KENYON Published weekly at 2681 East Hastings Stre: Vancouver, B.C. V5K 125 Phone (604) 251-1186 Subscription Rate: Canada — $14 one year, $8 six months Foreign — $20 one year, ‘Second class mail registration number 1560 nybody watching the whirlwind visit and his cabinet entourage to this province last month would no doubt have noticed how all of the issues surrounding the People and Issues ‘Any parent who would tuck their child into bed with a cuddly nuclear bomb should be reported to Children’s Aid,’ says | Stark.” | * *-. * Tory budget — de-indexation of pen- sions, the capital gains handout, changes in the energy program — were all left behind in Ottawa, never to be mentioned in the corridors of the Hotel Vancouver. All we heard on those questions was how western Canadians were no longer alie- nated and how the government’s eco- nomic measures were going to “bring new hope to British Columbians” and “open up employment for all Canadians.” The only real reference to the budget was a fepetition of Michael Wilson’s old saw | that the fiscal policies wre intended to | ensure that “Canadians share equally in the burden of deficit reduction.” It’s too bad Mulroney and his crew didn’t hang around just a bit longer. If they had they would have seen two reports, prepared by two very different institutions which demonstrate beyond ] question that the Tory policies will do nothing about creating hope of jobs and will make absolutely certain that the cor- porate set in this country can absolve itself | completely of any tax burden. One of those studies is from B.C. Eco- nomic Policy Institute author Gideon Rosenbluth, a report of which was carried in an earlier issue. But his conclusion, after 26 pages of analysis, sums up the Tories’ economic plans and their likely results: “The result (of the government’s fiscal policies) has been a policy combina- tion which deprives the lower and middle income groups and services and disposa- ble income, frustrates business by high interest rates and attempts to wipe out the _ latter effect by special tax concessions that benefit mainly business firms and the upper income groups and are not efficient in promoting employment.” Just two days before the Economic Pol- icy Institute released Rosenbluth’s report, the influential New York investment house, Salomon Brothers, released its study on the Tories’ energy policies and praised the Mulroney government for opening the door to new profits for the multinational oil and gas industry. So much for Canadians sharing the burden According to the report, issued Aug. 26, the result of the Tories’ changes to the National Energy Program and the West- ern Accord which accompanied the budget will be an expected increase in prof- its by 50 per cent by 1989. And that is in spite of falling world oil prices. The change will come about as a result of a major shift in revenue share in favor of the oil companies — from 26.4 per cent under the NDP terms to 44.9 per cent under Tory policies. What is worse is that the Tory policies don’t just favor the corporations — but they especially favor foreign-owned multi- nationals. Under the energy policy changes, the foreign-owned oil companies will get higher profits because a higher proportion of their revenue comes from sources of oil discovered before 1974 — on which a higher return is allowed. If anyone needs any reminding that this is a government for and by the multi- national corporations, just remember that it was the same Tories that added an extra cent-per-litre tax to gasoline to make up for what it lost by having to retreat on the de-indexation of pensions. *x* * * t’s not often that we have the opportunity — or the inclination — to peruse the scandal sheets that the U.S. cranks out in the millions of copies. But last week we were looking through a copy of U.S. World News and came across the following item. Of course, you’re never sure whether to take it at face value or not but this one did seem plausible, given the penchant by U.S. toy manufacturers to boost the war toy market: “A soft, cuddly toy is raising a storm of protest — because it is shaped like a nuclear warhead. “The toy, called a Nukie, is manufac- tured in Florida by Practical Solutions, Inc., owned by Michael Schaefer. ““*What I am doing is letting people know that nuclear weapons are a reality,’ says Schaefer. “But Jim Stark, president of the anti- nuclear Operation Dismantle in Canada, _ wants the toy banned from that country. _written by B.C. Peace Council activist _ leaders of both the U.S. and the Sovie ortunately — on a more serious note — while some toy manufacturers are trying to follow the example of military contractors to make a buck out of the arms race by exploiting children, the peace movement has been increasingly reaching — out to children, trying to foster a belief in — peaceful solutions and hope for the future of the world. . A small example of that is a little book, — Dorothy Morrison in conjunction with | Roma Dehr and Ronald Bazar, and entitled We Can Do It! A Kid’s Peace Book. Readers may have seen an earlier, hand mimeographed version of the material in the book, which Morrison presented as an ABC book for peace. But this version is completely re-done, produced in.pocket book form with each page filled with full- — color illustrations by noted Vancouver | graphic artist and illustrator Nola John- — ston. Intended, as the introduction notes, — to help “parents and teachers create a dia- logue with children about their fears of war and hopes for peace,” it also includes forms for readers to send letters to the Union. Copies are available from the publisher. Namchi United Enterprsies for $1, with bulk discounts available. The address 1s Box 33852, Station D, Vancouver, V6J 4L6. 4 e PACIFIC TRIBUNE, SEPTEMBER 11, 1985