What the Act means to you

All strikes can be banned. Strike leaders and strikers can be arrested, charged and jailed.

Demonstrations, canvassing, meetings for peace can be banned.

® All public meetings can be banned. @ Any newspaper declared to be in violation of the Act can

be closed down. Just by declaring an organization subversive it can be

banned.

There is no onus on the government, army or police, to prove their charges. Anyone arrested is no longer held innocent until proven guilty.

Those who go to public meetings out of curiosity or sym- pathy, even though not members of the organization, can be arrested and jailed.

Police and the armed forces can arrest anyone without a warrant, hold him in custody up to 21 days without laying a charge, and continue to detain him in custody for 90 days without right to bail, when further proce _dures may be taken,

Evidence of a person's earlier activities within a banned organization can be. used to arrest him, and as evidence later.

If you. attended a legal FLQ meeting two years ago, you are liable to a five-year penalty today.

You may not distribute leaflets or put up posters the authorities deem subversive.

Your home and any other premises may be searched without a warrant. So may your-car or truck.

Assisting someone who is deemed subversive by the authorities leaves you liable to the same charges.

Maximum penalty on conviction of belonging to an “un- lawful”. organization is five years’ imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. :

Any group which according to the authorities advocates the use of force or the commission of a crime as a means of or as in aid of accomplishing government change within Canada may be outlawed.

it is unlawful, punishable up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine, for any owner, tenant, agent, or super- intendent of any premises to allow meetings of organi- zations declared unlawful on their premises.

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While no one can view the taking of a human life dispassionately the fact is that the federal government suc- ceeded in using the killing of Mr. La-

porte to create the atmosphere to en- ~

dorse the invoking of the War Meas- ures Act.

It causes great unease across the na- tion and grave doubt not only as to its use, but also as to when it will be re- pealed. :

Assurances were given that alterna- tive legislation will modify its most severe aspects. It has been suggested by some that the waiting period of 90 days for a trial should be cut to 30 days, and that there be an easing of the guilt-by- association stipulations.

All of this is a promise that repres- sion will continue. Nor do such argu- ments justify passing the War Mea- sures Act in the first place.

Laws to deal with kidnapping, rob- bery, murder and other anita crimes already exist in the Criminal Code. Un- fortunately, so does anti-labor legisla- tion. So what are the laws that the

Prime Minister judges are necessary, .

if not laws of repression?

The real problem is the conditions at the root of the dissatisfaction. They are problems of capitalism, in which un-

employment and poverty are mass phe--

nomena. The national aspirations of the French-Canadian people continue to be frustrated, and the great social and economic injustices endured by French-Canadian people continue. They are the source of violence and unrest. If the FLQ is put down, others will rise in protest—a protest that is often blind and savage. And what about the rest of Canada? Ominous statements are made by the Minister of Justice, John Turner, that there is a problem of unrest across this country. The presentation of a plan to elimi- nate poverty for 5,000,000 Canadians would kindle the fires of hope. A five-

year plan to build low-rental homes to

replace fhe wretched living places of a multitude of Canadian families, the provision of jobs and a future for all young Canadians would have. done much to ease the situation.

Instead, the working people have been given a million unemployed.

Prime Minister Trudeau, who tries

to cultivate for himself the image of a ~

sensitive and compassionate man, could as head of the government pro- pose a new Confederal Pact in which the two nations—French and English—

would unite on the basis of equality.

By themselves, these would not have sufficed. You cannot pateh up capital- ism and make it work in the interests of the people. But the right to self- determination for French Canadians, a more meaningful life for all Cana- dians, especially the young, the widen- ing of democracy to give all working people a say in how the streams of life will flow—all these are the real wishes and needs of the people. And they all are possible.

The Trudeau administration has deli- berately adopted a “get tough” policy.

It is clear that to most French Cana-

dians the “get tough” stance of Ottawa

All democratic Canadians must unite to repeal tyrannical Act!

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along with that of Canada’s leadilé WASP, Premier Robarts of Ontat is a signal that the government isn't gi : ing to give them the things they ne®

They know it from the large numbe! of unexplained questions, begin with: Why the War Measures Att For example, the capitalist press ported that the Quebec police knew the whereabouts of the FLQ prisoners, so, what prevented them from mo in? Trudeau said that his governmy would never negotiate to give up ® prisoners in exchange for two prom nent officials. Why not? Especial!) when the government was really nes" tiating. These questions alone © doubt on the motivations of the 1 deau government. ; J

So: the Trudeau government has &l barked on a course of action which, ¥ less it is halted and reversed, can onl lead to a police state. ae - There is every prospect that the @ rible economic and social conditi0 that give rise to violence in our soclé will worsen. Thus the possibility ari” that the War Measures Act may be tended in time—or may be replace Hi equally repressive legislation, part ly disguised. _-

However the fact is that the foree|

and stronger than ever before in © history. Demonstrations have im#®

try. Teach-ins are being held in # universities. Sections of labor #4 speaking against the Act.

The Communist Party of Canada Saturday was the first political part to mount a demonstration in front ° the House of Commons in. Ottaw? against the Act.

While the capitalist media seek ” play up the-acts of the “ultra left,” thd are unable to hide the widespread ¢0? cern and growing opposition amone wide sections of Canadians.

The fight against this act can be a most united one since World War i

MPs courageously cast their voll against the Act and by that reflect? the interests of the people of Canadé They were right in doing so, and it 15? be hoped that they see the pitfalls ” the proposed new legislation pein advocated. . ' Letters and telegrams should be se! to Trudeau—and to MPs—from indi” duals and organizations, demandi®. the repeal of the Act. The widest rang’ of activity should be developed. There can be no doubt whatsoev! that such prompt actions, particulat! if they involve the organized lab? movement, will compel Parliament change its mind. In the words of, young worker at a protest meeting } f Toronto called “by the Communi Party: “I want to strike a note of oF timism in this meeting. The govert ment can pass its legislation, but ! can’t legislate to stop the young peopl? from growing. It can’t legislate to sto? the young people from thinking. ' are going to see the government thé passes such legislation defeated!” Let’s get to work on it.