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of British Columbia will preserve its right to sell water to Alberta if it so desires and the provinces ‘agree upon the terms. In short, the McNaughton plan is the plan to use the Columbia River for Canada.

This is not- what the United States interests and their govern- ment want. They want to restrict the production of power on the Canadian side and increase it to the maximum possible on the United States side and they want to have control of the regulation of the flow of the river. They

want the dams built in Canada to ©

be located to correspond with their aim to regulate the flow for the greatest constant flow on the United States side.

The treaty that Prime Minister Diefenbaker has now promised -to sign is the one that the US. interests want.

What U.S. control of regulation will mean to Canada has been described by General McNaughton in the following words:

“But I do say, with all empha- sis that the effect of the regula- tion (which the treaty) authorizes the United States to impose in their own interest could be ruin- ous to Canada. I say also, that such an order, if given: by the United States entity, must be obeyed by Canada or Canada will be liable for damage under the treaty.” ;

It’s for keeps’

General McNaughton’s explana- tion that if the Socred-Tory-U.S. treaty is signed it will give the US. legal authority to regulate the flow of a great Canadian river put; the record straight on this question.

It needs to be put straight in another respect also. The Socreds, the Tories and the Liberals all pre- tend that the deal with the Uni- ted States is for 20 years only. The majority @ people believe this.

The shadow-boxing of the Die- fenbaker government encouraged an illusion that there is a ques- tion of how long the U.S. should control the Columbia. The truth is that if the proposed treaty goes into effect it is for keeps!

First of all, it will decide that the dams in Canada will be loca-

THE POWER SELL-OUT ©

ted where the U.S. wants them to regulate the flow and not where Canada needs them to generate the power here.

Secondly, and this is the vital question, the basic treaty between Canada and the United States— “The International Boundary Waters Treaty’”—provides that in- dustries “and communities which grow up as a result of the export of water or power have a vested interest in the water or power on which their existence depends. -

It is well known that the Uni- ted States government is striving to secure a treaty providing for the export of power and sources of power now, before industries are established in Canada, pre- cisely on this basis.

All our waters

are endangered

The Columbia treaty is in rea- lity a deal t6 sell control of our water to the U'S. instead of build- ing industries here. It has been established already beyond any legal question that such a treaty will not be reversed.

If it is ratified, the families, cemmunities and the massive capitalist investments that will be dependent upon the Columbia on the American side 20 years from now will resist any attempt to revoke their right to control the flow—perhaps even to the ex- tent of war.

If the Diefenbaker government ratifies Bennett’s Columbia River Treaty it will not be able to for- bid any other provincial govern- ment from doing the same as Ben- nett has done.

This is the really big prize that the U.S. monopoly interests are seeking. They want a green light to negotiate deals for the export of electrical energy from Cana- da to the US.

This would open up. to them, and the get-rich-quick capitalists who serve them in ‘Canada, the possibility of exporting power from the Grand Falls on the Ham- ilton River in Quebec, the vast potential of the Hudson Bay-Great Lakes complex, the Nelson River, the rivers of northern British Columbia, etc.

This helps to explain why the Diefenbaker government has come around also to accepting

»the idea of a nation-wide electri-

cal power grid. The aims of the U.S. monopolists include trans- forming a Canadian-wide grid from an instrunient for increasing the economy in production and distribution of electrical energy in Canada to that of distributing the load so that Canadians can use energy produced in ‘the Far North and make the energy gen- erated further south available in the United States at the lowest rates.

Preparations in the U.S.

Clear proof that powerful inter- ests in the U.S. are scheming to achieve a stupendous “take-over” of Canada’s water powers is pro- vided by certain activities in U.S. governmental circles. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall has or- dered “intensive research on the

techniques and possibilities of ex-

tra-high-voltage transmission of electrical energy” with a view to the possibility of making power generated in Canada available in “power hungry California’. —

The U.S. Senate has set up a special committee to deal with the whole problem of maintaining the supply of electrical energy in the United States at prices which will keep industries there. A re-

Act now to stop | Columbia Sellout!

e Ajl signs point to a Tory-Socred agree- ment to push the Draft Columbié Treaty through Par- liament as quickly as possible.

@ There is no time to lose to bring the full weight of publi¢ opin- ion to bear on Mem- bers of Parliament.

@Clip the coupon on this page and mail it today.

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General McNaughton on April 6, 1962 publicly denounced the draft Columbia River Treaty.

“It amounts to servitude in perpetuity of our vital rights and interests. Canada was sold down the river by the government, in fact, you can say by

I SUPPORT ‘YOUR STAND AGAINST THE CO- LUMBIA GIVE-AWAY. BLOCK THE EXPORT OF HALF A MILLION CANADIAN. JOBS TO THE UNITED STATES. SUPPORT McNAUGHTON’S PLAN. :

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(This postcard distributed by the Columbia River for Canada Committee. No postage required.)

Behind American pressure for ratification of the Columbia River treaty is U.S poly’s aim of engineering a stupendous “take-over” of Canada’s water: powers, In Tim Buck describes what is behind this scheming of Washington and its agents in

port prepared for this committee points out that there is a limit to the distance that electrical energy can be transmitted econo- mically.

-The engineers and economists

who prepared this report propose |

to circumvent the problem by in- ducing certain U.S. industries which consume a lot of energy to move part of their operations to Alaska or to the Alaska-Panhandle where they will be able to enjoy cheap power generated by Cana- dian rivers and be close to both Taw materials and tide water while still being in U.S. territory.

I am reminded here of a strik- ing example of the manner in which developments are vindicat- ing the policies advocated by the Communist Party. Our party has called attention to the’ need to develop our power resources con- tinuously. We wrote about this particular national issue in the following words in 1955:

“The availability of abundant power, preferably cheap power, has become the decisive consider- ation in locating great industries. In the United States energy for Sey. is now a major prob- nivessy

“The ‘above explains why the United States is striving to secure control of Canada’s energy re- sources. It illustrates, also, the significance to Canadians of our

country’s tremendous energy po-

tential . ..

“.. If we use our resources and opportunities properly and in. the national interest, Canada will become the locale of most of the great new basic industries that will be built in North Ame- rica during the coming 50 years. The one indispensable condition is that we put a stop now to the process by which Prime Minister St. Laurent’s policy, mis-named in- tegration, is facilitating the syste- matic transfer of ownership and control of Canada’s resources to the United States.”

(National Affairs Monthly, July, 1955, pp. 15 and 16.)

There is still time

There is still time to prevent the surrender of Canadian control of the rich power resources of our country and the Canadian people have the power to do it. This is an issue that should unite all Canadians, particularly those who are concerned to preserve provin- cial rights.

Furthermore, this issue has been placed squarely before the people by the governmnt although Diefenbaker gave no indication

-in the course of the 7, ‘paign that he intende the treaty. :

Fortunately, the 22 promise has not yet be The forthright statem@ Herridge in the Hous mons that the New # Party will fight to umbia River under Cal trol can be made cry for a great natiom

“In the conditions PU day such a crusade ® resistance to the sell-0! da could force an elect issue. At the heart troversy is the ques dian sovereignty and # our country. Y

If the NDP fights the principle expré House leader’s state! rally very broad circl ic Canadians and vocal balance of P House of Commons. ~ ‘fighting for the positi its House leader, the balance of pow sue, it will have take! towards identifying the fight to prese eignty of Canada pensable key to the perity of our count

Every. patrioti should join in the prevent the signing bia Treaty.

Press your membé ment to speak aga! House of Commons § himself with oppos!® the country at largt question of the Colu and its relationship © of the development energy in Canada in 3 zations. Bombard thea ernment. with prote A ters as an individua press, to the feder and to your membe ment.

Make this one of the in the next federal ; tion. Save Canadas resources for the 4 Canada. :

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