2 With the many vague
Ine °° that characterized the
hy Peech read to Parliament
me. there was one concrete
4 Which shocked the majo-
pe Canadians. This was the
* that the Diefenbaker gov-
Will discard and in fact
ate a principle which, until

* i been upheld and “point-
vith pride” by every fed-
lider ument in Canada since
ation,
a the issue which caused
Pest clash between the
Oyare’ernments in Ontario
x this @ during the mid 1930s.
Dien est recent “promise”
ni cnbaker this principle
Dartian CePted by both of the
°D of S as the minimum con-
,. Cahadian sovereignty.

; marie change promised in
Bleio: Speech is embodied
{ban confession that the
M y.°' government is pre-
ett of render to Premier
Tita § Titish Columbia on
MYVoye, Ue Of Canadian sover-
My Rin, the control of the Col-
tl Boose? as the price of en-
Nisa be

Credit votes in the
Ay tba. mmons to keep the

itjg << S0vernment in office
; ‘tion, 24 for another gener-

i kee SCTuputous “horse trade”
4 Colom at, deal more than
Bis. River’ as we shall
F bere th, Necessary to empha-
ike, lat Prime Minister Dief-
iis yp SUrrender is not to
NS it is Mett and his Socreds
hey, Also another surrender
Vi ited States,
Mifed 8 evidence of this is

R to + ngton, D.C,
“a o, he developing power

bop rs of Congress from the
Pom ashington are demand-
AN V tke and far-reaching ac-

it United States govern-
t the sharpening de-
‘ore electrical energy.
lat unless additional

iy, (0
| a face

t electricity in the
€s of the U.S

care Placing a tough
i Ri Some big American
cal Ither a large volume
€nergy must be se-
Son or large-scale
il have to move to
© Close to the sources
Taw materials.

t 5 :
. poem admit that if the
M0 be ct iS secured ‘it will
Tom sources outside
States,

it a Press dispatch from
Wie Mex C. described some
uieteq putes that are being
‘are ¥-Which- to keep the
pd og Of the industrial ex-
| Nteg ste next 25 years in

lates. To do this will

require that there be made avail-
able within the U.S. a billion kilo-
watts of electrical energy over
and above what is available now.
Furthermore, it must be made
available at prices low enough so
that U.S. corporations will not be
induced to move their producing
plants.

To get the electrical energy that
can be generated by Canada’s still
great resources of undeveloped
water power is now one of the
main objectives of the United
States government. This is the
main reason why its secretary of
the interior, Stewart Udall, has
been such an active personal par-
ticipant in the U.S. pressure play
to get the present treaty concern-
ing use of the waters of the Col-
umbia River ratified.

Deifenbaker's promise

‘of a million new jobs

A fact) that must be_ made
known to every Canadian is that
Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s pro-
mise to allow Premier Bennett to
sell control of the flow of the
Columbia: River contradicts ah-
other promise are in ne et
Speech, namely, to crea -
ie new jobs in Canada by 1965.

Those two “promises” are in flat
contradiction to each other. Only
one of them will be kept.

The number of jobs in Canada
can be increased by a million in
the next three years but only if
the jobs are necessary features of
a growing economy. Furthermore
the growth must be much faster
than it has been during recent
years.

To those readers who may. be
inclined to ask “What about pub-
lic works?” I must point out that
public works cannot by them-
selves, make economic: expansion.

For that matter, neither .can the
building of. houses, schools and
hospitals, etc.

Certainly we need more homes
and schools and hospitals and

IHE POWER SELL-OUT

— a vital issue in the coming general election

building them will provide tens
of thousands of jobs. We must
fight ever harder for them. But,
over the long term, they can be
built only to the extent that the
manufacturing industries, farm-
ing and fishing, the food process-
ing industries etc. as well as
forest products and mining in-
dustries, are expanding.

In short, the only material basis
upon which our nation can pro-
vide new jobs.as fast as the popu-
lation increases is that of all-
round growth of industry, produc-
ing the multitude of goods that
are used in modern society.

This is what we need and it can
be done. There will not be a genu-
ine expansion of Canada’s econo-
my however, if we allow the gov-
ernment to adopt the policy of

-exporting our water power. in-

stead of using it here.

Modern production is a process
of bringing together workers, raw
materials, znathines and power on
a very large scale in productive
activity. This is the essential, the
one and only indispensable part
of the process of social produc-
tion.

To increase the number of jobs
in the country, workers, materials,
machines and power must be
brought together at a faster rate
than mechanization and automa-
tion reduce the number of work-
ers required in productive opera-
tions already established.

This can be done. It is being
done in some countries. There
have been periods when it hap-
pened in Canada.

Doing it does not depend on the
rate of foreign investments. In
fact, Graham Towers, who was
governor of the Bank of Canada
during the Second World War,
is reputed to have told a parlia-
mentary committee in effect that

‘foreign investment is not at all

essential. The only thing that is
indispensable is the bringing to-
gether of all the physical factors
and putting them to work.

Mr. Towers is reputed to have
informed the parliamentary com-
mittee that to the full extent that
this is physically possible, it can

be financed in Canada without
need for “help” from foreign in-
vestors. Mr. Towers was report-
ed in the press as agreeing that
any undertaking that is physically
possible for the Canadian people
can be financed in Canada also.
He was right.

Now, Canada has an abundant
supply of skillful and highly pro-

cause of this it is necessary to
remind our readers of the reason
why the decision is vital to every
Canadian, and.to generations of
Canadians yet to be born.

Liberal and Conservative gov-
ernments have conspired to con-
ceal the full information and rela-
tively few people know that the
choice between austerity or pros-

Canada can produce a million new jobs
in three years — but only if fhe jobs are ne-
cessary features of a growing economy.

But there will be no genuine expansion
of Canada's economy if we allow the gov-
ernment to export our water power instead

of using it here.

ductive workers, rich reserves of
raw materials and extremely rich
power resources — provided that
we use them to power industries
in Canada and do not alienate
them to the United States. It is
physically possible.

Austerity or

prosperity

The Tories, the Socreds and the
Liberals all pretend that the new
Columbia River Treaty will com-
mit Canada only to allow the
United States to use additional
water.

This is not the full truth. In
fact, there is no opposition to
the U.S. utilizing the increased
head of water that will result if
the full potential of Columbia
power is generated.

The storm that is gathering
around the Diefenbaker govern-
ment’s promise to surrender on
this issue is bringing the matter
to the attention of a great many
Canadians for the -first time. Be-

sersanernestio Qe o>

perity in Canada is tied in with
the question of “Where is the
electrical energy from Canada’s
waters to be used?”

The plain truth is that our
answer to a second question
will almost certainly decide what
the answer will be to the first.

Thus, the essential question is
mot whether the United States
should enjoy the use of a greater
head of water, it is “Should we
develop the Columbia River basin
to generate its full potential for
Canada or should we’ surrender
that possibility and, instead, give
(or sell for a song) control of the
development and subsequent re-
gulation to the United States?”

If we surrender control of the
flow of the Columbia River we
shall surrender also our right to
divert waters, our right to join
the Columbia to the Fraser: in
short, we shall surrender Cana-
da’s control of this, one of the
greatest perpetual resources of
the North American continent.

The McNaughton Plan

There is an alternative plan to
the one embodied in the treaty
that Diefenbaker has now promis-
ed to sign. It is sponsored by
General A. McNaughton.

(McNaughton was Canada’s re-
presentative on the International
Boundary Waters Commission for
14 years and chairman of the
commission until this year. The
Diefenbaker government refused
to renew his appointment this
year because he opposed the sell-
out of control of the Columbia
River basin.)

The McNaughton plan is to gen-
erate power in Canada. It pro-
poses to generate 3,966,000 kilo-
watts of very cheap power from
the Columbia River right in Cana-
da. If this plan is adopted and
carried out the U.S. will still have
an opportunity to secure very
large downstream benefits.

After turning the turbines on
the Canadian side the waters will
still flow across the boundary.
The difference will be that Cana-
da will have generated all, or near-
ly all, the power that can be de-
ee from the Columbia in Cana-

a.

The U.S. will not be able to

control the flow of the river until

after it has passed through the

turbines in Canada. The province

(Continued-on next. page).

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