_ Voters give resounding
‘no’ to Liberal majority

A RoAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1965

YOu,
101.26, NO. 45

time the issue had come before the world body,

A vote is expected at the U.N, General Assembly this week,
Whether People’s China should be seated. This will be the 15th

ne Monday U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg served notice that
fe: eS. would continue its fight against a seat for the World’s

St nation, despite overwhelming world sentiment in favor. Can-
‘*ta is expected to follow the U.S, lead as in the past.

Total

HOW NATION VOTED

Elected 1965
M66 gk 129
MEBPIVON VOSS ser8 ie is ee 99
een eee ee 21
RM ai a pant es ts ee 9
es ee ee 5
BeConer. 2 See ee 1
Spenendent foo soe San 1
Total: = ee ee 265

. 1965
ES eee 9
See ee ee 7
[Conservatives Cig Sian, at eee ee 3
Brice Greditet 6:0 sc ee 3
Totals: 34° 2s 3 a eo 22

POPULAR VOTE

(Percentages Bracketed)

1965 1963
(incomplete)
2,885,445 (39) 3,293,790
2,415,480 (33) 2,591,614 |
1,305,717 (18) 1,037,857:
347,594 (5) ——
286,667 (4) 940,703
93,401 (1) 30,112
7,334,304 7,894,076

(Percentages Bracketed)

B.C. POPULAR VOTE

1965 1963
(Incomplete)
281°5h1 (33) 218,015
210,331 (30) 227,679
135,508 ~(19) 167.016
122°827-— UZ} 95,426
2,998 (1) 4,686
703,165 712,818

(42)
(33)
(13)

(12)
(—)

(31)
(32)
(23)
(13)

(1)

By MAURICE RUSH

Canada’s voters marched to the polls in their millions Monday and
rejected Prime Minister Pearson’s bid for a majority government, refused to
give any of the old-line parties a majority mandate for the third time, gave
the NDP an increased popular vote and elected a large block of NDP mem-
bers to Parliament. Once again the people of Canada have underlined their
lack of confidence in the policies of the old-line parties and expressed
their desire for new Canadian policies.

When the smoke cleared away
Monday night here is what the
people of Canada had done;

e They gave the Liberals the

‘same number of seats they held

before, 129, and reduced their
popular vote from 42 to 39 per-
cent, Thus they rejected the Lib-
eral plea for a majority and
expreSsed a vote of non-confi-
dence in Prime Minister Pearson
and his government,

e Also expressed themselves
as being opposed to a Tory gov-
ernment by giving them only
33 percent of the popular vote,
the same as in 1963, but allow-
ed the Tories to gain four seats,
increasing their number from
95 to 99 members,

e Almost....wiped--out. Social
Credit as a national party by
cutting their representation from
24 in the last House to 5 and
reducing their national popular
vote from 12 to 4 percent, This
despite the increased showing in
B.C. where due to Premier Ben-
nett’s active campaign, the
Socred vote increased by 4 per-
cent, Canadian voters repudiat-
ed the Socreds and their rightist
policies, particularly for their
opposition to medicare.

e@ Gave the NDP the biggest
increase in the popular vote
(from 13 to 18 percent) and
poosted them to the position of
third party in the House by
increasing the number of MPs
from 17 to 21, Thus the NDP
emerged in a key position to
play a decisive role in the next
minority Parliament. (In B.C.
the NDP popular vote rose from
31 to 33 percent, making it the
party with the largest percent-
age vote).

Canadians will expect the 28th Parliament
to get on with the nation’s business when it
meets. Urgent action is needed for compre-
hensive medicare and other social legislation

LESTER PEARSON.
after.

.. the morning

The outcome of the vote will
cause consternation in Washing-
ton and on Bay St., and St. James
St. The U.S. government and big
business circles in Canada were
counting on a majority govern-
ment to enact ‘‘unpopular mea-
sures’’ in the period ahead, They
also banked heavily on a return
of the Canadian people to the
two-party system, This has not
happened despite strong appeals

- for this from both Prime Minis-

ter Pearson and Opposition
Leader John Diefenbaker,

Instead, a minority govern=
ment has been elected with a
stronger NDP group which can
hold the balance of power and
play a key role in forcing im-
portant concessions for the Ca-
nadian people in the months
ahead. Instinctively the Cana-
dian people felt their interests
could best be served by return=-
ing a minority government and
giving a stronger say to the

page 4.)

. . « @ new Constitution . .
U.S. aggression in Vietnam. .
a stop to U.S. domination. (See editorial,

NDP, This’ was the outcome
which the Communist Party
urged as the best possible out-
come for the Canadian people in
this election,

The vote Monday was a repu-
diation of the policies of the old
line parties, Obviously the re-
fusal to grant Pearson or Diefen-
baker a majority indicates that
masses of Canadian voters want
different policies,

’ The progressive and labor
movement is now in a stronger
position to press for new poli-
cies to win increased social
legislation such as medicare,
and more aid to education; to
curb the power of the monopo= —
lies. and make automation work
for the people; to end U.S, domi-
nation of our foreign policy by
supporting the seating of China
in the U.N, and pressing for an
end to the war in Vietnam, It
also strengthens the fight for a
new Canadian constitution guar-
anteeing equality to our two
peoples and against the give-
away of our resources,

See ELECTION, pg. 2

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