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OMMUNIS FOR UNITY

HE responsibility for the present crisis in Quebec as in Canada as a whole rests squarely on the

Democratic Canadians in English and French Canada need to unite their efforts around such a truly national

General-secretary of the Communist Party of Canada, William

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The army that Ontario Premier Robarts told rep- resentatives~ of

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monopoly is “our army” occupies the streets of Quebec’s cities and towns, as the Trudeau and Bourassa gov- ernments (and His Worship, Jean Drapeau) attempt to smo- ther all political dissent and Protest by the ‘people.

it represents in English-speaking and French Canada. The Trudeau govern- ment talks about participatory democ- racy and social justice but in practice is anti-democratic. The Trudeau gov- ernment is a government of social de- magogy whose policies have been di- rected not to eliminate but rather to perpetuate national and social injustice against the French-Canadian people and to load the costs of the recession

on the backs of the Canadian people. |

As long as these conservative and re- actionary policies continue so will the crisis in Quebec, and throughout Can- ada.

It is obvious that the national, social and economic aspiration of the French- Canadian people cannot and will not be

_ resolved by repressive legislation and

the virtual military occupation of Que- bec, nor can Canada long survive on this basis. These aspirations can only be re- solved, as the Communist Party has proposed and continues to propose, by far-reaching measures of structural re-

form in Quebec, directed to curb the

power of monopoly, U.S. and Canadian alike, by drastic measures to overcome inequality in wages, educational stan- dards, health facilities, housing and em- ployment opportunities and by a new Canadian Constitution based on the vo- luntary, equal partnership of the two nations in a bi-national sovereign and democratic state.

Trade unionists join jobless workers in the fight for jobs as B.C. Federation of Labor conven-

Kashtan and Jeannette Walsh, organizer of the Communist Party of shoulders of the Trudeau govern- and democratic program—a program pees in Ottawa for their party’s “1,000,000 New Jobs” Lobby last ment and of the monopoly inter- which is directly linked to the struggle ests which support it, and which to regain Canadian independence and

without which that struggle will be

‘jeopardized. Only the united effort of

the working people of. both nations on the basis of equality and genuine re- spect for the national aspirations of the French-Canadian nation offers sound prospects of victory in the struggle against the common enemy—Canadian monopoly and U.S. imperialism.

The struggle for such aims cannot be separated from, indeed should be part of a people’s program directed to pro- tect working people from the effects of the recession.

SUCH A PROGRAM SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

¥ A 1 billion dollar crash program of public works.

“” A crash program of public low cost housing of at least 250,000 units annually.

“ Public ownership of energy re- sources and their use for economic de- velopment and growth. Nationaliza- tion of foreign-owned industry in Can- ada.

“ Democratic tax reform based on ability to pay, including a meaningful tax on capital gains, and more immed- iately, reduced taxes for low income groups.

tion delegates march to Vancou-

ver’s Unemployment Insurance scab Dacenber, 1970108

offices (below) to demand gov-

ernment action to provide work

In 1970 the Young Communist League was formed again, and launched a youth paper,. “Young Worker.” This | was their second issue's |

ee F Condemned by Trudeau to a monthly old age pension frozen at $80, this woman and the countless Canadian senior citizens like her must now endure the ignominy of the hated means test for supple- mentary benefits.

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