VOLUME 12" NUMBER 7

OFS plans march At a plenary conference held last weekend at U. of Water­ loo the Ontario Federation of Students decided to con­ tinue its campaign against cut­ backs in education by calling for a "mass central demon­ stration at Queens Park" which will coincide with the opening of the legislature and will be organized by David Moulton. Described as a 'Day of Protest' against the tuition fee hikes and raised loan cei­ lings, the action will be pre­ ceded by province-wide li­ terature distribution, posters and local educationals. The active support of high school students, organized labour and community groups will also be sought. OFS w"ill meet again in ple­ nary on Nov. 29 in Toronto to evaluate the status of its negotiations with the govern­ "ment and will decide how to handle the second term fee strike. The possibility of set­ ting up a trust fund into which second term fees could be paid will be studied at that time, as well as other re­ lated options. Atttempts to dilute the al­ ready weak and minimal OFS demands in the interests of "bargaining flexibility" (eg. to concede if necessary the $100 fee increase for a return to the old aSAP arrangements and a lower age of indepen­ dence) were roundly beaten back at the weekend confer­ ence. The OFS Executive's motion to that effect presen­ ted in camera and supported prominently by U of T, Queens and Western (who also opposed the call for a demonstration) was met by loud denunciations and charges of betrayal. It was hastily withdrawn and in­ stead a motion was passed di­ recting 0 FSrepresentatives in discussions with the go­ vernment to do no more than communicate OFS demands, rather than bargain behind (' the backs of students. In other more general dis­ cussions, OFS considered se­ veral political questions. The case of Hungarian Marxist Professor Istvan Meszaros, was raised by York, and OFS re·solved to condemn the De­ partment of Immigration for its refusal to grant landed immigrant status to Meszaros OFS also agreed to support the Nov. 18 International Day of Protest against American involvement in Vietnam, cal­ ling for students to de­ monstrate for an end to the bombing, for immediate with­ drawal of US and allied men and material and for Vietna­ mese self-determination. The conference also en­ dorsed the campaign to repeal all laws against abortion, and decided in addition to organize a conference to explore the role and problems of women in educational institutions. The conference will be held in the near future. t I •

2 PRO TEM Octobe.r 25, 1972 Two resign from student caucus

by DIANNE TRAVELL

The student caucus of col­ their point of view. lege council met Monday night to discuss the resits of last The caucus decided to leave week's bloc-voting referen­ for discussion at a later date dum, in which those members Gary O'Brien's contention that Jay Bell threatened to resign but Is reconsidering his position on the studentsJ' caucus. of the student body who both­ only members of the student ered to vote accepted the prin­ caucus should nominate and dum. riculum, hiring and academic ion; 'a report will be prepared ciple of ploc votin~ in council vote for student members on standards. The .union has ex- by the commission and studied' on issues termed 'key" by a college council committees. When the question was fi­ pereienced some difficulty in by a special sub-committee two-thirds vote of the caucus. nally called, the caucus finding students to fill the of cauCUs concerned with the Helen Sinclair pointed out decided to invite the two coun­ eigteen committee. positions progress of course unions and Chairperson'Marshall Les­ cillors to rejoin them, but available this year. proposals for their develop- lie read letters of resignation that the councillors in ques­ tion immediately following the rejected any attempt to force Gary O'Brien expressed the ment in the college. from the caucus tendered by them to stand for re-election. Bill Michie and Gilles de referendum so as to not con­ hope of the curriculum com­ fuse their stand on any parti­ The other rrlajor Item of mitee of college council tha~ The caucus also discussed Chantal, who reject the sus­ business concerned depart­ committee positions for the pension of personal opinion cular issue before the caucus representatives of course with their position concerning mental unIons. Bart Higgins unions attend curriculum two new college councillorstl and individual choice that they of the English department Stuar~ Spence was appointed feel the imposition of bloc­ bloc-voting. She also rejected com.mittee meetings. They the second part of Mr. Weis­ course union outlined the co­ would have observer status, to the nominating committee, voting will bring. Mr. Michie operation between faculty and while Mary Lynn Watson will further stated in his letter leder's motion, noting that initially; but would be per- Mr. Michie and Mr. de Chan­ students in that particularde­ serve on the minor research that he feared polarisation partment. mitted to speak and after a tl w'ere to resign from coun­ time propose motions to the grants committee. Barry resulting from bloc-voting Weisleder's appointment to will eventually destroy any cil immediately, their vacant unlon~ committeee positions, under present col­ Last year's course the committee on academic effectiveness the caucus might though small, gained voting It was decided that the caU­ standards was affi;rmed; Hu­ have. lege council rules of proce­ dure, would be filled by the parity on the siX; departmental cus should work in conjunc­ ·bert Saint-Onge was appoin­ top two unsuccessful candi­ committees - salary, tenure tion with the academic affairs ted to the re'maining vacant Barry Weisleder moved that promotion~ dates in last week's council and teaching, cur- commission of the student 00- position on CAS. Mr. de Chantal and Mr. Michie by-election. be invited to rejoin and func-­ tion within the caucus in the John McNee suggested that expectation that an issue will the referendUm was only a not arise that they feel would gUideline for the caucus, but compromise their positions. Hubert Saint-Onge, express­ lilendon for students He further moved that if they ing the opinon of the majority refuse to join the caucus, they The Glendon for Students' Glendon for Students' was, government. Last year a total should be asked to resign of caucus members insisted Fund is holding its annual that the caucus is bound, as established four years ago 1:9 of 39 students were given their seats on college council appeal for funds this week. prOVide loans for students in loans amounting to approxi­ and stand for re-election to had been originally decided, by the outcome of the referen- The campaign, which began financial difficulty who are not mately $5,000. see if the student body accepts Tuesday, will run until Thurs­ able to receive money from Students' council has con­ day night. either their families or the tributed to the fund annually. This year the council was asked for a grant of $2,200 but due tothe decrease in enrollment and their tight bud­ get, were able to grant only $2,000. However, due to the increases in tuition fees and cutbacks in the size of Ontario Student Award Plan grants, the Fund is expecting an in­ creased demand on its re­ sources this year. The Glendon for Students Fund is a registered charity and issues receipts for income tax purposes. If you can pos­ sibly help out a fellow student, make out a contribution to IIGlendon for Students' Fund" and send it to the Dean of Student's office, Room 241, York Hall. oncampus 'Wednesday, October 25 First dramatic production of the lear is 'The American Dream and 'The Sandbox' at 8 p. m. in the Pipe Room. Today and Thursday~ Thursday, October 26 Germain Bazin, conserva­ teur-en-chef honoraire du Musee du Louvre and Re­ search Professor at York will speak at 4:15 today on 'Les vrais inventeurs du cinema' in Room 204. Ad~J.1ission free. Friday, October 27 There is a HalloweFen Dance in the Old Dining Hall fea­ turing CORE. All people with costumes free, - others 50 cents. Saturday, October 28 The Pipe Room presents a Bofte achansons. 'Sunday, October 29 Andthats the troth! 4 The film society presents Joe'- ,at 8 pm in Room 204. October 25, 1972 PRO TEM 3

PROTE1VI PRO· TEM is the student weekly of Glendon Editor-in-chief: Allan Grover Production: College, York University, 2275 Bayview Ave., Business Manager: Robert Carson .. Toronto 12, Ontario,. Opinions expressed are Ads Manager: sarah Francis John Bothwell, Elizabeth Hemsworth, those of the ~writer Unsigned comments are Richard Hunt, Judy Jo'rgenson, Barry the opinion of the paper and not necessariIy Entertainment Editor: Ricky Ley Nesbitt, Eleanor Paul, Dianne Travel!. those of the student union or the university.' PRO TEM is a member of Canadian Photographers: Dave Fuller University Press and 'an agent for social Cartoonist: Sherry Crowe change. Phone 487-6136. Sports Editor : Brock Ph iIlips

Features Editor: Paul Weinberg Moying towards a socialist Canada

On October 30th millions of English Sharp, in the area of its Brazilian by a tiny percentage of the population It 7 s certainly true that the NO P Canadians and Quebecois will march interests, where the local govern­ utilizing all the undemocratic con­ can never be a revolutionary party; to the polls to take one of the few ment is not above messing with courts ventional institutions of society, from it simply doesn't have the under­ opportunities available at this stage in order to eliminate political oppo­ the church to the media to the schools, standing or discipline necessary to in our history to influence the direc­ sition. to perpetuate their ideas and their lead the oppressed classes in a sei­ tion of the state. The fact that so But don't get the wrong ideao The power - to accumulate still greater zure of state power. But, from out many people will participate in this present government cannot be held private profits out of the daily work of its ranks will come many of the process because they see it as the solely to blame for these oppressive done by the majori~y. This ruling future worker-revolutionaries as a real determiner of general social policies. They are products of de­ class, as it were, also has a political result of the intervention of the left and political affairs, demands that cades of Tory-Grit state rulership; apparatus and two major political in its membership (now called the we, or anyone committed to being they stern from the very basis of. the parties' to provide the dual illusion Left Caucus). In the meantime, the an agent for social change, look at system we live under. They are in of the existence of real democracy NDP can help win many concrete this process critically and formulate no sense of the term aberrations. through parliament and real political gains for the oppressed, serving also a position. It's no accide~t that prices, rents alternatives to choose from in free to intensify, inspire, and propel for­ ,Four years ago saw the presen­ and private profits continue to rise elections. The Liberal and Progres­ ward progressive movements of the tation of a new vision for the future way ahead of the gains of working sive Conservative Parties, and the peopleo The achievement of free day­ - a II just society" and a "partici­ peopleJ and then the Liberals and care and abortion on demand, increa- patory democracy" under the leader­ Socreds in a more regional sense" Tories threaten wage controls. It owe political support to their finan­ 11 sed taxation of big business, free ship of a man whose style caught the should shock no one that govern­ cial backers, and their system, and and universal accessibility to all fancy of many, adding spirit, if not ments fight pollution by urging their merely play variations on a capitalst post-secondary education, the out­ content, to our political life. At this citizens to refrain from littering, theme at election time. All three law of professional strikebreaking, point it's fair for us to ask, as stu­ while sitting back smugly as private would be more than prepared to em­ the institution of stronger pollution dents and for the majority, as future industries pour tons of efflunt into ploy military violence to defend the controls, an increase in pensions wage earners, what has been achie­ our aI:r, land and water, produce status quo should a mass upsurge and benefits for labour, a more vi­ ved? What is the state of our collec­ nutritionally low-value food~ plan ob­ intending to transform society occur. gorous policy of economic nationalism tive condition? Toexamine the record solescence into their commodities~ Their invocation of the War Measures incorporating pub,lic equity, and many is to discover the reality that give~.. and attempt to reduce us to mental Act three times in our past history other positions the NOP is committed lie to the vision; it is to witness midgits through deceptive adverti­ should hardly lead us to believe other­ to carrying out make it a qualitative poor fraud in the plaGe of promise, sing. It's not surprising that the wise. alternative to the two major parties serving out illusions on behalf of th£ lar~71y male, big business a9~~cates So~ in this election, is there no of big business. mighty in our world. of participatory democracy deny alter~atlve for the majority interest? Notwithstanding the above, it's ne­ In plain terms, the " just society'} women control over their own bodies cessary to be independently critical is just for the rich. While unemploy­ (c'ondemn1ng many of them to back of the course of the party. Its sup­ ment in Canada is higher than in any street abortionists who accounted for AN ALTERNATIVE pression "of the, Waffle./Movement is other industrial country, hitting youth over 2~500 deaths last year) and di­ clearly unpardonable (although the at a rate almost triple the national rect women to the most uncreative Aren_~t all the parties, the same? Waffle leaders in Ontario can be at average, the federal government has kinds of vocations at unequal rates The answer Is no. 'rne New vemo- least partly blamed for backing off busied itself handing out billions of of pay, with no day care centres cratic Party is the exception. Al­ from the fight to form a politically dollars in tax deferals and invest­ under parental control available or though reformist in outlook (i.e." non-effective MISC); the federal par­ ment credits to the corporations, affordable for their. children to stay seeking only to reform capitalism, ty MP's compliance with Trudeau's domestic and foreign. ' at during the work dayo It's no won­ not abolish its exploitation)~ and ori­ measure to force the B. C. dock­ Foreign capitalist domination of key der that a government rhetorically ented to electoral politics rather workers to end their strike is like­ sectors of the Canadian economy and infatuated with 'cultural diversity' than mass action, the party is' based wise disgraceful; as is Lewis' im­ the double exploitation of Quebec have daily eats away at the human rights on the organizations of the only class position of a va~ue federalist pro- continued to mount unabated, impor­ 'of the Metis, the Eskimos" and the in society· capable of transforming 'gramme o~ the Quebec wing of the ting at the same time a virulent in­ Amerindians, deals with Quebec as a present social relations in prodUC­ party. Nevertheless, it is the party flation from the war primed economy 'province like the others' and foists tion, distribution and exchange. The leadership and bureaucracy that must to the south· to complement our own an expensive bilingualist programme trade unions of this cbuntry emerged be taken to task for these betrayals. economic chaos. If the 'Land is Strong' on English Canada to compensate for out of the historic struggle against Anger and abstention do not substi­ it is so in spite of these policies, the three hundred year oppression of capital for better working and living tutefor the class base of the party, not because of them. And in the same the Quebec nation. Or that it sends conditions; however, the struggle waf nor the need to raise its level of sense, if there's any 'National Inte­ the Canadian militia to occupy the almost always of a 'bread and butter' political consciousness. Intervention grity' left in Canada, it's in spite latter in October, 1970, smashing all nature, not carried collectively onto in that arena is the task of serious of our'government's complicity in civil liberties in order to stabilize 'the political plane for the class. The people who want to see fundamental the genocidal war in Vietnam. Canada a faltering bankrupt provincial re­ merger, on the political plane, of change. in our lives. Revolutionary continues to sell a million dollars gime and to quell the ascendent na­ the Canadian Labour Congress and ,consciousness and modes of organi- worth of arms and war material per tionalist sentiment somewhat aroused the farmer-worker-intellectual based zation never come ready made ­ day to the imperialist United States by terrorist actiVity. It can be expec­ CC F in 1961 represented a significant they have to be created. Those who under the Canada -U.S. Oefense Pro­ ted, in a system such as ours, that step forward into political as well smugly mumble to themselves that duction Sharing Agreements, as well when jobs for the educated become as economic action on the part of there are no alternatives available ' as vast quantities of strategic resour­ scarce, it's the reflex of government many of the advanced layers of the cannot contribute to the process for ces which fuel the U.S. war machine. to make education even harder to working class, even though this mer- change~ as they've isolated their re­ Few people realized, until the Pen­ get for the majority than it already , ger was performed at the top bureau­ lationship to it. tagon Papers' revelations, that for is. (Ottawa contributes 50 per cent cratic levels. In fact, a conservatiVE In this election, PRO TEM would 18 years Canada, through its mem­ of the costs of post-secondary edu­ bureaucracy continues to sit on top like to urge you to vote NDP. We ask bership on the International Control cation, and in June the Hon. Minister of the mass membership of the NOP, you to bear in mind the limitations Commission, acted as diplomatic er­ of State, Mr. Mahoney, said students" defending the basis of the present of the NO P in terms of the ultimate rand boy delivering threats to Hanoi, not their future employers, should system, attempting to soften the class need to radically restructure societyI spying for the CIA and covering up bear more of the cost burden. And orientation of the party and its pro­ but to be conscious at the same time war crimes for the US. Still fewer for those who still doubt the serious­ gramme, even occasionally betraying of the role it will play in preparing are aware that Canadian campuses ness of the effects of the cutbacks" demonstrations and strikes of the op­ the way for the future while posing are used as sites for war research~ 'it should be pointed out that already pressed. But try as it might, it cannot presently a partial critique of corpo­ under the auspices of the Oefense this year 40 per centfewer secondary short of dissolving the Party, ne,gate rate society, winning some shortterm Research Board., utilizing large grant school students in Ontario have ap- . the working clas~ financial and politi- gains for workers and students, and money sums' provided by taxing wor­ plied for the university entrance o cal basis of the- NOP, nor its potential acting to defend, in most cases, the king peoples' diminishing real wages. lexamt they, are for the first time to radicalize and move the Party left right to organize and strike as the -Which is to· say nothing of the chemi­ reqUired to pay $11 to take.) And just as the international crisis in capital- state prepares new attacks on the cal and biological warfare research in case you think a new park for 'ism deepens. It cannot prevent the largely unorganized working class. going on at SuffieldJ Alberta with Toronto's waterfront cancels out all NDP from continuing to be a political In Quebec, le NPD, is a different kind Ame-rican and British supervisory the abovementioned 'goodies', pause meeting place for the conscious lea­ of formation than the NOP in Canada; assistance. Which is not to ,mention to think about strip mining in B. C., ders .of the oppressed in our society: it is miniscule in size and importancea 'the NATO connection, so instrumental ,deforestation in Algonquin, the pro­ worker militants, high school and and is considered quite an alien entity. in encouraging democracy to flourish posed oil ~ipeline .sellout, and our university radicals, women's and gay Fashioning a labour alternative is the throughout member-Portugal's co­ government s paSSIve response to liberationists, Amerindians, tenants' task of the· Quebecois working class, lonial holdings, as well as in the land the Amchitka atomic test-blast last unionists, the unemployed, etc. The not ourselves. But it's probably true of the enlightened generals" Greece. fall. basic democratic structure of this that they~d rather deal with an NDP Which is to remain silent on the ques­ mass party (over 80,000 members a­ government in Ottawa, than with tion of the performance of the Bank cross Canada) leaves it open to an troops sent by the other parties to of Nova Scotia in the Carribean, MINORITY CONTROL influx from the radicaliz8tion occur­ deal with l'independentisme. where it is much loved, not the least ring throughout society. But there's On October 30th, for a socialist by the casino bUilders; and the ge­ .It takes blind determination to ig­ one group that won't join the NDP, future" vote NOP. The next step is nerous role of Brascan Ltd.~ a once nore the contradictions of the system no matter how bad conditions get. is getting involved youself towards favourite' of past director Mitchell we live under. It's a system controlled an~ that's·big business. building a better world. 4 PRO TEM October 25~ 1972 •

We suffer no lack of challenges in Canada today. We do suffer, ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE: Fifty-eight percent•of in my opinion, a serious lack of commitment on the part of Canada's manufacturing industry is foreign controlled, ~ govern~entto meet these challenges. I would like totalk with and there have been almost as many. foreign takeovers since you now about four I feel to be most urgent. Mr. Trudeau took over as in the previous ten years. JOB.S: Right now, more than half a million Canadians are Mr. Trtldeau's recent legislation does not begin to meet the without jobs, one of the highest unemployment rates in the problem: it fails to correct a situation in which it is easier for industrialized world. In Quebec, one in eleven is jobless; in foreign than for domestic corporations~to effect takeovers; Newfoundland, one in nine; among young Canadians, one in further, it fails to increase a .Canadian presence in existing five; among our native people, three in five. Well over two subsidiaries, and fails to provide for full financial disclosure by million people are directly affected. those subsidiaries. Canada can do better. My government would make the My government would enact the changes necessary to make creation of jobs its first priority. this legislation truly effective. Beyond that, we would revise the " My governmetlt would immediately reduce personal income Bank Act to make certain that venture capital was available for the, taxes,. to stimulate consumer demand, to create jobs. We would expansion ofexisting Canadian firms, or the creation of new ones. eliminate the 11% Federal sales tax on building materials to My government, in concert with the provinces, would develop encourage construction, because construction means jobs. We new programs to ensure the rapid growth of our entrepreneurial would encourage the further processing of our raw materials and managerial talent pools. here;because that means jobs. And we would, again together with the provinces, establish My government would expand the retraining opportunities and define key sectors of the economy which are to be considered available through the Department of Manpower, and make that reserved for Canadian ownership. agency much more aggressive in searching T.HE ENVIRONMENT: Half of Canada's out job vacancies. urban centres with populations of a My government would insist on'greater thousand or more lack any sewage treatment, long range planning qf special job-creating and a further third have only the activities-such as summer youth most rudimentary equipment. The Trudeau employmellt-so that the communities to be government's Ministry of the Environment served could be involved from the outset, is not really a ministry at all, since many of and so that jobs could be found for th'ose its regulations are enforced by a variety of whose need is most pressing. other government agencies. Further, my government'would-act to We can, and absolutely must do much strengthen our job-creating potential for the more to protect Canada. future. We would increase direct My government would first of all create government investment in research and an Environmental Council to monitor, and technology, and expedite the process by disseminate information upon the quality of which Canadian innovations can be our environment, and recommend measures marketed around the world. to parliament. PRICES:·What cost you five dollars four years ago right now My government would encourage the development of large­ costs you six. The poor people of Canada, the elderly and those scale anti-pollution industries in Canada. on fixed incomes, have suffered most from this kind of inflation, It would, together with the provinces, act to stiffen the but clearly it affects the earnings and savings of all Canadians. penalties for all forms of environmental neglect, whether .to our And, because it makes Canada's exports less competitive, air, soil, or water, international waters included. inflation affects a good many jobs as well. The government I ~ead It would use a variety of financial incentives to assist industry would tackle this problem directly. to invest in pollution control equipment. First of all, my government would calculate its tax revenues Itwould create a co-ordinated Department ofthe Environment. in terms of constant rather than inflated dollars, so as to I would say again that we face no lack of tasks, no want of ' eliminate the Treasury Board's vested interest in inflation. challenges anywhere in this land...in our cities and towns, on our We would strengthen the role of the Auditor General, small farms, and across the open reaches of our north. so that unproductive government spending, which We can meet none of them if we cannot create jobs, if we contributes not a little to the inflationary cycle, might be cannot protect the savings of those who work, cannot assume revealed and reduced. greater control over our own economy, cannot live in harmony We would support the cost-of':'living escalator formula for with nature. those receiving old age and guaranteed income security benefits. I am confident that we can do these things, arid a great ~any And, should the need ever arise, my government more, if we are wisely and honestly led. would be prepared to use temporary wage and price controls My government will strive to provide that kind of leadership. to combat inflation. You have my word. R-l·~~ A P.C. governmentcan do better.

Sponsored by the Youth Committee to elect Robert Stanfield. \ I'

October 25, 1972 PRO TEM 5 Election Section Indecision '72 Women in politics

by DEB FRANKLIN searchers - very important of distortion, damaging wo­ work. Such things as election men's credibility. Women received the right strategy, development of po­ The more moderate Kay to vote and stand for election licy, the advertising cam­ MacPherson.. running for WP A in 1918. Fifty-four years later, paign, the selection of per­ in St. Paul's, understands that one would never know the dif­ sonnel, the collection and dis­ traditional "women's issues" ference in tet:ms of women persal of party funds are pri­ should cease to be considered being candidates and actually marily,the work of men~ those a-s the realm of women onl) Winning. It seems that this stalwarts of wisdom and in­ - they are human issues. perpetually poor record will telligenceQ -Pauline Jewett and Flora continue for another four­ In general, women play a MacDonald are at this 'point years; one has only to look supportive role in the party two of the best examples of at the number of women can­ structure. This is where wo­ women politicians. Ms. Je­ didates running in this elec- men, have to stand up and wett, who is running in Ottaw8" ;' tion. fight if they want to be in West, has no choice but to deal Exactly how poor women's politics, rather than on the with pertinent issues as her, shOWing has been in federal perimeters. Instead of accep­ riding is made up of largely elections can be seen by the ting the routine chores that English-speaking civil ser­ luproar~ previous statistics. Of 12,262 should be the responsibility vants who are in an .f- candidates in the fifteen fede­ of a committee, they should about Trudeau's bilingual pro­ Kay McPherson is running in the riding of St.Paul's. ral elections since women re­ get on the executives of these gramme for them in Ottawa«. ceived the right to vote and parties so that they can play Ms. MacDonald has quite a politics and strike' out on 'ceeded in winning, one finds' stand as candidates, 300 (or a part in the decision-making, record for her action in the their own. At the same time, that the nomination is more 2.4 per cent) were women. and shed themselves of this Independence Issue, as as well men must realize the tole difficult than the election. Our more optimistic obser­ , second-class membership. her work in the Progressive they play. For possible wo- October 30 will be the day vers would classify that as It is absolutely ironic~ as, Conservative Party's Federal men candidates there are that will make women know "not too bad at all", but well$ that women's groups as­ Executive. Both women are an many impediments to running: where they stand for the next one more statistic crashes so~iated to the political par­ asset to Canadian society, and there is prejudice in the con- Jew years. That does not mean through such narrow confi­ ties are dedicated, yes, but fortunately have a good chance stituency associations where . that they should not take ac­ dence: eighteen women (or to getting their party's male of winning in their respective the membership is largely tion until the next election; O. 8 per cent) actually wonQ candidates elected. These wo­ ridings. men; there are inadequate fi- rather, women should start Of over "one thousand can­ men are actually a deterrent Women candidates cannot nancial resources and limited now to work out a solid net­ didates in this election, sixty to the others who want to con­ afford to be naive of the po­ mobili~y'; at the constituency work of politicized individuals nine of them are women. Some tribute in more significant litical realities. If they really level women find that the 00- who will be just as competent will make a good shOWing, ways. want to be ,eff~ctive,-theymust lief that a woman candidate as men in running for public but very few will win. In this election, there" are reject the ide,a that .women "will lose votes is prevalent. office. This is every woman's Most of the women candi­ many good women who want should withdraw from party ·Of· the women that have suc:" responsbility. dates are remaining within to contribute. Pauline Jewett the official political parties, for the NDP.. Peggy Thatcher yet there are others who have for the Liberals and Flora chosen to stand as indepen­ MacDonald for the Conserva­ dents for what they think will tives are but a few of the bet­ be a more effective campaign. ter known women. There have History has shown us though also been some candidates put Battle of the buck that independents (men or wo­ forward by the Women for Po­ men) rarely win. The re'asons liticalAction (WPA). This or­ by GREG COCKEURN predicts a p prox i m ate I y Jean Smith is left somewhat are obvious - the indiVidual ganization is dedicated to get- $55,000 as his bUdget ceiling. Out in the cold in her race cannot caucus· within a party ting women into politics with­ Kaplan claims he wrote to for Visibility. to promote changes in policy.. out official party affiliation. Consider the battle for Don Gillies inviting him to conduct All of her signs are hand­ and he/she is a voice alone WP A has come under a great Valley's seat in the House of the campaign as if a new bill painted. There are only two in the House who may com­ deal of criticism, most of Commons the battle of the limiting election funds were in telephones in her campaign mand the respect of his/her which is valid. This Toronto­ buck, as it seems in this elec­ effect, but that Gillies turned headquarters. And her support fellow members~ but no as­ based group has spoken out tion only money allows a can­ him down. The bill was intro­ 'is localized in the southwest sured support" The situation for women on issues concern­ didate to reach the riding's duced by the government last ·corner of the riding, surroun­ is no better though for women ing day care, abortion, poli­ '73,000 voters. And because May, but had not been passed ding her small-home on Belle who choose to remain within tical J;>ower for women and of this consider the NDP's by the end of the parliamen­ Ayre Blvd. She's runnin~ not the party structures. Both the women s caucuses. Granted, Jean Smith an' automatic loser. tary session. 'with hope of winning, but be­ Liberals and PIlC.'S have an these are all very important It costs a small fortune to Gillies, who has been sta­ cause she feels she has a res­ extremely low record of sup­ topics, but women politicians win in Do Valley. Jean Smith ging pancake breakfasts since \p0nsibility to the supporters porting female candidates. As have to be just as concerned and the New Democratic Party mid-August, agrees that it she knows she has. "There is well, there is that most into­ about non-woman issues. had $2,500 and three weeks costs a small fortune to reach no way we'll win" says Ms. lerable practice of supporting To the extreme there is to distribute 10,000 pamphlets all f the people in the riding, Smith, "the riding won't vote women in ridings where there Aline Gregory~ who is running buy several gallons of paint and is extremely pleased with NDP. Our party would never is no chance of them winnirw for WP A in Rosedale. This to make 1,000 lawn signs, and the campaign's success in ma­ appeal to big ~usiness, just (the old "sacrificial lamb woman is nothing short of a knock on 500 doors. At Ms. king him known. The Conser­ because of their connections game). The feeling is that female chauvinist pig. Asam­ Smith's nomination meeting vatives have rented seven bill­ with money." people will rest their trou­ ple is, If Why should I feel in the North Toronto YMCA, boards (market value of $180 So regardless of what ri­ bled minds in knOWing that anything at all about'sep.ara­ her supporters passed the hat a month), posted more than 300 ding you live in~ before you at least the big parties tried, tism, the pipeline, unemploy­ and received $300. The ridIng maina:rterylsigns(masonite si­ market your ballot stop and but couldn't help it if the ment -- I see no women there association put in $600, dings and steel poles), planted ask youself if you are really women didn't win. Such smug­ •.•" It reall y is too bad that a number of private donors 5,000 lawn signs throughout voting-for the candidate whose ness has no future though, Ms. Gregory does not per­ kicked in with from $2 to the riding, and distributed views best represent your own because women do recognize ceive that there are women $10. The campaign may wind ' mor, than 200,000 pieces ,of or for' the candidate whose this practice, and will not separatists, the pipeline could up only a few hundred dollars literature. best familiarized his or her stand for itQ be an ecologicalcrisis (there­ in the red. ,Kaplan stages coffee parties name by polluting ourenviron­ The NDP$ on the otherhand, fore everyone's problem) and Present member of parlia­ at the rate of several a day. ment with the largest and has always nominated more that there are unemployed wo­ ment, Robert Kaplan of the Wine and chesse parties, ser­ greatest number of signs, and women as candidates as com­ men. She blatantly admits that Liberals, holds the distinc­ ving forty to fifty people, cost who threw the most lavish pared to the P. C. ' s and the her support will be a protest tion of having spent $68,369 between $30 and $50. It will parties. If you aren't certain Liberals. Even more promi­ vote in her riding. Perhaps' in the 1968 election, the big­ cost at least $20,000 to distri- as to what influenced your sing is that the NDP gives her ri~idness in sticking to gest budget in Canada" That .bute his' 200,000 pieces of li­ decision, then perhaps you a woman a better chance of women s issues will succeed averaged out to approximately terature. One mailing alone would be doing both your coun­ winning in t~e riding in which in awakening women to the $2.49 per vote he received. costs almost $6~000. try and yourself a favour by she is a candidate. After all, more superficial level of" in­ Kaplan has been quoted as Both Kaplan and Gillies not voting. If, on the other ~ the one woman MP in Parlia­ volvement~ like becoming po­ saying he is not at all proud claim to have no knowledge hand, you are a loyal suppor­ ment is Grace, Maclnnis, NDP liticized (which would be a of his spender image, but as of where their campaignfunds ter of a particul~r party, then (Vancouver-Kingsway). great step). Ms. Gregory could Kaplan's campai~ manager, originate as their campaign do us all a favour and take it All of the parties,however, have been just as successful , Carl Grant, says, "It's expen­ managers feel this alleviates upon yourself to make bertain are very qUick to praise the though if she had carried out sive in this riding, there are any undue pressures on them. that the issues are discussed role that women play in cam­ a politicizing programme be­ a lot of people to communicate But regardless of what va­ in the last few days rather . paign work. Of course, they fore the election. This would to." Kaplan has claimed that lues are attached to this spen­ than the popularity of the res­ are competent letter-lickers have left room for a serious his budget for this eiection dings, its whole purpose is pective candidates. It's our and secretaries and sign-ma­ woman, _candidate, intent upon will not exceed $40,000, while to make the candidates visi­ decision, so let's make cer­ kers and telephone-number- winning. Instead we have a bag Conservative Jim Gil1ies now ble to the -electorate. Thus tain it is the proper one. 6 PRO TEM October 25~ 1972 PRO 'EM interviews the thrl Jean Smith Interviews by MICHAEL 0 Q. Recently the Waffle 'irritant' was to reactive environmentalism. We've to discourage, it's something to en~ expelled from the NDP, and.split into the .been saying for years that we should courage; but it is a matter of time LeftCaucus and MISCfactions. Which of be looking at long range plans in edu­ until the economy can absorb all of these two factions do you think will be cation, industry and the environment. these new entrants- most effective in working for a socialist In reference to the environment~ Canada? "the ND P has' population cont.rol in mind when it proposes first, the ac­ Q. How long must we wait f~r full em­ cess of birth control information and ployment? UnfortunatelY$ its been the history devices to women and second, that of socialist parties in both Canada abortion legislation should be com­ Well$ the Economic Council of Ca­ and the United States to lose groups pletely removed from the Criminal nada told us it couldn't be done over­ from their main bodies. Incidentally, . Code (with abortion on demand inclu­ night and if we grew at the rate of that's why the socialist movement in ded). Let's start thinking about those 5.4 per cent a year in real terms, the United States has been so weak. persons here in this world and the we would bring unemployment down They've never been able to keep a wanted children coming into it. From in 5 years. We're growing at 8.2 cohesive body. It's quite unfortunate there lets stop to think about energy per cent in real terms; it's nearly that so much unpleasantness arose needs, outdoor space per person and 50 per cent faster than the target with the Waffle. Having great respect the adequate provision of wilderness of the Economi c Council of Canada. for Messr's Watkins and Laxer, I Now the other question, the ques­ feel that both have a great deal to areas. The Sneadan Report, suppre~sed tion of inflation, is an international offer Canada. Whether they operate by the government but revealed by phenomena. The important thing is through the NDP or whatever~ I think David Lewis~ has shown that most how well you do relative to the coun- they should have some access to the municipalities in the country do not . tries that you do business With. Here public ear. again~ if you look at the last 4 years _ I was present at the Orillia meeting have proper sewage treatment and disposal plants.: Since it is we who 'you will se e that Canada has had the where the resolution was passed cal- have been paying the cost of the best price stability in the world. ling for dissolution of the Waffle as an lowered health because of air and fo~ entity. Yet, it's quite difficult a water pollution, I think industry Q. Eric Kierans says that you are name like the Waffle to disappear.) should pay for the installation of anti­ wasting your time giving tax write-offs The name and idea of the Waffle pollution equipment. However, the to res()urce industries which produce come readily to mind. To me the Waf­ C. D. C. could .provide funds ·,to mar­ few jobs, and that only the augmentation fle was very exciting~ making many ginal industries for the installation. of us, and not only people in the NDP~ of secondary manufacturing industries Money should be readily available to in Canada will solve the unemployment .aware of the problem of foreign municipalities in addition, for con­ ownership" David Lewis and many struction of sewage plants. problem. others in the party have been warning Eric Kierans is saying that if we of this for years; however the Waffle go out of the natural resource busi­ at.last brought the issue to newspaper ness and C'Oncentrate on secondary headlines. industry we'll produce more employ­ As far as I know most former Robert Kaplan ment. He argues that there is a members of the Waffle have retained trade-off~ that rou can't have both. membership in the NDP~ and we hope Our government s policy and my own NDP that they'll learn to work within the view is that it.' simply is not true. Q. You have said that the Canadian party; not that we're trying to rigidly Not only can we have both~ but we Development Cot:poration should play restrict them~ but we found that so Liberal have to have both in a country like an instrumental role in the ap­ much time was being taken to discuss ours~ with the resources that we have, the Waffle itself that the issues raised propriation of foreign dominated sectors ~. U~employment to move ahead. Some of our activities of tbe economy. lJow does this function by them were. ~ein g neglectedel This is up to 7.1 per cent in ·:'the natural---resource sector is··'-' differ from the CDC'spresent function, annoyed a greatmany peopleo I do think this month and the consumer price index capital intensive compared to secon­ though that not a few persons did a is going up steadily. How do you dary manufacturing, but we're active­ and how would an NDP carry out this great deal of thinking _through the intention? reconcile this with the Liberal campaign ly stimulating secondary manufac­ hard feelings generated by the con­ slogan, 'The Land is Strong'? turing; we're finding vast new mar­ The idea of a Canada Development troversy and that they'll be the strong­ r~ally kets for secondary manufacturing; Corporation originated with er for it. I'm afraid that the M.I.S.C. Well~ of course these are factors in fact~ in the last ten years in this the founding convention of the NDP is far too small a body. If you're that have to be explained and looked in 1961. At that time they said that at. It's important to know why there's country the manufactured export sec­ going to be practical, its better to tor has gone from 14 percent ofevery­ there should be a Canadian develop­ function with a larger group. Much unemployment and inflation. I don't ment fund to be a source capital avail­ think that the mere fact of either thing we export to 35 per cent with of what they have to say will be like everything we export. Now the auto able to bus.inesses in Canada for de­ voices crying in the wilderness. is a condemnation of the government. velopment andexpansionel They rea­ Lets look at them in order. Unem­ pact is a big part of that, but there's lized at the time that many Canadian ployment - it's true that there are too industries were under foreign domin­ Q. M. Caoette of Social Credit has stated many people in Canada looking for a lot of other secondary manufac­ ation and that many of these busines­ that the federal government should jobs and unable to fin d them. That turing goods that we're finally begin­ ses were able to get loans from banks, provide funds for bilingual instruction of means that the government has a very ning to export. This is a process whereas our own businesses could all first-time enrolled grade school high priority - your highest priority that will continue but I don't see not. students. Do you support this position? - to try to find jobs for all Canadians what would be gained by putting a ban Now the Liberal government did Also, would you give special to adopt economic policies or follow' on the exporting of natural resour­ form the C.D.C., but it has been representation to the academic com­ economic policies to produce ces. discovered that they've been granting munity at .Glendon? increased work. The thing is~ we've In the last year~ the tax reform loans to subsidiaries of foreign owned been doing that for four years now. that went through the committee that companies. We feel that this is not I consider Canada to be a bilingual We've been expanding the economy. I'm chairman of, the finance commit­ the function of that corporation. Ra­ nation now~ but this particular pro­ We've been rationalizing~ diversify­ tee, removed a great many of the ther, it should assist in developing posal calls for a tremendous outlay ing, finding foreign markets, stimu­ incentives that the mining sector our own indigenous, entrepreneurial of funds. Right now, bilingual instruc­ lating research and development~ in­ got - unearned depletion, the three talent and provide, funds for munici­ tion beginning with first-grade chil­ troducing tax incentives that have year tax holiday. At the same time pal and other public works as well. dren falls behind more pressing na­ never been used in the way that's we stimulated the manufacturing sec­ On the other hand, we feel that the tional needsCl been done in our history~ and we've tor: we've given them a 20 ~r cent C. Del C. I should be used to buy into The Glendon community is ~art of succeeded to the extent of creating tax break in John Turner s first existing multi-national corporations Don Valley riding and I don t see jobs at an unprecedented rate. For budget. We must also be aware of the diffi­ any special problems peculiar to it" example: in the last 4 1/2 years we've culties of buying into such corpor­ That's in contrast to some ridings added nearly a million jobs to the ations. First, for many multi-na­ with problems of housing and unem­ economy. Now for this period in the tional corporations it is impossible ploymentCl Perhaps I don't know enough internation .situation, that's a record. for Canadians to buy shares in them about Glendon College. We've been twice as fast in job crea­ since they are not listed on Canadian However, the issue of grants to tion as the United States" markets. Legislation must be passed universities came up the other night The trouble is that even though to enable purchase .of these inacces­ when I was a member of a panel we've created that many jobs, we jus't sible shares so as to provide an -discussing women's rights. I sug­ have not been able to do it fast enough eventual equity of ownership of multi­ gested there that a condition of bes'­ so faro But we're keeping it up: we national corporations. towing grants by the federal govern­ are 'maintaining a very fast rate of One other problem here concerns ment could be the equal change for growth. Only Japan is growing fas.. multi-national expansion. These cor­ positions for women in the univer­ ter than w'e are, and Japan is pretty porations use· either their own in­ sities. Right. now there are 'many far behind us in living standards. , ternal revenues or money deposited women at universities in subordinate This is the way we're working our c with the banks. Yet those funds gen­ positions too often considered infe­ way out of it. There are not fewer I erated in Canada are not available rior. I think the federal government people working in Canada; there are ( to firms starting up for Canadian could do something here concerning more people working in Canadao There t markets. The NDP would like to the status of women. isn't a growing recession; there is 1 see limits placed on expansion of increasing expansion; there isn't a ( subsidiaries with further market de­ withering of foreign markets; there is ~ mands adequately handled by' new Q. How substantial is the NDP an increase in foreign markets. And ] industries in Canada. It makes little recognition and programme concerning there's going to continue to be under l difference whether new, solely Cana­ environmental difficulties? a Liberal government$ until we work r dian companies are publicly~ or par­ our way out of this unemployment. A ~ tially pUblically owned. The root I think one thing that sets the NDP fundamental cause is the large num­

~L OTIS and PAUL WEINBERG Q. Financial experts fear that the Q. What is the Conservative. policy financing of the Mackenzie Pipeline Jim Gilli es Conservative concerning national unity? would drive up the price of the Canadian Unfortunately for all Canadians, it dollar and hence the price of Canadian Q. Is there much of a difference in , Markborough ••• I'm really deligh­ is not as great an issue as it was in exports, exacberating both our foreign opinion regarding the issue of in­ ted you've raised that question. -As a' 1968. You have to look at it from· an sales and economy. Ecologists also tell dependence and foreign ownership matter of fact the Markborough case historical perspective: my view is us that there is no way a pipeline can be between the Liberals and Con­ is rather interested. Markborough that after 1930, we had a movement built without seriously damaging the servatives? actually hasn't bee.n acquiring land of great centralization of authority Yes, there's a substantial differ­ for some time. Whaf' _ it's doing is and power in the federal ~overnmento North's ecology. Why do we need the trying to build houses and its been It came about in the 1930 s primarily Mackenzie Pipeline? ence. The fact of the matter is that the Liberals have had a long time to using its resources to put in services because of the depression and the My two opponents have said that Qt> something about this particular and utilities and so on. My position recommendations of the Rowell Si. as far as they were concernedj) we issue. WaIter Gordon tried to do it has been quite clear - every com­ rois report which changed the ta:x should forget the Mackenzie Pipeline, pany of which I am director has been base and brought upon centralization. originally. Then there's the Watkins war~ that we know enough about it to know Report. The Gray Report. All through~ informed by me that on the day of Then the which also contributed that it is a lousy idea. My own view that period the Liberals really did not my election~ my resignation is effec.. to centralization. Centralization con­ is that we should know more about do too much about it. The question tive. That's the first thing. Secondly, I tinued in the post-war period and is the Mackenzie Pipeline. There are is - why? I think the reason is that already have established a trust for continuing right now. Back in the natural resources in the north of ',fundamentally they believe that the my assets which are not that large~ 1930's and to some degree in the post our country that we can use to fulfill economic -future of Canada, and the but I feel you cannot be effective war period, I think it was possible some of our national priorities. way to prOVide high levels of econo­ with any corporate relationship at for a central power leader like Mac­ mic activity in Canada in the future all. Will I carry it over? It would kenzie King~ to work out arrange­ Q. How do you solve the problem of is the same way as it was done in the be very l;1ad politics to carry it over. ments with the political structure of I Quebec - it made this a stable situa.. poverty if the pipeline raises the prices past. Namely, that strong exporting The reason have been a director of Markborough is primarily because tion -I think that was possible~ and of Canadian goods without employing of raw materials and the importation of capital has basically been used to I had been a member of the task I say it without any pejorative sense, people over any significant period of force of hOUsing in 1968, and there­ because Quebec was pretty socially time? build branch· plants of multi-national corporations producing a whole line fore got a lot of experience about structured. Today it is urbanized Well, unemployment is important housing. there is social mobility, its educa­ of course, but there are other objec­ of products for the Canadian domestic market behind Canadian tariff walls. My view is we've done nothing in tional system has changed dramati- tives that we want our economy to this country about housing. The way produce. There is tax revenue; there The Conservatives believe that · whereas that policy may have been you solve the housing problem is to ,­ are royalties; there is the establish­ keep the urban land cost down - that's .( ment of communities; there are the satisfactory in Canada in the past in terms of prOViding employment and ' where the big increase in prices has depressed regions of Canada where beeno The federal government should people who are looking for jobs, want economic activity - although I don't' ,think it's been all that s atisfactory make money available through the them, might find them. There is the provinces to the municipalities to get possibility of shifting the centre of - it will never work in the future. It's been said ad nauseum we've the sewers, in so we get service; gravity of Canada more to the west, So we get the price of land in urban which I think would be a good thing. got the fastest growing labour force in the world. In no way will we pro­ areas to drop. The reason why prices vide full employment for Canadians are high is simple supply and demand. Q. Can the Prime Minister be convinced on the basis of extractive industries There just is a scarcity of service into a more nationalist economic policy? and agriculture for example~ or on the lots. Why is there a scarcity of ser""" He has said there will be no change. basis of secondary manufacturing that vice lots? Because the municipalities is directed toward Canadian domestic don't hav:e'theresources to put in the markets alone. Therefore, we believe sewers. If you put a main truck line But if you look at the record and up the Rouge valley in Toronto~ I'm see what has taken place for four that there has to be a whole new eco­ nomic policy, a whole new industrial telling you that prices will drop very years, you Will find greater moves very substantially. toward the re-enforcement of Cana­ strategy. It means if we are going to dian independence and Canadian con~ provide employment in this country~ Q. What about municipal control of land trol than ever before in history. Now we have to expand our service indus­ as a means to stop land speculation? it's a sad history, I agreej) but take tries and we have to expand our se­ a look at the record and you see a condary manUfacturing. That's the CJ&­ I am on record favouring land ban.. ~ government moving in a direction ly way we'll get up to a reasonable king. I think what you have W do Is J that suits me. . level of employment in the nation. set up an effective land banking sys­ This means that you have to have tem; it really takes very little money Q. Mr. Gillies claims that Steve Roman secondary manufacturing industries and very little ownership of land. We cally. Consequently I think it is no was used as a scapegoat by a Liberal that are operating on world-wide have the experience in Saskatoon longer possible to have a centraliza­ government more interested in catching markets. You can't have an efficient which the task force looked at in 1968 tion force in this country; I think that's up with the nationalist impulse than secondary industry based on consum­ - it showed that you can keep land true of other areas of the country. I think what we have to have is concerned with our loss of independence. ption by 20 million people. This means prices from being exorbitantly high we have to do several things: first by getting your services in. really a creative Confederation in In other words he is saying that he of all we have to get our manufac­ the sense of more power for the pro­ would have allowed Denison Mines turing products onto world-w!de mar­ Q. Would the Conservatives solve the vinces in terms of settingtheir social to be sold to the Americans. 'Well kets - this means when we bargain problem of inflation in any way different goals. Having said that, Iwant to make I don't agree with that. I think we in terms of tariff policy and so on, from the Liberal approach? it very clear that there are certain should have stopped the sale of De­ we bargain for the same thinge! For We don't believe that there is a things that only a central government nison Mines. We should have stopped example, if we are willing to sell trade~off between unemployment and can do. It has the responsibility for it under some comprehensive policy coal to Japan, we should also say that inflation. I think Mr. Trudeau was monetary policy, fiscal policy, trade and under a law which we didn't have one of the conditions for getting that very ill-advised a couple of years policy, international policy, war and - but we have them now, and to coal, one of the things that we bargain ago when he said they were going to pea.ce you might sayo It also has the refer to Denison Mines as being for to sell that coal, is access for solve inflation by slowing the economy ­ responsibility to set general national picked out as a scapegoat shows how some of our manufactured products standards for social services. Haviilg down. He did not solve inflation; he framewo.r~- little they are concerned with the into the Japanese market at the same created a lot of unemployment. The said that, within that I problem of foreign ownership. time. But we can't ask the Japanese only time you have inflation with full think we have to re-negotiate between to buy our manufactured goods unless employment is if you have a lot of the provinces and the central govern­ Q. One issue that bothers a good many we produce them efficiently and effec­ ment some of the distribution of excess demand in the economy. We taxj) and the speed with which to insti­ people is the government's secrecy in tively. This means amendments to the don't think there is excess demand handling reports and documents, such as .competition act so we allow larger tute social change. Ontario would in the economy. So what we want to be a good example. Ontario did' n'ot the Gray Report, that are in the public scale operations and more efficient wor~ do is basically on the supply want to take the change in the medi­ interest. operations. It means that we have to side: try to increase supply in a va­ have a policy toward foreign invest­ care programme at the time that I think if the Gray Report had been riety of areas which It hink will help the federal government reqUired it secret longer, we might have had a ment that when a corporation is ope­ keep prices down. Secondly I think rating in Canadaj) we expect that they to take it. It had a different set of better policy because obViously mini­ we have to have new expenditure pro­ priorities at that particular time. sters disagreed about what to do. will do some of their production in Ca­ grammes. I think we need a new nada for sale in the foreign market I don't know whether Newfoundland I don't know -I don't have any se­ monetary policy. I happen to be in this year wants to go into a national cret information about itj) but I think because we want to have secondary the school of thought that high interest manufacturing. Otherwise we won't legal aid scheme. I think we have to I can say it appears to me that some rates are cost and are more infla­ work more closelywith the provinces. ministers wanted to go further than have full employment. It also means tionary than anti-inflationary. You others did. They had, the information we develop tax policies that make it control your inflation problem through Q. Have we gone as far as we can in tax before them and they were formula­ attractive for Canadian investors; that working with money supply to lower reform? fing' a policy. If they had been able to we begin programmes stimulating interest rates. Canadian -... corporations in foreign We have not begun to work out a argue about it longer they might Q. What about wage and price controls? have been able to go further. It's markets. tax situation in an effective fashiono Next year if you are single and ma­ only speculation but I'd like to think Q. David Lewis has accused you of being The position of the party is we king $12 j OOO you are in a 40 Jler cent that that might have happened, if they a corporate welfare bum through your had had more time to work it out. would if we thought inflation was marginal bracket. Gee~ that s' a lot association with a firm receiving tax really getting' out of hand; then you of taxes. If you're married, making Once it became public, there was a write-offs. With the high cost of land and greater time pressure on them to go to temporary wage and price con­ $16,500 and have 2 children, you're respond because they had to end the housing in this city, and considering the trolso Actually what we propose now In the 30 per cent bracket. The share uncertainty that the business commu­ role that the federal government might is a joint federal-provincial body ~ of the taxes paid by the corporations nity for one thing would feel about play in solving housing problems, how 'it has to be joint federal-provincial is declining. We did not look at the what the policy was going to be. So I effective do you think you can be in because of the jurisdictional situa­ question of distribution of the tax don't think it's wrong for SQmething developing such a policy despite this tion - which would have the- power base which is fundamental to this~ like the Gray Report to be kept se­ apparent conflict of interest? Was the to look at what might be called exces­ and so unfortunately we have a lot cret for a while. developer mentioned Cadillac? sive price increases. of work to do. .J 8 PRO TEM October 25, 1972 La farce electorale par LEON PEILLARD dition,bien siir$ que cette activite e'lectorale aux grands partis bourgeois. soit liee et subordonnee a une activite extra­ 11 est clair qu'aue-un des quatre- principaUJ( reprime de LA TAUPE ROUGE parlementaire consequente. partis politiques en lice pour le vote du 30 oc­ Ainsi~ meme si nous restons fondamentale­ tobre ne peut etre considere comme un choi:x Le probleme dl.\'fParlementarisme et des el~c­ ment anti-electoralistes$ nous ne repugnons pas valable pour '·1 a classe ouvriere quebecoise41 tions a touJours suscite des discussions animees a utiliser les elections pour nos propres fins. D'autre part, il est egalement evident que la au sein du mouvement revolutionnaire. Les re­ Une campagne electorale roenee par, des mili­ gauche revolutionnaire n'est pas en mesure de ponses donnees a ce probleme par les diverses tants revolutionnaires peut tres bien etre utili­ mener une campagne electorale serieuse. Elle formations politiques de l'extreme-gauche varient see pour denoncer l'electoralisme en expliquant ~JlP~i reste encore trop faible, trop mal organisee. de l' critique a certains partis bou:geois clairement aux masses, que les revolutionnaires Les groupes revolutionnaires bien structures jusqu a 1 abstention de principe 1?ure et slmpleCl participent aux electioris non pas pour se faire et dotes d'une ligne politique claireet bien Entre ces prises de position extremes se situent elire ou pour obtenir des votes mais bel et definie ne regroupent tous qu'une nombre assez toute une gamme d'attitudes intermediaires qui bien pour propager les idees revolutionnaires. restreint de militants. En tout cas~ aucun des sont les plus souvent liees a des situations Tels sont les principes ge~eraux qui determinent groupes politiques d'extreme-gauche n'est en conjoncturelles relativement precises. Ces 'at­ notre attitude face aux electionsCl La politique mesure de mener une campagne d'envergure qui tidues peuvent varier de l'appui critique a un revolutionnaire n' etan~ pas limitee "a la rep~­ poserait le probleme de la politique revolution­ parti ouvrier reformiste a l'abstention !actique tition de principes generaux mais etant .plutot naire aux traviIleurs quebecois. , en passant par le boycottage actif et meme par l'application d ~ ce~ principes ~enera.ux a ~ne la presentation de candidats revolutionnaires. situation concrete, 11 convient d examIner d un Nous sommes donc confrontes aune situation Les elections federales actuelles posent encore peu plus pres le contexte politique des elections ou il n'existe aucun parti politique de la classe une fois conretement le probleme de l'attitude federales actuelles. ouvriere quebecoise capable d'offrir une alt~rna­ que l~s revolutionnaires devraient ~dopter face Malgre la candidature tapageuse de Claude tive de classe aux partis bourgeois et ou les aux elections. A cette fin iI est necessaire de Wagner~ malgre les /declarations arro~antes de groupes revolutionnaires ne sont pas en mesure clairement circonscrire les principes politiques Pierre EIliott Trudeau, la campagne electorale de serieusement rejoindre les ouvriers quebe­ generaux qui determinent cette attitude. federale ne suscite qu'un interet mediocre au cois par le biais d'une campagne electorale. Les militant revolutionnaires ont toujours ete Quebec ou le- taux d'abstenionnisme Iors de ces opposes au parlementarisme etal'electoralisme. elections est traditionnellement relativement e­ Nous n'acceptons pas les motivations de ceux Le parlement dans la societe capitaliste n'est levee. Ce taux d'abstentionnisme reflete, meme qui maintiennent CJ,u il faut s'abstenir simple­ ...qu'un des instruments de la e.t0mination de la si d'une fa~on deformee, le degre d'alienation ment parce qu'il s agit d'une election federale• bourgeoisie sur la classe ouvriere. En amenant qu'eprouvent de tres larges couches de la popu­ Nous nous abstenons parce qu'il n'ya apas moyen la classe ouvriere a l'affronter sur le plan lation quebecoise face au pouvoir federal. La de faire un choix de classe lors de ces elections. parlementaire, la bourgeqisie neutralise le dan­ montee du I!ationalism~ quebec9is, surtout au Le GMR s'oppose al'electoralismej celane l'em­ ger que representent pour elle les masses cours des quatre dernieres annees, puis 'la ra~ peche pas de considerer qu'il peut etre tactique­ travilleuses en rriouvement. Par le jeu de la dicalisation du mouvement ouvrier au cours des ment utile de presenter des candidats lors de representatiQn parlementairei par le truche- deux ,annees passees contribuent fortement a certaines ele,ctions. De .la me~e fa~on le GMR J1

ment de tout le processus electoral, la bour­ susciter parm! les couches les plus avancees favorise l"instauration d'une Republique des Tra­ geoisie cherche a desarmer et a demobiliser du mouvement ouvrier un sentiment de desaffec­ vailleurs du Quebec et la destruction de la les masses ouvrieres, ales laisser divisees tion (et parfois meme d'hostilite) al'egard de la Confederation. Cela n'empechepas qu'il pourrait et morcelees face ason appareil repressif. Cen­ politique federale. etre tactiquement utile de presenter des candidats trer la lutte entre le proletariat et la bourgeoi­ Cette desaffection est renforcee par l'absence lors d'une election federale afin de mener une sie sur le )llan de l'action parlement~ire~c'est de tout semblant d'alternative aux politiques campagne de propogande anti-capitaliste et anti­ accepter d affronter la bourgeoisie la ou elle anti-ouvrieres des trois principaux partis fe­ federaliste. La participation ou l'abstention aux est la plus 'orte, la ou elle a deja etabli elle­ deralistes au Quebec. Les partis politigues de elections federales n'est pas une question de mem"e to~tes ,les re~les du jeu "par le .v~ais de la bourgeoisie ont actuellement pour tache de principes. 11 s'agit simplement de determiner for~ee. selon la situation concrete quelie est l'alternative la legalite qu elle s est elle-meme La profiter de la campa"gne electorale pour pre­ d~ ~ue prise du pouvoir par la classe ouvri~re ne parer voie une serie de legislations anti­ P9litiquement la plus rentable .d'un p<;?int a revolutionnaire. Pour les raIsons enumerees se fera pas simplement par la conquete "du syndicales pour la periode qui suivra le vote ab~tention. parlement bourgeois mais -bien par la conquete du 30 octobre. Le Parti Conservateur de Stan­ plus haut, nous avons choisi l' . et la destruction de I'appareil bourgeois (police, field est le parti politique qui s'est le plus avance L'anti-campagne du PQ possede cettepartI­ , cularite qu'el1e ne propose aucune re~onse con­ armee, etc.) C'est cet appareil repressif qui est dans cette voie. Face a cette politique de plus prendr~ la veritable cle de voute de tout le systeme de en plus agressive de la bourgeoisie canadienne­ crete quant a det,erminer l'attitude a le 30 octobre.D une part, en tant que partI domination politique de la bourgeoisie et dont anglaise tant sur le plan economique que sur nationaliste~ le parlement n'est qu'un des instruments" Meme le plan des' relations entre le Canada et le Que­ se pretendant "purement" le PQ si en periode de paix soc~ale relative le parle­ bec~ la classe ouvriere quebecoise, malgre tous serait evidemment embarrasse s'il deOait ap­ ment semble avoir la predominance$ au fur et les progres recents qu'elle a accomplis dans le peler a voter pour un parti federaliste. D'autre a mesure que la situation sociale se dete,ri~re sens d'une radicalisation de ses moyens d'action part, le PQ's abstient de mener fermement cam­ la bourgeoisie a de ~lus en plus .reco~rs a I '!­ et du developpement d'une conscience politique, pagne pour l'abstention. Les raisons qui motivent sage de l'appareil repressif, qUltte a se de­ n'a pas encore reuss! a se~ doter d'une or~anisa­ ,cette reserve ne sont pas particulierement diffi­ barrasser du parlenient si celui-ci devient trop tion politiClue capable de de~endre et de presenter ciles a comprendre. Le PQ veut eviter de se­ encombrant. C,est pourquoi nous caracter~ isons ses interets 'a tous les niveaux possibles de rieusement encourager toute position~ que ce comme reformiste toute strategie. ~ui axe la l'action politique. - soit l'abstenionnisme ou le boycottage$ qui puisse prise du pouvoir par la classe ouvriere sur la de 9,uelque fa~on que ce soit, miner la credibilite Le NPD-Quebec n~est pas un parti de la classe de 1 electoralisme bourgeois. Ce sontles illusions conquete d'une majorite parlementaire: la con­ ouvriere quebecoise. Les liens q,u'il entretient quebe~ois quete du parlement ne resout en aucune fa~on parlementaristes des travailleurs qui avec le mouvement ouvrier quebecois sont des permettent au PQ de vivre et celui-ci nest au­ la question du pouvoir reel qui reste entre les liens d'exteriorite. L'ideologie sociale-demo­ mains de l'appareil repressif" cunement interesse a affaiblir ces illusions crate qu'il vehicule n'a aucune racine dans le parlementaristes des travilleurs quebecois ,qui Si les revolutionnaires rejettent la voie elec­ proletariat quebecois. Saforce organisati?n!1elle­ torale comme strategie pour la conquete de permettent au PQ de vivre et celui-ci nest ment est insignificante et sans relations serleuses aucunement interesse a affaiblir ces illusions pouvoir, cela ne signifie pas que nOllS refusions avec le mouvement syndical. Sa composition so-' de nous servir des elections dans des buts en favorisant des attitudes anti-electoralistes ciale est essentiellement petite-bourgeoise et son meme au niveau des elections federales. L'anti­ purement tactiques. Au contraire~ dans certains programme electoral est essentiellement refor-, campagne du PQ est aplacer sur le meme niveau cas, les campagnes electorales offrent~ parm! miste. Les militants revolutionnaires n'ont paa que les campagnes electorales des partis fe­ la sensibilisation alapolique qu'elles provoquent a ap~orter d'appui" meme critique a. ce ~rourus~ deralistes bourgeois. 11 s'agit essentiellement parmi la population~ une occasion unique pour cule electoral qui tente (sans grand succes d ail­ de faire croire aux ouvriers quebecois qu'il les,revolutionnaires de diffuser et de populariser leurs) d'etre a' la fois une extension electorale existe une solution de rechange dans le cadre leurs idees. Une utilisation tactique judicieuse du NPD-Canada et un paravent pequiste pour lea de la democratie bourgeoise, dans le cadre de des elections peut tres bien contribuer a ren- elections federales. En aucune fa~on ne peut...; la societe capitalisteCl Pour nous, il s'agit de forcer une or~anisation revolutionn~~ i'r~, a con- il etre considere comme une alternative serieuse t'ietruire ces illusions. I October 25, 1972 PRO TEM 9 Observations on· a no-choice election

most of the passersby were of the public and the great a conceptual fascination a­ tionary vibrations of 'frudeau­ Liberals who were simply not unwashed had been allowed mong the Toronto intellectual mania now seem so empty and by PAUL WEINBURG interested in discussing abor­ entrance than had actually establishment looking for an hollow. The frank dilettante tion and the American Empire been intended. As a result, alternative to Pearson and style of Pierre Trudeau has with these picketers, but ra­ som e Liberal party officials, Diefenbaker. (I remember that been replaced by cold sobri­ At 8:30, the children stood ther preferred shouting at including Labour Minister those were the times when· ety and pretentious pious up with their Scope flavoured each other the names of their Martin O~Connell·'and Glendon even Pierre Berton could de­ statements on the radio about Don Mills mouths smiling on favourite candidates, as if they Grit Groupie Leader Jay Bell, clare that he would vote how prosperous and strong cue; they then energetically were kids exchanging baseball were barred entrance from for Pierre Trudeau is he were Canada has been, in spite of waved their signs and banners cards at a summer cam~ Sud- the Gardens - they had re­ chofjen leader for the Liberal all the unemployment and so­ in perfunctory ex .uberance. -denly in an act of absurdity, served seats in the redsg In­ party.) cial unrest. In his lectures After two minutes, a mousy a parade band from the Op­ stead a small contingent of to the nation~ he warns us not middle-aged school marm wa­ lImist Club marched right NDP cheerleaders success­ to listen to the false prophets ved her hand militarily ­ through the protestors in a fully infiltrated the rally,arid The Prime Minister's arri­ of doom, whether they be Stan­ sending all these giggly little probable existential demon­ took up position by liberating val was anti-climatic~ as he field, Lewis or the media. brats back into their chairs, stration to emphasize the go­ some of the red seatso waded through the crowds to "Everything is OK because where they silently huddled vernment slogan, 'The Land the stage, waving to his sub­ the Land is Strong", Trudeau in anticij'ation of the Prime is Strong', to these snot-nosed jects as Caesar would have shouts in a hoarse voice from Minister s speech. sign-carrying, non-believers, done" What he had to say was the' rooftops. He is practising (the Optimist Club has swung Bored with the tedious pros­ unimportant to his audience; the Orwellian technique of its support behind the federal pect of waiting for Trudeau, it was what he represented. Newspeak .- if you repeat a government in thi selection). I tried to start a riot in the It's similar to listening to lie long enough, fairly soon Perhaps the small turnout aisles by throwing sheets of a familiar song - you listen everyone will accept it as The majority of people at of angries at this anti-Trudeau Trotskeyite literature advo­ not for the lyrical content the gospel truth. last week's Liberal rally in demonstration is symptomatic cating socialism and violent but for the mood that it Maple Leaf Gardens consis­ of the divided, decimated and revolution upon a large col­ . creates., ted of the mentally muddled self-destructive nature of the lection of middle class ma­ middle-aged or the very trons from Don Mills below left in this country. In the (I was surprised that the Mel Watkins' once said that young: I saw very few people latest issue of LAST POST, me in the blues. A riot would Prime Minister did not appear have made perfect copy for Canada is in a form of double on stage playing an electric jeopardy in that the country an otherwise dull issue of guitar with Crowbar. He is the PRO TEM: the headlines could could be destroyedfrom within first prime minister in our or without: the· interesting read: " Irate Liberal house-' history 'with whom you could wives DiRembowe~ Commie A­ thing to watch is which will successfully develop this fan­ come first. The lack of any gent Provacateur:' (If you can't tasy. I could never imagine find the news, why not create imaginative outlook or res­ Robert Stanfield playing any ponse by the three major po­ i.t? It would truly have been a m.usical instrument on stage Norman Maileresque action, litical parties toward Quebec -- the closest thing· to music reflects the peculiar habit of where the journalist and the Stanfield could ever reach event that he is covering are the English-Canadian mind to would be to appear as a 'cello develop' a mental block when finally meshed together into - but how many cellos do you one cosmic reality). Unfortu­ the possibility of separatism know have been elected prime is raised. Yet in two years, nately, my attempt at provo­ minister?) cation failed to elicit any res­ there will be an election in ponRe whatsoever. the province of Quebec, which could make this present fe­ Trudeaumania may have deral election the last we have disappeared, but Canadians in a united country. Crowbar finally finished, still have a fascination for and in their place on thestage this man; they must if they still materialized a short pudgy can elect a man who has caused The failure by all three man who turned out to be in his four years so much un­ political parties to regard Ca­ Charles Templeton, the sac­ certainty and unrest from na­ nadian independence as a se­ charine news broadcaster tional unity and the unemploy­ rious issue (if you slice away from CKE Y. He was intro.... ment situation to our relations all rhetoric) is very sad. The duced as "the common sense with the United States. Is it Conservative&, the supposed half" of the dialogue team similar to the perverse posi­ carriers of the Macdonald na­ of Charles Templeton and Pi­ tive-negative charisma we tionalist tradition, o~posedthe erre Berton. He spoke in find in our attraction to Mick Liberal government s Canada between the ages of 18 and Rae Murphy has written a per­ Jagger? Leonard Cohen tells 35 - except for a sprinkling ceptive .piece on the untimely terms of the country lying De'velopment Corporation and upon the threshold 'of deci­ us in 'Beautiful Losers' that the Takeovers Bill (weak as of stoned freaks who came split in the Waffle, the first radicals are often so caught just to hear _Crowbar. Also truly socialist 'group in this sion, and also commented on they were) because they might in attendance were dull Li­ the population's diversity and up in their rallies in a mael­ have exacerbated our rela­ country since the CC F to be strom of emotion, that all ~he beral party organizers, who taken seriously. A group has regionalization: " Canada is tionship with the business usually try to display a phony like a Christmas cake - put men develop hard-ons. I could community and the United to be' taken seriously if it not'3urvey Maple Leaf Gardens grooviness with their coolflo­ can be repeatedly denounced in a lot of fruits and nuts States. There is scant men­ and you have C,anadians. " U~- to ascertain whether this was tion of this in the NDP litera­ wery sideburns, their top shirt' at the same time by botn true, considering the predo­ buttons undone to reveal to Davia Lewis and THE GLOBE . fortunately, Templeton s ture that I have received. whole speech was a basic re­ minance of small childrenwith I am also unable to support the rest of us the latest in paste and MAIL. Without the Waf­ their parentso However, I on chest hair, and their chro­ fle, the NDP remains a poor flection of why at least 40 per a party like tne NDP which cent of the po~ulation will would wager that if Prime purges dissent. nic habits of frequently adding antiseptic alternative to the Minister Pierre Trudeau had "dig" and IIspiffy" to their major parties in this country. vote Liberal: I The Liberal party is the only, party thft exposed himself on stage in already poverty-stricken par­ Without a strong nationalist Maple Leaf Gardens, the lance. Waffle influence acting as the is equipped to handle Canada s In the 1960's, when I was problems .•• Who is fit to han­ crowds would have gone into NDP's albatross, David Lewis berserk orgasmic frenzy and young, impulsive, and w'ore can get away with the state­ dle them, Trudeau or Stan­ every conceivable pin, I sup­ field? ••• Who's best eqUipped Anthony Westall would have In front of me were the ment that nationalism is not scribbled in THE STAR the ported bilingualism, WaIter Robert Kaplan Liberal party an important issue - in this to handle a separatist Quebec? Gordon and THE TORONTO - Trudeau or Stanfield? next day of the P.,M.'s vir­ workers - this contingent won country. With the Waffle itself tuosity in his campaign' style. DAILY STAR; I knew who to top honours for being the lou­ in the death throes of faction­ vote for and I felt secure. On dest and the largest array alism and purged exile, all ,this election day, however;, of eager-beaver Grits that that remains on the Left are there are choices open: either one could find in the Gardens (This demaS{ogic appeal "to the Maoists and the Lower keep the French in their Well, the rally is finishedj tear up my ballot or vote NDP where Liberals from the far­ le~sser Spadina Conimunards. The place" by a Liberal booster the election approaches and as the of the three flung corners of Metro arri­ Ontario Waffle's decision to its cold outsideo I shiver at evIls. I have not yet ved to hear their mentor and immediately lunged me into withdraw from the NDP and frightening vision of becoming the thought of having to ma;ke decided what my own personal their member, Pierre Tru­ their subsequent hints of for­ a choice on election day, when decision will be. I w'onder: deau. The press image of a conscripted soldier two ming a fourth party, was a years from now, standing I see none on the horrible what if they gave an election Robert Kaplan, the Liberal foolish decision because it horizon. The almost revolu- and nobody came? candidate in Don Valley, is guard along the cold waters will relegate J1imes Laxer and of the Ottawa River, guarding one of an expensive Cadillac­ his M. I.S. C. friends back onto style politician, streamlined a bank on St" Catherine Street the same fatal sidelines of po­ in Montreal~ or of becoming to be on the make. When you litical obscurity that befell meet him, you find, to the a draft dodger and fleeing to the Communist Party in the the United States.) contrary, that he is simply 1930's and 1940's. A Waffle a folksy Bar Mitzvah boy from fourth party cannot survive the humble sticks of Law­ in the Canadian political sys­ rence Park. tem where the game nation­ Finally Donald MacDonald, wide has lately been made up the prime ministerjJs pro­ consul, climbed to the stage It was a very cold night of three' players: the Ins, the Outs, and the NO P., to reassure any recalcitrant at the College Street entrance Liberals like Eric Kierans to the Gardens, and I found who may have forgotten or myself accosted amicably by who are misled: "The Prime the obligatory protestors ­ Minister is probably a approximately thirtr forlorn, The crowds were enormous, genius f" Everyone applaUded people from women s libera­ and there were rumours of Macdonald recalled the early tion and the Canadian Libera­ people unable to ~et inside. days of the Trudeau era, when tion . Movement. However, By mistake, more members Trudeau's leadership was still 10 PRO TEM October 25, 1972 An interview with DavidLewis of the lOP Canadian University Press provides a ment, because they are dealing with organizations. We~d simply amend said a very large number of the cor­ national news service for most a wasting asset. But whose bloody the tax laws to make everybody pay porations that enjoy the tax conces­ university newspapers across Canada, asset is it they're dealing with? It's his shareG sions, and tax deferrals and allowan­ not their asset~ it's the asset of the ces are. foreign-ownedCl What has and therefore attempted to interview the And that would either mean we three national leaders. Only David people of Canada. really happened is we've enabled We not only give them permission would have a great deal of money them to buy up the Canadian economy Lewis of the NDP would stoop' so low as to do worthwhile things with - to to talk with the student press. The to deplete that irreplaceable asset, with public funds - with our own but we pay them for doing so. The give greater aid to post-secondary' money - because of the concessions following are excerpts from that in­ educationj for example, from the terview. same thing with the accelerated we've given them. At the same time' depreciation. There has been - and federal treasury, or to increase pen­ they pay no taxes in Canada, they will continue to be for a few more sions for the aged, to build more send out large sums of money in CUP: If the NUl' comes to power, what years - a three year tax holiday houses - or we could reduce the interest, diVidends, in management will be done to stop corporations getting when a mine is started. Sometimes income tax paid by the ordinary fees, in research fees and w'hat-not excessive grants and profits? they start tw'O or three mines, some­ tax payer, particularly the middle to their parent corporations in the times not far apart. Every time they income tax payer - people making United States or Japan or West Ger­ start a new· mine they get a three between seven and twelve or thir­ many or wherever they may be. Over many years, we've had the year tax holiday. teen thousand a year who carry a We have suggested for many' years development of a tax system that The purpose of my campaign is to very If'rge tax burden now. an effective Canada development cor­ gives tremendous concessions to cor­ let the people of Canada know what I think this is one of the major poration which would buy into many porations, especially the resource has been happening. They don't know examples of the way in, which the of the foreign-owned corporations ­ corporations - the gas, oil and ·mi­ for example, that corporations - not Liberal and Conservative govern­ not necessarily take them over, al­ neral corporations - with the results only mining and petroleum but also ments have been in league with the though in some cases that might be that many of them pay·no taxes at all. large manufac~uring and other cor­ corporations. In my speeches, I have useful - but buy into them· and be­ As a matter of fact, I think 86 porations - have what they call de­ said that the government makes con­ come partners and have some control per cent of mining corporations paid ferred tax reserves. rrhat's reserves cessions available to the corporations over them. We have suggested agen­ no taxes at all in 1969, .the last year for taxes they might have paid or the corporations then finance the cies that would monitor their activi­ for which statistics are fully availa­ government party during election should have paid but which the law ties j make certain they do not send ble; 81 or 82 per cent of oil and pe­ permitted them to defer for years. campaigns and both of them - the money out of this country that isn't troleum corporations paid no taxes Indeed, there is nothing in the law corporations and the government ­ justifiable, 'make certain they will last year. When they do pay taxes, that will ever make them pay it. hold hands in the taxpayers' pocket. not close down plants in order to it's a very small rate of nine per This has got to endel produce elsewhere and create unem­ cent for the mining corporations, and What we w'ould do is really very tax,it~ simpleCl We'd just close up those ployment in Canada, which has hap­ if you include the prOVincial s CUP: What measures will the NDP take pened fairly often, and generally.to 11 per centCl They get all sorts of concessions and those expensiye loop holes that the corporations have41 All if elected ·to halt the takeover of the see to it that the Canadian control accelerated depreciation and deple­ over these corporations is increased. tion allowances. That really makes the large corporations$ with very few Canadian economy by foreign cor­ exceptions, make huge profits; they porations? That can't come overnight. You me angry. can't change a situation that has de­ We give them· a depletion allowance, could afford to pay their share of the taxes and still b~ very profitable As a m.atter of fact, I've often veloped over a century - you can't according to them and the govern- change that overnight. But a begin­ ning has to be made and we would make a very effective and very de­ termined start to reverse the trend and increase Canadian control and decrease foreign control of the eco­ nomy.

CUP: There is a crisis in post-secondary education; with many university graduates unable to find jobs, many young people are switching to technical schools; in addition, some provincial governments are attempting to limit university enrolment. What. is the NDP position on post-secondary education? I don't think that is something you can say one, two, three about. I think we raised expectations too much and spent too much money in plants that we should have been spending on the ~ students in universities across Cana­ da. The unemployment among gra­ Hard to put down. duates is part of the general econo­ mic situation in Canada. Foreign control of the economy means there is less opportunity for research and development in thi s country, and therefore less opportunity for scien­ tists. Unemployment means there is less activity in the economy and therefore less opportunity for ma... nagement positions for those who are not scientists. I think the increase in university fees which has taken place in Onta­ rio and~ I understand, elsewhere" is scandalousCl The sociological composition of our universities is still weighted in the direction of the better-to-do. The proportion of men and women from working class homes or from farm homes is still too smalL To increase fees and make it more difficult for people to enter these institutions is a regressive step. It's going back to the days when only the sons of the very rich (in those days it was only sons - it wasn't even daughters) could attend university. That I deplore very much. I think our universities have be­ come too large from the student's point of view. They are too much like factories. It seems to me there is very much less contact between fa­ culty and students today on ·an indi­ vidual basis than I knew during my days at university. The situation" needs a pretty good look. But I strenuously oppose pla­ cing greater obstacles on the road to post-secondary education for those Molson Golden who want it and who are qualified for it by raising fees and putting A good smooth ale in quotas. I think this is a typical regressive Do you know what you're missing? step that our present governments always take when they count dollars over people. That we oppose very strongly. October 25J 1972 PRO TEM 11 'I Fan's Notes' explores losers myth

jects and the victims of the of his success. Some critics American Dream. Howeveri have dubbed thi s obsession he finds that he does not even for losing in some currents fit in with these rejects be­ of U.S. culture as existential; cause he is worse off than losing is beautiful and natural they areo He deliberately lo­ because it is just a reflect­ ses a ping pong match~ know- ion of an indifferent world .ing he has been outclassed where life lacks meaning_ As in America to begin with ­ a result Middle and Young even by its very own failures. America· can sleep better at These rejects are the mentally , night in spite of the troubles ill, the true inheritors of the and alienation that are so na­ American Wayo tural. Our hero· daydreams of the In contrast, the Canadian athletic and sexual conquests loser never receives any mo­ which are important criteria numental glory of self-satis­ for success, but as he finds faction in failure - just in­ out in the end~ the mythic significance. American anti­ Canadian loser will never go heroes like the major charac­ beyond being an observor on ters of 'One Flew over the Cu­ the sidelines. Exley turns to ckoo's Nest' may not succeed writing when he is unable to in their cause, but you know make it in bed or on the pla­ that someone will come to ying field, but after nights carry on the struggle. The and nights of typing, he an­ Can.adian hero as loser re­ grily burns his novel in an ceives no existential thrills ash can. During the burning from his failure, no feeling of he stands and ponders his fate: haVing tried to fign~ for any after a long period of self­ great cause. Like Exley, Ca­ pity, he realizes that he is nadians do not try - we just - destined to be simply a fan, sit back and mutter darkly in a 'spectator, an observor, but our own self-pity of having never an active participant been betrayed and ignored; in the affairs of human endea­ and yet we unashamedly allow vour. the Americans to buy us out The question may be posed: in our silent surrender. The doesn't an American mythic mythic Canadian loser fails, loser exist, a loser (perhaps period. He doesn't like it; but best personnified by Woody he knows no other lifestyle. AlIen) and dubbed by critics Historically speaking Ca: as an "antihero"? Woody Al­ nadians have a fine tradition ien does lose and all of us of rejection that dates back applaud in reverance and self­ to the Loyalists, the French pity as he scampers from one and the immigrants who could foible to another. However, find nowhere else to go. If he seems to fail so well that we won any battles~ it was done JERRY ORBACH, PATRICIA COLLINS IN A FANS NOTES, FILMED MOSTLY IN. TORONTO in actual fact, he really ends under the leadership of foreign Despite lapses like playing lung cancer for laughs, the movie is an ite.m no connoisseur up winning. There is a certain generals like Wolfe, Brock or should miss. . gleeful enjoyment inherent in Montgomery. As Eric Till im­

AlIen's personality with the plie§ in this masterpiecel Ca­ can Dream and its saturated Exley wanders through con­ idea of ailure. This is certain­ nadians are· doomed to be on by PAUL WEINBERG sugary designs that with the crete and alcohol, searching ly the case in such brilliant the sidelines with the fans and Much as I would love to wave of a Horatio Alger magic for the illusive American efforts as 'Play It Again Sam spectators, while big coun­ concur with the critics (it wand can change you from the Dream with which he can ne­ and (Take the Money and Run'. triBs like America, Russia would probably aid my own failure of Woody AlIen and ver be compatible. Finally he The American loser in the and China destroy our world mental security if I could), George McGovern to the suc­ voluntarily enters a mental Woody AlIen tradition enjoys with their jungle mouth tech­ I am simply unable or un­ cess of the Lennon Sisters, hospital, a :r;efuge for the re- losing - this is the source nology. willing to agree with the bom­ Bob Dylan and Richard Nixon. bastic and negative criticisms Unfortunately~ life rarely that have slammed'A Fan's works that way, as Exleyfinds Notes' into obscurity. Most in his odyssey through bars, of the Toronto press, have in parks and on the highway...... shown various shades of con­ The only place Exley ever tempt toward this new Cana­ finds himself is in the taverns dian film; contempt that I think - which is not too bad except has been unfair and ill-infor­ that he. is unemployed and he med. feels empty and hollow. 'A Fan's Notes' is the sup­ Exley indulges in the North pressed Canadian film that American fantasy world of the movie-house chains have kept spectator sport - the football from the eyes of the viewing game where every fan, while public. It is no accident that he slouches in his seat pouring the movie chains in Canada beer into his inflated belly, are American-owned, as they cheers on his favourite team have been notorious in their and then fantasi~es that he lacklustre efforts to distribute too is on the playing field. and show Canadian films (With Flab and beer belly replaced the rare exception of 'Mon On­ with an armour of muscle, cle Antoine'.) This is parti­ pads and jock strap~ ready cularly the case with films to defy anyone or anything from Quenec. in his path, Exley wanders 'A Fan's Notes'~ directed from town to town telling tales by British-born Torontonian of how he met Frank Gifford. Eric Till, who also made 'Hot Alone in a park or on the Millions', is an interesting road, Exley develops sexual portrait of the mythic Cana­ .fantasies: he dreams of vio­ dian loser, the fellow who ig­ lating the daughters of the nominiously fails in life from American Dream. He has his start to finish, and who in the chance with Bunny~ a sickening end lies sprawled in his own sweet creature whose sole depressing insignificance. ambition .in life iSi as she While I am ready to concede puts it, ('to make a man hap­ certain faults in the film (such py". Eventually he gets to as the pointless attempt by the meet her parents~ who con­ leading character to pretend stantly wink or poke at him that he is dying of lung can­ myst-eriously with a smile that cer), the good features of this seems to say "Heh-heh". It's film far outweigh any flaw certainly enough to make any­ that might mar or hinder the one sick, and Exley is no plot or production of the mo­ exception; he soon finds him­ vie. self frigid every time he hops lA Fan's Notes' is the story into bed with BunnYG When he of Frederick Exley~ a hope­ finds he can't ball the quin­ lessly incompetent writer who tessence of Middle America

travels south to New York to womanhoodj he returns almost find himself. He thinks the way reluctantly to a rich girl (wer to do this is to immerse him­ played by Patricia Collins) he self in the grip of the Ameri- knows in Toronto.

\ > 12 PRO TEM October 25~ 1972 Set sights on Grey Saucer 3rd Jear captures I.F.L. crown

by BROCK PHILLIPS In place of Lance Garneau, ched Bishop's output of 18 a tumultuous standing ovati.on merry ducks in a hideout deep Stu Spence became the Axe­ points. Mike Landry was able from the standing room only in Glendon Forest near the men's top point getter with to locate pay dirt twice for crowd of one, after .leaVing Senior Common Room, re­ The combatants were 3rd douze points. Jim Reid re­ 12 points and Dave Frinley the tennis courts where he veals that Fran~ois Allard year and A-house. It was sumed his scoring streakwith was also able ~o sniff out was busy practising for the won the William Tell award Friday afternoon and the two huit points and Jan HUsband the end zone on two occas­ Mauritius Open. From this in the Glendon co-ed outdoor teams were about to battle it padded his scoring total with ions as he scored 7 points. point on the ,Axel1'l:en pulled archery tournament held out for first place in the Glen­ sept more points. Fred Ku­ The wind was blowing in the their potent offence together Thursday. His 131 points were don Football League; the game lach regained his'scoringform wront direction, so Mike Car­ and porous defence apart to followed closely by runner-up of the week. 3rd year scored after being held to quatorze son was able to find the goal­ defeat 2nd year 46 to 30 Wed­ Robert Chiasson's 126 points. first, but then the Axemen points in the last game, with line once and thus scored 6 nesday afternoon. Rookie Fred PRO TEM sports edit.or Brock came charging back to assume a catch worth un point. points. Kulach's 14 points were the Phillips would like to point the lead. At this point, the Axe­ -Axemen spokesman Charles spearhead of the Axemen of­ ou t that he improved on last men seemed capable of Laforet explained to the press fence~ John Frankie added to years score and placed eighth coasting to, their fourth win that the Axemen defeat was Even Steven this attack with 12 poits, this year, an improvement and their first league crown, certainly a grievous situa­ while Stu Spence was busy over last year's effort. He but then they developed a se­ tion, but he assured their lo­ It was even Steven after collecting 7 points. Jan Hus­ credits the increased point vere case of butterfinger~ and yal fans and those who have 40 minutes of official time band and Amazing Watson total to a new technique he for the rest of the game were already written them off that and so the two teams, 3rd shared a case of 12 evenly, acqUired after attending Fri­ unable to snare passes or the Axemen will return to year and 4th year retired· to even though the official sco­ ar Tuck's Golden Arrow snatch 3rd year flags. Taking the form that has characte­ their dressing rooms after rer caught Amazing trying to School this summer. He aims advantage of the miscues, 3rd rized Axemen· teams through­ a 15 to 15 deadlock. 3rd year make it a baker's dozen. Old for the target. year swept past the ailing out the passages of time. He was leading the match for pro J. Barry Smith wiped ,up Jill Qually won the Maid lumberjocks ,and never looked added that he believed that the most of the game unti\ 4th the rear with 1 point. Marian award with a total of back, as they coasted to a 39 next< game will see a stronger year managed to score and Fearing the emergence of 79 points. Georgia Woods was to 28 victory and the Imperial Axemen defence, due to the tie the contest. (Amazing ob­ leader, G. Haslam, Bob Dim­ second with 48 points. Hea­ .. Margarine Crown. return of all-Clendon defen­ servation - Brian). The Proc­ offsy, Tan Cooper and Angie ther McClelland would like Warren Smith regained his sive end, Charles Laforet, tor Fieldhouse ringer was a­ Dieclementi each had a six, to report to PRO TEM's rea­ usual position as hero of the who was forced to sit out the gain 4th's leading point pro­ pack. Nick Marron scored 1 ders that after her first ap­ game, but had to unfortunately 3rd year game with a serious ducer with 7 points. Swivel point, but since the official pearnace at a major or mi­ share this honour with Jamie play rehearsal. His grateful hips Doug Knowles scored his score was 46 to 30, his one nor or any archery tourna­ Ooran who has been thirsting teammates awarded him the first touchdown of the aged point would make the score ment, she scored 1 point, hit all season for the proper re­ game ball. season and was hence awar­ unofficially 46 to 31. We will on e sqUirrel, two chipmunks, cognition that all-stars usu­ In the other Friday contest, ded 6 points. Doug Street have to disregard and not 4 pigeons and a duck sporting ally receive. 4'It's mine now 4th year-faculty-alumni was rounded out the scoring with mention that Nick Marrone a green velvet vest with mat­ and I intend to keep it an­ able to outlast the 1st year 2 points. scored 1 point. ching hat, green hotpants and nounced Ooran to a group of Animals and chalk up a 53 J amie Doran and George tights, to~ped off .•.. six inattentive chipmunks who to 43 win. Archie Love and Milosh shared the scoring ho­ Women s intramural bas­ had their attention focussed Doug Street were very lucky nours for 3rd year with a six Sydney ketball bounced its way onto on a championship orange rol­ in scoring 13 big ones, which pack each. Jamie Ooran, how­ A duck sporting a green the sports pages with two ling match direct from the usurped usual leader Brian ever, insists he produced the velvet vest with matching hat, games last week. Day nar­ New Dining Hall, featuring Marshall's six big ones. Jim game's most memorable mo­ green hotpants and tights, top­ rowly defeated B-house 28 grand master rollers J. Barry , Martin was accredited with ment with his two handed chest ped off by power blue Peter to Q and C house edged F­ Smith of Canada and Terry 2 little ones by the one eyed high catch on 3rd's twenty Pan slippers, who reportedly troop 19 to 2. These games Walker of no fixed address official scorer, and Ron Mal­ yard line; he feels he should associately with a group of were played on Wednesday. in a head to beard battle. tin was awarded one little one receive ·more ~of the scoring Warren and Jamie each twel­ honours than George. George for trying hard. A 4th-year­ GP L T TP ved. Geroge Milosh and Steve faculty-alumni winger re­ disagrees. Mike Lustig got Position Team W his usual 2 points, and Steve Marchessault sixed. 3rd year activated for the game Friday 5 4 1 9 acquired two points from the after playing a starring role Marchessault acqUired I point. 1 3rd year The score was close be­ 2 A-house 5 3 2 6 educated heel of Mike Lustig in the last three games, Wayne ,4 3 6 and the Axemen defence Bishop, helped the team's tween A-house and 2nd year 3 4th year 1 until Rejean 'Lance' Garneau, 4 2nd year 4 3 1 6 opened up just long enough cause immensely with 18 big 5 4 '2 to let former BMOC Greg the Captain and inspiration 5 .1st year 1 ones. 6 5 1 4 2 Coc~urn romp into the end of the A-house Axemen step- , C-house Greg Ellis was the most 7 4 0 4 0 zone for I point. ferocious Animal as he mat- ped into Glendon Stadium to B and a sharp tongue in defeat. Stong repeatedly eluded the He was also trying to decide clutches of the Piranhas and on a way to suspend one of fought to a 2 to 2 tie. How­ his- players after one of his ever, Mallard J. Duck says ~layers replied to his orders, that the game will be replayed Iroundhogs see shadow because the referee insisted 'We'll be good, if you're nice to us. " Oh, the woes of a on following the official wa­ It was a bad omen when the Standouts on the offence 14 I played an outstanding coach. ter polo rules, which are not Groundhogs came out of hiber- were Pinky who made a tre­ - game and should receive all Yesterday's game was the followed and cannot be fa­ nation, after a loss last week to mendous run off a triple re- star recognition for my pro­ last game of the season. The thomed by inner tube water verse for a touchdown and ficiency in collecting oppo­ Groundhogs have improved on polo players. By the next game Winters and failed to see their Carol Bruni who ran the len- sition flags," added all-Glen­ last year with a record of 2 the Piranhas hope that Beaver shadows, due to the rather in- gth of the field after making don defensive star Judy Jor­ wins and 3 defeats. It wa s a will. have them in a condition clement weather we are pre- a sterling one hand over the genson. 41If you have space, successful season, they did conducive to their devouring sently experiencing. But the shoulder catch for another you can mention that Bev Jos­ well. style of play. Groundhogs were undaunted, touchdown. She also got the lin, Greg Cockburn, and Jane Glendon's team, consisting and they disregarded the bad convert after the ball bounced omen by not returning into Walker were pretty good too. " of Tom Merryfield, Colin hibernation and soundlydefea- -off the head of a Stong defen- PRO TEM had hoped to get Piranhas Full Fairlie, John Clement and ted Stong, the athletic paradise der and into her waiting arms. an interview with head coach Gary Lamb placed third in the of York 13 to 6 in the mud Susan Boothe, Giner Paul, Joe Tuzi, but he was not at The Piranhas had been ea­ Glendon Open with a combined and water and cold and rain Mike Lustig and Sue Mahoney the game, choosing to visit ting too well in their previous stroke total of 386. Tom Mer­ and sndw before an amassed kept the offence constantly the Leo Cahill clinic on how games and just could not sto­ ryfield w'as Glendon's indivi­ on the move. to reveal humilit y in victory mach a strong Stong team. dual leader as he shot an 85. and wildly cheering throng of r seven. The refereeing was again atrocious. I hope the guy that refereed yesterday's game will read this article, .To continue or not to continue but that is doubtful, for there is some doubt whether he is To continue or not to con~ Red Rocket to its pasture, don~t see why they must go to third in cross country and If capable of reading. / he is tinue in intercollege sports? as the fieldhouse received one Glendon to play. Glendon must golf. The COREC basketballl head referee, as he claims This' is the question that faces of those ubiqUitous operating come to them. They also say men's flag football and co-ed he is, I hope he either learns the athletiC council in the light cuts and was therefore unable that since Glendon has such inner tube water polo teams to read, or has somebody read of new information, that there to pay the Red Rocket's keep. an effective programme of are of championship quality. the rules to him. It is really is now no readily available Activities definitely face a intramural activities, we not necessary to make up.the transportation to main cam­ problem at this moment. We . should be content with that Withdrawel from intercol­ rules as the game goes on or pus for games. In the past may .suffer a lo~ and be forced programme and stay out of lege play can only hurt the consistently.make the wrong the Red Rocket prOVided this to drop out intercollege play, intercollege play. intercollege programme and calls. transportation. Whether even but one hopes this will· never Glendons' sports programme. The defence was a standout it was readily' available is happen. After that kind of reception However it may be necessary. in this game where everyone another question. This year one wonders' if it is worth Glendon cannot hope to ade­ played fantastically. Flags however the Red Rocket was There seems as ifthere will staying in the intercollege quately prOVide good teams which used to be a problem, to intercollege play without put out to pasture and <' was be no help coming from main league. Although many con­ ceased to be a problem in not making regular runs. The campus. As far as main cam­ troversies, decisions and in­ the Red Rocket. Without the this game. No flag eluded the athletic department managed pus colleges are concerned cidents have been weighted Rocket, without help from waiting grasp of a Ground­ though to convince the physi­ they would be just as happy against Glendon in th e last main campus, Glendon has her hog. The offence could not cal plant to let the Red Rocket and probably happier if Glen­ two years, she has the knack back to the wall. It would be be stopped as it rolled over make a comeback and trans­ don would drop out of inter­ of producing very proficient a shame to drop out of inter­ the Stong defence and scored port Glendon athletes on their college play. They cite dis­ teams. For example" Glen­ college play, after Glendon despite a strong effort on road games. Last week the tance as a deterrent factor don is the tennis champion was the preserving force for the part of the referees. physical plant returned the when playing at Glendon. They and has placed no less than so many years.