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“There i is “at. Jeast. one - ‘point! on which’ Prime —

“Minister Pierre ‘Trudeau: and your reporter: are =
almost .certainly in complete. ‘agreement: the. fact: a
that’ Mr. Trudeau has a burning ‘ambition’ to -

‘continue: governing: ‘Canada for the remainder of

_ his. working life. tye

oa ‘There .

in. itself, of course, although
given’ “Mr.: » Trudeau's
“obvious physical fitness as he
: nudges | his” ‘sixties -- he could

"be: running: the: store. “for”

“quite a-long time.to’ come if
; he. achieves his 2 aim.

He’ > alresidy been on “the

~~ job for™11' years, however,

and so the most natural and
- obvious. question for . his

employers (the electorate of § ~
to. consider ~ in .

- Canada)
‘making: their decision this
Tuesday is how he has made
out-thus far.

* It’s a question which Mr.

Party have gone-to con-.
siderable “lengths to dodge
' during most of the campaign
~- concentrating instead on
cultivating the inmiage of. Mr.

Trudeau as a tough leader —

‘ who alone is equipped to get

-results.. And; of course, on-

attempting to hack Joe Clark
to pieces.

One can hardly blame the
Prime Minister and. his
advisers for adopting these
Stone Age tactics in view of
the results of Mr. Trudeau's
stewardship over.the past 11

years. It's only in the past

week’ or. two that . Liberal
Party ads have . belatedly
started to. feature’ pretty
colored graphs purporting to
show that Canada’s economy
is “second:to none”. But for
those of us accustomed to
noting what such graphs
don't show, even these
belated efforts to create a
record of: success provide
more_ questions than an-
swers.

VIOLENTLY DISUNITED

The record of the past 11
years which cannot be
denied. includes:for starters,
the fact that we have
become a more violently
disunited nation under our
French-Canadian rime
minister than at any time in
our .history. So far from
promising a solution to this
sad state of affairs, there is
every indication that Mr.
Trudeau himself is a major
part of the problem.

y. “be “nothing |
wrong: with such an ambition ©

We. have . chronic
unemployment. of: around.

eight. per cent-(14: per. cent:
amoung young people) with.

ro relief.in sight: Inflation --

-after: three years of controls

which Mr.: Trudeau once
vowed never to imipose — is’

. again nudging 10 per cent,
gobbling our. savings and —

inflicting severe hardship on
hundreds of thousands. of
pensioners and other fixed-
income citizens.

Our 1971 dollar today is
worth a mére 53 cents,
thanks largely to annual
budget deficits which have
soared from $1.5 billion to

-the region of, $12 billion
- Trudeau..-and -the _ Liberal _

during Mr. Trudeau’s tenure
of office. Out of every
$1,000 of federal taxes we
pay, $130 goes to meet the
interest, alone on Ottawa's
debt — now growing at a rate
that threatens, unless halted,

to bring abont the complete

collapse of the monetary
system within four-or five
years. - ?

t

The auditor-general has
already indicated that the

‘Trudeau. government has

virtually lost control of the
public purse. Meanwhile,
the federal civil service has
swollen by a monstrous 52
per’ cent since 1968.
Canada’s industry remains
dominated by foreign
ownership. And in many
subtle ways the authority of
Parliament ‘itself has been
gradually eroded with the
help of the faceless, non-.
elected men: in the Prime
Minister's Office.

UNHAPPY YEARS

The Trudeau years, let's

‘face it, have not been happy

years for Canada. For many
hundreds of thousands of
individual Canadians --
particularly the unem-
ployed, the students en-
deavoring to enter the work
force, the pensioners and.
others on fixed incomes --
they have been dishear-
tening and frightening years
in a very direct sense.

Presumably Mr. Trudeau,
now portraying himself as
the only true leader Canada
possesses, has in fact been

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- oe “still “have faith in’ ‘the
democratic parliamentary
system, is “no” ee

‘The © ‘Progressive. Con-
servatives led by.Joe Clark
’ offer a very viable alter-
- mative with which to ex-

three or four years.

. . Like any other party, all of

- their policies. do not have

universal appeal. But their

Noel Wright basic aims are almost cer-
nee tainly acceptable

oe _ _.. majority of Canadians:

i , reduced taxation; emphasis

- doing the leading throughout on the rights..and — op-

- this, period. He can hardly. portunities’ of individuals;

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Trudeau’s_ jedea Liberals. as

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Their ranks contain: ‘many ~

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experienced men and.
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Tn Mr. Clark ‘himself they
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None: of this presupposes :
‘the.:. Conservatives
necessarily ‘have: '-all’ the -
answers. to. .our- “current
problems.” But at the present |
juncture in our affairs. they

deserve the: chance. to: show |
us what. they can do fora -
- season. “And whatever the
‘ result,.we shall-at: least.have ©

wor an important victory. of
our: own. by. electing © the
Conservatives o on n Tuesday. _

We shall- at long] last have |
reasserted our fundamental

- democratic right to kick out

a. government and © try an
alternative. If we ~ don’t
reassert that’ right -
preferably more often than
every 10-11 years - there’s.a

very. real’ danger of losing it

by default.

. If ever we -did, I suspect

Mr. Trudeau wouldn't shed:
many tears. For Canada’s
sake it’s time fora change.

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