URBAN RENEWAL AND SLUM CLEARANCE  Progressive Conservative Government will pay 50% of the cost of urban redevelopment plans and loan the other 50% to the municipality.  Progressive Conservative Government will pay 50% of the cost of new services and utilities for urban redevelopment projects.  LOW RENT Housing  One hundred thousand Canadian families cannot afford accommodation at a reasonably minimum standard. Progressive Conservative Government will loan at low interest rates 90% of the cost of constriction or acquisition of low rental housing projects.  In addition, Progressive Conservative Government will extend this plan to cover hostels for elderly persons.  SUBURBAN CENTRES  Suburban communities need assistance in acquiring and holding land for schools, civic halls and community and recreational facilities. Progressive Conservative Government will provide loans to purchase and prepare land for suburban y centres in advance of new city growth.  Suburban expansion has brought about new problems in commuter transportation. The Progressive Conservative Government will work with provinces and municipalities to give assistance in this vital field.  ExTEND PRESENT Assistance  Progressive Conservative Government will extend the limited dividend loan plan to non-profit l organizations for construction of hostels `and  dormitories.  Progressive Conservative Government will extend the University Loans Scheme to cover selfcontained dwelling units for married students.  Progressive Conservative Government will allow CHMC to make short term loans to mortgage holders (second mortgages).  ACHIEVE A SENSE OF NATIONAL UNITY AND PURPOSE  Call a special Federal-Provincial Conference to reach a unity of understanding to equalize opportunities for all Canadians. Advance Canadian nationalism by bringing the Constitution to Canada and agreeing on suitable national symbols.  CONTINUE ECONOMIC GROWTH  Create 1,000,000 new jobs; retrain and reallocate workers displaced by automation; bring down a new budget to stimulate economy by i lessening burden of taxation where it is retarding growth, to improve administration of tax legislation, to deal effectively with the problem of distribution of . corporate surpluses to free millions of dollars for new capital expansion; increase production, - sales and exports; make possible.) greater research expenditures.  DEVELOP NATIONAL POWER GRID  Develop our great resources of water power such as the Columbia and Nelson rivers leading towards a national power grid. Export surplus power which will assist in meeting our balance of payments.  INCREASE VOCATIONAL TRAINING  Teach the skills needed for full utilization of manpower. Establish a Manpower Consultative Council to deal with automation.  EXTEND SOCIAL SECURITY  Bring in portable pensions. Introduce contributory old age and retirement plans with survivor benefits in addition to the existing old age pension. Extend family allowances to boys and girls up to 18 years old, attending school.  STRIVE FOR WORLD PEACE AND DISARMAMENT  Continue strongest support for the United Nations. Meet the great enemies of peace  hunger and privation . . . by helping people in other parts of the world through co-operative assistance programs, the World Food Bank, the Colombo Plan.  11 No nuclear warheads to be stored in Canada. A fund will be set up to pay railway losses on uneconomic branch lines pending their abandonment.  AGRICULTURE  Here are the facts:  Four times in the last five years cash farm income per farm has reached a new high in Canada. There is much to do in the farm field but the undeniable fact is still that the net earnings of farmers have been much higher in the five years of Diefenbaker Government than they were in the previous years of Liberal rule.  Income has risen on Eastern farms, but not enough. Farm credit expansion, crop insurance, ARDA, aggressive marketing programs, agricultural price supports and the now Eastern Feed Grain and Assistance Act designed to stabilize the price of feed grains for Eastern farmers and to improve returns to Eastern -farmers and feeders, forms a new fair deal for Eastern Farmers-a new deal that is urgent and critically needed and is an extension of the developing program for Eastern farmers that is a part of the National Agricultural Policy.  1. The Eastern Feed Grain and Assistance Bill: A quarter of the costs of Eastern farmers consists of the cost of feed for livestock. And this Bill was designed to stabilize that cost, to equalize prices across the provinces, to assur feed grain supplies and to protect, at the sam time, the interests of Eastern Canadian feed  producers. It was designed to increase the net income of Eastern farmers and to enable them to participate equally in the prosperity of Canada. The power-hungry Liberals destroyed it when they engineer the defeat of the Diefenbaker Government. But the now Diefenbaker Government will re-introduce it and establish it as part  The Fair Deal for Eastern Farmers.  It will mean that for the first time in the history of Canada the producer of livestock--beef, dairy, poultry, hogs-will know (a) that adequate supplies of feed will be available at all times and (b) what the price will be for many months in advance and (c) that the principle of Feed Freight Assistance has become permanent and (d) that they can plan their operations with confidence that their profit will not be crushed b fluctuating prices---they can buy, they can sell and they can borrow with confidence that the will not lose their labour and their investment.  2. Credit for Increased Farm Income as part of the Fair Deal for Eastern Farmers: Under the Diefenbaker Government the old, restrictionist Farm Loan Board gave way to the Farm Credit Corporation-to loans for development and adjustment. It became a farmer's loan fund instead of an exercise in banking. The amount that could 1 be borrowed was increased, terms were improved, basis for loans was extended. Loans are available for related operations-woodlot improvement, recreational development, tourist facilities. It is designed to increase farm earnings and broaden the base of Eastern farming. And above all, with ARDA, it is designed to strengthen the rural communities in Eastern Canada and to result, not in fewer farmers, but in more prosperous farmers.  3. ARDA: The Agricultural Rehabilitation and Development Act is a vast, comprehensive program to develop, in co-operation with government and the people, rural areas and resources.  The Diefenbaker Government's trust in the local people is personified in ARDA: it puts its trust in the conviction that the local people know ' best what is best for the local community.  It is pledged to protect the local community and the family farm. Where local people decide what projects and programs can best help their community to grow and develop, ARDA is there with the people and the money to help. It results in richer communities, improved social life, in new vigor and happiness in the rural communities.  4. Crop Insurance: ARDA will fail without generous farm credit and both will be hurt in the absence of crop insurance. The Agricultural Price Supports Act protects the farmer from a decline in prices. Crop insurance, made available and subsidized by the Diefenbaker Government, can similarly protect the farmer against a crop failure. It is becoming more generous, is spreading through the provinces and is a vital part of the Diefenbaker Government's Fair Deal for Eastern Agriculture.  5. Agricultural Stabilization Act: The level and tability of prices are vital to farm welfare. Crop insurance can be used to insure production. But the Diefenbaker Government passed the Agricultural Stabilization Act and set up a fund of a quarter of a billion dollars to under-pin farm prices.  The Government meets with the Advisory Board, representing farm organizations, to agree on ricer. And the stabilized prices permit the farmer  plan his production and know that whey ho markets his cattle or crops he will receive a fair price.  6. The Drive for Export Markets: The Diefenbaker Government, through its crop insurance, price stabilization, ARDA, farm credit and other programs of growth and development enables farmers to produce and make a good living, and then they have made a massive assault on the other essential end product-the sales of farm production.  Potato and cheddar cheese exports have been subsidized, flour mills have been built abroad, through FAVEX the Government has instituted a combined effort by fruit and vegetable companies to export to world markets. Through the Food Technology Institute research on new techniques and on marketing has resulted in development of new farm products that can be stored and shipped, and through the experimental drying station in Newfoundland it has created new products from fish and potatoes that are in demand in the markets of the world.  7. Special Measures: The integrated farm program of the Diefenbaker Government is designed to secure farming and farm income. But, when problems arise that are not met by the National Agricultural Policy special measures art undertaken-measures such as the special assistance to the wheat farmers on the Prairies, the potato farmers of Prince Edward bland and mixed farmers of Nova Scotia when their crops were damaged.  It is a part of the New Deal for Eastern Farmers that cannot be narrowly defined-it's the concern for the demonstrable needs of the farm community by the Diefenbaker Government when unusual needs are not met by the National Program.  It makes common sense to vote for the party that understands the needs of the Eastern Farmer. POSITIVE AND DECISIVE LEADERSHIP WILL BE RESTORED To GOVERNMENT  Responsibilities will be faced and problems resolved.  Decisions wil be based on principle and not on expediency.  The Nation's interest will be placed ahead of party consideration.  Decisiveness will replace procrastination and indecision.  Streamline parliamentary procedure for greater efficiency.  Senate reform limiting the length of appointments and making half of all appointments upon recommendation from the Provincial Governments.  Improve communications between the Government and its people.  UNITY AND NATIONAL PURPOSE  The Federal Government's responsibility is to provide a financial system:  to allow the provinces to make available to all Canadians acceptable standards of education, health and welfare services.  allow cooperation and assistance to the provinces to develop Canada's vast natural resources.  arrange for Canada to have full sovereignty over her own constitution.  establish a ministry of provincial-federal affairs.  C.M.H.C. loans extended to all areas of Canada.  cooperation with the provinces to develop an integrated system of national transportation and highway policy.  LABOUR MANAGEMENT RELATIONS  The rights of labour and management would be defended in the best interests of all concerned.  Adequate protection against all forms of monopoly and exploitation.  Training facilities to aid workers resulting from automation.  Establish a Universal Portable pension plan for all Canadians.  MAJOR FINANCIAL REFORMS WILL BE UNDERTAKEN  New Credit created by the Bank of Canada as production increases will be placed in circulation through pensions, family allowances and other forms of government spending.  Excess money will be drawn off through equitable forms of taxation to prevent inflation. ,  Establish a Municipal Development Bank to provide for essential social capital projects.  A long term programme of debt re-financing and retirement.  Taxes which impair, discriminate or restrict economic growth, will be eliminated.  Taxation system will be revised to ensure that citizens will be equitably [taxed] for those services they request of the State.  Establish "pay-as-you-go" . system designed to halt Canada's ruinous deficit finance policies.  Social capital requirements removed as far as possible from competition with industrial capital requirements.  Leave private capital for investment in private industry.  A REALISTIC NATIONAL DEFENCE POLICY  Accept and discharge our responsibility within the total Western defence system.  Appoint a non-partisan parliamentary defence committee to recommend policies based on secret security information.  Remove defence policy once and for all from partisan politics.  Work incessantly through all available channels to outlaw nuclear weapons and achieve disarmament and international peace.  INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS  Restore Canada's international prestige.  Assume an active role through the United Nations and other channels to promote peace.  Assume a greater role in assistance programmes to help underdeveloped nations to help themselves.  Seek membership in O.A.S. and assume obligations in the Western Hemisphere.  Strengthen ties and ideals of the Commonwealth and improve Canada-U.S. relations.  AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS WILL BE FACED  Recognize Federal Government's exclusive authority in the field of credit and currency, and provide for an expanded long term credit to farmers.  Provide additional storage capacity for livestock feeders in all parts of Canada.  Seek new export markets for greater stability with long range market prospects.  Establish two price systems for wheat and other products providing parity price on the domestic market.  Formulate agricultural policy to encourage and save the family farm.  Cooperation with the provinces to establish a comprehensive scheme of crop insurance.  INTERNATIONAL TRADE  Seek freer trade between nations and the progressive elimination of artificial trade barriers.  Encourage trade by accepting foreign currencies and extending loans of credit.  Full cooperation with the provinces to develop natural resources and to export raw materials, energy and finished products on a basis consistent with Canada's best interests.  A NEw STATUS FOR CANADIAN NATIONHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP  The goal will be for greater unity in Canada under one flag and Canadians of all origins will be united in mutual patriotism and common ideals.  Canada's national sovereignty will be preserved.  Legitimate rights of all minorities will be protected.  Extend franchise to all citizens over 18.  Judicial appointments on the recommendation of non-partisan advisory committee thus removing [them] from political patronage.  TRUTH AND MORALITY WILL BE RESTORED  Respect the eternal God and His right to man's allegiance.  CREEPING STATE SOCIALISM WILL BE HALTED  Business will be freed from unnecessary government interference.  Management and labour will be encouraged to work together as partners to increase production and raise living standards for all.  The State will assume its rightful responsibility to provide adequately enough for those unable to provide for themselves. Only the New Democratic Party has a clear-cut plan of action to deal with the problems facing Canada, and to ensure security for our future. The key to this plan of action is democratic economic planning to provide full employment.  By maintaining a high level of employment we will greatly increase Canada's Gross National Product. One-quarter of this increase will come back to the government as revenue, at existing tax rates.  Ibis is where the money will come from to pay for such social measures as Medicare and free higher education.  And what about Medicare? The Liberals have been promising it for years (beginning in 1919) -but still no plan. They have done nothing to implement the Hall Royal Commission which recommended the kind of Medicare enacted by a New Democratic government in Saskatchewan. Their most recent delaying tactic was to try to pass the buck to the provinces. Experience has shown that only a New Democratic government can be relied upon to enact a national plan.  EDUCATION  A New Democratic government would bring in legislation to enable every Canadian to receive a university education-free of charge-,as long as he or she possessed the talent to do so. This means free tuition and books, and additional assistance when necessary.  OLD AGE PENSIONS  New Democrats also believe that our present old-age pension provisions are inadequate. A New Democratic government would immediately raise the old-age pension to $100 a month at age 65, and provide cost-of-living allowances.  AUTOMATION  A New Democratic government will enact comprehensive legislation to deal with the growing challenge posed by automation and cybernation.  THE CONSUMER  Legislation will also be introduced to provide for fair packaging so that consumers will be able to compare prices without the aid of a computer. Price-fixing will be eliminated. There will be a consumces bureau testing the products available to Canadian shoppers and making the results of the tests known to the consuming public.  INCOME TAX  A 5096 increase, to $1,500 for single persons and $3,000 for married, in baisc income tax exemption.  INTEREST RATES  Reduction to three per cent from 6~i in housing act interest rates.  Compulsory disclosure of true interest rates on instalment buying.  WHEAT PAYMENTS  Guaranteed wheat payments of $2.50 a bushel on the first 1,000 or 2,000 bushels shipped by each farmer.  HIGHWAYS  Construction of a second trans-Canada high Way