1. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT  In the first six months the Clark government took steps to:  . Move the nation toward the most comprehensive Energy self-sufficiency program in oar history.  Help Canadians build a stake in their country by assisting Canadian ownership.  Help, Canadians own their own home through a mortgage and property tax credit ~program.  Give small businesses more security and recognition of their important role in the Canadian economy.  Build on the, economic potential .of Canada's regions.  Restore to the private sector its rightful role in the economic development of the country.  Restore international confidence in Canada.  Develop major new trade initiatives in South America and the Far East.  Provide more job opportunities for Canada's youth.  Increase research and development activities to raise the level of Canada's technology.  Establish a review of foreign investment in Canada.  Develop a National Tourism Strategy.  Assist Canadian farmers with such measures as the removal of the capital gins penalty on the sale of family farms.  2. FINANCIAL INTEGRITY  In its first six months, the Clark government:  • Took positive and realistic steps to reduce the national debt and federal spending.,.  Moved to increase Parliament's control of public funds by developing, long range-spending forecasts, increasing information available to the public and sunset legislation. Increased control and accountability. of Crown corporations and lessened intrusion of these into the lives of Canadians.  • Undertook a study of public service over classification to reduce expenditures and lessen morale problems in the service.  Established project manager responsibility for cost overruns on major projects. .  Created the Privatization Unit in Treasury Board to reduce the number of Crown corporations.  Deferred 19 relocation schemes which served more political than national interests.  Created the expenditure Management Service to make Cabinet Ministers fully responsible for all departmental spending.  3. BUILDING ON  REGIONAL POTENTIAL  In just six short months, the Clark Government has:  Provided tax breaks for fisheries vessel construction.  So Appointed a Grain Transport Coordinator to assure greater benefit from agricultural potential of the Prairies:  Completed--an export contract for barley proving the potential of Churchill; as a long season port.  Allowed local and regional air carriers access to additional routes on a competitive basis  Granted additional VIA Rail service on northern Ontario Winnipeg line, on a six month trial  Provided talc incentives for development project in the Atlantic provinces and the Gaspé.  The Government also took steps to :,~~ ,  Formulate a Beef Import Policy to reach full development in livestock production potential.  • Give full consideration to social and economic impact before any rail line abandoned merits are carried out.  • Expand grain handling facilities at Prince Rupert. .  • Support revitalization of Sydney Steel to re-employ laid-off workers.  • Develop in Newfoundland a Marine Research Institute.  • Expand and extend economic incentives in. the Montreal area.  4. THE NEW FEDERALISM  In its first six months, the Clark Government:  • Granted off-shore mineral rights to British Colombia, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland  Turned Loto-Canada over to the provinces.  Improved federal-provincial relations to demonstrate to Quebecers and all Canadians that there is a future for Quebec in A  New Federalism  Included Native Peoples as full participants 'u future constitutional negotiations.  Organized a National Economic Policy Conference to plan with the provinces the direction of our national economic development.  Restored to Parliament its role as central decision-maker.  Held the first meeting of full Cabinet outside Ottawa, in Quebec City.  5. MAKING THE INDIVIDUAL COUNT:  q; In six months the Clark Government has:  Developed a wide-ranging and workable freedom, of information policy to open government to more public scrutiny.  • Instituted a policy of appointing more women to senior positions in government and the public service.  • initiated a full review of health care insurance policy.  • Established a special committee to study the special needs of handicapped and disabled Canadians.  • Reinstated movies for women's programs including extension of funds for native women's programs.  Established a special committee to examine the role of the voluntary sector.  It also took steps to:  Investigate Statistics Canada, including aspects which may touch on individual Canadians.  Refer allegations of human rights violations immigration cases to the Human Rights Commission:  • Respond to consumer and small business: concerns about implementation of metric conversion in the retail food sector::  Extend widowed spouses' allowances: :  Create a business deduction for spouses--: who work with small, family companies, thus recognizing the important role played by women. JOB PROTECTION   - Make technological change and shutdowns negotiable items.  - Minimize job losses from technological change through shorter hours (with no loss in pay), early retirement, longer holidays and flexible work arrangements.  - Increase advance notification period for technological change, shutdowns and layoffs.  - Ensure greater worker retraining by industry.  MORE JOBS FOR OUR TAXES  - Make corporate tax breaks conditional on job creation, worker retraining, new research and development and purchases of Canadian-produced equipment.  - Eliminate tax breaks which encourage unproductive corporate mergers.  - Set up a single-industry town diversification fund supported jointly by government and big business.  - Ensure the Foreign Investment Review Agency monitors the Job and Investment performance of foreign-owned firms.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FROM... LOW AND STABLE INTEREST RATES  - Set interest rates according to Canada’s job needs, not U.S. policies.  - Discourage unnecessary investment outflow with a speculator tax.  - Establish long-term, stable mortgage rates for homeowners.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH... SMALL BUSINESS  - Ensure banks provide more loans to small business at rates given to big business.  - Provide more risk and venture capital.  - Establish a more aggressive “Buy Canadian” program to include government contracts.  - Provide greater opportunities for women to establish small businesses.  - Make sure small business pays lower effective tax rates than big business.  - Eliminate this year’s $ 1.4 billion increase in federal consumer taxes.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH... COMMUNITY AND WORKERS’ CO-OPS  - Set up a Ministry of State for Co-operatives to co-ordinate services such as funding, marketing and research for co-ops.  - Establish an independent board drawn from the co-operative sector to determine the viability of co-ops.  - Provide seed capital to encourage creation of co-ops and worker ownership of viable firms unnecessarily abandoned.  - Give workers and communities the right of first refusal in the purchase of assets of viable closing firms.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH... FARMING  - Eliminate the federal taxes on farm fuels - up to 40c a gallon.  - Ensure grain prices cover the full cost of production including the cost of massive freight rate increases.  - Aggressively pursue an international grain pricing agreement.  - Set up a Western Grain Income Plan to provide for greater income stabilization.  - Establish a central selling agency for red meats.  - Ensure greater access for farmers to lower cost loans.  - Restrict the power of banks to force farmers out of business.  - Allow serious part-time farmers to claim up to $20,000 in farm losses against other income.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR... CANADA’S YOUTH  - Make a serious government commitment to setting out a timetable to reach the goal of providing a job for every Canadian willing and able to work.  - Expand apprenticeship training through an industry levy-grant system.  - Increase funding for post-secondary education with more flexibility in educational models to ease the bridge between school and work.  - Make sure government retraining programs provide a basic level of literacy for all young people to allow them the flexibility to adapt to new job opportunities of advanced training.  - Establish a Youth Initiative Fund which provides assistance to challenge young people to demonstrate how they would meet community and national needs through projects to conserve energy; protect the environment; assist the elderly; expand and protect our natural resource base; improve community health facilities; and counsel this peer group in gaining employable skills.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FROM... FAIR TRADE  - Ensure greater Canadian content agreements with foreign-owned corporations.  - Establish trade agreements for key industries which face unfair foreign competition.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH... PRODUCTIVE PUBLIC INVESTMENTS  - Invest in Canada’s natural resources through measures such as reforestation and salmanoid enhancement.  - Provide municipalities with greater funding to undertake local economic initiatives.  - Develop new research and marketing services to aid small businesses, farmers and co-operatives.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR... NATIVE PEOPLE  - Adopt a constitutional amendment to recognize the right to self-government - with the necessary resources to make these governments viable.  - Make sure adequate economic and social development funds - controlled at the band level - are set aside to provide basic employment, housing, education, child welfare and health care services now available to other Canadians.  - Establish a land entitlement process.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR... WOMEN  - Ensure an active and systematic enforcement of the equal pay for work of equal value law.  - Extend mandatory affirmative action programs in both the public and private sectors.  - Ensure greater job protection from technological change.  - Provide greater financial assistance to help women get a start in small business and agriculture.  - Provide greater access to training and post-secondary education.  - Ensure part-time workers receive pro-rated benefits.  - Make child care accessible and affordable.  - Ensure adequate public pensions for all women.  - Increase funding for transition houses and advocacy centres to help battered wives seeking jobs, legal services, housing and health care.  - Develop social and health services specifically to meet the special needs of rural women.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR... AN ADEQUATE PENSION  - Establish pensions for all Canadian as a right.  - Make sure every elderly Canadian has an income at least equal to the poverty line.  - Give Canadians in the paid workforce an opportunity to provide for retirement through a fully portable, fully indexed Canada Pension Plan.  - Ensure all pension credits form public and private plans are shared equally by spouses.  - Introduce pension portability, protection for part-time workers and equal treatment for men and women in all pension plans.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR... ETHNOCULTURAL COMMUNITIES  - Create a federal multiculturalism department.  - Increase multicultural representation on federal boards and commissions.  - Encourage establishment of multicultural research and resource centres.  - Ensure adequate funding of second language training.  - Establish affirmative action programs in the federal public service for visible minorities.  - Provide appropriate redress and compensation for injustices against Japanese and Chinese Canadians.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO... SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT  - Ensure cleanup of toxic waste dumps by industry and government and adequate compensation for victims of pollution.  - Establish a federal Safe Drinking Water Act.  - Reduce allowable level of auto emissions and ban lead in gasoline.  - Review federal testing and approval of pesticides.  - Provide necessary access and funding for public input into environmental impact studies.  - Encourage development of “clean” energy by shifting funding from conventional energy sources.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR... QUALITY HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION  - Restore federal funding and service cuts of recent years.  - Provide for escalating penalties to provinces that extra-bill and charge user fees.  - Introduce new preventive health initiatives.  - Encourage all provinces to expand their universal health care services such as pharmacare for seniors and children’s denticare.  - Provide financial aid to part-time students - most of whom are women.  - Expand funding for women seeking an education needed to pursue non-traditional jobs.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR... FAIR TAXATION  - Eliminate unproductive and unfair loopholes in both corporate and personal tax systems.  - Introduce a “minimum tax” for wealthy Canadians who don’t pay their fair share of taxes.  - Eliminate the federal sales tax on farm fuels.  - Eliminate this year’s $ 1.4 billion increase in federal consumer taxes.  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR... PEACE AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT  - Stop cruise missile testing in Canada.  - Make Canada a nuclear weapons free zone.  - End nuclear weapons component production in Canada and convert this production to other industrial needs.  - Restrict the sale of nuclear technology and fuel.  - Increase funding for disarmament education and research in Canada.  - Promote a nuclear weapons freeze by the U.S. and U.S.S.R.  - Support a “no first use” pledge by NATO and the Warsaw Pact.  - Work at the United Nations for a comprehensive nuclear weapons test ban, a space weapons ban and a global referendum on disarmament.  FROM ONE END OF THIS COUNTRY TO THE OTHER. Canadian men and women have a decision to make - about our future, and our children's future. We face two choices: our future could be one of new opportunity and optimism;  or. we can decide to continue our present course to a future of insecurity and limited opportunity. The federal government we elect will determine which path we take.  Brian Mulroney and John Turner speak for the privileged few.  Conservative and Liberal governments have been shifting more and more opportunities to a privileged few In the private sector - banks, big businesses and the very wealthy - asking them to determine our future.  .The result has been security far a few Cana-dians - and recession for the rest of us: women. pensioners, small businesses, farmers, working people and - especially - the youth of Canada.  Unfortunately, the only new thing the Liberals and Conservatives have to offer are two new faces: John Turner and Brian Mulroney. With these two corporate lawyers, the already-privileged will have an even louder voice.  New Democrats speak for Canadians like you.  It's time for a new direction. Up to now, banks and big businesses have had all the clout We. and our families, need a stronger voice In the future.  Canadians like you need a federal government that cares. We need a government that will listen to us, that will understand our hopes and concerns. and will help us take advantage of every opportunity to Improve our lives.  When Canadians had little opportunity for security in their retirement. New Democrats met the challenge and were the first to speak up for, and win. universal public pensions.  When Canadian families had little opportunity to free themselves of the threat of bankruptcy because of illness. New Democrats met the challenge and were the first to bring in universal health care.  Canada's New Democrats will meet new challenges by speaking up for a future where ordinary Canadians, and their communities, can have:  The opportunity to have a Job.  The opportunity of equality for women.  The opportunity to receive quality public  services.  The opportunity to benefit from a fair tax system.  The opportunity for nuclear disarmament and peace.  That's the future we've all been working fan A future with a democratic redistribution of opportunities. Where all Canadians are given the opportunity to realize their full potential and have a greater say in the Canada our children will inherit from us.  THE OPPORTUNITY  as WE STOP INTO CANADA'S NEW give every Canadian the opportunity to work. We5&4 FUTURE, the opportunity of every Canadian to can create these opportunities by retraining our haw a Job must be our next government's first workforce, upgrading our natural resources, priority. Only through secure employment will ping the potential of new technologies and Canadians be able to regain their personal dignity rebuilding our devastated manufacturing sector. and participate fully In our society. This Is most All we need now is a federal government with urgent for women who continue to be denied equal the political will to make fall employment Its equal access to Job opportunities and for our most pressing priority. youth who deserve a future of hope and not a future of despair.  Canada, more than most other countries, still has the natural, human and financial resources to  Brian Mulroney and John Turner will continue to leave it to the corporate few.  In recent years. Liberal and Conservative governments have been taking tax dollars from ordinary Canadians to give more and more opportunities to banks and big businesses. In fact, corporations today are pocketing four times more in tax breaks than they were ten years ago. These giveaways" of public funds total more than $25 billion a year - about the same as our total federal deficit - and take about $1.000 from every Canadian.  Almost all the tax breaks are going to the largest corporations. In fact. less than one per cent of Canada's corporations get almost eighty per cent of the tax breaks.  paid off In new Job opportunities for Canadian men and women. That's because they're in busi-ness to make profits-not to create Jobs.  The Liberals and Conservatives say the tax breaks will be used to create new Jobs.  However, this massive national Investment In our country's banks and big businesses hasn't  TO HAVE A jOb  The corporations have used the tax breaks in ways that makes sense to them: to raise their profits, invest abroad, finance takeovers and reward their shareholders. Unfortunately, none of these have created Jobs.  What's worse, Brian Mulroney and John Turner are insisting that we rely on more of these tax breaks to get things done in the future. Coming from the boardrooms of banks and giant corporations, they want to do what's best for the favoured few. But that won't distribute any opportunities to the rest of us.  In recent years. Liberal and Conservative governments have also taken away Job oppor-tunities from ordinary Canadians by letting our interest rates rise to levels set in the United States. Only the banks have benefited from these high Interest rates - with opportunities to Increase their profits even more.  That's the future Brian Mulroney and John Turner have In mind for us.  New Democrats will keep on fighting for Job opportunities for you  The opportunity of a secure Job is the most Important concern of Canadian men and women, This basic human need is far too important, to us and our children's future, to be left to a few people in the boardrooms - especially with their past record.  New Democrats will continue to present alter-natives that work for, and with. Canadian men and women to develop all the job opportunities our communities and resources have to often.  Opportunities to see more Jobs for our taxes. New Democrats will Insist that larger corporations be accountable to the Canadian taxpayers who provide them with billions of dollars In tax breaks, tax breaks should be  made available only to those big businesses o who use the money to provide new jobs or to save existing ones through retraining. 411  Opportunities for greater Job protection from technological change and layoff.  Canadian men and women must have .a greater say in corporate decisions that drama-tically affect their lives and the future of their communities. They cannot continue to be the victims of these corporate decisions. particularly women who work in Jobs most vulnerable to technological change. Corporations must negotiate the terms of technological change, layoffs and shutdowns with their employees and the community. Those corporations must share in the costs of lay-offs and the benefits of technological change111  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FROM...LOW AND STABLE INTEREST RATES  set interest rates according to Canada's job needs, not U.S policies.  Discourage unnecessary investment outflow with a speculator tax.  Establish long-term, stable mortgage rates for home-owners.  Opportunities to get more Jobs from tower, stable Interest rates. Hundreds of thousands of new Jobs would be created In Canada if our federal government ensured ^06 lower, and stable, interest rates. Small businesses, farms and homeowners would then have the confidence to invest in Job-creating initiatives. New Democrats will continue the fight for an interest policy independent of the United States In order to create a stable climate for new Job opportunities.  Opportunities to promote community sources of new Jobs. Our new future must be one of expanded opportunities - ex-tended to Canadians who are far away from corporate boardrooms: small businesses. farms, community and worker cooperatives. native communities, ethnic groups, and others. The Initiative of these ordinary Canadians should be encouraged, and supported, by their federal government  For men and women in one-industry towns and rural areas, the desire and desperate need to succeed almost guarantees that Jobs will be created.  There are many examples - all across Canada - of communities, workers and small businesses who have taken over profitable enterprises which were abandoned by runaway corporations. The former owners pulled up stakes to seek even greater profits overseas.  NEW jOBS  NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR... Canada's youth  Make a serious government commitment to setting out a time table to reach the goal of providing a job for every Canadian willing and able to work.  Expand apprenticeship training through an industry levy-grant system  Increase funding for post secondary education with more flexibility in educational models to ease the  bridge between school and work.  Make sure government retraining programs provide a basic level of literacy for all young people to allow them the flexibility to adapt to new job opportunities or advanced training.  Establish a Youth Initiative Fund which provides assistance to challenge young people to demonstrate how they would meet community and national needs through projects to conserve energy; protect the environment; assist the elderly; expand and protect natural resource base; improve community health facilities; and counsel this peer group in gaining employable skills.  At the same time, there have been thousands of opportunities - and Jobs - lost In the last year because workers, and their communities, did not have the information and financial assistance to rescue themselves.  Opportunities to get our fair share of Jobs from foreign trade. Canadians need New Democrats In Parliament to protect key Canadian industries that face unfair competition ^Ok from foreign countries where poverty Is shamelessly exploited. -New Democrats will continue to fight for fair trade agreements.  In order to protect the Jobs of Canadian workers, and create new opportunities. For-eign corporations who sell their goods In Canada must also agree to Increased Cana-dian content to create new Jobs In our country.  THE OPPORTUNITY FOR CANADIAN  CANADIAN WOMEN deserve to see a future free of discrimination. We must see an end to the second-class status of women in Canada's economy.  Brian Mulroney and John Turner are wining to sacrifice women's concerns.  Women in Canada are denied equal opportunities and remain the least secure members of our society: almost one in five single-parent women  the sole supporters of their children - Is  unemployed;  a the average income of a woman in the paid  workforce is 60 percent that of a man;  a three times more women than .men are  forced to work part-time;  a women who work In the home have no  economic rights. p a full 60 percent of our country's poor are  women, primarily older women and single  parents.  The Liberals and Conservatives have suddenly started talking about equality for women. But they still have no idea how to eliminate these inequities. Their answer for this. as for everything else, is to rely on 'the corporate sector' to make whatever changes are necessary - as long as they are profitable.  At a recent women's meeting. Brian Mulroney said: "There's going to be none of these improve-ments until such time as the economy is boom-ing again."  But we can't wait. The desperation of a society In economic crisis, is reflected in the increasing number of battered women, abused children and victims of violent crime.  Mulroney went on to sidestep a question on whether the Conservatives would help narrow the gap between men's and women's wages by requiring companies doing business with the federal government to have equal pay for work of equal value.  John Turner, at a recent meeting of Liberal women, said that he would not support compulsory affirmative action for women In the private sector, instead, he "prefers to negotiate such goals on the basis of goodwill".  'Goodwill', in the past. has done nothing for the women of Canada.  OF EQUALITY WOMEN  New Democrats will continue the fight for women's equality.  Canadian women cannot wait for the 'corporate sector' to provide them with equal opportuni-ties. New Democrats will insist on equality for women in Canada, now.  Only the New Democratic Party has a record of equal opportunities for women. New Democrats were the first to elect a woman provincial party leader. New Democrats were the first to elect a women as national party president And the New Democratic Party is the only one in which women hold as many elected positions as men.  New Democrats believe that these opportuni-ties for equality should be extended to all Canadian women. And we'll continue to fight for It - even after the election.  THE OPPORTUNITYTO RECEIVE QUALITY PUBUCSERV1CES  CANADIAN FAMIUES need universal, quality  public services: pensions for our parents, educa-tion and family allowances, for our children, health care for the whole family, unemployment insurance If we lose our Jobs and a clean environ-ment for future generations. These are the services Canadian families have paid their taxes for. And we expect our federal government to provide these-services as a major priority.  Brian Mulroney and John Turner keep telling us we cant afford quality public services  The conservatives and Liberals are cutting off public services to ordinary Canadians to pay for their tax breaks to the privileged few.  The Conservatives' spokesman. John Crosble. says: "We have to be tough, mean and nasty and do all kinds of unpleasant things." He went on to say that this would mean "...more means testing so that programs (such as family allow-ances and pensions) are not universal." And Brian  Mulroney agrees with John Crosbie. In response to the drastic cuts in vital B.C. services, which especially affected women, he said: "Obviously. Bennett is going the right way."  John Turner also promises to increase give-aways to the privileged and, at the same time, "cut the deficit drastically" to pay for tax breaks to large corporations. This means fewer public services for Canadian families. Intact he was the first to introduce cuts in public services like Medi-care and education during his term as Finance Minister in the mid-70's.  New Democrats fought far public services In the past Well fight even harder In the future.  New Democrats won't allow cuts in the public services that Canadian families, like yours, need and deserve.  Ordinary Canadians remember that It was the New Democrats who Introduced universal health care In North America.  Canadians also remember that It was the New Democrats who fought for, and won. universal public pensions.  There Is more to be done: to ensure that elderly Canadians, particularly women, have ade-quate pensions; to provide dental care for all Canadian children; to properly fund our country's hospitals, and more.  Canada is a nation of caring people. We want to see our citizens well cared for when they're too young, too weak, or too old to fend for themselves. We don't want to see Canadians tossed aside when they retire, lose their jobs,  fall ill or have an accident.  Now. more than ever before, we need New Democrats in Parliament fighting for the quality public services Canadian families need and, indeed, are paying taxes to receive.  THE OPPORTUNITY TO BENEFIT FROM A FAIR TAX SYSTEM.  CANADIANS LIKE YOU are willing to pay their share of taxes - as long as it's fair. We want to see a tax system which does not allow wealthy Canadians to avoid paying taxes. And we want a system which doesn't tax the income of poor Canadians.  Brian Mulroney and John Turner will continue to pamper the privileged.  What ordinary Canadians have today is a. very unfair tax system, where thousands of people .who earn more than $50.000 a year don't pay a cent in income taxes, and hundreds of people who earn $200,000 a year are allowed to duck out on income tax. This unfair system also taxes small businesses and farms at a much higher rate than large corporations, and taxes pensioners and unemployed workers while the wealthy pay nothing.  The Liberals and Conservatives continue to" ignore this injustice. In fact, they plan to make it even worse. John 'Rimer recently said that ordi-nary Canadians may have to face more tax increases in the near future.  New Democrats will continue to fight for a fair tax system.  New Democrats, and most Canadians, agree that co-operation is most likely among people who feel they are being treated fairly. And we cannot build a new future without asking all Canadians to pay their fair share to support our public services.  New Democrats, and most Canadians will never accept a system where the wealthy pay little or no income taxes - while pensioners, mothers on welfare, the unemployed, part-time workers and the sick are forced to pay their full share.  New Democrats will speak out to ensure that wealthy Canadians pay their fair share of income taxes.  And New Democrats will fight against taxing Canadian families whose income is below the poverty line.  THE OPPORTUNITY FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND PEACE  A NATION. Canada Is In the unique o position to be a believable, trustworthy peace-maker. It is a special, and important, role for our country, and it is a crucial role if our children, and their children, are to see any future.  Brian Mulroney and John Turner talk about nuclear disarmament but support , the building of nuclear weapons.  Conservatives and Liberals support testing the cruise missile in Canada. They both support the continued use of our taxes to build and export parts for nuclear weapons and missile guidance systems.  Ordinary Canadians are being forced to make daily sacrifices in their Job security and public services in order to support the growing, deadly threat of nuclear war.  The Liberals and Conservatives are leading Canada to greater Involvement in the world's war machinery. Instead of being the believable voice for nuclear disarmament and peace.  Canadians want nuclear disarmament New Democrats will insist on It  Canadian families want our country to lead the world in speaking up for nuclear disarmament and peace. We want to leave our children a peaceful and productive world.  New Democrats will continue to speak, force--fully, for nuclear disarmament and peace - by opposing Canada's involvement in the preparation for nuclear war.  In human terms, worldwide military spending -o$1.000.000,000,(XX). every year- is robbing billions of people of a chance at a lifetime without starvation and poverty. As our world spends | more and more on arms. there Is less and less for ' human development.  New Democrats have always pressed for nuclear disarmament and peace at every oppor-tunity. We were the only ones opposed to cruise missile testing In Canada. And New Democrats play a leading role In nuclear disarmament organ-izations in Canada.  New Democrats will fight, on behalf of ordi-nary Canadians, for nuclear disarmament and peace. Because, without peace, our children won't have a future. JOHN TURNER  We must not fear what is new  1. General  We must not fear what is new. We are the most fortunate cluster of people on the face of the globe.  We must believe in ourselves and in our country.  Together we will welcome the future with courage and conviction and confidence.  I commit myself to promoting a new harmony in our country; among our regions, among our provinces and between the workers and business; less confrontation and more conversation and consensus... I will lead an effective government, a cost conscious government, but a sensitive and compassionate one that will be dedicated to growth and stability. I will lead a government and a party that is open, accessible and accountable. I will be responsive to our Parliament and conscious of our legislatures, and I will be committed to reform, to the equality of all Canadians, and the equality of opportunity everywhere in our country.  We must have excellence in government where our best ideas and our best people can be attracted, in the service of our country.  I believe 1 have what it takes to do the job. There is nobody in this leadership race who has enjoyed the combination of public and private service that I have had in this country.  I have had fourteen years of service in the Parliament of Canada. including ten as a Cabinet Minister. For the last eight years I have been in private life a legal advisor to businesses, big and small, in this country and around the world.  I know and understand the concerns of business and labour. When I was Minister of Finance I was elected by the member countries of the International Monetary Fund to be Chairman of its Executive Committee.  I believe the search for excellence needs to be at the centre of all our achievements. Excellence in individual achievements, in business and in government, which pushes us  to continually seek better and more creative ways of doing things. Excellence pushes us to leave no stone unturned in achieving our goals. It makes us strive for perfection as we compete at home and abroad.  I have returned to public life because I have a mission: to lead Canada back into growth and to restore national confidence and harmony.  (M)Sl. John's -April16.984 P-2)Sauft-Stt-Mane - May 31'-i934  2. Acid Rain  I am among the ten or fifteen people in this country who have canoed virtually every major waterway in the country, and right into the Northern Territories. I do not want to see that heritage sullied and perhaps lost forever.  We are not pure and we have to look towards cleaning up our own air and our own water, at a pace that makes sense in terms of the costs, and we have to move towards escalating our negotiations with the United States.  1 would move to see the President and say 'look how about a clean air treaty'.  But we've got to go to the United States with clean hands. We've got to clean up our own act too.  I will sell your wheat  3. Agriculture  I will sell your wheat.  The greatest risk takers of all Canadians are the farmers. They are at the mercy of elements beyond their control... the weather, the soil, inflation, high interest rates, low commodity prices and cut-throat competition.  We must look at increased borrowing authority under the Farm Credit Corporation, increased flexibility on cash advances for the grain stored on the farm and again possible reduction in fertilizer costs because of the taxation affecting natural gas. and the costs that go into fertilizers.  We were selling in many countries in the world; the markets are out there. The markets are there  to allow diversification here too; it does not need to be just wheat, it can be many grains, and it can be many other kinds of food. I thing it is very important for us to move towards diversification.  We must give small business and small farmers the incentive to produce more. They must be the engines that drive our economy and create our jobs. Farmers need more cash flow. fewer regulations, more freedom to exercise their talents and entrepreneurial skills.  New technology must be harnessed for the benefit of the farmers. The agricultural sciences must be made to embrace them. The new Hydrology Laboratory in Saskatoon is a step in this direction - a step to make the farmers more competitive and to provide them with new products to meet the new demands of our customers.  I believe in bilingualism.  4. Bilingualism  f believe in bilingualism When I was Minister of Justice I piloted the Official Languages Bill through Parliament. (successfully negotiated with the four western Attornie-Generals so that they wouldn't challenge that Bill before the Supreme Court of Canada. I am deeply committed to the principle that Canadians have the right to communicate with their federal government in the official language of their own choice. My commitment remains as strong as it was then, and I am pleased that the thrust of the Official Languages Act is now incorporated in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  Bill 10» went too far. f can understand the Government of Quebec wanting to protect the French language, because Quebec and the people of Quebec are living in an island of English speaking people in North America, and they need that protection, but it went too far and it limited the fundamental rights of the English speaking minority.  I would like to see the Charter and the recognition of the equality of the language better reflected in Quebec '  (think the goal should be to restore the accessibility of the English speaking minority to the full rights of the English language in this Province.  While I would think it would be good for Canada, and good for Ontario to have the extension of the French language services in Ontario, it is clearly a matter for the Legislature of Ontario, hopefully in cooperation with the three political parties, to reach an accommodation that would satisfy the people of Ontario. We are dealing with something that goes right to the heart of our national unity, and the best solution is a publicly agreed upon solution and not a Judicially imposed one.  We need an urgent review  5. Crown  Corporations  We need an urgent review of all Crown corporations to determine which need to stay under government ownership and which are much better suited to the private sector.  Crown Corporations that remain under public ownership must be subjected to much firmer control and accountability to Parliament '  Canadair and de Havilland;  these are prime examples of what can go wrong when the government gets into commercial businesses and fails to exercise proper supervision and control. Before these companies have stopped losing money t venture to say it will have cost us 5 billion dollars. Both companies are, however, producing good aircraft and we must ensure that these lines stay in production as long as they can be sold in world markets. The long-term future, however, lies in co-production with the few major manufacturers left in the world.  Petro Canada; I believe there is a role for a 'state-owned company in exploration and development It gives government a window on what is going on in tine oil and gas business. I believe Petro Canada should be given a clear mandate to operate with a view to profit Otherwise there is no clear discipline for management and no way to judge its efficiency.  Peace Is a concern to all of us  Defence-Cruise Missile - Peace  I wilt follow in the footsteps of our last three leaders in the search for peace and international stability. I will seek ways to take advantage of the momentum generated by the initiatives of Prime Minister Trudcau - ways to give it a new thrust.  Peace is a concern to all of us. The old fears of war have been replaced by an even greater fear - fear for the survival of the human race. The devastation of modern weaponry defies the most fertile of imaginations, '  ... In terms of defence policy. we must fulfill our commitments to our European and American partners in NATO. We have to fulfill our commitments to the United States in our mutual defence of this continent... whatever that takes in reasonable budgetary terms. I would want to fulfill.  I believe that the government made the correct decision in allowing the testing of the cruise missile. It is an unarmed missile, it is in furtherance of our treaty obligations to our European allies and our European partners and if we are going to have any influence in working towards world peace, we first of all must fulfill our commitment to our NATO allies.  And then having done so (tested the cruise), we can use the leverage that that commitment gives  us, to move as the Prime Minister has been moving, towards promoting a multilateral disarmament conference and multilateral disarmament agreements.  I believe, that unless this country fulfills its obligations internationally, it will not have the clout for credibility to argue towards general disarmament.  Regulatory bodies should be careful  7. Deregulation  Where a service to the public must take the form of a monopoly or a virtual mono regulatory body to protect the interests of the public is essential respite new forms of long-distance competition the telephone service remains a monopoly both a: TV local level and in long distance telephone service. In broadcasting the limited availability of TV channels and radio frequencies prevents the fn» say of competition from holding swsk These are just two examples WERE regulation must continue.  o'Regulatory studies should be careful not to percetuate monopolistic situations in the face of changing technology of new commercial developments. They should not see it AS their function to protect the people they are regulating. This is a constant danger wherever regulatory boards and commissions exist *  It would be foolish for Canada to try to ignore the U.S. example of the benefits that can accrue from casing up on outdated regulatory regimes in aviation.  8. Economy (general)  Throughout the next decade and perhaps even longer, our basic task as Liberals and as a government is to give priority to the economy.  It is growth that will allow us to afford better protection for the disadvantaged and to pass on the Liberal heritage of compassion for the less fortunate members of our society.  There is a very simple principle underlying growth, one that we have perhaps had a tendency to forget; that is the pursuit of excellence.  We are going to have some stability in our economic life, and some predictability so that capital investment can be made on the assumption that the rules are not going to change in the middle of that investment.  No economy can survive and grow with aged machinery and plants.  No economy can survive and grow by government alone.  No economy can survive and grow without managing the new technologies.  No economy can survive and grow without a well-educated and well-trained work force.  No economy can work where government does not reach out to its partners in the economy; business and labour, It is particularly important that workers, organized or not. be made part of a national partnership, and that joint efforts be made towards further efficiency, competitiveness, more safety at work, enhanced quality of work and job satisfaction.  National economic policy must be predictable and stable so that businessmen and women feel confident enough to invest. Investment is necessary for  JOHN TURNER  expansion - expansion is necessary for growth - growth is necessary for jobs, 4  I have no problem philosophically with a mixed economy, t have no problem with business/government co-operation and with properly conceived and properly controlled crown corporations. I do believe that the market works... and that job creation must be accomplished fundamentally through businesses in the private sector, particularly, small businesses. Our efforts should be channeled to provide the right climate for business.  The Liberal Party recognizes that the rote of government in the economy must evolve, and government must adapt to a changing world. The government's role is to facilitate and simplify things.  Ultimately, our economic strategy must be to excell in everything we do.  On the revenue side. we are expecting a revitalization of the economy so there will be growth in revenue which will help to re-establish the balance. ^  Deficit  Without getting into what the deficits do to us in terms of impeding investment, keeping interest rates high, jeopardizing the exchange rate;  what they are really doing to us, if we do not get them under control, is forcing us to pay twenty cents on every tax dollar to pay the interest on our debts, and a good deal of that is being paid to foreigners.  Over a period of time. unless we get our expenses into better kilter with our revenues and unless we bring that deficit down to reasonable proportions, we are going to leave a debt for our children that they are not going to be able to manage and they are not going to enjoy this country in the same fashion we were able to enjoy it 8  How would we achieve this;  (decreasing the deficit) well. by limiting our incremental spending; by finding more efficient ways of delivering social services; by avoiding duplication of Federal and Provincial Governments services; by creating a more efficient public administration.  « Education is the best.  Investment we can get to start to combat unemployment.  9. Education  Education is the best investment we can get to start to combat unemployment.  We must cure the current mismatch between our educational system and the skills needed for today and tomorrow. A national effort is needed to mobilize our educational resources for a technological age.  As a nation we must equip our young people for the future, we must do it legitimately and as a number one priority.  In this time of the country's history where education and training arc so crucial to our health, our prosperity and our ability to compete; and so crucial to the ability of our generation to enjoy a meaningful intellectual life. any diversion of funds away from those programs, any failure to come to terms with the proper priorities in terms of education, any measures that restrict total accessibility of the young people who have the ability to gain something from a university education, are counter to the interest of this country.  I will challenge business, labour and other governments to establish a much broader apprenticeship-work study program so young people coming out of school will have a job. I will work with the provinces to modernize our technical schools and  to stick with it. Only in this way can they be trained for the higher paying jobs of the future. *  We will have to move into the new industrial society. We will have to become comfortable and educated and trained in the new technology. Our young people will have to be educated in ways and in a fashion that will qualify them for jobs.  We contribute 50 cents on every dollar to post secondary education and together with the provinces we have got to restore education as a prime investment in the future, and we have got to ensure that the provinces distribute that 50 cents on every dollar the way it was meant to do in education and not divert it for other purposes.  Obviously education is a provincial matter and falls under provincial jurisdiction, but any type of inter-provincial cooperation that we can achieve to assess how our younger people should be educated few the jobs of the future, I would encourage. Indeed whatever federal leadership the provinces would tolerate. I would encourage.  We do have a great contribution to make in the post secondary field in supplying about 50% of the funds to university education and that should allow us some reason, and some justification for participation in the task.  We must meet with the provinces to ensure that our post secondary educational funding and grants, and student aid is channeled properly by the provinces, and is not reduced.  universities to pursue excellence in our teaching and research. Helping young people through the first employer's door must t»e a priority we all share. We must give young Canadians experience to put on their resume.  Young women must be encouraged to take science and math courses in high school - and  I don't believe In proportional representation because It produces weak governments  10. Electoral Reform  I would think that we could do it (provide regional representation) far quicker and in a far more populous way if we were to do it through active political parties and the representation in those parties.  1 don't believe in proportional representation because it produces weak governments and if we want a strong federal government proportional representation is not the way to do it 2  (10-1) Vancouver - March 30.984 110-2} Saskatoon - Policy forum - April 29.964  Energy will remain vital for the western Canadian future  11. Energy/NEP  Energy will remain vital for the western Canadian future. Coal, oil and gas can bring down-stream benefits not only to the country as a whole, but the western Canadian economy.  The National Energy Program was based on premises, not all of which have been borne out in fact.  particularly world price. I am in agreement with the objectives of the program, namely progressive Canadianization of our industry, self-sufficiency and a fair sharing of revenue between governments and producers.  The program (NEP) will need to be reviewed when the agreements with the producing provinces come up for review in 1985 and 1986. Changes must not be disruptive and must recognize the validity of existing investment under the present rules.  I think that we must emphasize the western sedimentary basin with some enhanced recovery, a revewed effort to get what is there in the limitless tarsands and to get at the heavy oil because I think that this is the fastest route to self sufficiency in Canada.  One of the first things that I am going to do is call the Government to Newfoundland back to the table. I bring a fresh face to these negotiations, a fresh attitude, t don't bear the scars of what might have gone before. I believe we must escalate the exploration and drilling in those waters and bring what we have there to fruition.  I believe that preference should be given, in terms of employment and believe that whatever joint offshore management board is set up, ought it to recognize an equal voice for the people of Newfoundland with some sort of mechanism to break a deadlock.  I want to lead a government of consultation not confrontation, of consensus not ultimatums  12. Federalism  I believe in a strong federal government. I believe in a federal government that is strong enough to protect our minorities, strong enough to give us equal opportunities across the country, strong enough to respond to crises.  I believe that Canadians want a strong federal government which represents the sum of the parts and is greater than the sum of the parts.  The way to begin (rebuilding Canada) is by fostering a new sense of purpose - a new direction - in this country. The time has come where there must be co-operation between the federal and provincial governments. Between business and labour, between business, labour and government. I want to lead a government of consultation not confrontation, of consensus not ultimatums.  Federal - Provincial Relations  I want to end the bickering and bitterness that is denying us our national destiny. I want to give the word National real meaning for all Canadians.  I promise you a new harmony, ( promise you a strong national government. I promise you a government that will seek concensus, not confrontation. I promise you a government that is willing to negotiate, a government that will not issue ultimatums and I pledge that we are going to work together and concentrate on the real target which is to present to our children an even better style of life than we have enjoyed.  We have got to have a closer harmony between the federal and the provincial governments across Canada. The way we have been treating ourselves, we have been balkanizing ourselves. The provinces have been starting to put up barriers against the movement of goods and services and people across the provincial boundaries. I think we realty have to find a new harmony and start pulling together and recognizing that the number one problem for this country is our ability to compete in a new tough world.  I think we have got to continue the thrust of the present government towards equalizing opportunity everywhere in Canada, and towards equalizing the fiscal capacity of our provinces everywhere in Canada as we have under the Federal Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act. I think it is very important that the coordination of services be a cooperative one.  I support the legislation  13. FIRA  I support the legislation. The purpose was not to catch minor transactions but was to control foreign acquisitions and extensions of major businesses or sensitive sectors in our economy affecting our national identity and economic soveignity.  ft is important when we need jobs so badly, and thereby investment, that we make it clear as a government that we welcome foreign investment from all over the world, subject to conditions imposed on that investment for the benefit of Canada.  If fishing is to be a healthy and viable industry off the coasts of this province (Newfoundland!  14. Fishery  I want to give to you, publicly, a strong personal commitment to the deep sea and inshore fisheries of this province, and reiterate my belief that all partners in your industry, management, plant workers, trawlermen, fishermen be treated equally. If fishing is to be a healthy and viable industry off the coasts of this province (Newfoundland) all partners to that industry must feel that they are receiving a fair share.  The restructuring of the companies into a new super company Fishery Products International, was probably, the only way to save the deep sea fisheries of Newfoundland, where many livelihoods depended upon those jobs.  My highest priority Is Jobs  I will help our young people find their first Job. I will assist them in the difficult transition from school to work  15. Job Creation  When we were younger, we had dreams. I want young people today to be able to dream as well. to dream of a future full of promises. They have to be able to count on us to help them realize those dreams.  My highest priority is jobs. Young Canadians must be equipped to work. compete and succeed in the post-industrial society.  I will help our young people find their first job. I will assist them in the difficult transition from school to work.  Job creation means re-establishing our competitive stance with the rest of the world;  it means re-establishing our competitive stance with our resource industries; it means equipping ourselves for the new technology and information world; it means more productivity from workers and from management; it means a climate for better investment It means predictability of economic policy and stability of economic policy so that the capital markets and businessmen will have confidence in investing. Unemployment is undoubtedly the major economic and social problem we face.  There must be a better co-ordination between the federal government and the provinces on education so that we're educating our young people for the jobs that are and the jobs that will be. We must get a business climate and a stability in economic policy and a tax regime in which people are going to invest and produce those new Jobs. Let's not underestimate the problem. Canada has a real job to do.  I will challenge business, labour and other governments to establish a much broader apprenticeship work study program so young people coming out of school will have a job. I will work with the provinces to modernize our technical schools and universities to pursue excellence in our teaching and research.  No economy can work where government does not reach out to its partners in the economy: business and labour  ... the program I've advocated across Canada of a national apprenticeship program, on the job training in co-operation with business, labor and the provinces to ensure our young men and women are helping in that first difficult step from school to the first job.  In the short term. for our young people we may need to envisage a youth job corps for enhancement of our environment and our infrastructure. There may be room also. in cooperation with our municipalities to improve our municipal infrastructures.  I believe in retraining. This is the third time I have recycled myself in the past fifteen years.  16. Labour  If given the confidence of this Party. would sit down with the leaders of Labour in this country, the leaders whom the Labour movement has elected, regardless of where they might think their political allegiance lies. because I know their national interest is shared by our national interest. They are concerned, as we are, for the working men and women of this country as to whether we are competitive as a nation. They are concerned about the safety of work, the quality of work. profit sharing and the adjustment and retraining of the existing work-force.  No economy can work where government does not reach out to its partners in the economy: business and labour. It is particularly important that workers, organized or not, be made part of a national partnership, and that joint efforts be made towards further efficiency, competitiveness, more safety at work. enhanced quality of work and job satisfaction.  For me. Liberalism is a happy marriage of social and economic Ideas  17. Liberalism  joined the Liberal Party of Canada more than two decades ago because I believed in and advocated helping those Canadians who need help, ensuring that alt Canadians have equal access to basic services and care.  I decided to return to public office because ( believe more than ever in the concept of Liberalism. For me. Liberalism is a happy marriage of social and economic ideas. Through the impetus given by our superior leaders, from Laurier through King, St. Laurent and Pearson to Trudeau, Liberalism has had an extremely important part to play in making Canada one of the most advanced societies in the world.  I intend to rebuild provincial bases, and I intend to maintain the bases here in Atlantic Canada as closely as I can because 1 think a Liberal is a Liberal is a Liberal, and that we have to mobilize. provincially and federally, if we are going to succeed as a national party.  I believe also that we are a Party that has embraced a wide spectrum of views. We are a Party of the radical centre, we are a party that is progressive, that believes in change, understands reform and can accommodate it 3  A strong federal government needs men and women to win seats in the House of Commons, I have undertaken within the councils of the Liberal Party, and in consultation with Liberals everywhere across Canada, to broaden the national scope and policy of the Liberal Party by attracting young men and women of quality and calibre who  credibly represent your communities in Saskatchewan, and in Manitoba. Alberta and British Columbia so that together we will elect them. and again form a national government in Ottawa.  My views are quite simple and straightforward. want a party that is open. I want a party that is visable, a party that is public. nothing behind closed doors. I want a party that is accessible to Canadians of all creeds and of all races no matter how long you have lived in this country. I want a party that is accountable. I want a Liberal Party that is run by the people we elect as officers of our Party. The people whom we elect as officers of our Party must account and report back to us. and justify their mandate as bearers of our trust as Liberals.  The Liberal Party, through its long service to our country, has historically earned the confidence of Canadians by blending great concern and compassion with fiscal responsibility in a broad range of policies and programs.  I will fight Tories, not Grits.  t said to the people of Western Canada that if I were elected leader of the Party. I would go out once a year, in each province and hold Town Hall meetings with the Leader of our Provincial Liberal Parties. I would be there to report to you Liberals as leader of your Party without anybody in between us, 7  I believe that all Canadians should have equal and fair access to all programs of the Government of Canada  18. Multiculturalism  I believe that all Canadians should have equal and fair access to all programs of the Government of Canada, and I believe in a Government which is responsive to all our citizens and which does not cater to select groups, establishments or elites, '  I am committed to the principle that Canadians of all origins be represented on our Federal Boards. on our Federal Advisory Committees, on our Federal Agencies and in our Courts, sitting as judges.  It is how we live; it's how we treat our own neighbors and it's how we welcome newcomers to this country that makes us a great multicultural nation. If we show tolerance and compassion and if we hold out the hand of friendship to our neighbors, at our work and in our schools and if we are generous in our family relationships, then that atmosphere will spread across the country, and it will do more than government or rights commissions or anything else. important as those may be. I urge you, let's live. let's live like Canadians.  One of the strengths of Canada is the various strands and fibres from which we all come. and 1 think its fundamental to a harmonious healthy Canada, that no matter where we come from, or how long we have lived in this country. or whatever colour of our skins or whatever creed we believe in, that the opportunities are unlimited, that there arc no barriers. Given a little hard work. given a little opportunity for education, given a little self discipline, given a little patience and a little luck. you can go all the way in Canada. You can go to the top of the business, you can go to the top of politics, you can go to the top of the professions.  I support the enactment of a Multicultural Act, which would put in statutory form, the various programs that we now have and would set out the statement of principles following section 27 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  Rather than set up a specific department, (of Multiculturalism) it would ensure in my government that every department fulfilled our multicultural program as recognized in a Multicultural Act .  We must expedite the process of setting land and mineral claims for the Native Peoples in order to give them financial freedom, more self reliance, and more autonomy  19. Natives  The social and economic problems of our Native Peoples must be dealt with more directly and more effectively than is the case now. The majority of Native Peoples the in the West, so Westerners are more aware of the problems and are bothered by the failure of our governments to cope with them.  The recently established Native Economic Development Fund must be made to work.  Particularly in Western Canada we have got to be conscious of the native children on the reserves. We are going to have to look for some more environmental and infra-structure work to get them something meaningful do to. In Western Canada we have more and more of a problem of native youth in the cities, (Regina. Winnipeg, Calgary). Because of the birth rate and high unemployment we are going to have a very difficult human problem to resolve unless we get right down to the job core.  I will use my friendships with people around the world, to find new markets for Atlantic products  20. Regional Development In Atlantic Canada  ft (Regional Development) means investment in modernization of our fisheries, our forestry, our farms, our mining industries and our small businesses.  It (Regional Development) means providing efficient transportation at reasonable cost so our producers can move their goods to market It means development of the offshore.  It (Regional Development) means a commitment to growth, to alter the balance of government dependence, so people of this region (Atlantic Canada) can once more take their place as full partners in Canada.  It (Regional Development) means opening new trade and new sales.  My program for small business would simplify the tax system for small and medium businesses  21. Small Business  Small business is the source of most of our new ideas - it can lead us into the information and post-industrial age, '  The thrust of my program for independent business will be three-fold:  -simplify the tax system for small enterprises and establish the appropriate tax structure for allowing adequate cash flow in the early start-up years.  -make regulations much less cumbersome and costly.  -open new opportunities for women and men from all backgrounds and all parts of the country to go into business for themselves.  My program for small business would simplify the tax system for small and medium businesses. It would provide a structure for continuous sufficient cash flow. especially in the first years of operation.  Small and medium-sized business have the flexibility it takes to make room for innovation in a wide variety of areas. Individual incentives, such as profit-sharing. have increased their potential. This  type of initiative must be encouraged and expanded.  This sector creates jobs more rapidly than any other sector. It is the most important element in regional development It can expand our foreign markets. It is a sector of particular interest to women. We have no firm statistics for the Canadian experience. However, in the U.S., more than one half of the small businesses have been started by women... the survival rate is higher for the women managed businesses.  I commit myself to maintain the social contract of the universality of health programs, of old age pensions and of family allowances  22. Social Programs  1 commit myself to maintain the social contract of the universality of health programs, of old age pensions and of family allowances in the continuation of the Liberal heritage that we have always carried, to the protection of citizens in difficulty.  Recent tough years have proved the worth of that system (social programs). We must also be prepared to look at new ideas for improving our social policies and solving the social policy concerns of tomorrow.  We must not cut back on policies and programs developed by this party over the last decades to protect the poor and disadvantaged.  I believe in enlarging the day care opportunities of women so that  they can participate in the work-force. am very conscious of the rights of single parents, and I want to reaffirm the principle of universality to our fundamental social programs. Medicare, Pensions and Family Allowances, 3  Pension Reform  Those who suffer most from inadequate retirement income are senior women living on their own. We cannot claim to have achieved social justice when so many women, who have contributed to building our country, whether in the work place or in their home, cannot live with security and dignity.  Much study has been done on pension reform, and many of you have made important contributions to those studies. We know what the problems are. It is time to stop studying and to start action.  Our senior citizens, especially senior women, must not be dogged by the fear of poverty. Social justice demands for them a secure and dignified retirement.  Our taxation system should be fair and equitable. It should encourage saving and investment  23. Taxation  I wilt continue to simplify the tax system to arrange the tax systems so that the cash flow in the early start-up years of a small business are encouraged; that research and development and technology is also quickly written off;  that the burdensome heavy hand of regulation is withdrawn, so some of the cost and cumbersome tasks of trying to run a business and deal with the bureaucracy is lifted; that the risks become commensurate to the reward, and that entrepreneurial instincts wilt be compensated in this country.  We must develop a climate in which young men and women can succeed. That means a tax system which encourages saving: a tax system which rewards initiative; a tax system which allows a small business to become a larger business to become a big business and to allow that type of success to happen.  We should also offer greater incentives to improve co-operation between universities and industry  24. Technology / R&D.  We have developed a network of agricultural research stations across the country. Each station has the necessary staff and equipment to be able to deal with farmers' problems on the spot This same strategy must be applied throughout industry.  I will also ensure that federal government policies and funding are not unduly biased towards large scale investments and R&D projects that tend to lend themselves much better to bureaucratic management standards.  I will use my connections throughout the world, not Just to find new markets for our goods and services, but to bring stability to the International economic system  25. Trade  I think that Canadians are now on the threshold of a very important challenge which I believe we have to meet The competition this country is facing from the other industrial countries and from the newly industrial countries is making it absolutely imperative for us to compete in what we manufacture if we are going to survive and prosper as one of the great trading nations of the world.  To further increase our international trade, we should become more innovative and more creative than our competitors in penetrating new markets, financing exports and marketing our products. I also recognize that our proximity to the United States means that sectoral free exchange agreements would make access to the American market easier.  I used to say that I treated the United States as our biggest and best customer, buying 70% of everything we produced. But I'd be like the owner of a general store, if I had one customer who bought 70% of everything I had on the shelf. I'd certainly invite him into the back room for a cup of coffee, but I wouldn't let him run my store.  And on the free trade matter I'm not an absolute free-trader, but I believe that there arc advantages in the current initiative of the Canadian Government to explore sectors of free trade, if they can be established to the advantage of Canada.  I will take the initiative to make Canada a leader in resolving the economic problems in an interdependent world.  We must move towards a diversification and development of the Western Canada economy based on that resource base.  26. Transportation  I think we must continue to expand our transportation infrastructure, we must continue to see what we can do for the processing of the resource base of Western Canada. We must move towards a diversification and development of the Western Canada economy based on that resource base, I think, we must ensure that Western Canadians get their share of new high tech post-industrial small businesses.  Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Is the most remarkable Canadian of our generation .  27. Trudeau  I admire him for a number of things: he secured the position of Quebec in our Confederation. He established the French fact in Ontario m the government and throughout the federal institutions of our country. He brought back the Constitution, enshrined the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and initiated the peace thrust; I think history will be very generous to him.  I believe that one of Mr. Trudeau's greatest achievements was to establish the French fact firmly in Ottawa and within the ranks of the federal government, and to allow citizens of either language to approach their government in Canada in the language of their choice.  Pierre Elliott Trudeau. is the most remarkable Canadian of our generation. He is a Chief of State of world-wide stature of which Canadians and all Quebec can be proud. I am convinced that History of our country will give an important and even preponderant place to Pierre Trudeau.  With him. the francophone presence in Canadian society, has reached the point of no return. A man with a broad view, he has undertaken, during the last few months, a crusade in favour of peace, of world peace, in order to re-establish political dialogue over heavy tensions and suspicions that give weight to the threat of total nuclear conflict.