INTRODUCTION  We all know about the broken campaign promises of the Tories about their inability to lead the country decisively; `end about the budget they presented to Canadians last December budget which was the crowning glory of six months of Tory flip-flops and inept leadership,a budget which led to the defeat of the government.  The Liberal Party voted against the Tory budget because:  - It was regressive. The effect would be the equivalent of a 1690 increase in income taxes for individual Canadians, but only 596.for corporations, including giant multinationals.  - It was badly timed and, in the face of world-wide recession, would have slowed economic growth and led to higher unemployment and double-digit inflation;  - It would have raised taxes by billions of dollars in four years, supposedly to finance the deficit, but in actual fact, not much would have been used against the deficit . A great deal would have been used to finance the mortgage tax deductibility scheme to the advantage of a minority in society.  We didn't vote against the budget because ft was tough. These are tough times, economically all over the world and we would have accepted a tough, realistic, economic program from the Tories.  But, we voted against this budget and helped bring down this government because they were tough on people, rather than on problems and that's the important distinction.' -- Pierre Trudeau, January 71, 1980.  JOBS  The Liberal Party is committed to a development philosophy for Canada. The 1980s will place an unprecedented demand for a highly skilled and motivated labour force, to deal with the vast array of new service industries and technologies that will shape our economic destiny.  To achieve the national goals of growth and prosperity, the liberal Party recognizes the paramount importance of strengthening and expanding employment opportunities for the student and non-student youth sector.  The governing principles of our policy are job creation, training, and placement. To this end the Liberal Party proposes to:  1. Continue the tax credit plan for job creation by private business firms and voluntary associations  2. Encourage results-oriented research and development from the private sector and publicly funded institutions with a target of 1.5% of GNP being spent on research and development.  3. Continue the job employment training program ()ET) as it existed under the previous Liberal government.  4. Ensure the department of regional economic expansion takes into account problems of youth employment.  5. Re-establish the full range of summer jobs programs cut back by the Clark government when youth unemployment Is at an unacceptable rate.  The Conservative government of Joe Clark has shown little or no interest in combatting unemployment thr drastic cutback in the Canada Works program is ample evidence of its disregard for human problems.  The Liberal Party, however; is confident and optimistic about the capabilities and potential of Cariadians4As a party and as a government; the Liberals have consistently striven for varied and innovative manpower and employment policies. The Liberal Party believes in opportunity for all Canadians whatever their age or their background.  ENERGY  PETROCAN  We must develop more Canadian sources of oil and gas In this unstable oil-hungry world, Canada must also have a secure supply of oil from other countries.  Petrocan was created by a Liberal Government, and we will strengthen its role in both these areas.  Petrocan will negotiate state-to-state oil purchases1. 3lt will continue its already-successful oil and ~as explorations.  The Tories claim that they will give back to Canadians parts of Petrocan:3They say nothing of the enormous administrative cost involved in their policy of giving Canadians what they already own.But their Petrocan policy would destroy an essential national corporation.  ENERGY SECURITY  The liberal Party is dedicated to increasing Canadian control of our oil industry. Our goal is to have one half of oil industry assets owned by Canadians within ten years.  We will establish the Petroleum Pricing Auditing Agency-to monitor Industial activities and profit. This agency will be instrumental in developing a national energy policy included in such a policy will be a "Made In Canada " price, fair to the consumers, and which will insure the development of Canadian supplies will not follow blindly the prices set by the 4i'M Cartel.  ENERGY CONSERVATION  Large increases in energy prices may encourage energy conservation But this hurts those on low income. This also disrupts the economy, adds to inflation, reduces economic growth.  A better way is to set efficiency standards for new construction, new appliances and new cars, and to subsidize improvements to existing homes.  The Liberals will set new standards and create new incentives for conservation. These, along with moderate price increases, will help Canadians to conserve energy.  RENEWABLE ENERGY  In the long term, Canada must depend on renewable energy. Other sources will get more and more expensive, and will continue to be major pollutants.  The Liberals will create the Alternative Energy Corporation of Canada, a subsidiary of Petrocan, to promote renewable energy in. Canada. In many cases renewable energy is now economically viable. In other cases, more technical development is needed . The new corporation will work to ensure that Canada has non-polluting renewable energy for the future.  VISION FOR THE 80s  So we will also develop industrial policies that will spur growth, that we'll increase Canadian ownership and control of the Canadian economy.3lNe will also create jobs. fur concern for the small business .sector, which was also demonstrated under the Liberal Government, will specifically recognize that about two-thirds of all the new Jobs created in Canada over the past five years were created by small business, 97% of which are Canadian owned. Pierre Elliot Trudeau, January 14, 1980.  Canada has so much to offer. Most of the natural resources in this vast expanse of land have not yet been tapped. New technology is bringing us closer to developing resources which are potentially abundant However we have to make some major decision which direction are we aiming our development whom are we doing it? We of the Liberal Party believe that our country must be generous towards its own citizen' Our social commitment will lead us to a society that is fairer to the less privileged. Equal opportunity also means banishing all discrimination based on sex, life ,,4tyle and social origin. We must therefore aim towards a future of development and justice for all. Canadians will see their country developing way which is unique in the world. New opportunities will help a maximum number of Canadians. Development of our secondary industry will allow us to deal with unemployment and help eliminate poverty. This is what the future has in store for us, starting today, if we make the right choice.  1. Liberals will set a “Made In Canada" pricing policy to secure adequate supplies of energy at reasonable prices."  Joe Clark accepts that world prices dictae the price of domestic oil.  The Liberals do not accept this because it means instead of offsetting OPEC pricing, it would endorse it. The Conservatives are willing to make an OPEC crisis a Canadian crisis bringing in its wake recession, inflation and unemployment. Liberals realize what is good for OPEC is not in Canada's best interest. The Liberal "Made in Canada" energy pricing policy would divorce the Canadian price of oil from OPEC pricing.  THERE WILL BE NO 18 A GALLON CLARK EXCISE TAX.  Liberals reject flatly the 18 a gallon Clark/rosbie excise tax. A tax the Conservatives have pledged for re-introduce if they are returned to Ottawa. A tax that is over and above the increased prices-they are suggesting. A tax brought in not for energy security or conservation but to pay for more vote seeking promises that would . benefit some Canadians at the expense of every Canadian at the gas pump.  FOR PRICING PURPOSES THERE _ WILL BE 3 CATEGORIES TO ENSURE A FAIR, EQUITABLE PRICE , FOR CANADIANS.  The Liberal "Made in Canada" pricing policy will distinguish between "old" oil, the oil now in supply or already in production; and "new” oil from new projects in the Tar Sans, the Arctic and the Continental Shell is is a more expensive proposition. The third category is that of the imports for which the price is world price. the Conservatives would charge you  the highest price for all categories of oil.  The prices of these 3 categories will be different for the producers and Liberals will decide u n one blended price for the consumed a price will be uniform across the country. Any future increase would be phased-in and would not bean immediate and abrupt hardship to working Canadians such as the Conservatives are planning.  "TO ENSURE FAIR COSTING, THERE WILL BE A PETROLEUM PRICING AND AUDITING AGENCY  A new permanent Petroleum Pricing and Auditing Agency would be established to investigate and report on industry costs, profits and operation.  This also will see to it that money earned in Canada will be re-invested in Canada to find new sources of energy.  THE CONSERVATIVES WILL BE DEMANDING THAT LIBERALS MUST SAC' RIGHT NOW WHAT OIL PRICE OF OIL IS GOING TO BE IN THE FUTURE.  '"One of the most predictable responses to the "Made in Canada" Liberal pricing policy dill be Joe Clark making hollow demands for a specific price. Clark has stated his OPEC dominated price and on top of that has added his 18~ a gallon excise tax.- The Liberal price will have no excise tax and will be determined in negotiation with the Provinces. Needless to say it will be a price lower than the OPEC dominated, producer influenced price the Conservatives are so eager to impose on working Canadians.  2. "Liberals will achieve energy 9security through the accelerated development of Canada s domestic potential and ensuring Canada s offshore supply."  The "Made in Canada" incentive policy will increase Canada's domestic supply. Also, Liberals would restore the $80 million cut from Petro-Canada's exploration budget made by Joe Clad:, and Liberals would mandate Petro-Canada to participate in the development of the Tar Sands and heavy oils.  Also Liberals would immediately resume negotiations with Mexico and Venezuela to re-establish the vital oil o; contracts lost by the Conservatives. Oil contracts that would have contributed significantly to the energy security of Eastern Canadians.  3. Liberals would develop more balanced energy program through the replacement of oil by natural gas and other energy forms”  Liberals realize Canada needs to substitute plentiful resources such as natural gas for the energy resources we are short of like oil. Therefore under "Made in Canada" policies, natural gas will not be pegged to rising international prices.  It will be set at a lower Made in Canada level to encourage people to switch.  Massive exports as those endorsed by Joe Clack would be thoroughly investigated so Canadians would always have first claim to their own natural gas resource.  THERE WOULD BE A NATURAL ` ~ GAS PIPELINE TO ENSURE ALL r CANADIANS ACCESS TO THEIR RESOURCES. Liberals would take immediate action to begin negotiations for construction of a natural gas pipeline to Quebec City and the Maritimes. Initially it would carry natural gas east but when Maritime = supplies are ready, the pipeline would be like a natural gas railroad with a return delivery facility as well.  Clark has almost person ally destroyed Petro-Canada, one of Canadas greatest energy assets. Liberals would strengthen and expand Petro -Canada as. an instrument of national policy.  Unlike Joe Clark, Liberals have a consistent and firm Petro Canada policy. Petro-Canada will, be kept. Petro-Canada will be strengthened. Petro-Canada will be 'expanded. Its Exploration budget will be increased It will assume a greater role in estate-to-state oil and energy deals and Petro-Canada s growth will be encouraged.  5. Through a subsidiary of Petro -Canada, Liberals will place a new emphasis on conservation and the promotion of energy alternatives."  Liberals would create a subsidiary of Petro-Canada, the Alternate Energy Corporation of Canada. As a Crown Corporation, it will assume all existing and planned federal activities relating to the research and development of wind, solar tidal, biomass, coal liquification and other energy forms.  6. "Liberals will ensure that e Canada s energy sector becomes more Canadian owned and controlled."  As a specific goal-and as a commitment, a Liberal government will deliver to Canadians by 1990 a Petroleum industry that is 5 /o Canadian owned and control under the previous Liberal government foreign declined from 91% to 75%.~ur commitment is to continue and to accelerate that position. It will be achieved through Petro-Canada, federal land regulations and tax allowances.  Liberals gill see that energy becomes part of the larger economic strategy forming the core of any industrial or regional development approach.  It is the belief of Liberals that energy must be the cue of industrial and regional development At least $100 billion will be spent in the energy sector in the next 10 years, and a Liberal government would be committed to direct the benefits of this boom to Canadian's. Industry would be developed close to energy sources so producing areas in the west and elsewhere will have first chance at processing the resources.  ENERGY MUST BEAN ECONOMIC TOOL AS WELL.  If our energy prices are kept below world prices, we will give our secondary -manufacturing industries the trading edge they needy compete effectively in a difficult world. Revenues raised through energy taxation will be used to create greater projects, more employment and more work in Canada.  Unlike the Joe Clark Conservatives whose only policy on energy is promises, the Liberals have a firm, solid program. For the critical years facing Canada and Canadians, and for the role energy must play in-all our futures, this is the time for programs, not promises . This is the time to vote Liberal. 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.