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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 3 Nov 1965, p. 10

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VOTE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE i BUILD,FOR THE FUTURE OF CANADA VOTE FOR RESPONSIBLE DECISIVE ACTION °7 " es L . grze p s 2l * uk t P se Ar ues‘ 2 0 * _Ler‘ser _ c.cgecl â€" Ours is a@olicy of incentive notâ€"restEiction .. _of faith t fear POLICIES FOR PEOPLE â€" POLICIES FOR PROGRESS AT OTTAWA Canada‘s unique union of provinces and cultures will be strengthened by an "open‘ Confederation Conference, to be called to draw up a blueprint of our national destiny. Closed conferences and secret deals have exaggerated differences and increased tensions, We will build Canada for the future. 6. OL Our senibr citizens will not be left to suffer under the spiralling cost of Iiving. The Canada Pension Plan forgets them. A Proâ€" ressive Conservative urban policy will bring stepped up urbap renewal programs, a nationalâ€"inâ€"scope research program in m@nicipal planning to help provinces and municipalities. It medns recreational parks development around cities and towns.\it means tax relief for the homeowner. NHA mortgages on older homes, and lower inferest rates on instalment buying. Canada‘s first "‘National Plan for Education"" means doubling of federal grants to universities and lower tuition fees. It will assist new building and provide more money for research in medicine, science and the humanities. [t will step up the vocaâ€" tional school construction to give skills to young Canadians, It will provide agricultural school facilities. The sales tax on building materials and production machinery adds to the cost of homes and goods, raises prices in domestie and export markets, and jeopardizes important jobâ€"producing sectors of the economy. The elimination of this tax will be a first objective of a PC government, 4. HOMEOWNERS TAX DEDUCTION 3. 11% SALES TAX ON BUILDING MATERIALS, MACHINERY ELIMINATED As part of a national plan for education and to encourage home ownership, a Progressive Conservative government will imâ€" mediately allow a deduction of municipal taxes up to $500 from taxable income for federal tax purposes. Rising school costs have put an unfair share of tax burden on the homeowners â€"almost to the breaking point, 5. URBAN POLICY 1. CONFEDERATION CONFERENCE 2. NATIONAL PLAN FOR EDUCATION AGE PENSIONS $100 Published by the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada The Progressive Conservative government was the first to open up wheat markets in Russia and China. A new PC government will begin an aggressive sales program for farm products, and give credit for export sales. A PC government will encourage a larger livestock population, wig a new drive in the West for community pastures, forage . feed graim banks and water conservation programs and northern river diversion to provide water in the south, A PC government will establish an eastern feed grain agency, and a national dairy board with $4 per Present interest rates add 20°, and more to the cost of necessary and basic consumer purchases bought on the instalment plan. We will provide urban dwellers with the same type of credit advantages now available to farmers. This will be done through a special Consumers Loans Act, 10. DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH AFFAIRS 11. FARM POLICY The Progressive Conservative party is committed to Medicare. It was a PC government that brought hospital insurance to Canadians. We will enlarge the same plan to cover all ilinesses, including mental illness. It was a PC government that took the first steps to a nationâ€"wide Medicare program in 1961 when it set up the Hall Commission to study healtfi services. If you want a national health plan, including universal Medicare, vote Progressive Conservative on November 8, 8. NHA MORTGAGES FOR QOLDER HOMES NHA mortgages have been limited to new home construction. NHA mortgages on older homes will assist the mobility of people that is essential if wageâ€"carners are to take full advantage of Canada‘s growth. A new federal department will be formed to coordinate the many federal activities in youth affairs. 9. LOWER COST INSTALMENT BUYING gressive Conservative government will provide $100 per month old age pensionâ€"WITHOUT A MEANS TEST. We owe this to those who have built our country, 7. NATIONAL PLAN FOR HEALTH My appeal ts to the conscience of the nation.. . to all Canadians. Let usjoin together so that we may be worthy of this land and fulfill the dream of our founding fathers. «+1.. NOVEMBER 8 Canada lost sales of 100 million bushels of grain in 1963â€"64 because of lack of port facilities. Our national grain handling facilities were built for an annual export of 300 million bushels. They should be large enough for 600 million bushels. Increased exports of pulp, paper, sulphur, coal, iron are, copper, lumber and potash demand immediate expansion of Carfada‘s port facifiuies. A Progressive Conservative gavernment will reintroduce the shipâ€"building subsidy for steel ships bwilt in Canadian shipâ€" yards. This subsidy was removed by the present government. Water is one of Canada‘s priceless resources, A Progressive Conservative water resources policy will protect this supply for Canadians, develop an antiâ€"pollution program, and build for future generations. Active resource development is the lifehlood of the Canadian economy. The Progressive Conservatives have imaginative policies to buiid Canada, Every resource industry will be enâ€" couraged. including East coast salthishing which will be assisted by catch insurance. A Progressive Conservative government will establish a National Power Grid to carry electric power across Canada, eastâ€"toâ€"west, northâ€"toâ€"south, making the best use of the supply available, and providing a national market for this energy. 15. MAJOR PORT EXPANSION 16. RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT The Progressive Conservative government opened new markets for Canadian goods throughout the world, creating the first commodity export trade surplus in years. Our new program will expand major port facilities in Canada, establish aggressive sales programs abroad. and welcome foreign investment in Canada without fear of discrunination by retroactive legislation. 13. NATIONAL POWER GRID 12. FOREIGN TRADE EXPANSION 14. WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT hundredweight for industrial milk, and extend crop insurance to cover livestock, Rt. Hon. JoHn G. DirrenBakER

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