https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/d514d47364905da88e8f65e2d0222ccc.pdf a92447276468a09804d0e660dc3ae196 PDF Text Text Art d under the Access to 'ifnrmntirt" n ue&u tie la Loi sur Tacces a-Rinformatic i 72. D E P A R T M E N T OF E X T E R N A L AFFAIRS Subject Date £r.8h>. JM?...2i 1969 Publication The^Globe L & Mail_ Urges Ottawa campaign N0P adopts anti-militarist stand opposing By RONALD LEBEL Globe and Mail Reporter MONTREAL — The New Democratic Party adopted a hard anti-militarist position yesterday, urging the Government to campaign against the U.S. anti-ballistic missile system, sales of Canadian arms for use in Vietnam and the military d i c t a t o r s h i p in Greece. The 100-member Federal Council passed a resolution by Woodrow Lloyd, Opposition Leader in the Saskatchewan Legislature, describing the proposed Sentinel ABM system as "a threat to world peace and a particular danger to the people of Canada." 'The council urged the Gov- the present military regime ernment-to: —"Use all the means at its stays iii power. James Renwick, the council disposal to convince the U.S. president, urged the party's Government that this (ABM) proposal would be van escala- MPs to move to "a new plation of the nuclear arms teau of effort" to.raise the issue of the Greek military race." —Refuse to participate in tyranny in Parliament. The the Sentinel program in any resolution called on local secway, including defense con- tions of the NDP to assist the Pan-Hellenic Liberation Movestruction contracts. The resolution on Greece, ment, headed by Andreas Paintroduced by John Harney, pandreou, the former Greek Ontario party secretary, said cabinet minister teaching at Canada should demand. the York University in Toronto. The resolution on the Vieti m m e d i a t e expulsion of Greece from NATO as long as nam war provoked bitter ex- Sejntma! ABM system group of military and business leaders is assuming more and more political power. Few Canadians realized that Canada was one of the 10 biggest spenders in the world for armaments. The reference to ABMcon. tracts was inserted at the suggestion of Edward Broadbent, MP for Oshawa-Whitbv, who said that senior officials told House of Commons committee recently that Canadian firms would bid for ABM contracts if the defense system is approved oy the U.S. Con- gress. He said the Government already devotes more than half of its research and development funds to military production. The original draft urged the Government to "exercise controls to insure that arms exported to the U.S. are not for use in Vietnam." . . Mr. Lewis and several other speakers -said the party should-: come out against all sales of Canadian arms to the United States as long as the Americans remain involved in the Vietnam war. changes between Laurier LaPierre, a national vicepresident and sponsor of the motion, and several critics who thought the text was too weak, including David Lewis, the party's House leader in Ottawa and Professor Gordon Vichert of McMaster University. The draft was referred to a special committee of Mr. LaPierre, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Vichert, but the council ran out, of time before it could debate their revised version. Mr. Lloyd said a small � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDBM00269 Title A name given to the resource Transcript from Globe and Mail Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/2/1969 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG25-A-3-c, file 27-11-7, "DEFENCE - CONVENTIONAL AND NUCLEAR ARMAMENTS - ANTI - BALLISTIC MISSILES (ABM) = DEFENSE - ARMEMENTS DE TYPE CLASSIQUE ET NUCLEAIRE - ENGINS ANTIMISSILES (ABM)," vol. 10357, part 6, Library and Archives Canada, (LAC). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource External Affairs Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Canadian Crown Subject The topic of the resource Anti-ballistic missiles Description An account of the resource NDP Adopts anti-Militarist Stand Opposing Sentinal ABM System Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canada Declassified Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource en