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Written by: F.A. Ireland

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Published: 07 August 2026

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Due to the actual fact the taxpayers, comprising the vast majority of consumers, are beginning to rub the mesmeric cobwebs from their eyes, and are blinking in the new light that is gradually revealing a wonderful vision of life; the realization is slowly dawning that the continuous voting of Party governments into power every four or five years is not the quickest way of obtaining food, clothes, shelter, fuel, and other essentials of life on earth, notwithstanding all the splendid promises given just before election.

In fact, come to think of it after such party elections, it is increasingly harder to get those very commodities we all must have in order to not only live, but to keep industry functioning freely and without dictatorial restriction. And, without the economic freedom of industry, without independent and individual enterprise, which is decidedly not free under government interference, it becomes progressively impossible to obtain gainful employment. From the trend of events, it seems that the privileged few have a tough job to keep the people tax-payers from awakening. They're getting jittery because it is a well known fact that you can only hypnotise those who are under the power so called of hypnosis, artificially induced sleep when it appears possible to make them do your bidding. Fortunately, this state is not permanent, so, if the subjects are to remain passive and "obedient" periodic recourse to hypnotic influence must be the order of the day. We have a twenty-four hour diversion from common sense, and reality thrust upon us, that is, in most cases, sufficient to keep us occupied physically, so that there is little or no time left to think our way through life's activities.

It is time to awake to the fact that our scientists and great economic students are voicing the necessity of financing consumption to equate production. In the November 15, 1941, issue of the British Calvalcade, Professor Soddy, a world-renowned scientist, wrote: "A growing and progressive civilisation demands, as the Social Credit Party advocates, the continuous issue of new money to consumers — not as a loan or debt, but as a gift. This the writer unreservedly endorses.". He also wrote: "Science without Social Credit is sheer-suicide." This undoubtedly shows that it is the continuous payment of a national dividend — over and above wages and salaries earned — that is going to operate in the realm of consumption much on the principle of the continuous and uninterrupted flow of water and electricity which supplies all with water and light."

"Every child that is born into this world under the present banker's private system inherits a debt running into four figures." The longer that system is allowed to last, and to exploit the public, the larger the inherited debt grows, untill you are so hopelessly sunk in the mire you may despair of ever being free to enjoy life's activities again...

Most workers believe that their interests will be better served through socialism — government ownership — but, listen! It was Montague Norman who said: "Nationalization? We welcome it!" Why? Because the mere handing over of everything to Government ownership would not effect the private banking system. But, it would give the banks absolute control, which would mean that the consumers, Mr. and Mrs. Public, would then come under the banker's law of 'work or starve.'

... Let us mould 'public opinion' by educating ourselves and our neighbours by keeping Social Credit before the attention of not only our governments, but business managers, clubs, and study groups, and, most of all, make use of our own intelligence, and refuse to be hoodwinked by 'big business' and banker's propaganda. Social Credit is mutual trust, faith, and belief we have in association. So, collectively, the people can get the results they want, through their government. Now we are aroused from our long sleep, let us stay awake.

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Written by: Gilberte Côté-Mercier

Category: May

Published: 07 August 2026

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Living off allowances

We recently had a special day for workers at Allardville, New Brunswick. It is twelve miles from Bathurst in Gloucester county. Gloucester is, without doubt, the most heavily taxed and the poorest county in the whole of Canada. And the situation is not much better in the neighboring counties of Kent, Northumberland and Westmoreland.

We arrived at Allardville, Holy Saturday, March 28. We had no sooner set foot in the place than we were deluged from all sides by requests for help. There is literally nothing down there which will afford a living. The land has long been abandoned. Allardville was founded during the depression years of 1929-39 by homesteaders who hadn't a cent. Somehow or other they managed to build cabins for themselves, more or less comfortable. But it is a rare house where one will find a toilet with running water. Rarer still are baths. And it's like that in all three counties. The few families that might be able to afford the installation of an ordinary bathroom are wary about doing so. They know that they would have to pay out the cost of the bathroom itself each year in taxes!.

So in Allardville, as in the neighboring counties, there is no way of making a living. The land will not yield a livelihood. There remains only the forest, and wood simply will not sell. So the fathers of families and the young men are obliged to go into exile to Bersimis or Sudbury in order to earn their bread. When they work so far from their homes for these big companies, a part of their salary is held back in income tax without any regard for their debts or for the insecurity of their future, and without any regard for the fact that these workers, if they wish to see their wives and children, must undertake an expensive trip. And the taxes are so heavy in Allardville, as they are in the rest of the county and in the neighboring counties, that the original homesteaders of 1939 are drifting away one after the other, abandoning their homes to our modern "publicans".

All that is left to support those who remain in this forsaken land are family allowances, old-age pensions, veterans' pensions, invalids' pensions and the allowances accorded to needy mothers. These poor Acadians cling desperately to their pensions. They are all that keep them from going under. When they have the opportunity to work a few weeks a year they are able to get the small allotments from unemployment insurance. But the injustices wrought by this federal department are almost beyond number. For just the merest hint of an excuse these functionaries will refuse to grant the insurance payments to those requesting them. Oh, you have the right number of stamps, but then these stamps are not the right kind! Why not? The poor devil doesn't know. How can a mere layman understand the laws governing the issuance of unemployment insurance when the bureaucrats in charge never apply them twice in the same manner! It is said that in Bathurst the employees in the unemployment insurance office are so frightened of losing their places in this particular Federal pork barrel (there are twice the number of employees as are required by the amount of work involved) that they will go to any lengths to keep the payments as low as possible in order that they may be favorably reported to their employers. Somewhat like certain policemen who invent crimes and criminals in order to get decorations!

50 days in jail for a debt

Families which receive pensions or allowances can always buy a bit of bread, and some wood for heating. The rest live in the blackest misery. Only by going deeply into debt to the merchants can they manage to exist.

But in New Brunswick, debts can be very dangerous things. They lead directly to prison, to prison where the prisoner is obliged to pay board, and room at the rate of $1.50 a day! Which is to say that the poor wretch who had the misfortune to run afoul of a creditor without pity could spend the rest of his days in prison. And no doubt, his heirs would get the bill for his keep while in jail.

Adelard LeBreton, living on Tilley Road, is the father of ten children, all very young. He owed a debt of between $50 and $60 to Omer Blanchard, a grocer in Tracadie. LeBreton had promised to pay off the debt at the rate of $5.00 a month. But since he was working only 3 or 4 days a week in the woods at the laughable salary of $2.00 a day, and paying for his keep, it was impossible to feed his ten children and his wife and pay off his debt to Blanchard at the same time. One month he missed his payment of $5.00. On the 12^th of March the bailiff arrived at the LeBreton's and without any ceremony led LeBreton off to the jail at Bathurst where he was condemned to spend 50 days.

Marcel LeBreton, the brother of Adelard, learned that his brother had not received any official summons to present himself in court and that consequently, he had not been condemned for contempt of court.

In order to have LeBreton thrown in jail, Omer Blanchard had been obliged to deposit $75.00 for board and keep of LeBreton during his stay in that institution. Thus, LeBreton, on leaving jail, owed to Blanchard the $50.00 plus the $75.00 for board and room in the county jail. A term in prison doesn't wipe out debts in New Brunswick. It increases them. One might very well ask if at any time in any place during the period of our so-called civilized era, there is any other like example of barbarity. The martyrdom of these Acadians which began 200 years ago has been continued right down to modern times. But then it was the English newcomer or the New England loyalists who persecuted them. Today, they are being betrayed by their own brothers; pure Acadians like themselves!

Imprisonment for debt

But then, on what count was Adelard LeBreton arrested and thrown into jail? For contempt of court? Or simply for an unpaid debt?

I got in touch that day with a New Brunswick lawyer. I asked him: "Can one be put into jail for non-payment of debt in New Brunswick?" He answered: "Why of course. It's done every day. Each week I get out two or three who were in for debts. I get them out by paying their debt and their expenses out of my own pocket. And included in the expenses is the cost of board and room in prison which the prisoner himself must pay. That's the law in New Brunswick.". These are the exact words of a New Brunswick lawyer. Could you imagine that New Brunswick could be so uncivilized?

The police are barbarians

And the police who go from door to door gathering debts and taxes — when is this ulcer going to be removed from society in New Brunswick?

So you can't pay your taxes? Very well! to help you along the local constable comes to pay you a visit. He comes into your house without the slightest sign of embarrasment or shyness. And he presents you with a brand new additional bill; the expense he incurs in visiting you. This is added on to your taxes, and each time he calls around it means a new, additional bill. But this is not the limit of these Dark-Age laws which prevail in New Brunswick. The police terrorize the people. They stop at nothing. They'll snatch from the very hands of mothers of families their family allowance cheques — which cheques are not liable to seizure. And here they overstep themselves. For all such allowances — veteran's pensions, old-age pensions, family allowances — are beyond seizure. And that by law! Everyone, except these tax-gatherers in New Brunswick, recognize that. These pensions guarantee the bare necessities of life; and the bare necessities of life no one has a right to take from another. Everywhere else in the civilized world there are laws to protect people in such circumstances — except in the province of New Brunswick. And a house which shelters a family from the elements, — it too is one of the bare necessities of life; it too cannot be liable to seizure by any humane law.

Edgar Hachez

In New Brunswick the municipal counsellor is charged by law and is paid to look into cases of misery and want in his parish and to bring aid to such cases. For that reason he is called, father of the poor.

Madame Adelard LeBreton and her ten children had absolutely nothing to eat on Good Friday evening, March 27^th; not so much as a cup of flour to make some bread. A neighbour finally brought them a small quantity of flour.

I placed a telephone call with Edgar Hachez who happened to be the particular "father of the poor" for Tilley Road where the LeBreton family lived. I informed him of their pitiful plight.

Here, in two short sentences is his reply:

1). If the LeBreton family need help, let them come themselves to me and ask for it.

2) You, lady, are from Quebec. Go and mind your own business!

I do not know if Edgar Hachez brought any aid to the LeBreton family following my telephone call. But let me make this much clear to him and others who may happen to be of his ilk:

1) The poor are not ordinarily, very eloquent in pleading their cause, and if the good God gave more to some than to others it was precisely so that the rich could come to the aid of the poor. That, Mr. Hachez, is charity. And without charity, sir, there is no getting into Heaven,

2) Charity and truth know no boundary lines.

The people of Quebec have every right to come to the aid of the poor Acadians, oppressed by their own brothers, just as Mr. Hachez ancestors had the right to come out from France to aid the savages in North America. And if bumptious little village roosters are unwilling that Quebec Crediters should come in to their territory it is simply because they want to go on lording it over and riding rough-shod over their own brethren. However, Quebec Crediters, with twenty five years of experience in the work they are carrying on, have had to face the anger and threats of individuals and groups vastly more powerful and dangerous than these ostentatious little bureaucrats. The Social Credit movement of the Union of Electors has survived with the help of heaven. And it will continue to go on with Crediters never ceasing to work and pray for the uplifting of the people who have been downtrodden and oppressed.

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The financiers' tears

The minister of Finance, the Hon. Donald Fleming, brought down the federal budget on April 9. He bemoaned the fact that last year there was a deficit of 616 millions of dollars. He stated that he wanted to reduce the deficit. For that reason he was increasing taxes: income taxes, corporation taxes, sales taxes.

Well, in the first place, this deficit didn't in any way hurt the people. To the contrary, the deficit could very well have been continued without doing any damage to the taxpayer. In time of war, it is the custom to go along with large government deficits. That's war! The war must be won, they say! The banks then hand out money with the greatest of enthusiasm and abandon to the government. And the government, for its part, doesn't stop for a moment to worry about how it is going to repay these loans. We'll pay later! This is called wartime deficit budgeting. And this money which flows forth so easily and freely in time of war carries business along smoothly and sweetly. Everything goes fine because there is no money obstacle. The money is there! But then, there is never a financial obstacle when there is a war.

Then why, in the name of logic, should there not be the same policy of free and abundant money in time of peace? Why not continue on with deficit budgeting? After all, it works fine in time of war. Why not in time of peace? Why not, Mr. Fleming? Is it because the people prosper when the money flows easily, Mr. Fleming? Balanced budgets send money back into the banks. They make money disappear from circulation. Credit is restricted. And as a result, a first class crisis. So you see, Mr. Fleming, in trying for a balanced budget you achieve a crisis. The tears you shed over the financial situation are not tears shed for the people, but tears shed for the financiers. You bemoan the deficit because it does not work to the advantage of the financial dictators, Mr. Fleming. These are financiers' tears.

Old age pensions

Then the minister goes after old-age pensions. In order to support the old-age payments at their level, he proposes to raise the levy on income taxes, corporation taxes and sales taxes from 2 percent to 3 percent. It's as if he were to say, "Well, the old-age pension payments cost us too much so we are going to have to increase taxes. So, in the future, ladies and gentlemen, don't ask for too many pensions for we shall have to send up your taxes again!" And in fact, most of the mediums of communications, press, radio, television, made the same claim that old-age pensions were the cause for tax increases. There would seem to be a concerted attack against the social security guaranteed by the government, an attack designed to make the people fear to ask for pensions because of increased taxes. But we Crediters are here to explain to all the world that such pensions are but dividends which are due to all, dividends which are the result of our share in the social capital; and these dividends should have been issued to each and every Canadian long ago. Those who bemoan taxes do not raise any fear in the hearts of Crediters who are well aware that old-age pensions, family allowances, and the universal dividend could not possibly absorb all that is for sale on the shelves, of our stores and in our warehouses. And if taxes go up it is not because of pensions but because of the very inept financial system which in no way accords with the realities of our economic system.

We would much rather have heard the minister of Finance say: "The pension to the financiers costs us too much? For, you see, the financiers cost us more each year than do our old people. The old folks cost 575 millions a year to the federal government. The financiers take each year in interest from the federal government, 650 million dollars. So the pensions paid to the financiers cost us more than do the pensions to the old people. The old people who have labored and toiled during a lifetime to build up the country, these we pay a pension of 576 million and complain about it. But as for the financiers, who have done absolutely nothing for the country, except to give others permission to work while they reaped the profits, these cost us 650 million dollars a year. Yet, you don't hear the minister of Finance complaining of them. If Mr. Fleming had cut down on this pension to the financiers, if he had brought down a budget which omitted payments to these parasites, which cut off the 650 millions, then there would have been no need to increase taxes in order to go on paying for security for old people.

War budget

The minister of Finance didn't shed any tears over our war budget. This year we are spending on the chattels of war, one billion 400 million dollars. And we are not yet fighting this war. This is a war which we might fight with the weapons which we are making and which are costing us one billion 400 million dollars this year. But we don't see Mr. Fleming weeping over this budget. But then this budget is to nourish the makers of armaments, who in the long run can usually be identified with the financiers of whom we spoke above.

650 million dollars worth of pensions a year to the financiers plus one billion 400 million dollars more to the munitions makers! That doesn't appear to Mr. Fleming to be excessive. We don't hear him complaining about it. But 576 million for old people! that will never do. We must raise the taxes! All Mr. Fleming would have to do to insure the old-age pensions without raising taxes would be to make a few cuts in the war budget and a few in the interest being paid to the financiers. But then Mr. Fleming is not presenting a budget which is in favor of the taxpayer; he is presenting one which favors the financiers. Mr. Fleming is the Finance minister of the financiers rather than of the Canadian people.

Family allowances

Mr. Fleming forgot family allowances in his budget. They remain at the same level at which they were when instituted in 1944. Everything else has gone up, even the salaries of the members of parliament, the taxes on families' houses, all have curved up; but not family allowances. The government is evidently unwilling to see them regain their initial value by doubling the rates.

The children, you see, count for nothing as far as Mr. Fleming and his colleagues are concerned. But when the children are 18, Mr. Fleming and his colleagues will be around to get them if there should be a war; the war for which they are preparing with their war budget of one billion 400 million dollars. When the time comes to send them off to war we won't forget them; but now, we won't think of them with their meager pittance of 6 or 8 dollars a month. And they have the nerve to tell us that the government practices a policy that is social, that is directed to the welfare of the family. Rather it is a policy for high finance.

The Bank of Canada

Mr. Fleming, you are the Minister of Finance for Canada. Canada is a country that is very rich and very prosperous.

You are the minister of Finance of a very rich and very prosperous country. Then you should present yourself before the people as such a minister, with a budget that would bring joy to the hearts of the people. But no, you come before the people with a pitiful air, with the air of a man presenting the report of a poor company. Canada is found to be in deficit! No! This is not so. Canada is a rich land and it is growing richer every day. The minister of Finance when exposing the condition of Canada does not reveal it as a rich country. Rather he presents to the Canadian people a bill from the financiers. They, the financiers are stealing the social credit of Canada. They have snatched the riches of Canada to put in their pockets. The shares in the country they have taken and placed in their own strong boxes. They have placed a debt on our shoulders. And now they are claiming interest on our credit, on that which they have stolen from us.

Mr. Fleming is said to be the minister of Canadians. This is not true. He is the minister of financiers. He has presented a budget begging from the people of Canada who are rich but robbed.

Mr. Fleming, were he really a minister of the people, should have brought down a budget which would have ordered the Bank of Canada to furnish to the country the money necessary to the affairs of the country. If he were truly a man of state, the minister would have put in his budget a change in the policy of the Bank of Canada, so that the Bank would become the servant of Canadians, so that it would finance production and consumption by Canadians, as every good finance system should.

The minister of finance, in place of taxing and punishing the people of Canada who build the country, should charge the financial system to fulfill its functions in furnishing finance to the country according to the possibilities and needs of the country.

Thus we should have a true minister of finance, representing a country truly rich, as is Canada. We would have a true chief of state, in place an ordinary little servant of the financial dictators. "Civil authority has been shorn of its noble functions!', said Pie XI in 1931. This is true of Canada in 1959.

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Written by: Jean-Pierre Richard

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The Hull congress was an unqualified success. It augurs well for the new system of regional congresses all over the country, in place of one grand congress. However, the great Labor Day congress will still be held annually to bring together as many representatives as possible from all over the land. This assembly at Hull on April 4-5 bids well to set the pattern for the rest of the 1959 series of congresses. And this in turn foreshadows a tremendous upsurge of the Crediter movement across Canada.

It was an exhilarating sight, the automobiles flying the white pennon of the Union of Electors, pouring into Ottawa that Saturday morning and crossing over into Hull. By two o'clock in the afternoon most of the members had arrived and were busy meeting old friends and making new in the big auditorium of Reboul school. The hall itself was artistically decorated with the flags and colors of the movement; the platform, the center of the congress, was decorated as can be seen in the photograph. The great inscription across the back of the stage which spells out the theme of the congress, was the work of Florent Fournier, an active Crediter from Ville Jacques Cartier, a suburb of Montreal.

During the afternoon session, ribbons of distinction, in the colors of the movement, were distributed to those who had distinguished themselves in the grand campaign for subscriptions during the preceding month of March. The ace of this campaign was Mr. S. Fradette who took 180's subscriptions to Vers Demain and The Union of Electors during the month. It was his honor to announce to the assembly the grand total of subscriptions taken during the month - 7,431. This accomplishment keynotes the tremendous vitality and dynamism of the movement here in the east. How can the light of Social Credit fail to reach the people when there are such men and women to spread it abroad!

At five-thirty all had supper together in the hall. This meal was hosted by the Crediters and local merchants of Hull who supplied all the good things and waited on the members of the congress. The courtesy of these people is something we shall long remember.

The evening session was devoted to the development and explanation of the congress theme: "Pour un peuple puissant, chacun à l'abonnement" This, freely translated, simply means, that if the people are to be made strong, then all must give themselves to spreading the principles of Social Credit through propagating the two publications, Vers Demain and The Union of Electors. The great means of spreading any idea, even in this age of radio and television, is still the printed word. And if men and women are to be impregnated with ideas, specifically the ideas of the Social Credit philosophy, then it must be through the French-language Social Credit publication, Vers Demain, and its English-language brother, The Union of Electors. For the Union of Electors, the movement, serves both the peoples who make up the nation in this Canada of ours...

Mr. Louis Even, director-general, developed the first line of the theme, "For a strong people..." economic democracy, exercised through the ballot which we call money, a ballot which is today restricted by the existing financial system, a system which Crediters denounce and are working to overthrow; then, political democracy, exercised by the full-time ballot (and not just the ballot of election-time) which is the pressure exerted by the people at all times on their representatives to get the results they want, a pressure which Crediters in particular become skilled at exercising and which they teach to others, a pressure which makes a man a truly democratic and free citizen.

After Mr. Even, Hervé Provencher, the director of The Institute of Political Action, took the floor to develop the second part of the theme; ".... each one to the work of subscription." The Institute of Political Action is that section of the movements directory which plans and directs the activities of the Union of Electors, the movement, in accordance with the exigencies of the time and the principles of Social Credit. Hence, Mr. Provencher, a most capable strategist, was well-endowed to develop this part of the theme, in calling to all to launch into the work of taking subscriptions, this work being vital to teaching the people; for only an enlightened people can be a strong (puissant) people.

Gerard Mercier, another director, then supervised the signing of pledges by the members of the congress, to take a certain number of subscriptions between then and the following congress in May at Roberval-Dolbeau. The total promised, just by the Crediters in the hall, for the month of April was more than 4,000 subscriptions.

Mrs Côté-Mercier, co-directress, then exhorted the members to renew their zeal in working for the movement, stressing that this work was very much in the nature of an apostleship, inasmuch as it required, an excess of zeal and willingless to do a lot for no material personal gain simply to bring a better civilization to mankind.

All of the out-of-town delegates were guests of members or supporters of the movement for the night. No Crediter had to pay for his night's lodgings. Such is the charity among those who labor to spread this movement.

The afternoon session was preceded by a grand parade through the streets of Hull in which all members joined. The parade was headed by the Gauvin school cadet band and featured a Crediter guard of honor bearing the flags of the movement. The cadet band was under the direction of Mr. Fontaine, and opened the sessions of the afternoon and evening. A not entirely unexpected development of this parade, as reported by our Hull members, was the large number of subscriptions later taken along the streets through which the parade passed. Obviously, it doesn't hurt to do a little advertising.

The afternoon session was supposed to have been devoted to public men. M.P.'s, both federal and provincial, had been invited to attend and meet the people. These public officials are only too ready to meet the people, no matter in what small numbers, when there is an election campaign under way and they are seeking votes. However, their absence did not dim in any degree the enthusiasm of the congress which went on to consider the theme of the great congress of St. Basile of 1958 "Financing by the Bank of Canada without interest".

This subject was developed with vigor and clarity by our director-general, Mr. Even, who, in the words of the representative from the daily Montreal paper, La Presse, "was in excellent form for a man of 74 years."

The provincial M.P. for Hull, Mr. Oswald Parent, was on the platform and he spoke after Mr. Even. He said that he did not agree with all the teachings of Social Credit, but the financing by the Bank of Canada without interest charges for municipalities and school commissions was not only desirable but necessary, for they were in an alarming situation. He also stated that he subscribed to and read Vers Demain, our French-language publication.

Mrs. Côté-Mercier then thanked the representative and made the appropriate comments. "Our mission", she said, "is to cry out our doctrine, to bear witness to it. And our twenty years of this work show fruit in the growth of the movement and in the good it has accomplished. Our movement is the march of an entire people towards financial liberation. Each day we take up anew our work in politics; for after all, politics, true politics, is a social and humane work and no man or woman can ignore it and still meet their responsibilities as citizens of the community and members of society. We propagate ideas; we originate a great stream of ideas whose currant will sweep up all men. All reforms begin with ideas. Legislation is only the crowning of her work."

During the evening session the assembly was addressed by Mr. Lionel Emond, a councillor of Hull: "For 14 years I have always backed up, at the city hall, the members of the Union of Electors here in Hull who work so unremittingly for the good of the population. I have brought forward and proposed your resolutions in the council. I have done so with pleasure because I have known that they were for the good of all. I proposed the motion for the doubling of family allocations; and more recently I proposed the motion asking for finance without interest by the Bank of Canada. I have intervened to get halls for your meetings, at no charge to you because I appreciate your work... I have been reading your publication since it was founded. Councillor Robert Guertin donated $20.00 to help defray expenses.

Four resolutions were adopted during the congress;

1. for the doubling of family allocations;
2. financing of municipal and school works without interest by the Bank of Canada;
3. for free time on radio and television (the CBC) for the Union of Electors;
4. against obligatory state health insurance.

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THANKS!

... to Guy Jean and his squad of full-time workers who planned and carried out the preparations for the congress;

... to those wonderful Crediters in Hull, Philip Lapensée, the Clements, the Leclercs, the Martels, the Boudreaus and all those others without whose help the congress would not have been the success it was.

... to the local authorities who welcomed us with open arms and flew the Crediters' flag from the mast of the city hall during the congress

... to the local papers, Le Droit and the Ottawa Citizen for fine coverage and an excellent reporting.