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OTTAWA — Looking back of what he describes as "a year of mounting frustration and unhap-piness," CLC president Joe Morris says all that working people have reaped from the federal government's controls program is "a sluggish economy, a stunted growth rate, an exodus of Canadian investment, a steady increase in unemployment, cutbacks in health services, social services and education, and a stiffening of regional disparities."
And surveying the prospects for 1977, he sees working people "still facing two crippling problems: an inflation that threatens to intensify in spite of the Anti-Inflation Board and a frightening level of unemployment caused in part by this same AIB.
"Until these problems are corrected by means of a more rational approach, the country's economy will not be able to recover the potential growth needed to get it back on its feet."
Morris was scathing in his criticism of the Trudeau government which, he asserted, "seems mainly intent on increasing its power over the people it was meant to serve.
"The pretext used by the federal government to put its scheme into practice was the fight against an inflation it had helped to create through its mismanagement of the country's economy," he continued. "The instrument it chose to further its aims was the Anti-Inflation Board.
"While the government pretended the AIB would control profits and prices as well as most aspects of income, including salaries and wages, the practical results, as the CLC had warned from the start, were that wages and salaries of working Canadians was the only aspect the AIB was willing and able to control.
"These it controls with an appalling lack of sensitivity, relying exclusively on statistics and cold mathematical formulas and ignoring the people such statistics and formulas were meant to represent.
"In order to consolidate its control, the federal government needed the cooperation of the provinces. And most of the provincial governments, which should have known better, walked into the trap.
"By signing control agreements with the federal government, they signed away their freedom to formulate the economic and social policies that were in the best interests of their respective provinces and their citizens."
Reiterating CLC opposition to controls, Morris said "we will continue our efforts to get the government to face up to its
responsibilities and resolve these issues in consultation with business and labor.
"We also firmly believe that the provincial governments will reassess their position with regard to the federal controls program.
"It has become evident that the current inequities have created mounting pressures within Canadian society. These pressures are becoming. such that they threaten the stability and well-being of our country and they will not recede until the current restraints are removed."
Assuring workers that the trust they have in the CLC "will not be betrayed," Morris said:
"We will continue our fight for a better society, a society that will benefit not only the powerful few but all those, organized or unorganized, whose rights and welfare have been ignored or trampled upon."
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