The Honorable John Diefenbaker Prime Minister of Canada
The House of Commons
Ottawa
Mr. Prime Minister,
You recently completed a globe-covering trip in an endeavor to find markets for Canadian products. Why did you not visit, instead, Canadian homes where there are children?
In very many of our families, children do without meat, milk or bread. Are not these Canadian products? Why should Canadian children do without them when they are being produced in such quantities? Why? Because Canadian mothers and fathers lack money.
Yes, Mr. Prime Minister, what is missing is Canadian money, not Canadian products or markets for these products. It is we Canadian citizens who are making these products in such amounts; and it is your Bank of Canada finan- ciers who refuse to make enough money to keep pace with our national products.
Instead of running about Asia it would have been better had you simply told the Bank of Canada to issue the money necessary to meet Canadian production and Canadian needs. Thus you could have doubled family allowances immediately and we would be able to buy Canadian beef, milk and bread for our children.
The people are getting very tired of this mess we call our financial system; and they are getting very tired of the government doing nothing about it.
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Here is an opportunity for you to exercise your right and your duty as a citizen to tell your government what you expect of it. The above letter asks the leader of your government to make money available to the citizens of Canada so that the surplus products which he is trying to sell abroad may be bought up by Canadian mothers and fathers who need them in order to feed, house and clothe their children.
This wealth was produced by Canadian men and women. There is no just or logical reason why they should not share in it. Only one thing keeps them from partaking of it - a lack of figures in a ledger (which is all money really is). Well, money cannot exist without real goods (food, clothing, etc.) The goods are here. Then, let's have the money. And the goods cannot be distributed unless there is money. Again, let's have the money! We do not need the sun or the rain or the earth in order to produce money. All that is needed is paper and printers ink and the necessary authorization. And Mr. Diefenbaker should have no trouble providing all three.
Send this letter to your federal representative at Ottawa. He will see to it that it reaches the Prime Minister. In doing so, you will be participating in one of the primary forms of Social Credit action, that of putting pressure on your govern ment to get results. This is true political action.
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