j! jjlfjjW i win ; '. 7 i M a a - vaLj WW b If f f" j ' "V nnrrMzi s OJ L RT. HON. LOUIS S. ST. LAURENT PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA I t - - - -i i ra7aflfe r 7 Good Hands Check The Record The Liberal Record Speaks For Itself Liberal Government has always flashed a Green Light on the Road of Canada's Progress . . . Kn "H Thirties" and returned to Liberal Mananement of our af fa Canada has moved steadily and rapidly ahead. Our advance in Prestioe. Production Trade and L t , Standards has never been nrearer or more universally recogniit ..than-Jt isJodav. 1 NATIONAL UNITY 1. Newfoundland entered Confederation. 2. A Canadian appointed Governor-General 3. Supreme Court of Canada estabilshed as the final Court of Appeal for Canada. SOCIAL SECURITY Old Age Pensions in 1927 your Liberal Government inaugurated the Old Age Pension Plan. This has been steadily improved until today it represents more than $1,000,000,000 paid out to assist the aged and the. blind. This program wi 1,1 be, ex's panded as the general economy expands. F.AMILYALLOWANCES &vtefytQ aPu $246(,50(5 paid tcTBrTtjsTv - Columbia parents in .1952 EFFECTIVE July 1st, 1953 income taxes rolled ..-back to 1949 level One-third reduction total savings of $1,500,000,000. EXCISE TAX removed from checks. "TAX on Cigarettes cut. $2.50 radio license fee abolished. DEFENCE OF CANADA To defend our homes and to maintain the security of the Free World, the strength of our Navy, Army and Air Force has reached the highest point in peacetime history. TRADE Total external trade rose from $5,761,-000,000 in 1948 to $8,043,000,000 in 1951. INCOME National income rose from $12,560,000-000 in 1948 to $18,307,000,000 in 1952. Per capita income rose from $974 in 1948 to $1229 in 1951. PRODUCTION Value increased 4 times over from 1939 to 1952 with its record total of $23 billion. AGRICULTURE Total cash income of Canadian farmers rose from $1695 million in 1945 to $2778 million in 1952. ' NATIONAL DEBT Sloshed iyjaaore thav$2JiiiUonince J939- .. "vfhis- repientsr-sqving o-f .rrtore than 200,000 tax dollars a day. ' ' . ' EMPLOYMENT More people are earning more money -in B.C.' than; ever before. . HOUSING t . 333,000 new houses built from 1948 to 1951 a per capita World Record. BUILDING CANADA Provision for construction of the All-Canadian St. Laurence Waterway made in legislation passed in 1951. TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY route settled, considerable building done. Federal share to B.C. in 1951-52, $5,119,000. FREIGHT RATES EQUALIZED Mountain differential removed. v. ? v: 1 THIS IS NO TIME TO TAKE CHANCES! FOR CANADA'S SAKE . . . FOR CANADA'S SAFETY. SKEENA EDWARD T. APPLEWHAITE, native son, popular Member of Parliament. Vote Liberal Aug. 10 ACROSS CAMADA - IT'S LIBERAL 1 n7 U Lb LdUIlzi LEWHAITE