RICHARD BEDFORD BENNETT

Free competition and the open market system as they were known in the old days, have lost their places in the system, and that the only substitute for them, in these modern times, is government regulation and control.

No other scheme than that of public ownership can insure to the peoples of this country, without regard to class or place, equal enjoyment of the benefits and pleasures of radio broadcasting .... this is not a correctable fault in private ownership; it is an inescapable and inherent demerit of that system.

This country must be assured of complete Canadian control of broadcasting from Canadian sources, free from foreign interference or influence.

The agencies of production, of manufacture, distribution, and of finance: all the parts of the capitalist system, have only one purpose and that is to work for the welfare of the people. And when any of those instruments in any way fails, it is the plain duty of a government which represents the people to remove the cause of the failure.

Selfish men, and this country is not without them, men whose mounting bankrolls loom larger than your happiness, corporations without souls and without virtue, those fearful that this government might impinge on what they have grown to regard as its immemorial right of exploitation will whisper against us. They will call us radicals. They will say that this is the first step on the road to socialism.

The agencies of production, of manufacture, distribution, and of finance: all the parts of the capitalist system, have only one purpose and that is to work for the welfare of the people. And when any of those instruments in any way fails, it is the plain duty of a government which represents the people to remove the cause of the failure.

Free competition and the open market system as they were known in the old days, have lost their places in the system, and that the only substitute for them, in these modern times, is government regulation and control.

No other scheme than that of public ownership can insure to the peoples of this country, without regard to class or place, equal enjoyment of the benefits and pleasures of radio broadcasting .... this is not a correctable fault in private ownership; it is an inescapable and inherent demerit of that system.

Selfish men, and this country is not without them, men whose mounting bankrolls loom larger than your happiness, corporations without souls and without virtue, those fearful that this government might impinge on what they have grown to regard as its immemorial right of exploitation will whisper against us. They will call us radicals. They will say that this is the first step on the road to socialism.

This country must be assured of complete Canadian control of broadcasting from Canadian sources, free from foreign interference or influence.