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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

1984-0164

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1945-05-12

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Election campaign speech by Mitchell Hepbrun. He says that the Liberty Party forsees taking over ninety percent of the cost of education from the increased revenue from Northern Ontario, but this will not happen under a socialist government, which would drive away the needed foreign capital investment.~He announces that he will be going up north to make speeches. A liberal government will see to the education of youth. He says he will lower the voting age to eighteen. He prefers the opinions of eighteen-year-olds to that of hardened old Tories who have a "congenital antipathy" to any creative notions. Hepburn mentions his federal and provincial experience, and says that George Drew cannot even get elected in his own home constituency. He mentions the circumstances which necessitated the election and quotes Roosevelt, "We have nothing to fear..." <15mn>

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