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CANADA. NATIONAL PRESS THEATRE

1985-0264

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1985-06-10

National Press Theatre

Press conference held by members of the "On to Ottawa" Trek committee, organized to protest the high levels of unemployment across Canada. The delegation consists of: Kim Zander, Coordinator of the Vancouver Unemployment Centre; Frank Kennedy, Secretary Treasurer of the Vancouver District Labour Council; Ruth Schaeffer, Regina Low Income Housing Tenants Association; and Robert "Doc" Savage. In the opening statement and subsequent question period the following topics are discussed: the reaction of the three Canadian political parties to the plight of the unemployed; the purpose and objective of the Trek committee; the difficulties of the unemployed in British Columbia, and in the rest of Canada, to meet the daily requirements of food and shelter; the situation of low income families in Saskatchewan; the 1935 trek to Ottawa; the origins of this second trek in 1985; where the funding for the trek came from; and the Canadian Labour Congress' plan for a National March for Jobs.

CANADA~LOBBYING~PRESS CONFERENCES~UNEMPLOYMENT

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