Montreal, This Wonderful Town… Pearl Of Canada,

New Approaches Are Needed, New Orientations In Both Thought And Action. We Must Make The Transition To A New Civilization...we Are Talking Of A Transition Toward A New Civilization. No One Knows What It Will Be Like. What Is Important Is To Orient In That Direction... I Am Convinced That A New Civilization Will Inevitably Take On Certain Features That Are Characteristic Of, Or Inherent In, The Socialist Ideal.

Communist Ideology In Its Pure Form Is Akin To Christianity. Its Main Ideas Are The Brotherhood Of All Peoples Irrespective Of Their Nationality, Justice And Equality, Peace, And An End To All Hostility Between Peoples.

To Me, Nature Is Sacred. Trees Are My Temples And Forests Are My Cathedrals.

We Used To Have Just One Criterion And That Was Profit, And Then Another Criterion Was Added - Social Welfare. Now We Have To Add The Third Important Criterion, And That Is Nature And The Environment.

We Desperately Need To Recognise That We Are The Guests, Not The Masters, Of Nature And Adopt A New Paradigm For Development, Based On The Costs And Benefits To All People, And Bound By The Limits Of Nature Herself Rather Than The Limits Of Technology And Consumerism.