If in Canada and internationally public opinion does not think of us as advanced, then what is the purpose of asserting that we are advanced? What is the repetition that our Party is the most advanced, the vanguard, going to do in real life? With the work of the non-Party Press, at least a few workers, a few intellectuals got to know that we have the most advanced positions, that we are the vangua. [...] Is this a relevant thing to say -- that we are thinking about such matters? Is this an example of the hard work of the last five-and-a-half years to implement the decisions which we took and which were ratified by the Congress in 1987? Has the organization in that city mobilized the members of our Party there to realize the task? Thinking is a very good thing, but it is even better if the thinking. [...] What should the Party have done under those circumstances? Besides taking up the task of clearing the way on organizational and ideological questions, especially the political question of Quebec and other related questions, the Party spearheaded a heroic campaign which was called the resistance movement, in which nobody cowered in front of the attacks of the state. [...] In the 1982 Congress, when the recession was setting in, when all the struggles waged had finally eliminated the Maoist groups, the Party took up the question of further implementing the slogan which was given by the Third Congress: namely, to bolshevize the Party, that is, to increase the mass influence and the mass character of the Party and to develop its leading role. [...] In the same way, the basic organizations and the regional committees -- as we have discussed now and have been discussing over this period -- must work with confidence for the same politics -- that is, to respond to the concerns of the people, to present the analysis of their concerns, to assist the people in organizing themselves, and to be in the forefront of this organization.
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