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OTTAWA

by RICHARD GWYN

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OTTAWA - Ronald Reagan Is, or soon
will be, the fiffh U.S. president whose
term has overlapped with that of Plerre
Trudeau Of the quintet. Reagan’s
relations with fis northern neighbour
probably will be the least comfortable.

Canaga-U.S. relations ga through
alternate cycles of amicability and
acrimony. The trent-line of the present
curve is downyards.

Specific issues have caused this cross-
border crossness.

Acid rain, whicn Reagan, by his
commitmeni ta coal-fired generating
plants, may make worse. The Auto
Trade Pact. The “Buy America” pur-
chasing policies of a majority of the U.S.
slates. Congress’ failure toratify the 1979
Canada-U.S. fishing boundaries treaty,
which prompted External Affairs
Minister Mark MacGuigan to warn iast
September that “'rational management of
‘abilateral relationship may no longer be
possibje’’.

However, this list of conflicts of self-
interest isn’t especailly long, certainly
nofonger than cowld be expected between
two countries so closely intertwined,
{Canada and the U.S. indeed aren't sa
much intertwined as inextricable.
Canada-U.5. trade, for instance, totals
S75’billion, or as much as all of the trade
between Western Europe and the U.S;
Canadian Investment south of the border
now ts at leas? $10 biltion, or one-quarter
the massive, and accumulating, U.S.
investment here.)

Rather than these specifics, the
starting point of the downward curve In
Canada-US. relations is OHawa’‘s sudden
conversion to economic nationallsm. Not
since the early ‘60s when Walter Gordon
held sway, has any government been no
ambitlously, and determinedly,
nationalist: Tougher rules for the
Foreign Investment Review Agency;
Canadianization of the of and gas In-
dustry. .

Reagan's particular brand of iin-
ternationalism will rub against this
nascent nationalism, attwo points. First,
Reagan has pledged la seek ‘’a North
American accord . . . a deveioping
closeness between Canada, Mexico and
the U.S".

Since he first said this, in November,
1979, Reagan hasn't explained what he
meant. But as evidence of his earnest
intentions he ret yesterday with
Mexican President Lopez Portillo In
Cuidad Juarez, and would have come
north as well except that Trudeau was
due to be away globe-girdling, and
anyway is srowbound in the Alps.

Trudeau and Reagan now probably
won't meet until March (a? which time
also the new U.S, ambassador to Ottawa
should be appointed). If by his ‘accord’

" Reagan means no more than something
symbolic, such as annual! get-togethers of
the three leaders, everyone will be
delighted at the chance to get ontv: If he
means by [ft something substantive, cuh
8} continental development of natural
resources, then, as MacGuigan has said,
‘neither we nor Mexico will cooperate”.

The wider world Is where Trudeau nad
Reagan are more likely to come into
conflict, Thelr sight-tines of the globe
intersect: Trudeau's is North-South,
Reagan’s is East-West,

By calling {he lranfans “barbarians”,
by saying of Russia. "the Soviet empire
should know that there wifi be no further
concessions from us unless there Is a

concession in return’. and by pledging .

increaséd military specding (along with
budget culs, bu! that’s his problem),
Reagan has mee tf plaln he Is going
back fo a prevViet Nam, assertive and
self-cofifidént U.S. farsign policy.

CIRCULATION TERRACE 4956397 ou Bb:

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“TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,

BORING STATEMENTS.
(4) MAUREEN, WHO LOOKS

@ HIS DENTIST FOR HIS

FOR GIVING ME MOST OF
TODAY OFF,

\

(T HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT JOE CLARK
BLAMES POLITICAL CARTOONISTS FOR HIS PRESENT
“IMAGE HE DOESN'T BOTHER 10 BLAME:
(4) HIS BARBER FOR HIS ‘NERD- LOOKING HEAD.
+ QEHIS TAILOR FOR HIS AWKWARD APPEARANCE.
(Hig SPEECH WRITERS FOR HIS EARNEST AND

HIM APPEAR DIMIN COMPARISON.
(G-HIS PARENTS FOR ALMOST EVERYTHING ELSE,

PS. I WOULD PERSONALLY LIKE TO THANK ALL THE
ABOVE MENTIONED PEOPLE FOR THEIR TREMENDOUS |
CO-OPERATION. .. AND MP. CLARK

QUITE BRIGHT, FOR MAKING -
CHINE ESSNESS,

AIGUIN'BO
THE MIL.GATHE.

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by FRANK HOWARD

SKEENA MLA .

| see where the premier is going to spend
$100,000 of taxpayers’ money to send all of us
coples of the provincial Hansard which
contains the pre-Christmas debate on the
constitution. New I’m not knocking the
constitutional debate nor the need to work
out an agreement with respect to If.

But | am somewhat suspiclous about the -
motives of the premier, especiaily since he Is
using our money to mall these debates to us-
Let's look at this in perspective.

First we had that pre-Christmas portion of
a session of the legislature. It lasted a bit
more than a week. Even Or. Pat McGeer,
Liberal-Social Credit minister of science,
wondered why the session had been called. it
became obvious during that session, that the
only reason the premier called it was to
debate and pass a motlon relating to the
constitution prior to the federal con-
stitutlonal committee packing up its
hearings.

The premier’s great master plan floun-
dered though, because the feds postponed the
conctusion of the hearings untll some tlme in
February. So the premier‘’s great con-
stitutional debate In the legislature took

place In a vacuous federal-provincial
mosphere.

at-

That action of the premier cos! the tax-

payers of the province something In

the

neighbourhood of $500,000. That may not be
much to a government which thinks and

deals in billions, but It’s a lot of money to
average citizen. °

the

And now the premier Is going to spend an
additional $100,000 to-try to convince us that
the $500,000 was an okay expenditure.
Basicaily this Is a $100,000 advertising

gimmick designed to tell us that

the

Premler’s pre-Chrisimas blunder was not a

blunder.
All of this would be amusing If it were
for three very important facts.

not

One of those facts Is that you and | have
paid good money once and are now going to

pay good money again.

Another fact is that Important economic,

social, and environmental considerations

get

put to one side because of this obsession on

the part of Premler Bennett.

And the third fact is that Premier Bennett
Is sending out the wrong coples of Hansard.
Ifhe wants to get the truth across to us about
his government's activity then he should

send us Hansard for the opening day of
legislature.

OF COURSE £ BELIEVE INC

. THEY SHOBLD HANG E

SHMENT.
NE_IN

the

LETTERS TO .
THE EDITOR

Sir:
B.C. Federation of Labor,
Vancouver, B.C.

Gentlemen; ;
At a recent meeting of

unfair and discriminatory
towards white persons.

A case inpoint is a recent

about a federal plan to buy

our society, your reported boats and a cannery to be
opposition to the Ku Kiux turned aver to Indians on
Kian was discussed and the the north coast, and whith
following resolution was = may allow them to
passed by unanimous vote: dominale the fishing in-

that this society dustry in the area, Maney

voice its support of British
Columbia Federation of
Labor's condemnation of
the racism of the KKK; and
be it further resolved that,
based on the same prin:

to be extracted from the
genera! public in the form
of taxes on natural gas and
petrokeum. ;
This matter is being
referred to the media for

" ciple, this society condemn publicity.
the blatant racism of Yours truly,
certain so-called ‘af- _ Thomas Adil
firmative action’ and President, Canadian
Unison Society

"native uplift’ programs, as

ODD,
isn’t it?

CINCINNATI (AP) — Kelly Farrish figured be
had a way ta keep his name well-known despite
losing an election for a seat in the Ohio senate: He
offered to pay 20 cents for each of his campaign
posters returned to him.

But of 1,500 posters. he got back only 60 during the
weekend.

“T'm a little disappointed,” said Farrish, who lost
to incumbent Republican Stanley Aronoff in
November. .

“I expected it would tum out better than this,”
Farrish said. ‘I thought same high school kids
would take them down.”

He concedes that the project was a ploy to keep
his name known. He wants to run lor office again.

But ''] feel like I owe it lo the people to get them
down,” he said, adding: “The fact that il doesn't
cost me much money now means that I have to go
ouland get them mysel!. It will take me far more
than 20 cents a sign to pick them off poles and walls.

“And it's not as much fun as putting them up
either -- not as rewarding,”’ be said.

WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) — Somewhere
there is a former student of Monmouth College
whose honesty took 15 years to surface.

College President Samuel Magill returned from
holiday recess recently to find a bulky package with
a Denver postmark on his desk. .

Inside were two solid brass doorknobs engraved
with a delicate design. With them was the following
pate:

“T took these from a room on the third floor of the
main building. Please replace them. I've never
been comfortable about it,”

The note was signed ‘“Repentant.”

Instead of @ return address, the package was
marked “John Q. Estudiante, 1966.""

When Magill investigated, he discovered that the
fixtures fit two closets in the office of the registrar
in Woodrow Wilson Hall, the former Shadow Lawn
mansion, the college’s administrative centre.

The hardware is unique, college officials say.

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