BRITISH COLUMBIA

and the Caribbean (CALA), a
powerful business group which
comprises 60 of the largest
Canadian-based corporations
with economic interests in the

A high level bilateral meeting
of Chilean and Canadian
businessmen is expected to be the
target of anti-junta demonstra-
tions when it opens in Vancouver

next month. region. 3
Spokesmen for Canadians for Earlier, the Tribune obtained a
ocracy in Chile said this copy of the agenda and introduc-
week that plans have been set for tory notes for the conference

which indicate that the oe
has been. organized with par-
ticipation from the highest levels
in both countries — with the ob-
jective of increasing Canadian-

a demonstration to protest the
Chilean junta’s economic and
Political repression, and support
from trade unions and
democratic Latin American

Stoups is already being mobiliz- Chilean economic ties.

ed. a 3 Assisting in the organization of
The date and further detailsfor the conference is David Cart-

the action are to be announced wright, the director of trade,
cr, development and capital projects

for B.C.’s ministry of industry
and small business development.
Don Phillips, the Socred minister
who holds that portfolio, is
scheduled to make the. opening
presentation at the conference
which will be held at the plush

The businessmen’s meeting, a
Major economic conference
which will include representatives
from the Banco de Chile and

’s Export Development
Corporation, and will hear ad-
dresses from both federal and

Provincial government ministers, Four Seasons Hotel and the Rob-
IS scheduled to take place Oct. son Square media centre. _
19-20. It has been organized by The ministry is also hosting a

the Toronto-based Canadian

special reception and dinner for
iation for Latin America

Chilean delegates to the con-

Protest to greet top level meeting
of Chilean, Canadian businessmen

ference on Oct. 20 at the Board of
Trade. Es

Although not yet confirmed,
according to the agenda, the
federal minister of state for inter-
national trade, Ed Lumley, is also
to be a keynote speaker.

Some of the participants in the
meeting include Javier Vial, presi-
dent of both Banco de Chile and
the Chilean Banking Association;
J. M. Roy, commercial secretary
for the Canadian embassy in
Chile; Leonard Gwilt, manager
for H. A. Simons International;
and officials from the Export
Development..Corporation

According to the conference
notes, the EDC, a federal govern-
ment agency, has been in-
strumental in expanding Canada-
Chile business relations:
1981, it extended two lines of
credit to Chilean private sector

banks and has a third line under: :

negotiation. EDC has been keen
in developing new business in
Chile and has proved to be a most
valuable asset in Canada’s
marketing strategy in Chile.”

Those increased trade links are
in spite of mounting pressure on
the federal government — from
the Canadian Labor Congress
and the Inter-Church Committee
among others — to curtail trade
with the fascist junta.

Elsewhere, the conference
notes, although they are intended —
to present a favorable image of
the Chilean economy, give a
glimpse of the consequences of
the draconian economic policies
imposed by Pinochet.

Even those official statistics
peg Chile’s inflation level for 1980
at 31.2 percent and the rate of
unemployment at 10.1 percent.
The trade deficit also grew in 1980
by 18.3 percent to’ U.S. $420
million.

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Nuclear deterrence no
security, says general

Continued from page 1

The former British general was
also a speaker at the conference ses-
sion where he outlined his work in
the Campaign for Nuclear Disarm-
ament.

Founded two years ago to press

‘for multilateral disarmament,

CND has won considerable influ-
ence in Britain and elsewhere in
Europe. ‘

A major target in Harbottle’s
comment was what he called the
‘propaganda warfare’’ which. is
aimed at convincing the public that
we need ever more sophisticated
weapons to ensure our security

_ “and to deter the enemy.”’

He noted that the theory of mu-
tual deterrence — on which west-
ern nuclear strategy has been based
— has become even more unten-
able recently because politicians are
also talking of the possibility of a
limited war.

“Nuclear weapons as a deterrent
have no role but to threaten the
enemy. As soon as they are used,
they no longer act as a deterrent.

“It is a strange paradox,’’ he
said, ‘‘that people are still talking
about deterrence but they are also
talking about ‘limited war’ and
‘first strike.’

‘And the dangerous thing about —

that is that the weapons they. are
trying to sell us as a deterrent no
longer act as a deterrent because
they intend to use them.”’
Harbottle stressed that the ‘‘only
real security lies in a de-escalation

’ of the arms race.”’

He cited actions such as the es-

tablishment of nuclear-free zones |

=

in Europe; ‘‘military disengage-
ment’’ in Europe, and a mora-
torium on the development of new
weapons — a proposal made re-
cently by Soviet foreign minister
Andrei Gromyko but dismissed by
British foreign minister Lord Car-

‘ ringtori — as ‘actions “*which could’

go a long way towards reducing
tensions.”’

~

He also chided his own govern- -

ment for being ‘‘too ready to take
risks with war and too unwilling to
take risks for peace.’?

Earlier, delegates to the Coali-
tion for World. Disarmament’s
conference endorsed resolutions
calling on the federal government
to: . ae
@ Establish Canada as a nuc-
lear-weapons-free zone;

@ Call a special session of par-
liament to debate Canada’s role at

the 1982 UN special session on dis-
armament;

© Divert thefundsallocated for

the F-18 fighter purchase to pro- ~

vide aid to homeowners and renters
in Canada;

@ Pass a special motion in Par-
liament condemning the produc-
tion and deployment. of the neu-
tron bomb.

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