Dean Moore
When the free trade
issue was discussed, they
argued about the deal
_ itself, but didn’t put forth
any of the finer points.

Fred Statham
Yes, that all three par-
ties favor abortion on de-
mand.

Arthritis

To the Editor;
A thank you from the Terrace

Branch of the Arthritis Society:

‘and from the center in Van-
couver to each and every person
in this area who supported
September’s ‘‘Arthritis Month”

Museum

. Didthetelevised —_
debate of the national
political leaders clarify

any ofthe election —
issues S for you? -

—

Lawrence McKay.
Some, yes, although we
don’t really Know all
what’s involved.

Jim Doaghy
Not really.

“Terrace Review — Wecinesday, November 2, 1988. 7

Letters to the Editor

thanks

with donations, and to the many

' canvassers who so willingly gave

their time to assist in a successful
campaign raising $6,230.00.

‘Thanks — we do appreciate

your efforts.
Terrace Branch of the Arthritis
Society of B.C. & Yukon

closed for

: winter break

To the Editor,

The Meanshinisht Village
Historical Association Museum
in Cedarvale, B.C., is now
closed for this year.

We would like to take this op-
portunity to thank all visitors
that came from all over the.
world to see our display.

'We fave collected several
‘items that are 100 years old,

mostly donated by members, A

painting of one of our famous
buildings was ‘donated by a
Kitimat artist.

We are always looking for
items of Historical value if
anyone has anything of interest
and would like to have it
displayed at this Museum,

M.G. Dalen,

| Cedarvale, B.C, -

One man ’s view of Free Trade

. To the- Editor;

As a. recently-returned. west

" T coast native who has spent most
‘| of the-
-Washington, D.C, as a World

last 28 years in

Bank economist, I am attemp-

ting to come to grips with Cana-

dian politics and, in particular,
the so-called Free Trade Agree-

“ment with the U.S. I am.as-

tounded at how little ‘‘hard’’ in

formation is available and how
few of my neighbors and ac-
quaintances have seen the docu-
ment, much less read it — but it
is hard to obtain and extremely
difficult to understand. I submit
here a thumbnail summary of
the Agreement which you may
wish to share with your readers:

1. Subject to many individual
variations and exceptions, bar-
tiers to commodity movements
are to be abolished over a ten
year period. This affects about
20 percent of trade, since 80 per-
cent already moves duty-free;

2. The U.S. will retain the
right to apply duties arid restric-
tions wherever it feels the goods
are unfairly subsidized or sup-
ported, or are being sold below
cost — so there are no automatic
safeguards for Canada against
U.S. protectionist action;

3. Canada can appeal to a
joint bi-national panel against
unjustified action by the U.S, In
doing so, Canada forfeits the
Tight to appeal to the more in-
fluential worldwide GATT
organization. The panel cannot
enforce its decisions. Canada
can only retaliate or abrogate
the Agreement.

4, Canada agrees to share its
natural resources, including
water, with the U.S., to provide
a fixed proportion of these and

‘sell them to the U.S, at Cana-

dian domestic prices. In the case
of energy, Canada must always
share its total output with the
U.S. regardless of the adequacy
of its reserves and can never
charge more than it charges
Canadians;

5. The U.S. is not obliged to
buy Canadian energy — it can
buy its supplies wherever the
price is lowest;

- 6. Canadian and U.S. ‘firms
can locate in either country to
their best advantage, and receive
national treatment (i.e. U.S.
firms would be treated as if they
were Canadian). Canada cannot
restrict, screen or impose any
condition on U.S. firms buying
Canadian firms, entering the
Canadian market or taking out
profits on Canadian operations.
This includes nearly all forms of
banking, finance, brokerage, in-
surance, manufacturing, buy-
ing, selling, and runing such
services as hospitals, educational
services, health services, etc.

7. U.S. firms can bring in
U.S. citizens to run their firms
or provide specialized services a
temporary, but indefinite,
period. These include, among
others, accountants, engineers,
scientists, architects, lawyers,
economists, physicians, dentists,
psychologists, teachers, nurses,
veterinarians,.. social -workers,
journalists, librarians, etc.

8. U.S. banks are enabled to
enter business in Canada under

Spare the malarky

To the Editor;
. How humane are we after all?
The whales grab the head lines
again, Free at last. Thank God. I
could not have handled it much
longer without having to tune
out completely from this society
of ours.
Radio, TV and newspapers

‘considered this event to be

HEADLINE NEWS. Mr. Rea-
gan thought it worthy a phone
call of appreciation and en-
couragement to the people in-
volved in the rescue. And was
that not great, the Russians

showed us how humane they are .

in helping free the whales that
will be part of the 200 whales
they kill every year to be used as

mink food,

Have we gone insane or are we
completely lost as a human

Free Trade _

| continued from page 4

vinced those of us in attendance
that to link ourselves to a ‘‘fall-
ing star’? is absurd and

_ dangerous at a time when our in-

ternational trade potential with
the Pacific Rim nations is open-
ing up. In exchange for Free
Trade affecting 20 percent of
our trade with the U.S. we are
giving up our independence and
all those things which make
Canada a healthy society,
Maureen Bostock
. Terrace Women’s
Resource Centre

species? -

‘Around $2: million was.spent.

in this rescue, surely we could
have found a better way of

spending that money, Where is

that money when needed for
human lives? Surely the media
can find something more worth
while to inform the world about.
Please spare me this kind of
malarky and hypocrisy in the
future. After all, we are supposed
to be the most intelligent species
on this earth.
: Bibbi Dozzi,

Terrace, B.C,

_ Fri. til 9:00

terms less stringent than those —
applying to Canadian banks and
to operate more freely than
other foreign banks;

9. The huge agricultural sec-
tion of the Agreement basically
provides 20 years for un-
competitive Canadian fruit and
vegetable producers to get out of
business. The Wheat Board and

other Marketing Boards are.

threatened by unrestricted U. S.
competition.

10. Over the next 5-7 years
Canada and the U.S. will
negotiate a ‘‘harmonization’’ of
all laws affecting trade so that
the dispute panel will no longer
be needed — this will involve a
review of hidden subsidies (like
medical coverage, unemploy-
ment and welfare benefits, etc.).

11. The Canadian enabling
legislation was designed to make
all Canadian law subservient to
the terms of the Agreement. The
similar U.S. stand is that all
U.S. trade laws remain intact
and prevail over the Agreement
in case of conflict.

In essence, this is not a free
trade agreement; it is an economic
union, Canada has consistently
supported worldwide free trade.
This Agreement will force us to
discriminate against other coun-
‘tries in favor of the U.S. Tied to
.a country ten times our size,
Canada will become increasingly
dependent on the U.S.A. as a
natural resource market, an in-
vestment source, and as a pro-
vider of food products. Labor
and social legislation will in-
creasingly be subject to
American interpretation and
philosophy and, above all, trade
movements and financial inter-
course will cease its nationally
vital east-west pattern and
become increasingly north-south
between Canadian provinces
and the adjacent U.S. states.
The Agreement is a_ distinct
threat to Canadian sovereignty
and in consummating such a
deal without open discussion
with the Canadian people, I
believe the Tory government is
guilty of treason. Perhaps, loyal
Canadians should fly the na-
tional flag upside-down (as a
signal of distress) until the
Agreement is defeated.

Harold G. Brandreth
Halfmoon Bay, B.C.

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