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Market plan red herring .

NEW YORK (CP) — The idea of a North. American common market seems te rise ami fall with the tides. As far as the Canadian and Mexican governments are concerned, It is a nomstarter despite President Reagan's enthusiastic support.

Even some influential Americans are saying the U.S. shouldstop pressing the point — at least for the time being. .

A U.S. economic policy.group calls recent U.S. initiatives toward a North American accord premature, unattainable and counter-productive.

Ina report on relationships in the North American economic area, the Economy Policy Council of the United Nations Association-USA says the U.5. should seck a closer North American regional perspective recognizing Canada and Mexico as equa] partners.

“Any U.S. initiative toward the establishment of trilateral government institutions would be premature and likely to be conflict-creating at this time,” the report says.

“Nevertheless, it is timely and necessary to find ways to improve the U.S. government structure so as to better focus and co-ordinate our own policy with regard to our continental neighbors.”

The Economic Policy Council is made up of about 60 U.S. leaders in business, labor, agriculture and education as well as the professions.

‘The report reviews the extent and complexity of existing relationships and notes that few economic problems can be dealt with unilaterally by any of the three countries without significant impact on the others. It takes no position on the Canadian government's new energy policies including Canadianization of half the country’s oil indusiry..

The council urges President Reagan to appoint an

, Sificia) with specifically designated responsibilities ” for co-ordinating U.S. policy and actions concerned with North American economic relations.

“While the council takes as its working assump- tion that formal trilateral governmental regional economic institutions are currently not feasible, the council believes that opposition to institutions does not necessarily mean opposition to co-operation in solving particular economic problems or discussing economic issues of common concern,” the study said,

‘What it calls limited co-operation on many economic issues already exists at several levels — governmental and private.

But the study says there is a need for the three countries to rethink basic attitudes toward each © other.

“History and economics change rapidly and relationships in North America must change with them. No longer can the United States act as the patron of North and South America. No longer can the United States consider Canada mainly as the North American branch of the British Com- monwealth. .

“Byen though current levels of economic development may differ, the United States must accept Mexico and Canada as equal partners in the economic development of North America."

In economic relations among Canada, Mexico and the U.S, the directions now taken for the development and the exploitation of non-renewable natural resources will not be quickly reversed.

“Initiatives taken or forgone in the 19608 may not have visible consequences until the 2ist century.”

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by RICHARD GWYN

OTTAWA

OTTAWA — They liked Joe Clark. They admired his decency, and they respected his pluckiness. But, as one woman delegate said as she came out of the ballot booth, they were “sick and fired of losing elec- tions."

So they voted against Clark, or at least one In three did despite a convention brilliantly stage-managed on Clark’s behalf, and despite the unanimous support for him of every provincial Conservative premier, ‘every member of his former cabinet, and every important party official.

Until the actual result was read out, Clark had seemed to be. within reach of a triumph.

‘Conservative youth and Wome hdttimob

him. Hardly a delegate could be found in the halls wearing a (Leadership) “Review” button.

But too many delegates, it turned out were tootired. Tired of losing every election except the election of 1979, which In fact Pierre Trudeay lost all by himself.

Tired of the polls which show that alihough support for the Liberals, because of the constitution and energy, has tumbled from 50 per cent last fall to 40 per cent today, support for the Conservatives scarcely has changed. Tired of doubting that Clark, ever again, could win an election for them.

So the delegates told Clark they were tired of him. .

In his speech after the vote, grim-faced, Clark expressed his appreciation for the two-In-three delegates who had voted for him. He promised to “respect” the minority who had voted against him, adding that he expected them also to “respect the majorlty decision that has been expressed here.”

But one In three, under the circumstances and‘ amid all the pressures amounts in ferms of political perceptions, to a majority. No leader has survived with so little support among his) own.

At best, the Conservatives have put Clark on probation, until the next leadership review, due to be held, under the party constitution, at a general meeting In two years time.

At worst, they have told Clark they don’t really believe he can win an election for

fhem.

Whether things turn out the worst for Clark or turn out for the best, his political career just about has come fo its end.

He began his career five years ago a5 Joe Who? Then he defeated Trudeau and transformed himself inte Prime Minister Clark. Now he Is Joe Who? again, a leader doubted by his own party.

Because he won the formal vote, as he all along was bound to do, Clark Is under no obligation to stage a leadership convention. “We have a lotof other things to do,”” he told delegates: The party had to “stay united’ he-salds =

“gut the criehJod Who? tag goon Wiiltaunt:”

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him. In: the Cdmmons, each time Clark atlacks the government, Liberal ministers are bound to demand which Conservative party he speaks for. His leadership rivais, such as ex-ministers David Crombie and Jahn Crosble, and Quebec Brian Mulrooney, are bound, as they dared not to during this convention, to try to upstage Clark at each opportunity that comes thelr way.

During the two years until the party's next convention at which it once again will review Its leadership, the Conservatives, therefore, will remain divided, and, for all practical purposes, leaderless.

The question becomes how long It will take before Clark himself becomes sick and flred of the Conservative Party. He has given It his best shot. Now It has shot back at him.

Whether anyone else can do better at winning elections for the Conservatives Is of course quite another question. The only answer the vote has given Is that it's now someone other than Clark’s turn to try.

It’s ODD, isn’t it?

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Com- ‘ita, a rare black rhinoceros who became the symbol of a Canadian political party, joins the San Diego Zoo today.

The 60-pound rhino was being flown to San Diego in the baggage compartment of an Air Canada jetliner.

The first rhinoceroa born In Canada, Cornelius served as the symbol of Canada’s

that party nominated a hobo named Adam Nobody for president and used the alogan: ‘Nobody for president and everybody for vice.”

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The bills are green and look somewhat like U.S. currency. But they have Love 22's smiling, bearded face in the centre of the front side, the number 22 on each

corner and a composite on the back of clippings from bills of various denominations.

Love 22 — one of the many street entertainers and characters who came to New Orleans for Carnival season — was arrested on Ash Wednesday, while sitting astride a beat-up bicycle, allegedly selling his §22 bills at five for a dollar.

The misdemeanor charge is Megally reproducing parts af official U.S. currency, but

. Love 22 — he refuses to say

what his name was before he hadit legally changed in 1975 — intends to fight it.

He contends that his $22 bills are just as legal as other kinds of paper money. “They're not fake. They're rea) $22 bills.”

Besides, he added, ‘I have

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EDMONTON (CP) — Money means power, for people and provinces, But while Alberta Conservatives are ready to act on this precept, they are reluctant to admit it.

After the federal budget and national energy program were announced last fall, a reporter suggested ta Premier Peter Lougheed that the crux of the Ottawa-Alberta dispute was a struggle for economic and political power.

“No it isn’t,” the premier replied.

In the rhetoric of Alberta’s Progressive Conservative leaders, the link between money and power is rarely They tend to talk only about owners’ rights to resource revenue, even when federal Conservative Leader Joe Clark describes the link between money and power as thenub of current federal- provincial conflicts.

Alberta has net assets of about $11 billion. The federal government has a debt this year alone of about $1 billion more.

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Mare Lalonde, his energy minister, want to cut into provincial resource revenues because they know “a provincial government without money can not ef- fectively challenge the power of a central govern- ment in Canada,” Clark recently told a Conservative fund-raising dinner in Ed- monton,

"We know and the Trudeau government knows that the West was able to force its issues and its priorities on to the nation’s agenda only after resource wealth gave this reglon clout at the federal-provincial conference table.”

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Lougheed, confronted in a recent interview with Clark's analysis of the battle aver resource revenues, ‘steered clear, :

He said he would not use the same wording and launched into a standard

reply:

“We have a perception of Canada that the country will be stronger if there are atrong provinces and strong regions.

“And that we do have a federal state, and that our Fathers of Confederation established Canada on the basis of a balance between the federal government an the provinces.”

A major debate in the Alberta legislature last fall saw MLAs restate provincial rights ‘over resources but stop short of examining the possible implications of comentrated wealth,

Sotial Services Minister Bob Bogle, in a typical speech, said the energy issue resembled the situation of a

southern Alberta farmer be once met.

“CHe) saidto me, ‘My land is a little better than my peighbor's band. I'm lucky; I'm able to irrigate It. My neighbor can't.

“Bot if my neighbor can lay claim to part of my produce because | happen to have better land than be has, what does my ownership mean? What does the fact that ]have atitle to my plece of property ‘really mean?’

“That's what it's all about," Bogle added.

Other political leaders in the province go further.

“Ag far as I'm concerned, the conflict is a conflict for economic and political power,” Social Credit Leader Rod Sykes said in’an interview.

"J think the premier inter- preted the situation ab- golutely correctly when he said we were at war,’

One way to achieve peace, said Sykes, is to make Alberta’s $7,8-billion Heritage Savings Trust Fund immune io political manipulation. He would start by distributing ownership shares among Albertans os if the fund were amiutual fund.

Liberal Leader Nick Taylor said Clark “defined the problem quite well, but the conclusion he drew from it was quite wrong.”

Resources have become the most potent source of government revenue and the money must be shared, Taylor said. Canadians decided long ago to redistribute money from wealthy regions to poor ones.

“The federal government feals that to Jet the provinces have the money is like letting millionaires keep their money and hope they'll give it to charities. ...

“Lougheed has tried to gain powers that the con- sutution does not give him. I maintain that if the federal

government went to (an oil .

price of) §100 a barrel

Lougheed would still not satlsfied.” oo

Despite Lougheed’s care notlostray beyonda handful of alock phrases in such dis- cussions, there have been signs he and his ministers are aware of the political implications of wealth, =

Jack Horner, in his auto- biography, quotes Lougheed aa saying in the mid-1970s that Alberta would become more powerful because the Province would become more and more wealthy.

The premier told a Calgary Chamber of Com- merce meeting a few weeks ago that part of the reason for the constant Alberta- Oltawa strife was the federal Liberals’ refural to see any Province become even moderately independent.

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