European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Connection 26years. John Turner Leader of the opposition Liberal party said we intend to fight it every Inch of the Way author Margaret at cod wants Mulroney to Call an Dee lion before ins pact is sent to parliament for ratification. If Hal we want is 1o not be Canada anymore let s put that right Oul on the ballot she said. The on Tario labor federation urged members to seize their factories if jobs Are endangered by Low Cost . Imports while others say guaranteed . Access to Energy resources returns canadians to their colonial role As Hewers of Wood and drawers of other issues dogging u.3 Canadian relations acid pain Canada maintains . Utilities Are causing at least 50 percent of the acid rain pollution that has destroyed 14.000 lakes and begun Tod nude forests. The canadians say tall american smokestacks Emit Kultur dioxide that soars across the Border and causes the damage. Washington says costly preventive measures Are not warranted until there is More scientific data. The Arctic until last week s signing in Ottawa of the Arctic cooperation agreement Canada was at Odds with the United Stales Over sovereignty of the Norl Wesl passage through the Arctic . Navy submarines Parrot under the Kab. The . Government finally bowed Loca Nadian demands and agreed to seek Canadian consent before sending ships through wha Canada claims As its territorial Waters. Boundaries tic two countries can t Settle maritime boundaries in the Oil Rich Beaufort sea Between Alaska and this Yukon in the Pacific Between Southeast Alaska and Drilich Columbia and in the Strait of Juan de Fuca below Vancouver Island. Foreign policy Canada opposes . Support Lur the Contra rebels in Nicaragua and has hollered to help setup a peacekeeping Force in Central America including troops in requested. Canada sides with Iho soviets in the claim that the United Stales has transgressed the abm and Salti arms treaties it also is against Star wars deployment and wants More us. Sanctions against South Africa. Farm subsidies Canada claims that Washington along with the european economic Community is causing massive Arm surpluses and a collapse in world Grain prices in a subsidy War thai seriously harms Canadian Farmers fish . Embargo on exports o , Pollock flour Der and plaice. A panel of the general agreement on tariffs an Trade meanwhile has upheld a . Complaint that Canada is violating Trade rules by monopolizing Iho processing of Wesl coast Salmon and herring. Despite these testy issues there is also plenty of close cooperation in e relationship both sides almost Lake for granted. In Quebec the International Border runs through one woman s House without anyone caring very much. The smooth Core of the partnership includes joint management of the great lakes trans Border aviation and trucking agreements the North american aerospace defense command to guard against soviet air attack Over the Arctic Day to Day police collaboration and the transmission of some s4 billion a year in Canadian electricity end natural Gas to american Homes and factories. Canadians gel easily rattled however when their Southern neighbors Tail to recognize she cultural and historical factors that Divide them. Pierre Berton an author and broadcaster regarded As Canada s most prolific chronicler of Iho limes says canadians suffer from double think when ii comes to americans. It s like when people say they have nothing against the russian people Only their government he said in an interview. Everybody knows some americans and most have relatives in the states. We Gothere for holidays Especial Lylo Florida or Calif Omlan the Winter. But nobody wants to join the United slates. Nobody wants he said americans Don t realize that Canada is basically a less adventurous country with Strong anti Yankee tools stemming irom the 40,000 loyalists who led North in 1776. We re no a Reyold Leonary country Bert on added. There s no blood in our history no wild West no vigilantes. In our Case the Law always got there Belore the settlers. People Don t carry guns and Don t feet they have to. We re no the gamblers the americans Are. We have a much higher rate of insurers and savers. We cooperate we Don t compete and we think government and Industry and the people area learn working Side by opponents of the free Trade agreement accused Mulroney of forfeiting Canadian Independence after Reagan loosely termed the free Trade Deal a new economic Constitution Tor North Reagan later had to reassure canadians he had no designs on their sovereignly. His comment however touched a nerve in a vast broadly diverse nation that is United by two things an ability to survive Long Winters and a desire not to be americans. Canadians Are a basically conservative people who Stiffl recognize Queen Elizabeth ii As head of slate. The economist Magazine rates quiet Canada the second dullest country in the world after Singapore. The economist John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in Ontario thinks canadians Are Overly concerned about free Trade. Canadian sovereignty is not so slight a thing that it is really affected by greater purchases of gadgetry irom lha United states to wrote in saturday night Magazine. Despite Canada s rugged outdoors image. 80 percent of its 25 3 million population huddles within 100 Miles of the . Border. For Large numbers of Eastern canadians a Winter vocation in Florida is virtually an annual ritual whatever their misgivings canadians voraciously consume american culture. Fans of the Toronto Blue jays and Montreal expos base a teams cheer lineups virtually devoid of canadians. Conversely americans cheer hockey teams made up mostly of canadians Arctic eskimos Walch to programs originating in Detroit. Michael j. Fox Anne Murray Leonard Cohen lome Greene and William thalner Are among Canadian artists who have won acclaim at Home Only after making in in the United Sltes. When newspapers headlined the news that a popular Canadian broadcasting corp. Anchor. Peter Man Bruge. Had turned Down a milion Dollar Oder from lbs in new York one commentator noted this must be the Only country in the world that honors people for not leaving in a nutshell. Associated press Anada and the United states share the world s longest undefended Border Sercl Chang 4,681 Miles Horn the Maine new Brunswick line to he Arctic Tundra of Alaska and the Yukon territory. The United Stales has nearly 10 limes As Many people. 242 million compared with 25 3 million yet Canada is the world s second largest country in area Canada has 500.000 indians and eskimos farming 2 Percone of Ida population. There were never any wars against the natives. . Indians number about 153 million. Despite the vast landscape 60 percent of canadians live in a 100-mile strip along the . Border where climate and soil Are Busl whether shopping Al the giant Wesl Edmonton mall or skiing in the Laurentian. More than 80 percent of Loreign visitors to Canada Are american. Four out of live canadians choose the untied slates when they go abroad. More irian 833.000 canadians live permanently in the United slates while As Many As 26,000 americans a year moved to Canada during the Vietnam War. One Quarter of canadians mostly in Quebec province speak French in contrast to the melting pot Canada has officially adopted a multicultural policy and retained a Strung regional flavor. Canada is a parliamentary democracy similar to Britain a in which great Power is invested in the prime minister whose government is elected for a live year term but who can Call an election at any Lime. Us. Presidents serve four year terms and formally share Power with legislative and judicial branches Canada sends 78 percent of its exports to the uni cd Stales while Aboul 22 percent of american exports come North. Canada buys twice As Many . Goods As Japan. Bilateral Trade represents an estimated s million jobs on both sides of the Border Ontario. Canada s most populous and Industrial province exports 90 percent of its floods to the United Stales. Cars and Auto parts accounted Lor nearly Hall the two Way Trade of $130 billion in 1986. Bul other goods ranged from British Columbia s lumber to american computers and paperback books. Canada s �13.8 billion surplus in merchandise Trade was substantially Otlet by . Earnings in tourism banking and other services. More than three quarters of All foreign investment in Canada is of . Origin a portfolio Worth nearly $100 billion including control of seven of the lop 1d Canadian Oil companies. More than 400 of the Fortune 500 companies have operations in Canada. Canadians account for 10 percent of foreign investment in the United slates. Nuarl 5,1988 the stars and stripes pagans
