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- From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
- Subject: Re: Council of Canadians
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.144257.4973@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
- References: <1992Nov21.193801.1257@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 14:42:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.193801.1257@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> ddjohnson@galaxy.gov.bc.ca writes:
- >In 1985 that old Tory war horse Dalton Camp bet Mel Hurtig a bottle
- >of Scotch that Mel's recently launched group, the Council of Canadians,
- >wouldn't last ten weeks. Seven years later, Mel is still waiting for Camp to
- >pay up!
- >
- >The Council of Canadians has been fighting to preserve Canadian sovereignty
- >ever since. In general terms, this can be conceptualised as a fight against
- >the BFTA and, currently, NAFTA. It was the (then) proposed BFTA that
- >Hurtig organised against. Mel is currently the honourary Chairperson;
- >Maude Barlow is the Chair.
- >
-
- Where were the Council of Canadians when Canada was really threatened by
- the Charlottetown Accord? Maude Barlow was nowhere to be seen.
- International trade rules cannot affect national social programs, but
- the Charlottetown accord certainly could have...and the COC was mute
- on that issue, when the fabric of Canada was truly in peril.
-
- Canadian sovereignty is currently the most threatened by our foreign
- debt, and not by trade rules devised by the Americans, Japanese, and
- Germans.
-
- What the COC fails to realize is that we have limited influence over
- the nature of the international playing field in which we must
- compete...and that it is impossible to protect ourselves from
- global competition, since of all the G7 countries, Canada is the
- country most dependent on international trade for its prosperity.
-
- Gerald
-