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From: gwhawkins@watrose.UUCP (gwhawkins)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Star Wars North
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 12:12:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 12:12:32 1985
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> >     -  Canadian participation will destroy  any  credibility  we
> >     may  have  left  as  an  honest  broker on the international
> >     stage.
> Not true.  Canada is a part of NATO, and as such should take part in
> NATO projects (next you'll be telling me we should get out of NATO).

Canada cannot be an honest broker BECAUSE we are in NATO. And personally
I DO think we should be out of NATO.  We don't pull our weight and we
could get into the position of being an honest broker.

What I really object to is the rhetoric about this only being a research
project which has no bearing on actually building anything.  THIS IS
A LOAD OF HORSE-****!!  It stems from the idea that technology is 
completely unbiased and neutral.  If this is just a research project
that's being done forthehellofit, wy do it at all.

(I realise that this sort of rationalization hasn't hit the net yet
I'm just fed up of hearing it touted in the other media that run our 
minds.)

		larry fast (Universty of Waterloo)
		broadcasting from exile