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From: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Canada's defence : Doesn't anyone care?
Message-ID: <1952@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 10:09:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 10:09:05 1985
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Reply-To: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams)
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In article <774@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>In article <5906@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>>      The polar sea question is of some interest to me.  ...
>>> ...  I wonder what Trudeau would have done?
>>
>>Considering what Trudeau did to our armed forces, probably nothing.
>
>     I don't know about that.  Trudeau was quick on the draw to
>pull the War Measures Act out of the mothballs.  He was clearly
>the most concerned Prime Minister we've ever had regarding our
>independence from the U.S.  I think he, at least could have 'found'
>our Navy.  Apparently Mulroney lost it somewhere.

    Mulroney lost nothing!  What we have to work with is what was
left by the liberals, and that is not much.  Not even Ronald Reagan
could rebuild a nations armed forces in a year.
    Furthermore, there was no need to do much.  The US gave us a
letter, according to Macleans, that states that the voyage in no
way affects Canada's claims on the area. Then our only concern 
would have been with pollution. It was determined that this was
no problem either.  The only problem was that the press blew 
everything out of proportion in order to improve their ratings.

Cheers,		Fred Williams