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From: rcgood@watnot.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: 'Free' Trade?
Message-ID: <12419@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 15:48:35 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  5 15:48:35 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Feb-87 01:36:45 EST
Reply-To: rcgood@watnot.UUCP (Rob Good)
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Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: NO WAY, eh!


Has anyone else read about the lastest in the free-trade talks?

According today's Globe and Mail (Feb. 5), US Trade representative
Clayton Yeutter made some interesting comments a few nights ago. 

	"I'm prepared to have American culture on the table and 
	have it damaged by Canadian influences after the free-
	trade agreement.  I hope Canada's prepared to run that 
	risk, too."

Elsewhere in the same paper, Premier David Peterson said that there
is a national debate about Canadian identity.  "But one thing we
know we are not is Americans, and we don't want to be Americans."

It seems to me that if anyones culture is going to be damaged by
free-trade it certainly isn't the American's. It also seems to me
that not only are the Americans trying to 'buy' our country out 
from under us, they are now thinking of 'buying' our culture as well.

Any other comments on this issue?



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  University of Waterloo                          my  path, please 
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  'So long, and thanks for all the fish.'
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