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From: acton@mprvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: definitions of culture, really Brad, Brad, Brad....wake up
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Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 10:36:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 27 10:36:07 1987
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In article <203@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes:

>It seems to me that in polls for quite some time Canadians have expicitly
>stated that they do not want nukes in our country - either ours or theirs.
>This is why the Genies (I think it was) were removed from Comox base.

Although it is true there aren't any nuclear weapons at Comox any longer
I am not convinced it is because of polls. I think it is more because we
got rid of our aging fighter planes and replaced them with the CF-18
making the existing weapons useless. I seem to recall a few years back a
big "blowout" in the press about Canada agreeing to store nuclear depth
charges up here if hostilities against North America looked imminent.
This would seem to suggest that the federal government is not easily
swayed by public opinion on this issue or related ones. (At the moment I
am thinking about the 5 year extension just granted to cruise testing.) 

However, another thing I want to point out is that Canada's air
defences on the West Coast are non-existant. When the CF-18s were
delivered the fighter squadron at Comox was moved to Cold Lake leaving
the West Coast without any ability to even identify aircraft moving in
our air space let alone shoot anything down. This is another example of
where we are allowing the Americans to do our "dirty work" so to speak.


 Donald Acton