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From: brad@looking.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: market crash
Message-ID: <1071@looking.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 19:27:01 EST
Article-I.D.: looking.1071
Posted: Fri Oct 23 19:27:01 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 11:46:03 EST
References: <170@bby-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <170@bby-bc.UUCP> john@bby-bc.UUCP (john) writes:
>
>Silly because you say so?  Why can't we weaken the connection?  You mean
>if the US just suddenly disappeared Canada would inexorably disappear too?

Close to it.  Not that it's likely that the US will just disappear unless
Comrade G pushes his button.  Enough of his missles are aimed here that it
wouldn't matter, anyway.

>The politicians have said we have this problem:
>	80% of our trade is with the US and every time their economy
>	twitches ours shakes.
>So then they come up with a "solution":
>	Lets tie our economy even tighter to the US economy - that'll
>	solve all our problems!
>Uhhhh sorry!  If I live next to a noisy neighbour I dont solve the problem
>by moving even closer.

If it were noise you were talking about.  While I don't think free trade is
billed as a "solution" to the problem you specify above, it seems that
a closely tied economy would then "twitch" when the US economy twitches.
>
>Regardless of how one might feel about the US itself it is *ludicrous* to
>try and make our economy stable by tieing it all to one other country, *any*
>country.
>
>What *would* be courageous would be to strike out and forge ties with
>other countries; to make Canadians so good at what they do that people
>come to us *asking* for our goods and services; to make us independent
>of any one country, economically and politically. To stand on our own
>feet for crying out loud.
>
>john

Yes, you're right.  And strong trade barriers would be just the way to set
this sort of thing up [8-)].  Who's being ludicrous?

-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473