Path: utzoo!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Free Trade: Why is there no 'Plan B'?
Message-ID: <410@telly.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 88 04:25:59 GMT
Distribution: can
Organization: System telly, Brampton, Ontario
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Somehow I don't think the free trade deal is EITHER as bad as opponents say
it is, nor do I think it's as good as its proponents claim.[

So far I have seen BOTH sides spread fear at every opportunity. This election
has turned into "who do you trust?", with the voters being asked to decide
which leader they distrust least. Brian Mulroney treads on *very* thin ice
calling ANYONE a liar.

In this newsgroup I have seen pieces of the campaign itself. Rudeness,
opinions denouced as lies, and rabid exagertaion of both the deal's
plusses and minuses.

I will be voting against the Tories this time, but not because I am against
free trade. I am against the way the Tories have negotiated and implemented
the FTA, I am appalled at the Conservative desperation "man on the street"
radio ads, and I am disgusted by what I remember of the past four years'
administration.

More than anything, I am saddened that there is no "Plan B". The Conservatives
have pinned all their economic strategies on unbridled trade with the country
which may conceivably be led by Dan Quayle. Why have we not been talking to
other countries or economic blocs about free trade? Have we been lobbying the
EEC? Japan? ANYONE else but the U.S.? What if we implement the FTA, and STILL
become subject to US Omnibus Trade Bills?

Frankly, out of sheer curiosity, there's part of me which would like to see
a Conservative minority. Would Turner and Broadbent gang up on Mulroney the
way Peterson and Rae did it to Frank Miller in Ontario some years back?

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...
-- 
Evan Leibovitch, SA of System Telly                       If Jesus was a Jew
Located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario, Canada               how come he had  
evan@telly.on.ca -or- uunet!attcan!telly!evan                a Mexican name?