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From: kazim@Apple.COM (Alex Kazim)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Changing Spencer's signature
Summary: Canada's Space Program
Keywords: Canada, NASA
Message-ID: <20595@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 88 19:41:11 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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The suugestion that Canada ought to start it's own "damned" space program:

Having lived in Canada for six years I can give some input.

Canada tried to build a fighter, the Avro Arrow. It really was ahead of its
time, but it got shut down by Deifenbaker so he could place Bomarc missiles
in the Arctic to prevent against the Soviet Menace.

The US, which sold the Bomarcs to Canada, also make Canada sign an agreement
where Canada couldn't build fighter aircraft until 1999.  It's been awhile, so
I'm sure my details are a little rusty.  Maybe Spencer could help me out.

So is it the US's fault for stuffing the treaty down the PM's throat the same
way it did the Columbia River Treaty, or the Auto Pact?  I think it was really
stupid for the PM to sign that agreement; but then again he was under a lot
of pressure, from the Soviets and the Americans.

I think Canada's current role in NASA is smart from an economic and political
standpoint.  But everyone has the right to criticize NASA, especially when
it's warranted.  Or is freedom of speech a solely Citizen of America thing?

People criticize because they care. And the sooner this jingoistic, what's 
mine is mine and you can die attitude ends, the better.

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Alex Kazim, Apple Computer
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