4 - Wednesday, August 14, 1985 - North Shore News Whose bed to sleep in? TRADE — unex- pectedly, it has become an issue. When I say ‘‘unexpected- ly’, 1 mean simply that trade in recent years hasn't been an issue in the way that sex, drugs or rock ’n soll are, at least not since the days when folks were yell- ing, ‘‘Neither truck nor trade with the Yankees!"" In my time, the idez chat trade with the Yanks was somehow a central part of the Canadian state of well- being was simply not on the airwaves. We were a branch plant economy, remember? We were 70-80 per cent owned by foreign devils, overwhelmingly Americans. And, finally to stomp the national ego down to its lowest state of blothood, somebody muttered his comparison of a mouse in bed with an elephant. Lo! It emerges that rather than being a mouse in bed with an elephant, Canada is America’s biggest trading partner, bigger even — can you believe this? — than the mighty new Japanese com- mercial empire itself, already in the position of No. 2 economy in the world. It isn’t just that we Cana- dians weedwack our gardens _ and ‘play with our children behind the American nuclear shield, paying as little atten- tion as possible to the rumblings of the Titans and the flashes. of fire over the horizons to the nerth and south. No. We actually have a role in the awesome American marketplace itself. Like it or not, na- tionalists, we are a part of the Yankee economic megamachine. The whole world is, to one degree or another, but we happen to be to the nth degree. It remains, in pure tealpolitik, that we are far, far more dependent on THEM than they are on us. This, by the way, is the story of almost every trade deal we ever worked out with anybody, by Bob The Japanese, for in- stance, are a big factor in the Western Canadian economy, B.C. most of all. And while we are a factor of sorts from the point of view in the new highrise corporate towers in Tokyo, it is a small, distant factor indeed. Don’t let Mercator Projection fool you. Since they have the min- erais of the entire . Third World to choose from, with mines opening up, like lumber exports everywhere, the bargaining chips are mostly in the international buyer's hands. One Japenese businessman, posted in Van- couver, described Western Canadian t9 me as a ‘‘base camp’? set up to cover Japan’s resource needs in the next century. ! have yet to find an American businessman who will give me quite such a candid ap- praisal of Canada’s economic rote in Washington’s view. But let us guess that BRING THE CAR Wall Street there would be few tears shed if B.C.'s forest industry was to col- lapse tomorrow. Would fishermen from Washington State or Alaska really miss their old Canadian buddies in places like Hecate Strait? strictly personai Hunter To expect pity from New York or Tokyo is Sike expec- ting pity from Toronto, only worse, since there is no guilt nerve to stroke. (A_ little slice-of-Canadiana joke there.) Trade, we discover anew, is a complicated multilateral process, which is to say that everybody plays for keeps out there in the real uni- verse, as ever. Thus, the fool who leaves an armpit unguarded loses his shirt, if not much more than that. It would be innocent to suppose that the tradeoff we make with the Americans about trade won't have 2 huge political component, i.e., we'll probably wind up leaving the doors opea for the private sector to take part in Star Wars, or some such compromise. if I was still completely sold on the small-is-beautiful thesis, or bioregionalism, as it came to be known (mod- ern anarchism, | guess) I'd oppose any further integra- tion with the American marketplace with a fierce, territorial passion. Maybe things aren't as serious as | think they are, at least in terms of boats being rocked. And I am not refer- ring so much to reports that the Americans will undoubt- edly make Canadian en- dorsement of Star Wars a part of any favorable trade package, tastelessly power- trippy as that may be. Rather, 1 am_ thinking about reports that Fidel Castro may be getting somewhere with his cry of the Third World to “‘repudiate’’ their sovereign-loans debts to Western banks, a_ political bushfire that threatens even the Yankee economic megamachine. The entire phenomenon of Reaganomics, everybody has to admit, has been fueled by awesome military expen- ditures. Should a slowdown or major default occur (and sooner or later, something has to give, history being demonstrably cyclical), true friends might very likely tarn out to be those you share the same foxhole with. Who will Canada be in bed with when the crunch comes? The point is, Canada better be in bed with SOMEBODY! It could get damned cold out there BECAUSE YOU'RE SERIOUS ABOUT EXERCISF .... Fry the world's most popuin & off established fitness facility where women can exercise along with men from the beginners * level to the advanced Metcalfe’s North Shore People Chuck O'Rear, the super-talented photographer, was in town fromn his home in Califomia this past week. Chuck is the fellow who spent three months here a few years back taking thousands of photographs of every part of the Lower Mainland for a ten-page spread in the prestigious National Geographic, putting us squarely on the world inap. He has returned a few times since then on skiing holidays and for short-term assignments. (He was the B photographer engaged to take pictures of dack (Daon) Poole's $4 millon waterfront home in West Van for a leading US. § = mayazine) This time he covered close to 500 miles in his quest to capture on film the best in Greater Vancouver including the B Horseshoe Bay ferries, Gastown’s Gassy Jack in the rain, . B.C. Place, The Museum of Anthropology, the Ferguson Point Tenhouse, Bridges, Salmon House on the Hiil and B Umberto's 11 Giardina As Chuck happily tucked into a moist salmon fillet at the Salmon House Friday, he noted, “Salmon in Van- couver in summer is the finest meal a human being can have on earth” Amen! ... Speaking of the Teahouse, it was a happy sur- prise for West Van owner, Brent Davies, when he received a call me for a reservation for six for Saturday — all the way from San Fran- B cleca The caller also specified that they must have Mission Hill 2 Chablis available . .. Meanwhile familiar stars of yesteryear, June fi B Lockbart, Tom Postor and Margaret O'Brien were doing their stuff In Queen Elizabeth Park Thursday for former West : Van resident, Madison Pacific producer, Bob Stabler. Stabler, now with Xing World Production’s Family Theatre, was the man : who filmed the Huckleberry Finn series at Panorama Studies a couple of years ago and successfully sold it to the Euro- fj While all this was occurring, two other pean television market .. celebs managed to slip into town virtually unnoticed Roger Vadim, once the hottest director in Europe and equally well-known for his glamorous wives and mistresses (he discovered, created and married ‘sex kitten’ Brigitte Bardot) is currently in Vancouver, ff keeping a very, very low profile, Word Is he's seriously considering doing a major movie here ... Mountain High king, John Denver, passed through quietly on But the biggest news is that Rocky | a his way io Princess Louise Inlet where hell fish and relax on 9 board Bank of B.C. president, Edgar Kaiser's yacht, Callope : ... Spotted Camelot star, Richard Harris, lounging In the sun at the Granville Island Hotel. Harris, concemed about his diet, ¥ had the chef prepare special low fat/low salt menus for hira and insisted on Irish porridge every moming, Loved his retort when one of the press queried him on his drug addiction protlems. *Madam* he snapped, ‘I wasn't a crug addict. I was a drunk!” ... West Van film coordinator and former Film BC boss, Justis : Green, jus! back from Toronto and the film Agnes of God, won't be working on George (Rambo) Cosmatos’ Running Man. Seems the movie, due to be shot here in September with Superman star, Christopher Reeve, has been indefinitely ff P postponed ... Great news for West Van UBC. students. Our wonderful Blue Buees will be running to the university twice in & the AM and twice in the PM beginning Sept. 2 ... North Van's Michnel Berry, director for the CBC/Nisnzy series, Danger Bay, tells me that the little orphan seal, Guccl, raised by the Wildlife Protection Branch 2nd featured in an episode entitl- A ed Best of Intentions, was released last week into waters off § M Caulfelid Cove... New International Plaza GM, Gordon §§ § Chow, has introduced limousine service for his corporate clients §j B ... North Van singerdancer, Roseanne Hopkins, star of TUTS’ 4 Danin Yankees, is causing a sensation in the costume she wears A in the show's final number. The item ts that the dazzling black crea- RS tion belonged 10 the late Lorraine McAl'ster, Da! Richard's 8 wife Richards couldn't bear to look at her clothes hanging in the J closet so he gave them to Roseanne in case she could use any of them. fm sure Lorraine would be pleased ... 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