STEVE McMINN

NV District Alderman

“IT apply the same
reasoning to Canadian in-
volvement in Star Wars
research as | clo to my daily
involvement in society.
That is, if something im-
portant is going on, I want
to be involved, so | can
make changes to suit my
needs rather than sit on the
outside and become a vic-
tim of someone else's deci-
sion,

“It would be naive to
think the USSR is not also
actively developing nuclear
defensive and attack
systems on the earth, sea
andin space. Should we, as
neighbors and allies of the
other superpower, abandon
the field to the United
States, who wili proceed
without us anyway, or do
we join in the research and
add some saner heads to
the process?

“I believe Canadians,

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and most Russians, would
prefer that we spend our
money on more humane
and beneficial projects
than a sophisticated and
powerful defence/attack
system. At the same time,
the average Canadian is
not party to the full
diplomatic, technological
and intelligence informa-
tion which leads our gov-

our needs

ernment to make these
global decisions.
Remember just prior to the
Second World War, the
majority of Britons were in
favor of making peace with
Adolf Hitler - history has
shown defence decisions
cannot be made by refer-
endum!

“Ironically, the certainty
of mutally assured destruc-
tion is what keeps us from
destroying the planet more
surely than any fragile
mutual ‘trust ever could. |
have carried my son on my
shoulders in the annual
peace march in Vancouver.
Our hopes obviously fie
with his generation.

“The conditions for our
involvement in Stars Wars
should be tough and must
include a meaningful role
in the shaping of the
research program and in its
deployment, particularly
within our own bound-
aries."

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OLGA KEMPO
Cap College Instructor

“My position on Stars
Wars is I fear we'll be tied
into the American in-
dustrial military complex
and that our sovereignty,
by virtue of this tie-in, will
be compromised. I think

the costs in this Stars Wars §

project will contribute to
the economic problems of
the world because as flows
of capital go into the
American Stars Wars pro-
ject this tends to rob the
entire world and we all
suffer from it.

“We've been hearing the
Stars Wars project will give
Canada research and jobs.
| believe the kind of
research that would be
done in Canada would be
of a very insignificant
nature because the prime
research would be done in
the U.S, Our research con-

tribution would be minimal
and of no interest to our
scientific community. And
the consequence of even
the spinoff effect of that
research into our economy
to the manufacturing sec-
tor, would be at the nuts
and bolts level. The so-
called potential jobs would

be something called blood
money and blood jobs. |
find this morally offensive
to see my tax dollars and
the intelligence and = the
energy of this nation being
used in this way.

“I’m not sure the arms
talks would be derailed by
the Stars Wars program
and that’s another danger.
The world wants the talks
to continue and I find it
unreasonable on the part
of the U.S. to push this at
this time.

“d think the message has
been very clear to our gov-
ernment that the ordinary
Canadian does not want to
be involved in Stars Wars.
They did not want the
testing of the cruise and we
don’t seem to be able to get
this message across.
Whatever the mechanism is
for getting that message
acrass is not functioning.”

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