4- Sunday, June 9, 1985 - North Shore News

Not the same

roofer from

Oklahoma City recently, who startled me by

| talking with a_ retired

saying, with awesome directness: ‘Why don’t

you boys saddle up with us, anyways?’’

strictly
personal

Bob Hunter

Added his blue-rinsed, but
lovable, wife, the retired
teacher: ‘‘] always did
wonder that."”

This is verbatim stuff.

La nl :
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We'd got talking about trade
— free and otherwise ~- and
he had been making the
point that he couldn’t
understand why the folks in

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Canada didn't jump at the
chance to leap over tariff
walls and land directly in the
midst of the most powerful
economy in the world.

As far as he could see,
most of the people in the
world would give their left
arm and more to have a
crack at getting to do
business in the U.S. of A.,
land of the free, the brave
and the military industrial
complex.

ft would have been rude
of me to make any comment
about the greatest underpin-
ning of that fabulous
American economy, namely
the Pentagon, conduit of
defence contract billions.
Being Canadian, I was much
too polite. Would I tell a

Russian I'd just met that it
was too bad he was part of a
police state? Hey!

But on the question of
free trade, the American cer-
tainly got me thinking.

Just a little while ago I
wrote a piece suggesting Ca-
nadians are so Americanized
at heart that in the rest of
the world nobody can tell
the difference between us
and our Yankee kin. Like
the rest of us, I overlooked
one key difference: com-
petitiveness. We ain’t got it.

Indeed, from an American
point of view, the granting
of permission to citizens of
any other country to come
do business in the great
Yanquis entrepreneural
playland is tantamount to

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the granting of citizenship
itself. Are there not millions
of people in Hong Kong, for
instance, who would give
almost anything for such an
opportunity? To say nothing
of people in Eastern Europe,

language

Africa, South America, etc.
Canadians tend to look

down their noses at

Amcrican free enterprisers as

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