4 - Wednesday, September 2. 1987 - North Shore News Bob Hunter ® strictly personal @ ALL THE economic and political and cultural argu- ments about free trade with the United States come down to a simple, common-sense proposition: Might is right. We are locked into a continen- tal battle for survival with a giant 10 times our size and a zillion times as powerful. We are either on his side — or, more to the J point, he is on ours — or we are in deep da-do. Since the dawn of the nuclear age, we have lived as a protec- torate of the United States, as much so as South Korea, Israel, the Philippines or Japan. Well, not quite as much as Japan... The giant to the south happens to be an empire in some kind of early stage of its death-throes. Or at the very least hitting a mid-life crisis. As the giant begins to go from budgetary paranoia to economic psychosis, we want to be pro- tected, right? We have to have some kind of tule-of-law agreement in place, otherwise we'll be in an uncom- fortable position, to say the least, subject to mad fits of American xenophobia and internal regional meddling at the national tevel. Keep in mind it’s not just the Americans getting edgy. We're fpretty paranoid ourselves, wouldn’t you say? Look at Ontario, as usual, willing to scuttle the rest of the country’s chances of pulling itself up by its bootstraps via free trade if it's going te hurt industries that are concentrated entirely in the East, such as car-building and textiles. Canada, endlessly trying to | balance its regions — i.e., main- f tain Central Canadian dominance — is in no position to berate the Yanks for serving their own kind first in any given trade issue. What are American politicians there for — to guard the best in- terests of Canadians? Come on! I's always going to be a jungle until we set some rules. Instead of change occurring in our time in a wave pattern, it is coming explosively. All we can be sure of is that 10 j years from now, we will be living in a different situation than we f are now. The United States has become the world's biggest deb- tor nation. By 1997, it wil! owe $1 trillion, unless something gives tain a shred of our illustrious standard of living. Both the NDP and the Liberals have got their heads firmly in the ground over this one. Their at- titude toward free trade seems to be that there really isn’t a world out there which is rapidly coalescing into gargantuan trade blocs, and we don't mostly de- pend on the dreaded Yanks. In fact, the only people I can see in this debate who have a moral position are the Tories. They are facing the handwriting on the wall. This is no mere replay of the Reciprocity battles. This is life or death for modern Canada. The Liberals and NDP are playing games with free trade, whereas the Tories, who have | otherwise in so many ways ¢m- barrassed themselves, are dealing seriously with reality. Fourteen per cent unemploy- ment may seem staggering, but it could go a lot higher. The costs of running this country have got so sky-high that just maintaining is a desperate struggle, and we stand to start falling terribly behind in the wake of any kind of American crash, A free trade deal would be a buffer as much as an entry-ticket. All this is to say that of all the issues being confronted in Canada today the question of free trade with the United States is by far the most critical. Which brings me back to my old colleague, Pat Carney. She voiunteered for the job as trade minister, for whatever strange plethora of motives. Essentially | think it comes down to the fact of her being a good mother bear. If one was looking for a thing to do, leading Canada into a treaty which will basically permit economic adultery between Canada and the United States, but rule out open rape by the giant, would be a mature and honorable task. | The slim hope of some kind of territic deal coming out of all this is pure and simple my belief that Pat Carney was born to make something epochal happen. And ANOTHER NORTEL Van- couver resident has been given a new heart in Alber- ta. Donald kwart, SS. underwent a heart transplint operation in de monton early Aug. 29. University of Alberta Hospital spokesman Marjorie Musto said the former convenience store owner was in critical bu. stable condition Monday afternoon, and could be released in 10 dzys to two weeks, ‘but each one (heart transplant) is unique.”" gets ne Pwart’s six-hour operation performed by heart-transplant spectalist Dr. Denttis Madris. 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