4- Sunday, May 26, 1985 - North Shore News

A Canada for the fut

he hard decisions on a new Canadian
foreign policy, if any, have no doubt already
been made somewhere in the bowels of Ot-

tawa. Yet since Joe Clarke is being nice enough to
ask our opinion anyway, might as well do a quick

viewpoint fandango, ch?

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by
Bob Hunter
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First of all, 1! think
Canada is beautifully posi-
tioned, believe it or not, to
have a serious effect on the
fate of the earth. [ve
thought this for a long time
and not even the repeated
failings of most levels of
government have succeeded
in killing my sense that this
country does have something
important to offer the
future.

Without getting into a na-
tionalistic frenzy about it, I
think Canada’s opportunity
“can be spelled out fairly
simply. We are a nation that
consists of virtually ALL the
people on earth. ] mean, can
you think of a nationality
not represented in the

‘famous Canadian, ethnic
mosaic? That mosaic, un-
comfortable as it mays be to
some from time to time, is
the source of whatever
greatness we might achieve,
in my humble opinion.

Canada is rather like a
planet that was colonized

tong after the rise and fall of
civilization on the home
world. Everybody who came
here, including for openers
the people who were here
longest, already had had
their fill of long, com-
plicated national histories.
While they might still be
caught up in their own
ethnocultural drama, they
also were forced to acquire

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That double, or
hyphenated, identity makes
it easier by far to grow into
the idea of a third identity,
which is as a planetary citi-
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everywhere need to acquire,
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We aren't a race, obvious-
ly. We are a multi-race. We
are directly related to
everyone, everywhere. If
that isn’t a strength to play
on in the future, | don't
know what is, because we
are moving into a global cra
for sure. The technology of
travel and communications
is wiping out barriers, even

. political ones.

Yes, but what bearing
does all this have on
Canada’s new foreign poli-
cy? It seems to me that our
ultimate usefulness as a
bridge over troubled waters
can only be achieved if we
actually do stand on our
own feet. And how do we do

that?

In a nutshelj, we do four
things:

1) Build a citizen militia
like the Swiss and the
Israelis, pull back from

NATO, where we play little
more than a token role, and
concentrate on a high-tech,
in-depth defence of our
chunk of North America;

2) Enter into some kind of
North American “Common
Market arrangement’ with
the U.S. and Mexico,
because our present trade
barrier system is going to
Strangle us in the end, and
unless we pull out of the
economic quagmire excessive
government regulatic:. and
overprotection has gott:n us
into, we’re not going to have

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any clout anyway;

3) Adopt an_ industrial

strategy, like the Japanese,
whereby we target on mar-
kets where it is possible for
us to win, i.e. communica-
lions, aerospace, transporta-
tion,

resource extraction,

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