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Dear Editor:

Re: North Vancouver MP
‘Ted White's letter Dee. 15 |
ter to the editor: “WTO
Protesters Short on Logic.”

Mr. White fils to acknowl-
edge that Canada’s success as
a country at the turn of the
millenniun: is based on our
mixed economy approach
such as providing public
health care and social pro-

Sir Wiltred Laurie
said at the turn of the last cen-
tury, “The 20th century
belongs to Canada”, even he
would nox likely have foreseen
that by the end of the 20th
century, the UN. would rank
Canada as the most livable
country in the world. This is a
remarkable achievement.

We have evolved as a liber-
al democratic society for me
of the century balancing the
rights and obligations of the
individual and the state.

ff Canada is any e
would be that the benetits of
our democratically run mixed
economy are greater than any
full “free trade” country that
Ted White could point vo.

ppreciate that there a
economic benefits trom
trade. In 1817, David Ri
formulated the theory of
comparative advantage which
brilliantly showed how gains
from trade were obtained.
The WTO's system, however,
goes Well bevond strictly free
trade. Dismantling support

1 programs because
ubsidies” is going

to far.

Public values such as the
right to health care should
prevail over purely economic
values and we democratically
elect’ politicians to decide
which prevai

Furthermore, Ted White's
“fogie™ thar all poor countric
will become wealthy stictly
by adopting full free irade and
by abolishing subsidies is
delusional.

North America did not
become wealthy that way.

The WTO system, as pro-
posed, will also interfere with
the public's ability to use their
democratic processes to con-
trol what level of risk we take
to chemical contamination
and what products we allow in
the country.

Let the free market prevail

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strike,” organized labour renounces the agree-
ment.

Having walked out of her job, the sancti-
monicus Ms. Lakritz is convinced she retains
ownership of her empicyment. Unless she
admits to a belief in a cast system, Prof. Block
would remind her and other coercive union-
ists that it is ludicrous to assume that there
are “two groups of people”: she and her fel-
low unionists, “who own the jobs... and all
other people who must refrain from bidding
for them.”

Indeed it is the Herald strikers who
deserve your scorn. We The Scabs want noth-
ing more than to compete fairly in a free mar-

ct.

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an editing error: It should have read: “It was
indeed a pity that commentators were not hep
to the attempt by feminists,” ete.
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Many countries are rightly
concerned about whether the
“free rade benefits” are
worth giving up their sover-
CEDIY Over net to Mention
the financial liability they will
be subjecting themselves 10 as
a result of the “investor.
lawsuit” provisions

Ted White does the whole
debate a dis:
our the “s * scarecrow
to label opponents
rather than dealing with the
actual issues,

Paul Hundal
West Vancouver

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