12 - Sunday, February 27, 1994 - North Shore News

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LAST WEEK Prime Minister Jean Chretien spoke about
Canada’s need for indenendence, acknowledging that we
have mounting fears of losing our identity to Americaa
influences, While this is not a new revelation — Canadians
have long feared becoming the Sist state of America —- our
identity crisis has resurfaced again since the NAFTA ‘agree-
ment took effect. And just what is the Canadian identity?
Well, among other things, it’s the culture and heritage of
the Canadian population, which, there’s no denying, is

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greatly influenced by American mass media, But, instead
of looking ‘at the similarities in our cultural identities —
because we will always have similarities — take a look at
the differences. One of the biggest differences is multicul-
turalism, In Canada each cultural influence maintains its
own identity, uniike the U.S. where it’s just one big meiting
pot. Canadians are much freer to be diverse — to be who
we are. And that’s the big difference between us and them,
Hopefully we can keep it that way.

Do you think Canada is losing its identity to American influences?

* John Gaschler

North Vancouver’

It sure is, because we're
giving everything away.
There is no such thing as
free trade — we've given
away our water resources.
our mineral resources, our
oil, There’s not much left
to give.

Margaret MeCormack
West Vancouver

Te always has. Everything
the Americans do politi-
cally we just finger-pup-
petand say “OK.” We fol-
Jow a lot of their foreign
policies.

Ron Polly

North Vancouver

Yes. We're becoming
more violent, imore
Americanized, Our social
net is going down and
we're becoming more like
them and their social net
is rising and they're
becoming more like us.

Suzanne Rutchinski
White Rock

{think Canadians are a
listle over-paranoid about
not having an identity.
They're well known and
well fiked throughout
Europe. Canadians are
really a preferred kind of
people --, they have a
strong identity.

Phillip Eastley
Vancouver

I think we already fost it a
long time ago. Our televi-
sion shows are American,
our magazines are
Americin, and the clothes
that we wear, even if
made in Canada, are made
by Americin-owned com-
panies.

“SURVEY TEAM

The North Shore News survey team telephoned 450 North
and West Vancouver residents to find out whether you think

Canada is losing its identity fo American influences. The fol-
lowing is a complete breakdown of survey results:

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