8 - Seoday, September 4, H8R - North Shore News Dear Editor: “You can never go home," says Chuck Cook in his advertisement on July (0. [ have to agree. If the Free Trade deal goes through, our Canadian home will be torn down plank by plank, brick by brick. Cook's hope that the deal will create “more jobs, more secure jobs and more better paying jobs’ is not supported by the job cre- ation performance of foreign- owned firms. A recent study by John Orr of Victoria concluded that during 1978-1985, Canadian firms created 872,300 jobs, while foreign-owned firms eliminated 23,000. If foreign-owned firms had matched the employment performance of the Canadian firms the U.S. sub- sidiaries would have added 126,000 jobs. These figures show that Ca- nadian self-reliance is the better MAILBOX ileal Vanadians’ way to secure good, decent paying jobs. We live here: we care about what happens to Canadians. Mr. Cook states that the cade deal will result in lower priced consumer goods. If you happen to be an Okanagan fruit farmer and the bank won't extend your mor- tgage because of the implicit Uhreat to your livelihoud from the trade deal, how will you pay for these ‘“bargains’’? The Mulroney trade deal is a bad deal for the average Canadian, The Mulroney government says that it went into this deal to achieve secure «access to the American market to obtain a dispute settlement mechanism. We have no proof that either has been achieved. Furthermore, with this deal we've lost centrol of our energy and waiter, bargained away services, and jeopardized our French bill slammed Dear Editor: July 7 was a day of shame for B.C. Gn this day our members of Parliament, Mary Collins and Chuck Cook, and others showed their allegiance to Brian Mulroney and became traitors to their North Shore constituents. Millions of dollars have been wasted forcing the spread of French. disease across Canada. Collins and Cook voted in favor of greater legal pressure to force English-speaking civil servants out of a job, and deny any promotion to senior staff if they are unil- ingual English, thus opening the gates to a flood of Quebec migrants to the West to take all positions from post office clerk to senior manager. We are now to sutier the conse: quences of our failure to support Quebec's bid for ‘freedom’ 20 years ago. They should have been given their full rights to a ‘distinet society’ then, and the choice to remain part of Canada but not sit in Parliament. They could then run their own mini country as they wished and Canada could get on with more important matters...in English. Stan Ward North Vancouver health and social programs. The Pacific Rim is where we should be putting our trade ef- forts. A seport by the Science Council of Canada observes: *‘A new economic order based on global competition in knowledge- intensive industries is emerging.”’ A fine example of successful com- petition exists on the North Shore: Buckland and Taylor, Ltd. has ne- goliated a contract worth $150 mil- lion with China. The Mulroney government has spent $22.9 million trying to con- vince the average Canadian (hat the trade deal is a good deal for Canadians. It is a bad deal and if we lose our sovereignty, our children will be the losers. The price of the Mulroney trade deal is our independence as a nation deciding our own priorities. A study by the investment firm of Macleod, Young, Weir lists the following as among the losers if the trade deat goes through: fruit furmers, banks, life insurance companies and sporting goods. 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