Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motivation, for example, behind Canada's desire to conclude a historic free-trade agreement with Washington that would remove tariffs and most other trade barriers between the two countries during the next 15 years or so. President Reagan was to endorse that effort once again in a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on a one-day state visit to Ottawa this week. But other close U.S. allies fear they may eventually be left out in the cold. Says a top European Community trade official in Brussels: "What worries us is that the U.S.-Japanese trade deficit will...
...meetings that British officials described as respectful and constructive, though often fiercely argumentative. Her defense of nuclear deterrence was so impassioned that Soviet officials seemed at a loss to describe the chasm that separated the two leaders. Said Georgi Arbatov, director of the Soviet Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies: "On nuclear issues, President Reagan is more forward-looking than Thatcher. At least Reagan understands that he, humanity and America can't live forever with nuclear weapons...
...unexpected victory for business interests against the forces of environmentalism. The Canadian government announced last week that it would allow the resumption of coastal seal hunting from ships north of Newfoundland. The annual spring hunt was abandoned in 1983 after environmentalists, horrified that hunters commonly clubbed seal pups to death for their prized white fur, persuaded the European Community to ban the importation of whitecoat pelts. The U.S. had barred them a decade earlier...
Canada authorized the new hunt to aid the struggling economy of Newfoundland, where unemployment is now 18%. But the prey will be limited to adult seals, which must be shot instead of clubbed. Even so, animal-rights activists are mulling a worldwide boycott of Canadian marine products...
Every year tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides generated by U.S. coal- fired power plants drift northward to fall on Canadian forests and lakes as acid rain. Ronald Reagan has mostly resisted Canada's repeated requests that the U.S. clean up the skies. Last week, 14 months after a joint U.S.-Canadian commission recommended that the U.S. spend $5 billion to find cleaner methods for burning coal, the President promised to commit half that amount, $2.5 billion over five years. The belated gesture should smooth the way for Reagan's visit next month to Ottawa, where environmentalists plan...