Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There was no worry," a relative explained. "We were celebrating a wedding. It was a time for rejoicing." But as Sidhu drove along an isolated logging road on Vancouver Island last week, he was shot and badly wounded by four men in another vehicle. Police, who later arrested four Canadian Sikhs, were treating the case as an international incident. The reason: Sidhu, 56, is the planning minister of the Indian state of Punjab and a party member of the moderate Akali Dal, which is trying to root out Sikh terrorism...
India asked Canada to make a full investigation, but it need hardly have bothered. Ever since an Air India jetliner from Toronto exploded over the North Atlantic last June, a crash in which Sikh terrorists are the prime suspects, Canadian authorities have been keeping a watchful eye on activists within their 60,000-member Sikh community...
While President Reagan was criticizing the House bill as protectionist, he had to make a difficult decision involving a recommendation from the International Trade Commission. Responding to a complaint from the Northwest Independent Forest Manufacturers, the ITC had decided that the U.S. should impose tariffs on imports of Canadian red cedar shakes and shingles because they were damaging American producers of those products. Under U.S. trade law, the White House had until last Saturday to act on the ITC recommendation, and the President chose to slap a 35% tariff on the Canadian shakes and shingles. The levy will be phased...
Deaver may have participated in as many as 15 U.S.-Canadian discussions of acid rain before he left the White House last May, said James F. Hinchman, the GAO deputy general counsel, who testified last week before the investigations subcommittee chaired by Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan. For example, said Hinchman, Deaver actively supported a proposal, later accepted by the Reagan Administration, that the U.S. and Canada appoint special envoys to deal with the acid-rain problem. Less than a week after he quit his White House job, Deaver began talks with Canadian officials that eventually...
...Violators can be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to two years in prison. Deaver insists that "I was never involved personally or substantially on the substantive issue of acid rain. I couldn't tell you today what acid rain means." According to the GAO, however, Deaver and Canadian officials met with Drew Lewis, the special U.S. envoy on acid rain, to discuss the content and timing of the envoy's report, which recommended a $5 billion clean-up plan...