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...summit was a 24-hour exercise in amiability. Replete with pageantry and sprinkled with humor, the meeting dominated television coverage throughout Canada and pushed almost all other news off the front pages. It also accomplished its purpose in giving Reagan and Mulroney an irresistible opportunity to engage in the kind of personal politicking at which both excel. (While the men negotiated, Nancy Reagan toured Quebec City with Mulroney's vivacious, Yugoslav-born wife Mila, visiting the Ursuline Convent and stopping at a downtown restaurant...
...President had a platform at the summit from which he could charge the Soviet Union with arms-accord violations while demonstrating to America's allies that Canada is a strong supporter of U.S. military leadership. For , Mulroney, the summit provided an indication that his pro-American policies could pay off for Canada in everything from improved trade and investment to pollution control...
Despite all the blarney, Reagan and Mulroney managed to get some business done. They signed a Pacific Salmon Treaty, ending a 15-year dispute over the harvesting of the valuable food fish on the U.S. and Canadian west coasts. They initialed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, linking their two countries in law enforcement. They also noted that Canada will participate in the $8 billion manned space-station program planned by the U.S. for the mid-1990s. Canada is no stranger to space technology, since Ontario-based Spar Aerospace Ltd. built the mechanical arm used in the U.S. space shuttle...
...summit also tackled more controversial matters. Mulroney pleased the President--and the Pentagon--by committing Canada to pay 40% of the cost of a $1.3 billion program to improve and upgrade the aging Distant Early Warning line, a network of radar stations strung across the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. Built in the 1950s, the DEW line radars are now virtual museum pieces. In their place, the U.S. and Canada will install 13 manned long-range radar stations and 39 automated short-range radars capable of detecting and tracking a new generation of low-flying Soviet bombers and even newer Soviet...
...President agreed with Mulroney on the need to eliminate barriers to U.S.-Canadian trade. The two men joined in a pledge to fight protectionism and to take steps to ease the flow of both goods and investment across the border. Both countries asked special representatives to have their first recommendations ready in six months...