Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Uncertainties, no. The differences between Canada and the U.S. are well understood by the two governments, and refuse to go away. Thus, Nixon spent the better part of two days in Ottawa last week trying to patch up a tattered neighborly relationship...
Although those particular issues are now moot, the atmosphere has been further clouded by Treasury Secretary, John Connally's insistent demand that Ottawa make certain new economic concessions; notably a revision of the 1965 Canada-U.S. auto pact, giving Canada a bigger share of joint car production. So far, Ottawa has refused to budge, and talks have bogged down in ill feeling. American negotiators speak disparagingly of Ottawa's "bush-league mandarins." Trudeau has cracked that "with friends like Secretary Connally, who needs enemies...
...addition, there are more Canadian fears about U.S. control of its economy. American corporations own 76.4% of Canada's oil and coal resources, 99% of its oil refineries, 58% of its manufacturing-and 90% of all factories with more than 5,000 employees. Moreover, Washington has been pressing Ottawa to share "continental" energy supplies; particularly natural gas. Some Canadians have read this as an opening bid in a long-range determination by the U.S. to take over their energy resources...
...Nixon corrected that clinker, he dropped another, smaller one. After tackling a passage of his speech in atrociously bad French, he apologized for his pronunciation of "a language I studied 37 years ago." He had asked his translator, Major General Vernon Walters, whether he could speak French in Ottawa, Nixon explained, and the General had told him to go ahead "because you speak French with a Canadian accent...
...coroner's jury that had heard eight days of testimony, it was a "gross technical error." To Dr. Jean-Paul Drouin, 50, of Ottawa's Montfort Hospital, it was a "complication." To three of Drouin's surgical patients, it meant slow, painful death...