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...automotive agreement. In seven years, the pact has helped turn a $658 million U.S. auto-trade surplus with Canada into an annual deficit of close to $200 million. Washington wants to renegotiate in order to aid the awful U.S. balance of payments situation, but the government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau steadfastly refuses. In consequence, economic relations between the two countries may be headed for a crisis...
...Canada. "If the safeguards were lifted," said one official, "there would be no incentive for car manufacturers to stay in Canada." Because of higher taxes, a smaller market and other factors, Canadian-built cars retail for $200 to $800 more than equivalent models made in the US. The Trudeau government is afraid that Canadians would rush across the border to buy U.S. cars if the tariff were dropped. Finally, the auto pact has become a symbolic issue in Canadian politics and could affect the outcome of the federal election that is expected next June. Canada's auto-parts industry...
...have an agreement covering many other trade issues-notably relaxation of U.S. restrictions on purchases of Canadian uranium, aircraft and farm-machinery parts-ready for the President's signature. But if neither side tempers its stand on the auto pact, Nixon may sign nothing more important than Trudeau's guest book...
Canada's Premier, the proud parent of month-old Justin Trudeau, was given a copy of Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care. "Very interesting," said Pierre Trudeau. "I knew he was an antiwar leader, but I never realized he knew anything about babies...
Born. To Pierre Trudeau, 52, Prime Minister of Canada, and Margaret Trudeau, 23, daughter of former Fisheries Minister James Sinclair: their first child, a boy; in Ottawa, on Christmas...