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| wdt_ID | Details | Author | Date of Publication | Media Outlet | Title | Category Name | Story summary |
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| 1 | More details | Staff | 20/06/1985 | The Province (Vancouver) | Arms Sold to Chile | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | Tanks and plan parts, armoured clothing and radar equipment are being supplied by Canadian companies to a Chilean regime condemned for violating human rights. NDP MP Nelson Riis charged that the companies have been given permits to supply $7 million worth of the military equipment since the Tories came to power last fall. Copies of the permits were obtained under the ATIA by Riis, who said one of the companies involved is de Havilland Aircraft, a crown corporation. The records show Canada also exports arms to rights-violating nations such as Philliippines, Taiwan and Paraguay. |
| 2 | More details | Christopher Waddell | 22/05/1986 | Globe and Mail | Free trade not big threat to institutions, study says | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | Free trade with the U.S. would leave Canada's economic, cultural and social institutions and programs largely unchanged, a federal Government study released yesterday concludes. ''Those policy areas that Canadians consider to be important to goals of political and cultural sovereignty, high employment and enlightened social programs are unlikely to be seriously affected - although some specific cultural support policies may be subject to review," says the study completed by the C. D. Howe Institute, one of 26 studies on free trade released by the Department of External Affairs, in response to requests under the ATIA from The Globe, other media and members of Parliament. |
| 3 | More details | Les Whittington | 24/05/1986 | Ottawa Citizen | Free trade; As the talks get under way, neither side is predicting 'an easy time' | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | In two days of closed-door talks that included a slide show on Canada, American and Canadian negotiators launched trade discussions that may not be concluded until the late 1980s. And adding to the cacophony surrounding the issue this week was Ottawa's release of 26 secret study papers. The papers, commissioned by Ottawa as background documents for Reisman's team, were divulged in response to ATIA requests by the media and MPs. But they were heavily censored, leaving many observers wondering what the government has to hide. The available documents indicate Ottawa has been generally advised that free trade with the U.S. would bring better economic conditions in the long run. But the adjustment process would be painful, with the initial loss of as many as 130,000 jobs, according to one study. |
| 4 | More details | Christopher Waddell | 08/07/1986 | Globe and Mail | Labor can adapt to free trade, study says | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | A tradition of high mobility among its work force means that Canada will adjust ''efficiently and equitably" to changes required by free trade with the U.S., concluded a on international trade and domestic labor market adjustment, prepared the department of Employment and Immigration and obtained by The Globe under the ATIA. Noting that significant differences exist among regions and within industrial groups, the study concludes that ''two very favorable characteristics of the Canadian labor market come together to allow for potentially broad adaptability to trade changes: labor mobility and inter- firm mobility." Trade patterns have forced Canadian workers to be mobile, the study concludes, because competition from imports has increased more rapidly during the past 15 years than exports, producing a net loss of about 200,000 jobs |
| 5 | More details | Staff | Canadian Press | U.S. underestimates trade: study | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | A confidential federal government study alleges that American officials are failing to report or are underestimating much of their farm export volume into Canada – a situation that poses a problem to free trade negotiators. The report, prepared for the external affairs department and obtained by the Brandon Sun under the ATIA, says there are major discrepancies between Canadian and U.S. trade figures for many commodities. | |
| 6 | More details | Robert Matas | 25/08/1986 | Globe and Mail | {**} Ottawa winks at arms policy linking sales to human rights | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | While such sales are only a small portion of the $2-billion annual defence industry exports, the permits for foreign arms sales are approved in secret and never made public. Fourteen of 28 countries to which Ottawa recently permitted the export of military equipment have been cited for some type of human rights violation, according to a profile of the exports by a research institute in Waterloo. Canada was willing in 1984-85 to send military equipment to Argentina, Chile, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Taiwan and Venezuela. An internal federal review of military exports policy began in 1985 after NDP MP Nelson Riis released copies of export permits obtained under the ATIA. About 40,000 jobs now rely on Canada's military export trade. |
| 7 | More details | Christopher Waddell | 07/03/1987 | Globe and Mail | Too friendly with U.S., Ottawa told | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | The Canadian Government was told in a public opinion poll that it was too friendly with the U.S. and not pushing its position on free trade strongly enough. The poll results were released under the ATIA. The survey, which the Conservative Government had refused to release, also said that while a majority of Canadians thought free trade would be good for the country, they did not believe a close relationship between Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and President Ronald Reagan would be of much benefit in getting a deal. The poll of 2,000 adults across the country by Decima Research Ltd. was conducted on 88 questions largely on free-trade. |
| 8 | More details | Don McGillivray | 19/03/1987 | Ottawa Citizen | No proof free-trade is panacea | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | Is free trade with the U.S. the magic cure for regional disparity in Canada? The assertion that it will solve the persistent problem, now one of the chief selling points put forward by the Mulroney government, deserves serious study…. Note some of the research conducted for the Mulroney government, obtained under the ATIA. One study carried out for the External Affairs Department by Informetrica Limited, the economic think tank, said 146,000 jobs would be created by the year 2005 by the elimination of all tariffs and non-tariff barriers to trade between the two countries. More than 80,000 of these jobs would show up in Central Canada and the other 56,000 jobs in the eight provinces to the east and west. In other words, present disparities between Central Canada and the other regions would be continued and perhaps increased a little by free trade. |
| 9 | More details | Staff | 06/05/1987 | Canadian Press | Provinces’ OK needed: poll | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | The government was told 10 months ago that a massive majority of Canadians believed a free trade deal with the U.S. must be approved by most or all of the provinces, according to a previously secret federal government poll obtained by CP. The poll, conducted last July by Decima Research, also indicated a majority of Canadians believed the government was mismanaging the trade talks, and felt the public should be told what Ottawa was putting on the bargaining table. The poll was commissioned to help the government devise a free trade communications strategy. |
| 10 | More details | Robert Matas | 23/06/1987 | Globe and Mail | Officials back move to ease curbs on arms sales Proposal would require changes in Criminal Code | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | Federal officials have recommended that the Criminal Code be changed to allow companies, such as Diemaco Inc. of Kitchener, Ont., to export automatic rifles and machine guns to friendly nations. Cabinet ministers are reviewing the recommendation to ease the restrictions. The proposal would require changes in provisions of the Criminal Code that prohibit manufacturers of automatic weapons from selling to anyone except the Canadian Forces and the police. Documents released under the ATIA show that former justice minister John Crosbie refused in 1984 to support a request for the amendment to the Criminal Code. |