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The original documents are located in Box 2, folder "Canada (11)" of the National Security
Advisor. Presidential Country Files for Europe and Canada, 1974-77 at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
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MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
Initial 24JB
PARTICIPANTS:
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Ambassador Thomas O. Enders
PLACE:
Prime Minister's Parliamentary Office
TIME AND DATE:
16:00 to 17:05, March 23, 1976
Trudeau: You're even bigger than they say.
Enders: From now on we'll send only 6-foot Ambassadors
and over to Canada.
Trudeau: You've been touching the right bases around the
country. I'm getting good feedback.
Enders: A lot of Americans know a. lot about Canada, but
not enough of them are in the government. Part
of my mission is to see whether we can't do a lot
better in understanding what's happening here.
Trudeau: I don't want to discourage you, but I don't see
how you can. I don't understand the milk pro-
ducers; I don't understand the West, and I'm
Prime Minister. Maybe you mean you want to
sensitize yourself.
GERALD LIBRARY FRORD
Enders:
That of course. Any American Ambassador must.
But you don't have to understand the milk pro-
ducers or the West in order to grasp how they
interact, do you? It's the dynamics we don't
always get, that I'm looking for.
Trudeau: But how can you? I mean, so many of our decisions
are irrational here. Don't quote me on this, but
they can go anyway. I hope most are positive but
a lot of it's just junk.
Enders: Then allow for a random element. But the basic
structure should be predictable.
DECLASSIRED
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Trudeau: O.K. I can see that.
Enders:
Let me give you an example. Time is not an
issue between us as governments. One of the
jobs of an American ambassador should be to
have gone to Time headquarters say two or three
years ago and pointed out that the grandfather
clause business is great, but it would end
sometime and if they did this or that they
might survive as Time Canada.
Trudeau: But how could you know? Sure, the Liberal party
every year passed a resolution calling for an
end to the advertising clause, but generally it
was low on my priorities. How would you know
when I might want to trade it off to get Ontario
nationalist support for, say, something I wanted
to do in the West? I didn't even know myself.
Enders:
That's just it. I couldn't know when you would
do it, or whether it would be you or another Prime
Minister. But given the structure of relation-
ships between Ontario and Ottawa, it could have
been predicted. Whether Time would have changed
its way of doing business is another thing. Maybe
they would have taken their chances.
Trudeau: They probably would have said let's tough it out
and see whether the SOB's have the guts to go
through with it.
Enders:
Maybe. Maybe also they would have calculated
that they come out better this way, with a lower
circulation but good advertising.
Trudeau: Maybe they do.
Enders: As I say, this is not an issue between us. But
you have Andy Heiskell running around the States
campaigning against Canada.
Trudeau: Andy High School?
GETAL FORD LIBRAN
Enders: Heiskell. Time publisher.
Trudeau: That doesn't help. It's not the best outcome
from my point of view. I see what you mean. I
think that is what the American Ambassador, or
any Ambassador should be doing. But it's not
easy. I'm sure you don't want to try to run our
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internal affairs. But there are always people
in the Conservative party who say I am mismanag-
ing relations with the U.S., screwing up Cuba
or something like that, and in NDP to say I'm sell-
ing out to the U.S. Somebody's always trying to
score points. In politics you have to know how
not to be impressed by all that. If you're a
good Ambassador, you'll see the reality, and tell
Washington. And I should be able to count on
you to tell us which issues are really important.
Enders:
You know, a lot of the issues that have caused
turbulence between us are the result of the great
economic shocks of the last five years -- the
devaluation of the U.S. dollar, the energy crisis,
inflation and the recession. Now we are in the
expansive leg of the cycle. I think we will find
less problems, more solutions.
Trudeau: That's helpful. But still there are a lot of guys
campaigning around here against me for screwing
up relations with Washington.
Enders:
One of the results of the economic troubles of the
last years is what you might call an equality of
sensitivity. Americans have felt vulnerable to
Canadian actions in ways I guess you've felt
vulnerable to us in the past. I'm not going
around Washington saying this, but this parity
may be a healthy development. I leave aside the
substance of the disputes. They may be rather
small objects in historical terms, but there's
so much economic insecurity on both sides of the
border they loom pretty large now.
Trudeau:
I wouldn't want to display it in public, or use
it, but I don't mind saying this new power we
have over you gives me a lot of gratification.
Enders:
But things are changing again. The new economic
problems as we expand will be different. Maybe
the big one will be capital formation. The thing
is that attitudes lag behind reality. We're going
into an upbeat situation. But we have more guys
in politics who find it useful to run against
Canada. We are drawing towards parity in that
regard also. Let me give you an example. Making
my calls around Congress, I get guys who have
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nothing to do with border TV mentioning the dele-
tion issue. It's only $20 million, but it grabs
people.
Trudeau: That's funny. I had a good relation with Nixon.
And I think I have a, good relation with Ford.
Enders: I know you do.
Trudeau: I had a word with him privately in December 1974
about publication. Henry was there. He said
nothing about TV.
Enders:
C-58 (the bill removing tax exemptions for Time,
Reader's Digest, and border TV) isn't the issue.
The border guys will scream, but they'll adjust
to taxation of advertising revenues if they have
to, with one possible exception in the West. But
its the CRTC deletion of commercials on TV pro-
gramming that really grabs people. They don't
see what that has to do with Canadian culture.
I didn't mean to make a pitch to you the first
time we met, but this issue has some topspin on
it.
Trudeau: This is the first I hear about it. Tell me.
Enders: The cable distributors under CRTC license renewal
rules will be required to delete U.S. commercials
from the signals they retransmit. Now maybe our
commercials aren't the greatest thing
...
Trudeau: People will say "piracy".
Enders:
Exactly.
LERATT GERALD
Trudeau: That gives me an idea. Suppose we want people in
Canada to spend less for bleach. All bleaches
are chemically the same, say. Why advertise 17
or 18 different brands. Let's have lower prices.
What do I do?
Enders: You tax advertising.
Trudeau: O.K. But then people read in U.S. publications
and see in U.S. TV about competing U.S. bleaches.
The U.S. bleaches sell better. Trade swings to
you. I am defeated.
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Enders:
You of course don't want to tax incoming publica-
tions; you will want freedom of information. But
when you put in your tax on domestic advertising
you, if you're really afraid about U.S. consumer
goods imports, you get to GATT and negotiate an
increase in the tariffs on them.
Trudeau: It would cost me something.
Enders:
Yes.
Trudeau: And a lot of public fuss. You know, it's this
kind of constraint rather than cultural nationalism
that concerns me. I'm not quite sure, but I think
we are finally getting over our inferiority complex
in culture.
Enders:
When I came to Washington 17 years ago, people
could still sell books about how we were really
O.K. with all that money and power, even though
the Europeans had all the finesse and savoir-vivre.
Then, suddenly the market disappeared.
Trudeau: Like here, last year they could sell, now the
market's off.
Enders: Maybe you've reached the critical mass.
LBRATA GERALD The
Trudeau: I think we may have. No, its not culture that
will cause the problems between us. If not now
then soon we'll have enough self-confidence.
Rather it may be the ideological issues that will
set us against each other in the future. Suppose
I want to move Canada towards smaller cars, to
save energy. But all the time Canada is flooded
with U.S. advertising on the joys of big cars.
How can I succeed? Won't we come into conflict?
Enders:
Actually we may be ahead of you on that. The one
major accomplishment in two years of domestic debate
on energy policy has been a set of auto efficiency
standards that will bring average gas consumption
of new cars down by 45% in five years. They're
tough enough so that people are already wondering
whether a black market in big cars won't emerge.
This was tough to get. But you may have even
more difficulty than we. Your distances are bigger.
You have the cold to contend with. And of course
cars are as important as houses to the middle-
class.
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Trudeau: You're probably right. Cars are not a good example.
At least you're moving fast enough so that you
won't be a constraint on us. And I am running
into a lot of opposition here. But I still think
my point about ideology holds. Take public owner-
ship. We have socialist governments in some
provinces here, and public ownership is something
we will probably have more of than you. I seriously
considered putting the whole energy sector into
public hands. Don't get the idea we're going
socialist -- we're not -- but I can see us in
conflict over the ideology of ownership.
Enders:
I wonder whether private vs public ownership will
be a primary discussion of debate in either of our
countries. It's probably true that neither of us
is getting the kind of collective consumption
goods -- transit systems, inner city renovation --
that we want. But I wonder whether ownership is
the reason. With the pressure on our budgets both
of us give priority to such things as transfer pay-
ments
Trudeau: And that causes inflation. You're right that
ownership won't liberate additional resources.
But suppose I do want to find those resources and
tax consumption: Won't American goods flood in?
then
Enders:
You have tax/on the same basis.
GERALD R.
Trudeau: But that's just the point! Canadians will see that
their living standard is lower than that across the
border. They won't accept that. As long as there
is all this communication, I can't put it across.
That's why maybe it comes in handy to do a little
deletion now and then.
Enders:
Then you should delete the whole signal. What
grabs people is the selective deletion.
Trudeau: I see that.
Enders: Maybe, though, there's some positive way to do it.
The border TV people on our side suggest trans-
ferring tax revenue to Canada which could then be
used for supporting Canadian TV. We're not peddling
that idea as a government, but maybe it's worth
looking at.
Trudeau: I think it is.
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Enders:
I'm not trying to give you technical assistance,
but another way to approach your consumption
point is depreciation of the Canadian dollar.
That reduces somewhat the living standard of the
population, would lessen the need for imported
capital.
Trudeau: But that could be inflationary also.
Enders: No doubt. The general point, though, is that
there are many more ways to adjust the big indus-
trial economies to each other than we've used,
when the purpose is to assert separate national
policies without destroying joint interests. Look
at the floating exchange rate -- we had it between
Canada and the United States at your initiative for
years. But elsewhere we had the fixed rate system.
That meant you had to inflate and deflate to ad-
just, and we had to talk about federal institu-
tions in the Atlantic area to manage the inter-
dependence. Now we don't.
LERATT GERALD
Trudeau:
I agree with that. But to go back to ownership,
isn't Saskatchewan potash a good case in point.
Aren't you bound to fight the expropriation?
Enders:
A lot of Americans don't like it, but as a govern-
ment we've always maintained that we would not
contest expropriation for authentic public purposes,
provided there was full and effective payment.
What hits people is the idea that a Saskatchewan
political entity, however benign, might control
a big piece of our supply of a critical material.
It's the OPEC syndrome.
Trudeau: Are you sure it isn't ownership? What about all
the Neanderthals down there? And won't a lot of
investors say that you can't count on Canada so
let's not go there?
Enders:
They might well. But the government's position
is not to contest the buy-in or expropriation side
of it.
Trudeau: I have to suspend now, but I want to continue this
conversation. This is why I came into politics --
to develop ideas. I want you to put these things
up to me so that I can react. That's what I need
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to keep on top of things, even if my reactions
are sketchy and off the top of my head. I need
to conceptualize.
Enders:
In general I think we should attempt to con-
ceptualize our relationship somewhat more. One
can get beaten to death on day-to-day issues
without it. If we don't cooperate on the whole
scenario, then individual actions can be un--
manageable and you get a build-up of resentments,
as these last years in the States. But I'm told
that conceptualization is not always a paying
proposition in politics.
Trudeau: So I m told -- constantly by my cabinet. For
heaven's sakes don't tell them we've been con-
ceptualizing together. I have the cabinet for
the specific issues. Talk to them when you have
an individual problem. But you and I should address
the overview, and above all the direction; where
we'll be three to five years from now. Whenever
you want help in sorting out where we're going,
call me up and we'll have lunch together. Or
whenever I need help in thinking I'll call you
up and we'll have lunch together.
Enders: O.K. I'll do that.
Trudeau: Please do. But don't tell my cabinet.
LIBRARY GERALD
Amb Enders/flj
March 25, 1976
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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
CONF IDENTIAL
MEETING WITH GOVERNOR GENERAL JULES LEGER OF CANADA
Thursday, April 8, 1976
5:30 p.m. (10 minutes)
The Oval Office
From: Brent Scowcroft
B
I. PURPOSE
Canadian Governor General Jules Leger (le-ZHAY) and Mrs. Leger
are making a private tour of the White House today with Curator
Clement Conger. The Governor General's visit will permit you to
welcome him to Washington and the White House and to express
the importance you attach to building on and strengthening the
already close ties of friendship and alliance between the United States
and Canada.
II. BACKGROUND, PARTICIPANTS & PRESS ARRANGEMENTS
A. Background: Canadian Governor General Leger (biographic
sketch at Tab A) and Mrs. Leger are in the United States on an
informal, private visit to tour U.S. historic buildings and sites
including the White House, Monticello, the 8th floor public rooms
of the State Department, and Williamsburg in connection with
his plans to refurbish and redecorate Rideau Hall, the official
residence of the Canadian Governor General. In conjunction with
his White House tour, the Governor General has asked to make
this brief courtesy call on you. Following their stay in Washington
and Virginia, the Legers plan to spend the Easter holidays with
friends near Charleston, South Carolina, returning to Canada on
April 21.
FORD
.
GERALD
LIBRARY
The Governor General suffered a near-fatal stroke in 1974. After
an extended period of recuperation, he is again handling a full
range of official duties which, as Queen Elizabeth's personal
representative in Canada, are mostly ceremonial and representa-
tional in nature. In this connection, before departing for the
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United States today, he will have officially welcomed King
Hussein on a State Visit to Canada. This trip to the United
States will be the Governor General's first extensive under-
taking outside Canada since regaining his strength. The
Legers visited the United States often in the past, spending
summers in Maine and winters in Florida.
B. Participants: Governor General and Mrs. Jules Leger,
Canadian Ambassador Jack Hamilton Warren, White House
Curator Clement Conger and Brent Scowcroft.
C. Press Arrangements: The meeting will be announced; White
House photographer.
III. TALKING POINTS
1.
Mr. Governor General and Mrs. Leger (le-ZHAY), it is a very
great pleasure for me to welcome you to Washington and to the
White House.
2.
I hope that your tour of the White House, together with your
visits to Monticello, Williamsburg and the public rooms of the
State Department, will provide you ideas and inspiration for
the refurbishment and redecoration of Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
3. Clem Conger does an outstanding job of taking care of the White
House. You are in the very best of hands with him.
4.
Your visit to the United States during this Bicentennial year
serves as a symbol of the close ties of friendship and cooperation
we enjoy with Canada.
5.
I want to take this opportunity to again thank the Canadian
government and the people of Canada for their many thoughtful
gestures in honoring our Bicentennial, especially the Canadian
Arts Festival in Washington last fall.
6.
My son Steven is looking forward to representing me at the
Calgary Stampede this July. We are particularly honored that
the Stampede's theme this year will be the American Bicentennial.
rune
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7.
On your return to Canada later this month, I would appreciate
having you convey my best wishes to Prime Minister Trudeau.
I recall my very welcome meetings with him in the past fourteen
months -- in Washington, Brussels and our participation at the
Helsinki conference.
CONFIDENTIAL (GDS)
FOAD
&
GERALD
LIBHARY
Jules LEGER
(Phonetic: luhZHAY)
Governor General
Addressed as:
Your Excellency
Jules Leger, a 61-year-old Foreign Service officer, was appointed
Governor General in January 1974. He had previously served since
March 1973 as Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg. The Governor
General is the personal representative of the British sovereign. For-
mally the post is the highest in the nation; its functions have become
largely ceremonial and symbolic. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has
praised Leger's experience and accomplishments at home and abroad
as eminently qualifying him for the role of Governor General. In the
1950's and 1960's Leger was considered to be a foreign affairs expert
who played an important part in the direction and development of
Canadian foreign policy.
Leger holds an LL. D. degree from McGill University and a D. Litt.
degree from the University of Paris. He joined the Department of
External Affairs in 1940 and served in diplomatic posts in Santiago,
Chile; London; and at the UN General Assembly in Paris. He has also
been Ambassador to Mexico, Italy and France. Leger was Under
Secretary of State for External Affairs twice (1954-55, 1968-73) and
during 1958-62 was Permanent Representative to NATO and the OECD.
Not a dynamic person, Leger has a serious manner that conceals an
excellent sense of humor. He has an intelligent, logical and precise
mind. Reflective and serene, he is a self-assured man who loathes
pomposity. He is married to the former Gabrielle "Gaby" Carmel, who
is a vivacious, outgoing, articulate and gregarious hostess. The couple
has two daughters.
FORD
&
GERALD
LIBRARY
Jules LEGER
(Phonetic: luhZHAY)
Governor General
Addressed as:
Your Excellency
Jules Leger, a 61-year-old Foreign Service officer, was appointed
Governor General in January 1974. He had previously served since
March 1973 as Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg. The Governor
General is the personal representative of the British sovereign. For-
mally the post is the highest in the nation; its functions have become
largely ceremonial and symbolic. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has
praised Leger's experience and accomplishments at home and abroad
as eminently qualifying him for the role of Governor General. In the
1950's and 1960's Leger was considered to be a foreign affairs expert
who played an important part in the direction and development of
Canadian foreign policy.
Leger holds an LL. D. degree from McGill University and a D. Litt.
degree from the University of Paris. He joined the Department of
External Affairs in 1940 and served in diplomatic posts in Santiago,
Chile; London; and at the UN General Assembly in Paris. He has also
been Ambassador to Mexico, Italy and France. Leger was Under
Secretary of State for External Affairs twice (1954-55, 1968-73) and
during 1958-62 was Permanent Representative to NATO and the OECD.
Not a dynamic person, Leger has a serious manner that conceals an
excellent sense of humor. He has an intelligent, logical and precise
mind. Reflective and serene, he is a self-assured man who loathes
pomposity. He is married to the former Gabrielle "Gaby" Carmel, who
is a vivacious, outgoing, articulate and gregarious hostess. The couple
has two daughters.
FORD
&
GERALD
LIBRARY
AH
MEMORANDUM
20m
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
1993
CONFIDENTIAL
ACTION
April 7, 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR BRENT SCOWCROFT
FROM:
Mr. Clift and
SUBJECT:
President's April 8 Meeting with
Canadian Governor General Leger
The memorandum for your signature to the President at Tab I would
forward background material and talking points for his meeting with
Canadian Governor General Leger scheduled for Thursday, April 8,
1976, at 5:30 p.m. for 10 minutes.
RECOMMENDATION
That you sign the memorandum for the President at Tab I.
CONFIDENTIAL (GDS)
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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Washington, D.C. 20520
April 2, 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. BRENT SCOWCROFT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Subject:
Request for Presidential Appointment
The Governor General of Canada, Jules Leger,
has asked through the Canadian Embassy in Washington
if he might meet briefly with the President during
a private visit to Washington, April 8-11, 1976.
A copy of the Governor General's Washington sched-
ule is attached. If convenient for the President,
the most appropriate time for a call would appear to
be while the Governor General is visiting the White
House on Friday, April 9 from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m.
Mme. Leger will be accompanying the Governor General.
The purpose of the call by the Governor
General is courtesy only. His private visit to
Washington is intended principally to acquaint him
with the decoration and furnishings of the White
House and public rooms of the Department of State
in connection with his plans for refurbishing
"Government House"--the official residence of the
Governor General in Ottawa. The Governor General
will be escorted on his visits to the White House
and the Department by Mr. Clement Conger, Curator
of the White House. While in the United States he
will also visit Monticello, Williamsburg and other
historical sites.
As the representative of the Queen who is
Canada's chief of state, the Governor General is
the chief executive officer of Canada. The
Department believes that for the President to
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receive the Governor General and Mme. Leger briefly
would be appropriate and a useful sign of U.S. regard
for Canada.
arthm Bnd
w
George S. Springsteen
Executive Secretary
Attachment:
Schedule
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31 March 1976
GOVERNOR GENERAL'S VISIT MAIN FEATURES
Thursday, April 8
- Arrival approximately 17:00 hours at Andrews Airforce base
- 20:00 hours Black tie dinner at the Residence for about
twenty guests in honour of the Governor
General and Mrs. Leger
Friday, April 9
- 10:30 to
11:30 hours Mrs. Leger to visit the National Gallery
- 12:15 hours
Lunch at a Washington restaurant for the
Governor General, Mrs. Leger, the Ambassador
and Mrs. Warren.
- 15:15 to
16:30 hours
Private tour of the White House for the
Governor General and Mrs. Leger with
Mr. C. Conger
- 20:00 hours
Governor General and Mrs. Leger attend a
ballet performance at the Opera House of
the Kennedy Center.
Satuday, April 10
- 11:00 to
12:15 hours
Visit to the National Portrait Gallery
by the Governor General and Mrs. Leger
- 12:30 to
13:30 hours
Lunch at the National Portrait Gallery
for the Governor General and Mrs. Leger
hosted by Mr. Marvin Sadik.
- 16:00 to
17:00 hours
Private tour of the Department of State
Reception Rooms with Mr. C. Conger - (It
is still to be decided whether this will
be on the program and if it is whether the
Governor General and Mrs. Leger will go or
only Mrs. Leger.)
FOne
Sunday, April 11
- 08:45 hours
Departure for Charlottesville, Virginia
BERALD
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Sunday, April 11
(continued)
- 11:15 to
11:40 hours
Visit to the University of Virginia by
the Governor General and Mrs. Leger
- 12:00 to
13:00 hours
Lunch at the Boar's Head Inn
- 13:55 to
15:00
Visit to Monticello by the Governor
General and Mrs. Leger.
- 15:15
Departure for Williamsburg
- 17:45
Arrival in Williamsburg
Monday, April 12
Program at Williamsburg for the Governor
General and Mrs. Leger
Tuesday, April 13
- 10:30 hours
Leave Williamsburg
N.B.
The visit is private as per the attached press release which
will be issued at noon on April 1.
FORD LIBRARY & OF
Information
Canadian Embassy
Ambassade du Canada
Office of Information
1771 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 785-1400
FOR RELEASE, NOON, APRIL 1, 1976
1 April 1976.
PRIVATE VISIT OF
GOVERNOR GENERAL AND MADAME LEGER
TO WASHINGTON D.C.
Their Excellencies, the Governor General and Madame Léger, will pay a
private visit to Washington from April 8 to April 11.
During their stay, Their Excellencies will be the guests of the Canadian
Ambassador to Washington, Mr. J.H. Warren and Mrs. Warren. Following their stay in
Washington, the Governor General and Madame Léger will visit Monticello and
Williamsburg, Virginia and spend their Easter vacation near Charleston, South
Carolina.
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by 4:00 p.m. of the preceding day.
Meeting: Greet the Governor General of Canada and Mrs. Jules
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SUBJECT:
Your April 21 Luncheon Meeting
with Ivan Head
You will be meeting at lunch on Wednesday, April 21, with Ivan Head,
Prime Minister Trudeau's foreign affairs advisor, who is in Washington
on a private visit to attend the annual meeting of the American Society
of International Law. Aside from his meeting with you, Mr. Head is
scheduled to call on Deputy Secretary of State Robinson and Helmut
Sonnenfeldt. Ambassador Enders' backchannel cable on your meeting
is at Tab A.
Background
Mr. Head has served as Assistant Principal Secretary to Prime Minister
Trudeau for the past eight years and as such plays an extremely influential
role in Canadian foreign policy. He often serves as diplomatic trouble-
shooter for Trudeau on sensitive issues. Most recently, in that role, he
has privately briefed Assistant Secretary of State Rogers on the Prime
Minister's recent trip to Cuba and South America and headed the
Canadian team in New Delhi discussing the termination of Canada's
nuclear assistance to India.
Mr. Head comes to Washington at a time when the political complexion
in Canada is undergoing change. The popularity of Prime Minister
Trudeau's Liberal Party is at its lowest point since 1968, with a
corresponding rise in public support for the opposition Progressive
Conservative Party, lead by Joe Clark, who has just replaced Robert
Stanfield. This situation reflects the persistent economic difficulties
confronting Ottawa, including entrenched opposition to the government's
program of wage and price controls designed to slow the rate of inflation.
Although there is widespread public disenchantment, reflected in opinion
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polls, with the current leadership's ability and will after eight years in
power to deal effectively with the problems confronting Canada domestically
and internationally, Prime Minister Trudeau nevertheless is in full
control and is likely to remain so until elections in 1978.
At the present time, there are the numerous, expected bilateral irritants
but no major sources of difficulty in our relations with Canada. In NATO,
the United Nations and other international consultative bodies such as CIEC
and UNCTAD, Canada has taken a generally constructive position parallel
to our own in many instances.
In key bilateral areas, consultations on energy, environmental and defense
matters have been increasingly open and effective over the past year. At
our request, Canada is considering alternatives to the government policy
of deleting U.S. commercials from Canadian cable TV rebroadcasts of
programs originating in the United States. Additionally, Ottawa is attempting
to downplay moves by Saskatchewan to take over control of US-owned or
controlled potash mines in the province. Moreover, Ambassador Enders'
first public speech in Canada, delivered in Ottawa last month, was generally
well received by the government, press, and general public as a construc-
tive analysis of the US-Canadian relationship. This was in marked contrast
to Canadian overreaction in some circles to similar remarks made by
outgoing-Ambassador Porter highlighting concern in the United States at
recent instances of Canadian nationalism affecting U.S. interests in Canada
-- the Time magazine case is a good example. The point made by both our
ambassadors is that Canada cannot be indifferent or insensitive to the
public reaction in this country to Canadian actions impacting on U.S. interests,
even though our government-to-government relations may be functioning
well.
The following paragraphs highlight issues of current interest in our relations
with Canada.
-- Possible Meeting Between the President and Prime Minister. Head
is likely to raise the possibility of a meeting at the border between the
President and Trudeau sometime this summer. Both leaders have been
invited by the Detroit-Windsor International Freedom Festival to receive
the organization's annual freedom award on June 30. The Prime Minister
does not appear strongly interested in accepting this invitation. You have
our memorandum of April 12 (NSC Log No. 1683) on this, recommending
a polite turn=down by the President. As an alternative, Mr. Head has
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discussed with Ambassador Enders the possibility of a separate meeting
at the border for the presentation of a special Canadian bicentennial
gift to the United States -- a volume of color photos of our common
frontier. If the meeting could be expanded to include substantive consul-
tations, I believe the proposal has considerable merit. This would be in
keeping with the President's standing invitation from Trudeau to visit
Canada and would provide the two leaders an opportunity to continue the
talks they began last year at Brussels and Helsinki. Finally, you will
recall that because of illness, the President was unable to attend the
Canadian Performing Arts festival at the Kennedy Center. Consequently,
some high-level recognition of Canada's latest bicentennial gift would be
very much welcomed in Canada. We understand that the President's
schedule for late June is relatively open.
-- Purchase of Patrol Aircraft from Lockheed. Signing of a $1 billion
contract between Canada and Lockheed for purchase of 18 long-range
patrol aircraft has been delayed for the last several months because of
some front-end financing problems and because revelations of Lockheed
wrongdoing abroad caused Ottawa to question the contract and Lockheed's
long-term ability to perform. After checking with the SEC, the Church
Committee and Justice, State was recently able to tell the Canadians that
those agencies had no material relating to any Lockheed impropriety in
Canada. We have also given Ottawa unofficial assurances regarding
Lockheed's financial standing and the steps the U.S. government could take
to help protect Canada's purchase should Lockheed go under in the future.
In an April 12 telephone call between Canadian External Affairs Minister
MacEachen and Secretary Kissinger, the Canadians have asked that we
make these assurances firm and formal to the extent possible. Discussions
are underway both here and in Ottawa on how we can meet Canada's needs
on this matter.
-- 200-Mile Economic Zone. Ottawa has been closely following our
200 fisheries legislation and the President's signature of the bill last week.
Canada shares the same domestic pressures for extension as we but has
been able to resist unilateral action, pending completion of the multilateral
LOS talks now underway in New York. Should these talks not lead to
agreement, Canada is likely to act independently before year's end to extend
Canadian fisheries jurisdiction to 200 miles.
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Secretary Kissinger and Minister MacEachen agreed last October to
cooperative and close bilateral consultation on the 200-mile zone and
related fisheries and LOS issues. We fish the same stocks in adjacent
waters and share a common threat from third country fishing fleets. We
have kept Canada advised in advance of our actions. Negotiation of a
new bilateral treaty covering salmon fishing is underway, renewal for
another year of our reciprocal fisheries agreement out to 12 miles is in
progress, continental shelf boundary negotiations focussing on the Gulf
of Maine are taking place, and we are scheduled to begin discussion
of an agreement on arrangements covering delimitation, management
and control in our 200-mile zones in early May.
-- Cuba. Head has been an architect of Canada's close and active
relationship with Cuba. He accompanied Trudeau on a State visit to
Havana in January and briefed Assistant Secretary Rogers on the visit
afterward. U.S. relations with Canada and with Cuba intersect in a
number of areas such as our export controls affecting American sub-
sidiaries in Canada, and the pending Cuban application for U.S. overflight
rights to carry out a bilateral air agreement for Havana to Montreal
flights. There is always the potential for US-Canadian friction in our
differences over Cuba. Moreover, Head favors a US-Cuba rapproache-
ment and feels Canada's experience may help encourage the process.
For these reasons Head may ask about the current state of our policy
toward Cuba. He is likely also to inquire specifically about the status
of the overflight request.
Talking Points
Introductory
1.
Welcome to Washington and to the White House.
2. The President had a very pleasant visit with Governor=General
and Mrs. Leger last week. He also met with the members of the
International Joint Commission.
3. The President told the Governor-General that Steven looks forward
to attending the Calgary Stampede this July.
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1.
Canada has been most generous to the United States during this
bicentennial celebration -- first the Canadian Performing Arts
Festival and now the very thoughtful gift of photos of our common
frontier.
2. I would like to pursue your proposal that the President meet with
the Prime Minister on the border this summer to receive Canada's
bicentennial gift. How do you see this developing?
3. It would seem sensible to include time for substantive discussions
if they do meet.
4. As you can appreciate, the President's schedule is very busy this
summer. I will be in further touch with you on this.
Lockheed
1. We share a strong interest with you in seeing Canada obtain the air
patrol capability which the Lockheed purchase would provide.
2. We are making every effort to be as forthcoming as possible in meeting
Canadian requests for information and government assurances
concerning Lockheed.
200-Mile Fisheries Legislation
1.
The President signed the 200-mile fisheries legislation because
protection is needed for our coastal stocks.
2. We are still hopeful that the LOS Conference will reach an acceptable
international agreement covering the 200-mile zone before our law
goes into effect in March 1977.
3. We welcome the close cooperation now underway with Canada on
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1.
Cuban interventionism in Africa aborted our efforts at normalization.
The full implications for U.S. policy regarding Cuba are still under
review but we regard Cuban activities in Africa and elsewhere with
utmost seriousness and concern.
2. We have the Cuban request for overflight under review and will be
responding to the Cubans when that review is completed.
3. We appreciate the helpfulness of the Canadian Government in keeping
us informed on this matter and in facilitating the use by the Cubana
flights of a route which does not pass through U.S. airspace while we
have the matter under study.
Jamaica (if raised)
(NOTE: Ambassador Enders indicates that Head may ask if the United
States, through the CIA, is involved in fomenting and supporting guerilla
warfare among the political factions in Jamaica.)
1.
The allegation that the United States is behind the current domestic
political unrest in Jamaica is without foundation.
2.
I believe that Tom Enders may have already made this point in dis-
cussions with you, but I want to take this occasion to assure you that
we are in no way involved in the difficulties in Jamaica.
Border TV
1.
This is really a minor issue, but serves to mobilize anti-Canadian
feeling in some quarters.
2. I'm pleased to note that a negotiating process is underway to resolve
this matter to the satisfaction of both sides.
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TO THE WHITE HOUSE, FOR GENERAL SCOWCROFT (NSC)
SUBJECT: VISIT OF IVAN HEAD, APRIL 21
1. YOU WILL HAVE A BRIEFING PAPER FROM STATE, HERE ARE MY
THOUGHTS.
2. FORD/TRUDEAU MEETING. HEAD THINKS THAT AN ENCOUNTER
AT THE WINDSOR/DETROIT FREEDOM FESTIVAL WOULD BE A WASTE
OF THE TWO PRINCIPALS! TIME, UNLESS THE PRESIDENT HAS
ANOTHER REASON TO BE IN DETROIT, I AGREE, BETTER AL-
TERNATIVE IS SUGGESTED FORD/TRUDEAU "PICNIC", AN INFORMAL
OCCASION WHERE TRUDEAU COULD HAND OVER CANADA'S BICENTENNIAL
GIFT, LATTER IS A BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BOOK "BETWEEN US".
MEETING BETTER BEFORE BOOK'S PUBLICATION JUNE 21, BUT COULD
BE ALMOST ANY TIME ANYWHERE, WE ARE ALREADY GETTING SOUR
NEWS ARTICLES THAT "U. DOESNIT WANT CANADAIS GIFT". BRIEF
MEETING SHOULD PLAY WELL IN STATES AS HERE,
3. JAMAICA, HEAD IN HIS ROMANTIC WAY WONDERS WHETHER
J.S. IS DESTABILIZING JAMAICA, ON BASIS OF WHAT MANLEY TOLD
HIM A COUPLE OF MONTHS GO. I HAVE BEEN OVER THIS IN
ASHINGTON LAST WEEK, AND WILL TRY TO SEE HEAD BEFORE HE
.EAVES TO PUT IT RIGHT, BUT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF YOU
COULD MENTION AND DISMISS IT.
4, BORDER TV, JUST NOTE THIS IS A SMALL ISSUE, BUT
MOBILIZES A LOT OF POLITICAL SENTIMENT AND COULD, IF
CT BLEW, CRYSTALLIZE ANTI-CANADIAN FEELING, SAY YOU'RE
SLAD A NEGOTIATING PROCESS SEEMS UNDERWAY.
5, MY RECEPTION IN OTTAWA. IT HAS BEEN REMARKABLY
OUTGOING, FROM TRUDEAU DOWN. YOU SHOULD SAY THAT YOU
HAVE NOTED AND APPRECIATED EFFORT CANADIANS HAVE MADE,
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
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SUBJECT:
Canada Plans Another Increase in the
Price of Gas Exports to the US
A major new problem with Canada looms on the horizon. Canada's
National Energy Board (similar to our Federal Power Commission)
will recommend to the Canadian government an increase in the price
of natural gas exports from the present $1.60 per thousand cubic feet
(MCF) to $1.80, $2.00, or $2.10 depending upon the region of the US
for which the gas is destined. Thus, Canada is discriminating among
various regions of the US (California gets the $2.10 gas, which will
be an added problem for the President on June 6), in order to maximize
its revenues. Note that these figures are not higher for some regions
than others because of transportation costs; they are the charges made
at the Canadian border.
Tom Enders has already protested to Canadian Energy Minister Gillespie,
who said that the government could reject the NEB recommendation only
if there were "overriding" reasons for doing so. Tom pointed out that
Canada's relationship with the US could be construed as overriding reason
enough. State is now preparing talking points for HAK to call MacEachon
this afternoon to stress our dismay and displeasure at both the discrimination
against US purchasers of Canadian gas (Canada's domestic price will only
go up to $1.05 per MCF) and Canada's discrimination among regions of
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Date:
June 11, 1976
FROM:
Brent Scowcroft
VIA:
William Nicholson
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MEETING:
Joe Clark, Leader of the Opposition
in Canadian Parliament
DATE:
June 14-15, 1976
PURPOSE:
To become acquainted with Mr. Clark and to
review issues of mutual interest in US-Canadian
relations.
FORMAT:
-- The Oval Office
-- Joe Clark, Canadian Ambassador Jack H.
Warren and Brent Scowcroft
-- 30 minutes
CABINET
PARTICIPATION:
None
SPEECH MATERIAL:
Background material and talking points will be
prepared by the NSC.
PRESS COVERAGE:
The meeting will be announced and there will
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your talks.
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June 14-15 for consultations with senior
Administration officials and Congressional
leaders. He has asked to call on you.
At 36, Mr. Clark is the youngest leader in the
history of Canada's Progressive Conservative
Party. Elected to leadership in February, he
is pushing hard to make his party -- out of
office since 1968, center-right in the Canadian
political spectrum, and with about one-third
of the seats in the parliament -- a real threat
to the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Trudeau.
In a recent public opinion poll, the Progressive
Conservatives, for the first time in a decade,
showed greater popularity than the Liberals.
While Prime Minister Trudeau is expected to
remain in power until parliamentary elections
in 1978, the Progressive Conservative potential
to assume power at that time is greater now than
at any time recently. Thus, Mr. Clark is likely
to be a principal political force in Canada and
an important voice in Canadian policy for the
foreseeable future.
A meeting with Mr. Clark would be consistent
with our close relations with Canada and the
practice of Presidential meetings with leaders
of the opposition of principal allied nations. It.
would provide you the opportunity to become
acquainted with Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark's request
to meet with you has been checked with Prime
Minister Trudeau, with whom you will be meeting
on June 16.
Accordingly, I recommend that you approve an
office call by Joe Clark during the period
June 14-15, 1976.
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SUBJECT:
Schedule Proposal for Canadian Opposition
Leader Joe Clark
With the memorandum at Tab B, the Department of State informs the
NSC that Joe Clark, leader of the Canadian opposition by virtue of his
recent election as head of the Progressive Conservative Party, will
visit Washington during the period June 14-15 for consultations with
high-level Administration officials and Congressional leaders. State
advises that Mr. Clark has asked to meet with the President, and
endorses the request as in keeping with our close relations with Canada
and the desirability of showing evenhandedness in dealing with the leaders
of both major Canadian political parties. State notes that Clark's request
to meet with the President has been cleared with Prime Minister Trudeau.
Although June 14-15 may be a particularly crowded period on the President's
calendar, I concur that an office call by Clark on the President would be
appropriate and desirable. Together with the factors cited by State, it
would be consistent with the practice of Presidential meetings with
leaders of the opposition of our principal allies.
However, because of possible misinterpretation in Canada, I believe that
a Presidential meeting with Clark should be contingent upon approval of
a meeting in June with Trudeau -- as proposed by the Prime Minister --
to receive Canada's Bicentennial gift to the United States. (You have our
May 18 memorandum [NSC Log No. 2459] on this.) In any event, we under-
stand that Clark is aware of possible White House scheduling problems
and would understand a turn-down.
RECOMMENDATION
Contingent upon approval of a Presidential meeting with Prime Minister
Trudeau in June, that you sign the schedule proposal at Tab A.
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MEMORANDUM TO MR. BRENT SCOWCROFT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Subject: Request for Appointment with the President
from Joe Clark, Canadian Leader of the
Opposition
Joe Clark, Leader of the Opposition in Canada,
will visit Washington Monday and Tuesday, June 14-15
1976. Mr. Clark has asked to call on the President.
The Department strongly supports that request.
Mr. Clark's visit to Washington will be his
first since he was elected last February Leader of
the Canadian Progressive Conservative Party. The
stated purpose of the visit is to make the acquain-
tance of U.S. Government leaders and to exchange
views generally on policy issues of common interest.
The trip obviously is intended to help Mr. Clark
develop the image and scope appropriate to his new
role as a national political leader.
A meeting of perhaps 30 minutes at a time con-
venient to the President would be consistent with
the importance of U.S.-Canadian relations. Such a
meeting would serve presentationally to demonstrate
the high value placed on our relations with Canada,
and substantively to underscore our desire and will-
ingness to work closely and pragmatically with Canada
in resolving bilateral differences to our mutual
benefit.
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Joe Clark could well become Prime Minister of
Canada, perhaps as early as 1978; in any event he is
likely to be a principal political force in Canada
and an important voice in Canadian policy for the
foreseeable future. The Department has been advised
that Mr. Clark's intention to request a meeting with
the President has been vetted with Prime Minister
Trudeau.
A biography of Joe Clark is attached. At 36
Mr. Clark is the youngest leader in the history of
the Progressive Conservative Party. His surprise
victory in the leadership race last February reflected
recognition of his talents as a political organizer
and his effectiveness in public and parliamentary
debate. Attractive and dynamic, Mr. Clark already
is off and running in an effort to make his party--
which has been out of office since 1968, generally
fills the right and center of the political spectrum,
and holds about one-third of the seats in Parliament--
a viable threat to the Liberal Party of Prime Minister
Trudeau. In a recent opinion poll the Progressive
Conservatives, for the first time in a decade, showed
greater popularity than the Liberals. Beset by economic
difficulty, a series of minor scandals, and a growing
feeling that the same faces have been in the same places
for too long, Prime Minister Trudeau is going through a
difficult time politically. Nonetheless, the Liberal
Party parliamentary majority is intact, and no election
can be expected before 1978. However, the Progressive
Conservative potential to assume power at that time,
while neither assured nor even likely, is greater now
than at any time recently
During his visit to Washington, Mr. Clark will be
accompanied by his wife, Ms. Maureen McTeer. Ms. McTeer,
who prefers to go by her maiden name, is a 23-year old
veteran Progressive Conservative politician in her own
right.
George C. S. Springsteen
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Executive Secretary
Attachment:
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June 14-15 for consultations with senior
Administration officials and Congressional
leaders. He has asked to call on you.
At 36, Mr. Clark is the youngest leader in the
history of Canada's Progressive Conservative
Party. Elected to leadership in February, he
is pushing hard to make his party -- out of
office since 1968, center-right in the Canadian
political spectrum, and with about one-third
of the seats in the parliament -- a real threat
to the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Trudeau.
In a recent public opinion poll, the Progressive
Conservatives, for the first time in a decade,
showed greater popularity than the Liberals.
While Prime Minister Trudeau is expected to
remain in power until parliamentary elections
in 1978, the Progressive Conservative potential
to assume power at that time is greater now than
at any time recently. Thus, Mr. Clark is likely
to be a principal political force in Canada and an
important voice in Canadian policy for the fore-
seeable future.
A meeting with Mr. Clark would be consistent
with our close relations with Canada and the
practice of Presidential meetings with leaders
of the opposition of principal allied nations. It
would provide you the opportunity to become
acquainted with Mr. Clark, and, in view of your
regular contacts with Prime Minister Trudeau,
demonstrate ewenhandedness in dealing with both
major Canadian political parties. Clark's
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Accordingly, I recommend that you approve an
office call by Joe Clark during the period June 14-15,
1976.
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June 14-15 for consultations with senior
Administration officials and Congressional
leaders. He has asked to call on you.
At 36, Mr. Clark is the youngest leader in the
history of Canada's Progressive Conservative
Party. Elected to leadership in February, he
is pushing hard to make his party -- out of
office since 1968, center-right in the Canadian
political spectrum, and with about one-third
of the seats in the parliament -- a real threat
to the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Trudeau.
In a recent public opinion poll, the Progressive
Conservatives, for the first time in a decade,
showed greater popularity than the Liberals.
While Prime Minister Trudeau is expected to
remain in power until parliamentary elections
in 1978 the Progressive Conservative potential
to assume power at that time is greater now than
at any time recently. Thus, Mr. Clark is likely
to be a principal political force in Canada and
an important voice in Canadian policy for the
foreseeable future.
A meeting with Mr. Clark would be consistent
with our close relations with Canada and the
practice of Presidential meetings with leaders
of the opposition of principal allied nations. It
would provide you the opportunity to become
acquainted with Mr. Clark® and, in view of your
regular contacts with Prime Minister Trudeau,
demonstrate evenhandedness in dealing with both
major Canadian political parties. chiched Mr. Clark's
request to meet with you has been cleared with
Prime Minister Trudeau, with when you
will & musting on June 16.
Accordingly, I recommend that you approve an
office call by Joe Clark during the period
June 14-15, 1976.
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June 14-15/consultations with senior
Administration officials and Congressional
leaders. He has asked to call on you.
At 36, Mr. Clark is the youngest leader in the
history of Canada's Progressive Conservative
Party. Elected to leadership in February, he
is pushing hard to make his party -- out of
office since 1968, center-right in the Canadian
political spectrum, and with about one-third
of the seats in the parliament -- a real threat
to the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Trudeau.
In a recent public opinion poll, the Progressive
Conservatives, for the first time in a decade,
showed greater popularity than the Liberals.
While Prime Minister Trudeau is expected to
remain in power until parliamentary elections
in 1978, the Progressive Conservative potential
to assume power at that time is greater now than
at any time recently. Thus, Mr. Clark is likely
to be a principal political force in Canada and
an important voice in Canadian policy for the
foreseeable future.
A meeting with Mr. Clark would be consistent
with our close relations with Canada and the
practice of Presidential meetings with leaders
of the opposition of principal allied nations. It
would provide you the opportunity to become
acquainted with Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark's request
to meet with you has been checked with Prime
Minister Trudeau, with whom you will be meeting
on June 16.
Accordingly, I recommend that you approve an
office call by Joe Clark during the period
June 14-15, 1976.
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DISAPPROVE
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