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The original documents are located in Box 3, folder "Canada - State Department Telegrams:
To SECSTATE - NODIS (1)" 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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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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TAGS OVIP (GERALD R. FORD)
SUBJ PRESIDENTIAL LETTER
REF STATE 9368
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE DELIVERED 09:45 JANUARY 15 TO
IVAN HEAD, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU,
WHO ASSURED US PM WOULD HAVE IT BY 10:00 HOURS.
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SUBJECT: CANADIAN TRADE WITH CUBA
REF: OTTAWA 201
1, MINISTER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (MACEACHEN) PHONED PURSUANT
TO CONVERSATION WITH HIM REPORTED REFTEL TO SAY HE HAD
DISCUSSED MY REMARKS WITH RESPECT TO THE COLE/LITTON
CASE WITH HIS COLLEAGUES THE MINISTERS OF INDUSTRY,
TRADE AND COMMERCE (GILLESPIE) AND FINANCE (TURNER).
HE AND HIS COLLEAGUES AGREED THAT THEY WOULD TRY TO KEEP
MATTER FROM BECOMING PUBLIC CONTROVERSY AND WOULD MAKE
APPROPRIATE EFFIRTS WITH PRESS AND IN PARLIAMENT IN
THAT SENSE. HE EXPRESSED HOPE ADDITIONAL CASES WOULD
NOT ARISE TO COMPLICATE SITUATION,
2. MINISTER SAID CANADIAN GOVERNMENT WELCOMED
INDICATIONS THAT REVIEW OF US-CUBAN TRADE POLICY HAD
BEEN AUTHORIZED AND INQUIRED WHETHER IT WOULD BE
POSSIBLE FOR us GOVERNMENT TO STATE PUBLICLY THAT
REVIEW IS UNDER WAY. (COMMENT: GUC WOULD
PROBABLY LIKE TO USE SUCH STATEMENT IN EVENT SUBJECT
ARISES IN PARLIAMENT, WHICH SEEMS LIKELY). I REMARKED
IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT FOR DEPARTMENT TO MAKE FACT OF
REVIEW PUBLIC WHILE IT IS UNDER WAY, ADDING I WOULD
CONNEY HIS INQUIRY.
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EM MINISTER ALSO EXPRESSED DESIRE THAT COLE/LITTON
CASE BE SETTLED PROMPTLY. I SAID CASE BEING GIVEN ALL
APPROPRIATE CONSIDERATION, BUT THERE ARE MANY CURRENTS OF
OPINION IN UNITED STATES ON SUBJECT OF TRADE WITH
CUBA WHICH WOULD HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED IN CONNECTION
WITH THE WAIVER LITTON NOW SEEKING. MANY OTHER US-
AFFILIATED COMPANIES IN CANADA (THERE ARE ABOUT FIVE
THOUSAND) NO DOUBT INTERESTED IN OUTCOME OF MATTER.
MACEACHEN SAID HE UNDERSTOOD DECISION NOT EASY
MATTER.
4, MINISTER THEN SAID SECRETARY KISSINGER HAD INDICATED HE WOULD
TRY TO FIND TIME TO DISCUSS WITH HIM TRADE WITH CUBA
IF NECESSARY. MACEACHEN SAID HE NOT ASKING THAT DATE
BE SET FOR SUCH MEETING, BUT ME WANTED us TO KNOW THAT
HE THINKING ABOUT REQUESTING TIME WITH THE SECRETARY
TO DISCUSS MATTER. I SAID I WOULD CONVEY HIS REMARKS.
[COMMENT: IF MINISTER IS PRESSED IN PARLIAMENT ON
SUBJECT HE WILL PROBABLY MENTION NOTIFICATION
TO us THAT HE HOPES FOR DISCUSSION WITH SECRETARY).
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1. U.S. VIEWS ON ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT PRESENTEU TO
EXTAFF OFFICIALS UPON RECEIPT OF REFTEL MANCH 3 AND
WILL BE SUBJECT TO FURTHER GOC INTERAGENCY REVIEW AT
MEETING MORNING OF MARCH 5.
2: IN MEANTIME, EXTAFF OFFICIAL HAS INFORMED EMBOFF
THAT CANADIAN GOVERNING BOARD REP PETER TONE HAS BEEN
INSTRUCTED THAT GOC HAS NO RPT NO PROBLEM IN
INRPCIPLE WITH U.S. VIEWS AS CONTAINED REFTEL.
3, IN MORE SPECIFIC TERMS, OTTAWA HAS INFORMED TOWE
THAT GOC FULLY SUPPORTS AN OIL "FLOOR PRICE AND AT
A "HIGH LEVEL" WHICH WOULD PROBABLY ONLY BE SUPPORTED
BY THE U.S., NORWAY AND POSSIBLY THE U.K. THIS
CANADIAN ASSESSMENT, ACCORDING TO EXTAF OFFICIAL,
THEREFORE LEADS TO DOUBTS ABOUT "SALEABILITY" OF HIGH
FLOOR PRICE TO JAPAN AND MOST OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
WITH REGARD TO MACHANICS, CANADA WOULD PREFER TO SEE
A "GENERAL AGREMENT" RATHER THAN A "SPECIFIC ACROSS-
THE-BOARD AGREEMENT. = FOR EXAMPLE, THE CANADIANS,
FOR THEIR PART, FIND LITTLE APPEAL IN IMPLEMENTATION
THROUGH TARIFF MEASURES,
4. ON MATTER OF COOPERATION ON SPECIFIC MEASURES OF
ASSISTANCE TO STIMULATE INVESTMENT IN ENERGY DN A
PROJECT-BY-PROJECT BASIS, THE CANADIAN DELEGATION
WILL WANT TU KNOW WHAT THE SPECIFICS ARE BEFORE
COMMENTING. EXTAFF OFFICIAL EMPHASIZED, FOR EXAMPLE,
THAT CANDA WOULD FIND GREAT DIFFICULTY IN ANY
MEASURE WHENEBY FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN A CANADIAN
ENERGY PROJECT WAS TIED IN ANY WAY TO AN EXPORT
COMMITMENT IN PROPORTION TO THE INVESTMENT. HE
STATED FLATLY THAT SUCH A MECHANISM WOULD NOT RPT
NOT BE POSSIBLE UNDER EXISTING NATIONAL LEGISLATION.
COOPERATION ON ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT,
HOWEVER, WAS ANOTHER MATTER AND A SUBJECT OF INTEREST
AND ACCEPTANCE TO CANADA.
5. EXTAFF OFFIIAL STATED HE WOULD GET BACK TO
EMBASSY BY NOON TOMORROW (MARCH 5) IN THE EVENT
runu
THE INTERAGENCY MEETING CAME UP WITH ANY NEW OR
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DIFFERING POSITIONS ON THE U.S. VIEWS. IN THE
ABSENCE OF ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION, EXTAFF OFFICIAL
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SAID WE COULD ASSUME THAT INSTRUCTIONS TO TUWE AS
OUTLINED ABOVE STAND AS STATED.
6. CANDEL TO GOVERNING BOARD MEETING, IN ADDITION
TO TOWE, WILL CONSIST OF ASSISTANT DEPUTY MINISTER
BILL HOPPER AND FREU GORBET OF DEPARTMENT Ur ENERGY,
MINES AND RESOURCES. PORTER
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E.O. 116521 GUS
TAGS: PEUR, NATO, CA
SUBJECT: CSCE SUMIT MEETING
1. AT DINNER PARTY MARCH 20 FOR SACEUR, PRIME MINISTER
TRUDEAU'S SENIOR FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER IVAN HEAD
REGISTERED HIS AND THUDEAUTS UNHAPPINESS ON LEARING
FROM BRITISH FONMIN CALLAGHAN THAT "TWO OR THREE PEOPLE"
HaD TAKEN DECISION THAT CSCE SUMMIT WOULD BE HELD ON
JUNE 23 OR 30. HEAD SAID CALLAGHAN CITEU SECRETARY
KISSINGER PERSONALLY AS HIS SOURCE AND INDICATED THAT
THE END JUNE DATE REPRESENTED AN AGREEMENT HEACHED dE-
TWEEN us AND SOVIET LEAVERS. HEAD SAID THAT ASIDE FROM
THE PHYSICAL/TECHNICAL PROBLEMS OF PUTTING TOGETHER A
SUMMIT MEETING THAT EARLY, CANADA FOUND THIS TO BE A POOR
WAY TO RUN AN ALLIANCE OR CONDUCT A CONSULTATION.
2. BOTH GENERAL HAIG AND I ASSERTED THAT HIS INFO
WAS CONTRARY TO ALL INDICATIONS WE HAD RECEIVED, WHICH
WERE THAT US FAR FROM COMMITTED TO ANY DATE, THAT US
FELT AGREEMENT ON DATE CONDITIONAL UN PROGRESS IN
CURRENT TALKS, AND THAT EARLIEST DATE US ENVISAGED AT
PRESENT WAS MID-JULY. IN CALL ON HEAD THIS MORNING,
POL COUNSELUR REITERATED THESE POINTS, BUTTRESSED THEM
BY PROVIDING HEAD WITH WIRELESS FILE STATEMENT FROM
SECRETARY'S PARTY DATELINED MARCH 19 IN WHICH "SENIOR
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US OFFICIAL" WAS QUOTED AS STATING THAT WASHINGTON HAS
NO FIXED IDEA ON WHEN CSCE SUMMIT SHOULD TAKE PLACE,
AND SUGGESTED THAT DISCUSSION ABOUT POSSIBLE PRE-SUMMIT
NATO SUMMIT MAY HAVE CONFUSED ISSUE. HEAD (AS INTENDED)
SEEMED TO HAVE IMPRESSION THAT "SENIOR US OFFICIAL"
CITED IN WF HAS SECRETARY HIMSELF, AND APPEARED TO BE
SOMEWHAT LESS CONFIDENT OF ACCURACY or BRITISH REPORT,
BUT ALSU WAS NOT ENTIRELY CONVINCED BY OUR DISCLAIMERS.
3. COMMENT: THIS STORY COULD BE GOING THE ROUNDS OF
NATO CAPITALS, FEEDING OLD FEARS UF A US-SOVIET DEAL
BEING MADE OVER ALLIES' HEADS. IT HAS, AT MINIMUM,
GENERATED SUCH HEARS IN CANADIAN MINDS. PRUBABLY RECORD
CAN BE SET STRAIGHT ONLY BY A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM
SECRETARY TO TRUDEAU (AND POSSIBLY OTHER NATO HEADS OF
GOVERNMENT) SETTING FURTH PRECISELY SECRETARY'S VIEWS
ON CSCE SUMMIT DATE AND NATU SUMMIT TO PRECEDE OR FOLLOW
IT.
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SUBJECT: MIDDLE EAST
FOR THE SECRETARY FROM AMBASSADOR PORTER
REACTION OF CANADIAN GOVT TO YOUR RETURN FROM MIDDLE EAST
INDICATES CONSIDERABLE UNEASINESS AND DESIRE TO HEAR YOU ON
SUBJECT. IF YOU PLAN TO BRIEF ALLIES IN WASHINGTON IT WOULD
BE DEEPLY APPRECIATED HERE IF YOU COULD INVITE EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
MINISTER TO BE PRESENT. GOVT WILL SHORTLY BE QUESTIONED IN
PARLIAMENT ABOUT FUTURE OF CAN PEACEKEEPING FORCE AND TRUDEAU WANT3
TO BE HELPFUL, YOU CAN ALSO DEPEND ON THEM TO BE DISCREET WITHIN
LIMITES YOU PRESCRIBE.
I HAVE NOT DISCUSSED SUBJECT WITH GOVT, BUT I NOT BUILDUP
ON CONCERN HERE THAT USUALLY DEVELOPS WHENEVER WE HAVE PROBLEMS.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU DEEM POSSIBLE.
WARMEST REGARDS. IT WAS A MAGNIFICIENT EFFORT. PORTER
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TAGS: ENRG, CA, us
SUBJECT: NEB REPORT OF NATURAL GAS SUPPLY
1. ON JUNE 18, I WAS INVITEU TO A PRIVATE MEETING
BY EXTAFF UNDER SECRETARY BASIL RUBINSON ALONG WITH
GORDON MALNAGO AND BILL HOPPER (DEPUTY MINISTER AND
ASSISTANT DEPUTY MINISTER RESPECTIVELY AT DEPARTMENT
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OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES) TO DISCUSS THE NEB
REPORT ON CANADIAN NATURAL GAS SUPPLY ANU ITS POTENTIAL
IMPACT ON U.S. GAS SUPPLY. ! WAS ACCOMPANIED BY
DECLASSIFIED
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RAIGHT ANU LEARY.
STATE DEPT, GUIDELINES
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2. CANADIANS WERE VERY FRANK IN DESCRIBING REPORT
AND THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT PROBLEMS Il COULD CREATE
FOR GOC IN DONESTIC POLITICAL TERMS, AS WELL AS IN
BY GG
ITS RELATIONS WITH U.S. HACNABB SAIU THAT ME DID
NOT LIKE REPORTIS PRESENTATION, WHICH LENDS ITSELF
TO INFLAMMATORY PUBLIC TREATMENT. LATTER VIEW NOT
SHANEO BY NEH CHAIRMAN MARSHALL CROWE (1 WILL SEE
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HIM THURSUAY APTERNOON), WHO DIRECTED PHEPARATION
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EXISTING SUPPLIES FROM CONVENTIONAL PRODUCING AREAS,
SUPPLY/DEMAND CROSSOVER WILL OCCUR IN 1979. EVEN
ASSUMING THAT GAS SUPPLY INCREASES FROM TRADITIONAL
PRODUCING AREAS AND DOMESTIC DEMAND FALLS IN
RESPONSE TO SUBSTANTIAL PRICE INCREASES (WHICH HOPPER
SAID WOULD 6E ANNOUNCED WITHIN NEXT TWO WEEKS AND RAISE
DOMESTIC PRICE TO ABOUT THREE TIMES CURRENT LEVEL),
THIS WILL BE DELAYED ONLY UNTIL MID-198WS. AVAILABILITY
OF NEW SUPPLIES FROM ARCTIC COULD ENABLE CANADA TO
SQUEAK THROUGH, BUT THERE HAS NOT YET BEEN DECISION
ON MACKENZIE VALLEY PIPELINE. THUS IT IS CLEAR THAT
CANADIANS WILL HAVE TO ALLOCATE GAS IN CANADA AND
"CURTAIL SUME EXPURTS."
4. DOMESTIC PULITICAL PROBLEMS FOR GOC WILL BE QUITE
SUBSTANITAL. THERE WILL RE STRONG PRESSURE TO STOP
EXPORTS IMMEDIATELY. HOWEVER, STUDY INDICATES
COMPLETE CESSATION OF EXPORTS WOULD NOT HELP --
OSTENSISLY ADDING AT MOST SEVERAL AUDITIONAL MONTHS
TO CROSSOVER DATE -- bUT IN FACT COOLO MURT BY
REDUCING CASH FLOW TO PRODUCERS NECESSARY FOR
COMBINED EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT.
5. MACNABO AND ROBINSON SAID CANADA WISHED TO CONSULT
FULLY WITH USG UN HOW TO MINIMIZE IMPACT IN U.S.
OF ANY EXPORT CURTAILMENTS. MACNABB SAID FIRST
SERIOUS SHURTFALLS WILL NOT OCCUR BEFORE 1976-7
HEATING SEASON, PROVIDING TIME TO DISCUSS SIZE AND
IMPACT OF CURTRILMENTS WITH U.S. TO LESSEN PROBLEMS.
NEB REPORT RECUMMENDS THAT ALL "HEASONABLE" CANADIAN
DEMANDS BE MET BEFORE EXPORTS. "REASONABLE" CANADIAN
DEMAND NOT YET DEFINED, BUT GOC WILL RESTRICT INEFFICIENT
GAS USE (E.G. RESTRICTIONS ON USE AS BOILER FUEL)
TO LIMIT GRUWTH IN CANADIAN DEMANU. CANADA WILL MOVE
SHORTLY TO GIVE NEB AUTHORITY TO ALLOCATE GAS ON
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REDUCTION IN GAS EXPORTS IN VIEW UF EXISTING SERIOUS
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VERY SEVERE IMPACT IN CERTAIN REGIONS, I SAID I
WAS ALSO CONCERNED BECAUSE OF THE ADVERSE EFFECT THIS
DECISION HOULD HAVE-- ON TOP OF EARLIER CANADIAN
ACTIONS ON UIL AND GAS PRICES AND OIL EXPORTS --
ON THE ENTIRE RANGE OF OUR BILATERAL RELATIONS. WE
APPRECIATED OFFER OF CONSULTATIONS AND CHANCE TO
WORK WITH GOC.
7. CANADIANS EXPECT REPORT wILL BE MADE PUBLIC
IN MID-JULY. THEY WILL PROVIDE US WITH ADVANCE COPY.
THEY WOULD PLAN TO HAVE FIRST CONSULTATIONS END JULY
OR EARLY AUGUST.
8. I HAVE MADE THIS MESSAGE NODIS BECAUSE OF CANADIAN
SENSITIVITY ABOUT PREMATURE DISCLOSURE CONTENTS
REPORT WHICH HAS SO FAR NOT LEAKED. CINFORMATION
ABOUT PROSPECTIVE DUMESTIC GAS PRICE INCREASES IS ALSO
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EXTRMELY SENSITIVE PENDING PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT BY
GOC WHICH MAY OCCUR WHEN NEW BUDGET IS BROUGHT DOWN
ON EVENING OF JUNe 23.) THEY ARE VERY CONCERNED
OVER POSSIBLE DONESTIC POLITICAL IMPACT OF REVEALING
THEY HAD CONSULTED "ITH US IN AUVANCE OF PUBLICATION
OF NEB REPORT. I WILL HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOU
ON MANDLING OF CONSULTATION UPON MY RETURN. IN
MEANTIME YOU MAY WISH TO PASS THIS TO FRANK ZARB
WITH REQUEST THAT HE HANDLE VERY CAREFULLY SO AS TO
AVOID LEAKS.
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SUBJ: SECRETARY'S VISIT TO MILWAUKEE
NEWS REPORTS INDICATING YOU WILL BE ATTENDING BASEBALL
GAME IN MILWAUKEE JULY 15 HAVE PROMPTED OFFICIAL INFORMAL
CANADIAN INQUIRY WHETHER THEY SHOULD PLAN TO RECEIVE
YOU AT ABOUT THEN OR LATER. YOU MAY RECALL MACEACHEN
RETURNED FROM EUROPE WITH IMPRESSION JULY 16 WAS POSSIBLE
DATE FOR YOUR VISIT TO OTTAWA.
THEY HAVE ALSO HEARD THAT YOU PLAN TO VISIT MONTREAL IN
AUGUST. THEY EXPRESS WELCOME BUT OBVIDUSLY EXPECT
200-0
YOUR VISIT THERE WILL BE PRECEDED BY ONE TO OTTAWA.
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LUNCHEON TOUR OF MONTREAL WITH MAYOR. THIS
RECOMMENDATION BASED ON POLITICAL AND SECURITY REASONS
WHICH I AM PREPARED TO DETAIL TO SECRETARY PERSONALLY.
2. IF SECRETARY FEELS HE SHOULD PROCEED WITH TOUR,
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TAGS: OVIP: CA (KISSINGER, HENRY A.)
SUBJECT: POSSIBLE VISIT TO CANADA
REFERENCE: OTTAWA 30321
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SINCE DISPATCH REFTEL, MACEACHEN HAS ASKED US CANCEL
SUGGESTION ABOUT NOVEMBER AND SAYS OCTOBER 14-15 WOULD
BE VERY SUITABLE. REGRETS REFERENCE TO NOVEMBER DUE TO
STAFF MISUNUERSTANDING.
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TAGS: PFOR, XF
SUBJECT: MIDDLE EAST MONITORING
1. REGARDING QUESTION PUT TO FUNSETH AUGUST 13, I RESPECTFULLY
URGE THAT WE PROCEED WITH UTMOST CAUTION IN ANY MATTER INVOLVING
THE INSERTION OF AMERICAN CIVILIAN OR MILITARY TECHNICIANS INTO
200-0
MI DDLE EAST FOR PURPOSE OF "MONITORING" MILITARY
MOVEMENTS.
2. THERE ARE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF SIMILAR DESERT AREAS
WHERE SUCH "MONITORING" MIGHT BE DESIRABLE IN DEALING WITH THE
ARAB-ISRAELI DISPUTE, AND THE PRECEDENT CREATED BY ACCEDING TO
SUCH AN IDEA COULD LEAD TO NUMBER OF SIMILAR DEMANDS RESULTING
IN A PATTERN WHICH BEARS SOME RESEMBLANCE TO THE "ADVISURY TRAINING
TEAMS" WE INITIALLY SENT TO VIET-NAM,
UND
3. THE UN AND NOT THE UNITED STATES SHOULD ASSUME SUCH
RESPONSIBILITIES.
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TAGS CA GW UK FR IT JA
SUBJ ECONOMIC SUMMIT
REF STATE 241540
SECRETARY'S COMMENTS TO CANADIAN AMBASSADOR HAVE HAD
REASSURING EFFECT ON GOC. EXTAFF DEPUTY RODINSON
EXPRESSED THEIR APPRECIATION, AGREED THAT COMFRONTATION WITH
FRENCH SHOULD BE AVOIDED AND WITH LINE SECRETARY INTENOS
TAKE ABOUT CANADIAN PARTICIPATION AFTER OCTOBER 10
ANNOUNCEMENT. HE ADDED THAT EVENTUALLY GOC WILL BE FORCED
DEAL WITH QUESTION CONCERNING NATURE OF PROBLEM AFFECTING
CANADIAN PARTICIPATION IF FRENCH MAINTAIN THEIR POSITION.
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