From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Subject: Re: So its Clinton/Gore, eh?
Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Organization: The Bates Motel
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:32:29 GMT

mre@teal.Eng.Sun.COM (Mike Eisler) writes:
>
>From the point of view of a Canadian, Clinton's record/views of
>environment (all talk and lot of negative action), free trade 
>(against NAFTA; for protectionism), 

A non-Democrat, Gary C. Hufbauer of the Institute for International
Economics, said in today's NYT Business survey on Clinton that the
number of objections that have been raised are so narrow that maybe
a month of additional negotiations would suffice.  None of their
objections actually have any impact on Canada anyways, other than
addressing issues that the Tories themselves left to faith/fate
(e.g., environmental issues re: Mexico) after having been there
to defend the existing FTA.  Thursday's NYT Business section had
a number of interesting comments from economic observers and CEO's,
and Murray R. Greenberg of the American International Group actually
spoke at my grad residence last night; the view is bullish as long
as the new Administration can rein in their radical rump just as
Reagan reined in that of the Republicans.

>taxation of foreign corporations (wants foreigners doing business in
>the U.S. to pay their "share". Is Clinton so stupid too not know that
>many of them are Canadian? I doubt it.),

Most of that is smoke; they'd have to cancel tons of reciprocal tax
treaties to effect that.  Changes in accounting practices are another
thing though; Japanese have been smuggling taxable profits home by
purchasing artworks, listing them as assets, shipping them home and
then selling them on the international market to get more than what
they would have gotten after normal taxes with tax treaty filtering.
It worked until the upscale art market collapsed in the last couple
of years ...

>From the point of view of Canadian who resides in the U.S., I find 
>his health care proposals lacking (as does Consumer Reports).

It'll take them the better part of a decade to convince much of the
propogandized public here that there are other alternatives to the
present American all-private systems than British/Soviet socialized
medicine; statements like:

 Newsgroups: clari.canada.general
 Subject: <Hospitals> (TORONTO) The president of the Ontario Hospital
 Message-ID: <ChospitalsU2N41155ae@clarinet.com>
 Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 9:01:29 PST

           (TORONTO) The president of the Ontario Hospital Association
 says the juridiction of Ontario's ombudsman should NOT be extended to
 include hospitals. Dennis Timbrell has told a legislative committee
 that hospitals are NOT ``governmental'' organizations.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[remainder of article to be found in UPI's online Clarinet service]

... as well as any attempts to explain that Canada has public health
insurance but *private* health care are mere drops in an ocean.

gld
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