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Page THE I OUTLOOK Saturday Not ember II 1MB Halton Hills OUTLOOK published each Saturday by AM Home Newspaper of A Division Canadian Newspapers Limited at tS Ontario Second Class Mall Number ST AFP Brian MacLeod Donna Kell PUBLISHER David A Beattie EDITOR ACCOUNTING Mike Turner AD MANAGER Dan Taylor Outlook Their Outlook Christmas reading MARKETING RKPHKSKNTATIVKS Caroline MacLeod JrannlnrValols Dave Hastings Sunt My lea Annie Mary lourorrmnn Marie Twos a Crowd At this season every year Cana dian publishers are accustomed an by Valerie 3M paperback A biography Cairine Wilson first woman to be appointed to the Cana dian Senate In TOO by Prime MlnUter King The daughter of a liberal senator raised In the privileged milieu of Weal- mount and married to a Member of Parliament Wilton distinguished Here are on some of the cur rent season offerings to be found In Canadian bookstores The Arctic Grail by Pierre McClelland and Stewart IT pages Berton at com fortably beyond the usual retire ment age continues his work as our preeminent popular historian with as much energy as ever His opus tells the story of the 19th- century search for the Passage and the North Pole heaps criticism upon the at Iff necked British explorers such as Sir John Franklin and gives publishers are accustomed to herself by her tireless weak or bringing forth their biggest beat of refugees and the needy mosT glittering array of aim she was one of the very few directly at the Christmas gut porary Canadian politicians to market thai the year as well they push the Nazi Germany In the frontiers aomewhat farther crisis far from Will be the year that shop- peace In our time had finally resist higher prices made tragic war Inevitable am notes on some of the cur- Trafalgar and Spanlih Navy by John llarbron publishing SI Catharines Int 1TB pages This is the an niversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada a defeat that Ihe victorious Brillsh believed had destroyed Spains naval power Author Harbron foreign affairs analyst for Thomson News Service and a former Canadian Navy of ficer shows by means of his meticulous research in Spanish ar chives that Spain In fact soon rebuilt maritime forces and was a as Sir exploration and overdue credit the New World Political theatrics Staff Comment By BRIAN MACLEOD J overdue credit the New World to the of the nameless hroughout the and neglected native people of the luriM accident that the North southwestern British Columbia perhaps Ihe most sec- Spanish tiona of The Grail are the final the British under chapters detailing the controversial Nelson again defeated American expeditions to the North armada land Spains Pole ultimately French allies lime at the claims of both of the major rival Trafalgar In the last great battle of discoverers Cmdr Peary Sail and Dr Frederick Cook although truelife of great at the height of the controversy adventure and outstanding bravery to Peary was lionuwl even by handsomely complemented by Ihe National Geographic Society of contemporary illustrations Washington on the basis of personal rnonchrome and faith and a scanty examination of Pearys even scantier records Feminist Orgaalilng for The National Geographic The Yean of Adventure and Movement In Canada by Discovery by CDB Bryan Linda Brtskln Canada pages The Is a Washington- page A based private company founded in written version of the 1888 that promotes the or of Ihe Ita magazine of the t- immedlately by 1U unchanging Canadian women front cover Of the nmke Tell your boss you need a paper shredder thats going back to my kitchen Suspicious minds Your Business Diane Haley Stork make axial change by by Andre Km by Andrew Morton Doabk4ay Canada pages A candid biography by Peary and the Society still acccpta his claim to be the first to have the lend let- ESS t terly Into apace well author lilt In le turner i wI Iwn a L iol Hl sS rth the SliSieSi sSSSSl NorlhttaaureTClhU SiuSTiJSSiJ mi an American and 1 warn tTmake a deal with you You have lota of trees and I have tou of cotton we Americans need houses and you Canadians need clothing We each want lo keep manufactur ing toba in our own country So we up an agreement to trade your juniber for my soda and long We to our federal governments snow them our deal and ask them to waive customs duties They agree figuring the in creased business will be good for both countries But Canadian sockmakers fret that I may try to undercut them by selling my socks too cheaply In Canada In the United States sawmills owners worry you might be trying lo pull a fast one on them with So they force us to promise that we wont resort to unfair tea We agree our governments agree we set up an arbitration board and the deal is struck Along comes John and saya threatens Canada- TEXTUAL EXEGESIS John of course is running for election and be needs an issue to champion Look here section B he It says no unfair sub sidies Yeah so7 The Americans could say our health system is an unfair subsidy We could say that right now if we wanted to reply but doubt anyone would listen You nod he screams Youre try ing lo tak over our country Well no actually I was just try ing to sell you a There were some interesting theatric at free trade debate between four political candidates Nov IS progressive Conservative can didate Garth Turner held up a of Caledon Springs water to make his point thai water cannot be ex ported to the US on a large scale under the free irade agreement He also had a page of the free trade agreement blown up lo live times lis normal sire and mounted on cardboard lo show the same Pierre and Liber tartan George refrained from such tneatrlcs but It was New Democrat Fern Wolf who provided the most and tell She tore up a copy of the synopsis of ihe free trade agreement much to the delight of many of the audience members But Garth Turner pounced on that He Quickly snatched up the torn cooy to place back said liberal Leader Jonn Turner will need plenty of KOtchtapelfhewlnsonNovM And the actual free trade agree ment about BOO pages long Garth But I wont ask you to tear that up he mused to Ms Wolf Let It never again be said that Canadians an apathetic when it comes to politics This election has proved that when it comes down to the crunch na tionalist spirits run high and are willing to choose up sides and fight- In Quebec a heckler at a John Turner rally was bloodied by Liberal supporters During the same meeting other hecklers were physically heaved out of Ihe hall and still another was backed into a cor ner with a barricade of political signs in his face according to ihe Globe and Mall In Western Canada a PC can didate had a bomb thrown through the window of his campaign a reading things into ln K tbe US but here in Canada Bombs and bloody faces aside there are good points to this election Its ihe first time In a while that Canadians have taken poll lies to heart and taken emotional standi reply aoacs Thats now it starts he roars First you sell us socks then Then you take all our lumber leaving us toneless standing in the You its healthcare system the Canada Penalon region tied In tl Brum am urn inordinary talent dedfcartaand at inordinary una the nth to perform United Empire Loyalists and by PSSSS JEST fishermen anTmerdinU from the fL wipwtlve account of his excellence will be with the advent OrillPacket ndTlmw ta tree that grow by the roadside and the very air we breathe has Ihla Democracy depends Became you electorate jwm Because you rnenT does not protect social But its a trade chip in How can a Irade reauui I arent there you say try ing to reason with him This Is trade pact not Book of Ha he fumes stomping off to carry the word to Ihe people No use I say shaking my head His mind is made up Besides theonlylssuebesgot As cohunnlst Peter Cook writes ln The Globe and Mall IWs la what happens to people who acquire ins tant knowledge on arcane subjects From such an Instant and mlraculoui c It to only a short step toward becoming a mile fanatical Somehow we have to free ourselves from fanaticism and lilt the political up from the and that has dominated Ihla ejection cara- the advent oniiia Packet andTimesta a J1rt programs and with ILtto TV Images of an out- writer with Tbe famllton SSlefliilanoo for Sat matte side world that almost When we the people unable to Judge an Issue tensely suspicious of our Suspicion does not make find ourselves Mw people are becoming involv ed toheawTpoUUcal debates for Ihe first time in election In tbe riding some allcandidates meetings have become raucous on free nothing wrong heckling or at these meetings- It means Canadians feel actually playing a part in the democratic process this election have I beard the familiar refrain that goes I dlfftjrence between three parties expecting a heavy turnout on a minority wSwiil lumpen to the free trade agreement if that happens anyones guess