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Customer appreciation at Fred's Fruit Market CATHOLIC TEACHERS Principal s and vice-principals belong in bargaining unit In a letter to education minister Davre Johinson, thie president of Ontario's Catholic Principals' Council Jimr Bymne urges the minister not to, "place principal teacli- ers and classroom teachers on opposite sides of the fence", by removing themr from the collective bargaining unit, the gsovernment will "institlutionralize the potential for divisiveness" in school communities. Bymre notes that Jolinson, perhaps more than any other person in Ontario, must be Fred Obrist, of Fred's Fruit bound lanes of the 115/35 a versatile variety ofe fruit, Market pours fresh apple since 1966. that looks good and tastes eider for customers Keith and Fred's offers many new good either firesh or cooked. Sue Bumnstead. The apple and some rare varieties of Along with the free apple cider is made on the premis- apples and pears. One vari- cider, and a 10% discount on es. ety of pears on sale did flot Saturday, Fred's also offered Fred bas been operating have a name yet. Fruit breed- Apple Bobbing for the kids. bis fruit market on the nortb ers are constantly looking for FROM PARLIAMEN' HILL Alex Shepherd The Multilateral Agreement on investinent (MAI) pray tell what is that! As the months unfold you will hear all kinds of dis- paraging remarks about the MAI. I've had the opportunity to publicly debate the MAI with Maude Barlow who rep- resents the. Council of Canadians and Tony Clarke representing the Polaris Institute. Along with the NDP they are the main sabre rat- tlers in the issue. The MAI is an agreement being negotiated by Canada and its 28 partners in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The essence is to not treat foreign investm-ent any differently than we treat domestic investors. How Is this going to affect you the public. The answer is precious littie. Many complaints about the MAI are a re-hash of the NMFTA debate. I was not a supporter of NAFTA although my reasons differ from many of the functional opponents. While I am a believer in free trade I thouglit NAFTA reset the stage too quickly. For example governments who would benefit from increased taxes via trade didn't want to pay for increasing job training skills for those who would be dislocated. I am sure many people in Durham can relate to how costly this lias been. In any case this is history and we have got to get what advan- tages there are out of these agreemnents. Now back to the MAI. Over 80 per cent of our trade is with the U.S. The balance is with European countries for which bilateral agreements already exist. In other wiords the debate about MAI is much to do about nothifng. Who's agenda is the MAI and why is it important to negotiate this agreement? From what 1 can see it is the agenda of the U.S. Many members of their corporate sector want to open new avenues of foreign invest- ment. (And for those of you who haven.'t noticed many American corporations are already here). MAI lias little applicability in Canada because the objec- tives have already been attained under NAFTA. The only signatory we do not have competent trade agreements with would be Korea. We have very little trade wth them rel- ative to our total trade. Why aren't we negotiating strong labour and environ- mental standards? This is alI nonsense. The MAI isn't about these issues. What It is about is how we treat foreign investors as opposed to Canadian. Therefore the regulatory framework in the areas of labour and the environment will remain unchanged. Surely we do not want to Impose Whler labour law or environmental standards on foreign-owned companies as opposed to Canadian compa- nies. None of the provisions of the MAI would result ln us locking in our environmental standards, that îs keeping them at a standstill, or even rolling them back to, lower standards. Indeed if we want to say tomorrow that no environ- mental degradation shaîl be allowed that will be the law of the land as long as it applies equally to domestic and foreign owners. Caniada will insist that we retain protections for our cul- tural indlustry as we did in NMFTA. As well our fmnancial services sector are not part of the MAI. 1 am sure we are going to hear a great deal about MAI over the next few months. Most of it will be erroneous. Don't seîl the farm. fully aware of the devastatlng and lasting consequences which ensue from a break- down of communication and goodwill". 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