France Watches Canada Crisis Over Meech Lake Trade Ties
Le Monde fronts Canada with Threats to Canada as Meech Lake stalls. Paris business circles show indifference to constitutional crisis. investors seek euro market prospects and weigh Quebec independence impact on Hydro Quebec contracts and Canadian operations.
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Sarah Scott Southam
Paris
le Monde
Canada
Quebec
Meech Lake
Francoise Lepertier
Figaro
Gilles Loiselle
Intercontinental Hotel
Loiselle
Radio Canada
Mikhail Gorbachev
France
Gabon
Charles de Gaulle
Montreal
Francoise Labbe
France- Canada Chamber of Commerce
Lobster ruling exposes true trade frictions and sizes
The Ottawa Citizen reports a free trade panel upheld an American ban on selling small Canadian lobsters in the United States. Canadians defend stock health and criticise centimetres as crude measures, noting regional harvest rules and a growing debate over protectionism versus competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
Bush
Mulroney
United States
Gulf of St. Lawrence
U.S
John Risley
Nova Scotia
Clearwater Fine Foods
B.C
Southam News
Britain surrenders Hong Kong prospects to Beijing
A year after Tiananmen Hong Kong residents face a Beijing dictated 1997 handover with reduced rights and a tightening Basic Law. Britain appears to back down while Beijing asserts control through the PLA and anti subversion measures. public mood dims as flight abroad and capital drain rise.
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Ben Tierney
Southam
Hong Kong
Central Business
China
Tiananmen Square
Happy Valley Race Course
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher
Britain
Martin Lee
Beijing
People’s Liberation Army
PLA
Douglas Hurd
Legislative Council
Lee
Kai Tak
Canada
Australia
United States
South China Morning Post
Mao Tse-tung
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Richard McCrae
Japan
Maurice Laparra
Pechiney S.A
Becancour
Laparra
Aluminium Group
Hydro Quebec
General de Gaulle
Jacques Strack
GEC Alsthom
Lobster
Doonesbury
Garry Trudeau
Andy Lippincott
Joanie
Zhou Nan