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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MARCH 22, 1985
Further evidence of the Canadian economic penetration is every
where, although it is not always packaged as Canadian. Three
railroads in the United States are owned by Grand Trunk, the
American subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway.
Power
companies, from New England all the way across to Washington and
Oregon, are buying Canadian hydroelectricity in long term, mul
tibillion-dollar contracts. Canada has the free-flowing water
resources to make electricity cheaply. The United States has the
market to support the huge investments needed for the power
plants and transmission lines.
Americans need extra power in
summer to run their air-conditioners. Canadians need extra power
in winter for heat. It is all a match made in the treasurer's of
fice, if not in heaven--as long as things go well; the great 1965
power blackout in the northeastern United States actually began
in some Canadian switches••.•
Each spring, Canadian farmers, with their new combines, stream
across the border toward Texas and Oklahoma to begin an efficient
harvest-for-hire of American wheat.
By late summer, when
Canada's wheatfields are ready to cut, the machines are back home
ready for the job.... Some of New York's new subway cars are
being made in Canada. When Chrysler looked for a place to build
its new (and successful) minivan most efficiently, it chose a
Canadian factory in Windsor, Ontario. Northern Telecom, a sub
sidiary of Bell Canada, has become the second largest manufactur
er of communications equipment in North America•••• [Ambassador
College is a customer.]
The Toronto Star's sister company, Harlequin Enterprises, gained
a corner on the lucrative American market for paperback romances,
which are sold in Canadian-owned Coles Book Stores. Toronto's
Thomson newspapers own 87 daily American newspapers. Canadian
born Mortimer Zuckerman now owns two American magazines, The
Atlantic and U.S. News & World Report.
The above article was written by Andrew H. Malcolm, who spent four years as
the NEW YORK TIMES' correspondent in Toronto. It was adapted from Mr. Mal
colm's new book THE CANADIANS. That might be an interesting book to con
sider perusing. Mr. Malcolm is a very descriptive writer. Other passages
of his article were too long to quote here, but he portrays geographic con
ditions in Canada very vividly and with interesting comparisons.
With other world news a bit slow this week, I thought it would be good to
share this material about an international relationship unique in the
world, and one which North Americans themselves do not comprehend or appre
ciate to the extent they should.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau
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