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IWv A iosn Wilbur presents brief at local Trade forum 6-Oroho Weekly Times, Wednesday Marg Wilbur, Ed. Broadbent plus representatives from farm and labour organizations expressed concern concern over the effects of Free Trade on Canadians. The forum was organized by Ontario's Ontario's Federation of Labour at the Holiday Inn in Oshawa at 7:30 p.m. April 28, 1987, and featured many briefs from agriculture, labour and* business. Sponsored by the Ontario Federation of Labour, Tuesday, April 28, 1987. The provincial constituency of Durham East represents approximately approximately 60,000 people. It consists of the Town of Newcastle, the Township of Scugog, everything north of Taunton Road in Oshawa ; and Whitby; all these areas being in Durham Region, and of the Township of Manvers in the Coun- •ty of Victoria. It is an area which is undergoing rapid change as pressures for further urban development increase. The automotive industry GM and the many feeder plants, is a major employer. There is also an important important agricultural sector. If agriculture and the automobile industry industry are not healthy everyone in the regions suffers, including the many people employed in the stores and services found in the towns, villages and rural routes throughout Durham East You will hear from others this evening about the specifics of the effect of free trade on agriculture and the Autopact if these are on the bargaining table. The impact on the riding of Durham East would obviously obviously be major. I have attended a number of meetings recently in which farmers have expressed their concerns about the future of various aspects of agriculture, particularly the fate of the supply management system. What has disturbed me in listening to these concerns is the whole question question of the process by which the Canadian government has worked towards free trade. No one seems to be able to get a straight answer about what exactly is on the table. I have heard Conservative M.P.s trying trying to reassure their audience that certain things will not be bargained but those present do not seem to be prepared to accept these reassurances. With complete justification, it seems to me, farmers continue to. express mistrust of, the Federal Government, Government, and Prime Minister Mulroney. Representatives of workers in the automobile industry believe that the Autopact will be subject to negotiation. negotiation. We are told that we must take everything on faith. But there is not nor will there be an adequate period of time to discuss the actual terms of a treaty that may easily have a devastating affect on our community. We. are expected to rely on the US Congress when the fast-track process takes place. That is not good enough. I believe that the people of Durham East are not just concerned àbout their own jobs. Questions about cultural and political sovereignty, about the effect of free trade on social services, on unemployment insurance, on medicare, on pensions also are important important to people in this area. 1 am particularly concerned about the possibility of increasing privitiza- tion in the health care field which might take place with a free trade agreement. Nursing homes, hospitals etc. should not be operated on the profit motive as many are in the U.S. We should be looking at trade with all countries. The dairy industry's industry's trade is not with the U.S. Free trade in this sector would mean the industry in our area would be wiped out. We should explore sectoral free trade using the Autopact as a good example of. the kind of agreement we want. On March 4 in the "Canadian Statesman", the Bowmanville weekly newspaper, the Chief Administrative Administrative Officer of Newcastle, Mr. Kotseff, addressed the local Chamber of Commerce. 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