Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 17, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba G Winnipeg free november Brazil straddles the economic by Peter Smith special to the free press it is better to be the head of a Chicken than the Tail of a this intriguing Oriental proverb is the reply a source from the permanent Mission of Brazil to the United nations gave to a question about whether South Ameri Cas giant saw itself As a developing or developed the question arose from brazils ambiguous position Over the past few highlighted at the recent Cancun on the North South Dia at times Brazil has seemed to see itself As still need ing the privileged Access to developed markets achieved through the United nations conference on Trade and development and general agreement on tariffs and Trade Gatt Mecha As Well As special treatment from the world at other and with increasing frequency it claims developed aligning itself with Northern nations on eco nomic Brazil sees advantages in having feet in both one ques is How Long the world will allow such ambivalence to go there Are growing Indi for that a with brazils claim to third world status is wearing a further question is How Long Brazil will be Able to straddle the Fence before the Price becomes too when will support of Southern goals begin seriously to Compromise its drive to world Power status when prime minister Pierre tru Deau visited Brazil last january to promote the North South he encountered scepticism from the local press about the likelihood that any thing could be done to ease the chronic plight of the worlds poorest that May have in because Trudeau was much better at describing the problem than proposing solutions any More specific than the creation of a new world economic reporters questions suggested Brazil is much More interested in keeping the current world economic because it is profiting so handsomely from press conferences were devoted in the main to discussions of bilateral relations and particularly Trade in specific commodities Between Brazil and brazilians wanted assurances that their for sex which compete with de Havil lands commuter dash would be allowed into and that such items As shoes and textiles would not face higher customs questions about the new economic order were asked out of not two recent conferences neatly demonstrate brazils ambivalence Over where she fits into today at the International monetary fund an Nual meeting in Brazil sharply rejected a proposal that along with nine other develop ing be graduated out of the world thus losing the special financial credits enjoyed with the rest of the third brazilian spokes me pointed out that a Large Gap still existed Between the most advanced of the developing nations and the industrialized As shown by per capita wryly commented one fought for the right to stay in in on the other Brazil gave the impression that it saw it self As a developed if not of the first at least close to such Middle Powers As West Austria and while paying lip service to Southern Brazil moved clearly Bra Zil sympathized with the Canadian and position that the North South Logue should take place through special outside the which is dominated by Southern have not a Brazil aligned itself with the developed world on financial refusing to be cast in the role of spokesman for the South Brazil has consistently refused to chair the group of the underdeveloped Vene by whose per capita income is close to has become a leading advocate of the Southern that the Cancun conference took place at All was its main in the official View of its representatives said that they had not expected any dramatic change in the world order from the but that the conference had sown the seeds for the inevitable changes that must be made to the system created a Genera Tion ago by the Bretton Woods and Gatt while such state ments Echo the sentiments of the brazils actions at the conference tended to belie one demand that the South has consistently made of the North is that it reduce if not then on specific to allow Access to developed As a developing has taken an approach toward nations on this question consistent with that of the North it will not lower tariffs but will negotiate bilateral it is particularly willing to open lines of credit with specific to enable them to Purchase brazilian the future will certainly see Brazil acknowledge that it has graduated from the although it will at tempt to portray itself As a loped country for As Long As it can sustain the the brazilian Mili Public and diplomatic corps would doubtless like to see Brazil As a Leader of the third but its economic self interest will work against such one Factor that will Force Brazil to align itself with the South in the next few years is its heavy Reliance on imported the strongly pro Arab policy it adopted As a result of specs emergence As a Cartel a few years ago will continue until brazils strenuous efforts to produce substitutes Bear but would Brazil support the forma Tion of cartels in raw materials that it does not Export surely since not Only would brazilian industries have to pay More for but such cartels would damage the industrialized nations upon which Brazil relies for in would Brazil be willing to adhere to third world rules regulating foreign investment and the operations of multinational corporations since it won its enormous amount of for eign investment by offering better terms than nations trying to uphold such Brazil has already demonstrated that it can handle foreign investors on its own and would thus not be interested in restricting its Peter Smith teaches history at the University of College in Waterloo and wrote Oil and poli tics in modern Pierre Trudeau and Lopez Portillo co chaired Ottawa Way of producing inertia by Dalton Camp although the Federal government is no longer at War with the prov inces Over the there Are still enough conflicts left to keep a War correspondent possibly the most serious one is the War within the Feder Al government you and i have no idea How the Federal planners go about making plans but it seems obvious one of the things they do not do much is speak to one As a for every Federal initiative there is another initiative to negate it and the product of both is for the feds Are offering incentives to Power producers in cer Tain provinces to switch from imported Oil to Domestic Coal thereby reducing Canadian dependency upon offshore Energy the problem with this is that it would also increase considerably the production of acid which another Arm of the Feder Al government is anxious not to the simple solution to the problem is for the Power producers to scrubbers in their Coa burning but then the problem is that the scrub when would take care of the acid rain but at a Cost which would leave the Power producers worse off than if they had stuck with using imported we have convinced our selves that the Best the Only Way to combat inflation is by reducing the expenditures of the Feder Al but one of the problems with the kind of inflation we have is the one of which is both acute and and the Basic prob Lem of the unemployed is their Lack of marketable when the government does its ritual Observance of cos cutting it puts the knife seems poised to do so into its budget for pos secondary which is the Only reliable source capable of pro Viding marketable skills for those who Are without Ottawa correspondent Richard Gwyn reported the other Day that he knew of a Brahman planner in the nations Capi Tal who had the solution to our economic problems which was to move two million canadians from one part of the country where opportunities for work were to another where they were it is of that if you hang out with that crowd Long enough you will hear Al most and after you have heard a lot of anything sounds but As someone else the Federal government did fight tooth and claw to have mobility rights entrenched in the Constitution he believed there had been much method in that at the same while canadians Are now guaranteed the right to move about the country to look for work with modest it is becom ing obvious that few of them will be Able to go by the Knif wielders have been at it again it cannot be Mere coincidence that it is precisely in those areas of highest unemployment the Mari times they have stuck it to the rail transportation system which is the favored Means of apart from for those of lesser the governments transportation policy is a Model of elitist working wonders for the balance and working hardship on those who need transportation throughout lengthy debate on the there has been a rising chorus from the press and some politicians urging the Federal government to drop the postpone or Settle so As to get on with dealing with the really important issues which Are so important i need not even delineate listening to this made me uneasy in the first the Constitution was truly one of those rare issues which the govern ment could do something about in the second the really important issues Are largely those about which the government can truly do Little or the uneasiness comes from the fear that the government does have the natural Talent to make a bad situation now that it is Able to give the Economy its undivided at this is not necessarily because this or any is but because the economic problems Are so having been sold the Bill of goods labelled the positive Vir tues of reduced the govern ment has been obliged to cast about for selected and its function has become no longer in the interest of but in the interest of now that the constitutional dispute has been there will be a resumption in the activities of the planners and greater priority Given to our More profound do not bet on things getting any just Pray that they do not get that much in the array of future pos Sibili the one of accidental inertia May be the Best Canada wide feature service Bell Howell slide cube projector Auto focus Bonus offer Bell Howell pocket camera with Eracli 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