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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A10 Shii Phi Fri Imp 2001 comment editor Terence Moore fw7imi Ca editorials Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights a different drummer when Manitoba aviator Ray Henault takes Over As chief of the defence staff next succeeding Maurice he will Start leading a military Force that has changed dramatically in a Short period of it has changed because War has changed and because Canadas View of itself has changed and its military intentions have it will fall to Henault to show the country what further changes Are needed to give Canada a useful role in the military alliances to which it War has changed because the military technology of the leading military Powers has become More sophisticated and the leading Industrial countries Are rarely willing to accept the major campaigns of the last dozen years were fought under Leader ship with heavy Reliance on air Power to destroy the enemy command and control Power communications and transport so As to keep the attackers casual ties to a the persian Gulf War drove the iraqi invaders out of Kuwait but left sad dam Hussein and his government in command of the Kosovo Campaign broke Serbia hold on Kosovo but left Slobodan Milosevic in control of these examples suggest that War now is less dangerous and less fought with few casualties on our Side and without destroying the these shifts have coincided with a shift in Cana Das expectations of its armed Canada Dis solved its airborne the unit prize for its exceptional when the Public Learned that some members of the besides killing a civilian prisoner in had glorified violence and held crudely racist during Canadian operations in the the country was scandalized to learn that Canadian sol Diers might have had sexual Contact with local civil Ian women and might have consumed alcohol in the strict rules were Laid Down forbidding sexual contacts and the Canadian armed forces came to look a Little less like an organization for applying deadly Force and a Little More like a sum Mer youth Camp for Young ladies and some members of the military have responded Well to the cultural others have found it at least Canadas role is being reshaped by the globalization of Trade and investment and by the gradual return of Central and Eastern european countries to their Western connections through nato and the european it May be reshaped still further if the United states designs and builds a missile defence system that can make this continent Invulnerable to air Canada can play a role in this reshaping if it is a significant military player whose voice is heard with respect in nato and in the North american aerospace defence Canada should pull its weight in nato and in Norad in order to speak up for Canadian values and principles and in order to keep the world As Safe As possible for the works of Henault should propose to the country and the government the kind and size of military Force that will earn the country the respect it terrible reminder was it the catholics or was it the protestants no one can say for what is known is that this week saw the worst violence in Northern Ireland in the three years since the Good Friday peace agree ment was the Hope created by that so tenuously reached Between protestant and Catholic factions and brokered by the British had faded considerably even before this weeks Mili Tants on both sides terrorists on both sides have repeatedly derailed negotiations that were to entrench a bipartisan kind of Home Rule to the most recent violence took place in the Catholic Ardoyne District of by the throwing of stones at Catholic school girls by militant it escalated from that to riots in which police were assaulted by More than 100 fire bombs from both sides of the protestant Catholic each Side blames the John Britain senior official in Northern said the violence was a reminder to All of us of what is at stake in this peace that begun in has never gone smoothly and now seems in danger of failing if it it will not be for want of David the protestant Leader of Ulster provision Al risked his political career if not his life to reach a Compromise with his Catholic moderate catholics have taken even greater risks with their lives in an attempt to find common ground with protestant on both Are the so called hard men who will Brook no who try at every Opportunity to renew the sectarian violence that has plagued Ulster for More than 30 they do not represent the people of but they will try to prevent them from reaching a Compro the Best efforts of the British the government of the Republic of the United states and the european Union will not bring peace to Northern that will Only happen when the people of Ulster turn their backs on the hard men and embrace each its eating locket tue great leg room Wev got the Fly tar generation conc Idhaw disappearance of erasing Border the prospects of a hollowed out Canada Are very it is an Issue that requires close this int the fevered rhetoric of some left Wing but a sober report by the conference Board of commissioned by Industry the titled restructuring in a glob Al Economy is corporate Canada being hollowed out was writ ten by Derrick who talked to 14 senior executives at major Canadian companies Over the course of a although Only six per cent of the top corporate members of the conference Board have left in recent almost half of those interviewed said their Headquarters were More than 50 per cent Likely to be transferred out of the country during their even in Small Hynes the hollowing out effect can have a major As head offices and senior manage ment a Host of Good jobs spin out with these Are career opportunities for mid level including jobs in research and administrative mar advertising and Legal and accounting their departures create an Ever widening Ripple in the nations economic Pool As demand diminishes for Canadian Law management advertising Agen Market research computer soft Ware and service packaging design and graphics companies and the creative firms that produce to commercials and new although the conference Board would never put it so the implication of the report is that Canada is on the Road Back to colonial Sta the report fuelled both sides of the global Trade those in the Busi Ness Community and business press said it proved their warnings about Canadas brain Drain and the pressing need for Canada to bring its tax and regulatory regimes into line with those in the to remain but the other View was articulated in an Arti Cle by David senior economics editor with the Toronto Crane pointed out the process was inevitable once Canada signed the free Trade agreement in As opponents of the Deal warned and Many will remember the dramatic Liberal and in the 1988 election Campaign showing an Eraser rub Bing out the Border businesses restructured along not National to serve a single Continental Market rather than two or three National in the first three years of the Canada lost nearly 25 per cent of its manufacturing some mainly in As the pacts opponents the restructuring has almost always been to the advantage of the As the dominant in this often Means while Canada continues to a Foo process ing or consume goods key corporate functions Are handled out of a North american Crane separate corporate entities serving National markets have been replaced by a single corporate entity with a vertical allocation of functions distributed Between the and the Auto Industry illustrates the mexicans make Many of the canadians do much of the Assembly and americans do the research and product design and financing and allocation of the Hierarchy of jobs and career opportunities is Clear for All to Over this dumb ingrown impacts Canadas living standards and Quality of not to mention the value of its says Crane there is a loss to Canadas tax reduced corporate donations of both Money and Volunteer time diminished prestige of Canada As a global player and the potential erosion of distinctive Canadian augmenting the natural Market forces Mak ing the economic Empire a self reinforcing Magnet attracting Ever More capital and brains is another phenomenon the personal prefer ence of the people at the the report cited an interview with the pres ident of a foreign owned firm in Canada that had been exceeding every performance Mea the american ceo decided he wanted most of the Canadian divisions key people with him in the leaving a figure head to provide the illusion of a significant Canadian continued the report the Canadian presi dents entire senior operating team was moved to the the president now serves in name merely playing a role within the people in the make All the strategic decisions for the Canadian that image of the erased Border was Prophet its a win win for the globalization the greater the integration the More com Pelling will be the logic to drive it deeper and As former Trade representative Clayton Yeutter said in 1989 the canadians dont know what Treyve in 15 be sucked into the d frus8ell@8scape.ca Ive got a Bridge i can sell you when they announced this week that they had gone Down a mine in Sudbury and found some i asked what was wrong with the old that shows you How much i know about particle they had to go Down a mine in Sudbury to find neutrinos because those particular subatomic particles come from the that makes Doest it a team of British and scientists built themselves a spherical acrylic tub 40 feet across and filled it with tons of heavy water for is much heavier than tons of no heavy this contraption was installed in a huge cavity in an old mine Shaft underneath Sud then the scientists stood around watching for neutrinos to drop into the this sounds nutty to those of us who dont know what a neutrino but it made perfect sense to the they Tell Are much smaller than unlike elec they have no electric Many authors have supposed that they had no we who Are not physicists were asked to believe that there was a kind of particle that had no mass and no electric charge and was too Small to observe but still should be consid ered a they Are so Small and so insubstantial that they can go they originate in the thermonuclear reactions that Are constantly going on inside the Sun and they Are constantly passing through our our even through our most of the particles streaming out of the Sun Are too big to penetrate the earths but the neutrinos just slide right in Between the atoms and molecules of which the Earth is if you get particles dropping into your tub of heavy water at the Bottom of a mine in you can be sure they Are neutrinos because nothing else would pass through the the Point under debate among physicists had been the numbers and kinds of neutrinos you would find splashing into your tub of heavy water if you attempted such an the Sudbury group now has its answer and it it was announced this that the number of neutrinos arriving was just what some theoreticians had predicted years so Long As you suppose that a certain proportion of the neutrinos had changed from one form to another As they travelled toward this proved that they had changed and this in turn proved that neutrinos have mass so much mass that they May account for 95 per cent of the total mass of the i am for this summary of the on the writings of Able and distinguished Sci ence writers for leading who must be right because they All say pretty much the same i confess that the thread of the reasoning escapes but i am intrigued by the rapid promotion of a family of particles which last week had no mass at All and this week accounts for perhaps 95 per cent of the mass of the particles which Are omnipresent around us and inside us and pass through us so smoothly and silently that we Are unaware of their i am used to thinking that if a thing i should be Able to touch it or perceive it in some other if you Tell me that this thing exists but i cannot perceive i am immediately suspicious that you Are Selling me a Bill of particle physics has been Selling us Bills of neutrino Detector is installed at Sudbury goods along these lines for half a Century announcing the discovery of new particles every now and not because anyone saw such a particle but because its existence would be convenient As a Way of explaining experimental observations that did not perfectly Square with the received i am glad of the news from the tub of heavy water below because it brings me a Long step closer to perceiving a if it turns out that it was just grains of Sand dropping off the ceiling of the mine Shaft and splashing in the i shall be terribly i want Neu Trinos to i want them to have but the world still awaits practical applications of this new i expect someone to announce soon that the neutrinos passing through us Are doing terrible damage to our i expect to see ads on to for neutrino umbrellas made from amazing materials that will shelter us from neutrino bombardment and thereby add years to our if i dont see such a scam launched i shall have to launch it o tfrry.moore@fr0fpress.mb.ci Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free presses 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 t vol 129 h0192 2001 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson Canada limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain Manitoba r2x pm 6977000 a i Nuoto Pimp Cwm Rudy email Nicholas Flynn Depipi editor ;