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The Rural Voice, 1988-09, Page 87KING SEED'" STOR SEED CLEANING SERVICE OFMA TILLAGE PARTS ,rrrii. new-Iif feeds c4-.- JEROME FEED & SEED Lucknow (opposite the sale barn) 519-528-2447 USED BUILDING MATERIALS • Wood & steel beams • Steel pipe • Windows & doors • Boilers & furnaces • Electric transformers • Fluorescent lights Large Quantity USED STEEL 6 x 6" H -Beam 14 -ft. long Open web steel joists 20 ft. long 12' I -Beam 20' & 24' long Lumber: 2 x 4's up to 9 ft., 50¢ ea. 2 x 4's up to 14 ft. long, $1 ea. For Information and Demolition Quotes Call LIMITED 1-800-265-3062 519-369-3203 Warehouse and Sales Yard Located 5 Km South of Durham on Hwy. 6 10 THE RURAL VOICE FREE TRADE: VOTERS DO REMEMBER I've been accused of being too abrasive in my columns, but this time around I want to start off, at least, by apologizing: to the reader, to editor Sheila Gunby, and finally to the own- ers of air -conditioners who I'm curs- ing for their good sense. To you the reader, I apologize for forging ahead this sweltering August 16 evening with my topic — free trade — without knowing the outcome of the parliamentary debate on the trade bill. I'm watching the debate on cable in my non -air-conditioned home. It's obvious that the debate won't be over in time for me to know the outcome, though the outcome is obvious given the lopsided government majority. To Sheila, I apologize for being two days late in meeting the Rural Voice deadline. Thanks for letting me be late; I was trying. So much for the apologies. Now I feel cleansed enough that I can get back to my abrasive style. To you, John Crosbie, court jester entrusted with chuckling this Canada - U.S. trade bill by the Canadian people: when I saw you earlier this week on CTV, you were more nasty than funny. You were ridiculing free -trade detractors with no humour at all. And apparently you still hadn't read the full deal yet. We all remember your comment earlier this summer that you really didn't have to read it. What arrogance. What stupidity. Just so you don't think this column is anti -Tory, I haven't much good to say for Ontario Liberal Premier David Peterson. To you David Peterson: I'm disturbed to read that your government accepts the deal as a fait accompli. You had better not roll over and play dead after promising earlier this year you'd fight this deal. Some fight! Voters do remember. At this point folks, it would appear that we, Canadians, are going to be left to carry the ball. I just hope that by the time this denunciation is published Prime Minister Muldoon, a one-time free -trade detractor, will have called an election so that we, the great unwashed, will have our say. The American Congress has had its say. It likes the deal. This should be a warning alarm in itself. Anyone who believes both countries would be winners should this deal pass would also believe Fantasy Island is a stop on a South Seas cruise, not a TV show. The day before this historic parliamentary debate in Canada, Ronald Reagan implored Americans to do it one more time "for the Gipper" by voting for George Bush. My guess is that Americans have had enough of Reagan's confusing reality with his B -movie roles, and will vote for Dukakis instead. But here in Canada, there's every indication that Brian Mulroney will do what the American people won't. Mulroney will do it for the old Gipper, and at the same time do it to the Canadian people and their children and grandchildren. Brian Mulroney has given every indication that he intends to sell Can- adians down the river, and according to non-partisan observers the free - trade deal will sell the river itself. If there's one good side to this summer's drought, it is that it has focussed the attention of Canadians and Americans on water. Canadians have it, Americans don't — and they want it. But that isn't all the Americans want. They want oil, they want to dilute our social programs, they want ... they want ... they want! And if Brian Mulroney gets his way, the Americans will get ... get ... get!O Gard Wainman has been an urban - based agriculture reporter for 13 years.