https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/d119f19ebe3a9433e4a6d4fb0a158a9d.pdf a80ebce25d32092f0ee07044c88dbcb5 PDF Text Text Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act • gjZ-<7 '^.XXM' EXTERNAL AFFAIRS AFFAIRES EXrtRJEURES MEMORANDUM TO SECURITY U. S. A. Division FROM De DATE D. L. <l) Division REFERENCE Mfftence 2CONEIDEN33.AL . February l6„ 196?, NUMBER Numiro Your memorandum of February 13, 19&7. SUBJECT s "'*' FILE OTTAWA 10th Session of Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group Proposed Agenda , r 1 MISSION ENCLOSURES Annexet DISTRIBUTION DOSSIER xn-n-X- ' 3V . „ The following are our comments on the agenda items -which affect the work of this Division: (a) Defence Production Sharing ' *77t7l, fc*£7~n*2^-*s Disarm.'/ Economic Far Easter! 1 U. Nv •" A. & K. E. : Ext. Aid . (Hr.Drake I Legal It seems to us that defence production sharing isAhe last item which should be raised in an interparliamentary group comprising united States parliamentarians. The sharing arrangements have been for a long time a favourite target of U.S. Senators and Congressmen vho seldom miss an opportunity to raise publicly the question why the U.S.A. has to give contracts to Canadian firms in the defence field. The tempt ation for U.S. parliamentarians to question the arrangements could be J particularly great at this time since we expect that the balance in favour of Canada for the year 1966 will be more than $300 million. Furthermore, as you are aware, the Government-is presently under pressure to ban all exports of arms to the U.S. for the duration of the war in Vietnam. ., • Mr.Langley E (b) 1 ..j. 0 NATO •'•••• "'". ' r r Vie agree that NATO could be proposed by the Canadian side as an-agenda item for the" meeting. The following aspects of NATO of joint interest to both sides could come up for discussion under such an item: (i) He-orientation bf NATO as an instrument for promoting peaceful settlement-in Europe; (ii) Question of maintaining troops in Europe. \c) North American Defence '••-•'•'••'"• • . . .,, .'••'. We would think that NATO and North American defence should be separated since they involve problems of quite a different nature. North American defence at this juncturedevolves around the question of. Whether we should allow the NORAD Agreement to lapse in May 1968 or whether we should renew it with or without amendment.. Vet••,!**#& ..2 Ixl. 407C/BII. (Admin. Servlcai Div.) 000268 �- f Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act 2 « . D o c u m e n t divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information We have been instructed by Cabinet to express at this stage no views one way or the other vdth regard xo any "s^gSFtioiPthat. might be made concerning the extension of the NORAD Agreement either in duration or in responsibilities and activities. It is clear therefore that there is little guidance we could give our Parliamentarians for a discussion on NORAD and we have serious doubts that the Government would welcome a discussion by this group at this stage. W© share the misgivings expressed by our Disarmament Division in their memorandum of February 1**. We agree that a general discussion of a the ABM question might quickly turn to the implications for Canada of U.S. deployment* and this would not be advantageous for the issue at least until our position has become clear. One of the main reasons why our position is not clearer is because we have little knowledge of U.S. plans for possible deployment and consequently little knowledge of possible implications of a decision to deploy by the U.S. on Canadian territory and air spaed. Bilateral consultations with the U.S. will be required and it would be advantageous for Canada that they take place in a serene atmosphere without pressure from a heated public opinion. „.We recognize on the other hand that the ABM question offers a wide scope for discussion and that its North American aspects could be subordinated' to or diluted within the global political repercussions including those on U.S,A*-Soviet relations which the decision to deploy could entail. We would therefore 'conclude, as Disarmament Division did, that while the Canadian side should not put forward the ABM question for discussion we could accept it as an agenda item if the U.S.A. side requests it. f~^e) U.Rr Peacekeeping The U.S,.contributes military personnel to only one U.N, peacekeeping operation (the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine). However, the U.S. is a major financial contributor to U.N. peacekeeping operations and provides strong political support for these operations. It has also been providing strong support for the current efforts, in which Canada has been playing a leading role,, to improve the organization's capability to mount effective peacekeeping operations in the future. While U,N. peacekeeping is not therefore a question of U.S..- Canada bilateral, relations, we see advantage in this question being discussed at the meeting. This would emphasize the important role Canada is making in this field and the joint interest of both countries in continuing to provide full support for the U,N.*s peacekeeping activities. J. 3. NUTT D. 1, (1) Division. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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