Comparative Terms: International Joint Commission

Comparative Terms Dept: I think in comparative terms if you look around the world we are being well economically managed. What should the goals be of the current government? Get our deficit under control. Get our expenditures under control. And encourage job growth. That s where it is. It s very simple. Complicated in its application. Very simple in its statement. That s where we ought to be, but in comparative terms, we should count ourselves fortunate, according to Montreal Gazette. I have been involved with water since 1963 when prime minister Pearson asked me to renegotiate the Columbia River Treaty with the United States. Water is absolutely essential for us. It s our best asset. We ve got to protect it. We ve got to watch our American friends on it. And I have just succeeded in persuading the International Joint Commission of the United States and Canada to come on direct surveillance of my own Lake Lake of the Woods in Ontario. Part of Manitoba. Part of Minnesota. Water is crucial. And Canadians ought not to neglect this. It is one of our great assets and postmedia parliamentary bureau chief Mark Kennedy asked the former prime minister to discuss six broad themes. Here is a verbatim transcript of John Turner s replies: On environmental protection, we need to encourage, particularly in Western Canada, our energy production. But that means a corresponding environmental surveillance. Control. Particularly with the oilsands. I m pro-oilsands but we ve got to make sure that we cut down the environmental impact. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.