Canadian Policy

As a delegate to the recent Liberal Party of Canada’s national policy convention, I feel it is important to answer your editorial (DEc. 4), “Disaster in the Making.”

The Liberal Party’s “swing to the left” may indeed be “worrisome” to those who see the world forever divided into two nuclear armed camps--capitalist and communist. For those who derive great economic benefit from the ever-expanding military-industrial complex, the possibility of Canada along with Britain, West Germany and New Zealand becoming much more independent of U.S. defense policy is, no doubt, even more terrifying than the prospect of a nuclear war itself.

However, those of us who live in Canada are well aware that we are the “meat in the sandwich” between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. Such a reality leads those of us who contribute to future government policy to conclude that we wish no further foreign militarization of our nation.

JOHN V. CONROY

Stratford, Ontario