CANADA AND U.K.

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33092, 6 December 1972, Page 19

CANADA AND U.K.

Trudeau is confident (N.Z.P.A.'Reuter—Copyright > LONDON, Dec 5. The Canadian Prime Minister (Mr Trudeau) has expressed confidence that the British Government will bear Canada's trading interests firmly in mind when Britain joins the European Common Market next month. “I don't seek any specific assurances from Britain such as New Zealand has, but I think we are rather certain that the Canadian point of view will be respected,” he told a press conference after two days of talks with the British Prime Minister (Mr Heath) and several Cabinet Ministers. More than half of Canada’s trade with Britain — amounting last year to more than slooom — will lose the benefit of preferential tariffs when Britain enters the Common Market on January 1. Mr Trudeau said Mr Heath had appeared confident that the enlarged Common Market would not be inward-looking. Mr Trudeau also said that Canada would take part in a Vietnamese cease-fire control commission only if all four interested parties invited her to do so. Both South Vietnam and the South Vietnamese Provisional Revolutionary Government would have to agree to Canadian participation, as well as Washington and Hanoi.