CANADA: Trade with the Enemy

With its overwhelming majority in Parliament, Canada's Liberal government can quickly smother discussion of any embarrassing subject. That seemed to be the Liberal strategy last week when the Tory opposition again raised the question of the Ming Sung Industrial Co. Flying the Canadian flag, Ming Sung's five ships sail regularly from Hong Kong and Macao to Communist China, despite Canada's support of the United Nations' strategic embargo against the Chinese Reds.

Major General George Pearkes, the Tories' military critic, read a telegram from the China Officers Guild at Hong Kong reporting that the Canadian-registered, Chinese-manned Ming Sung ships were...

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