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...Ottawa trade officials think the prospects are slim for much auto business (yawned the Montreal Star: "Coals to Newcastle"), but they do think that Prokhorov's fellow traveling salesmen, Sergei Vishnyakov (foodstuffs and beverages) and Ivan Markelov (musical instruments, watches, toys), might have better luck. Under Canada's 2-to-1 trade pact with Russia signed last April, for every $1 worth of business the Russians drum up on their four-week tour. Canada stands to gain $2 worth of export sales...
...Russians aimed to sell, the Hong Kong traders probably aimed to buy-although no one could be sure. All Ottawa knew was that the pair-one Liu Liang, a manager for the China Resources Co. who toured Canada in 1958. and a sidekick, Yang Lu-liang-had asked for hurry-up visas last month, and were seldom seen after they arrived all but unnoticed in Montreal aboard a Trans-Canada Airlines plane...
...Canadian nickel went to Red China via Hong Kong, and Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. shipped another 1,039,800 Ibs. to China directly, boosting Canada's 1960 China trade to $20 million. But in view of China's calamitous crop losses to flood and drought, Ottawa is still betting on a major wheat sale to China -the first since Trader Liu placed a $7,000,000 wheat order...
With visions of sugar plums, Canadians eagerly awaited Finance Minister Donald Fleming's appearance before Parliament to present the government's antirecession midterm budget. EXPECT FLEMING TO CUT TAXES, the Toronto Globe and Mail headlined. PREHOLIDAY BABY BUDGET BEARS GIFTS, predicted the Ottawa Citizen. One night last week Donald Fleming stood before Commons, and in his firm baritone voice spoke for 96 minutes. The news was mostly bad. The nation will end fiscal 1960 about $300 million in the red-bringing the Diefenbaker government's deficit to $1.3 billion in 3½ years. Instead of the predicted...
...Song. Set up by Premier John Diefenbaker three months ago, the Royal Commission on Publications is headed by the Ottawa Journal's president and editor, Michael Grattan O'Leary, also includes John George Johnston, a Toronto public-relations man, and Montrealer Claude Beaubien, vice president of the Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd. The committee's assignment: to prepare, for parliamentary action, recommendations that, "while consistent with the maintenance of the freedom of the press, would contribute to the further development of a Canadian identity through a genuinely Canadian periodical press...