In previous item I noted that CKWX in Vancouver was using a British Anglia truck for its remote broadcasts in 1953. Canada was still close to the Commonwealth.
In 1965 the first “free trade” treaty began the process of dismantling Canadian sovereignty and pulling Canada away from the Sovereign. Here’s the CKWX truck in 1966:
’59 Chevy, not even a Cheviac.
The same 1966 magazine was starting to worry about the effects of the surrender.
= = = = = START 1966 QUOTE:
Canadian unity – two words which are most likely to be heard at a political meeting, in the House of Commons, at service clubs and other meetings – have a great bearing on the country’s growth and prosperity. Like the weather, they are worried about as a national problem but nobody ever does anything concrete about them.
In the area of advertising, there is a great deal that is pertinent to this subject because the nationál distribution of goods, spurred by the various media, creates a very basic sort of unity, and the greater the distribution the greater the unity. Unfortunately advertising people, in every branch of the craft, do not always measure up as the masters of communications they are supposed to be, with the result that by the use of inappropriate copy they often widen the gulf rather than bring two or more segments of the country closer together in understanding.
= = = = = END QUOTE.
Now Canadians are finally getting serious about recovering their unity. Amazingly they’re even breaking out of Gaian orthodoxy, thinking about building more refineries, west-east pipelines, and west-east power transmission grids.
Long overdue and highly refreshing!
Polistra's Mill 