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Chilean Workers Must Adapt, Says Chretien   
  
In an article in the January 27, 1995 Edmonton Journal, off of the wire   
service, Prime Minister Jean Chretien told Chilean trade unionists that   
they would have to adapt to the changes NAFTA would bring about   
just as "Canadian workers have".  There was no use protesting and   
fighting the inevitable, he said.  NAFTA will bring change and we all 
have to adapt.  
  
My, how times have changed since the last Federal Election when   
Jolly Jean was Mr. No-To-Nafta unless there were some major 
changes. Now he is its biggest Amigo. In fact we know that Canadian 
workers have not adapted to NAFTA or the original FTA. Contacts 
with CUT and other Chilean unions and Argentinian comrades must 
be made now.  

The Political Action Committee of CUPE Local 474, Edmonton Public  
School Custodial Workers, will be bringing forward motions to the  
Alberta Federation of Labour Convention and the CUPE Alberta  
Division Convention calling for an International Solidarity Campaign  
with Chilean unions in countering the Chretien myth that all is well in  
Canada afta nafta.   
  
        -- Eugene Plawiuk, CUPE 474  
  
Sid Shniad