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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: CBOT FILM LIBRARY

1993-0182

Film

1 of 1

1961-12-05

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

producer, Patrick Watson; sound, Claude Bennett; host, Davidson Dunton; interviewer, Tom Gould; Dylan O'Leary; A. Robert Smith; associate producer, Edmund Reid

This program consists of an interview with W.A.C. Bennett regarding his refusal to go along with the Columbia River Treaty which was signed with the United States that same year. The treaty deals with "downstream benefits" from the river which the federal government wants to split in the form of power with the United States giving British Columbia a source of cheap energy. Premier Bennett wants to sell all the power to the United States for hard cash.~The panel consists of: Tom Gould of the Victoria Daily Times; Dylan O'Leary of the Toronto Star; and A. Robert Smith of the Portland Oregonian.~Questions include: Do you think the 5-year contract offered by the federal government is reasonable? Hasn't the federal government agreed to pay half the costs of setting up dams on the Columbia? Is there a market for the power at the price you want in the United States?

English

Libre

GAD 0FD547

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