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A memorandum to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on international economic policy. Past & potential transformational changes in the areas of trade, capital markets, currency/exchange rates, labor flows, & development assistance are assessed in terms of success, viability, or lack thereof. The possibilities of a Canada-US customs union, a North American common market, & a trade agreement with the EU are considered. Challenges in reshaping immigration policy, especially in the aftermath of September 11 (2001), & in transformation of development aid, are described. Last, Canada's commitment to a liberal economic policy -- "liberal" in its 19th-century "laissez-faire" sense -- is affirmed, & proposals are offered for policies that accord with this liberalism. 1 Table. K. Coddon

Crow's recent article concerning strategy assimilates the concept almost entirely to the more or less rational (Crow 1989). Beginning with an example of a strategy taken from Weber, an argument is advanced suggesting that this suppresses important forms of `inference' that may be typical elements in the production of strategies. Specifically, these concern symbolic or figurative relations that can be held to obtain between a strategy and the ends to which it is addressed. Two further examples are discussed which suggest that this form of symbolic relation may be present in widely divergent situations in which the concept of strategy can be utilised. It is argued that an analysis based on this principle would enhance the development of sociological understanding and critique.

As compared with earlier times the emergence of period style in any sense of a unified concept during the Edo period is obscured for the historian by unprecedented factors: the new multiplication of figural and narrative subjects in painting, the predominance of new class interests and patronage, the dissemination of printed pattern books, the suddenly expanded commerce and industry of decorative art in its many branches. Viewed from outside ofjapan the scene has not been clarified by the recent Japanese official emphasis on the art of the Momoyama period as the proper historical perspective for restored imperial rule, nor by an obsession in the west with the special qualified and genre interest of the prints and paintings of the Ukiyo-e school. The work of the latter, in a well-established conventional wording, was 'patronised by comparatively uncultured people, aimed at a simple and unsophisticated expression, mostly beautiful and sometimes even sensuous rather than deeply spiritual and scholarly'. This approach to the so richly varied art of Edo, and to the original dimension within it created by the new relation of decorative to expressive art, reinforced by the fragmentation of schools, has militated against the definition of pervasive structures in composition which endow the whole art of the period with its distinctive character. The present paper looks to textile decoration as epitomizing a universal trend in design and as an index to stylistic change with some claim to general validity.