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LUTE
LUTES
LUTHER
LUTLEY
LUTMAN
LUTREN
LUTTERMAN
LUTTERMANN
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LUTCHIN,
David
At Chatham Kent Alliance Hospital on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 David
LUTCHIN, formerly of Wardsville, in his 83rd year. Beloved husband
of the late Margaret
LUTCHIN.
Beloved
son of the late Sonia and
Sam LUTCHIN. Survived by 2 sisters Anne
MERIN of Chicago and
Frances KREIS of Toronto; sisters-in-law Sarah and Frances
LUTCHIN,
nieces Noreen, Florence, Elaine, Helen and Cathy; nephews Alvin,
Allen, Charles and Larry and great nieces and nephews. Predeceased
by brothers Jack and Harry; sister Lena
SPITZBERG and brothers-in-law
Earl MERIN,
Alexander
SPITZBERG and Max
KREIS. Funeral service
will be held at Logan Funeral Home, 371 Dundas St. (between Waterloo
and Colborne) on Friday, April 4, 2008 at 2 p.m. with Rabbi Ammos
CHORNY officiating. Interment Or Shalom Cemetery. Friends who
wish may make memorial donations to charity of choice. Online
condolences www.loganfh.ca A tree will be planted as a living
memorial to David
LUTCHIN.
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LUTE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-01-05 published
LUTE,
Margaret▼
Helen▼ "
Peggy▼"
Peggy passed away peacefully on Christmas Day, in her 92nd year
at her residence at True Davidson Acres in Toronto. Predeceased
by her beloved husband Ian Hutcheon
LUTE.
Lovingly▼ remembered
by her son Graham and his wife Pat, her two grand_sons, Tim and
John and their wives Sue and Jill. Special great-grandmother
to little Kara. She will be fondly remembered as a gentle and
kind woman who accepted each stage of her life with selfless
dignity. The family wishes to thank the staff at True Davidson
Acres for their tender care and support. Following Peggy's wishes,
there will be a private family service. Condolences and memories
may be forwarded through www.humphreymiles.com
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LUTE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-01-09 published
LUTE,
Margaret▲
Helen▲ "
Peggy▲"
Peggy passed away peacefully on Christmas Day, in her 92nd year
at her residence at True Davidson Acres in Toronto. Predeceased
by her beloved husband Ian Hutcheon
LUTE.
Lovingly▲ remembered
by her son Graham and his wife Pat, her two grand_sons, Tim and
John and their wives Sue and Jill. Special great-grandmother
to little Kara. She will be fondly remembered as a gentle and
kind woman who accepted each stage of her life with selfless
dignity. The family wishes to thank the staff at True Davidson
Acres for their tender care and support. Following Peggy's wishes,
there will be a private family service. Condolences and memories
may be forwarded through www.humphreymiles.com
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LUTES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-08 published
CHASTON,
John
Greer
(March 5, 1915-February 28, 2008)
Passed away peacefully, surrounded by the love of his family,
at Lions Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, British Columbia in
his 93rd year, after a brief illness. Predeceased by his parents,
Leon Christopher
CHASTON and Bessie
GREER/GRIER of Calgary, and by
his beloved younger brother Len, Royal Canadian Air Force, lost
over Germany in 1942. He leaves to mourn his loving wife Helen,
children Liz
CHASTON,
Christy
McLEOD, Len
CHASTON, and Martha
LUTES
(Ralph,)
Helen's children, Peter
CHAUVIN (Shelagh) and
Cindy FLEMING/FLEMMING, former wife
Jay
JESSIMAN, and 11 grandchildren.
Born and raised in Calgary, John went to work after high school
for the Alberta Pacific Grain Co., and then assisted his father
in his grain brokerage business. His career began when, articled
to Norman Hindsley, C.A., he completed a five year Queen's University
course in four years and in 1939 wrote the first Uniform Final
Exam administered by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
Alberta. He won the Province of Alberta prize for highest standing.
He worked following for the Osoyoos Mines Co. Ltd., then Peat,
Marwick, Mitchell Co. in Portland, Oregon. The call to war brought
him back to positions in Canada with the Allied War Supply Corporation
in Montreal and the Canadian Pacific Railway. Enlisting in the
army in 1942, John's military service took him to stations from
Montreal, through Ontario, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia
and finally to Vancouver. In 1946 he joined Vancouver based Pemberton
Securities Ltd. as controller. In 1952 he founded the company's
corporate finance department which he headed until 1971 when
he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. In the
following years he guided the company through a difficult time
in the North American economy and displayed unwavering confidence
in both Pemberton Securities and the capital markets as a whole.
In 1975 he was elected Chairman of the Board and was Honourary
Chairman when Pemberton was acquired by Dominion Securities in
1989. Not one to retire, John continued an active role in the
investment business with Capital West Partners, where he maintained
a presence until his final days. John's devotion to the investment
business in Western Canada was matched by his passion for the
game of golf. He was introduced to the sport on a course made
by his father, in the vacant prairie fields adjacent to their
home in Calgary. He then played at the Calgary Municipal Course,
the Bowness Golf Club, and the Calgary Golf and Country Club.
In 1931 he won the Alberta Junior Championship. John joined Shaughnessy
Golf and Country Club in 1945 and was Club Champion 1947, 49,
50, 51. In 1953, deciding to permanently establish his home in
West Vancouver, he joined Capilano Golf and Country Club. John's
devotion to Capilano was expressed not only in his election to
President, 1964, but in countless hours of practice and play
and solicited and unsolicited advice to members and management
with respect to all aspects of the game, the club, and the course
itself. Those acquainted with John know that he had a comprehensive
knowledge of golf's history, its mechanics, and its evolution.
Whether inspired by the immortal Bobby Jones or the revolutionary
Tiger Woods, his enduring goal remained the perfect swing. In
his latter years he routinely 'shot his age', on one occasion
recording a gross 76 at the age of 84. Of many personal highlights
in the pursuit of his sport, John took great pride in marshalling
three British Opens and in being a member of the Royal and Ancient
Golf Club of St. Andrews. His memory will be invoked annually
at Capilano Golf and Country Club with the awarding of the Chaston
Trophy and the Wt. Officer Lionel G. Chaston Royal Canadian Air
Force Memorial Cup. It would be remiss to omit that in addition
to his primary interests in business and in golf, John was well
known for his love of cars. In a number of trades that roughly
equaled his final age, he enjoyed ownership of several very special
high performance vehicles. His favourite remains known only to
him. He will be greatly missed by family, by Friends, and by
all who appreciated his considerable achievements, keen sense
of fair play, rigorous self discipline, and his devotion to the
principle 'to play the ball as it lies'. The family would like
to thank Doctor Nancy Crossen, Jim Cormack, M.S.W., and the palliative
care team at Lions Gate Hospital for their compassionate care
on 7 West. Memorial Service to be held on Tuesday, March 18,
2008, 3 p.m. at St. Stephen's Anglican Church, 885 22nd Street,
West Vancouver. Donations may be made in John's memory to the
Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, North Shore Hospice, 231 East
15th Street, North Vancouver, British Columbia, V7L 2L7 www.lghfoundation.com
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LUTHER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-03-10 published
CRAWFORD,
Basil
N.
Peacefully at South Huron Hospital, Exeter on Sunday, March 9,
2008 Basil N.
CRAWFORD of Exeter in his 61st year. Beloved husband
of Phyllis
(MADGE)
CRAWFORD. Dear father of Darla and Chris
MITTELHOLTZ
of London and Dennis and Tania
CRAWFORD of Exeter. Dear grandfather
of Tori and Josh; and Brent and Chad. Dear brother of Ronald
CRAWFORD of Exeter. Predeceased by his parents Oswald and Fern
(LUTHER)
CRAWFORD, a sister-in-law Patricia
CRAWFORD and a niece
Susan CRAWFORD.
Friends may call at the Haskett Funeral Home,
370 William Street, 1 west of Main, Exeter on Tuesday Evening
7-9 p.m. where the funeral service will be held on Wednesday,
March 12th at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Paul
ROSS officiating. Cremation
with interment Exeter Cemetery. Donations to the Multiple Sclerosis
Society or the South Huron Hospital Campaign would be appreciated
by the family. Condolences may be forwarded through www.haskettfh.com.
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LUTLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-05-17 published
ASHBERRY,
Joyce
It is with great sadness that the family of Joyce
ASHBERRY announces
her sudden but peaceful passing in her 84th year, on the evening
of May 14th 2008 at Rouge Valley Health System - Centenary site
in Scarborough. She was predeceased by her beloved husband of
56 years, Gordon, in February 2004. Left to mourn her are her
loving children David (Ann), Kitchener, Ontario; Bob, Trail,
British Columbia; Janet (Clyde) Scarborough, Ontario and Ted
(Kim), Stirling, Ontario; her adoring grandchildren Ben, Daniel
and Jacob HADLEY, and Connor and Micaila
MAHONEY-
ASHBERRY; her
dear friend and sister-in-law Edna
BAMPTON
(Cyril, deceased 2007)
her cousins Rosalie
HARRISON and Roy
LUTLEY and their families,
as well as her numerous Friends and neighbours.
For several years Joyce was a public school teacher with the
Scarborough Board of Education. After her retirement she was
a member of the Bell Pioneers and spent many happy hours creating
"Heart Pillows" to assist patients' recovery following heart
surgery. She was a founding member of the Church of the Master
in Scarborough and was an active member of the Women's Auxiliary
for many years.
A Memorial Service will be held for her on Saturday, May 24th
at 11: 00 a.m. at the Pine Hills Visitation, Chapel and Reception
Centre(625 Birchmount Rd, north of St. Clair, Scarborough, 416-267-8229).
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made
to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Rouge Valley Health System
- Centenary site or the Friends of Schizophrenics Society, if
so desired.
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LUTMAN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-03-31 published
LAMONT,
Mary
Ellen (née
LUTMAN)
Of Saint Thomas, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving
family, on Saturday, March 29th, 2008, at the Saint Thomas-Elgin
General Hospital, in her 86th year. Dearly loved mother of Gayle
and her husband Robert
CLOES of Aylmer, Sharon and her husband
Ron SIMPSON of Arnstein and Jill and her husband Mike
HARVEY
of Saint Thomas. Predeceased by a daughter Bonnie
LACKEY (1997.)
Dear mother-in-law of Clare
LACKEY of Saint Thomas. Dear sister
of Gerry (Mary Lou)
LUTMAN,
Connie
(Ron)
SMITH and Wayne (Rose)
LUTMAN, all of London. Predeceased by 2 sisters Muriel
DYKES
and Ruth READING and by 2 brothers Bill and Ted
LUTMAN.
Loved
grandmother of Billy (Angie)
SIMPSON,
Susan
PATTON, Robert
(Sheryl)
CLOES, Brenda
KOKKO and friend Chris
PARE, Gerry (Stacey)
KOKKO
and Roger SIMPSON and great-grandmother of Matthew, James, Emma,
Liam, Blake and Brady. Sadly missed by a number of nieces and
nephews. Mary was born in London, Ontario on May 18, 1922, the
daughter of the late George and Mabel
LUTMAN.
She worked at Eaton
Yale. Resting at Williams Funeral Home, 45 Elgin Street, Saint Thomas
where funeral service will be held Wednesday at 11: 00 a.m. Interment
to follow in Elmdale Cemetery. Visitation Tuesday from 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. Remembrances may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society
or the Saint Thomas-Elgin General Hospital (Palliative Care Unit).
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LUTMAN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-06-28 published
READINGS,
Stan
Suddenly at London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Hospital
on Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Stan
READINGS of London in his 81st
year. Beloved husband of the late Ruth
(LUTMAN)
READINGS.
Dear
father of John and MaryAnn of Lucan and Bob and Sue of London.
Predeceased by his grand_son Tommy and his son Gary
READINGS.
Dear father-in-law of Lesley
READINGS of London. Loving grandfather
of Ryan and Carrie, Joe and Helen, Chris, David, Eddie and Jen,
Duane and Dawn, Scott and Mia, Drew, Ben and Holly and great-grandfather
of Alana and Luke. Also survived by his many nieces and nephews.
The family will receive Friends from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Sunday
at the A. Millard George Funeral Home, 60 Ridout Street South,
London. Funeral service will be conducted at Saint Michael and
All Angels Anglican Church, 397 Springbank Drive, London, Ontario
on Monday, June 30th. at 11: 00 a.m. with Reverend Canon K. Sam
THOMAS officiating. Interment in Woodland Cemetery, London. As
an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made to Community
Living London Foundation, (for the Tommy Readings Scholarship
Fund), 190 Adelaide Street South, London, Ontario N5Z 3L1. Online
condolences accepted at www.amgfh.com
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BROOKS,
Kay (formerly
BLOOM)
Beloved wife of the late Jerry
BROOKS and the late Joe
BLOOM,
beloved mother of Lynn (Dave)
SHILMAN and Martin. Devoted grandmother
and great-grandmother. Treasured sister of Frances
FOGLE and
Molly Goldenberg
LUTREN; in L.A. after a lengthy illness. Shiva
in Toronto beginning Wednesday, March 19 at 4 p.m. Daily after
1 p.m. until Tuesday (25th) morning, 59 Admiral Road (north off
Lowther, west of Bedford). Prayers 7 p.m.
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When it came to achieving free trade, he was the right man for
the job
As Canada's tough and pugnacious chief negotiator, he was famous
for allegedly flicking cigar ash on the cherished, heirloom desk
of U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connolly
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page
S12
Doing a trade deal with the Americans in the 1980s was like trying
to sign a nuclear arms pact with the Soviets during the Cold
War, according to former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Getting
them to the table was hard, keeping them there was worse, but
inking a treaty before the deadline expired was the real trick.
"You have to be very tough," Mr. Mulroney said this week.
That's why, when he got the word from U.S. President Ronald Reagan
that approval to negotiate a comprehensive free-trade agreement
with Canada had squeaked through the Senate Finance Committee
in the fall of 1985, he knew he needed Simon
REISMAN to make
the case and hold the line. Mr.
REISMAN, who had flirted with
communism while growing up in the Jewish ghetto of Montreal during
the Depression, was a fervent free-trade continentalist, who
had gone eyeball to eyeball with the Americans for 40 years and
was famous for allegedly having flicked his cigar ash on U.S.
Treasury Secretary John Connolly's heirloom desk, a sacred piece
of furniture that had once belonged to founding father Alexander
Hamilton.
"He was the only person with the background, the knowledge, the
skill and the toughness to do this job," Mr. Mulroney said, pointing
out that Mr.
REISMAN had been part of the negotiations for the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades in 1947, and Canada's
chief negotiator for the Auto Pact in 1965, and a long-time senior
mandarin in the federal civil service. Even so, Mr. Mulroney
believed that the only way that Mr.
REISMAN could succeed was
if "the Americans knew he had 100-per-cent support from the prime
minister on down."
Besides predictable problems with the Americans, Mr.
REISMAN
had difficulties on this side of the border, including an ongoing
conflict with Senator Pat Carney, then the minister of international
trade. She took - and expressed - great umbrage that Mr.
REISMAN
was not keeping her in the loop. "He wasn't a team player. He
was abrasive and difficult to work with because he didn't like
political direction or involvement," she said in an interview.
"Even though I was the minister responsible for the negotiations
he would insist he wasn't reporting to me. He was exasperating,"
she said, while acknowledging that he "did know the file."
A former deputy minister of finance who had taken early retirement
in 1975, at least partly because he himself was exasperated with
the machinations of his political masters, Mr.
REISMAN was not
going to kowtow to Ms. Carney, especially since he had the ear
of the prime minister. After hearing Mr.
REISMAN's complaints
that "I'm having serious problems with the minister; she [Ms. Carney]
has never negotiated an international deal," Mr. Mulroney made
his move. "I installed myself as chairman of that executive cabinet
committee with Simon and his team reporting directly to me."
Fuelled by his own sharp tongue and blustery manner, Mr.
REISMAN
also found a willing adversary in the media, especially the anti-free
trade Toronto Star.
"I used to chuckle," Mr. Mulroney said, remembering uproars in
the House of Commons when opposition members "would be yelling
at me that he had told somebody from the Toronto Star to 'go
fly a kite" or that the newspaper 'was a rag,' and they would
be after me to reprimand Simon. And I was chuckling away because
I was in agreement with what he said."
Sol Simon REISMAN was born in Montreal the year after end of
the First World War. The second of four children of Kolman, a
factory worker in the rag trade, and Manya
REISMAN, he went to
Baron Byng High School. A very smart boy, he made it into McGill
University, despite the Jewish quota, and graduated with an honours
degree in economics and political science in 1941 and a master's
degree (summa cum laude) the following year, all the while holding
down a variety of menial jobs.
As a young man from an immigrant family during the Depression
and the rise of fascism in Europe, he joined the Young Communist
League, according to Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall in
The Heroic Delusion, Vol. 2 of Trudeau and Our Times. They quote
a recruit to the Young Communist League who said that she took
a compulsory course on The History of the Communist Party, allegedly
written by Joseph Stalin, from Mr.
REISMAN in 1937 and another
source who claimed that he was still attending party meetings
in Ottawa after the war.
Mr. REISMAN's widow said this week that her husband never joined
the Communist Party, but that "he was, as a young person, left,
but he couldn't have become more right wing." Many intellectuals
espouse communist ideologies in their youth, but what is significant
about Mr. REISMAN's early political credo, according to Prof. Clarkson,
is that it "helped explain his later fanatical belief in free
trade - another all-encompassing belief system."
While a student at McGill, Mr.
REISMAN joined the cadet corps.
He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1942, right after
graduation and went overseas that November, a month after marrying
Constance (Connie)
CARIN.
They had met through Friends.
"I disliked him immediately," she said. "I didn't like his forthright
abrupt manner and I thought this was not the man for me, but
it turned out I was wrong." She was busy the first several times
he asked her out but, undaunted by these rebuffs, he told her
to name a date when she would be free. She did, and so she learned
about the man beneath the brusque self-confident exterior. "He
always said what he thought, and he was not suited for diplomacy.
He would have been a terrible failure in external affairs, but
he was good where he was."
After landing in England in 1942, he served as a troop commander
with the 11th, 15th, and 17th Field Artillery in the Italian
campaign and finished out the war in the liberation of Holland.
While waiting to be repatriated, he studied for several months
at the London School of Economics. After four years overseas,
he returned home in 1946 and went to Ottawa. There, he accepted
the first job he was offered, in the Department of Labour, and
moved later that year to the Department of Finance to work under
Mitchell Sharp, in the economic policy division.
Within a few months he was working closely with John Deutsch,
director of the international economic relations division, and
writing speeches for Finance Minister Douglas Abbott. Mr. Deutsch
wanted to take him to Geneva as secretary to a 12-man delegation
working on preparations for an international trade conference
scheduled for Havana, Cuba in 1947. "Either I go [with you] or
we dissolve the marriage," Mrs.
REISMAN told her husband, having
no desire for another long-distance separation. He acquiesced
"and we went on from there, for 65 years."
After a dozen years of marriage, the
REISMANs had their first
child, John Joseph, in 1954, followed two years later by daughter
Anna Lisa. A second daughter, Harriet Frances, was born in 1959.
While Mr. REISMAN was in Havana, where delegates from nearly
60 countries met to establish what would become the General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trades, he noticed that Canadian Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King was especially interested in Article 24,
a provision that would permit groups of nations to establish
free-trade areas. Canada was facing a foreign-exchange crisis
that winter, and Mr. King wanted to secure a secret free-trade
deal with the U.S. as a potential solution. As it turned out,
the crisis passed, Mr. King lost interest in a free-trade deal
and coincidentally the U.S. Congress refused to ratify the Havana
Charter. Canada, and Mr.
REISMAN, would wait another 40 years
to complete a continental free-trade deal.
In 1954, Mr.
REISMAN was appointed director of the international
economics division in the Department of Finance and was seconded
the following year to serve as assistant research director on
the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects under Walter
Gordon, where he reportedly had no hesitation in challenging
his boss's protectionist views. When Mr. Gordon was named Finance
Minister in Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson's cabinet in
1963, Mr. REISMAN, by then an assistant deputy minister, was
promoted out of Finance and into the newly created Department
of Industry. As deputy minister, a post he held with great distinction
from 1964 to 1968, he led the negotiations that resulted in the
Automotive Products Trade Agreement being signed by Prime Minister
Pearson and U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in January, 1965.
The Auto Pact removed tariffs on cars, truck, buses and automotive
parts between the two countries, which greatly encouraged trade,
bolstered the bottom line of the big American car manufacturers,
greatly increased assembly-line jobs in Canada and lowered the
cost of purchasing automobiles. By 1968, the number of cars that
were manufactured in Canada and sold in the U.S. had risen from
seven to 60 per cent, while 40 per cent of cars bought in Canada
were made in the U.S. There were downsides: Canada didn't develop
an indigenous car industry and it was restricted from negotiating
similar trade pacts with other countries, such as Japan. The
Auto Pact was abolished after the World Trade Organization declared
it illegal in 2001, but by then the Free-Trade Agreement, negotiated
by Mr. REISMAN, and the subsequent North American free-trade
agreement, which added Mexico to the trading mix, had made it
largely irrelevant.
Mr. REISMAN was secretary of the Treasury Board from 1968 to
1970 and deputy minister of Finance from 1970 to 1975, when he
chose to take early retirement from the federal civil service
at age 55. The timing was good, as the federal government had
recently decided to index civil-service pensions to the consumer
price index. But that wasn't the only reason Mr.
REISMAN was
leaving. In an interview with The Globe and Mail in December,
1974, he complained about a diminishing scope for "people of
energy and a certain independence of mind" in the public service
and said he longed for "another career in which there would be
a chance to fly on my own wings."
He and another former deputy minister, James Grandy (obituary
April 5, 2006), formed a consulting firm, Reisman and Grandy,
and quickly signed up a roster of clients that included Bombardier,
Power Corp., and Lockheed. A ruckus erupted in the House of Commons
over the firm's dealings with Lockheed, which was in the process
of negotiating a huge contract to supply airplanes to the federal
government. As former public servants, it was alleged that Mr.
REISMAN
and Mr. Grandy were violating conflict-of-interest guidelines.
We aren't lobbyists, Mr.
REISMAN insisted, explaining that there
was a difference between peddling influence and peddling knowledge.
Or, as he said to The Globe: "Some girls dance and some girls
are whores… we just dance."
As a consultant, Mr.
REISMAN had a number of high-level assignments,
including Royal Commissioner to investigate the auto industry
in 1978 and chief negotiator for aboriginal land claims in the
Western
Arctic in 1983. Mrs.
REISMAN says the treaty with the
Inuvialuit was a highlight for her husband because it was one
of the first pieces of legislation affecting aboriginals under
the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
But the biggest deal of his life materialized when Mr. Mulroney
appointed him ambassador (trade negotiations) and chief negotiator
for Canada of the Canada-U.S. free-trade agreement in November,
1985. "I felt he was an absolute natural for us," Mr. Mulroney
said.
"I called him and said that we were going to get into this comprehensive
negotiation and could he draft me a memo detailing the kind of
person we would need and the challenges that person would encounter.
Then Simon sent me, I think, a 35-page memorandum. As Derek Burney
[his chief of staff] said, it was the longest job application
he had ever seen. Simon knew I was thinking of him, but he also
knew that I wanted to get the benefit of his ideas of how this
should be conducted."
The two men knew each other personally from salmon fishing trips
in Quebec with the likes of Paul Desmarais and John Rae of Power
Corporation. "He had a great sense of humour, he was a completely
honest man, he shared his views on everything… he wasn't at all
devious, but he was a tough guy," said Mr. Mulroney, adding that
Mr. REISMAN was "the indispensable player" in the free-trade
talks. "Simon was the star. He was the one who took the free-trade
concept from infancy to maturity and made it whole."
The negotiations dragged on for two years with two main stumbling
blocks. The Americans were not taking the talks as seriously
as the Canadians wanted until Mr.
REISMAN stomped away from the
negotiating table in September, 1987, in a highly publicized
snit (orchestrated with Mr. Mulroney in Ottawa, Allan Gotlieb,
the Canadian ambassador to Washington, and other key players).
Only hours before the deadline was to lapse for signing the treaty,
the Americans balked at the dispute-resolution clause, a key
consideration for the Mulroney government. Once again, Mr. Mulroney
says he intervened to back up his trade negotiator. He phoned
James Baker [U.S. Secretary of the Treasury] and threatened to
call President Reagan that night and demand to know why "you
can do a deal on nuclear arms reduction with your worst enemies
and you can't do a free-trade deal with your best Friends." Mr. Mulroney
recalled that "Baker nearly jumped out of his skin, because he
knew that Reagan would have raised holy hell on that issue immediately.
That's why they came around."
Although Mr.
REISMAN had slowed his pace somewhat in the last
decade, he was still salmon fishing in white water in July and
present at a dinner in Montreal to celebrate the 20th anniversary
of the free-trade agreement in October. But the following month
he fell at the Rideau Club in Ottawa and then, in January, he
collapsed at his condominium in Fort Lauderdale and had to be
airlifted home. He was admitted to the Heart Institute in Ottawa,
where he had a pacemaker installed.
A week ago today, he was reading The Wall Street Journal and
speaking on the phone with his wife before falling to sleep.
Very early the next morning he lost consciousness and medical
staff were unable to revive him.
"He was a larger-than-life personality," said Mrs.
REISMAN, earlier
this week. "The house is very quiet without him."
Sol Simon REISMAN was born in Montreal on June 19, 1919. He died
in his sleep of cardiac arrest at the Heart Institute of Ottawa
on Sunday, March 9, 2008. He was 88. Survived by his wife Connie,
three children John Joseph (Joe), Anna Lisa and Harriet Frances.
He also leaves two younger sisters, Gertrude
SHAPIRO and Helen
LUTTERMAN, and 10 grandchildren. He was predeceased by his older
brother, Mark.
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LUTTERMANN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-06-30 published
ZELIN,
Samuel
On Saturday, June 28, 2008 at his home surrounded by his family.
Sam ZELIN, beloved husband of Marlene. Loving father of Jenni
ZELIN and Marcus
LUTTERMANN, and Matthew
ZELIN and Leah
JAHN.
Dear brother and brother-in-law of Evelyn and Harry
ROSEN, and
Ken and Rochelle
ZELIN.
Devoted grandfather of Noah. Sam will
be missed by his many nieces, nephews, and Friends. A graveside
service will be held at Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park, U.J.P.O.
section on Monday, June 30th at 12: 30 p.m. The family will receive
Friends on Monday and Tuesday at 33 Delisle Avenue, Apt. #1104,
Toronto. Memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer
Society for Melanoma Research, 1-888-939-3333, or a charity of
your choice.
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WELCH,
Charles
Ivan
In his 82nd year passed away Saturday, April 12th, 2008 after
a short illness. Beloved husband of Judith, father of Larry
WELCH
(Lynn) of Poplar Hill, Brenda
MUTTER
(Harold) of Wasaga Beach,
Vikki SEARLE
(Mike) of Komoka, Randy
WELCH (Anne) of London,
Cheryl RASTIN
(Dave) of Mount Brydges, and Chris
WELCH (Kim) of
Victoria, British Columbia and he was also the beloved grandfather
of 17 grandchildren. Sadly missed by his sisters Dolly
BOUK
(Jack)
of London and Marjorie
LUTTIKHOF
(Bill) of Lambeth and all his
nieces and nephews. Many people got to know Charlie through his
association with the Little Beaver (Byron) Restaurant. Charlie
was also a member of the Arthur Currie Branch of the Royal Canadian
Legion in Strathroy and a member of the Strathroy Seniors Centre.
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 at 1: 00 p.m.
at the Denning Bros. Funeral Home in Strathroy. Visitation 1 hour
prior to service. Sympathy may be expressed through donations
to the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation. A tree will be planted
as a living memorial to Charles.
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