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By Staff Writers, BBC News
BBC Newsworld
Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012

Editorial comment:
Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harpercrite - er, Harper, is in India. No one here will be upset if he decides to defect and stays there.

Harper has signed off on an agreement to export Canadian uranium to India because, well, the only use you could possibly make of uranium is electric power.

Remember that Canada banned exports of uranium to India in 1976 because in those days, so I've heard, you could also use uranium to make bombs. Apparently, that technology no longer exists, or India has forgotten how to do it. And, as luck would have it, even though they are sandwiched between two other countries who have nuclear weapons, and even though they are not really on the best terms with either of those neighbours, India no longer has any worry about its own security.


But Harper was worried enough about his OWN security that he actually flew two armoured cars with him to India in order to make sure his sorry ass was protected in this now-gentle and peaceful nation.

This is the same Harper, by the way, who is right up there egging on Bozo Netanyahu to atack Iran because they want to build their own nuclear powered electrical grid. So, in a nutshell: whacko India's desire for nuclear electric power good; less whacko Iran's desire for nuclear electric power not good.

All Canadians are grateful that we have Bozo Netanyahu to show us the way and that our own Stephen Harpercrite (known to his closest friends as The Grim Reaper) is smart enough to follow Bozo's lead

-prh, Axis of Logic



India and Canada finalise conditions of nuclear deal

India and Canada have finalised the terms for their nuclear deal, paving the way for Canadian firms to export uranium to India.

Once implemented, the deal is likely to provide a boost to India's plans to increase its nuclear capacity to meet growing energy demands.

The deal was agreed in 2010, but there had been differences over supervision of the use of uranium in India.

Canada has banned the trade of nuclear materials with India since 1976.

"Canada with its large and high quality reserves of uranium could become an important supplier to the Indian nuclear power programme," India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper said in a joint statement.

'Important economic opportunity'
India's economy has seen rapid expansion in recent years resulting in a surge in demand for energy in the country.

In a bid to meet its growing energy needs, India has been looking to increase its dependence on nuclear energy.

It is planning to set up some 30 reactors over as many years and get a quarter of its electricity from nuclear energy by 2050.

As a result it has been looking to secure supplies of uranium to achieve that target.

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that being able to be a part of India's nuclear power plans was "a really important economic opportunity for an important Canadian industry... that should pay dividends in terms of jobs and growth for Canadians down the road".

Earlier this month, India agreed to begin negotiations on a civil nuclear co-operation agreement with Australia, which holds an estimated 40% of the world's uranium.

Last year, it agreed to a deal that will allow South Korea to export its nuclear energy technology to India.


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