the founding headline montage: Canada 'Nuck'les under — the big sticks — "CANADA ‘NUCK’LES UNDER…"

The consummation and its confession in three headers: the "PACT PENNED," Canada "'NUCK'LES UNDER" (the pun making submission the story), and Chrétien's admission that "ACID RAIN, LANDFILLS, BARGES, FUSION-TECH, MANITOBAN THERMS WERE 'BIG STICKS.'" The founding levers are named outright — environmental and nuclear coercion — Interdependence revealed as the velvet over a fist made of the very waste it exports.