Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!problem!compus!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!bu.edu!telecom-request From: tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone Privatization/Deregulation in Canada Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 14:39:09 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Olekshy Hoover & Associates Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Lines: 36 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 147, Message 3 of 11 In message , cyberoid@milton.u. washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes: [About Unitel, Canada, Telecom, and so-called `Economics', from Mr. Sid Shniad, Staff Economist, British Columbia Telecommunications Workers Union] In case anyone didn't catch this, suffice to say that Mr. Shniad may not be in a position to be unbiased in his account. There are many Canadians who: - Are looking forward to telecom competition, not only in long lines, but also in subscriber loops, via all that cable TV coax. - Are participating in Canada's own discussion of such topics as 970-type numbers, caller identification, COCOTs, and slamming. - Remain in favour of the free trade agreement, having benifited from it or otherwise not having seen overriding negatives (often these folks are not previously protected union workers). - Think that imported labour union bureaucrats remain a major problem in Canada, and that unions in British Columbia are the worst of the lot. I know that other Digest subscribers are keeping The Rest Of The World up to date on many of the details of the points that I have summarized, and that this is off topic for this Digest, but unless you publish some other rebuttal, I would hope that the opinions in the referenced posting would at least recieve some balance. Yours etc., Tony Olekshy. Internet: tony%oha@CS.UAlberta.CA BITNET: tony%oha.uucp@UALTAMTS.BITNET uucp: alberta!oha!tony