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From: idallen@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Nationalization/Crown Corps. -- Buy Local.
Message-ID: <16066@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 01:20:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 01:20:36 1985
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> Why is it in our interests to have a native internationally-competitive
> airline, as opposed to being served by internationally-competitive
> airlines?  Why do we *need* a pet airline, especially when the kitty
> litter for it is so damned expensive?

I pay more to my local hardware store for some things than I'd pay to the
national/international conglomerate (which purchases them in bulk and
sells them for a lower price) because my local hardware store depends on
my money and the conglomerate doesn't.  The local store listens to me
when I have a problem; the conglomerate doesn't.  I don't like depending
on someone who doesn't depend on me, and up here in Canada we are really
rather small peanuts when compared with the huge US market.  So I like
the idea of a pet airline that takes the trouble to put "ou" in "color"
and temperatures in Celsius.  Now, if I could just get it to roll over...
-- 
        -IAN!  (Ian! D. Allen)      University of Waterloo