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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Low Cost Transportation
Message-ID: <54@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 06:37:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 06:37:44 1985
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Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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>In article <2649@watcgl.UUCP> jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (k.j. chapman) writes:
>
> I don't see how Canada could help but benefit from a stronger
>national identity and it certainly is necessary to be able to travel
>to and/or communicae with your (national) neighbours to feel a sense
>of unity.

Deregulation of air fares resulted in substantially lower ticket prices
in the US. Taking a similar approach here in Canada would make a
lot more sense to me than having the gov't subsidize (with bucks that
it simply doesn't have) yet another non-necessity.

J.B. Robinson