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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: tariffs,shoes: a source
Message-ID: <858@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 13:10:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 20 13:10:27 1985
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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Summary: Things are looking up, sort of:-

In article <2663@watcgl.UUCP> jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) writes:
>> there are other more worthwhile and productive things that we could
>> purchase rather than a crutch for the shoe industry. However, the 
>
> Quite possibly.  I have no particular axe to grind with respect to
>the shoe industry - it is however a mistake to just assume that all
>tariffs are bad or that they total to a significant amount.
>
>> shoe industry is just one of many industries that soak the Canadian
>> public by convincing the government of the need for tariffs or quotas.
>> Any one of these subsidized industries may not cost us very much but
>> it all adds up and in the end it costs us a lot.
>> 
>> Donald Acton

     This may become a passe argument even as we read/write.  I hear a
major shoe manufacturer in Montreal went under lately.  There may
not be a shoe 'industry' in Canada to protect.  Maybe that's all for
the better.  Anybody here know much about the shoe industry (I mean
how shoes are made, not these employment figures)?  Is it or can it
be automated?  Who works in the factories, immigrants, 'unemployables'?

     Also, I noticed a custom shoemaker a while back.  Does anybody
know whether that's viable?  I'm asking out of curiosity, although
I expect some people would make an issue of the "who works in the
factories" question.

                                    Cheers! -- Jim O.

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James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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