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From: hwarkentyne@watdragon.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Free trade, Canadian culture, $$
Message-ID: <2312@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 14:14:14 EST
Article-I.D.: watdrago.2312
Posted: Thu Feb 19 14:14:14 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Feb-87 02:48:44 EST
References: <183@fornax.uucp> <741@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: hwarkentyne@watdragon.UUCP (Kenneth Warkentyne)
Distribution: can
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 19
Keywords: Movies Canadian Money
Summary: Brad got it wrong.

In article <741@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>>.....<goes on to describe a plan proposed by Flora MacDonald which
>>might reduce the American market share of distribution to %65> "
>
>  "Ticket for Platoon, please."
>
>  "No sir, you can't watch that movie!  We don't allow its distribution here!"


No Brad, it's "Ticket for Platoon, please."

"Yes sir.  By the way, under the new system, a significant portion of
the money that you pay to see movies in Canada will stay in Canada and
hopefully provide the financial support to develop a quality Canadian
film industry.  Under the old system, 90 percent of your money would
have gone to the US where they are only interested in Canada as a
potential source of profit."

Ken Warkentyne