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From: bjorn@alberta.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Free trade, Canadian culture, $$
Message-ID: <232@pembina.alberta.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 21:25:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 19 21:25:32 1987
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In article <840@mprvaxa.UUCP>, acton@mprvaxa.UUCP (Don Acton) writes:
> In article <183@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes:
> >You could sure make a lot of high quality, feature length, commercially
> >successful films in Canada with part of that $1.2Billion.
> >
> Not if the government has any involvement in it. Considering what the
> CBC does with its nearly 1 billion dollars I wouldn't hold my breath in
                           ^^^^^^^^^
> any theatre lineup waiting for these movies.
> 
>   Donald Acton

And that's just the deficit of the CBC.  You could actually drop
the CBC and give everyone an unlimited pass to the movies for about
the same amount of money give or take VIA Rails deficit (approx. $600
million a year).  And speaking of VIA.  No wonder it loses money, it
costs more to take the train to Toronto from Edmonton than to fly,
at least if you want more than a seat (after all it takes ~ 2 days).

When I throw the question at politicians:

	Why don't you drop VIA Rail?

What do I get?  A song and dance about how Canada was settled
and the important role played by the railroads in that story,
and how the railroads are an integral part of the Canadian national
identity, ad nauseum.  Wake up guys, your paying for this now
and your grandchildren will still be paying for it 50 years hence.
Sheesh.

		Bjorn R. Bjornsson
		alberta!bjorn