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From: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Free trade, Canadian culture, $$
Message-ID: <2748@hcrvx2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 16:17:42 EST
Article-I.D.: hcrvx2.2748
Posted: Fri Feb 20 16:17:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 10:06:23 EST
References: <183@fornax.uucp> <741@looking.UUCP> <2312@watdragon.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Distribution: can
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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Keywords: Movies Canadian Money
Summary: 

In article <2312@watdragon.UUCP> hwarkentyne@watdragon.UUCP (Kenneth Warkentyne) writes:
>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."

Am I wrong to get the feeling that rather than accept a decline in
profits the US film industry will simply cause  movie prices to
increase in order to compensate? 

Oh well, I suppose if the result is more films like "My Bloody
Valentine", who am I to complain?

J.B. Robinson