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From: jimr@hcr.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: Free Trade: Why is there no 'Plan B'?
Keywords: debt, deficit
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Date: 23 Nov 88 19:24:20 GMT
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In article <1988Nov22.163030.8480@watcsc.uucp> trivia@watcsc.UUCP (Dave Nuttall) writes:

>One thing that people should look at, in my opinion, is that Canada
>has an annual deficit of about 30 million, while the States pick up
>over 1 billion dollars of additional debt last year.  Canada has
>around 25 million people, while the USA comes up with 250 million
>people.  Therefore, the states with 10 times the people, has over 30
>times the annual debt.  (Hmm...)

The above firgures are *way* off. Canada's deficit is ~ 29 *billion*. The
US's deficit is (and I could be wrong by severeral ten's of billions) 
~ 150 billion (US).  Hmm...

>Another point I've noticed involves the crime rate.  Toronto has
>about 2 million people while Ney York has about 10 million.  New
>York has a lot more than 5 times the murders than Toronto.  This is
>also valid with other crime types as well.  

Darn smart of Reisman (sp?) and all to refuse to allow crime and
criminals to be included in the FTA :-). Seriously, however, it's
getting tiresome to be constantly told that an economic agreement
with the US is going to somehow turn Windsor into Detroit and Toronto
into NY. 

Plan B? We don't need no steeeeenking plan B!

J.B. Robinson