Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Doing only that which brings the most profit. Message-ID: <1058@dciem.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 12:34:16 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1058 Posted: Fri Aug 17 12:34:16 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Aug-84 14:19:08 EDT References: <8680@watmath.UUCP> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 26 ****************** I'm curious about how people feel about this. Personally, I don't mind contributing tax dollars or artificially high costs for local services if it allows more people to enjoy the same benefits I have at the same price. I certainly don't want to be told that I have to move to Toronto because it's more profitable for XYZ Corp to provide me with a phone there than to run a line to my rural farm. ****************** Right on!! I've always felt it to be an anomaly that the ferry to Nfld is not free to Canadian citizens. Transport is what made this country, under heavy government subsidy, and it is what holds us together (along with more modern communication). It should be no more expensive to go to an outlying part of the country than to go the same distance in a populated part, but it sure costs more per person to set up the service. In the case of Newfoundland, it is hardly part of Canada if the cost of getting to another part is high enough that islanders feel substantially inhibited about doing so. Hardly a fair aspect of the bargain that led them to join us in 1949. I'd prefer to pay more for food, too, if I was sure that the extra went to reducing the prices in the Yukon or Frobisher. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt