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From: robinson@ubc-ean.CDN (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Doing only that ...
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 22:19:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 20 22:19:55 1984
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> I read advocacy of letting things that are not profitable die (e.g.  CN
> unprofitable lines, DeHaviland, etc.).  It seems some people want the
> cost of providing a service to a person to be borne directly by that
> person -- people don't want profitable areas of the economy supporting
> unprofitable areas (e.g. CN unprofitable lines, DeHaviland, etc.).

DeHavilland, Canadair, Petrocan and many other Crown Corporations do not
provide a service, and for this reason should be self-supporting or
allowed to die a natural death. ( Personally I don't think the government
should be involved in the private sector in such a manner in the first
place )

These comapanies are involved in enterprises that are fully
capable of turning a profit, and their inability to do so stems
from the fact that they are basically run by politicians and not
business people. That  some  of them  should have been laid
to rest years ago, but are still around stems from the fact that 
politicians are incapable of saying 'I made a mistake'. 

If the government really feels it necessary that Canada should have
an aircraft industry ( for example ) then they should do it by
way of tax incentives and/or government loans to the private sector ( read
Canadian private sector ), and not by creating one more Crown Corporation
which is inherently going to be less efficient than its private sector
counterpart.

                                              J.B. Robinson