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From: mnh@utcsrgv.UUCP (Mark N. Hume)
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Subject: Re: Doing only that ...
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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 13:31:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 13:31:27 1984
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Now that Canadair has been brought into the argument, I thought I might give a
little historical perspective to the situation.

Remember the Avro Arrow?  That's the jet fighter aircraft (with the highly
advanced technology) that Diefenbaker
scrapped (literally) because it was costing too much.  Well, look at us now,
buying our jet fighters from the US (with cracks and all) at a cost of 
BILLIONS of dollars.

Not only that but we lost most of our aircraft design speacialists to the US
(NASA is one of the main beneficiaries).

We keep reading that high technology will be the saviour of the Canadian economy
, yet we also keep reading that we should let one high technology sector
(aircraft) die, which is what would happen if the government pulled out of
Canadair and DeHavilland.