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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Doing only that which brings the most profit.
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Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 12:34:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 12:34:16 1984
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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.
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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.
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Martin Taylor
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