Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-ean.CDN Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!ubc-vision!ubc-ean!robinson From: robinson@ubc-ean.CDN (Jim Robinson) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Doing only that ... Message-ID: <750@ubc-ean.CDN> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 22:19:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-ean.750 Posted: Mon Aug 20 22:19:55 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 00:57:29 EDT Organization: UBC EAN, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 28 > > 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