From: viking@bnr.ca (Harold Henrikson)
Subject: Re: Labelling (was: Quebec)
Reply-To: viking@bmerh66.bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 14:16:47 GMT

In article <BxIKIp.1oA@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
|> Please use the smileys when you tell a joke...
|> 
|> In article <1d5a6bINN4sc@dragon.cs.ubc.ca> acton@cs.ubc.ca (Donald Acton) writes:
|> >Canada. An example of this is sheets. The major textile mills in North
|> >America are in the north eastern US if I am not mistaken. All of the
|> >product produced there is labelled only in English. When it is shipped
|> 
|> Instead of somedays putting a bilingual label and some days a unilingual
|> label, or using one roll of bilingual labels out of say 10, they are
|> depackaging and repackaging.  This is silly.  I presume they are
|> actually not doing repackaging and you use this example because it

Nope - its for real.  Its not the manufacturer that does the repackaging though
but the retailer.

|> fits you mind.  But, what about milk?  Are they pouring the milk from an
|> English pack to a bilingual one?  The price of milk is about 35% higher
|> nonetheless.
|> 
|> >to Canada the sheets are removed from their packages, the old labels
|> >taken off the sheets, new labels put on and repackaged. The difference
|> >in cost between sheets in Canada and the US is due almost entirely to
|> >this repackaging cost and of course the inefficient formerly heavily
|>                 ^^^^^^ please give us a reference or use the smileys...

I saw the documentary too so no smileys required.

|> 
|> >tariff protected textile industry of eastern Canada which couldn't
|> >lower their prices if their lives depended upon it. Except for my
|> >comment on the textile, industry all the other stuff is from a news
|> >documentary done sometime last spring when the Spicer commission was
|> >touring Canada. The topic of the documentary was the high cost of
|> >bilingualism.
|> >
|> >
|> >Donald Acton
|> 
|> Maybe you read about the Japanese industry.  If you are selling chocolate
|> bars to Japan, you must send them in the regular package and repackage
|> them in Japan.  

If my intended target was Japan I would only label them in Japanese.  The intended
market of the goods in question was North America as in the US and anyone else who
wants to buy the goods and either understands English or will purchase them regardless
of the language of labelling.

|> 
|> The documentary was then probably misleading and racist.  The only example
|> you gave are your invention,  
|> 

Either there was or was not such a documentary.  Since I saw it, I  will support the 
view there was such a documentary.  With respect to it being misleading and racist - how?
Are you saying they lied?
|> -- 
|>   \_\    Denis Beauregard  *  internet:beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
|>  /   \   The Time Traveler...  I get your news with a 7-day delay.
|> J   __>  Expect 7 days for feedback.  Operating 7 days-light from Earth.
|> \_.-===  Ope'rateur de "Racines du Que'bec" (514) 922-9636 BBS/Genealogie

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Harold Henriksen                    Bell-Northern Research
email: viking@bmerh694.bnr.ca       Ottawa,Ontario,Canada 

Pillaging and plundering were more fun than programming!
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