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Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:38:39 EST
From: John G. Spragge <SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: can.politics,soc.culture.canada
Subject: Re: NDP "communism?" (was Re: A vote for Reform...)
 <93024.0053342893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <C1Eop4.Gtz@mach1.wlu.ca>

In article <C1Eop4.Gtz@mach1.wlu.ca>, dmccrea6@mach1.wlu.ca (doug mccready F)
says:

>Where Rae is being untruthful is when he blames the federal government for
>the economic malaise in Ontario. He has the ability to stimulate investment
>(which is the most volatile part of the gross provincial product) by
>spending an effort at creating an atmosphere which is attractive to business
>through tax breaks, etc. Instead, he has driven investors out in droves, as
>well as citizens which then lowers the revenues from income taxes etc. which
>then causes the deficit to grow even more. With 500 people leaving the
>province per day and more who would like to leave but are looking for a job
>before they do, it is not hard to figure out why Ontario is in financial
>trouble.

Doesn't the inability of those who would "like to leave" to find a job
elsewhere tell you something? Also, does your out-migration rate refer to
gross or net population transfer? If gross, I suspect more people come to
Ontario than leave it; and if net, 500 people per day does not work out
to a massive population drain, particularly when you consider the
massive restructuring, which has caused us to haemorrhage jobs. And that
restructuring would have happened whether we elected Rae or not.

As for incentives to investment, what do you do with the way in which
bad business decisions squandered so much of the investment that the
Reaganite tax cuts supposedly "stimulated"? Consider the way so many
lemmings (opps, sorry, investors) jumped into commercial real estate,
leaving us with vast overcapacity and a major homelessness problem.
As one horrible example, consider Olympia and York. Or Robert Campeau.

Our business community has perfected ways of making economic opportunities
disappear that no government would ever dare contemplate. That's why
some of the NDP laws (such as the empowerment of unions) that senior
commercial bureaucrats deplore (and use their investor's money to
savagely attack) will increase productivity in the long run: because
if you force the devolution of power from the executive suite, the
ego or stupidity of the folks at the top can't wipe out wealth by
the billion.

>Rae is less than honest here since he blames the federal government but
>except for those people who leave the country, most of those people who are
>leaving are staying in CAnada, just not in Ontario.

Of those who don't leave the country, most stay in Canada? Pray tell,
where does this minority who neither leave the country nor stay in
Canada go? Beamed up by an orbiting Klingon warbird? Assimilated by
the Borg Collective? The twilight zone? Or merely lost in the cracks
of some rather sloppy thinking?

standard disclaimers apply ----------------------- John G. Spragge
Xref: sparky can.politics:11636 soc.culture.canada:10295
From: jmorry@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: Re: Labrador boundary (was Re: S.N.A.G.G.)
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:10:24 GMT

In article <21JAN93.14218592.0085@VM1.MCGILL.CA>, CZ94 <CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA> writes:
> In article <1993Jan21.171636.27770@julian.uwo.ca> larocqu@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (JOHN LAROCQUE) writes:
>>In article <21JAN93.11063926.0102@VM1.MCGILL.CA> CZ94 <CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA> writes:
>>
>>>>Ever since Mackenzie King manipulated Labrador in the Newfie's favor and
>>>>they foolishly voted for Confederation.....
>>
>>>Are you seriously suggesting that Nfld opted
>>>for Confederation in 1949 because they had won the Labrador
>>>boundary dispute 22 years earlier?  Care to provide details?
>>
>>As for the statement on Labrador - I am not making a connection
>>(22 years is a long time) but it is worth thinking about in discussing
>>just why they voted for confederation. I may dig up this article from
>>a Nfld history teacher which provides some details on the Labrador
>>dispute. He says the King admin tipped the scales in the Newfie's
>>favour - I can't wait for the Quebec nationalists on the net to
>>pick up on that one - "Newfie says Labrador belongs to Quebec".

For all intents and purposes, Quebec indirectly owns Labrador. They 
reap a $600 million annual profit from the re-sale of Churchill Falls 
hydroelectric power, purchased from the Newfoundland government at 1966 
prices. We're locked into that contract until somewhere around 2020, I 
believe. That kind of money would come in mighty handy around here 
about now. Morally, one would think that a fairer 
re-negotiation of that asinine contract would be in order (what *was* 
Joey Smallwood thinking in 1966, at all, at all). But hey, that's business,
isn't it? 

> 
> This seems very improbable to me, given King's heavy dependence
> on Quebec for electoral success.  Why would he want to antagonize
> Quebec in favor of Nfld?  But I'd be interested in seeing a
> summary of the article you mention.
>>
>>Let's ask the Newfies the question that Uncle Ron asked Americans
>>12 years ago "Are you better off today then you were 50 years ago?".
> 
> Any Newfoundlanders care to comment?

Let's take a look at it: 21% retail sales tax, no fishery left, 22% 
unemployment rate, fire sale of Labrador hydro power to Quebec, 
mass exodus of our best young talent - but wait a minute: Canada gave us UI 
and the Cod Moratorium compensation package - that ought to shut us 
up; we've got a Federal Fisheries department that knows exactly how 
many fish there are in the sea and how many can be safely caught 
(thereby ensuring our unending gratitude to Ottawa for safely managing 
our primary renewable resource); and finally, we've got Hibernia, 
which will give us 3000 temporary construction jobs, (but then again, 
maybe will be the answer to our economic woes).

I'd be a lunatic to say we'd be better off outside of Canada, but 
sometimes, you just gotta wonder.

...Jamie
 
>>
> Tom Box
> CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA
> 
Newsgroups: can.politics,soc.culture.canada
From: cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok)
Subject: Re: NDP "communism?" (was Re: A vote for Reform...)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:46:29 GMT

In article <93024.170954SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (John G. Spragge) writes:
>In article <1993Jan23.020040.6051@athena.mit.edu>, cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M
>Kozierok) says:
>
>>and didn't Comrade Rae just author legislation which would allow
>>for certification with only *40%* support? how is that justified
>>(assuming it is true, not 100% sure)?
>
>The 40% relates to people who have actually signed a union card.
>The legislation assumes that if 40% of the workers have actually
>joined the union, the rest will accept representation from it.
>
>You can argue that represents a naive view of group dynamics, but I
>don't consider it "vicious" in any sense of the word.

i do. isn't the middle word in Rae's party's name "Democratic"?

>>i forget all the other details of the NDP's vicious anti-business
>>labor laws. maybe it is the result of subconscious repression; they made
>>me almost literally ill when i first read about them. and then he wonders
>>why businesses are leaving the country. the man is the biggest
>>ass ever to hold office.
>
>I ask again, who's "business"? The most controversial feature of this
>law involved the prohibition on using scab labour for strike-breaking.
>That may cause a problem for senior commercial bureaucrats, but it
>won't lead to much trouble for the owners (mostly workers themselves),
>the line workers (who actually make the products), entrepreneurs, or
>customers.
>
>As its principal effect, this legislation should increase productivity
>by forcing the distribution of the power (and salary) in most enterprises
>down the "pyramid", away from the bureaucrats at the top, and towards
>the workers. And that, (as we see in the Japanese example) will likely
>result in a more productive enterprise.

i can't argue with you because i don't have access to a list of the
specific legislation that Rae has proposed/enacted over his term.
i am going from memory, which is not a particularly strong basis
for argument. if some kind soul can send or point me to a detailed list of
his legislation, i'd be more than happy to provide the explanations
that go with my negative sentiment.

--
charles
Newsgroups: can.politics,soc.culture.canada
From: dmccrea6@mach1.wlu.ca (doug mccready F)
Subject: Re: Deficit, Deficit, who's got the Deficit? was: NDP "communism?"
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:58:01 GMT

Christopher Brown has the answers as to why Rae could control his own
deficit and why the Feds have been cutting the grwoth of transfer payments -
read it again please.
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From: jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley)
Subject: Joining ESNUG
Organization: The E-mail Synopsys Users Group (ESNUG)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:51:58 GMT


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Subject: NIM:  University of Waterloo's Annual Research Review
Organization: Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:24:23 GMT

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From: silver.e@zooid.guild.org (Eric Silver)
Newsgroups: can.jobs
Subject: CONTRACT POSITION AVAILABLE
Date: 21 Jan 93 07:24:52 GMT

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From: uunorth!austin!howie (Howard Prince)
Subject: DBMS Support Position (agency)
Organization: Austin Park Management
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:31:14 GMT


  A North American RDBMS company has an urgent requirement 
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From: silver.e@zooid.guild.org (Eric Silver)
Newsgroups: can.jobs
Subject: CONTRACT POSTION AVAILABLE
Date: 21 Jan 93 07:30:36 GMT

CONTRACT POSTION AVAILABLE
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Subject: Agency: Research Associate\VancouverBC\Chemical Pulping Catalysts\PH
From: vwillden@coast.almanac.bc.ca (Vincent Willden)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 03:35:52 PST
Organization: Coast Personnel Services Ltd. Nanaimo, B.C.

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From: dpenner@ee.ualberta.ca (Darren E. Penner)
Subject: One Immediate / 1-2 Future programming positions.
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:03:11 GMT

AGGRESSIVE, RAPIDLY GROWING Software design firm requires experienced Windows
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From: Alan_York@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan York)
Subject: Wanted: Contract APT/Powerbuilder/Sybase/IDMS, Vancouver
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: can
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:40:24 GMT

We have a number of new projects we are currently assembling in the Vancouver
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2.  Powerbuilder/Sybase for another project of up to a 1 year
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    C and Windows program development experience an asset.

    Someone with IDMS ADSO and Culprit background is also required for this
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Remuneration negotiable.

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