Originally Posted By: King Brown
Bombardier is a bit much, and so is Harper with Verizon. Sticking to free and unfettered markets? Do you know of anything big in industrial development not needing a thumbs-up from the PMO?



King, the Verizon thing is a bit much but it's a ham handed attempt to move away from the all too cozy relationships fostered by the CRTC. My old classmate David Asper's father, Izzy, is just one example of many who worked that system. He made it to over a billion dollars before his children pissed it away and lost the company.

Our governments should be involved in regulation, not management, of businesses and industries. They err greatest when they believe they are managers.

On a side note, I have looked at the list. Not hard to see that many are missing.


The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia