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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: The partition of Quebec (from an APEC pamphlet)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.003506.5320@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- References: <1992Nov16.031509.291@csi.uottawa.ca> <schuck.721933027@sfu.ca> <BxvuyB.3vM@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:35:06 GMT
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- In article <BxvuyB.3vM@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
- >>>In article <schuck.721856976@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
- >>>Well, here's a causality chain:
- >>>1) Quebec separates
- >>>2) CSQ cuts off trade with Quebec
- >>> This has the result:
- >>>3) Ontarians whose jobs depend on imports from Quebec find their jobs
- >>>at least disrupted. If they're not lucky, the jobs may be lost
- >>>altogether. This means that:
- >
- >This statement is misleading. The actual statement should be that
- > Ontarians whose jobs depend on EXPORTS to Quebec ...
- >
- >You have more jobs thanks to export and lose 'cause of import.
-
- You stumbled onto my underlying point!
-
- Guess what? BOTH import and export related jobs would get pretty
- trashed under the conditions of an "embargo".
-
- I said "imports" meaning "imports".
-
- If an Ontario company depends on parts that they buy from Quebec, when
- that trade gets cut off, their supply gets, (surprise!) terminated.
-
- They then have to search for another supplier that isn't in
- Quebec.
-
- That may take some time.
-
- Such suppliers may have gone out of business, because they used to
- sell to Quebec, and got their sales cut off. (It was a sudden
- separation, so there wasn't six weeks to look around for alternatives
- ahead of time.)
-
- The problem may not be that of getting the PARTS - it may be the
- problem of getting transportation. The day after trade is cut off,
- there's going to be a lot of trucking companies that go out of
- business. Not because there weren't clients around SOMEWHERE, but
- because they couldn't find them in time.
-
- EVERYBODY gets hurt. Importer and exporter alike, and anybody that is
- faintly involved with inter(national|provincial) trade.
-
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