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- From: tech@cs.athabascau.ca (Richard Loken)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Voyageur Buslines files competition complaint against Via Rail Canada
- Keywords: ugh
- Message-ID: <2474@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:54:23 GMT
- Organization: Athabasca University
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- According to the CBC:
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- Voyageur Bus lines filed a complaint today with the Canadian Transport
- Commission that Via Rail is competing unfairly by offering ddep discounts
- on their fares, especially in the Windsor / Quebec City corridor. Voyageur
- claims that they are losing their shirts in the passenger business.
-
- I might be more sympathetic if the Liberal minister of transport (Jean Luc
- Pepin) who raped Via in the 1970's had not been an officer in the corporation
- who owned Voyageur.
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- Further, I feel that Voyageur is being injured by the present cut throat
- environment in the Airline industry just as Greyhound in the USA was before
- them. Greyhound Canada, who made $24,000,000.00 in 1991 and are not closely
- linked to their once parent company in the USA, operates mostly west of
- Toronto and make more money off freight then they do off passenger service.
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