Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site winston.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!ubc-vision!winston!pajari From: pajari@winston.UUCP (George Pajari) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Eastern Myopia and the Crow Rate Message-ID: <106@winston.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 16:18:22 EST Article-I.D.: winston.106 Posted: Thu Dec 6 16:18:22 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 09:44:05 EST References: <653@watcgl.UUCP>, <218@looking.UUCP> Organization: New Media Technologies, Burnaby, BC, CANADA Lines: 10 A: I am one inhabitant of the West who strongly believes the Crow Rate had to go, however... B: one must recall that large parts of Western Canada were given to the (Eastern) railways in return for the Crow Rate. Do you know how much of downtown Vancouver (for example) is owned by CP and CN? Put it this way, when the government needed land for a) the rapid transit system, and b) expo 86 they dealt with Marathon Realty (the property arm of CP Rail)!