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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: egg/chicken chicken/egg chigg/eckin
Message-ID: <1599@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 10:47:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 10:47:14 1985
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Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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>>This is precisely the main thesis of the Brandt Commission report of 1982(1?).
>>If the Western world does not ensure that the Third World improves
>>drastically its standard of living, the Western economies will collapse.
>>If they do develop their internal economies so that they can support
>>a significant level of trade with us, not only they, but we will be
>>much better off.  
>
>Tell that to Bangladesh (sp?). After pouring in megabucks in aid to that
>country, so that among other things they can develop a textile industry,
>the Government insists on putting quotas on the shirts they export to 
>Canada. Makes a lot of sense, eh?
>
>J.B. Robinson

No. Tell it to the Canadian Government and the protectionist lobbyists.
I expect the Bangladesh Government and others in similar situations
are well aware of the inconsistency.
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Martin Taylor
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