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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: High Duties => Increased Competitiveness?
Message-ID: <22@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 02:45:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 02:45:25 1985
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Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 

In article <2550@watcgl.UUCP> jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) writes:
>price.  Since these figures come from the North-South institute are
>they for Canada & US (& maybe Mexico) in which case they work out to
>< $2/yr/person (pretty small) or are they just for Canada?  How much
>is actually spent on clothes in total (i.e. is $500 million 50%, 10%,
>1% or 0.1% of the total?).

The above questions are  rather irrelevant. The fact of the matter is
that (low-tech) jobs are being subsidized to the tune of $83,000 per. 
If that isn't a gross misallocation of resources then I don't know what is.

J.B. Robinson

The opinions expressed above may concur exactly with those of Ed
Broadbent. Then again, they may not.