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   From: dave-no_spam@unixhome.net   
      
   "John Fleming"  wrote in message   
   news:4tk6i393s91cc6nifnaldpop3qftu9f9d4@4ax.com...   
   > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:25:14 +1000, while chained to a desk   
   > in the scriptorium "A Mate"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> $Loada' crap!   
   >> $   
   >> $And even the author knows it!   
   >   
   > The only people who are going to cross the border to shop in   
   > the US are those who could buy stuff for lower prices in the   
   > US and not have the savings eaten up by travel costs, and   
   > those who go down to the US for other reasons like business   
   > and tourism.   
   >   
   > The quaking retailers are those in places like Windsor where   
   > a trip across the border is a 10 minute drive.   
      
   Which is most of the population of Canada. Vancouver, Toronto, Hamilton,   
   Windsor, Montréal, Quebec, etc.  Well, maybe more than 10 minutes but   
   certainly many travel longer inside of Canada to shop.   
      
   Me, it is Montana.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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