Feb 21
A Thank-you From Mario!
Please see below a note of thanks to all our members supporting Mario and his cause. As a CWB member and supporter if you haven’t yet written to Mr. Cannon on Mario’s behalf , please take a few minutes and do so. You can reference the full story on a February 19th posting below. Thanks Robert Lamb
Dear Serge, Bob, Cy, Andrew, Curtis, Don, and All Others,
Firstly, let me thank you all for of your kind and encouraging words, emails and letters of support. I never realized that there are so many truly “genuine” people out there - I will be always grateful to you. I am now, more that ever, sure that if we keep up the pressure on TC officials and Minister Cannon we will eventually prevail. I never realized till now as how much corporate greed and lack of government regulatory control really does exist in this country of ours. If there is already this much in just this one isolated incident makes one really wonder about the overall state of affairs - absolutely horrifying!!
One unusual thing in this whole disaster is that we have never heard from the real criminals yet - General Motors of Canada (GMC). They have managed to stay clear of all this and used their puppets (TC & RIV) to take the heat of our attacks. It would sure be nice if we could get all of the personal email addresses of all those in positions of control at GMC and start blasting them with daily emails.
I am even willing to bet if Minister Cannon personally called GMC’s chairman of the board and told him to stop all of their BS or face the wrath of the Federal Government things would probably change quickly. This is of course in a “perfect world” but in our “real world” Minister Cannon’s cojones are probably in the back pocket of GMC’s board chairman and we all know that a man without his cojones might as well pack up his things and go home!!
It is amazing as to how deep GMC’s influence and control penetrates. Even newspapers and the visual media do not want to report on this in fear of losing GMC’s advertising revenue stream. If anybody knows of an honest newsperson out there, who is not afraid of the repercussions of going against GMC and the Canadian automobile manufacturers, who’d be willing to expose this affair to the whole of the Canadian population - would probably end up getting some kind of news award.
Every time I walk into my garage and see my Corvette parked there “sans plates” my blood starts to boil, because it keeps on reminding me of how asinine this whole issue around a simple legal importation of an easily modifiable U.S. vehicle has become.
I can only hope that once we win this battle NOBODY will have to go through this again.
Once again I would like to thank you all for your continuing support - it inspires me to keep up the fight!!
May God bless you all,
Mario
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Mario… Maybe you can begin to drive your Vette this way while your waiting… Get yourself a wholesale dealer license. A physical car lot is not necessary for this application, just an office. It’s fairly easy and not too expensive. Insure yourself with a garage policy, and hang your dealer plate on the back of your ride. Away you go! Just a suggestion. Good luck.
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Hello Mario,
I started to write a letter to you, to tell you the same thing and then stopped, thinking that I would call you and suggest it to you on the phone, instead. If there is nothing to stop you, I think it would work well for you, until we sort this thing out. That is how dealers move their cars about, registered, or not. In the meantime, many of us are thinking of you and trying to help. I know that there are going to be more letters of support coming yet.