A new list has been issued dated October 21st.
Take a look at the following differences report. I guess the folks at Transport Canada have nothing to do anymore so they gave all 3,000 or so employees the chance to change the list all on the same day!
What a mess. And what does it really mean. It would be nice if they had the brains to issue a note indicating what the significant changes were, but we are pretty sure they don’t know themselves. “DIG IN” Mr. Baird!
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So Mr. Harper finally got down to brass tacks and handed out the top jobs to his troops.
Of concern to us is that Mr. Baird is now Transport, Infastructure, and Communities Minister.
Besides being the former federal Environment Minister, Mr. Baird is a former Ontario provincial cabiner minister and played an important role in helping unite the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties into
the new Conservative party.
Assisting Mr. Baird with the Transport porfolio is newly
appointed Minister of State for Transport, Rob Merrifield.
Replacing Mr. Prentice at Industry is former Minister of
Health Tony Clement, who like Mr. Baird is another former
Ontario provincial cabinet minister.
We think Mr. Prentice’s departure is a good thing, he had trouble keeping up with the news.
We are hoping that Mr. Baird, Mr. Merrifield and Mr. Clement will be more receptive to our cause and issues.
What do our members think!
By Don O’Connor
It has been reported that General Motors and Chrysler require $10 billion to bail them out of the current financial crisis. Yes, that’s billion with a “B”! If assistance is not forthcoming more plants will close and thousands of employees will be laid off. What are governments to do?
Continue reading “To Bail Them Out… Or Not!”
So we crunched some numbers today and came up with a 24.11% savings on GoodYear Eagle Ultra Grip GW3 size 205/55/16 see below:
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So in summary, it pays to do your homework and make an informed decision!
This morning the Montreal Gazette published an article on the current state of cross-border vehicle shopping. - what a difference a year makes - 2008-10-21gazette.pdf
Just recently, as July, a 20% savings on a Toyota Sienna has disappeared. But there still appears to be some savings at the high end, .. Jaguars, BMW and Mercedes.
Our advice, hunker down! The recession is just about to hit. Keep your powder dry!
Continue reading “Gazette tells us “Cross-Border” Shopping Drying Up!”
