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Wednesday Night Salon #980
December 13, 2000 sooncome Calendar

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Jeremy Jonas

There has been a major shake-up at Bombardier and a young friend of ours, Jeremy Jonas, has just gone to work for them as VP Corporate. Jeremy is out of Wharton Business School and spent several years with McKinsey before joining Peachtree as CEO.

15/Dec/2000 Embraer deal decried
By: SHEILA McGOVERN The Gazette
Within days of getting its wrists slapped by the World Trade Organization, Brazil was back selling airplanes at a price Canada insists is unfair to other manufacturers, most notably Bombardier Inc.
Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA, better known as Embraer, announced yesterday it has signed a $900- million (U.S.) contract with SA Airlink of South Africa for 30 firm orders of 37-seat regional jets and 40 options on additional jets, possibly 70-seaters, over the next 10 years.
Montreal Gazette - Thursday 7 December 2000 - Major shuffle at Bombardier Bombardier Inc. announced a major shuffle of its top ranks yesterday, including the elevation of company chairman Laurent Beaudoin's son Pierre to the key post of president of Bombardier Aerospace's business-aircraft division.

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August 17, 2000 Peachtree Network Debuts World's 1st Wireless Online Grocery Peachtree Network Inc. (CDNX:PCH), the leading innovator in online grocery and food-related services, today announced the launch of the world's first wireless Internet grocery shopping service. Residents of Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver can now shop for groceries over the Internet via Internet-enabled cellular phones.

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Rex Murphy

December 13, 2000
Demand a recount The next time you go to the supermarket and buy a dozen Florida oranges don't leave the store without demanding a recount. Twelve is a large number in Florida and simple arithmetic is not their strong suit.
13/Dec/2000 In the picture
By: LARRY MACDONALD The Gazette
Ever since AT&T Corp. introduced the first picture telephone at the World Fair in 1964, videoconferencing has been seen as an area of immense commercial opportunity. Attempts to exploit these opportunities over the years, however, never got much beyond Fortune 100 corporations and federal governments.
But it now appears that the proliferation of broadband Internet Protocol networks will finally allow videoconferencing to move to the mass-
12/Dec/2000 COMPAQ CANADA INVESTS $10 MILLION US IN CANADIAN INTERNET INCUBATOR ITEMUS
Compaq Canada announced Tuesday that it is investing $10 million US in itemus Inc., a Canadian high-tech incubator. The investment will give Compaq Canada a 12.6 per cent stake in the company. FULL STORY:
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Wednesday Night Salon #980
December 13, 2000
INTRODUCTIONS

CANADIANS AND DOT COMs
There exists an image of dot coms as companies whose main product is debt, who run a gigantic lottery producing winners and losers among investors, who distinguish themselves from each other by their skill in predicting how the market will react to the hype and in being sufficiently astute to escape just before the bubble bursts. This has not been the portrait of the young Canadian men and women who have attended the Wednesday Night Salon throughout 2000, who, with limited capital but unlimited skills, have launched Internet companies whose products were the technical and intellectual skills, enthusiasm and imagination of their founders and a sense of realism and responsibility of the young Canadians that built the company. Although their business is conducted globally, they have chosen to earn their livelihood in this country and represent the hope of a bright future for us all.
THE U.S. PRESIDENCY

Al Gore has conceded, providing the world with a larger than life drama that will undoubtedly focus our attention in the cold winter days and nights ahead. There is some speculation as to what the exact scenario will be, but it may include
A difficult battle for President-elect George W. Bush as he can anticipate being fought at every turn, especially in the appointment of new Justices to the United States Supreme Court, as some of the senior ones retire.
One or more unofficial recounts of ballots in Florida. In the United States, ballots may be counted by anyone making the request. If indeed, Gore should have won, there may be much resentment among the natives.
As voting machines are under state control and as counties are unlikely to be willing to spend the necessary money to replace them, there remains the possibility of a sequel to the stage play.
New standards may be set.
TROUBLE IN THE P.Q.

Yves Michaud

Yves Michaud and the B’Nai Brith have had a go at each other. While it may be that Michaud used the insult to evade the question. the virtue of which is not an issue, it may just be recurring evidence that the Parti Québecois, in confusing language and culture, continues to divide Quebeckers into convenient, segregated boxes, while welcoming people of totally different cultures, but who speak the French language, as acceptable cultural brothers. There may be a different explanation, which does not appear to be evident to many.
(Editor's Note: since the Wednesday Night discussion, much has transpired including the joint resolution of censure in the National Assembly and Michaud's (quite logical) reaction that the Assembly has no jurisdiction over him as a private citizen. The PQ appears to be in error - could it be the Liberals set them up? Some strategic thinkers believe that federalists should work for Michaud's election. The old theory about the camel and the tent might not prove to be so serendipitous in this case. Certainly this saga will continue. Yves Michaud notes a colection of media stories)
GOVWERNMENET GRANTS, SUBSIDIES AND HANDOUTS
Why Corporate Welfare? In the Global marketplace, countries, provinces and states compete with one another to attract investment to their jurisdiction. Whatever the ethics of this practice, it is unlikely to change.
QUOTE OF THE EVENING

"Words don’t answer culture."

"There is a pride of place and I think it is terribly important to keep this in the artistic world because we have lost it in the sports world."

"(Bombardier) is a well-founded, well-managed and very successful company ... If their product is so ... good, why do we keep giving them tax money?"

"We are talking about competition between nation states."

"We continue to subsidize our own industry because we fear that we can’t compete."

Diana Nicholson

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The Gazette Board of Contributors Desmond Morton Is director of the McGill Centre for the Study of Canada. The views of contributors are not necessarily those of The Gazette.

17/Dec/2000 #8 NDP dances with oblivion
By: DESMOND MORTON
Reactions to the Nov. 27 election have ranged from a loud cockadoodle from our prime minister to an equally predictable pout by newspaper magnate Conrad Black, whose massive investment in managing Canadian opinion netted the Canadian Alliance only six new seats, none of them where the National Post circulates widely.
The election was not meaningless. The bulk of the losses fell on the three small parties and, barring a major change of heart or shrewd tactics, Canadians have delayed a U.S.-style party system by a parliamentary term. After 2005, Canadians might have to choose between a right-wing and a righter-wing party, just as Americans are stuck with Democrats and Republicans.
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November 2000

Robin Wohnsigl
"Air Canada has invested in excess of a billion dollars in its technical operations over the years, and has built a strong reputation for quality service, both internally and with third party customers," said Robert Milton, President and Chief Executive Officer. "The creation of Air Canada Technical Services will allow us to maximize the value of our investment and enhance shareholder value by competing for profitable third party contracts either directly or through joint ventures." Robin Wohnsigl has been named President of the new organization, bringing over thirty-five years of experience in the airline industry including, most recently, three years as Vice President, then Senior Vice President, Technical Operations at Air Canada. He has also held senior positions in aircraft maintenance within the airline industry. For more see Fed Gov notes
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