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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-05-30, Page 161»age 4—Crossroads---May' 80,184 Mainstream Canada HOW strange it is By W. Roger Worth It's a weird, weird world. If you don't agree, just consi- der a fOyZof the latest hap- penings both at home and abroad. 0 0 0 In an effort to provide Canadians with a bigger chunk of the oil industry, the federal government set up Petro -Canada, which used taxpayer dollars to pay a high price for, first, Petro- fina, then British Petroleum. In this way, it Was argued, Canadians would be able to purchase petroleum prod- ucts from their very own oil company, thus saving us all money in the long run. Many Canadians didn't agree with the new policy, but at least there was a cer- tain amount of logic attached to the proposition. So what does the fledgling Petro -Canada announce? The organization will be closing down 400 service sta- tions across the country. Somehow, that doesn't compute. Shouldn't Petro - Canada be opening, rather than closing stations as it at- tempts to make its products available to more and more of its taxpayer -owners? 0 0 0 The wonderful world of in- ternational finance is per- haps unfolding as it should. Over the years the interna- tional banks (including Canada's) loaned too many billions of dollars to third world and particularly South American countries. When some recipients of the funds couldn't even pay the debt charges on the money, the once prudent bankers loaned them more money to cover ,the interest payments..Now that may sound like an odd way to operate a bank, but it is the latest move in the world of international fin- ance that seems to come di- rectly from Alice in Wonder- land. The bankers, it' seems, have allowed several coun- tries to lend a few billion dol- lars to a neighbor 'so the in- terest can be paid on some of the borrower's huge loans. What's mind-boggling is that high risk Mexico,; which owes she bankers almost as much as anyone else in the world, was one of the lend- ers. That's a lot like one bankrupt individual bailing out another by lending ui she doesn't have. 0 0 0 The principle of connect- ing compensation to results seems a good one. If a com- pany's managers can double or triple profits, then those responsible for the good re- sults deserve bonuses. Latching onto a good con- cept, the elite that run the country's Crown (govern- ment-owned) corporations have taken the age-old busi- ness concept one step fur- ther. Recently, Crown -owned aircraft companies awarded hefty bonuses to their top executives. What's wrong with that? Last year these companies chalked up the largest losses in Canadian corporate his- tory. The new question, of course, is what would occur if by some miracle the Crown corporations actually made money? Would the executives take a pay cut? The top brass needn't worry. 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