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12 THE RURAL VOICE
Mabel
's Grill
"Remind me not to get those guys
to build me a fence," said Cliff
Murray the other morning after the
news about how quickly demon-
strators tore down the security fence
at the Quebec summit.
"Yeh, but you're just trying to
keep in
sheep." said
Dave Winston.
"Those
demonstrators
were more like
wild bulls."
"Yeh but
they kind of
followed
Maude Barlow
like a bunch of
sheep,"
growled
George
McKenzie.
"When it
comes to free trade most of these
people can't think for themselves."
"I don't know," said Cliff. "Seems
to me they've got a point now and
then. I mean I don't want the world
turned over to a few big corporations
who don't have to answer to anybody
but their shareholders."
"They have to answer to the
consumers," said George. "It's called
the market and it makes a lot more
sense than politics."
"Oh sure, we've been seeing a lot
of sense lately in the market," said
Dave. "Let's see, what was that
logic? The American economy is in
trouble so investors start to worry. So
they sell off their Canadian dollars,
based on an economy that's doing
well, so they can invest in American
dollars in a country that's pulling the
rest of the world down."
"And that," said Cliff, "makes
American goods more expensive so
people buy fewer American products
so the U.S. economy will go down
more, at which time, I suppose, the
investors buy more American dollars."
"Certainly makes sense to me,"
says Dave.
"And now we've got the same
kind of sense coming with elect-
ricity," said Mabel as she brought
George's bacon and eggs. "The gov-
ernment says we'll have cheaper
electricity if we've got more compet-
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at Mabel's
ition from private industry but first
we have to raise prices so the private
competition can make money or they
won't invest."
"Obviously these guys aren't
farmers if they won't invest until
they're sure they'll make money,"
said Dave.
"The way I see it, the market is
people and people in the market are
just as silly as people anywhere
else," said Cliff.
"Not as silly as those idiots in
PETA," said George. "I mean these
guys are supposed to love animals
but they say they wouldn't prtind
seeing foot and mouth in North
America. All these animals would be
sick but they'd be happy because it
would be hurting farmers who keep
animals. Show me the logic in that."
"I guess it makes about as much
sense as farmers keeping animals
because they like having animals
around then having to kill them to
make money so they can keep, more
animals," said Molly Whiteside.
"What are you, some kind of
animal rights activist?" George asked.
"Just thinking." said Molly.
"Dangerous habit," said Dave. "It
might catch on and then'the world
would be in trouble."
"Well I guess someone was
thinking when they had George Bush
eat PEI potatoes during the Quebec
summit," said Mabel.
"Yeh but George would have to
have a heck of an appetite to solve
PEI's problems," said Cliff. "What'd
he need to eat, about 200 tonnes
worth of potatoes to use up the
potatoes stored down there?"
"I don't think Air Force One
would make it off the ground if he
did," said Molly.
"Kind of sneaky not to tell old
George what he'd eaten before he
flew home. I mean they might have
wanted some sort of quarantine to
keep that potato wart out. Maybe
make George poop before he got
home."
"Yeh, but maybe he'd have
flushed the tanks on Air Force One
somewhere over Canada, then what
would we have got," said Cliff.
"The President doingto us what
the Prime Minister noraally does,"
said George.0