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[The following letter was published in 'Letters to Report on Business' 
in the Dec 27/95 Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. It appears as 
submitted (apart from minor copy editing).]


                        Telecom regulation

Terence Corcoran bemoans cabinet involvement in telecommunications 
regulation (Phone Regulations A Maze of Confusion -- Dec 22) but doesn't 
suggest the only logical alternative: abolishing telecom regulation 
altogether.

    I could write a paragraph here in defense of the efficacy and justice 
of free markets and property rights. Given the space, I could easily write 
an essay or a whole treatise, as so many intellectuals more illustrious 
than I already have, from Smith to Say to Bastiat to Menger to Von Mises. I 
could but I won't -- there is no argument that will ever be able to address 
the complaints and agendas of economic interventionists. Like a mental 
patient who believes aliens are beaming messages into his head (and who 
concludes you are part of the conspiracy if you protest), so does an 
interventionist live in a tidily closed, pseudo-logical world in which 
suggestions of deregulation bring on a sputtering protest of,  "But then 
the market would be unregulated!" Yes, exactly.

    So put me on record as counselling the following: abolish the CRTC and 
dismantle all telecom regulation for the simple reason that business 
executives and their customers should be running the economy, not mental 
patients.

                                                                Brad Aisa,
                                                                   Toronto



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Brad Aisa, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
baisa@hookup.net   web archive: http://www.hookup.net/~baisa/

"The highest responsibility of philosophers is to serve as the
guardians and integrators of human knowledge."   -- Ayn Rand