Flag-Waving Isn't Enough

Good article. Too much hand-wringing and nostalga; these companies' need to b bought to survive. Hopefully new management will have the vision to bring them to life.

I don't know. Perhaps the author should have mentioned the federal Liberal policy of allowing the sell-out of our economy, is that a possibility?

I feel that the people who run the Bay, or Molson`s don`t want to work hard enough to change with the times. They`d rather sell out, because it`s easier, then they can get out of the game with pockets lined! So yeah, they wrap themselves in the flag, but they surely don`t mean it!!

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Dave Ruston

Oh, one more thing. Canadian companies have to stop comparing themselves to, and thinking they must compete solely with, US companies. Just like IKEA is now in Canada, why can`t the Bay, or Leon`s, or the Brick go to Sweden? Or Germany? Or Japan? These Canadian corporate elites talk a big game on the subject of 'globalization' but they surely don`t think global. They are mentally colonized and are trapped in that north-south mentality!

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Dave Ruston

It night be hard to take a bite out of these foreign markets in retailing, because Europeans are quite nationalst, but they oculd try....or they could be satisfied with doing well in Canada and stop trying to lengthen the manhood in their wallets.

Yes, i agree, you`d think that they`d be happy enough in a lucrative Canadian market. But Europe has opened its doors to McDonalds, Coke, etc. Frankly, I think Europe would embrace Canadian products and business more so than xenophobic USA. And there`s also the emerging billion people markets of India and China.

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Dave Ruston

Yeah, and China appears ready to buy anything.