Unpublished
29th June 1995
Re: Nothing Goofy, ROB, June 29th - there are too many unanswered questions.
What else was in this historic ‘trade’ deal? Did we get Disney to increase the historic number of dwarves so that there is one for each Canadian province and territory to offset the fact that the Mounties will probably now have to wear promotional uniforms taken from characters in each successive Disney blockbuster?
‘ Excuse me sir, I’m Constable Christopher Robin from the Wawa Free Willie detachment and we are just doing spot checks along the Trans-Fantasia Highway. I need to see your Captain Hook car insurance and your Epcot driver’s licence’.Does Disney own the the marketing rights to FBI badges and Secret Service suits, sunglasses and hearing aids or can an Honest Ed Mirvish still submit a reciprocal licensing agreement?
What is Disney contributing for its 49% per cent share? Aside from Canadians now helping to subsidise Disney’s marketing division what proportion of their percentage went to cover legal services and protection? What does this say for the combined efforts of the Solicitor General’s office and the Mounties when we cannot provide basic legal and policing services to protect our own semiotics?
At this rate once the maple leaf and the peace tower go we will soon run out of intellectual properties in the public domain that can be traded to “offset federal budget cuts”. It is time both to think of new cultural symbols for the trinket trade and have a full shareholders meeting.
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