[Keith Tedford]

I worked in GM Oshawa for 41 years and got a pretty good insight into the workings of the company at least at the factory level. If the company is ever to turn around successfully, there have to be a lot more changes that just Rick Wagoner. The whole mind set of management has to change or be changed. There were foremen/women in the truck plant who had no clue about what their workers did....even after having it explained to them. All some were good at was handing out written reprimands. Sad. I don't include the unions in this because they have not really been much of a factor for the last 15-20 years despite the public notion that they cary any clout. They were powerful at one time but not any more. I cringe at the thought of government and union control of the business. It won't work. Period. Canada has been far more into socialism than the US. The Canadian National Railway was a government run money loser for years. Now privately run, it makes money. There are other examples. The only reason that the socialism appears to work in Canada is because we are rich in natural resources and we have piggy backed on the American economy. Check out how the economy of Argentina faired over the last 40 years with dictatorship and socialism. Went bust. If GM survives, it will with an awful lot of continuing tax payer help. I'm certainly not counting on a GM pension.