Canada has this great piece of fiction you don't see in the US called the Crown Corporation. Its a regular company, but it is wholly owned by the government. Seems to be working pretty well.
>fwiw I bought insurance for a car I bought in Quebec and it was from a >company, but the insurer was ultimately Quebec. I got into the nitty-gritty >of that since my dog had an at-fault accident with the car in Chevy Chase >MD. That was fun ;) > >Back on topic, I considered buying a car in Ontario at looked at insurance, >finding much the same arrangement. > >(But since I had run into a huge hassle at the American border with the >Quebec car a few years earlier, I decided not to go there again. You know. >"If you're a US resident why do you have Quebec tags on your car?" "In >Montreal for the summer? How? Do you have a job? What kind of job? Please >park your car and go discuss this with the supervisor inside the building. >Take the kids and their birth certificates inside with you." > > Yadda yadda. They get bored on that border....I was legal as could be, but >the closest thing to non-routine they had seen in north Vermont for a while >I guess.) > >On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Larry Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm