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	<title>The cost of the coast guard and the fire department</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Question: In a recent op-ed ( Financial Post, April 19, 2008), a lawyer criticized the federal government's argument that it costs nothing to protect (or monitor) the seal hunters, because the coast guard's boats and aircraft are owned and the crews are on salary. "Does it cost nothing to put out fires in Toronto because it owns the trucks and firefighters aren't on piecework?," the lawyer asked rhetorically.  <a href="http://www.iedm.org/main/show_exercise_en.php?exercise_id=45">[...]</a>]]></description>
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