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If that's the Brian Allison I remember, he understands international trade better than many trade lawyers. Canada's farmers have to, out of self-defence

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I’ve always enjoyed your articles. I hope this venture will be successful. All the best.

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I love your writing but dahling, that shirt with that tie with that jacket -ish! Just kidding.

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Briefly lost me at football with feet, but got me back with money's too tight to mention.😄😉

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Apart from all the other good stuff I’m looking forward to reading what you have to say on the topic of footy ⚽️.

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I can summarize it thus: I dream of a world where, when Man City play Arsenal, they both lose!

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Magic! This Tottenham supporter will probably upgrade to a paid subscription on the basis of that thought alone.

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Go pay John. People don’t value free. Im up to 1000 in less than a year and I’m a nobody. Www.freedomtoffend.com

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I will do but I think I need to show people there is something worth paying for. I only started last Friday and I'm at 155 people over the weekend. I take your point - we (the newspaper industry) gave our product away for two decades before setting up hard paywalls and it was too late. People were too used to getting it for free.

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