From the 10/31/66 Automotive News:
Studebaker's Import of VWs Stirs Hassle in Canada
Ottawa, Ont - A spirited debate in the House of Commons was touched off last week by the disclosure that Studebaker of Canada had imported thousands of VWs from Germany duty free and then resold them to VW of Canada.
Alfred Hales, a member of Commons called it "a scandalous and shocking situation in which the taxpayers of Canada have been shortchanged by $2millon by means of tax evasion".
Gordon Grundy, president of Studebaker of Canada, defended the action and said the arrangements were made "fully in accord with the regulations of the Government of Canada".
"They have been and are available to to any Canadian automobile manufactur and were made with the full knowledge and consent of the Canadian Government" he added.
A spokesman for VW Canada said the company had bought about 10,000 VWs which Studebaker had imported between January and June 1965. Studebaker discontinued auto production last spring.
The article goes on (which I am not going to type), but I find it interesting that this was just coming to light in October of '66
Studebaker's Import of VWs Stirs Hassle in Canada
Ottawa, Ont - A spirited debate in the House of Commons was touched off last week by the disclosure that Studebaker of Canada had imported thousands of VWs from Germany duty free and then resold them to VW of Canada.
Alfred Hales, a member of Commons called it "a scandalous and shocking situation in which the taxpayers of Canada have been shortchanged by $2millon by means of tax evasion".
Gordon Grundy, president of Studebaker of Canada, defended the action and said the arrangements were made "fully in accord with the regulations of the Government of Canada".
"They have been and are available to to any Canadian automobile manufactur and were made with the full knowledge and consent of the Canadian Government" he added.
A spokesman for VW Canada said the company had bought about 10,000 VWs which Studebaker had imported between January and June 1965. Studebaker discontinued auto production last spring.
The article goes on (which I am not going to type), but I find it interesting that this was just coming to light in October of '66
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