
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:56:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: aleck.dadson@enron.com
To: richard.shapiro@enron.com, james.steffes@enron.com, rob.milnthorp@enron.com,
paul.devries@enron.com
Subject: National Post Story

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Attached is the link to a very good article that appeared in the National
Post this morning.  The author, Terry Corcoran, is Canada's senior business
writer and interviewed Ken Lay when he was here. You will see the references
to Ken Lay and Enron.  Terry phoned me yesterday to indicate he had decided
against running the piece today,  after a discussion with Dave Goulding, CEO
of the IMO.   Goulding had evidently told him that there was no immediate
urgency to  the gov't announcing a date.  Dave's concern is that if we press
for a date now we may get the one we don't want (i.e. Spring 2002 rather than
November 2001).  I told Corcoran that I understood Dave's concern but that
there was a need for an early indication from the gov't  that they were
targeting November in order that we maintain momentum among those bodies
(primarily the distributors) which bear the primary responsibility to get the
needed systems in place.  Eric Thode is forwarding a copy to John L.
