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Typical liberal. Their speeches are on the left but they walk on the right.
Because he, like all major national leadership, refuses to engage with the true cause of unaffordability: unwillingness to tax and regulate the rich.
This isn't unique to Canada. It's a problem in many nations right now.
I think it's a case of "we should bring nations together and look for solutions together"; this problem transcends borders and can't really be solved on our own (it's practically a Timothy Morton hyper-object, the more I think about it).
We are facing a common enemy shared by several states, and we need to understand its scope and root causes. I feel that simply handing out checks as compensation is just a band-aid that won't last. We're far from a lasting solution…
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Canada's case is somewhat unique because we basically have a legalized groccery cartel/monopoly that stiffles competition and gets caught in price fixing schemes.
The Canadian government does seem to favor their cartels, and the right, who keeps saying they're looking out for the little guy, is really against crown corporations, usually using the excuse of competition and the free market. Sadly, the Liberals have also drifted in that direction.
I'm pretty sure it's not something unique to Canada.
I'm not aware of other countries in a similar economic class as Canada that has such ineffective anti monopoly laws. Our corps barely even get a slap on the wrist for their price fixing schemes.
Just asking, is there anywhere that doesn’t have food cost issues? I hear about it from many countries. Inflation is bad.
Ours is purely caused by abusive greed and supermarket monopoly.
Food prices soared everywhere, but here, it’s downright abusive.
Each monopoly is owned by a billionaire family (Weston, Sobey and Coutu).
It's basically medieval feudalism up here. Price fixing and gouging are out of control. If Carney does anything meaningful to disrupt it he will be lauded for it for decades to come.
Compare food prices between Germany and Canada right now...
Carney needs to create favorable conditions for Aldi (a German company) to enter the Canadian market. They already have a strong presence in the north eastern US and they could easily undercut the existing Canadian grocery monopolies. This is a market in desperate need for healthy competition.
Costco already undercuts Canadian grocers. Most Canadians that have one available preferentially go there but it's not enough. If the Canadian grocery market is bloated and inefficient, letting more light and agile (albeit foreign) players in will be a much needed wake up call for domestic corporations.
This is not advocacy to remove all red tape in retail. Target tried to break into the Canadian market and failed miserably because they couldn't adapt to Canada. In my view that's perfectly fine, but Canadians desperately need relief when it comes to cost of food and its unlikely that will come from their grocery oligopoly.
It's probably hard to find somewhere without food cost issues. I'm guessing inflation is being used as an excuse to crank up food prices well beyond the actual inflation value.
If we could lower the rest of the cost of living, food cost would hurt less. Housing is expensive, utilities are unregulated, and gasoline, despite its various subsidies, keeps a relatively high price.
Where do you live that utilities are not regulated?
Alberta, we are unregulated in the fact we get to choose retailers but that's more of an illusion of choice. I believe the distribution and transmission are regulated.
Ah, Alberta. Sorry for your loss.
The hypocritical west is not the whole world. The middle east , africa and most of asia still know the truth. The whole thing about the death of rule based world is only about Greenland nothing else. Not the genocide in gaza, not the genocode in sudan and not in all those africsn countries fueled by europe, the usa, arab dictstorship , russia and china
There is truth in what you're saying but I'm having trouble relating it to the topic at hand.
It is related to the topic of carney's standing up to the USA