There's a Competition Bureau? In Canada?
this post was submitted on 24 May 2024
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What not including the 3rd major player Jim Pattison Group (Overwaitea/SaveOnFoods)? I can't imagine they are not also involved.. We only have 3 major players like we have 3 major telecoms in Canada.
Please do something towards the grocer cartel.
If the liberals donβt smarten up here we could end up with a conservative majority and lose all the hard fought progress.
In case you're wondering why we're even doing this now, it's likely because of the election. The LPC always pulls out the goodies before an election.
Hopefully we can get proportional representation as a goodie too!
No, that one you'll never get.
The LPC (and the CPC) quite like the current setup where they can get a majority with 30ish percent of the vote. This means they get exclusive access to the levers of power every four to eight years and have to trade off periodically, which suits them fine.
PR would mean they'd never get another majority again. It's also mean that the NDP, BQ and/or Greens could get real political power and drive legislation without their involvement, and since the Canadian electorate is generally more left wing that. It's politicians, that would mean more progressive and less business-friendly legislation.
The LPC would be effectively shut out of power as they know it, and their donors would be dealing with a Canada that looks and acts more like western Europe.
The LPC would rather FPTP, where they'd lose an election or two on knowing they'd eventually get a chance again, then see PR where they'd be shut out forever.
For the record, the CPC would have it even worse. They'd instantly lose their protofascist base to extreme right-wing and/or western nationalist parties. There's very little ideological room between the LPC and CPC if you take away the latter's playing footsie with fascism.
There's a Competition Bureau? What have they been doing all this time? Can they take a look at Robellus when they get a chance?
What the fuck took so long? They were foxing the price of bread for over a decade and all we got (if you even found out) a $25 gift card.... Time to nationalize our food supply and take these profit driven fuckwads and throw them in the deepest darkest hole to rot
What a shock that companies that own both real estate and grocery stores create favourable leases for their grocery stores. /s
Cant wait for my $10 gift card!
This is an encouraging step, and it's nice to see the heat being turned up on the grocery monopoly.
I think we need cost controls and compulsory transparency about pricing. What stick exactly are the grocery companies wielding to prevent measures like that from being rolled out? A federal government with vision and principles would have had a plan and gotten this done yesterday. Instead, we're waiting for the assent of megacorps to a non-binding code of conduct, which everybody knows is total vaporware.
I can see why people are disaffected by all the hand waving about 'competition'. Increased competition is probably part of the solution to the problem here. But it's not a valid starting point. It's a result of wise policy and good implementation.