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Trudeau calls out Poilievre after top Conservative adviser is tied to Loblaw lobbying (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -11 points 9 months ago (19 children)

What has the Trudeau administration done anyway against food inflation in Canada?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (17 children)

You're right, what HAS the Trudeau government done about something it has nothing to do with?!?

AND WHY HAVEN'T THEY DONE IT YET?!?

Look into dairy controls and egg quotas. Shit we even had the Canadian Wheat Board until 2015. Price controls in Canada have been in place for decades.

Government doesn't gouge you for profits; Loblaws, Metro, Empire, and other for-profit grocery companies do. Hell, the Loblaws/Weston cartel secretly fixed high prices for bread for years, gouging consumers to line their pockets.

Unless you're suggesting that the entire food production chain and grocery stores are nationalized, there's pretty much sweet fuck all the government CAN do. If you're going to throw blame around, at least educate yourself about what causes inflation first and blame the right people. Otherwise it's just a shrill straw man argument.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Corporations serve society, not visa versa. If lighter measures do not work, nationalize 'em all. (Many lighter measures have not yet been tried.)

PP would be worse, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In my experience corporations serve their shareholders (and maybe board and executive s).

[–] Kecessa 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Their point is that it's the corporations job to serve society, not the contrary, and if they don't do their job (like you said) they should be nationalized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We might live better if this were true (maybe not), but it is not at all their job. Neither is it our job to serve them.

[–] Kecessa 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If it's not their job to help society then why should we let them exist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You are free to not spend money there
If you took this logic and turned it around, i could see an argument saying the moment you stop helping society why should we let you exist

I agree that in the best interests of having a pleasant place to live, or elected officials should force them to sell at not so great a profit. I feel like "they shouldn't be allowed to exist" is a poor way to put it.

[–] Kecessa 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People who don't help society end up in prison and corporations aren't people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

untrue, many examples first one that comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family

[–] Kecessa 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Go and kill someone and get caught, tell me how that goes for ya 🙂

Also, you're in a Canadian community here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

besides the example i gave actually harming people, and them not being in prison, to go from "people who don't help society" to murder is kind of a stretch isn't it?

you realize it's possible to neither help nor harm society.

i am canadian, are we limited to examples only of canadian's who harm societies, C suite of loblaws isn't in jail are they?