Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Fixing Canada's grocery prices problem: the Competition Bureau's plan | About That" video.

  1.  @johnnolan5579  Yes it is true. And Canada was much better off under Harper unless you're one of those bitter Ontarians.
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  2.  @gnarCR  Smaller stores are "unaffordable" because they can't afford to buy in bulk and they don't have the space.
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  3. Canada already has Whole Foods.
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  4. There hardly anything capitalist about government over-regulation that enables and encourages oligopoly.
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  5. No they shouldn't as the only things that will ensure are mismanagement and shortages.
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  6. And replace it with socialism where you won't have any food to eat.
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  7. Because Canadians will just simply pay the higher prices and move on.
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  8. Also income tax. Its abolishment is long overdue.
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  9. And end up with empty shelves. Just what Canada needs.
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  10.  @avibarman  Alcohol is not a basic need.
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  11. Canada has government-imposed landing fees and too much distance between local destinations.
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  12.  @rps1689  Transport costs.
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  13. No it's not. And this is a Canadian channel.
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  14. <The only solution is Government regulation! > Say HELLO to higher prices and less available for purchase.
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  15. Namely ethnic food stores.
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  16. You mean Justin Trudeau. Harper was decent.
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  17. Plus Canada does not have the population or density to support more competition.
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  18. <They don't want things produced locally. Why?> Control. <The government doesn't do enough to help producers. > The government does plenty to hinder producers.
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  19.  @boshkodjordjevich7424  <This is a great example how unchecked and unregulated private power, leads to gross abuses in market behaviour. > Not really. This is a consequence of Canada's market being over-regulated.
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  20. How about no?
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  21.  @PyeGuySailing  No. Afraid that we will run into shortage issues like what Zimbabwe and Venezuela did when they tried what you advocate.
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  22. No. The government is the ultimate monopoly.
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  23. Good for you, but not everyone can farm or really need to. Hence, commercial farming. Grocery stores are a necessity in the city.
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  24.  @guymontag2948  <If everyone has their own little plot, it's just far less space and labor efficient. Besides, as I mentioned, I personally don't want to live an agrarian lifestyle, and certainly not at my latitude.> Haiti actually tried that after independence only to reinstate slavery, because a lot of people starved.
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  25. <tell them Canadians are coming for them,> LOL.
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  26. Still seething, Dipper?
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  27.  @AK-pz7om  But no one envies the EU's immigration policies.
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  28. No we don't. Either produce or buy your own.
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  29. Canada is too vast for that. It's easier for other countries to have standard fixed pricing since they have less territory needed to cover.
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  30. Nationwide shortages. Just like Venezuela and North Korea.
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  31. Not everyone can or need to farm. Plus, there is only so much farmable land to go around.
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  32. Now we don't. And the government "stepping in" is why things have gotten expensive in the first place.
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  33.  @kylecgobel  No it wouldn't. Canada doesn't need anymore people collecting cheques just for existing at all.
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  34. <The big Grocers get away with it because they think that we need them.> Well, we do. Especially those who live in a city.
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  35. Thanks to carbon and fuel taxes.
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  36. <Trudeau knows nothing about economics > Neither do most Canadians, especially those who voted for him. <thee is no money left for travel, entertainment, leisure, splurging on merchandise. > That just might be a good though, though as too many Canadians live beyond their means and then have the nerve to complain about being in debt and having money problems.
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  37. Just like apathy and envy consume all behavior at the bottom.
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  38.  @RideAcrossTheRiver  Loser.
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  39. Because it costs more to transport along with build and maintain infrastructure in Canada due to being oversized and sparsely populated. Never mind that Canada has domestic trade restrictions the federal government chooses to do nothing about.
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  40.  @Valkyri3Z  I thought governments were responsible for infrastructure. And private companies are not responsible for the trade barriers provincial governments impose on each other.
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  41. <Freeze food prices and make Grocery Stores pay for it in their taxes.> And then consumers pay for it in the form of higher prices and less food available to buy. Venezuela already tried what you advocate.
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  42. And subsequent shortage.
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  43. <So large and so integral to modern life in this country that Canada - its people> Namely those who live in the city.
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  44. Over Quebec's dead body will Metro be bought out by Sobeys.
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  45. Like South Korea and Japan.
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  46. Not really. And the government is the reason for the higher prices.
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  47. CBC is a state-owned news agency.
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  48. Plus Canada is too underpopulated and bureaucratic to support more competition.
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  49. And the solution is what? Socialism which you'll be lucky to have any food at all to buy at any price.
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  50. No it isn't. You don't have the right what someone else produced.
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  51.  @themajesticend491  Follow your own advice. No one is owed anything.
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  52. While socialism epitomizes monopoly. State monopoly, that is.
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  53.  @ShawnHCorey  Yes socialism is. Interesting how socialism falls apart when it gets the democracy it claims to require to function properly.
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  54. The business-owners are far from incompetent.
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  55.  @momtur4875  Understand what? Anything government-run = mismanaged, inefficient, inadequate.
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  56.  @approots  ROFL.
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  57.  @RideAcrossTheRiver  While in Cuba, only the government eats.
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  58.  @RideAcrossTheRiver  No they don't and hardly anyone in Canada is in a hurry to trade places with a Cuban.
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  59.  @cantwait  There are more Canadians who don't have a family doctor than Americans who don't have healthcare insurance.
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  60. How many people even buy a cell phone from anyone other than its manufacturer?
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  61. Canada's policies enable and encourage monopolies.
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  62. As a matter of government policy.
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  63. <Canadians can also do the math. Our education credentials may not be from Harvard or Columbia but our Canadian education credentials have more than equipped us.> Not really judging by their high household/consumer debt.
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  64. Jim Pattison.
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  65.  @rps1689  Thanks to the (provincial) government mandating the competition out of business as they were deemed non-essential.
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  66. Define real human because real humans are narcissistic as well. Plus, the PM is just a reflection of the so-called real humans who happily voted for him.
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