Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Price check: Why are grocery prices in Canada's North so high? (Marketplace)" video.

  1. Agreed. They chose to live out there. Let them live with the consequences of doing so.
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  2. Just like how it have never been more than to make people lazy, dependent and irresponsible.
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  3. Like what?
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  4. Maybe, but it still wouldn't make much of a difference due to shipping and transport costs.
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  5. It figures. The Bahamas is a small island and doesn't produce much.
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  6.  GoldenShower Potato  But the animal rights groups would throw a fit.
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  7. How exactly? I say the geography screwed over the people of Iqaluit far more than the Federal government did.
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  8. But who's going to pay for maintenance?
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  9.  @Frank183847572828  No thanks. And how exactly can you build an automated pipeline hyperloop under the Hudson Strait?
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  10.  @takeadayofff  But the climate and geography makes it costly if not impossible.
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  11. Canada is oversized and underpopulated with the major cities being too far away from each other. Trade barriers within Canada. It's much easier and cheaper for a province to trade with a foreign country than a neighboring province.
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  12. It is transportation. The North is far more remote and harder to get to than Cambodia.
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  13. Their shipping is subsidized by Canada Post.
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  14. But they pay more in rent.
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  15. How is that going to work in the Arctic where the sunshine doesn't last very long?
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  16. Because permafrost makes them useless and too costly to maintain. And since Nunavut's capital is situated on an island surrounded by deep water, a rail network is out of the question.
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  17. But so is the COL, so that's not saying much. Plus, the North have to import everything.
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  18. Agreed, but how how exactly do you grow your own food in the Arctic?
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  19. Iqaluit is literally on an island in the North. Railways are out of the question. Ditto for harbors as it's too small and isolated for one and the waters are too icy for any boat travel.
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  20. But lower price also mean lower revenues especially in a place like Nunavut which doesn't have the population to support lower prices in the face of higher operating and shipping costs trying to be financially viable.
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  21. No they can't. The land is just simply not fit to build any train or road infrastructure due to permafrost. And shipping and transportation costs are the reason why products cost more in the North. Plus, it doesn't help that hardly anyone lives there.
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  22. And then animal activists will cry foul.
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  23. But so are the living costs.
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  24. I didn't know that.
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  25.  @chetanaik  Exactly.
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  26. Hawaii is an island far away from the mainland where everything has to be imported.
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  27. How? Nothing can be built underground in the North due to permafrost.
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  28. Transportation and logistics costs are the reason for the high prices. Trudeau has nothing to do with this. That's the price to pay for wanting to live in a remote area.
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  29. Whatever, eugenecist!
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  30. Due to everything having to be imported as Hawaii is too remote and too small to produce much for its own sustainability.
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  31. How is it force? Those others are free to maintain their own culture all they want, but they should be willing and able to accept the responsibilities and consequences of doing such at their own expense.
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  32. LMAO.
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  33. Only for the people to squander it and it's all back to square one.
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  34. But the land is mostly uninhabitable.
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  35. Nunavut has no road access. Everything has to be flown in.
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  36. You can't build train tracks out there. They'll just crumble due to permafrost and the general lack of use.
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  37. Exactly.
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  38. How do you build a rail line across permafrost and deep sea?
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  39. And the foods with any nutritional value due to the amount of time it takes to reach destination would rotted along the way having short shelf-lives.
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  40. Transportation costs?
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  41. <but the people in the North pay excessive grocery prices> Because it costs an arm and leg to ship anything there. Plus, the population in the North just isn't big enough to support lower prices.
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  42. Yeah! And watch inflation hit rendering that money worthless.
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  43. How can they when it costs them a fortune to have the food transported over?
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  44. Or company charges more to compensate for the miniscule customer base it has. It doesn't have the economy of scale to compete with the companies in the city with a much bigger base.
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  45.  @takeadayofff  Delaware's a country?
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  46. And who are those "money-hungry thieves" by the way? It's not just the transportation costs. It's also the low customer base companies are selling to.
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  47. The free market does exist. It's not the free market's fault that the North is next to impossible to do business in due to its inaccessibility and remoteness.
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  48. Shipping costs.
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  49.  @thatsenoughoutofyou  Because Canada doesn't have the military personnel to defend the North against Russia.
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  50. Food in the South is not expensive, because it is well-populated and is connected to major transport routes.
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  51. It's 3 to 7K CAD.
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  52. But Nunavut isn't big enough to support more competition.
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  53. But the thing about the North is that barely anyone lives there to begin with so costs have to be raised to compensate for the low sales volume.
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  54. Seal, fish and caribou hunting.
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  55. How? They're just trying to recoup all the costs of having to ship the products out in the middle of nowhere.
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  56. But Canada's healthcare is among the bottom tier.
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  57. Those areas hardly have any people to begin with.
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  58. Because the government loves power.
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  59. What free shipping? Amazon is subsidized by Canada Post.
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  60. But in the North, growing your own food is just not a viable option.
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  61. It makes perfect sense. And Nunavut, the place in question, is an island.
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  62. Canada is the 2nd largest country in terms of land-size, not population. Population-wise, Canada is 37th.
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  63.  @Khymeira  Or Hawaii.
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  64.  @haileybaby7615  But they definitely chose to stay there.
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  65. <We have the ability to make life easier> You already did that with welfare. What has that accomplished thus far besides make the North helpless and dependent with no sense of purpose in life?
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  66. Canada is not the Netherlands as it doesn't have anywhere near the same climate.
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  67. So what's stopping you?
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  68. Like America did with its Native Americans?
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  69. The minimum wage is not $15 yet anywhere. At best it's $12.
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  70. But animal-rights activists would start raising hell.
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  71.  @Martin721237  Transportation costs are the reason for the food prices they pay out there, especially to a place that's inaccessible by anything other than cargo plane.
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  72. This is about logistics, not wealth "inequality."
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  73. Those prices are "horrible," only because it costs a lot of money and time to transport the food in a place that is no man's land.
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  74. Canada doesn't have France's climate or geography.
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  75. Hundreds of years ago, they were dying at 35-40.
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  76. Because it's on an island where you would also have to build a bridge. In other words, too costly and too much of a waste as the roads and railways would crumble due to maintenance costs, permafrost and the general lack of use. And Iqaluit is isolated.
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  77.  @thatsenoughoutofyou  It's not the outside country's fault that Canada doesn't have the population to defend the vast land it has and depends on the US for military protection.
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  78. And where's the money going to come from to pay for shipping and logistics not just employee salaries, rent and utilities?
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  79. They pay so much largely to cover the cost of transporting the goods to their otherwise inaccessible and remote neck of the woods in the first place.
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  80. How? Nunavut is an island. And the rest of the territories are inaccessible by land due to the climate.
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  81. How exactly? The suppliers have to pay through the nose in money and time to get the goods to a rather remote and borderline inaccessible area where barely anyone live at. The high prices they charge is to recoup. Otherwise they would have never bothered with the place.
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  82. OUCH!
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  83. You mean wanting to stay there.
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  84. Due to the general lack of viable transport means.
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  85. Much of what ails Native Indians happened under Liberal leadership.
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  86. Growing food locally is not a viable option up North as there is no arable land to grow anything on due to the Arctic climate.
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  87. LOL.
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  88. Nunavut has no real industries and much of the salaries are taxpayer-subsidized.
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  89. And die out by age 40?
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  90.  @thatsenoughoutofyou  But that's not socialism. Try state-controlled economies.
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  91. How? You can't build anything underground in a locale known for permafrost.
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  92. It's an issue because of geography and logistics.
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  93. Transport costs =/= greed.
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  94. But even then, people would still have to pay through the nose due to the costs of getting the goods into the locale in the first place.
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  95. But the Philippines is poor.
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  96. Better than socialism where that family wouldn't have any food to buy let alone at the prices being charged in their neck of the woods.
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  97. But in the place in question's case, the train is useless as it's on an island.
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  98. 9:25 Here's the thing. Every other Canadian lives where the jobs and people are. There are neither jobs nor people in the North.
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  99. The government didn't force the Inuits to live that far north. They were already there and stayed by choice.
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  100. Simple. Canada is oversized relative to its population.
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  101. No. And the salaries of the people who live there are already government-subsidized. Namely those who moved out from Toronto, Vancouver, etc. for jobs.
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  102. Their pay is government-subsidized and the rents up there make Vancouver look like a slum.
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  103. This outrageously high prices in the North is due to transport costs as Nunavut is remote.
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