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[-] dom@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

We need subsidized grocers. Theres no reason the government cant run grocery stores that keeps things as close to cost as possible.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's a slippery slope there. I mean, what's next, nationalizing our energy production to make gas and utilities affordable?

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago
[-] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Then pharmacare. Then dental care. Then all the rest of healthcare that our strangled system has left to the private market. Then the telecoms. Then public transit.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago
[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Québec did it. Why can't the rest?!

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Theres no reason the government cant run grocery stores

Even if they did, as soon as there is a conservative government again, they'll privatize it and sell it off for pennies on the dollar to their friends.

[-] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Since when does the LPC need the Cons to privatize public services?

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Historically it's been the Cons that have privatized more government assets than any other party.

[-] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

For sure, they did. Most of the big stuff was started, if not completed, by Conservative administrations.

But Chrétien and Martin continued the process. Air Canada, Petro-Can, and CN Rail were all initiated by Mulroney but completed by Liberal PMs.

My point is, I don't see the LPC as reliable defenders of public services and I think it's dangerous to view them as an ally in that context.

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Too true. Too many dumb dumbs who fall for the cons shit

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This point hits hard in the US right now.

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