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afransen
Senior Member
This really echoes what I have said before, that we should be treating the housing bubble as a national crisis that will severely impair young people's ability to start families.
kEiThZ
Superstar
Aren't young people kinda doing exactly that as they seek to vote out the government they perceive as hostile to their interests?
SubHuman
Active Member
Pakistan International Airlines blames "Canada's relatively liberal asylum policies" for repeated recent instances of flight crew who have gone missing after arriving at YYZ.
Videodrome
Senior Member
So, Pierre's top advisor is literally a lobbyist for Loblaws, kings of greedflation....
picard102
Senior Member
All of his advisors are machiavellian trolls.
Videodrome
Senior Member
This is very true. However, PP has been blaming Trudeau for the grocery store prices for months and now we learn this. Seems that he has a decision to make about his top advisor, though I suspect he will twist this to blame the PM again.
kEiThZ
Superstar
This hits the nail on the head:
thehub.ca
Canada's quiet descent into neofeudalism - The Hub
Canada faces a growing divide as society is segregated into two distinct classes: the affluent, property-owning class with considerable political and economic influence, and a new class of permanent tenants, for whom homeownership and long-term economic progress are out of reach.
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Johnny Au
Senior Member
PP is a master of projection. He blames everyone but the CPC for all the problems the CPC causes.
Northern Light
Superstar
PP to my way of thinking is no better than Trudeau; yet he's not entirely wrong.
Sure the message is overly simplified and partisan, but let's be clear, the food pricing issue in Canada is a lack of competition in retail, and in wholesale (particularly, dairy, pork, and chicken) which are supply managed.
The latter, in particular, predates Trudeau jr. by some decades, and more than one Conservative gov't has passed on the opportunity to address it, that said, the problem has grown worse in recent years, the mooching and price differential w/the U.S. more extreme.
Equally, Canada's largest grocers have been dominant players for awhile now; but in recent years, Loblaws has added Shoppers Drug Mart, and T&T among others, Empire (Sobeys) had added Farm Boy and Longos and Metro added
Adonis and a dominant pharmacy retailer in Quebec.
The current government didn't create these problems, but they certainly did let them get worse.
Moreover, their inaction on the file is very clear.
nfitz
Superstar
Some of the agricultural supply management came in under the Tories! More than two Conservative governments have passed up the opportunity to challenge it!
Meanwhile, I don't see the Conservatives being the ones to tackle big corporations. That's really not their thing. At the same time, I don't think it's milk, eggs, and chicken that make up most of most people grocery bills these days.
No politician is entirely wrong, nor entirely right (nor entirely left!
)evandyk
Senior Member
Milk and eggs are in a lot of other stuff you buy in the grocery store.
Richard White
Senior Member
Indeed. Eggs are in Mayonnaise and cakes for example. Milk is used to make Cheese, Yogurt, Chocolate, etc.
One small item can affect everything else. This is why wheat harvests have global impact.
evandyk
Senior Member
Mayonnaise, cakes, cookies, pasta, some breads, breaded frozen stuff, baking mixes, other desserts, etc. I wouldn't know how to put a number on it, but a large percentage of items in any grocery store have one of those two things in them, all purchased at inflated prices to subsidize relatively wealthy farmers at the expense of hard-working grocery consumers.
Richard White
Senior Member
Indeed.
If you were to make Macaroni and Cheese at home (from scratch, not KD) you would have milk and eggs in it.