Problem: 5 companies control 80% of the retail grocery market.
Solution: Ask their bosses to be a little less greedy, please.
Solution: Tax the fuck out of them, and use that money as a rebate for smaller grocery retailers, or direct to consumers.
This. This a thousand times.
We’re too unwilling to use punitive taxation against the rich, and we shouldn’t be.
When you make millions, or billions, per year in post-tax profit you can certainly afford it. And if they don’t want to pay the tax, they can invest those profits back into their business.
Singh’s private member’s bill, which aims to bring down the cost of basic essentials, passed second reading in the House of Commons with the support of Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs.
Liberals have voted against the bill, with some accusing the NDP leader of trying to stifle free enterprise.
Why, in Canada, is the only party that tries to address most people’s problems also the only party that people never vote into government? Why do Canadians run back and forth between Liberals and Conservatives when neither will work for their well being?
They make boneheaded decisions occasionally like supporting the porn ID bill and it’s enough to make people hesitate.
There’s also a common narrative online that the NDP doesn’t actually support or care about labour anymore. It doesn’t really hold up when you actually take a critical look into the NDP’s actions but that’s too much effort for most people.
Because every time the NDP get in power they try to make drastic changes that hurt them in the short term. It takes a party more than one term to figure out how hard you can pull the levers of government without causing major issues, and the NDP can’t get over that hurdle provincially. Notley’s AB NDP were the most pragmatic NDP so far, but Alberta’s gonna Alberta.
They’ve never been in power Federally
Because they’ve left a bad taste provincially with a lot of people.
How? Exactly what have they done that’s so bad?
As far as I can tell, in Ontario, their sins amounted to:
- Getting voted in just as a recession hit
- Legislating one mandatory unpaid vacation day for civil servants so that they didn’t have to fire anyone
- Being the NDP, and thusly earning the ire of the business community in Ontario, who promptly ratfucked them.
Meanwhile, the Harris conservatives can actually have people murdered and it’s “Welp, they’re just common sense!”
“Rae days” were demonized so hard that most of the people alive from that era hold a relatively permanent grudge against the NDP, despite the fact that no one lost their jobs which was the only alternative.
The logic of
Provincial NDP = Federal NDP
We gotta remember not everyone can see a difference, and it’s because they make an active choice not to.
It is literally the same party federally and provincially.
Several provinces are trying to detach, namely Alberta for Alberta reasons.
