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[–] dom@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago
[–] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 week ago
[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Québec did it. Why can't the rest?!

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This point hits hard in the US right now.