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[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (12 children)

Nationalize (or at least crown corp) everything.

Energy

Telecom/Internet

Food

Water

Natural resources

Insurance

Transportation

Housing (edited to include)

The idea that it's better to have single/few entities profiting instead of every Canadian benefitting is ridiculous.

Nobody is saying you can't be profitable and wealthy if you run a successful business.

But that's not what Canada is about, what we have in Canada is collusion and price fixing by like 8 businesses that own nearly everything in Canada completely unchecked.

[–] akakunai@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (6 children)

What do you mean by nationalizing food? Between agriculture, making of food products, grocery stores, restaurants, etc...what would be nationalized?

All other items on this list I can understand, but I'm confused as to what nationalizing "food" would entail.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I think a good approach would be to create a nationalized not-for-profit option that the other chains would have to compete with. Maybe it wouldn’t have all the fancy stuff, but your bread, eggs, meat and produce would be cheap.

This would bring down prices all around and if you want to pay more for better stuff, you can do that at the private stores, and that’s where the capitalists can invest.

[–] quilter@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Basically, store brand vs name brand. Maybe fancy is a strong word 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] balootgaloot@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Vertically integrated graft for one.

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