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Originally Posted by fotze
Driving for cheap as a 16 year old is a basic human right, look it up at the UN if you want, just as everyone has the basic human right to cheap flammable fluids.
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Good old Fotze...
No, its not a human right, but the allegation was price gouging against certain demographics, and it was proven correct.
That whole situation proved exactly what a government's job should be pertaining to the private sectors... a watchdog. Governments should only interfere with business when there is a visible misconduct at play that market functions and consumer sovereignty can't solve on their own. In Canada, this will happen a lot, since a lot of major industries are protected, essentially oligarchs, and/or have very limited competition.
However, sometimes people cry wolf too much about price gouging, like with gasoline, where its actually the government inflating the cost.