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Originally Posted by mykalberta
We also live in one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world and yet we are some of the most spoiled citizens in the world who think we deserve the same thing as a much more densly populated areas. In Calgary, if you advocate denser living, someone from Sask will bite your head off because they likely living on a farm when they were younger.
To compare us to the US is crazy, and anyone who compares us to Europe or Japan is on good ole Vancouver heroin drugs.
They already spend my tax dollars so stupidly, if there was a market for this someone would create a website and sell advertising on it - much like the gas price site. This is a classic Central Canada make work project for unionized government employees who's jobs should likely have been cut but wernt so they needed to find them something to do.
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If I recalled, people were freaking out when Bell and Rogers wanted to start charging more for text messages, and demanding governement intervention.
While this program was born out of good intention's, it probably grew too big to properly manage it. One of the purposes of government is consumer protection. Regulations and something like this would hardly be called a make work project
