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Originally Posted by Azure
Yawn.
Nothing will change. Canadians have shown they don't give a #### about critical issues. We elect governments back into power regardless of their incompetence and corrupt ties to big business.
Next week the Trudeau government, CRTC officials and Rogers executives will have a fancy steak dinner at taxpayer expense, and the week after Rogers will say they are investigating, the week after that their investigation report will say they did nothing wrong, and the week after that the Trudeau Government, CRTC will give Rogers a bit ol' pat on the back and brag about how they are the gold standard of the Canadian corporate world, and how Canadians should be thankful we have freedom and the priviledge of having a cell phone, Interac and cable television, and the high prices are needed to protect freedom and liberty for all.
A few weeks after that everything will be much ado about nothing, and the Trudeau government will actively block any investigation into anything that will make Rogers look bad.
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Its not that we don't care. What frustrates me immensely is that I don't realistically have a choice on this particular matter in the list of parties that are available when mixed in with other issues. Say for example I want an accountable government, that is pro expansion of public healthcare funding, anti-monopolistic, but fiscally conservative without being socially conservative. That' doesn't exist in this country cuz of how our parties and electoral system works atm. I'm stuck picking my poison.
In this case I'd want steps taken to bring down both broadband + cell service pricing to be in line with at Australia (which has lower population density, and similar cost to serve yet we are 2.5x higher in pricing) while improving current network resiliency. We won't get that with either of our two party choices.