Everyone loves a good rant, right? Jen Gerson dresses down the feds today...
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This #### — this, right here.
This. ####.
This is why we hate you.
This is why we ####ing hate you.
Nobody outside the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal triangle sees a headline like "New Initiative from Ottawa!" and thinks: "Oh, how exciting. I'm so keen to see what grand notion those crafty MPs in Ottawa have cooked up now! Come, Maude, let us settle ourselves before the The National at Six so we can understand how our fine federal government is working to make our lives better."
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The plastics ban, which will take effect at the end of the year, doesn’t even ban the bags outright. Because, of course, they’re just compost bags. But as of Dec. 20, we’ll have to buy the bags in bundles, discard the unnecessary packaging they will come in, and then put our groceries in them. So we’re still allowed to purchase the bags, use them to pack our groceries, and then carry our food out of the store, but CO-OP will have set the product up to make the process of bagging our groceries marginally less convenient and considerably more wasteful. Because #### us in particular, I guess? This is a compromise that somehow manages to make the whole prohibition look even more rage-inducing and inane.
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https://theline.substack.com/p/jen-g...s-dont-contain
You probably want to read it at the link, so you get the full glory of all the profanity we can't use here.