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Originally Posted by Azure
From no problem at all, to falling over themselves to deal with the immigration problem.
I will give him credit though for at least somehow changing his braindead policy.
And I do agree that the 'bad actors' he's talking about very much exist, and have manipulated our government for years to get 'cheap labor' and screw over Canadians.
But at some point we are all at fault. How many industries have some form of monopoly and as such too much power is concentrated into the hands of a few? And then we're surprised when these companies further manipulate the government to further push their greed? Canadians really like getting screwed over.
And I don't know what can be honestly done about it. Its part of our culture already to live beholden to our corporate overseers.
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I'm generally with you. The average Canadian, myself included, tends to be hypocritical and quick to blame our "favourite" scapegoat politician/party of choice. There are definitely some times where the Canadian public should be sharing some of the responsibility.
My favourite recent example is Wind Mobile (now Freedom). After years of having the big 3 telecoms and the most expensive cell phone plans in the world, Wind Mobile came onto the scene. Out of spite and price alone they should have had taken a large market share for city dwellers. Even now, Freedom (who took over Wind) are a distant 4th in terms of subscribers. I recognize that rural access + service quality was an issue, but it would be nice if more Canadians put their money where their mouths are.
This said, there are lots of corporate oligopolies that are almost impossible to avoid. I work for a gas turbine power generation facility. After years of corporate consolidation, we are down to 3 gas turbine manufacturers (GE, Siemens, Mitsubishi). Unlike Canadian consumers spurning Wind Mobile, there is no viable 4th choice for my company to work with. And the turbine manufacturers know this.
Guess what this does to new gas turbine prices, annual support contracts, parts, etc?
Guess what this does to downstream consumer/industrial power prices in Canada?
I'd very curious to hear from someone who works in an industry in Canada that has seen more / better competition in the last 20 years.
It is frustrating because I don't think Canada is big enough to hold any of these companies to account. I truly see corporate consolidation/lack of competition as the biggest driver of inflation in the western world. And I'm not seeing a solution from any side on how to actually revert and tackle this.