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Originally Posted by Wolven
Considering how quickly that accelerated, I do not think it is unreasonable to believe that we could get back to 2019+20%, which would be a big step up from 2019 numbers but 20% revenue increase over 6 years is still a big increase. Even if we could just reign that market in at $4B, it would be an unreasonable jump
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So to confirm, you think we can reduce profits in the grocery industry by $2 billion, thus offering a savings of $50 per Canadian on food bills (2B ÷ 50 MM).
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Originally Posted by Wolven
I think a big thing people will always fail to consider with the idea of a public grocer is that even if we each are contributing $500 in tax dollars to make it happen
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And to do this you're prepared to raise taxes by $500 per person.
I feel like it should be obvious why this idea might not resonate with Canadians.
Tbh I think this is emblematic of the problem the NDP has - they float stuff that is obviously a bad idea. If they focused on supporting union jobs and fiscal supports for the bottom 50% of incomes they'd (imo) be pretty electable.
Things like an auto-pact type deal with Asian countries (for every vehicle you assemble with a minimum $ content here you can sell one in Canada duty free).
Provide low cost financing for electrical transmission infrastruce across the country - it's mostly provincially owned, adds tons of union construction jobs, and is necessary for adding data centre/AI industries.
National pharmacare
Etc.