Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[Wolven]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

I don't love a government run food program. I think it's likely to end up being very expensive per meal delivered, not that healthy, and not that tasty. I'd much prefer an increase to the Canada Child Benefit designed to help with this issue. It creates no extra bureaucracy (people are already getting the money, give them more if needed) and I think the vast majority of people genuinely want their kids to have sufficient food, so would do that if they could.

How about a government run grocery store?

With all of the noise around bad faith grocery stores, bread price fixing, etc. would you rather have a public grocer that brings food to communities at a cheaper price point than the private options?

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by Wolven

How about a government run grocery store?

With all of the noise around bad faith grocery stores, bread price fixing, etc. would you rather have a public grocer that brings food to communities at a cheaper price point than the private options?

Nah. Let’s just invest taxpayer dollars in the existing stores. That makes way more sense.

[Wolven]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

Nah. Let’s just invest taxpayer dollars in the existing stores. That makes way more sense.

No it doesn't. Giving taxpayer dollars to private corporations doesn't do anything to help people or solve any problems.

If we want to influence the private companies then we should implement regulations to prevent shrinkflation and price cap products like bread.

[TorqueDog]

If it was posted by anyone else, I’d have said they were being sarcastic, because investing taxpayers monies is exactly what we’ve been doing — through subsidies, tax breaks, and sweetheart policies, and those have not resulted in cheaper food or better corporate behaviour.

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by Wolven

No it doesn't. Giving taxpayer dollars to private corporations doesn't do anything to help people or solve any problems.

If we want to influence the private companies then we should implement regulations to prevent shrinkflation and price cap products like bread.

So what you are saying is we shouldn’t subsidize them with say, new freezers of anything? I think that something like that would really help.