Food prices at a Canadian Costco
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The prices don’t look that much more expensive than Costco here…
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On food the higher price is the result of the provincially mandated and jealously guarded agriculture supply management systems that exist across the country that have been in place since at least the late 1940s if not longer. No federal government will dare disturb the status quo and it has been a contentious issue during trade negotiations. Supply management of diary products is well established especially in Quebec. The result is that consumers here pay more for domestic Canadian cheese than people in the US buying a similar product produced in the US. Right now British imported cheeses are hit with a punitive 250% tariff owing to the UK leaving the EU and unable to negotiate a new trade deal with Ottawa.
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On food the higher price is the result of the provincially mandated and jealously guarded agriculture supply management systems that exist across the country that have been in place since at least the late 1940s if not longer. No federal government will dare disturb the status quo and it has been a contentious issue during trade negotiations. Supply management of diary products is well established especially in Quebec. The result is that consumers here pay more for domestic Canadian cheese than people in the US buying a similar product produced in the US. Right now British imported cheeses are hit with a punitive 250% tariff owing to the UK leaving the EU and unable to negotiate a new trade deal with Ottawa.
@Renauda oh yeah - there's definitely a big gap on certain items. I grew up in Canada near the border. We would make dairy runs often to the U.S.
On the topic of Justin. He's going to get voted out, and rightfully so. But he's probably getting more derision on many fronts than is fair to directly attribute to him.
That said - the guy was way over his head from day 1.
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Any thoughts on who Trudeau's replacement might be?
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@kluurs said in Food prices at a Canadian Costco:
Any thoughts on who Trudeau's replacement might be?
I hear rumors of the apple-muncher.
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@kluurs said in Food prices at a Canadian Costco:
Any thoughts on who Trudeau's replacement might be?
Word has it that the former Governor of the Bank of Canada and after that post, governor of the Bank of England is eyeing the leadership. He has all but announced his intentions. I would support him, he would return the Liberals to a centrist policies with fiscal responsibility as it was under Chrétien.
Other options are lack lustre.
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@kluurs said in Food prices at a Canadian Costco:
Any thoughts on who Trudeau's replacement might be?
I hear rumors of the apple-muncher.
@George-K said in Food prices at a Canadian Costco:
@kluurs said in Food prices at a Canadian Costco:
Any thoughts on who Trudeau's replacement might be?
I hear rumors of the apple-muncher.
There are already enough populist pseudo-conservatives fucking up the world. Another, especially one with no policies and barks mindlessly like a schnauzer at everything that moves, is not necessary. Poilievre is definitely all hat and no cattle. Can’t stand him or what he disingenuously purports to represent.
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@George-K said in Food prices at a Canadian Costco:
@kluurs said in Food prices at a Canadian Costco:
Any thoughts on who Trudeau's replacement might be?
I hear rumors of the apple-muncher.
There are already enough populist pseudo-conservatives fucking up the world. Another, especially one with no policies and barks mindlessly like a schnauzer at everything that moves, is not necessary. Poilievre is definitely all hat and no cattle. Can’t stand him or what he disingenuously purports to represent.
@Renauda said in Food prices at a Canadian Costco:
Poilievre is definitely all hat and no cattle. Can’t stand him or what he disingenuously purports to represent.
I haven't followed closely enough to have an opinion.
But he talks a good talk, doesn't seem obnoxious. I don't know enough of his policies, especially in contrast to "The Dauphin's" to really form an opinion.
Does he have any serious competition?
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He has no known or apparent policies to speak of other than axe the carbon tax (yawn) and that everything bad with the country and the rest of the world is Trudeau’s fault. Ho-hum.
He is obnoxious and, I am told from credible sources inside the Conservative Party of Canada, an impossible and plain nasty person with whom to try to work.
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He has no known or apparent policies to speak of other than axe the carbon tax (yawn) and that everything bad with the country and the rest of the world is Trudeau’s fault. Ho-hum.
He is obnoxious and, I am told from credible sources inside the Conservative Party of Canada, an impossible and plain nasty person with whom to try to work.
@Renauda said in Food prices at a Canadian Costco:
He has no known or apparent policies to speak of other than axe the carbon tax (yawn) and that everything bad with the country and the rest of the world is Trudeau’s fault. Ho-hum.
He is obnoxious and, I am told from credible sources inside the Conservative Party of Canada, an impossible and plain nasty person with whom to try to work.
All of that sounds vaguely familiar.
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I used to quite like Chretien when we lived there. There was certainly none of that namby-pamby new-age nonsense coming out of him.
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At least you have a credible candidate in Carney. We are faced with discerning who will do the least harm to the republic.
Carney is not in the running. Trudeau has yet to step down as leader of the Liberal Party or get turfed by his caucus. Unless either one of those happen he could still lead the party into the next election in 18 months or sooner if his government falls in a no confidence vote. As it is right now, the Trudeau Liberals would lose and be replaced by a Poilievre led Conservative Party majority in Ottawa.
Would it change a lot in the country? Probably not all that much in the big scheme, at least not much in the way of national defence spending and foreign policy which are the only two issues of interest to me.
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There is an effort inside the Liberal machine to bring Carney in as an alternative to Trudeau. While he hasn’t said yes or no he has indicated some interest by dropping hints during public statements. Time will tell, although my gut feeling tells me that there will be no caucus revolt - the opportunity for that was last September and is now past - and Trudeau will choose instead go down in flames in the next federal election. After that The Dauphin will have no choice but to resign make way for a new leader. Carney then may not want to have to clean up the internal mess Trudeau will have left in his leadership wake.
