This chart should be reposted monthly to remind and educate newcomers. :D
Canadians are entitled to $50 from a class action lawsuit related to the price-fixing scandal. This might come as a small consolation, when estimates of how much the price-fixing scheme cost Canadians range from $400-$1,170. The crucial point here is that this price-fixing scheme went undetected for more than a decade – how many more such schemes are in operation right now, and for how many items? And how many other ways are prices being inflated by Canada’s grocery monopolies?
Why are the big grocery monopolies so seldomly addressed in the House of Commons these days? One explanation may be the troubling connections between these corporate monopolies and Canada’s major political parties. While money is not a major force in Canadian politics, thanks to tight limits on individual donations and a ban on corporate donations, some of the grocery monopoly families have nevertheless used their allowable donations to the maximum, according to a report in The Breach:
“The families and CEOs behind Canada’s largest grocery retailers have donated more than $150,000 to the Liberal and Conservative Party over the last two decades, data from Elections Canada shows.
That puts the owners of Loblaw and Empire among the top political donors in the country, according to a political financing expert.
I wonder if mandatory donation anonymization would help here
Mark Carney doesn’t care about everyday canadians…
There isn’t a single politician who does, they are all there to fill their pockets.
