Trudeau announces new measures to deal with housing, grocery prices
Trudeau announces new measures to deal with housing, grocery prices
Faced with increasing pressure to respond to widespread concerns about the cost of living and questions about his leadership, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a series of new measures Thursday meant to deal with rising housing and grocery prices.
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The federal government also announced it will bring forward legislation to empower the Competition Bureau to ensure that corporate mergers and acquisitions do not have an adverse effect on the affordability of goods and services.
I laughed at that part not gonna lie
Ah yes, just like how the CRTC ensures we keep paying some of the highest prices for internet and phone service in the world.
Wait a minute -- what are they doing now?!?
Don't worry Rogers, you're safe.
Ah, yes, they'll give the Competition Bureau teeth. Sure they will, the fucking liars.
Whatever teeth the Competition Bureau has, the Harper-appointed judge on the Competition Tribunal apparently has bigger ones.
So for how many years of the Liberal administration is the responsibility of the issues with the Competition Bureau going to be Harpers? Should we give it another 8?
The judiciary is complicated, since they can't just fire a judge they don't like. I think the Liberals have been stung hard enough on that front after SNC Lavalin.
It has to be satire.
Yeah, let me check
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Yeah, that Harper appointee on the federal court of appeals says no.