I’ve been saying for years that I’d vote for some random guy that ran on throttling and holding accountable grocery chains and telecoms. Nearly a decade ago I had a friend in Thailand with a full cell phone plan with unlimited data ect. for $8/month, why is it so insanely expensive here?!
Plus we don’t want apartment buildings and prefer suburbs the size of cities with sprawling parking lots so that you need way more infrastructure to serve the same number of people
Yea that balloons municipal budgets to the point they nearly need to run a growth ponzi scheme where they need new suburban developments to pay for the maintenance of existing suburban developments, all well neglecting existing transit and density and making new density nearly illegal to build.
If we wanted a non-profit we could lightly steer as a populace to ensure it’s modern and safe while remaining its most affordable, we would have brought it in as an arms-length crown corp.
We still can, if we wanted that, but we have to understand the realization of delayed or skipped maintenance on infrastructure and the huge costs we have to support to bring it back into line publicly if we do. The gov can’t half-ass anything without blowback.
I’ve been saying for years that I’d vote for some random guy that ran on throttling and holding accountable grocery chains and telecoms. Nearly a decade ago I had a friend in Thailand with a full cell phone plan with unlimited data ect. for $8/month, why is it so insanely expensive here?!
Canada has poor competition and oligarchy controls
Plus we don’t want apartment buildings and prefer suburbs the size of cities with sprawling parking lots so that you need way more infrastructure to serve the same number of people
Yea that balloons municipal budgets to the point they nearly need to run a growth ponzi scheme where they need new suburban developments to pay for the maintenance of existing suburban developments, all well neglecting existing transit and density and making new density nearly illegal to build.
We supplement rural infrastructure, Canada has a lot more than Thailand
That’s the telecom’s talking point. It’s true to some extent, but why do Bell and Rogers keep making record profits every year?
Because they don’t actually invest the money, just pocket it
Was it Bell or Rogers who recently had a rural grant that decided to invest that money in the US instead?
Their goal is profit.
If we wanted a non-profit we could lightly steer as a populace to ensure it’s modern and safe while remaining its most affordable, we would have brought it in as an arms-length crown corp.
We still can, if we wanted that, but we have to understand the realization of delayed or skipped maintenance on infrastructure and the huge costs we have to support to bring it back into line publicly if we do. The gov can’t half-ass anything without blowback.
Because there are not enough crowns who do not have to answer to investors in the same way as say Sasktel does.