What kind of government competes against its own citizens for profits? (Hat tip: Mister Kim)
In Canada, the state-run media competes against private citizens every day. Taxpayer cash is used as the working capital in order to accomplish this ignoble feat. They make documentary shows (shows that cater to the far left primarily), they broadcast what I think is oh just ever so slightly biased news (!), and they even advertise in newspapers in order to take business away from the private citizen-owned broadcast businesses. The resulting “business”—the CBC—is a dismal failure by most every measurement and standard. Viewership is pitiful, and the political bias is infamous. And yet they persist.
Canada Post—which at least makes a profit —also competes against private citizen-owned business. They have a government-mandated monopoly over mail delivery in Canada, and that state-run entity is ready to fight citizens in the state’s courts in order to maintain it.
Suddenly the state’s liberal courts can’t find any new angle nor find any loophole in the Constitution nor even anything they can write into the Constitution to accommodate the minority in this situation—the minority in this case being the private citizens who have a right to operate a business even if it competes with Canada Post. Surely Team Cotler could find a remedy.
Not surprisingly, the private competition does it better, cheaper, and more efficiently than the state. That cannot stand in liberal-left land.
Canada Post uses legal loophole to knock off rival
Kathy Tomlinson, CTV News
Lou Laforet still can’t believe the successful service he runs is being put out of business in Canada—by a Crown corporation.
“It’s outrageous when you sit there and you look a customer in the eye that you have had for over twenty years and they tell you they can’t continue to use your service anymore,” said Laforet.
He heads up the Canadian operation of Spring Global Mail—a joint venture between several international postal companies. It ships bulk mail exclusively to destinations outside of Canada—more quickly and economically than Canada Post—according to Laforet.
International business mail is sent directly to foreign post offices, such as the U.S. Postal Service—where it is then distributed, with postage, to its final destinations. Several large Canadian organizations, including the federal government, use Spring’s services.
“I mean it’s not like we just started this up,” said Laforet. “We’ve been doing this for 20 years. We’ve developed this over the years.”
Even so, Canada Post has taken legal action to put Spring out of business. The Crown corporation went to court—arguing it has a legal monopoly over all Canadian mail.
The courts agreed. The Crown corporation is now trying to enforce that ruling—seeking an injuction [SIC] that would effectively close Spring’s international mail operation in Canada—and put 100 people out of work.
“It eats at you,” said Laforet. “It takes a little bit of your heart to be quite honest with you.”
Vote liberal.
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