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Opinion | Privatizing Canada Post would be a costly mistake (www.thespec.com)
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Privatization of liquor in Alberta has worked out amazingly well. Booze is cheaper and there's a liquor store every 100 meters, some open well past midnight. It's an alcoholic's dream.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean to an alcoholic in the small scale it sounds like it's working out great.

But Canada's recently done a study that shows the taxation gained from alcohol consumption is far less than the deleterious societal costs.

Effectively the government loses money on every bottle it taxes.

edit: This is known as Canada's alcohol deficit. It was first studied in 2014 which showed a taxation intake of ~11 Billion while the social costs were estimated to be ~15B resulting in a deficit of about ~4B. believe the 2020 study showed the alcohol deficit is up to ~6B a year now. I'm lazy, but here's one link for those who'd like to know more:

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publications/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice/vol-40-no-5-6-2020/alcohol-deficit-canadian-government-revenue-societal-costs.html

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

TIL Alberta had state run liquor stores. I'll have to read about those when I get home.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

TIL Alberta had state run liquor stores.

At one point every province did.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Beer in Alberta is far more expensive than in any other province

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Same with auto insurance, if you're a responsible driver. I've lived in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan among other places the last 25 years, and Alberta is consistently far cheaper for auto insurance, if you shop around. A lot of people close to the AB border on the sask side do a little light fraud and pretend to live at their brothers house in alberta

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I think Quebec has (or at one time had?) the lowest because you're not required to have collision insurance. You can have just liability, but if your car is a piece of shit you're not required to insure it for repair should an accident occur. I could be wrong, and I'd love to know if I am.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

you're not required to have collision insurance. You can have just liability, but if your car is a piece of shit you're not required to insure it for repair should an accident occur

Are there places where this isn't the case?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In my city you are required to have both liability and collision even if the car is worth a dollar. That is true across all of Canada to my knowledge, with the exception of Quebec.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Absolutely false. You're not required to have collision on your own vehicle anywhere as far as I know. Collision on the other vehicle falls under liability, unless of course you haven't paid your vehicle off yet, but even then, that's a requirement of the bank, not the insurer. I don't know every provinces laws perfectly, but I do know cities don't determine insurance law.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

In my city you are required to have both liability and collision even if the car is worth a dollar.

I'd be curious what city, but obviously you don't have to answer that.

That is true across all of Canada to my knowledge, with the exception of Quebec.

Then you would be misinformed, because collision coverage is certainly not mandatory in Alberta, and I doubt it's mandatory anywhere

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