Ontario Premier Doug Ford is nixing the idea of banning so-called surveillance pricing on groceries, as Manitoba has proposed.
Ford says today that he believes in a free-market, capitalist society.
The Manitoba government is moving to ban what it calls “predatory pricing” on groceries, though the issue hasn’t been seen locally, after an investigation in the United States found some online shoppers using a third-party platform were charged different prices for the same item bought at the same time from the same seller.
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Ford says competition is the best driver of lower prices, but if any collusion is happening he will “tear them to shreds.”
The premier was also asked today about a planned City of Toronto pilot project to open four city-run grocery stores, which he calls “the craziest idea” he has ever heard.
Ford says he agrees that grocery prices are sky high, which he attributes to rising gas prices.
Dougy Ford and Shoppers Drug Mart (Post Office) and Loblaws. Why would he police his Food retailer “competition” connections? Food monopoly is a joke in Canada.
Not a fan of Ford…
But I shutter to think where we would be right now with Liberal leadership..
Or NDP for that matter…
Ontario really is in the tank, much like the country, and it’s our own ” elected officials” doing it to us.
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Canadians are generally low IQ, will ALWAYS support corporate overlords who steal their money while contributing nothing and can’t they differentiate between federal and provincial elections.
Ontario is especially the worst for this. So I fully expect these morons to vote Ford in again.
Just look at anything involving sports teams in Toronto. The leafs haven’t even come close to winning a cup in like 60 years and it’ll still cost you like 500 dollars for the night out just to see them get crapped on. Same thing happened after the raptors and the Bluejays started performing. But nothing matters to Canadians other than spending money they don’t have, marketing and “status”.
@ConsAreTrash
No you!
Yup, Dougy has done some bad things…
But compared to what’s out there to replace him, I’ll stick with the devil I know…
Disgusting. This man needs to go.
This man doesnt know anything. Stores raised food prices during COVID and continue to gouge the consumer for no other reason than greed, not gas prices. He needs to go.
This man is an idiot. Food prices jumped during COVID and they never came down, they’ve just continued to gouge the consumer. Increased gas prices? My ass. He needs to go.
I ask….
What choice do we have?
All of you he🏒🏒bent on removing Ford, take a deep breath, and think of the alternatives?
Look at the Federal NDP convention…you want that?
Look at the shell of the Liberals after 12 years in power…
Breathe…
There is not one decent, moral,common sense politician in this country. Pathetic.
Those of you who voted conservative really need to smarten the hell up for the next provincial election.
That’s hilarious – free market and capitalism for the poor but subsidizing and lobbying, and secret meetings, land grabs, selling off public goods for dirt cheap for his rich bros! It’s a real con job!
Ford change the OSAP rules and now he doesnt care about price surge??? hes a traitor get him out
Dofomustgo
I feel the same way about Canada always voting for the corrupt Liberals. People are crazy to give any leader more than 4 years.
But we keep doing it…
Tell me BRUCE Rouse….
Whom would you like to run the province right now? Liberals? Please! NDP!? Not an ice cubes chance….
Unfortunately we are stuck with Dougy.
You think the debt is bad? Do you remember the Liberals? Wynne?
It seems that politics now is a race to the bottom. We the voters are getting screwed, no matter who is in power.
But Ford, right now, is the only choice.
Except there is no free market in grocery stores any more when 80% of the market is owned by e companies.
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It works so well with gasoline after all. 20 minutes down the road from where I work to where I live the gas price is $.20 a litre more, at every gas station in town, 6 of them. Obviously the free market working well, no price gouging to be found.
Several nations have successful publicly owned grocers… Big surprise Ford is against a more democratically run & and competitive market.
Only Doug Ford can pay lots for food because he is so rich. He has lost his mind. We all should vote him out as Premier NOW. He has put us $500 Billion dollars in debt 😳.
Omg, so embarrassing. Slug ford is completely out of touch. Absolutely crazy that ON keeps voting this corrupt criminal into power.
Hey global, maybe like do your jobs and report on the truth here for once?
Maybe your penny stock will survive if you… actually did you jobs for once…
The fact that they also charge rich people less money for the same products I purchase because they want to retain them as customers definitely feels illegal, too.
It’s not about competition dougy boy – it’s about equality. When I buy something for ten bucks at Walmart, in person, but it costs me 11 dollars to purchase the same thing online because they know my purchase history (spoiler alert – I bought cat litter last month and have to buy it again next month), doesn’t mean I should be subject to higher prices. It’s price gouging and it’s already illegal… glad to know who you support though, tool.
Ford and his tough talk , he’s full of hot air. Ford is all bark and no bite.
Ford, groceries prices have been on the rise well before the gas prices started rising and now will rise even more