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Free trade between provinces? That would be anarchy: Neil Macdonald
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You say anarchy like it is a bad thing.
Anarchy is a political system, not chaos like the establishment would have you believe.
Anarchy is a political system, not chaos like the establishment would have you believe.
I don't support anarchy, but I do support free trade between jurisdictions.
At least we agree on that.
Do you even know what anarchy is?
www.amazon.ca/Worlds-First-Anarchist-Manifesto/dp/187360582X
I know English well enough to relise that different definitions exist. One means somethng similar to chaow and lawlessness, another is an anarchist ideology that opposes the existence of government.
This has been a problem for decades. Provinces continually put up artificial barriers by passing laws on products to restrict their free passage between provinces. A classic example of this was the brewing industry in which every province insisted that beer sold within the province had to be brewed in that province. The result was ten small breweries, none of which were able to complete with large US breweries when free trade occurred between the US and Canada.
I remember way back when (in the 80's) when we lived in Manitoba, there was a beer strike. My dad and his wife we coming to visit and had a travel trailer. We asked them to "load up with beer" and we'd pay them when they got to our place. I can't remember how many cases they brought, but wow, we were sure popular! I think we had enough to last us until the strike was over! Dad done did a good job!!
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Oops, they lived here in Alberta (forgot to mention that) LOL
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Oops, they lived here in Alberta (forgot to mention that) LOL
And Labatts had breweries in every province except PEI, which for obvious reasons didn't enforce that sort of legislation. Molson was sold as an 'import' in limited quantities in NB and NS, if sold at all.
"Obvious" should never be presumed: Canada's functional literacy rate in either official language among the working-age population hovers at just above 50%. You mean because of its small population, right?
Only because Molson and Labatts built breweries in every province - just as my post stated.
exactly,the "small 10 breweries" obviously didn't understand how to expand in a Canadian market
Pretty hard to expand when a brewery is designed to serve only the population of one province. That is why the much larger US breweries, designed to serve 300 million people, were able to absorb Canadian breweries.
And some provinces had better beer than others using the same label and recipe because of different water.
Wow. You are thick. If you want to sell beer in another province, you had to make a brewery there. Now you dont. Get over it.
Agreed. Lethbridge Pilsner sucked ass.