Canada is a country of oligopolies - everywhere from the products you can buy to the Federal Liberal Party's Trudeau Foundation being the receiving end for paid political favours.
It is hard to think of areas where there is actual competition in Canada, because there are so few.
Media? None, the Federal Liberals fund the approved media and leave the unapproved to fend for itself or die. The approved media is then highly encouraged (unofficially) to tow the Party line and back up anything Trudeau says - especially when it's a fabrication.
Banks? Highly controlled via charters, although actual regulation would make a 1970s Cayman's banker blush.
Food? There is a literal milk cartel. There are three major grocers - all highly vertically integrated. One was just on the news a few years ago for price-fixing bread, and also received untold millions for a refrigeration overhaul from the Federal Government.
Telecom? See the outage.
Law enforcement? The RCMP (Canadian CIA) was recently caught editorializing a report to suit a gun bill Trudeau's Liberals had been waiting for a reason to pass. The Federal Government was also crucial in telling the RCMP what to report and when. In any first world country this would be scandalous and met with a wave of resignations. In Canada, it's a Trudeau Tuesday.
The media is not at the whim of the Trudeau govt. There’s the National Post and Rebel media. CBC itself has been highly critical of the govt if you care to watch it. Then there’s CTV and Global News. And I recall a number of newspapers and radio stations are owned by conservative interests.
Wow the hatred people have for Trudeau.
I'm pretty sure whatever is wrong with Canada's telecommunications industry started long before he was involved in politics.
Close, except for an important nuance: CSIS is primarily for domestic intelligence and security and doesn’t do much foreign work. From what I understand, the CIA isn’t supposed to work domestically; for CSIS, working domestically is in their charter.
From what I recall, CSIS was established after the FLQ Crisis in the 1970s, when the government realized that having a single organization responsible for clandestine domestic intelligence and law enforcement was an idea that was rife with abuse.
CSIS does foreign work. They are responsible for anything related to national security. Internal and external.
From Wiki:
“There is no restriction in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act on where CSIS may collect "security intelligence" or information relating to threats to the security of Canada.[31] The agency may collect information on threats to Canada or Canadians from anywhere in the world. While CSIS is often viewed as a defensive security intelligence agency, it is not a strictly domestic agency. CSIS officers work partly domestically and often internationally in their efforts to monitor and counter threats to Canadian security”
> Previous law stated that CSIS was only allowed to collect this intelligence within Canada but due to an updated law in 2016 they are now allowed to collect that intelligence abroad as well.
I am Canadian and you are correct. OP lost me at "CIA" as well.
Canada has a "spy agency" and it is CSIS as you state.
I don't think many Canadians would think of the RCMP as "federal police" but more "national police" because their have odd responsibilities:
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is Canada's national police force. The RCMP is the only police force in the world that acts as a federal, provincial and municipal force.
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Respectfully, this just sounds like the screed of somebody who doesn’t like Trudeau/liberals for political reasons not like an unbiased, cogent analysis of Canadian policy. Though I guess not always a lot of blue sky between those two. But I have a feeling you didn’t like liberals before Trudeau, and nothing was going to change your mind.
And not sure why you seem so set on blaming the liberals and JT because basically nothing changed when JT took power except a different set/type of scandals and legal weed.
It is hard to think of areas where there is actual competition in Canada, because there are so few.
Media? None, the Federal Liberals fund the approved media and leave the unapproved to fend for itself or die. The approved media is then highly encouraged (unofficially) to tow the Party line and back up anything Trudeau says - especially when it's a fabrication.
Banks? Highly controlled via charters, although actual regulation would make a 1970s Cayman's banker blush.
Food? There is a literal milk cartel. There are three major grocers - all highly vertically integrated. One was just on the news a few years ago for price-fixing bread, and also received untold millions for a refrigeration overhaul from the Federal Government.
Telecom? See the outage.
Law enforcement? The RCMP (Canadian CIA) was recently caught editorializing a report to suit a gun bill Trudeau's Liberals had been waiting for a reason to pass. The Federal Government was also crucial in telling the RCMP what to report and when. In any first world country this would be scandalous and met with a wave of resignations. In Canada, it's a Trudeau Tuesday.