Real talk: we need a public option to compete with private options, but it should not be all national or all private.
The reason is that corporations will have a tendency to drive prices up, while the government will have a tendency to cut costs.
See: Canada Post, how it regulates the shipping and mail market, and how disabling it or shutting it down will be terrible for pricing and availability.
Time to nationalize Rogers, Telus and Bell.
Real talk: we need a public option to compete with private options, but it should not be all national or all private.
The reason is that corporations will have a tendency to drive prices up, while the government will have a tendency to cut costs.
See: Canada Post, how it regulates the shipping and mail market, and how disabling it or shutting it down will be terrible for pricing and availability.
They shouldn’t’ve been allowed to become private in the first place.
BCTEL sold to Telus
AGS was ruined, becoming Telus
MTS was sold to Bell.
There is an argument that Telus has breached the initial sales agreement that stated that BCTel was to be the primary company in the merger.