Canada

YES. Socialized grocers would be huge. Still allows for competitors like Loblaws and Sobeys, but force actual competition

There used to be public Telecom companies. They were called Crown Corporations. There is only 1 left in Canada (Saskatchewan's SaskTel). The other provinces that had them sold them off. No surprise prices went crazy.

Should we have kept them? Yes. Are we going to get them back? No.

If you like the sound of all this, help elect him: https://lewisforleader.ca/

10$ to become an NDP member, but make sure you do it before the January cut-off date.

I saw that first campaign ad of his a few months ago, it made a pretty strong first impression! I’d give him my vote.

Everyone else in Canada is calling for that too! He's got his finger on the pulse for sure.

I like some of what he's saying, hopefully he can reclaim some of the vote for the ndp if elected. I'm not sure who the other contenders are though, and itll most likely end up as a demographic politics type party again just pandering to different niche minority group interests.

I'm not totally sure what the postal banking system he references is, specifically. I've never lived in a remote area, which it seems is where it was more commonly used. But like, 99% of what you need to do with a FI you can do online these days, hell many options are online only with no physical retail locations. I get a feeling that postal banking is basically just an old person "I dont wanna use that internet thing!" type of issue, in which case I wouldn't support it. The oldest generations who are most opposed to updating their skills are also the ones that pulled up ladders/profited from the younger generations current gong show -- they've had enough charity from the public purse.

Besides, feds always seem to forget that many small communities have credit unions, or that credit unions are already there as an alternative to the big banks for most financial service needs. If this guys really about smaller communities/local financial options, he should be bolstering the CUs as an alternative to the banks (though cus are under prov jurisdiction).