Brutkey

Ev Delen
@evdelen@mstdn.ca

@ikeacurtains@mstdn.ca Basically the Ford administration found a way to exploit the buzz around Extended Producer Responsibility in the late 2010's to create a private middle layer that can make lots of money.

There's already scandal among the ranks: https://www.thestar.com/business/battle-brewing-in-ontario-recycling-industry-as-fines-against-tire-makers-loom-for-failure-to/article_2ccf2add-033e-4037-86c3-4715c8c55c0b.html

Under the old system municipalities were responsible for both landfill-bound AND recycling collection. Some municipalities contracted out while others kept it in house.

The Beer Store has always been a for-profit entity, it is just that they only had 3 shareholders that mattered. In 2015, under public pressure, they created "open ownership" so craft brewer's could could buy B-class non-voting shares.

The PRO's are just a mechanism for extracting money. There is "competition" now but the sector has been structured such that it will eventually become a private monopoly.

Harris did this with Health & Elder Care and sits on boards for them now, even got Ford to indemnify them for COVID. Ford, taking cues from Tony Soprano, is doing it with Trash.

ikeacurtains
@ikeacurtains@mstdn.ca

@evdelen@mstdn.ca it's amazing how the EU and Canada can take the same idea and have such wildly different outcomes.

Ev Delen
@evdelen@mstdn.ca

@ikeacurtains@mstdn.ca No, it's often by design.

Conservatives in Canada have figured out it's easier to sabotage a policy from the inside than to out-and-out oppose it.

Look at former Ontario Conservative Leader and Toronto Mayor John Tory's initial implementation of the Swedish Vision Zero:

"cut serious collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists by 20 per cent over the next decade".

(Lowering speed limits part of plan: Mayor wants to dedicate $68M to road safety over next 10 years. Spurr, Ben. Toronto Star. 14 June 2016)

Although he publicly backtracked on this after people rightly pointed out that a 20% reduction over 10 years is hardly a vision to getting to zero, the same plan largely got implemented, with rising deaths of pedestrians and un-motorized road users.