It shouldn’t be this hard to pay your bills or buy groceries. The price of essentials like rent, food, and baby formula are breaking records.
At the same time companies are reporting record profits. #bcpoli 1/
At the same time companies are reporting record profits. #bcpoli 1/
Oil and gas companies, grocery chains, telecom companies: they're all profiting while BCers cannot afford the essentials
Examples of #profiteering over the first quarter of 2022:
Petronas - owner of #CGL - made $6.87 billion
Telus - made $4.3 billion
Loblaws - $12.3 billion. 2/
Examples of #profiteering over the first quarter of 2022:
Petronas - owner of #CGL - made $6.87 billion
Telus - made $4.3 billion
Loblaws - $12.3 billion. 2/
The role of govt is to protect the public interest.
So today I asked: what is the government doing to protect British Columbians from the corporations who are using them to line their pockets? 3/ #bcpoli
So today I asked: what is the government doing to protect British Columbians from the corporations who are using them to line their pockets? 3/ #bcpoli
The Minister pointed to the @bcndp affordability package, but that package consisted of one-off solutions - a few hundred $ here, a few hundred $ there. Those tools are not going to mitigate the bad behaviour of corporations, or help the public in any long term capacity. 4/
Is our government on the side of the public, or the side of the corporate lobbyists? 5/5
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