Canadian consumer advocates Sabine and Jay talk about why the government's concessions on the alcohol escalator tax and municipal development charges are good but just not enough, and discuss what happens when trying to score political points can hurt people in some of the worst ways. 

Read I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read here: https://www.theils.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/I-Pencil%E2%80%94Leonard-E-Read.pdf

Canadian consumer advocates Sabine and Jay talk about why the government's concessions on the alcohol escalator tax and municipal development charges are good but just not enough, and discuss what happens when trying to score political points can hurt people in some of the worst ways.&nbsp;
Read I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read here: https://www.theils.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/I-Pencil%E2%80%94Leonard-E-Read.pdf

Hosted by Jay Goldberg and Sabine Benoit, Your Choice Our Fight is a conversation on issues that affect consumers, such as housing, sin taxes, tariffs, government regulation and overreach.

Featuring the latest news, interviews, and expert analysis that covers consumer topics in Canada. 

Tune in to learn why consumer choice matters.

Produced by the Consumer Choice Center.

Hosted by Jay Goldberg and Sabine Benoit, Your Choice Our Fight is a conversation on issues that affect consumers, such as housing, sin taxes, tariffs, government regulation and overreach.
Featuring the latest news, interviews, and expert analysis that covers consumer topics in Canada.&nbsp;
Tune in to learn why consumer choice matters.
Produced by the Consumer Choice Center.

Lifestyle freedom, innovative tech, and smart policy.

Your Choice Our Fight

Hosted by Jay Goldberg and Sabine Benoit, Your Choice Our Fight is a conversation on issues that affect consumers, such as housing, sin taxes, tariffs, government regulation and overreach.

Featuring the latest news, interviews, and expert analysis that covers consumer topics in Canada. Tune in to learn why consumer choice matters.

Produced by the Consumer Choice Center.

Hosted by Jay Goldberg and Sabine Benoit, Your Choice Our Fight is a conversation on issues that affect consumers, such as housing, sin taxes, tariffs, government regulation and overreach.
Featuring the latest news, interviews, and expert analysis that covers consumer topics in Canada. Tune in to learn why consumer choice matters.
Produced by the Consumer Choice Center.

The unending escalator of bad government policy

No definition? No real data? No problem! That doesn't stop the nanny state from regulating your food. The CCC's Bill Wirtz joins Sabine and Jay to talk everything ultra-processed foods, and why those new labels you're seeing on the front of your food packaging may not be as harmless as they seem. 

No definition? No real data? No problem! That doesn't stop the nanny state from regulating your food. The CCC's Bill Wirtz joins Sabine and Jay to talk everything ultra-processed foods, and why those new labels you're seeing on the front of your food packaging may not be as harmless as they seem.&nbsp;

Let Them Eat Kale

Canada has become the victim of a trifecta of horrendous and creepy tech policy, and Jay and Sabine are here to break down the policies and why it all sounds like we're in a bad sci-fi novel. 

Canada has become the victim of a trifecta of horrendous and creepy tech policy, and Jay and Sabine are here to break down the policies and why it all sounds like we're in a bad sci-fi novel.&nbsp;

The Trifecta of Terrible Tech Policy

On this episode, Jay and Sabine discuss the potential bill that would hand over all your metadata to the government while keeping the door wide open for anyone to see where you've been and who you're talking to. Plus, why you might be paying a lot more for Netflix, and the government fumbles the ball on behalf of Canadian smokers once again. 

Read our circular lobbying report here: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/circular-lobbying-in-canada/

On this episode, Jay and Sabine discuss the potential bill that would hand over all your metadata to the government while keeping the door wide open for anyone to see where you've been and who you're talking to. Plus, why you might be paying a lot more for Netflix, and the government fumbles the ball on behalf of Canadian smokers once again.&nbsp;
Read our circular lobbying report here: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/circular-lobbying-in-canada/

The unending escalator of bad government policy

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