What happens when you think you're done with a certain tax, but it comes back to haunt you in a different way? Plus, we discuss the highs and possible lows of Alberta's bold new move in healthcare.

What happens when you think you're done with a certain tax, but it comes back to haunt you in a different way? Plus, we discuss the highs and possible lows of Alberta's bold new move in healthcare.

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.

When a Tax Refuses to Die 

If there's one thing governments and regulators want to do, it's save you from yourself because you just don't know better. In this episode, Sabine and Jay take issue with that idea when it comes to nicotine pouches, automated taxes on your booze, and of course, warning labels on everything. 

If there's one thing governments and regulators want to do, it's save you from yourself because you just don't know better. In this episode, Sabine and Jay take issue with that idea when it comes to nicotine pouches, automated taxes on your booze, and of course, warning labels on everything.&nbsp;

The fight to save you from yourself 

Jay and Sabine are joined by the CCC's Director of Research Emil Panzaru to discuss the Canadian housing crisis and how it compares to other housing crises around the world, and we try and figure out why every level of government isn't doing more to treat the housing crisis like an actual crisis. We have some ideas on how to do it if they are interested! 

Here's a link to our latest housing deep dive: https://thehub.ca/2026/01/14/only-the-richest-canadians-are-able-to-afford-homes-its-time-to-free-the-market-deepdive/

Jay and Sabine are joined by the CCC's Director of Research Emil Panzaru to discuss the Canadian housing crisis and how it compares to other housing crises around the world, and we try and figure out why every level of government isn't doing more to treat the housing crisis like an actual crisis. We have some ideas on how to do it if they are interested!&nbsp;
Here's a link to our latest housing deep dive: https://thehub.ca/2026/01/14/only-the-richest-canadians-are-able-to-afford-homes-its-time-to-free-the-market-deepdive/

Housing: The Crisis No One is Treating Like a Crisis

Book an Uber, pour yourself a glass of Crown Royal, and try to find a flight to visit the UAE because Jay and Sabine and back and they are still tired of government shenanigans, 2026 edition. The podcast might take a break but the bad policy decisions from every level of government never do. 

Book an Uber, pour yourself a glass of Crown Royal, and try to find a flight to visit the UAE because Jay and Sabine and back and they are still tired of government shenanigans, 2026 edition. The podcast might take a break but the bad policy decisions from every level of government never do.&nbsp;

When a Tax Refuses to Die

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