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 

The government thinks they need to nanny the children because you can't take care of them again! This time, they want to ban kids from social media and AI. The CCC's Head of Emerging Technology Policy James Czerniawski joins us to discuss why that is a really bad idea.  

The government thinks they need to nanny the children because you can't take care of them again! This time, they want to ban kids from social media and AI. The CCC's Head of Emerging Technology Policy James Czerniawski joins us to discuss why that is a really bad idea.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Nanny State: now on the internet!

This episode, Jay and Sabine discuss bad and ineffective policies coming from the age old Simpsons cry of "oh won't somebody please think of the children?!", namely nicotine flavour bans and social media bans. We also talk about what's happening at the gas pump for consumers. 

This episode, Jay and Sabine discuss bad and ineffective policies coming from the age old Simpsons cry of "oh won't somebody please think of the children?!", namely nicotine flavour bans and social media bans. We also talk about what's happening at the gas pump for consumers.&nbsp;

Won't somebody please think of the children?!

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

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