• Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This makes it harder for local businesses in Canada to compete with those in China, hurting local ecommerce and brick and mortar shops. The playing field should be leveled and no one should be subsidized.

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      1 year ago

      Or at least make a distinction between commercial and non-commercial mail. I understand subsidizing a letter to a developing country but this is just extracting rent.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yup. It definitely makes it harder.

      Some will always subsidize others, unless you’re a libertarian, this is pretty much an obvious moral axiom. With that out of the way, China 30 years ago was probably worth subsidizing, but China today is not.