cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42020156

Can Canada create a food labeling system similar to this?

It’s confusing trying to buy Canadian with all the variations of made in, assembled in, grown in, packaged in, etc. Can we copy the Australian food labeling system, perhaps replacing the kangeroo with a maple leaf? I find this much clearer.

  • huppakee@lemm.eeOP
    51·
    3 months ago

    Universal healthcare is cheaper, but still not really free healthcare.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      3 months ago

      You’re right, it would be cheaper healthcare and we wouldn’t have bills come in on top of that. To the simple people who are voting against this, I will call it free healthcare.

      • huppakee@lemm.eeOP
        1·
        3 months ago

        I don’t want to disagree but we also pay for public television, like a mandatory netflix subscription. You could say it doesn’t cost anything to watch a show, just like it doesn’t cost anything to go to the doctor but it doesn’t feel fair to me to call them free services because they are not gifts or something like that. We also don’t have free highways, free pensions or free education. If everyone would consider them free things you have the right to use because you are a citizen people will probably complain a lot more about taxes than when this people consider themselves taxpayers who organised themselves to get things done for a fair price.

          • huppakee@lemm.eeOP
            1·
            3 months ago

            If they say free public transport while it’s payed for by taxes than I’d say you’re right about healthcare being free as well. Glad we have different words to describe things that are freely available vs available at no extra cost vs actually free (like that discarded chair by the side of the road). Still feels disrespectful to me to call healthcare and education free tbh.

              • huppakee@lemm.eeOP
                2·
                3 months ago

                Maybe I should expand my definition of free then. I know low cost is not the same as low value, but in my mind free is something that comes without giving anything in return. If something has high value, you’re not likely to give it away without getting something in return. So I think my opinion has to do with not appreciating something because you call it free, but I guess that’s just me.