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This was one of the more surprising things to me when I lived in Canada: that there is so much of this. Depending on which region you are in you will either hav
by jacquesm 10mo ago
This was one of the more surprising things to me when I lived in Canada: that there is so much of this. Depending on which region you are in you will either have state monopolies on the strangest things and/or a couple of families that have their fingers in just about every pie. And don't get me started on the telecommunications sector.
- Waterluvian 10mo agoI wonder if this is largely a function of geography and population. Do we see similar strange things in countries like Australia, Sweden, etc.? Kind of like a small town effect at the national scale.
- jacquesm 10mo agoI think it goes back all the way to the founding days of Canada, essentially the Hudson Bay Company.
- roryirvine 10mo agoSweden has a fair amount of it - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget and (formerly) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoteket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoteket as examples.
- jamesblonde 10mo agoAnd the Wallenberg family.
- darubedarob 10mo ago[dead]