Rail.
Absolutely.
CN used to be a crown corp but was privatized in the 1990’s under Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives. Thatcherism and neoliberalism at its finest.
CP Rail has always been private.
It’s a key infrastructure that should definitely be publicly owned.
Via Rail is also a crown corp though.
Via Rail operations are at the mercy of CP and CN given their ownership (and lack of maintenance) of the tracks, though.
Anything that is considered a utility or necessary for the function of a nation state, including all schooling, health care and other socially important services.
Isn’t that already the case though? Aren’t hospitals and schools mostly public except for a few private ones?
Maybe make them ALL public and forbid any private for-profit health care and education facilities. This will force the more priviledged to invest in that system if they want the best service for themselves and their children.
Didn’t some Scandinavian country do this already?
schools mostly public except for a few private ones?
About those exceptions…
Public money shouldn’t be going to private schools.
If you want your kid to be in some elitist private school, you should pay the entire cost. Otherwise the public system is always an option.
Diverting public funds away from the public education system just weakens the public system.
There’s a difference between hospitals being public and health care services being public. Drugs for chronic conditions. Dentistry. Optometry. Psychiatric services. Proper handling of transport costs for people not living in large cities who urgently need to see a specialist (Ontario’s reimbursement program for that is joke-worthy). Hospital equipment—constant fundraisers to replace things should not be required. There’s so much stuff that falls between the cracks under the current setup that really should be covered by the government.
Obviously telecom. We used to own our transatlantic cables, now we barely have one and we don’t own it.
I’ll start: Energy. Everything from oil/natural gas extraction, transformation, transportation and sales to nuclear enrichment, nuclear electricity production, hydro electricity production and distribution.
Cloud data storage and services.
That’s not essential. It’s very practical. But we can do without.
not essential? Maybe, but name 1 industry that doesn’t depend on it.
Dude, there are TONS of industries that don’t rely on it. And even those who do, only do it because it’s more practical, but not out of necessity. Some companies have even gone back to on-premise because of costs and other security concerns, especially when the U.S. controls every single largest cloud service provider out there.
I know one canadian grocery chain that has their IT stuff all hosted on-prem. They don’t use cloud services. Some financial institutions also don’t use cloud services. For the longest time, SAP provided on-prem hosting services for their SAP Cloud Commerce platform before they moved to the cloud in 2019. It’s not a necessity. It’s just more practical.
Source: I’m a DevOps that worked in several companies as a consultant and full time.
Ah, my bad, I just saw the “data storage and services” part and just ignored the “cloud” word. I was thinking more along the lines of, “what company doesn’t need IT services?”
😂😂😂 That’s okay.
Too many government services use it.
