You're using a horribly biased source to try and prove a point
Give me a better one. Or compare it yourself if you'd like. I actually (awhile ago, this has come up for me before) went and used the online calculators for a few different places, and for a few different hypothetical drivers to compare and it did not support the idea that public insurers have lower rates. Quite the opposite. But maybe things have changed, or maybe I did the comparisons incompetently. The information available to me led me to this conclusion.
I allowed you to drag this topic through the mud and make it all about price/regulation.
You allowed me nothing. I do as I please. You're not king. Also, while I accept price isn't everything, how is regulation not inherently incredibly important in this discussion?
Saskatchewan has the highest-risk drivers in the country
Why are people from Saskatchewan such shitty drivers? Do you have a source for that so I can compare? That seems kind of odd. If anything, the intuition (and certainly the common joke) would be that here in the prairies, accidents would be fewer. Nothing to hit. Is it just because our winters tend to last longer? (Assuming Manitoba is similarly poor. If it's not, that just raises more questions.)
Or is it poor maintenance of public infrastructure causing more accidents?
With that sentence structure you're insinuating that crown telecoms might be comparable in price to the private corporations.
I'm saying that I don't know because I haven't researched it. He said both, I was only addressing one. I don't know how you'd rather I phrase it.
That said, what do you pay and what do you get? For reference, I pay 36 CAD per month for unlimited calls, texts, voicemail, canada wide calling, international texts, call display, and 1GB of data. I also got an S4 when it was new for..I think it was 100 CAD. How much less would I be paying with Sasktel?
They provide economic stability, localized tax bases, returned profits to fund public ventures, unionized jobs, and numerous other benefits.
I don't feel as though unionized jobs are inherently valuable. Unions are a necessary evil to prevent businesses from fucking over their employees, but they're usually a sign that a business has failed to be run properly that stands in the way of efficient operation. Particularly MPI has a ridiculous union structure that I can give specific example of how it has fucked over people at the cost of the organization being able to run better. The majority of Costco employees aren't unionized and they are the oft-used example of a great business to work for. I dunno about SGI, but MPI is pretty secretive about its finances and operation, guarding the open secret that they're holding on to way more money than they should be from the public utilities board.
I'd need to see some analysis on economic stability and "localized tax bases", those may hold water. I'd need some compelling numbers to see it outweigh the over-centralization of power in an unnecessary area that is MPI.
Fuck do I ever hate when you cunts drag this topic through the mud. People like you are the reason for the dismantling of our crown corporations with you neoliberal dumb-fuck mindsets.
Okay, but tell me how you really feel.