A Good Read

The Toronto Star published my op-ed on Saturday. Unfortunately I can't post a link to it due to Meta Rules.

So it will come as no surprise to anyone that after promising to get back to me after the Cabinet Retreat at the end of August Arif Virani is back to ghosting me.

I honestly can't fathom why he came to my store to tell me he was going to follow-up on the issues I raised.

The icing on the cake: I just found out that the government of France in an effort to keep Amazon from having a monopoly on book sales has actually imposed a "minimum shipping fee" to prevent Amazon from gobbling up the market through free shipping offers.

Arif was in Paris a few months ago for a meeting about e-commerce and I find myself wondering what he said about this when he heard about it from his French colleagues. "Actually Jacques we decided to go a different way and direct our national postal service to offer steep last-leg of delivery discounts to Amazon to facilitate their forming a monopoly. What do you think?"

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