From airlines to banks, fixing Canada’s competition problem starts with smarter domestic reforms.

  • Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    Nice! Breaking even should be the highest goal for a Crown corp, turning a profit means you are delivering less of a service than you could.

    • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      Yeah. For a government organization, turning a profit is stolen wages. Though a mandate to run zero profit can create a perverse incentive to ‘spend money on lose it next year’. I’m not sure how to deal with that on a policy level but I’d like to see ideas on it.

      • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        When Hydro Québec generates more revenue than their annual plan, they jsut give a check/refund to customers.

        When SAAQ had massive revenues due to basically no insurance claims in 2020 thanks to COVID, they gave a massive rebate on the following year’s premiums.

        Both those crown corps are allowed to have revenues, they just need to be planned for.