They won't, but it's also partly our fault too. Canadian telecom companies are legendary for their scumbag behaviour and monopolistic practices and we, as Canadians, 100% understand and just accept that they are corrupt and nothing will get done about it. Our collective response to getting fleeced is to just shrug and pay the higher prices while bitching about it.

We, as a nation, put up more of a fuss over fucking vaccines than we ever have about our telecom companies robbing us blind.

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The head of the CRTC was unavailable for comment as their mouth was full of telco CEO cock and the laughter made the mumblings unintelligible. The journalist (tm) said it sounded like "more please".

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Our collective response to getting fleeced is to just shrug and pay the higher prices while bitching about it.

What exactly can we even do outside of voting? Even that seems futile with the Liberals convincing* the left to vote for them "strategically". You can't really survive without a phone plan but there's no smaller telcos to use for 90% of people

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

The most basic thing you can do to start with is to contact your elected representatives and demand action, and I'd be willing to bet most people haven't even done that. Make a stink; contact the media, the government, and get others to do the same. Start building a unified demand for change that becomes impossible to ignore.

Escalate from there as needed. Corruption doesn't go away because you asked it nicely. It has to be forced out like cancer from the body.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago

been like this for as far as I can remember. Hell I'm old enough to remember when there was ONE phone company (bell) and ONE cable company (rogers) and that was it. I remember when AOL was coming to Canada and how they both raised a massive stink over the fact.