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1 posted on 12/29/2016 9:27:31 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Socialists hate competition and free market economies.

Why not just have one restaurant, and let the state own it.


2 posted on 12/29/2016 9:30:04 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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[eyeroll] What if Montreal-ers actually want to eat out that much? What if one of the new ones that’s being locked out might actually be better than one of the existing ones? What if we let people vote with their Canuck dollars, or Quebecois francs, or whatever the hell Montrealers have in their wallets, and let the cream of the restaurant business rise to the top?


4 posted on 12/29/2016 9:32:06 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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So they are banning new restaurants in Montreal, because they have enough, per the city officials???

I know I’m prone to “capitalist” thinking, but, isn’t this an area where the market will decide how many restaurants are enough??? And that those restaurants who don’t attract enough business will go under??

Do we really want to see government artificially limit the number of any type of business??

What if someone wants to open a new restaurant, perhaps offering a different type of food than existing restaurants have? Wouldn’t we want the market to decide if this new type of food will find enough people to patronize such a restaurant and keep them in business?

This sounds like bad news to me.


5 posted on 12/29/2016 9:32:40 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Lorianne

I, for one, am happy that the government of Montreal is stepping in to protect the city’s residents from the twin perils of good food and economic development.


7 posted on 12/29/2016 9:34:03 AM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: Lorianne

Every attempt to regulate the market leads to higher cost, worse service, and bad products.


8 posted on 12/29/2016 9:34:28 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: Lorianne

This will work exactly like Rent Control...................


10 posted on 12/29/2016 9:36:28 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: Lorianne

So even if you suck you get to stay open!


16 posted on 12/29/2016 10:01:56 AM PST by albie
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To: Lorianne
Another misleading headline:
... a ban on new restaurants from opening within 25 meters of an existing one along the city's Rue Notre Dame...
19 posted on 12/29/2016 10:20:25 AM PST by numberonepal (First they came for Sarah, then they came for Herman, and now they've come for Trump.)
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To: Lorianne

U.S. cities usually do the same via liquor licenses.


20 posted on 12/29/2016 10:22:18 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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It seems the socialists have discovered the Montreal limit for poutine shops...


21 posted on 12/29/2016 10:28:51 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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