Canadians are getting nickel and dimed every day,
and it's poor Canadians, the working poor, who bear the brunt of these costs.
Almost everyone I know has to use pay as you go by the minute phones.
You need a credit card to get a cellphone plan, and a $20 service when it was gov't owned is now a $60 - $100 a month bill when you finish with the fees.
Communication is a basic right, and the land line is history.
Every Canadian, regardless of their credit history, should be able to get a cellphone with unlimited local calls, any time of day, with voice messaging, for $20 a month and no additional access fees.
Telco's have made their billions bilking us, now they must be reigned in.
In Britain and Scotland, and much of Europe, there are no bank machine fees.
We pay $1.50 on average. It's bullshit. Set the fee at 20 cents and make it stand firm.
Internet providers should be forced to offer basic high speed cable for $20 a month with at least 3 emails included and 5 gigs of downloads. No extra fees, except for more gigs.
But even more importantly, the gov't needs to make it illegal for the telco's and cable co's to force Canadians to buy other services in order to get basic internet.
Right now if you try to get ADSL, the telco tells you you must pay for a landline to get it, even if you have a cell and don't need a landline, if you try to get high speed cable internet, the cable co tells you that you MUST get at least a basic cable package.
The internet is necessary for children to do their schoolwork, people to communicate, to pay bills, access gov't services, etc. Everyone needs internet today, but LOTS of people have no interest in cable. 100+ channels of shit on the tv to choose from. Flipping for half an hour to find something we've only seen once, to kill time in our meat-robot brains.
This bundling of services that are not wanted is a huge scam that the gov't has allowed its corporate cronies to bilk us for years.
Rich people don't pay these fees. They all run some business or another out of their home so that they can write off all the costs of these things.
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