The Proposed Buy Canadian Act
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by SledDog
Last night Jayson V, CSD Congress member from Ontario introduced the a proposal into Congress called "The Buy Canadian Act." This act would require the Canadian government to buy Canadian manufactured goods if the price for such goods is within 5% of the value of a lower priced foreign made product on the open market, provided that none of the 13 original regions of Canada are neither under attack nor occupied. The government will expressly be banned from buying goods from a Canadian based company owned by a person or organization based in a country at war with Canada. There are some slight modifications going on to deal with some expressed concerns.
What does this new bill mean to you?
Well in one sense nothing at all. It doesn't stop you from buying the lowest cost product that's out there. In another sense it could benefit you because, while on the whole Government purchases already give preferential treatment to Canadian goods, the new bill will legislate it. The Canadian Government will be paying Canadian employers instead of foreign employers and taxes from those payments (VAT, Income Tax from workers etc.) will be going to the Canadian government, not a foreign government. Theoretically at least it could mean more revenue for Canadian companies, although as I have said the Government tends to be pretty good about this. One thing it might do is to encourage companies to lower their prices so that they are within the 5% barrier.
So how will this work? Well let's say that the Government needs Moving Tickets and the lowest price for moving tickets is $7.38 from a Latvian company. If the next highest price from a Canadian company is under $7.75, the Government will buy from that Company rather than the Latvian company. Simple as that. And as I mentioned, the provisions of this act are suspended if any of the 13 regions of Canada are under attack or occupied.
While I don't expect this to bill to change much in the way of behaviour - the people in charge of purchasing for the Government are already practicing much of this policy - it is worth having it in writing in the event that the next guy is less attentive to such details.
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I like it. be a pain in the ass to be buying the goods though.
I read about this earlier. I like it! We should be encouraging Canadian business, and we should start with the government.
"that none of the 13 original regions of Canada are neither under attack nor occupied"
Your use of double negatives leads me to believe the regions need to be under attack or occupied for this to occur. NOT what I would call a very good proposition!
Arrgghh! Swill some more rum and re-write this!
ARBITRARY-RESTRICTIONSmaxx!
Though its got the right idea behind it🙂
Tis about time...
Rylde - It takes one click to determine if a company is or isn't Canadian, and one more click to determine where the org that owns it is based, then some simple math to figure out the price difference. I monitor the Moving Ticket industry and I indicate on my listing whether or not a company is Canadian based. Not hard.
LJSilver - That's not how the bill is written... fortunately.
William Duncan - Arbitrary restrictions? Maybe, but I know of cities that won't hire people because their residences are ten feet outside the city limits. That's arbitrary. The wording of this legislation merely makes a law out of what most of the people buying for the government have been doing all along, and gives them some sort of boundaries.
Our government IS awesome. This. Is. CANADA! 😃
Love how they legislated it so fast
"It takes..one more click to determine where the org that owns it is based."
Makes no diffence where an org is based. They move around the world frequently to by materials, etc. An org's location does not indicate the owner's citizenship in any way.
Citizen B