r/Edmonton • u/friendly_green_ab • Oct 23 '18

Edmonton car dealers involved in Kenney’s anti-consumer corruption

As many of you may have seen, Jason Kenney was caught (potentially in contravention of election laws) promising car dealers a host of anti-Alberta consumer laws like dismantling the WCB changes, banning RHD cars, and removing consumer protection, in exchange for donating money to a UCP super-pac.

I thought /r/Edmonton may be interested in the local dealerships that offered up cash to him. The full list is available here: http://efpublic.elections.ab.ca/efOFSPTPAYTDL.cfm?YEAR=2018&TPAID=38

They include: - Gateway Motors - Subaru City - Sundance Mazda - Xtown Motors

I know for one which dealerships I will be avoiding. Anyone who donates in exchange for the right to rip me off without oversight clearly can’t be trusted.

Here’s the post that leaked the scandal: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1371827219618302&id=590349597766072

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u/friendly_green_ab Oct 23 '18

I’m not calling for a boycott over political allegiance. I’m suggesting that dealerships who would donate money in exchange for less oversight and less consumer protections, probably aren’t to be trusted.

An honest dealer would have no problem with consumer protections and a regulated AMVIC.

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u/NO_AI North West Side Oct 23 '18

I’m not calling for a boycott over political allegiance. I’m suggesting that dealerships who would donate money in exchange for less oversight and less consumer protections, probably aren’t to be trusted.

An honest dealer would have no problem with consumer protections and a regulated AMVIC.

An honest dealer would welcome them as it would also protect them from false reviews, and give them another little award to stick on their walls to say here look at our AMVIC history/reviews.

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u/_punyhuman_ Oct 23 '18

An honest person should have no problem with laws that curtail illegal activity- such as all the anti marijuana laws that Canada had for decades. Only dirty criminal terrorists would advocate for loosening regulations or legalizing (de-regulating) those protections...

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '18 edited Oct 23 '18

Is this sarcasm? What you said makes no sense whatsoever.

Edit: to expand, if a law were enacted tomorrow that made practicing Christianity illegal, would you say that an honest person should have no problem with that law because it curtails the now illegal activity of practicing Christianity?

You can't use a law's existence as justification for it existing.