If they hadn't burned significant amounts of goodwill leading up to the program launch with repeated statements of "just buy the ones that aren't prohibited", only to turn around and prohibit those.
If they had actually paid market value.
If they actually promised to pay out at all.
The LPC needed buy-in from everyone, and instead we have Minister Anandasangaree talking out of both sides of his mouth, and no actual justification for this except "we clearly aren't able to enforce the laws that we already have, so let's do something and hope it plays well politically".
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u/stevedrums Apr 06 '26
Australia seized over 600k when they did this. Looks like Canadians trust their government far less