John Ivison/National Post: His activist agenda promised the launch of a public grocery chain, a public mobile provider and a public pharmaceutical company. Corporations would be hit by an “excess” profit windfall tax and “people of means” with a wealth tax.
…It was, then, a pleasant surprise to see that Lewis’ first major policy announcement last week was not to promise the nationalization of Loblaws or Rogers but a more modest proposal to ban “surveillance pricing,” where companies use personal data to determine how much they are willing to pay…