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Letters: Price fixing is self-serving

Political leaders enable price fixing at gas pumps

Thank you for your important editorial on collusion and price fixing. (Sooke News Mirror, “Price fixing is illegal,” Mar. 27, 2013)

Last year public outcry demanded our federal MP’s look at what is obviously price gouging with gas taxes. Our MP’s response was “we’ll look into it.”  Yeah right. Let’s be honest. This practice would not happen without the active enablement of our trusted political leaders.

Further to this betrayal add the clairvoyant like similarities in bank and real estate fees.

Nothing will change unless self-serving politicians and their parties remember who they work for. It’s time to them accountable to the public