This long-standing relationship came to an abrupt halt last week, when Canpar decided without warning to suspend all firearms and ammunition related delivery services across Canada. They abandoned decades-old business relationships instantly and without justification, and without providing their clients with sufficient notice to make other shipping arrangements. [More]
It looks like it was directed from the top.
What would it take to do the same here?
[Via Jess]
"What would it take to do the same here?"
ReplyDeleteA rebirth of Operation Choke Point would do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/theres-no-downplaying-the-impact-of-operation-choke-point
"Operation Choke Point was real, and it exceeded legal limits. Overwhelming evidence, in the form of more than 900 pages of newly unsealed emails and depositions, proves government officials illegally targeted lawful businesses in an ideological crusade based on personal disdain. If there were other reasons at play, these regulators would not have needed to resort to backroom pressure tactics, including threatening the jobs of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. officials and bank executives with criminal prosecution unless they cut off banking relationships with small-dollar lenders and other lawful businesses."