Canada taxes junk food but not healthy/staple food and goods (well, it has since a few years ago). It's one of the few things the government has done that I'm like "hey that was a good idea broo." makes it so that when I was a student on a budget just scraping by, I basically wasn't taxed on anything, not even my income. But if I was buying junk food, I'd have had to pay tax, fucking up my budget big time. it's a good counter to "its expensive to eat healthy" and exactly why that argument pisses me off. YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO EAT THE CHEAPER BUT STILL NICE FOODS. In Japan we ridicule people with sukikirai (likes and dislikes) as immature and it is a very undesirable trait. Foreigners who come to Japan with sukikirai are shitlorded into rehabilitation, not just for their health but because everyone looks down on them, but they do not notice because they think they are just "expressing themselves and their culture." Americans and Canadians are often too set in their ways to change. That's why I'm a shitlord... our culture fundamentally embarrasses me in Japan, where I spend much of my adult life. I can not defend my own people.. I'm over here trying to convey that Japan is not better than Canada, and Canada is not better than Japan, but our culture of fat makes it REALLY  FUCKING  HARD :P  [/rant]