Jim Flaherty vs. Market Forces: Round 2 or Take Your Own Advice

CBC's reports on this subject this evening mentioned that Flaherty said that consumers also need to do their part by - wait for this - shopping around and comparing prices!

What? Are you saying just taking the first thing you see isn't a good idea?! Wow, Jim, you better run that down to DND so they can stop buying all that military hardware on no-bid contracts! Brilliant!