wow! yur prices and taxes are unreal.tell us more about your tax system? do you have income tax as we do? or just a national sales tax?
This is outside the OP's post so I will answer in short
Yes, we have Income tax both federal and provincial
Our sales tax consists of a Federal tax( GST) goods and Services @ 7% nation wide
The Provinces vary from 6% to whatever they feel they can fleece from the folks
Some have, mine included something called HST which stands for Harmonized Sales Tax, a combination of both Fed and Provincial tax which is a sneaky way for both the Feds and Provinces to be able to collect taxes on items that at one time only was burdened with either but not both.
Quick example I buy a used vehicle privately in a Province that charges taxes separately. I would pay Provincial tax only. In a HST Province I get hit by both. In some Provinces it is figured on a pyramid scheme.
I buy postage stamps in a GST and PST Province I pay GST only( YES we pay Tax on Potage stamps)
In a HST Province I pay both.
Sorry this got longer than I had hoped.
Suffice it to say your Govt. is trying to catch up to ours.