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Where, I ask you, would a columnist be without ludicrous private member’s bills? On Tuesday our paper ran a short item about Ontario MPP France Gélinas and her proposed Temptation Be Gone Act, now before the provincial parliament as Bill 263. Gélinas, the New Democratic health critic, has decided that grocery retailers have been having altogether too pleasant a time of it over the past year or so, and that the perfect trial balloon to launch in March of 2021 is a new regulatory scheme explicitly designed to cut into their profits. It is not as though these devious monsters have just enabled us all to keep eating (or, indeed, to gain weight in our pandemic warrens) while supply chains were taking a year-long beating.