Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he’s ‘disappointed’ in the lack of transparency Canadian grocery store giants have offered so far when it comes to tackling food inflation. He’s sending a letter to Canada’s Commissioner of Competition to express his dissatisfaction.

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    10 months ago

    Well, his first problem is thinking “food inflation” is a thing. There is no inflation, it’s all just unchecked corporate greed.

    Want to fix the problem? Introduce a new tax that cleans house of all the money stolen by the corporations and put them back into education and health care.

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      10 months ago

      That would just increase the price further as the corporations would shift the cost to the clients.

      Want to solve it permanently? Crown corporation grocery stores.

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        10 months ago

        If the taxes are designed to create a ceiling, it wouldn’t matter how much they charged.

        I do like the idea of crown corporation grocery stores, though. Let’s go that route.

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          10 months ago

          Only way that works is a 100% tax rate after a certain point and what I think would happen is that they would find better ways to dodge them…