Figures 2-4 are staggering. It makes me wonder how farmers are surviving financially
Last I heard…subsidies. So it’s a fragile existence.
If those subsidies are coming from the government that means the burden is shifted to taxpayers.
Which means the common man is not only being grifted at the store with his hard earned, after-tax dollar, the tax portion of his earnings are also being grifted.
Time to institute a specific tax on Loblaw, Empire, Metro and Save-On that goes directly to farmers.
I would add, though, that while farming is not always profitable, the bulk of land is owned by “farmers” that are very wealthy. They’re more like real estate investors that employ professional farm managers, then actual farmers.
This is completely insane and unsurprising. I’ve always wanted to get my hands on comparisons like these.
Is the drastic upward slope of bread around 2004+ when Loblaws and others started the bread price fixing?
