Will Ottawa’s food strategy actually lower your grocery bill?

Ottawa is investing greater than $3 billion as a part of a nationwide meals safety technique. It goals to fight anticompetitive business practices, increase agricultural infrastructure to enhance entry to contemporary produce year-round, and deal with on-line surveillance pricing.

Nevertheless it isn’t the primary time a Liberal authorities pulled out the stops to make groceries cheaper or grocery retailer monopolies. 

Host Caryn Ceolin speaks to Pascal Thériault, director of McGill College’s farm administration and know-how program and an agricultural economist, to debate what it means for Canadians to have a nationwide meals technique, and whether or not or not it’ll really decrease grocery payments.

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