Liberals And Conservatives Avoid Mentioning Canada’s Grocery Monopolies
Liberals And Conservatives Avoid Mentioning Canada's Grocery Monopolies | Dominion Review
Recent Question Periods in Canada’s House of Commons have been dominated by the issue of food prices, with the Conservative Party mounting a sustained attack on the Carney government’s decision to maintain the industrial portion of the carbon tax, which Conservatives argue is indirectly inflating prices at the till by increasing the price of things like farm equipment and fertilizer. They also have been pointing to the effect of various other taxes, including on food packaging.
The Liberal response to this line of criticism has been to deride the Conservative Party’s obsession with these little-known taxes, calling them “imaginary taxes”, and pointing to the impact on food prices of broader trends such as climate change. The Liberals have also sought to highlight an alleged hypocrisy of the Conservative focus on food prices, namely that the Conservatives have opposed measures such as the National School Food Program.
The Conservative hyperfocus on the effect of the industrial carbon …
I would wager that Walmart practically has a monopoly in the U.S. In my area a lot of smaller grocery stores have gone out of business leaving Walmart as the sole large food store available (one can buy staples at a few convenience stores). Walmart one one of the business that actually made HUGE profits during the recent lockdown of 2020-2021.