🇨🇦 Toronto and NDP Push Soviet-Style Grocery Stores While Inflation Rages

Toronto city council just passed a motion for a public grocery pilot, with NDP leader Avi Lewis making state-run food stores a key campaign promise. The pitch: government will cover construction, rent, and taxes, then lease to a private operator who magically passes savings to you. Food economist Michael von Massow calls it what it is: throwing money away. Government lacks the expertise, scale, and purchasing power to compete in an industry with razor-thin margins. But when you've spent years inflating costs through carbon taxes, supply chain mismanagement, and regulatory bloat, why not double down with subsidized storefronts.

This isn't about affordability. It's about expanding state control while deflecting blame from the policies that made food unaffordable in the first place. Families spending $17,571 annually on groceries don't need public stores staffed by bureaucrats. They need lower taxes, cheaper energy, and a government that stops pretending central planning works.

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