🇨🇦 NDP's Avi Lewis pushes Soviet-style grocery stores despite 50% failure rate

New federal NDP leader Avi Lewis is championing city-run grocery stores even as data confirms government food retail fails over half the time in North America. Toronto council already voted 21-3 to waste taxpayer dollars on four municipal grocery stores at undisclosed cost. Kansas City's Sun Fresh burned through $29 million over seven years before collapsing with empty shelves and safety issues. Grocery margins run 3-5% and require coordinating thousands of perishable products across temperature-sensitive supply chains. Governments can't fix potholes but sure, let them manage dairy logistics.

The real crisis isn't grocery store shortages — it's affordability destroyed by carbon taxes, regulatory bloat, and inflationary spending. But policy adventurism polls better than admitting your ideology broke the economy. Lewis and Toronto's progressive council would rather launch doomed socialist experiments than address the actual cost drivers strangling Canadians at checkout.

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