🇨🇦 Carney found $1 billion for food bureaucracy, not cheaper groceries

Canada’s food system is so captured that five chains control 75 per cent of grocery sales, and Ottawa’s grand solution is a 10-year, $1-billion scheme for up to 40 local food hubs, as reported. Translation: government admits the market is broken after years of Trudeau-era inflation, carbon taxes, land pressure, and supply-chain idiocy, then hands taxpayers another branded strategy instead of attacking the cost structure crushing farmers and families.

Even the article concedes experts doubt this will lower food bills. Of course it will not. You do not subsidize your way out of consolidation while leaving the same cartelized retail environment, the same import dependence, and the same anti-farmer policy regime intact. Farmers get squeezed, consumers get gouged, and Ottawa gets a photo op about resilience and food security. Classic post-national management: more central planning, more grant networks, more talking points, less sovereignty at the checkout.

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