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SHIFTHEADS: Why Ottawa Won't Like the Answer on Food Prices
Food professor Sylvain Charlebois on why Canadian grocery prices are so high, what a Lidl store in Cork, Ireland reveals about what we're actually paying for, and why Ottawa's new Competition Bureau food study is long overdue but unlikely to deliver easy answers.
Charlebois was calling in from inside a Lidl in Ireland when the conversation happened, pricing out a kilo of mozzarella at the equivalent of a dollar seventy-nine Canadian. The comparison to Canadian shelf prices is not subtle. What's behind the gap goes deeper than grocer margins.
From supply management to anti-competitive lease…
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