Biting back against ‘greedflation’

About 5.8 million people across the country suffered food insecurity in 2021, and the situation has worsened since.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, left, and Loblaw Companies President Galen Weston, pictured March 8, at the House Agriculture Committee meeting. Rates of food-specific inflation have not only been more than a full percentage point higher for most of the 12 months between February 2022 and January 2023, writes NDP MP Alistair MacGregor.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NDP MP ALISTAIR MACGREGOR

March 20, 2023

Another spring is coming, but the rising cost of living—especially in food—is evergreen. Food is the great equalizer, as everybody eats. The present food inflation crisis started rising in 2021, a year in which about 5.8 million people across the 10 provinces suffered fo...

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