Loblaws and Walmart’s ‘brick wall’ on grocery code of conduct spurred cross-party unity at Agriculture Committee, says chair

MPs on the House Agriculture Committee want two grocery giants to adopt a new code of conduct, but haven’t yet seen the full text of the code themselves.

On Feb. 16, members of the House of Commons Agriculture Committee, including Liberal MP Kody Blois, left, NDP MP Alistair MacGregor, and Bloc Québécois MP Yves Perron, sent an open letter to the CEOs of Walmart and Loblaws calling on those companies to adopt a grocery code of conduct.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Aidan Chamandy

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

February 22, 2024

The House of Commons Agriculture Committee has taken an all-party stand against two grocery giants that are resisting signing off on a new code of conduct, but MPs on the committee have not yet seen the full text of the code themselves, and the committee chair admits the mov...

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