Support zero-profit grocery stores to fight market failure in the food supply chain

We cannot rely on the private market to solve this problem. The government has recently acknowledged as much in the housing sector—it now needs to do the same in the food sector.

Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne has responded to the food supply chain crisis by inviting more multinational grocery chains into Canada, write Marissa Alexander and Wade Thorhaug.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARISSA ALEXANDER, WADE THORHAUG

September 16, 2024

Canada is in the middle of a housing crisis. The private sector has failed to fix the steep cost of housing, and many now recognize it as a market failure.

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