The cupboards may be bare, but political rhetoric is rich and frothy
It isn’t that our political leaders’ concern about rising food costs isn’t genuine. It is that most lack the daring, or the sense of urgency—perhaps because they, themselves, are handsomely compensated—to move from Band-Aids, and accusations, to substantial social change.
CHELSEA, QUE.—While many Canadians make prudent adjustments to their shopping lists, cut back on restaurant meals and take-out, and—in a growing number of cases—visit food banks for the first time, in Ottawa, politicians shout at each other about the scourge—the mise...
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