Politicians are finally shaming Canadian grocery stores for screwing over customers Canada
revealed in 2018, and said he is focused on getting to the bottom of what's going on with food pricing, given that it is one of the only areas where consumer-facing costs have not shown any indication of falling as inflation slowly eases — and the public is really feeling it.
"Some of the major producers of bread and major groceries were involved, and grocery stores were involved in price fixing which was uncovered after years," Singh continued, adding that the NDP is thus worried that something fishy might be happening yet again at these companies behind the scenes. The party's agriculture critic is now set to table a motion suggesting a parliamentary committee investigation into the matter, with a windfall tax — a tax targeting certain companies or industries that suddenly benefitted from massive profits that were a result of the landscape, and not something they did — among the potential solutions.Corporate grocery chain profits? $3.5 billion, while nearly a quarter of Canadians report going hungry.
Corporate greed is cruel and it must be confronted with a windfalls tax forcing CEOs to pay what they owe.
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