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    Premierminister Carney stellt eine milliardenschwere Lebensmittelstrategie vor, die die Preise senken soll


    Premierminister Carney stellt eine milliardenschwere Lebensmittelstrategie vor, die die Preise senken soll

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/pm-carney-unveils-multibillion-dollar-food-strategy-meant-to-expand-choice-lower-prices/

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    1. zachem62 on

      If you dig through the full strategy [document](https://agriculture.canada.ca/sites/default/files/documents/2026-06/national_food_security_strategy_06-26-en.pdf), it spends 27 pages diagnosing market concentration and grocery monopolization, and 27 pages making sure nobody benefiting from either has much to worry about. It promises more competition without challenging incumbents, more resilience without redistributing power, and lower prices without asking today’s winners to give up anything.

      Billions for new programs. Billions for new infrastructure. Billions for new funds. Almost no direct challenge to existing power. The strategy’s unspoken rule is simple. Everyone gets something, nobody important loses anything. That’s what makes it politically viable. It’s also what makes its promise of real change on affordability hard to take seriously.

    2. essuxs on

      Sounds like a real solution, not small bandaids that won’t have any real impact like “ban dynamic pricing”, or “create a set of rules and conduct”, or “require stores to do x”

    3. PineBNorth85 on

      This doesn’t look very impressive or like it will move the needle much at all. Just more playing at the margins when what we need is real transformational change. The oligopolies have to be broken up.

    4. ghost_n_the_shell on

      The obvious solution that would benefit CANADIANS is to break apart the **oligopoly**.

      Nope.

      Instead we spend money to protect the billionaires and their **oligopoly**.

      Waste of money. Waste of time.

    5. wet_suit_one on

      I wonder how this will work when climate change will make agricultural production harder and harder and harder every year?

      And while Canada is an „agricultural superpower,“ well, you can’t just eat bread (where we are a world leader). Veg and fruits, we have some, but not enough for the country. But grains, lord have mercy, we have lots and lots and lots (AND LOTS!!!!) of grains.

      Quite a bit of beef too, but the herd’s been thinned recently and growing the herd operates only as fast as cow reproduction goes, which isn’t that fast so beef prices will be high for the foreseeable future.

      We could ramp up pork and chicken production pretty quick though, but that requires price signals that demonstrate it’s worth producers time to scale up.

      Got lotsa fish, but lord have mercy, fish is just expensive as all hell. That’s what happens when everything is overfished though. Cod is slowly reappearing on the shelves though, so that’s something. Coho won’t be cheap again in my lifetime I expect. I hope they don’t go extinct. Such a fun fish to catch and so incredibly awesome to eat!

      Yeah… Food.

      Canadians will never starve (too much grain for that to ever happen), but food variety might be hard to come by just due to climatic reasons. We’re pretty danged far north so year round fruits and veg is a lift. Greenhouses help but that only gets you so far in some respects. They don’t really help with fruits (ever see bananas in a greenhouse? Yeah, me neither. Though I did hear about a guy who grew a banana plant in the NWT or somesuch in a greenhouse, but that’s just a challenge, not a commercial operation).

    6. Sherm199 on

      Any politician running on breaking up Loblaws will win a large majority. Left wing populism is popular enlightened centrism is not

    7. happyspaceghost on

      I don’t like the concessions on food safety. Sure there is a lot of red tape but maybe if you didn’t cut their funding things would move faster???

    8. Ordinary-Easy on

      Think about how smaller farms compete in the food market.  

      It’s typically not based on price … it’s typically based on some sort of unique food trait. 

      $300 million or so a year is not likely to help much when it comes to infrastructure.

      This is political window dressing … making it seem like the government is doing something to help but whatever help actually happens is likely to go to farmers that are selling higher priced foods that such subsidies are not likely to help bring down prices much.

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