Food price increases driven by inflation were not isolated to Canada, but other countries handled this issue very differently.
Bester said the way the Mexican government handled major grocers in their country was more direct, and prevented prices on groceries from increasing as drastically as they did in Canada.
Last year, Mexico’s government signed an agreement to control the price of a number of “basic” foods — 24 items in the “bread basket” including pasteurised whole milk, basic cornflour, packaged bread, whole chicken, rice, vegetable oil, and canned sardines, set at a maximum price to 910 pesos (about $60CAN). Major retailers, including Walmart, agreed to the terms.
“The government really took more of a carrot and a stick approach to freezing the prices of a basket of goods, bringing grocers in and saying, basically, ‘this is the way it’s going to be,’” Bester said.
Macdonald noted that the UK also approached grocery price increases differently than Canada.
“They brought the big grocery stores together to offer sort of a set of basic products at lower prices for a kind of house brand,” Macdonald said. “You’ve got the cheap bread for a certain set amount, the cheap eggs for a certain set amount, that sort of thing.”
In 2023, Canada’s big grocery chains exceeded $6 billion in profits — an increase of eight per cent from the previous year, according to the Centre for Future Work. The data found food retailers are now making more than twice as much profit as they did before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hence, education. They don’t understand fascism because they haven’t been educated about fascism. It’s spreading across the globe and too many people seem oblivious. Perhaps history would be helpful? WWII? Those who are controlling the label are able to do so, because they control the education, or lack thereof: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fascism+definition&ia=web
One does not really have to go any further than the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church to see the proliferation of fascism in action, and also to see the tremendous effort to re-define fascism so that it does NOT apply to what the Empire has done in the past, and in fact many facets in it are still doing. Although the last Pope seemed to be trying to get the Empire away from operating in that mode, and we will see what the new Pope does.
My personal take is that the spread of fascism is being prompted by a particularly well organized institution that is co-coordinating a lot of the events that are feeding the fascist goals, and it is managing to stay below the radar simply because the news media refuses to call it for what it is. But the events are too well orchestrated, too well co-ordinated, too well funded, and too contiguous not to be planned by some central authority.
It’s not that well orchestrated. It’s a LACK of education. The happiest countries in the world are also the most educated.
Open your eyes. It IS that orchestrated. The same line in the similar protests organized in the same fashion showing up within days of each other in different countries around the world. Someone is planning the timing of these events, well ahead of them.
The sooner the general public recognizes the pattern, educated or not, the sooner we can intervene.
Security Services already recognize this - an event happens somewhere in the world,they all go on alert knowing there will be a follow-up somewhere else in the world.
The spread of fascism is being spread because oligarchs own the news. They own the newspapers, and they own the TV news. This was part of Mark Carney’s platform. He would support the CBC. Free news. Maybe the last FREE news in Canada. If your personal take is that the spread of fascism is being promoted by a particularly well organized institution, then maybe stop talking about it, and start fighting against it!
More Western news media are owned and controlled by religions than oligarchs. CBC stands for China Bashing Corporation.
The only way to stop the spread of fascism and to fight it IS to talk about it and to make people aware of it. We couldn’t stop it when I was a student in the 80’s, no matter what level the protest, and we can not stop it now. We can only make people aware of it.
OMG! CBC stands for Canadian Broadcasting System. It’s Canada’s free news reporting system. NOT owned by oligarchs. Do you even understand what free reporting means?
There is nothing ‘free’ about the CBC. There is no such thing as a free lunch. We get the CBC through public funds only as long as the CBC presents the face the government wants. CBC bashes China precisely because the previous Trudeau government set that as the objective. Even the CBC ombudsman made that clear to me.