Luckily there’s a lot more than the grocery rebate.
That said I hope these investments don’t go to the existing monopolies:
To help bring down the cost of groceries, which have been rising faster than inflation, Carney said he will direct $500 million from the government’s Strategic Response Fund to help food suppliers “expand capacity and increase productivity.”
It seems to me that in Canada, a metric country, putting price per pound on an item because it looks less expensive is a dishonourable practice, but has become the norm. Am I to conclude that the general population is very easy to engineer (fool)? Also, $2.99 is three dollars, not two dollars. Cost accounting is the only thing that makes sense when assigning value but greed got in the way of healthy profit quite a while ago.
Ontario just removed the built in tax on beer right after they allowed it to be sold in gas stations and corner stores and those criminal Loblaws dumps…
magically beer prices started to increase right after that too… literally all ass backwards because deception works.