The University of Dalhousie and the “food professor”, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, and other universities did a study that measured food inflation that compared Canada and the United States. They found that for wholesale food prices in Canada, food inflation is 36% higher in Canada than it is in the United States. The member can look at the graph that is there; I would be happy to share it. The one factor making the difference is when the carbon tax increases every April, there is another spike in that difference between Canada and the United States in food inflation. One of the factors is that we have a carbon tax in Canada, and the United States does not.
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The University of Dalhousie and the “food professor”, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, and other universities did a study that measured food inflation that compared Canada and the United States. They found that for wholesale food prices in Canada, food inflation is 36% higher in Canada than it is in the United States. The member can look at the graph that is there; I would be happy to share it. The one factor making the difference is when the carbon tax increases every April, there is another spike in that difference between Canada and the United States in food inflation. One of the factors is that we have a carbon tax in Canada, and the United States does not.