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Michael Higgins: Mark Carney fails his own grocery test

Canada leads the G7 in food inflation

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It’s been a year since Prime Minister Mark Carney said the cost of living was a key priority for his Liberal government — and every month since food prices have gone through the roof. 

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The Liberals will put the blame on Ukraine, or Donald Trump or tariffs or climate change or just about anything, but what they won’t do is accept responsibility for a crisis that they most certainly have control over. 

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Some of those issues may have an impact, but the main reason people are facing huge grocery bills is because of a lack of competitiveness driven by structural defects like interprovincial barriers and the carbon tax. 

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