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For a government that often talks about food affordability and insecurity, Budget 2025 offers surprisingly little that directly addresses either.

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There’s no bold food strategy, no affordability roadmap, and no new incentives for domestic food production. Yet, in between the lines, Ottawa has quietly set the stage for some indirect relief — not through grocery subsidies or consumer-facing policies, but through infrastructure, trade, and administrative reforms that could make the food system work a little more efficiently.

The largest signal comes from the government’s $115-billion infrastructure plan, one of its so-called “generational investments.”

The new Trade........

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