CHARLEBOIS: The disappearing middle is distorting Canada’s food economy
Sylvain Charlebois writes, “You don’t fix food inflation by throwing money at it—you fix it by restoring a middle class that can actually afford to participate in the market.”
By: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois
Sylvain Charlebois is director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, co-host of The Food Professor Podcast and visiting scholar at McGill University.
Canada doesn’t just have a food inflation problem. It has a market structure problem—and it’s getting worse.
Over the past two …
