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.”

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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 …