Sylvain Charlebois writes, "Almost a year ago, Canada’s Food Price Report projected that food inflation in 2025 would range between three and five per cent. We now stand squarely at four."
I don't no what these jerks are basing the food increase on. My grocery bill has increased over last year by about or near 20%. Maybe it's the food I eat, that no one else eats. The same meat I bought last year was $10 dollars. Now it's $12, and the weight size dropped 25%. Using this for an example. A cheap loaf of bread was $1.98, now the same loaf is $2.49. Apples, $1.97/per lb. now $2.97. Potatoes $7.49 per 10lb. now $8.99. Again, where do these A holes come up with these figures. 2.2% and the like. And idiots keep voting for this.
I'm 74 years old. Food prices have gone up consistently throughout my life. Remember, the cost of living increases before wages go up. The cost of living goes up because manufacturers want more profit. The average worker asks for increased wages to deal with the increased cost of living. Then the manufacturers increase the prices again and blame it on the increased wages.
So, how far back should we go? Do we go back to when bread was $.010 a loaf. Ok, How many people are ready to go back to $0.75/hr being considered a living wage?
You are wrong about what causes inflation. Government printing money, resulting it its devaluation is the primary cause. Profit is not a bad thing. Without it you will have nothing.
Reasonable profits are ok..but the profit margins of BIG grocer/ pharma/ oil/ Gov't/ banks/ etc. are ludicrous..Many businesses back in the day operated and flourished on a 30% margin...nowadays.., even with the vast majority of everything being produced/ marketed by CHINA, whose vast source of cheap slave labour is obviously NOT passed on to us..the consumer...while the profit margins of the BIG boys skyrocket..while quality/ quantity of goods/ labour/ sales / bargains/ choices shrinks..it all comes down to GREED..
Reasonable profits? who determines what is reasonable? How can you even define that. This is the language of socialism. Grocery stores have a tiny profit margins. China needs to be disconnected. You are way off base. Dont let socialists lead you astray. I notice you dont mention taxes.
??..don't you mean the institutions I mentioned are socialist and off base?? ya pretty sure that's what you meant..and wtf is the your problem with my not mentioning taxes?? Do YOU honestly believe the corporations above have fair profit margins??..say no..ok, good THAT'S called GREED..no matter what your political stance is..
You presume too much, telling me what I mean. You espouse socialist ideals. Who says what is fair. You? Greed? Who is more greedy? Those who want to keep what they earn or those who think they are entitled to what others earn? Or think they can dictate what other earn. You dont care about taxes? No idea the harm they do to markets and individual's ability to buy? Companies are not socialist, governments and them people who support them are.
You have jumped off the track. You did not see what my point was. The increase was not a normal increase. And the increase in my grocery bill was about 10x what the government is quoting, that appeared in this article. And you should know as well as any that this increase is solely related to rotten government actions.
The dollar is not backed by gold, it is backed by oil. Trump is preseving the oil industry while Carney is set out to destroy it. Oil is energy. During the covid hoax and the climate hoax, production stopped and Corporate-Canada's (CANADA INC) borrowing and spending went through the roof. An inflated dollar is a bank note with further interest charges applied; the bank note becomes worth less than it was , therefore it now takes two banknotes to buy what formally was purchased with one.
In 1974, Canada's central bank was handed over to the IMF: the Rothschild's banking cartel. Who controls the money controls the world. Who controls the food supply controls the people. Who controls the energy, controls the Continent
"You will own nothing", and that is the direction the people of Canada are headed.
The official CPI index is just one of the outrageous lies that the government slips past the unaware populace. It is a total fabrication not even remotely based on reality. Our depression mothers and grandmothers could manage the expenses way more accurately that the civil serpents of our time.
Price increases are caused by manufacturers increasing their prices, not by government. We don't live in a country where the prices are controlled by government. As for what the government has control over, the provincial and territorial governments have legislation already in place to deal with overpricing and gouging. The federal government has fewer powers in that area. That's part of what keeps us from having a centralized government, like China, or Cuba, or like the Soviet Union used to have. If you want to put the onus on government, put it on the right government, and on the powers that they actually have. As for missing the point, you've missed the point of my comment. When wage increases don't meet the increased cost of living, you've got problems. Keep increasing wages to meet the increasing cost of living, and you've got inflation; another problem.
So you're saying that inflation is fiction? Is that what I'm seeing in your comment? I can assure you that inflation is very real and it happens when people want more profits, than the market can handle.
Inflation is very real. The government lies when they claim it is only 2.6 to 4%. It is way higher than that as we all know. A full Costco cart that used to cost $400 3 years ago now costs $800. That is not a 4% increase per annum.
What world are you living in. It appears that you are a liberal or a union person. You need to go live in a real world, where people work for a living.
One must be careful interpreting inflation. Central banks intentionally manipulate the measurement criteria to fit their models, otherwise their models would not work.
Inflation is a lot higher than stated.
Alan Greenspan often referred to “hedonistic adjustments” and “exuberant behaviours” to explain away price inflation. Politicians could never understand it, and still don’t. Fools.
All by design. They want you on the verge of starving so they when they roll out the bug proteins you’ll be kissing their feet while they laugh at you from their ivory towers. They hate us plebs and see us only as tax cattle.
Aerosmith wrote a pretty good tune about this issue..and I think it's time has come.."Eat The Rich"..We'll have meat..and control THEIR population..so...2 birds...
All because of the elbows up morons in Canada we call, friends, family, workmates and neighbors...stupid, stupid people! Thank a liberal supporter for the destruction of this once free and proud nation.
Sad to say that I have to agree. Canada as a nation that We knew is long past it's due date. I think that some commenters have said by design. That I agree with , but I do not like to agree . But the truth is the truth.
I see a lot of price gouging by our grocery stores of late.
Products going up by 25% is not uncommon then a few weeks later another 25%.
Loblaws and Metro are the worst. It started with the scamdemic and the mindset hasn’t changed.
How do basics like peanut butter, bologna, grapefruit juice triple in price.
Where is the justification?
I’ve emailed these companies, most didn’t reply, Loblaws would not even acknowledge my nine inquiries as to why they were advertising Australian Beef. I thought it was buy Canadian!! Especially being Canada’s richest family and after getting $12M from taxpayers for freezers
I'm pretty thankful I do not eat carbs due to a genetic condition. But Canada isn't even close to having expensive food, and it seems it will eventually mirror the shortage pricing of the world wars.
WW1
United Kingdom: The price of bread doubled between 1914 and 1918; meat and dairy rose by 60–100%.
Germany: Severe shortages from Allied blockades caused hyperinflation by 1918; potatoes and bread became scarce (“Turnip Winter” of 1916–17).
United States: Food prices rose ~55% from 1913 to 1919; wheat rose from ~$0.80/bushel to $2.00+.
France: Butter rose nearly 250%, bread and wine over 100%.
WW2
United Kingdom: The government fixed prices, but inflation was still ~60% over the war.
Bread and sugar were rationed.
Eggs fell to 1 person per week.
United States: Without rationing, inflation would’ve been >100%, but the Office of Price Administration capped it at ~30%.
Beef doubled, and coffee and sugar tripled in black-market pricing.
Germany & Occupied Europe: Severe food shortages and rationing; potatoes, rye bread, and ersatz (substitute) foods dominated diets.
Japan: Rice prices rose over 700% from 1939 to 1945; food riots broke out in 1945.
1970s Oil Crisis:
High fuel costs increased food transport and fertilizer prices → global food inflation (grain, sugar, and coffee doubled or tripled).
In Canada, while the consumer carbon tax was suspended, the business carbon tax remains in effect and increases each year, along with the fuel surcharge. So farmers, being businesses, are subject to increased costs. It seems the government is bent on forcing the public into a lifestyle without certain foods, which in turn have been determined to contribute to high medical costs.
Not to worry, Bill Gates and Carney are standing by with roasted grasshoppers and cricket flour (at inflated prices, of course). You'll eat them, live in Stalinist tenements, have nothing and be happy
according to the WEF Manifesto and its star pupil Carney.
Talk about inflation! The coffee that I used to buy for $13.99 and was often on sale for 9.99 is now $24.99. Last week it was $22.99! Eggs are also up every time I buy a dozen. Where are we going with this Mr. Carney? I hope there will be a huge adjustment in the old age pension next year!
OAS is supposed to go up .7 percent this month. Whoa, that’s going to help! Then some nut says that Seniors shouldn’t get OAS if they have a lot of money. Yet Carny wants more senior immigrants.
Carney is a complete and utter failure, a disaster for Canada.
The Telegraph newspaper published, "Canada is about to find our that Carney is the man with the reverse Midas touch". Well, the truth is here to see and it could not be more obvious!
Unfortunately more pain to come.
A Lot More.
For that..
Thank a Liberal.
I don't no what these jerks are basing the food increase on. My grocery bill has increased over last year by about or near 20%. Maybe it's the food I eat, that no one else eats. The same meat I bought last year was $10 dollars. Now it's $12, and the weight size dropped 25%. Using this for an example. A cheap loaf of bread was $1.98, now the same loaf is $2.49. Apples, $1.97/per lb. now $2.97. Potatoes $7.49 per 10lb. now $8.99. Again, where do these A holes come up with these figures. 2.2% and the like. And idiots keep voting for this.
I'm 74 years old. Food prices have gone up consistently throughout my life. Remember, the cost of living increases before wages go up. The cost of living goes up because manufacturers want more profit. The average worker asks for increased wages to deal with the increased cost of living. Then the manufacturers increase the prices again and blame it on the increased wages.
So, how far back should we go? Do we go back to when bread was $.010 a loaf. Ok, How many people are ready to go back to $0.75/hr being considered a living wage?
You are wrong about what causes inflation. Government printing money, resulting it its devaluation is the primary cause. Profit is not a bad thing. Without it you will have nothing.
Reasonable profits are ok..but the profit margins of BIG grocer/ pharma/ oil/ Gov't/ banks/ etc. are ludicrous..Many businesses back in the day operated and flourished on a 30% margin...nowadays.., even with the vast majority of everything being produced/ marketed by CHINA, whose vast source of cheap slave labour is obviously NOT passed on to us..the consumer...while the profit margins of the BIG boys skyrocket..while quality/ quantity of goods/ labour/ sales / bargains/ choices shrinks..it all comes down to GREED..
Reasonable profits? who determines what is reasonable? How can you even define that. This is the language of socialism. Grocery stores have a tiny profit margins. China needs to be disconnected. You are way off base. Dont let socialists lead you astray. I notice you dont mention taxes.
??..don't you mean the institutions I mentioned are socialist and off base?? ya pretty sure that's what you meant..and wtf is the your problem with my not mentioning taxes?? Do YOU honestly believe the corporations above have fair profit margins??..say no..ok, good THAT'S called GREED..no matter what your political stance is..
You presume too much, telling me what I mean. You espouse socialist ideals. Who says what is fair. You? Greed? Who is more greedy? Those who want to keep what they earn or those who think they are entitled to what others earn? Or think they can dictate what other earn. You dont care about taxes? No idea the harm they do to markets and individual's ability to buy? Companies are not socialist, governments and them people who support them are.
And you are talking with common sense. That is something that it takes to run anything to stay above water.
You have jumped off the track. You did not see what my point was. The increase was not a normal increase. And the increase in my grocery bill was about 10x what the government is quoting, that appeared in this article. And you should know as well as any that this increase is solely related to rotten government actions.
The dollar is not backed by gold, it is backed by oil. Trump is preseving the oil industry while Carney is set out to destroy it. Oil is energy. During the covid hoax and the climate hoax, production stopped and Corporate-Canada's (CANADA INC) borrowing and spending went through the roof. An inflated dollar is a bank note with further interest charges applied; the bank note becomes worth less than it was , therefore it now takes two banknotes to buy what formally was purchased with one.
In 1974, Canada's central bank was handed over to the IMF: the Rothschild's banking cartel. Who controls the money controls the world. Who controls the food supply controls the people. Who controls the energy, controls the Continent
"You will own nothing", and that is the direction the people of Canada are headed.
You've got that pretty down pat.
The official CPI index is just one of the outrageous lies that the government slips past the unaware populace. It is a total fabrication not even remotely based on reality. Our depression mothers and grandmothers could manage the expenses way more accurately that the civil serpents of our time.
There's no doubt about that.
Price increases are caused by manufacturers increasing their prices, not by government. We don't live in a country where the prices are controlled by government. As for what the government has control over, the provincial and territorial governments have legislation already in place to deal with overpricing and gouging. The federal government has fewer powers in that area. That's part of what keeps us from having a centralized government, like China, or Cuba, or like the Soviet Union used to have. If you want to put the onus on government, put it on the right government, and on the powers that they actually have. As for missing the point, you've missed the point of my comment. When wage increases don't meet the increased cost of living, you've got problems. Keep increasing wages to meet the increasing cost of living, and you've got inflation; another problem.
We accept that government doesn’t set the prices. We don’t accept the fabrication that the “official” inflation rate is based on reality.
So you're saying that inflation is fiction? Is that what I'm seeing in your comment? I can assure you that inflation is very real and it happens when people want more profits, than the market can handle.
Inflation is very real. The government lies when they claim it is only 2.6 to 4%. It is way higher than that as we all know. A full Costco cart that used to cost $400 3 years ago now costs $800. That is not a 4% increase per annum.
What world are you living in. It appears that you are a liberal or a union person. You need to go live in a real world, where people work for a living.
I'm well aware of what I'm looking at.
Congratulations. What colors are you seeing?
bread here is often on sale for $3.99.
Painful return to food inflation? When in the last 10 years under the socialists have Canadians not had food inflation?
One must be careful interpreting inflation. Central banks intentionally manipulate the measurement criteria to fit their models, otherwise their models would not work.
Inflation is a lot higher than stated.
Alan Greenspan often referred to “hedonistic adjustments” and “exuberant behaviours” to explain away price inflation. Politicians could never understand it, and still don’t. Fools.
What the hell else would you expect with a Liberal LibTard Government intent on DESTROYING the Countrey?
All by design. They want you on the verge of starving so they when they roll out the bug proteins you’ll be kissing their feet while they laugh at you from their ivory towers. They hate us plebs and see us only as tax cattle.
Sadly true.
Aerosmith wrote a pretty good tune about this issue..and I think it's time has come.."Eat The Rich"..We'll have meat..and control THEIR population..so...2 birds...
("...Tonight's Special...Carney under glass..")
This country continues in its downward spiral!
Inflation is all tax, hidden tax and your money is becoming more and more worthless as time goes on.
There is absolutely no reason for prices to keep rising on everything other than creating more taxes.
Remember WEF saying and Canadian traitor # 1 confirming it. " you wont own anything and be happy
All because of the elbows up morons in Canada we call, friends, family, workmates and neighbors...stupid, stupid people! Thank a liberal supporter for the destruction of this once free and proud nation.
To say Canada is trending down is disingenuous. It is coming to its end.
Sad to say that I have to agree. Canada as a nation that We knew is long past it's due date. I think that some commenters have said by design. That I agree with , but I do not like to agree . But the truth is the truth.
I see a lot of price gouging by our grocery stores of late.
Products going up by 25% is not uncommon then a few weeks later another 25%.
Loblaws and Metro are the worst. It started with the scamdemic and the mindset hasn’t changed.
How do basics like peanut butter, bologna, grapefruit juice triple in price.
Where is the justification?
I’ve emailed these companies, most didn’t reply, Loblaws would not even acknowledge my nine inquiries as to why they were advertising Australian Beef. I thought it was buy Canadian!! Especially being Canada’s richest family and after getting $12M from taxpayers for freezers
Carney just says "let them eat cake".
It will get worse. I also think that food cost increases are a lot higher than indicated
I'm pretty thankful I do not eat carbs due to a genetic condition. But Canada isn't even close to having expensive food, and it seems it will eventually mirror the shortage pricing of the world wars.
WW1
United Kingdom: The price of bread doubled between 1914 and 1918; meat and dairy rose by 60–100%.
Germany: Severe shortages from Allied blockades caused hyperinflation by 1918; potatoes and bread became scarce (“Turnip Winter” of 1916–17).
United States: Food prices rose ~55% from 1913 to 1919; wheat rose from ~$0.80/bushel to $2.00+.
France: Butter rose nearly 250%, bread and wine over 100%.
WW2
United Kingdom: The government fixed prices, but inflation was still ~60% over the war.
Bread and sugar were rationed.
Eggs fell to 1 person per week.
United States: Without rationing, inflation would’ve been >100%, but the Office of Price Administration capped it at ~30%.
Beef doubled, and coffee and sugar tripled in black-market pricing.
Germany & Occupied Europe: Severe food shortages and rationing; potatoes, rye bread, and ersatz (substitute) foods dominated diets.
Japan: Rice prices rose over 700% from 1939 to 1945; food riots broke out in 1945.
1970s Oil Crisis:
High fuel costs increased food transport and fertilizer prices → global food inflation (grain, sugar, and coffee doubled or tripled).
In Canada, while the consumer carbon tax was suspended, the business carbon tax remains in effect and increases each year, along with the fuel surcharge. So farmers, being businesses, are subject to increased costs. It seems the government is bent on forcing the public into a lifestyle without certain foods, which in turn have been determined to contribute to high medical costs.
Not to worry, Bill Gates and Carney are standing by with roasted grasshoppers and cricket flour (at inflated prices, of course). You'll eat them, live in Stalinist tenements, have nothing and be happy
according to the WEF Manifesto and its star pupil Carney.
Talk about inflation! The coffee that I used to buy for $13.99 and was often on sale for 9.99 is now $24.99. Last week it was $22.99! Eggs are also up every time I buy a dozen. Where are we going with this Mr. Carney? I hope there will be a huge adjustment in the old age pension next year!
OAS is supposed to go up .7 percent this month. Whoa, that’s going to help! Then some nut says that Seniors shouldn’t get OAS if they have a lot of money. Yet Carny wants more senior immigrants.
Carney is a complete and utter failure, a disaster for Canada.
The Telegraph newspaper published, "Canada is about to find our that Carney is the man with the reverse Midas touch". Well, the truth is here to see and it could not be more obvious!