Leah Taylor Roy at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On March 20th, 2023. See this statement in context.

March 20th, 2023 / 8:05 p.m.

Liberal

Leah Taylor Roy Liberal Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, ON

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.

I found it very interesting, Professor Lee, to hear you talk about evidence-based research. As one of the facts you used, you said that there could be no “greedflation”, or there could be no excess profits, because Canada's food inflation is below the OECD average, yet our other two witnesses are arguing that it is in fact the Canadian price on pollution that is causing this food inflation.

I'm interested to hear, from an evidence-based perspective, how those two things reconcile. How is it that our food inflation is less, with our price on pollution taken into consideration, than the OECD average, yet the price on pollution is being blamed for the increase in food prices?

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