Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I'll start with you, Professor Charlebois. You identified...and I know that there are sensitivities in the room around what we would call food “taxes”, so I'll just change my language for the purposes of the room and call them food “policies”. This is around the food policy of the industrial carbon tax, the front-of-the-pack labelling and the plastics registry. Two more on my list are the clean fuel standards that impact fuel costs and obviously the deficits that inflate everything.
What other taxes are there specifically around food? You mentioned shrinkflation. You mentioned the under-reporting of food inflation, possibly because of shrinkflation. What other taxes are there that are directly or indirectly impacting food costs for Canadians?