Mr. Speaker, three years ago, the finance minister promised Canadians he would stabilize food prices by Thanksgiving. Three pumpkin pies have come and gone, and food inflation is 50% higher than target. What could possibly have gone wrong when the finance minister promised that tools, such as the grocery code of conduct, would lower grocery prices?
Every single expert at the agriculture committee, including the president of the grocery code, said that it was never designed to lower food prices, so will the Minister of Finance please stand to explain to Canadians why he promised the code would lower food prices when he knew it would do no such thing?