It is telling that, in an article that my wife described to me that says that grocery costs are going up almost $500, that it did not even come close to looking at the causes. It suggested bogus causes like restrictions on our exports (!), plastic packaging and climate change. But it took a commentator on the article to point out the only cause that makes direct sense - the carbon tax. It is the only thing that came into effect this year. All the other causes, even if they were less than bogus, arose long before the spike in food costs arrived. It is a sign of both the economic ignorance of our press and its complete and utter abject surrender and obeisance to the Climate Cult and its high priest here, the PM.
BTW - if the other theories are right, why don't the Americans face anything like the same hit? Probably because they have a free market in food and energy and no carbon tax or gas taxes to speak of for that matter. But I'm afraid that again I we gave an answer which our elite are apparently unaware of to a question they don't want to ask.. It should have been self evident to all but Liberal Party flaks and Green fanatics that oil is in everything we consume, especially food, either for its manufacture or for its delivery and the politicians who thought we should believe otherwise. Therefore, the price of all those things would go up as the inputs wended their way through the industrial and commercial chain without hope of rebate. But alas, ignorance leads to want.
Irony of ironies about this story - it came from the Edmonton Journal.
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