John Robson: Feds’ Plan to Tax Grocery Firms Until Prices Drop Is Economic Baloney

John Robson: Feds’ Plan to Tax Grocery Firms Until Prices Drop Is Economic Baloney
People shop at a Loblaws store in Toronto in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette
John Robson
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So I have a beef with the Trudeau administration’s plan to tax grocery firms until prices fall. And it’s not their milking it for partisan gain. It’s that it’s economic baloney.

John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
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