A customer uses the self-checkout at a No Frills grocery store in Toronto in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Chris Young
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Although the latest inflation figures stayed below 2 percent in June, food prices have remained high.
A number of factors are keeping food prices high, including tariffs and counter-tariffs and their lingering effects even after removal, shifting political and trade strategies, and the industrial carbon tax and other domestic policies, according to a leading researcher in food security and policy.
Paul Rowan Brian is a news reporter with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times.
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