Sylvain Charlebois: Food Tax Reform Keeps Colliding With Governments Need for Revenue

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A customer shops at a grocery store in Ottawa on April 2, 2025. The Canadian Press/Justin TangCommentaryQuebec is poised to become the second province in Canada in recent weeks to roll back provincial sales taxes on food-related items, reinforcing a broader truth governments increasingly struggle to defend: taxing food has always been a flawed way to shape consumer behaviour.

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