The full effect of lingering pandemic-related food supply chain disruptions, high inflation, labour and transportation issues, climate change and extreme weather events on next year’s grocery bills remains to be seen. But according to Canada’s Food Price Report 2022, they will only get higher.
In the latest edition of the annual report, Dalhousie University, University of Guelph, University of Saskatchewan and University of British Columbia researchers forecast a five to seven per cent increase in food prices — the highest in its 12-year history.
A family of four is expected to spend as much as $14,767 in 2022: up to $966 more than 2021, which amounts to an extra $80 a month and $20 a week.
“2022 will likely be a very difficult year for most Canadian families, unfortunately, because prices are going to rise significantly,” says Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, director of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL) and lead author of the report. “Canadians will have to accept the fact that they are going to have to dedicate a greater portion of their overall budget to food.”
As a grain farmer, I have already faced a 25% increase in two of my largest expenses over last year, those being nitrogen fertilizer and diesel fuel. There is talk that those prices are going to continue to rise.
There is a carbon tax on both.
The worst part is that you will not get any benefit of the increase in food prices. Your share will be less than before.
only 25%, you must have pre-ordered fertilizer. I am seeing double and many suppliers are telling me it will be more by spring.
“Growing the middle class;” – Considering the Canadian Liberal Party gets to define nouns and pronouns as they see fit, “Middle Class” doesn’t mean what you think it means.
CONSTITUTION
(FUNDAMENTAL LAW)
OF
THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Adopted at the Seventh (Special) Session of
the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
Ninth Convocation
On October 7, 1977
https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/77cons02.html
Middle Class” =Liberal supporting Unionized Civil serpents.
The middle class Emperor Sox keeps lisping on about is the Parasitic Overload.
All with their fangs firmly lodged into the taxpayers veins.
In the spirit of Retribution..I mean “Thanking our wonderful civil servant helpers”.
A nice rest in a country safe camp ,for reassignment purposes..yes that would be the proper reward for help such as these.
The Dread Covidians,The Branch Covidians and The catastrophic Manmade Global Warmists,need all rounded up,interrogated and banished to a reserve all of their own where they can learn about boundaries and the wisdom of respecting other peoples.
Actually not too difficult because the three groups and all the same individuals..
Gullible,credulous and greedy.
Seeing as how they saw fit to build some nice “Covid Camps” where better to contain them,until a cure for their mental illness and savage hatred of rational persons can be found.
Given that the odds of dying from covid in canada are less that one in a thousand, and that’s for all cohorts with no exceptions – and if you have no comorbidities that number drops to less than one in 30000, and if you are under 60 and take the appropriate therapeutics, it’s pretty much statistically zero, you could fully open the economy ( which should never been shut) , and the sovietization of our economy would end pretty quickly.
I truly don’t think any of this will end until at least one major nation outright revolts. Either a national government or a state / provincial government will have to be forcibly removed from office before any other government will relent. We could well be years away from it yet.
Given Canada’s nature, we will assuredly not be the nation that does so first.
Given Canada’s nature, we will assuredly not be the nation that does so first.
I agree. But it might be worth it to point out that historically, “Canada” has had plenty of significant rebellions, not to mention some large-scale riots that frightened the rulers. The rebellions all ended up with the established elites winning, and the rebels usually hanging from a rope. Canada’s longest “serving” PM, the Liberal crackpot William King, was proudly descended from such a rebel.
5 to 7%, it is already exceeding that by at least 15%. Factor in product size reductions and cost increases and any number the government gives you is 100% false.
Food in my market area is up 9% month to month year to year. That does not take into consideration product size reduction with corresponding price increases. Gas is up 31% in our market area year to year, month to month. Household costs on average are up well over 6%. I could go into detail but I can’t be bothered. Those who do not pay attention will not pay attention now. Let me know just where people are going to get a 20% increase in net income because that is what will be needed to keep one’s head above water.
I recently put $62,000 in an investment and the only thing I got was the guarantee that I would not lose the principle and maybe get a 3% return over 2 years. yahoo. This is what happens when you don’t depend on government to feed you. I will of course have to come up with taxes on any increase. yahoo.
never mind dearies, just watch in BC when the price of milk shoots up when we cannot produce enough after the flooding of the large milk producing area called lower sumas lake (nowadays). Imagine the joy in Quebec when the milk marketing board says we have to buy it from province of Quebec imagine their joy? BC milk will be contaminated for a long time. The price of butter just south of BC is half the price
Yeah, I’m calling an Official Bullshit™ on those numbers, too. I track fuel costs and the last fill up I had was exactly 40 cents higher than same time last year, nearly a 45% increase. Bought a beef brisket last week, $8/lb, $3/lb more than last year same time, 60% increase. Ground beef bulk pack selling for $5/kg more than last year same time, 60% increase, bananas up 20 cents/lb, 22% increase.
Lying bastards.
Bought a beef brisket last week, $8/lb, $3/lb more than last year same time, 60% increase. Ground beef bulk pack selling for $5/kg more than last year same time, 60% increase
Make friends with your local ranchers. They’re getting screwed by the feed lots and slaughter houses too. They’d be happy to do cash-only deals (for as long as cash is allowed by the government, that is). There’s also another benefit to the relative cheapness — most ranchers keep some cattle for their own families, and won’t pump them full of all the pharma garbage and phoney fattening goo that you would get from the meat at the store.
Yeah, grew up on a farm. Still have friends farming/ranching. We’ve been getting some piecemeal stuff from some of them already. Time to go for a whole side. We get some local produce from the Hutterite colonies, as well.
I’ve got a small chunk of grassland with access to water that needs fencing, been thinking of putting a steer or two on it.
Excellent! You are the counter-revolution.
Thx. It’s a start.
Although Trudeau appears not to be the brightest bulb on any tree, I cannot put all of his destructive policies down to stupidity. Between Butts, Guilbeault and the rest of the Liberal party and only virtue signalling pushback from the “Conservatives”, I can only put the carbon tax down to two things:
1. He SOOOO wants to be a part of the “elite” cabal pushing for one world government and a carbon free world. (Which means millions dying of cold and starvation).
2. Spite, malice and absolute disdain for Canadian citizens and anyone outside of his bubble.
Hudson, I go with spite, malice, distain and stupidity.
spite, malice, distain and stupidity
You left out arrogance and hubris
2. Spite, malice and absolute disdain for Canadian citizens and anyone outside of his bubble.
You said it… that’s what I think eludes most people (outside of this forum). The Liberals don’t give a shit about Canadians. All they care about is getting elected. And they are elected by and large by people who… how shall I put this… are degenerate losers and useless mouths to feed who don’t shoulder any part of the tax burden required to keep these people in power. There are a lot of people right now who are going to be retiring and the Liberals’ gravy train is going to end. The third world smorgasbord of taxpayers is going to come up short. That’s when sanity will prevail finally, but it’s going to take years and a lot of pain.
While Turdo is stupid, the people making his policies are not. Their malice is intentional. They intend to cripple the west, primarily the US. Canada supplies energy to the US, thus Canada’s energy must also be taken out (they’re mainly looking at your Alberta and Sask).
They openly have said this, they regularly attend conferences and present this. Their motivations and methods are clear.
However, the media ignore it and the sheeple don’t want to believe it and so we comfort ourselves by saying that it is all incompetence.
It is not incompetence. It is planned, calculated, and evil.
Indeed!
Frenchie, One hundred percent correct! PLANNED, CALCULATED, EVIL.
Approximately 25% of those currently employed work in the public sector. They are represented by powerful public sector unions who will demand, and will receive, pay and benefit increases greater than the increase in inflation, in addition to their guaranteed jobs-for-life and platinum pensions (also fully indexed to account for inflation). So they and their families don’t have to worry about any of this, and will continue to vote for the Liberals and NDP who, in turn, reward the public sector with pay and benefits that far exceed anything available in the private sector.
Governments of all levels everywhere are spending billions and billions (think Carl Sagan) every year to buy goods and services from private contractors. There are many “private” companies whose biggest customer is the government. Government spending is the biggest discrete number in the GDP formula.
When you consider the amount of money paid out to Microsoft, for example, for all the government’s software licences, AND you factor in all the companies who deal exclusively with the government and THEY pay Microsoft for software, you’ll see government money is inextricably connected throughout the economy. It’s really a de facto merger of state-corporate entities.
Plus if you include all the workers in education, health care, crown corporations, and government created/protected cartels, the number of people who depend on the government for their paycheque is much, much higher than 25%.
All good points, which makes it all the more difficult, if not impossible, to elect a government that is truly fiscally conservative.
Hey, it Justinflation.
Love it!
Could be a T shirt or grafitti.
“Its Justinflation”
Brought to you by the stupidest sacks of shit in the western world.
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2021/12/09/december-9-2021-reader-tips/#comment-1546117
We all knew this was coming.
Our ruling class hate this kind of sloganeering, I would suggest we all adopt it in our sign in names.
signed
JustInflation, Boycott China, support Taiwan nd Hong Kong
No one has mentioned the property taxes too have all rose but not as high as inflation the mayor’s are harping on so be thankful that we didn’t raise them that high.
As we keep hammering on business lockdowns or huge modifications that your not expecting.
And idiotic spending on pet projects…
You are so right. Even in rural, small-town, “blue Tory” Alberta, the local governments have building fetishes that would rival the pharaohs. Not only do they insist on building unnecessary structures, they must only have the most luxurious and elaborate. They aren’t sustainable financially at the best of times. But in the recent scamdemic hysteria, even less so. The government where I live has doled out millions to support “businesses” languishing in a huge pleasure dome constructed a few years ago. Small ma and pa local businesses got zilch. And they were forced to shut down for months.
Local governments are not always so “local”. The bureaucrats belong to regional associations that are funded by UN sustainability initiatives. The great brains who are planning to remake the world in their image and doing all the heavy lifting for the hick nincompoops in local government. Maurice Strong haunts us still.
Not a lot of mention of increased shipping container rates these days. For some areas industries the rate has increased almost 1000 percent ( personal experience)
Government employees don’t pay tax, they are paid with taxes. Health care workers and the military are the same as they work for government. Its the achilles heal of socialism.
Pensions are what our politicians REALLY HATE as they have to pay out a vast majority…hence, the genocide of Pensioners as our politicians keep insisting on they get the joy juice first.
It doesn’t do jack shit on viruses…
Government employees don’t pay tax, they are paid with taxes.
lol, spike 1 you made me laugh.
I still remember arguing with a City of Calgary senior manager who got red in the face insisting “I pay taxes too! I am a taxpayer!!”
He was a engineer by training, not a PhD in basket weaving as most of those types seem to possess in senior government. He wasn’t a typical dummy. But none are so blind as will not see.
Had the same experience with a math teacher. He spouted the same line about paying taxes as well. When I pointed out that he was paid WITH taxes and got paid FAR more than he paid back in, there was a few seconds of silence then he said, “I never looked at it that way before.” Duh.
Um, no. I work in forestry, paid under contract by the ministry of forests to help produce the resource values we need. As such, I am paid with taxes, just like the government employees who administrate. I still pay taxes, fuck you all very much. If you feel the government employees in question provide no service of value then say that.
🙄
I am paid with taxes, just like the government employees
f*ck you all very much
Such abusive language and contempt! Where’s your gratitude? We pay your salary, my man.
I doubt it.
You’ve just demonstrated that tax-eaters don’t “serve the public” as they so often piously claim.
No service provider would ever be so stupid as to tell his customers to eff off as you have told us. Your bread is buttered by a different master.
@ john – “…ministry of forests to help produce the resource values we need.”
Maybe a dumb question from a simple producer of actual natural resources, but what is producing “resource values”?
Does that mean you grow trees, fish, and other resource things “we need”?
Yeah, I do. Reforesting, fire fighting, regeneration management, forestry. The industry that provides most of the revenue this province uses to fund it’s existence, not to mention the actual lumber and secure timber supply that ensures viable, sustainable communities around here.
Should be heel,sorry about that,did’nt notice the obvious.
Explain the concept of cause and effect to the majority of Canadian voters.
I’ll wait.
80% of them couldn’t explain why carbon taxes would increase prices even though that’s part of the advertising for the carbon taxes.
“Explain the concept of cause and effect to the majority of Canadian voters.”
This, in spades.
One of my biggest (if not the greatest) bugaboos. Gov’t, bureaucrats, Progs (BIRM) are absolutely clueless when it comes to cause & effect. It’s no wonder they are completely & entirely unable to offer effective solutions to fix problems.
In the real world you come across a problem, you assess the cause, you design a solution, you apply the solution & you measure the results. If the solution didn’t work, then further remediation is required because you didn’t diagnose the problem correctly.
Gov’t? There’s a problem, go throw some money at it. Didn’t work? More money. Still not working? Obviously we have not thrown enough money at the problem. Print some more, throw some more! It’s like how some guys buy camshafts: if a little bit works then more is better and too much should be just enough. Difference is, the bastards in gov’t have no concept of “too much”!
Diesel fuel price follies (cont’)…..
Sunday at SuperStore in Edmonton: $1.29/litre
Sunday at PetroCan in Grande Prairie: $1.39/l
Yesterday at Esso in GP: $1.42/l
It would be interesting to know the distribution of food banks across the country. As the economy is stressed ever more, where will the food banks increase in number?
Possibly decrease.
No one will have ANY wherewithal to help the ever-growing number of poor.
I can guess that before this is all over, (whatever that means), governments are going to get into the food distribution business directly.
What’s to stop them? What would be the downside from their perspective?
They would have a growing segment of the population feeding from their hand.
Think of the endorphins released in the brain of Trudeau when he thinks about all that control over other people! You want to eat? Then pay obeisance to your Great Benefactor. You want to keep eating? Vote for your Great Benefactor because all his political rivals want to remove his beneficence so you starve.
And what photo-ops for the Dear Leader as he selflessly hands out food packages for the deserving poor. He’ll be so overcome with megalomania his handlers will have to stop him from offering “the king’s touch” for scrofula.
But does Dear Leader not make the sun rise and the wind to blow? Does not the snow fall upon his command? He is divine, is he not, just like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmum3glL1DA
Well, his brown star passes gas. Close enough for gov’t work.
From the article:
“2022 will likely be a very difficult year for most Canadian families, unfortunately, because prices are going to rise significantly,” says Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, director of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL) and lead author of the report. “Canadians will have to accept the fact that they are going to have to dedicate a greater portion of their overall budget to food.”
Charlebois says it so blithely.
I am convinced that a guy like him would drastically lose a game of Monopoly and demand that someone photocopy more photocopied fake cash.
Unfortunately, there are no politicians in Canada who can even begin to comprehend how to fix this.
Well, maybe one.
Others make very good points about how this will increase the number of poor and homeless. Expect to see myriad ‘news’ pieces bemoaning this fact, and that the Liberals are the only ones with enough compassion to do anything about it.
As they raise the carbon tax yet again.
Bonfire: you are no customer of mine. I provide service to the people of this province and country as a whole. Without my efforts you and the rest of the righteous would be worse off. Without government and industry cooperation there would be no sustainable forestry ( or any other major industry) in this country, and you would have nothing.
You don’t pay me, you pay the government. The government pays me because I provide something Canada needs. I owe you nothing, as I already create more wealth and jobs for this country ( and yes, more revenue ) to this country than I think you ever have. You are welcome.
you are no customer of mine. I provide service to the country as a whole.
You are welcome.
On behalf of the country as a whole, may I express my gratitude for your service!
Dear John.
Will you hear a pop,when you remove your head from its current position.?
In your dreams.
Forestry in Canada was F.U.B.A.R.ed by government.
Still is.
So was the Fishery,on both coasts.
And the “expert services” you claim to provide..ever wondered ?
Why government?
How did it come too this?
Ronald Regan described it perfectly.
And you represent that 3rd stage.
“We would be worse off”?
You know this how?
“I am from the government.I help you real good”.
Thanks John.
Holy hell. I don’t even know where to start…