89 Replies to “Reporting for Scapegoat Duty”

  1. I wonder when the Grocers,Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition or any Lawyer..is going to point out to Ottawa that such activity the Government is demanding from the Food Industry is illegal?
    Colluding to fix prices?
    I am so old I can remember when these very same Politicians were condemning the Food Industry for fixing the price of bread.

    1. This is Great! Encourage more Lawfare against their own. These “Grocers” enforce every left wing Marxist Scheme the FILTHY LIBERALS offer.

      Now that I cant get a Damn PLASTIC Bag, I DAMN these people to hell. Please torture these poor CEO’s more.

      Maaaaaaaaaaaaybe then some more good, but irresponsibly Cowardice citizens, will awake to our Fight.

      Pray for Tamara and the rest of the Freedom Convoy Heroes!

      1. I’m still pissed off about the bags. And I have about 1000 straws. I no longer recycle which is my own personal screw you to the environmental group….

        On the plus side, my local store has really cute cashiers who like me.

        That helps…

        Another plus, Canada is probably looking less attractive to people looking to come here for free crap…

    2. I wouldn’t worry.
      The reason the government would call them back is because they didn’t get what they wanted.
      News flash, they still won’t.
      The grocers are going to repeat what they told them last time, hopefully this time they do it less diplomatically.
      “It’s the carbon tax stupid”

  2. So grocers are going to be asked to cut prices because government policies have put the GDP Grocery Cart price beyond the affordability of many Canadians. We are being governed by a bunch of absolute maroons! The next thing we are going to be told is how to make rock soup, fried crickets, and dew-worm spaghetti into a nourishing family diner. This up-coming generation is going to re-live the rationed meals of wartime Britain, Spam sandwiches, ox-tail soup, pigs trotters, trice boiled tea, and a host of other cost cutting government approved nutritious meals. It is of little consequence to say “You voted for it!” because what was voted for is affecting us all. The next thing to be served will be cold suppers and cold homes when the Mid-East explodes and oil shipments to the East Coast will be curtailed.

    2. Now I’m going to have to buy plastic bags to put my fish, fish guts and small game entrails in. But It’s all for saving the environment. Such a load…..

    3. Yes. The government has caused this problem. Now they want to pretend that someone else can fix it. No one is fooled. They are still spending (borrowing) like there is no tomorrow, so prices will continue to go up.

  4. Typical PM Blackie move: it’s never his fault. In this case it’s not about carbon taxes, inflation, out-of-control immigration and increased taxes to support the social fabric, not about crippling banking + economy with idiotic financial measures. No siree. It’s about those greedy billionaires who want even more.
    Same with so many other cases before this: not his fault that news are not carried out anymore on social media, not his fault that India’s upset with Canada, not his problem that China’s hand is deep into Canada’s tushy etc.

    1. Yeah, those “greedy billionaires” who provide many thousands of decent jobs and consistently stock shelves with good food that we can conveniently purchase.
      Contrast that with greedy politicians who gouge us with fake taxes to launder in a myriad of ways.

  5. Grocery stores are supposed to cut prices into their avg 3% profit margin, while the Liberal globalists in control of Canada keep raising triple, triple, triple carbon taxes from seed to store shelf.

  6. A capable Canadian leader would contact the president of the US and ask him in no uncertain terms, “Hey, Idiot!!! Why don’t you stop printing money and get your inflation under control!!???!!!”

    The reason, of course, is that most of the produce in Canada comes from the US (as does a significant amount of processed foods). So, as the “idiot in the White House” runs the conveyor belt of currency, inflation rises resulting in higher prices of those food products exported to Canada. That your government would single out the grocers to take the hit shows a complete lack of understanding of the problem, or worse a cowardice to call a spade a spade.

    1. Canada has tripled it’s money supply relative to the economy in the last three years, we have our own printing problem.

      1. Yes, you do…and we both have the issue of Diesel fuel costs artificially inflated due to refinery over regulation and purposeful dependency on foreign producers….which of course increases the supply side transport costs of any product (not just food).

  7. This is Singh’s pet cause. He figures he can make political hay out of it. The fact that it makes no sense — and may end up doing more damage than good — is irrelevant.

    So if Trudeau wants to stay in office, this is the tune he has to dance to.

    1. It is easy for Trudeau to dance to this tune as he is an absolute moron, with no education, skills or relevant experience. That he is an amoral, characterless sack of shit is beside the point.

  8. For the elected Jacobins and Bolsheviks, being on a Parliamentary committee is a big deal, especially for those who sit in the back and don’t get to decide much of anything because it all comes out of Cabinet and the PMO. So, despite the reality that much of our inflation came out of the decisions of the PMO, Cabinet, and BOC, they get to abuse businessmen in the same manner as any other fascist show trial. It makes it all worthwhile. Thankfully for them, their voting Eloi and media eunuchs even like it.

  9. Fools.

    The grocery chains are retailers. They don’t produce the items they sell. The librano government needs to get serious about undoing the things they did to cause food prices to spike. The Bong is responsible for this not Safeway.

    1. Bang, you nailed it, ab. This is about the federal government adding costs like carbon taxes. This is about the federal government driving up the cost of agriculture industry inputs like propane, diesel fuel, fertilizer, eliminating various pesticides for ‘environmental’ reasons. Worse, a lot of our food-stuffs come from the United States, where we have no control over the policy idiocies of places like California.

      Worse, what a lot of commenters here don’t appreciate is that food retailers’ margins are tiny. For most of what’s in a supermarket, the retailer has a profit margin of less than 2%. So Bong can wail at the retailers all he wants, but that’s a dry well with nothing left in it. The biggest cost of all food retailers comes directly from the federal government.

      Want to drop food costs across Canada? Easy. Get rid of Blackie, abolish the federal government, and turn over the few relevant federal agencies to the provinces such as the departments within Health Canada that deal with food safety.

      1. Exactly. Now do you think any of those grocers will have the brains and guts to point this out? I sure hope so.

        1. Probably not. One of the things about all business. It’s not about brains or guts. It’s about consequences. No matter how dismal and awful the current government is, no business ever wants to make enemies with them. This is for the very simple reason that government can always hurt you much worse than any business can do to them. Any business may well know the truth. But rubbing the government’s face in it usually just makes things much, much worse. Those f**kers are vindictive.

          1. This is true but the grocers can stop stocking all the vegan and organic crap that mostly gets tossed out because few people buy the crap.
            They can also stop providing the latest trendy fruit from the other side of the planet that all the idiots want.
            Once the do that the uppity class will put a stop to these kangaroo court like activities.

  10. Make sure to ask them about “shrinkflation” too … every single product I buy has been increased in price AND had its quantity reduced … dramatically.

        1. Kenji, you are entirely right about shrinkflation. The various food companies have been quite open about what they have been doing. This is particularly the case with packaged foods like meat, foods with opaque containers like cereal boxes, and tinned drinks like cola. They are also doing ingredient substitutions looking for cheaper ingredients to make the same things.

          All of this has been going on for years. But Covid sent it all into hyper-drive.

      3. I think a cold winter would be the perfect time for the Strait of Hormuz to test its own importance again.

        AB oil isn’t important to the eastern welfare dependences of maritime provinces. Perhaps Quebec will have an answer or solution to the Maritimes freezing in the dark without access to cheap food. It’d be a fair question for the idiots in the PMO as well. I already know their response, I’ve seen the PM Turd answer this in Question Period numerous times.

        Hopefully AB can top this shitshow with an independence referendum in 2024
        With the loss of equalisation payments (otherwise known as welfare) and easy access to foreign oil, maybe the genius’ of eastern tier 2 Canada will start doing something productive instead of whatever they’ve been doing for the past few centuries.

        Maybe they’ll try their hand at greenhouse cucumbers? lol… that’ll help the eastern grocery prices.
        Maybe some of the grocers will simply respond with all questions put to them on the issue of high food prices with…. “CARBON TAXES WILL REPAIR ALL OUR PROBLEMS” … and just leave it at that.

        Then our MSM in all their wisdom can report, “Well back to you PM Turd, any response?”

  11. Suitably sold by the Canadian Media, the previous baloney balloon obviously was bought by Canadian Dumbclucks.
    Big surprise.

    Rinse and repeat.

    Suckers like to be reminded that they were screwe…er right the first time.

    No Liberal ever went broke betting on the stupidity of Canadians. tm

  12. Just take 15% off my income tax rate.

    It might be beneficial for the grocers to use their considerable wealth and marketing prowess to point out who the real robber barons are in this country.

    Grocers take about 5% of my income for something vital to my life. Politicians take about half my income to ship overseas, arts funding, build $8million barns, stay in $6000/night hotel rooms etc. It would be an easy case for grocers to shift any public vitriol from themselves to politicians if they wanted. Then again, they’re all likely in the same nest.

    1. The politicians probably take more than half, but you aren’t aware of it because it’s hidden from you, and there is no reasonable way to calculate how much it is, and it’s all paid with after tax money.

  13. Doesn’t anyone in the MSM notice that prices seem to rise after each carbon tax increase, the taxes rose from $50 a tonne to $65 at tonne on 1 April 2023, April fools day – which is appropriate, that is a 30% increase! That has to be passed on to everything that is tranported by any method other than horse drawn wagon. Everything uses Diesel to move goods and Diesel prices have been higher than gasoline for the last while, usually only happens in fall and winter as they blame “heating oil surge” for the increase, although heating oil isn’t a big factor anymore. The BS is just piling higher and higher.

  14. Maybe this is all by design. Government hearings on the evils of “big grocery” (think: show trials, scapegoating), and later the eventual nationalizing the industry and partnering with large landholders (Gates), multinational food (bug) manufacturers, and other WEF demons, under the guise of “saving humanity”(tm) while numerous former politicians join the boards of said demonic multinationals. Yes, conspiratorial, but given the last 3 years…..

    1. I’ve thought this myself as well. This is all performative, a show for the masses that comrade Justin understands their pain and will hold the bourgeois grocers to account. All involved, though, with exception of the proletariat, and likely also Justin, know full well the root causes. It would not surprise me if the end game is a form of natiinalizatio or state price price controls. We should all be terrified of such a prospect.

  15. Notice Ottawa is not scapegoating Whole Foods, the priciest store…probably because it is owned by Amazon…and all the MPs shop there.

  16. This is all, of course, B.S. and pure window dressing/inflation theatre. Only the utter economically-illiterate stupidity of the Justin-Jagmeet dyad would think there is much – getting rid of the carbon tax (which increases transportation costs) would help – that the federal government could materially do*

    *Save for THIS. They could get rid of “supply management” but since it’s popular in la belle province (home to so many Liberal votes), highly freakin’ unlikely:

    https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/canada-should-abolish-supply-management-to-help-tame-inflation

    1. Getting rid of supply management won’t help tame inflation, it would be a one time phase shift, not changing the slope of the curve.

      Inflation is a monetary phenomenon, period, full stop. Anyone claiming anything different is self identifying as economically illiterate, and should be ignored.

      1. “inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon” as my Uncle Milty famously said (true, too) but my point is that:

        1. inflation is “temporary” (yes, it’s painful but when the world’s central banks print trillions of dollars and make money ‘free’ for decades what do you expect?) and a la Volcker, it can be remedied. The current crop of bums all need to be thrown out.

        2. supply management is PERMANENT and causes the permanent collective impoverishment of Canadian while benefitting a small, centralized group (like banks, telecom & financial services…and…wait for it grocery retailing – see this…

        https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2023/06/international-retailers-such-as-aldi-and-lidl-might-not-enter-canada-because-of-local-price-fixing-and-manipulative-grocers-op-ed/

        So we can focus on inflation and whatnot and all well and good but why not go after the structural defect in Canadian markets?

        We’re Canadians, we don’t want to rock the boat.

        1. No argument there at all. Supply management is an anathema to free markets, it causes higher prices. My point was it does not cause inflation, only governments can do that….or not.

  17. LOL typical liberals, blaming private industry for the high price of food instead of the left accepting the blame because their policies are bankrupting us.

  18. I realize this won’t happen, but I wish one of the retailers would tell the inquisition the truth. High prices are the result of this government’s actions. Therefore, their plan to to cut costs is to encourage the government to call an election and then do everything in their power to make sure the Liberals and NDP are not elected ever again.

    1. If Whole Foods/Amazon had been called on the carpet too, the group may have had the backbone to tell the Liberal flunkies to F**k O**.

  19. Wait until Turdeau starts talking wage and price controls, the dippers will be all over that. His father and the man who raised him were both big on controlled economies.

  20. You’d think one of those execs would have the cojones to look at the panel of assembled parliamentarians, and say “Well, fact of the matter is, I don’t answer to you lyin’ sonsawhores.” Then pack up his shit, and walk out.

    1. They still exist. I go to one every weekend. But they are much smaller than they were. And now in the big cities they are loaded with various booths selling trinkets from China.

      1. Yes and they’re regulated to the hilt. Like an effin’ cucumber or a carrot is going to kill you.

  23. Apparently the next hit we are going to see at the grocery stores is going to be a result of new packaging regulations to eliminate plastic packaging. Imported items will become unavailable if foreign manufacturers don’t bow down to new Canadian regs and Canadian companies will be forced to invest millions of dollars in new equipment. It will also affect the way food is stored, handled and transported. Apparently it isn’t going to be cheap either.

  24. This reminds me of the hullabaloo over gas prices in BC. They “studied” it without looking into the obvious reason our prices are so much higher: BC green fuel standards, carbon tax, fuel tax, and only two refiners in BC and one in Washington state and limited pipeline capacity to bring in fuel from Edmonton. In other words the high prices are by design and deliberate.

  25. If you want to see starvation on an industrial scale, put our saviours in the HOC in charge of grocery acquisition and distribution.
    That’ll solve a whole bunch of issues.
    Rotten Ba$tard$

  26. This summon to Blackie’s Versailles has also a ‘look, squirrel!’ component. To cover his stink from these past few weeks.

  27. The beatings will continue until morale improves! I look around where I live and see a whole lot of people who could benefit from eating less but I don’t believe more expensive groceries, food shortages or eating bugs is the answer.

  28. Effing sheep. Following their script for turdo’s theater. There isn’t one of the bastards who has the courage or honesty to point out that it’s turdo’s responses to the Wuhan flu that have caused the inflation.

    Why don’t they have the courage and honesty? Because they’re in the same Ivory Tower Trash league as turdo & Co. And they’ll play his game with the expectation that taxpayer dollars will adequately compensate them for their performances.

  29. Loblaws sales June quarter $ 13.74 billion
    net income June quarter $ 511 million
    net income = 2.7 % of sales
    To the dipshit Trudeau 2.7 % profit is gouging. My guess is that the problem is inflation that the Liberals deliberately created.

    1. Just for clarity, that wasn’t june’s sales, that was for the 3 months ending Jun 18th…

      They also paid $193 million to the government in income taxes, which of course is actually paid by their customers

      1. A bit of cross posting. I did add “quarter” likely a minute or two after you viewed it. Sorry.

    2. The idiots don’t look at 2.7% They look at $511 million and say, Holy Shit! Price gouging!!

      1. Pretty sure since none of them have run a business, they are looking at the $13.7 billion, and declaring price gouging

  30. Let’s all promote Quebec independence.
    Half the civil service, house of commons, and senate get turfed, problem solved?

    1. I once pissed off my French Canadian sister in law by saying if Quebec really wanted to leave Canada, then let the entire country vote on it.

  31. Lessee… if grubbymint controlled prices

    Grocery item stupidocrat-mandated retail price = $1.00

    Item wholesale cost = $0.40
    Grocer’s labor & overhead = $0.04
    Taxes on item, direct and indirect = $0.68
    ————————————–
    Gross profit = -$0.12

    But they’ll make it up in volume, right? Yeah, sure! Let’s order the grocers to have a sale and lower the price to $0.89. That’ll have ’em flying out the door and stop the grocers’ whining.

    (Worth the click)
    https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0b/eb/f6/0bebf649bf2a268c487b60f54f41a001.jpg

    1. Where can we get stickers showing Justin and Jagmeet arm in arm saying “WE DID THAT!!!!!”

  33. Trudeau’s dad, Fidel Castro, tried fixing prices. Especially the price of meat. So what happened is that meat largely dissapeared from state stores. And reappeared on the black market. And in the black market, prices were set by… the market.

  34. If these grocers had cojones, they would refuse to show up and suggest that axing the carbon tax would be Trudeau’s best move if he wants to reduce the cost of food. Or just wait for his government to fall (not that I am very convinced CPC government would do as much as is needed).

    1. I cashed my 180 plus dollar “Climate Change” bribe cheque today, telling the teller that’s what it was. She laughed, and agreed. There’s hope the Liberals will be crushed when the writ is eventually dropped…

      1. “when the writ is eventually dropped”

        Two more years until Jagmeet gets his pension – then the election.

  35. Nobody is goin to do anything except complain.
    Its the Canadian Way now.
    It won’t change until the cull takes place.

  37. Government regulations and programs are the cause of inflation.. And yes they can hold a gun to the grocers head and no they don’t have to stay in business.. Close the doors..

    1. No, keep the doors open but just offer the basics.
      No more processed food items(too much carbon emissions involved in production)
      No more bananas, pineapple, guava(too much carbon emissions involved in shipping). Just apples, pears etc.(local diet).
      No more frozen foods(too much carbon emissions involved in maintaining product)
      Put it all back on the Liberals and NDP with signs explaining the reason.

  38. This is reminiscent of those lean manufacturing action teams.
    Management calls the team together to find out why the defect count has increased but limits the team’s resolutions by saying cycle time is off limits.

    1. Hey, V. The real issue is, I don’t believe the idiots who vote for this stupidity either see the stupidity or understand the stupidity. Peas inna pod.

    2. “You see their stupidity, you understand their stupidity, yet you keep voting.”

      I’d end it there.

  40. First the obvious – the treasonous puppet scum in Ottawa are pretending that grocery stores are the problem. This is the same imbecilic tactic used by every tinpot dictatorship after THEY CAUSE inflation through central banking and spending. Although these puppets are also responsible for carbon taxes, which is supposed to somehow solve the anti-scientific lie of global warming.

    Secondly, if they were actually concerned about food prices, they’d be talking about the myriad of food cartels in Canada that are responsible for raising the prices at least 100%, and that have been doing so for decades under the moronic excuse of Soviet-style “supply management”.

  41. “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
    ― Ronald Reagan

    If you wait a while, the prices will raise more and more because of the government’s help.
    Every time the politicians stick their sticky fingers into other people’s business, will eventually corrupt into financial disaster. ‘Been done over and over and over again and the “experts’ insist that it’s the thing to do.
    Sit back and observe, since you or anyone else can’t do a damn thing ’bout it,
    It’s the dicktatorship (sic) of the ruling class.

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