What is the solution to high grocery prices? MPs debate | Power Play with Vassy Kapelos

What does inflation getting lower means when a chips bag has shrinked by half but sells for same price? We are still getting less for our money. And what happened exactly for the food to inflate so high? We are importing all from other countries and shipping costs have increased because transport companies havent lowered their price after the pandemic? There is a shortage of goods? The population has suddendly doubled and there is not enough supply for the demand? Is it the supply/demand that is at play? Suddenly grocery stores are no longer throwing food in the bin because it didn't sold and expired? Or is it because producers, manufacturers and groceries suddenly got greedy and wanted to increase their profit to please their stockholders? I seriously don't see what is the cause of this steep increase other than greed.

The demand for food has absolutely increased! Does this NDP character think the massive influx of immigrants don’t eat?

Sheer is the only person who makes sense on this panel. End the consumer carbon tax

PRICES ARE 4 TIMES WHAT THEY WERE IN 2020

Jim pattison monopoly anyone????

Only 20% ? seems more like 50%!

Sheer is 100% correct, the rest need to go to the loonie bin

NDP are delusional. And the liberals are definitely not economists.

More foreign grocers and we'll have no more Canadian owned businesses.
Walmart and Costco are not even engaging in this discussion yet more foreign grocers is their only answer?

How are the conservatives going to fix anything if they can't even answer a question. Every answer is Justin this or Justin that. What about you guys? What are you going to do?
Repeated lines and slogans aren't answers. Stop blaming and lead the way.

Noor Mohammed ! Isn’t he the guy that flipped @ 45 homes in Vancouver?

Why aren’t we talking about increasing food supply? Dairy, meat and grain cartels limit the domestic supply of essentials. These Boards need to allow farmers to produce more to improve the supply/demand situation. Taxes won’t fix this.

9 years in …..pretty much all their fault

I love how Taleeb can say that "to have competition is a big big win for Canadians"…….yeah, maybe set your sight on Bell, Rogers and Telus and how they use the CRTC to gouge the life out of Canada and have been doing it forever. I guess we only want to pick and choose what industries allow competition. Its all corrupt.

the solution is a new government.. in fact, the solution to pretty much all of canadas problems, is a new government

Vassy is one of the best journalists I have ever witnessed. She comes through with facts and brings real questions to politicians who duck around. Why don't they EVER answer the question straight??!! But I love Vassy's followup questions and facts.

I went to the store to buy pop they're raised Hst by 2% on the bills say 13%, and it didn't add up. So really today, Wednesday HST is now 15% Liberal and NDP just added 2% hike on food pay cheques or other places we pay HST is higher, not brighter. The government thinks we weren't going to notice oops ?

Just 20%?? 5 years ago, a watermelon at Costco was at $5.99, now $15.99. Even chicken wings are so pricy.

How about an excess profit tax on Taleeb, who has personally affected housing affordability by personally flipping 41 properties (half within 12 months of owning them) for $4.9 million in personal profits? Hypocrisy at its finest!

It's really the whole shibang. Carbon tax, monopolization of grocery industry, bilingual labelling, etc.

Vassey is a great host.

20% seems way low to me ? These deceptive inflation formulas need to change ..

Wasting money

Government is always the problem carbon tax inflationary spending limited resource extraction failure to log forests to provide lumber for buildings instead they let the fires burn government corruption is the problem

GroceryFlation = GreedFlation ?
NDP called that term months ago. Why does NDP not add this urgent demand to penalize grocery companies doing the GroceryFlation ( GreedFlation ) as a Non-Confident Vote this month so this reality of financial pain is resolved completely ?

20%? Foreign supplies?
Same box of eggs from 8 to13, and same bag of flour from 6 to 10. Both are over 60% increase in the last three years, and both are Domestic production.

Bring in foreign grocers ? Are walmart and costco Canadian ?

Vassy is amazing. She sure researches her topics. Held everyone's feet to the fire! 17:23

My daughter is 15 and in a high school in Sask. She has had a food program the whole time. WTF!

is tiktok ? blackmailing ,London drugs ? for 25 million ?

Soylent Green!

It's the carbon tax

ThiS is a no-brainer

I can't.beive this is even a debate
Why is steel 4 times more expensive than wood stud for stud?

Carbon tax

All they are willing to do is have conversations not soloutions as they have to admit there are problems caused by the government

Bring it home ?

kids school food program what a load of crap. just let parents take home more money so that we can all afford food for our kids, not big governments taking control of our kids by giving them food

Anather lier???????

NDP is for canadian or for Liberals=socializm?????

The earth and all the planets are created and made in the sky before anything or anyone is ?

3.7% profit margin.. those greedy corporations

Liberals suck

This government talks and talks and talks and talks and does absolutely nothing except spend billions of dollars on this Canadians do not benefit from.

AXE THE TAX

Canadians don't have kids , the birth rate is on a steep decline. Exactly whose kids are you feeding with our tax dollars??

Love Vashy pushing them on how slow acting they are, calling them on what's essentially spinning an L into a W.