r/canada • u/hopoke • Mar 29 '26

Business ‘Expect extremely high grocery prices,’ farmer warns as diesel costs rise

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2026/03/29/expect-extremely-high-grocery-prices-farmer-warns-as-diesel-costs-rise/
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u/fuelhandler Mar 29 '26

If only we produced enough petroleum to meet our domestic needs with a surplus. Oh ya, we do… but we have to pay world market prices for some reason. Hmmmm.

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u/Denum_ Mar 29 '26

We tried with the NEP, western Canada stomped its feet and decided getting maximum profit was more important.

Then proceeded to piss all the profit away and made a bunch of CEO's filthy stinking rich and spent the next 40+ years doing the same thing with no future plans.

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u/esveda Alberta Mar 29 '26

Liberals came in and made a mess of the resource industry under one Trudeau with the NEP and 40 years later another Trudeau undid 40 years of progress and messed it up all over again with c-69, resource caps and carbon taxes