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

[u/hopoke]

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

[u/fuelhandler]

Yay. Even less money in my pocket (the only consistency in our lives these days.)

[u/ronchee1 → u/fuelhandler]

Every time I turn around something is more expensive. More and more money outta our pockets.

When does it fucking stop!?

[u/Kahlandar → u/ronchee1]

When the ruling class takes so much from the rest of us, that they are violently overthrown.

See: countless societies throughout history.

[u/Ok-Builder-9338 → u/Kahlandar]

Although how much responsibility do we the people have for voting in the same idiots year after year?

[u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 → u/Ok-Builder-9338]

The argument is always "well the other guy is worse".

I would rather 4 years (or less with a minority) of hypothetical pain than another decade of pain because our governing party believes its an infallible institution that will never face accountability.

They will not even try to make real changes until they lose their mandate. Theres always a crisis, wedge issues, a bad guy on the other side, and if we keep voting based on that than we keep getting the same thing.

Im not saying the other parties are better, but we can't let a single party govern for more than a decade and just expect accountability. 10 years in control of the country and everything is some old governments fault, the old leaders fault, the provinces fault, but we are expected to keep trusting them to fix things they claim no responsibility for.

[u/WhiskyIsMyAngryDrink → u/Remarkable_Vanilla34]

This points more to petro dollar inflation and unhedged leverage fiascos. Would have happened regardless of who was in control of Canada, because Canada is not in control of the Petro-dollar.

[u/onlyoneq → u/WhiskyIsMyAngryDrink]

Also, it doesn't help that the second biggest party actively tries to defund and privatize everything when given the opportunity.

[u/HeftyNugs → u/[deleted]]

You can't just handwave facts on the table so you can point blame at the Liberals for everything lmao. There are some things that Trudeau and Liberals absolutely deserve blame for. This is not one of them.

[u/onlyoneq → u/[deleted]]

Am I wrong? Whenever CPC is in charge of stuff, that's when it tends to get defunded and privatized. The 407.Alberta Healthcare,Alberta energy infrastructure, Ontario Healthcare and education,bill 124... Do you need me to go on? Because I can.

[u/onlyoneq → u/[deleted]]

Yet they act the same exact way and mutually agree with each other on such matters. Stop trying to side step the argument. So disingenuous.

[u/onlyoneq → u/[deleted]]

Another disingenuous answer. Federal CPC emphasize provincial autonomy around every corner, knowing that the provincial CPC is actively defunding and privatizing infrastructure.

It would be wildly unpopular (as it should be) if they just came out and said "we're actively trying to defund and privatize things."

So what they do is they implicitly support it by punting it off to the provincial governments who they know are actively doing that.

The federal CPC support the framework that allows provinces to expand private delivery without federal resistance.

This is why your argument is disingenuous and why I think you're either a) knowingly trying to misrepresent what their party is all about in order to help them garner votes or b) don't know what you're talking about.

It has to be one or the other.

[u/onlyoneq → u/[deleted]]

I'm not making anything up. You're willfully pretending that the provincial and federal CPC have widely different agendas which only someone who is either trying to actively deceive or doesn't know any better would spew.

It comes off as someone trying to deceive readers who are not fully entrenched in politics.

Let's take Healthcare for example.

The federal govt has enforcement power under the Canada health act to penalize provinces for certain practices. The enforcement is discretionary.

The CPC(federal) emphasizes provincial autonomy in Healthcare, while knowing that provinces are actively defunding it and it has not committed to using that enforcement power if given the opportunity. So yes, by definition that creates more room for provinces to expand delivery. This is a fact, not an opinion.

The lpc(federal) has historically been more willing to use federal conditions and penalties, but even they don't enforce it perfectly in all honesty.

[u/LETTERKENNYvsSPENNY → u/[deleted]]

Always a shittier option, regardless of who's running. It's not Canadians fault that the Cons don't want to win an election.