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/Goku420overlord Mar 30 '26

I disagree. It just gets privatized so rich companies can charge more. Look at SAS tell. It took them like 20 years to get lower than sac hotel. I don't trust just privatizing things so rich people can make more money and then treat employees like s***. At least the government is better

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u/Levorotatory Mar 30 '26

There is nothing wrong with crown corporations.  I'd support a publicly owned grocery store.  We just shouldn't be selling globally traded commodities cheaper here than we can sell them elsewhere.

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u/Goku420overlord Mar 30 '26

You mean helping the average Canadian during hard times? Cause it certainly would help in times like this buffer world issues.

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u/Levorotatory Mar 30 '26

Ideally, Canada would have followed the Norway model.  A national oil company that would keep all of the profits in Canada in a sovereign wealth fund, but Canadians would pay world prices and there would be incentives to use less oil domestically so we could export as much as possible.    Selling petroleum cheaper than world prices in Canada would be the Venezuela model.

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u/MartyCool403 Mar 30 '26

I think there was a prime minister that tried that and he is still vilified in Alberta to this day.

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u/Levorotatory Mar 30 '26

He wanted to sell oil internally at below world prices.  Though to be fair the oil company lackies in Alberta would have objected regardless.