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No laws against foreign grocers. Has been like shooting fish in a barrel for Wal-Mart and Costco. But we do protect certain specific industries to our own detr
by Scoundreller 2y ago
No laws against foreign grocers. Has been like shooting fish in a barrel for Wal-Mart and Costco.
But we do protect certain specific industries to our own detriment (e.g. we’ve knee-capped dairy to the point that we hardly export any, while in the free(r)-market, we export 80% of our pulse crops, 90% of our canola crop, 3rd largest wheat exporter in the world).
https://www.ecodainc.ca/pulses/ https://www.ecodainc.ca/pulses/
https://www.ccga.ca/advocacy/trade https://www.ccga.ca/advocacy/trade
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wheat/reporter/can https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wheat/reporte...
As with oil, we like to export raw resources and let someone else do all the value-add elsewhere. But hey, dairy is very water intensive and it’s not like we enough of that to go around.
- chaostheory 2y agoYou’re right and I’m wrong, and there are other issues https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2024/07/why-foreign-grocers-arent-expanding-into-canada-op-ed/ https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2024/07/why-foreig...