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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
I don’t know if it’s worth tweaking.
I think the carbon tax is the main reason food prices have skyrocketed in the past few years.
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You are misinformed then:
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The Bank of Canada said this month the carbon price contributes about 0.15 percentage points to inflation overall. That amount was the same whether inflation was at its peak of 8.1 per cent in June 2022 or 3.3 per cent in July. There is no clear figure for groceries. While the tax is not applied directly to food, and the bulk of carbon emissions from the agricultural sector are exempted, it can still indirectly raise costs of production and transportation of food.
University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe estimates that the carbon tax is responsible for less than one per cent of grocery price increases.
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https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...es-food-prices
You can sanity check this fact when you realize inflation is happening globally, including food, at rates similar or larger than Canada's.