Forecast Food Price Calamity

Consumers face a long run-up of rising food prices at rates much higher than those estimated by Statistics Canada, the Commons finance committee was told yesterday. One economist who last December predicted five to seven percent food inflation said the estimate is already out of date: “I don’t think Canada will run out of food but it will get pricier.”

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