U.S.-Mexico border dispute threatens Canadian food supply, grocery prices GlobeBusiness
Simon Somogyi, Andrew Nixon, Kimberly Thomas-FrancoisSimon Somogyi is the Arrell Chair in the Business of Food at the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph.
Andrew Nixon is a PhD student at the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph. Kimberly Thomas-Francois is a postdoctoral fellow, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph.An employee selects avocados to pack in the Global Fruit Packing Company in Uruapan, in Michoacan state, Mexico, on Jan. 31, 2017.Trouble at the U.S.-Mexico border will mean higher fruit and vegetable prices for Canadians.
feeding the 37 million people that live in our country. To the outsider, it may appear that the family-controlled grocery conglomerates such as Loblaw, Sobeys and Metro hold the power over our wallets and food plates, but increasingly, those concerns are being linked to a looming disquiet in our food-retail sector, and it surrounds U.S. President Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump has been in the headlines in the past year calling for major changes to how Canada runs its food system. He has taken aim at the Canadian supply-managed food sectors, such as dairy, poultry and eggs, and holding steel and other Canadian exports as bargaining chips in his battle on free trade and the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. For now, he has won on that. But the greater concern is not related to our trade agreements, nor specifically U.S.-Canadian relations, but with the U.S.
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