The heads of Canada’s three biggest grocery chains faced blunt questions at a committee meeting in Parliament over food inflation.
MP questioned the executives over what they claimed were record profits, while the executives responded their profit margins have not changed–in fact in some cases have dropped.
“We have families going into your stores, looking at the price of items … and putting them back because they can’t afford them,” said NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. “And they look at you and they see you making record profits. How can you justify that when families are struggling to put food on the table for their kids?”…