Tuesday's letters: Federal gov't to blame for high food prices

Published Oct 10, 2023 • Last updated 44 minutes ago • 2 minute read

A man waits for a bus in front of Capital Groceries & Halal Meat, 10806 107 Avenue, in Edmonton Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia

The government recently asked the main grocery outlets in Canada to find a solution to high grocery costs. First, from manufacturing through production, delivery and service — labour costs, transportation costs are high with escalating carbon taxes.

Second, dairy supply management increases the costs of poultry, eggs, butter and milk, both directly and as ingredients for all baked products. And finally, there is the daily cost of cash flows in high interest rates for all businesses.

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The government wanted recommendations for reducing grocery costs, when they have either complete direct control or at least massive influence over the major parts of those high costs.

Les Thompson, Edmonton

Done with Alberta-first whining

I am so tired of being dragged into the UCP/Alberta First obsession with Ottawa. I’m tired of the full-page ads, the TV commercials and the interminable whining of these fools and their wallowing in victimhood. I’m astounded that Albertans are not at the legislature demanding an accounting for the millions of our tax dollars being wasted on a campaign to shill for multinationals and petro-criminals.

I’m tired of Alberta government surveys that are so transparently skewed they may as well have “just ignore all this and say ‘yes’ ” emblazoned on top. I’m tired of stupid and incompetent people being elevated to critical portfolios.

But, most of all, I’m tired of the lies and theft and cronyism of the crypto-MAGA Albertans who permeate Alberta society and taint the way we are perceived by Canada and the world.

Fritz Kropfreiter, Edmonton

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Carbon capture alone isn’t enough

It is good that by the Pathways Alliance, the big oilsands emitters are finally owning our substantial contribution to global warming and the climate crisis. However, their newfound commitment to carbon capture, as important as that initiative may be in the overall existential battle, is a woefully inadequate mitigation of their business plan of full-steam-ahead extraction of fossil fuels. Let us not be deceived by the campaign of full-page advertisements. Beware of greenwashing.

Jim Joosse, Edmonton

Alberta gov’t decisions bewilder

The Alberta government’s plan to withdraw Albertans from the CPP, the world’s best-performing pension fund, bewilders me. The Alberta government’s reopening of applications for coal mines in mountain headwaters, our most vulnerable landscapes, confounds me.

The Alberta government’s continued war with doctors, nurses, and other health-care providers, who we depend upon for our lives, dumbfounds me. The Alberta government’s ban on wind and solar power projects, that bring prosperity to our economy, perplexes me. The Alberta government’s general unwillingness to govern, after fighting so hard to get into power, flummoxes me. The Alberta government’s success in gaslighting its own citizens, like a flock of sheep, flabbergasts me.

Richard Quinlan, Lethbridge

Pension-plan shift at risk of bungling

Can you imagine the potential for errors in transferring a Canada Pension Plan account to a new Alberta pension plan account? Two levels of government bureaucracies trying to co-ordinate this would be quite entertaining.

Bob Dawson, Sherwood Park

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