The Outrageous Truth About A $12 Minimum Wage And Your Grocery Bill

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17. Not so much price controls, but marketing boards

that vary from product to product. Some of these have the end result of limiting prices paid by Canadian consumers (like dairy products). There it takes fixed prices paid to farmers, quotas on production and restriction of imports to result in a price limit to consumers.

Wheat on the other hand only guarantees a fair price to farmers. The Wheat Board then sells the grain on the world market at the prevailing price. If the world price of wheat skyrockets, Canadians will see that cost in their bread.

The whole thing is a complicated patchwork that of course Harper's Conservatives are trying to muck with in order to favour big agribusiness.