The federal government has summoned the CEO's of Canada's largest grocery chains to parliament next week. Ottawa is making sweeping changes to the Competition Act that target the largest grocery chains and the government is threatening the chains with increased taxes if food prices don't stabilize by Thanksgiving.

Our guest has been invited to participate in the meeting between the grocery chain CEO's and Industry Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne.

Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois, head of the Agri-Foods Analytics Lab at Dalhousie, University.

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