This week, Loblaws announced it was freezing food prices for three months, cleverly managing to ignore the previous two years of skyrocketing produce costs (and record profits). Following a distressing pattern of similar behaviour, however, ranging from the fixing of bread prices to a temporary bump up and then retrenchment of Loblaws' staff's "hero pay", Canadians can hardly expect different from their grocery oligopolies by now. Unfortunately, with the cost of living crisis in full swing, it's behaviour that will soon be bringing malnutrition and widespread hunger to what was once the Great White North.

Does government have a role to play in ensuring no one in this country goes hungry? Your hosts discuss, not ignoring for a second the absurdity that such a question need to be debated in this day and age at all.