Sylvain Charlebois
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 9/21/2026
Trump’s Belarus potash gambit: Canada should stop laughing
Trump does not need Belarus to replace Canadian potash. He only needs it to make Canada less indispensable over time - 9/20/2026
Ottawa cut the diesel tax but your grocery bill will still go up
Food does not move by magic. In Canada, it moves largely by diesel - 9/16/2026
Europe wants Canada. Will Canadian agriculture and Canadians really benefit?
Canada’s agri-food deficit with a market ten times our size is not a market-size problem. It has a regulatory compatibility problem - 9/14/2026
Ottawa wants $1 trillion in investment, but agri-food is starving for capital
Canada does not merely need new owners. It needs new plants, shovels in the ground, equipment installed and Canadian food processed in Canada - 9/9/2026
Canada picked a trade fight it cannot afford
Canadians will soon discover that standing up to Trump may be good politics, but it is suicidal economics - 9/7/2026
Counter-tariffs are here. Here's why you can expect more shrinkflation
Counter-tariffs will fuel more shrinkflation, but consumers will blame the food industry—not Canada’s trade policies - 9/2/2026
Ottawa cuts taxes at the pump, then adds them to the grocery bill
Canada can defend its economic interests without pretending that counter-tariffs are painless - 8/30/2026
How Canadian grocery habits are shifting: more trips, smaller baskets
New research from NielsenIQ reveals a consumer who is constantly searching for value - 8/24/2026
Don’t tax Canada’s pink gold
Potash is Canada’s “pink gold”—one of the country’s most valuable natural resources and a cornerstone of global food production - 8/23/2026
Ottawa’s tariff trap: Don’t weaponize the grocery bill
A counter-tariff may look patriotic in Ottawa. At the checkout, it is still a tax paid by Canadians - 8/19/2026
Canadians paid dairy farmers for competition consumers never got
Canadian taxpayers paid billions to compensate dairy farmers for presumed market losses, while much of the promised dairy competition never made it past the border - 8/13/2026
Ten myths Canadians need to stop believing about supply management
Supply management’s greatest threat is its refusal to evolve
