Sylvain Charlebois
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 10/25/2026
Supply management’s chicken import racket
- 10/22/2026
Food banks are doing heroic work. Governments are making it necessary
Canada’s food banks deserve our gratitude. Increasingly, they also deserve an explanation - 10/19/2026
Alberta chose Canada. Now Canada needs to choose Alberta, for real
Alberta’s agricultural strength makes Canada a food powerhouse. The opportunity now is to turn provincial pride into a stronger national food economy - 10/14/2026
Canada: A food powerhouse with empty plates
Canada’s agricultural strength means little to a family whose grocery budget is gone before it reaches the store - 10/11/2026
Why a weak dollar is driving up your grocery bills
We don't need a new Trump tariff to make groceries expensive. A struggling economy and a falling dollar are doing the job just fine - 10/6/2026
Is Canada's U.S. food boycott all talk?
Despite the repeated calls to find new markets, the country's agri-food trade remains anchored to the same customer and supplier - 9/27/2026
Canada’s booze boycott is about to backfire
We took American booze off our shelves. Now Trump is closing the border to ours. Guess which country has more to lose? - 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
