"We will introduce emergency price caps on basic food items—like pasta, frozen vegetables, and infant formula—to keep costs of food down. These items have seen some of the steepest increases since 2020: cooking oil is up 75 per cent, pasta is up 43 per cent, and infant formula—an essential for so many parents—is up 30 per cent and still climbing.
Price regulations are already in place for a number of sectors of Canada’s economy, like electricity, natural gas and certain medicines. And they have been used in other jurisdictions to tackle food price inflation. We would attempt to negotiate this cap but if big grocery chains refuse, we would act by passing the appropriate legislation.
To enforce this cap, we will put in place a mandatory Grocery Code of Conduct."
Have the Competition Bureau act as a grocery price watchdog with the power to impose serious penalties
"We will also strengthen the Competition Bureau to act as a grocery price watchdog with the power to impose serious penalties on those who don’t comply. These powers will extend to price gouging, price surging, price fixing and shrinkflation." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19
Create a mandatory Grocery Code of Conduct
"Our mandatory Grocery Code of Conduct would help level the playing field in the grocery industry." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19
Create a National Food Cooperative Strategy to help independent small- and medium-sized grocery stores
"We would establish a National Food Cooperative Strategy aimed at boosting independent small- and medium-sized grocery stores." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19
Direct Nutrition North subsidies to people, not corporations
"And we would fix Nutrition North, to make sure the subsidy goes straight to people, and not to corporations." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19
Nous n’avons par de Vert politiques sur Food prices.