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Doug Ford nixes idea of grocery surveillance pricing ban in Ontario
Ford said competition, not a ban, should keep grocery prices down and blamed higher costs on rising gas.
- On Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford rejected implementing a ban on surveillance pricing for groceries, contrasting his position with Manitoba's proposed ban on what it calls "predatory pricing."
- Ford defends competition as the primary driver of lower prices, maintaining a belief in a free-market, capitalist society rather than government intervention in retail pricing.
- While refusing to ban surveillance pricing, the premier warned retailers against price-fixing, vowing to "tear them to shreds" in any case of "collusion."
- Dismissing a planned City of Toronto pilot project to open four city-run grocery stores, Ford called the proposal "the craziest idea" he has ever heard.
- Rising gas prices are the primary driver of sky-high grocery costs, according to the premier, who maintains this broader economic factor is the true issue facing Ontario families.
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