The recent progress, however, has also caused controversy inside the negotiating team, with one of the participating lobby groups permanently pulling out of talks last week. Kathleen Sullivan, chief executive of manufacturing lobby group Food and Beverage Canada , said she walked away from the negotiating table on Nov. 18 because the draft rules, though not finalized, made clear the process is ignoring the little guys.
In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Walmart Inc. and Loblaw Companies Ltd. enraged their suppliers by unilaterally implementing new fees that forced food companies to help fund upgrades to the grocers’ e-commerce operations. Suppliers said the fees were a glaring example of how much power a handful of dominant grocery chains wield against food manufacturers and farmers in Canada.
“We have met with to understand their concerns and will continue to ensure that the interests of SMEs are well represented in the process,” Bibeau and Lamontagne said in a joint statement issue by Lamontagne’s office.Michael Graydon — chief executive of Food, Health and Consumer Products of Canada “We’ll continue to move forward and get this thing over the line,” he said. “I believe we have the essence of a code…. It is a phenomenal milestone.”
I wish someone would swing past and tell me what I already know - that we've down several notches on any wealthier-than-thou scale and it's not coming back.
you'd think someone would come clean about this new financial standing we find ourselves knee-deep in. one grows tired of the pleasant smiles (nods all around) and the any-day-now business.
Just give me a freaking bag to carry my groceries home in.