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CHARLEBOIS: Taxing grocery store food wrong, GST break makes things worse

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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland 's testimony before the Senate to support the government’s proposed temporary two-month GST holiday has faced significant backlash.

Senators criticized the measure as a flawed piece of fiscal policy driven more by political survival than sound economics.

The concern lies in how grocers might exploit this temporary tax break, says Dr. Sylvain Charlebois .

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