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GIGUERE: Governments should not be opening grocery stores

Governments are simply not equipped to take this on.

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If there has been an observable trend in recent decades, it is surely that of excessive intervention and a growing willingness of governments to try to replace markets. We have another fine example of this with the latest fashionable idea from the world of municipal politics, notably in Toronto and New York and taken up by the federal NDP: The creation of public grocery stores.

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