An Act to establish a national framework to improve food price transparency

Bill C-226 in 45-1 was an NDP Private Member's Bill establishing a national framework to improve food-price transparency, the 45-1 reintroduction of 44-1 Bill C-406. Brought after the Competition Bureau's June 2023 Retail Grocery Market Study found Loblaw, Sobeys/Empire, and Metro control approximately 60 percent of Canadian grocery sales. The bill would have required Competition Act amendments to authorize the Competition Bureau to compel grocery-chain price-disclosure information, mandatory annual federal Grocery Price Transparency Reports, and federal-provincial coordination on grocery-pricing oversight. The federal Grocery Code of Conduct (voluntary, released June 2023) addressed some elements but the bill sought a binding statutory framework. Did not pass second reading.