CBC: One policy idea Lewis and Mamdani share are public grocery stores. According to Lewis, some of Mamdani’s policy experts assisted his team in designing the proposal, which goes beyond a pilot proposal.
“We’re talking about an alternative national procurement network, where the federal government uses its truly national reach — federal institutions, the school program — to really reach wide” and compete with large groceries, Lewis said.
…On Wednesday, the NDP introduced a motion to ban so-called surveillance pricing, where businesses offer different prices based on consumers’ personal data. The motion was voted down…