Floods, Inflation and Food Insecurity

Statistics Canada says the latest Consumer Price Index is showing a 4.7 percent increase in costs due to things like gasoline and food prices. Doctor Sylvain Charlebois is a professor with Dalhousie's Agri-food Analytics Lab. And he points to the natural disaster in British Columbia as another pressure on our supply chain. And he says that's likely to affect many other areas of the country, perhaps even Food Banks here in the Maritimes. In fact, he says we are just as vulnerable to pressures on our supply chain because we are isolated here.