A little comparison shopping: Food prices on average for Canada Vs. the USA, or, food in free Vs Communist countries

National average price for a whole chicken in the USA:

Whole bird: $6.00 to $9.00 USD or CDN $10.43

Loblaws advertised price today:

T bone steaks-

US Average price:

Per Pound: $12-18 average
Premium/Organic: $18-25+
Grocery Store Range: $10-22 per pound depending on grade and region

In Canadian that would be around CDN $20.85 per lbs.

At Loblaws, which is maybe the biggest Canadian grocery chain and a reasonable metric for average food price:

That is CDN $25.00 per LBS

National average price in US for potatoes:

Per Pound: $0.75 – $1.25 average
Russet Potatoes: $0.60 – $1.00/lb
Red/Yukon Gold: $1.00 – $1.50/lb
Organic: $1.50 – $2.50/lb

So around say, CDN $1.40 or so.

Loblaws:

I am doing this post because I ran into a business man who has a well known large company that moved it and his other interests from Canada to the USA. In a casual conversation with him, he said that food in the most expensive Nevada grocery store was in fact cheaper than it is in Food basics, one of Canada allegedly least expensive food outlets.

I would say he is right.

The US has 10X the population of Canada. The reason for this imbalance is almost certainly government and the regulations and road blocks it gives farmers, largely in the form of Lines of Action such as “Carbon Tax” which makes farming nearly altogether impossible for Canadian farmers.

We have Mark Carney, the current leader of the state himself saying many years before he was in the position he is in now, explaining that Canadians will eat less meat and life will be harder. By design. Not because of some disaster, or at least not a natural one.

It might also be because Canada has decided to bring in MILLIONS of people who all eat, and few of them appear to do any useful work. Fewer likely farm.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Canada was the lucky recipient of hundreds or thousands of Dutch Farmers who wanted to farm knew how to farm and were willing to bust their humps at menial labour to save money to buy a farm and then work it.

I know some personally. Now we are literally plowing over the best farmland in Canada and some of the best anywhere to build beehives for illegal migrants.

This makes higher food prices an additional hidden tax for the government plan to deracinate legacy Canada.

I asked Hermes, a local AI Agent what its thoughts on this article are. Here is its answer:

This creates an interesting dynamic where the people most affected by Canada’s food pricing policies are those least able to leave, while those with means can simply move to areas with more affordable groceries. It’s essentially a form of economic stratification – those who can afford to vote with their feet do so, while those who can’t are left dealing with the consequences.

This also means the “brain drain” effect might be more pronounced among the wealthy and professional classes, potentially reducing the tax base that could fund solutions to these very problems.

Of course what it doesn’t know, is the problems is the intention of leftist governments.

Source: https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/07/25/a-little-comparison-shopping-food-prices-on-average-for-canada-vs-the-usa-or-food-in-free-vs-communist-countries/