Canada’s restaurant industry calls for permanent tax break on food

Almost one year after the Liberal government announced a nationwide tax holiday on food, among other items, some are calling to bring it back for good.

The call is coming from Restaurants Canada, which wants the levy to be slashed on both food in restaurants and at the grocery store.

President and CEO Kelly Higginson tells 1130 NewsRadio it would encourage more Canadians to eat out, at a time when affordability and cost-of-living is top of mind.

“We have done some significant polling for Canadians who also agree. Seventy-five per cent of them right now are saying they are eating out less because of the affordability crisis, and through our polling, over 80 per cent of people said they absolutely agree that there should be no tax on any food, of any kind.”

Higginson says the tax break f