The budget that forgot your grocery bill

For a government that often talks about food affordability and insecurity, Budget 2025 offers surprisingly little that directly addresses either.

There’s no bold food strategy, no affordability roadmap, and no new incentives for domestic food production. Yet, in between the lines, Ottawa has quietly set the stage for some indirect relief — not through grocery subsidies or consumer-facing policies, but through infrastructure, trade, and administrative reforms that could make the food system work a little more efficiently.

The largest signal comes from the government’s $115-billion infrastructure plan, one of its so-called “generational investments.”

The new Trade Diversification Corridors Fund aims to modernize ports, railways, and airports — all chronic weak points in Canada’s food su