OTTAWA — The federal government wants to expand Toronto’s Ontario Food Terminal as part of a multibillion-dollar strategy to bulk up food production and cut prices in Canada’s big-chain-dominated grocery market, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday.
The goal is to land a deal with the province to expand the terminal in Etobicoke — Canada’s biggest wholesale fruit and vegetable market — by the end of the year, the strategy says, with money from a new $1-billion “Food Link Fund” that’s meant to ease food distribution costs and help independent grocers buy supplies through cheaper alternatives to big retailers.
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