Jagmeet Singh vs. Galen Weston: The NDP's crusade to bring down 'corporate greed'
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Pushing a grocery cart up and down the aisles of Loblaws, Jagmeet Singh has to admit it's all a little bit awkward.
Pushing a grocery cart up and down the aisles of Loblaws, Jagmeet Singh has to admit it's all a little bit awkward.
After all, the NDP leader has lambasted the grocery giant and its former president Galen Weston Jr. — famous among Canadians for his 30-second COVID-era TV and radio ads — for "ripping people off."
Today, however, Singh is just running errands. Well, mostly.
He selects a loaf of sourdough bread and a bouquet of Valentine's Day flowers for his wife. In the dairy aisle, he eschews the familiar yellow "No Name" butter in favour of a more costly brand — a small act of personal rebellion.
"I wouldn't have thought twice about it before," he says.
But Singh has made it a central tenet of his party's policy to take on big companies he believes are making record profits while ordinary people struggle to afford the basics.
"That is something that people are becoming really aware of — and that creates some opportunity for us to fix it."
