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Canada's "Vibecession" & the GST Holiday Season, Trump's 25% Solution & guest Ed Hoehn, COO, Atomo Beanless Coffee
Season 5 Episode 14
In this engaging episode of The Food Professor Podcast, hosts Sylvain Charlebois and Michael LeBlanc navigate a packed agenda, blending international trade, environmental policy, and groundbreaking innovation in the coffee industry.
The episode kicks off with a live interview with Ed Hoehn, COO of Atomo Coffee, recorded at the Coffee Association of Canada's conference. Ed discusses Atomo's pioneering beanless coffee, positioning it as the most sustainable alternative in the market. The hosts try the coffee live, praising its potential to disrupt the traditional coffee industry.
Key topics of discussion include:
- The looming 25% tariff threat from President-Elect Trump on Canadian goods.
- Its implications for agriculture.
- The potential economic fallout.
Charlebois remains skeptical about the likelihood of the tariff being enacted but underscores the need for proactive planning by the Canadian government and businesses. The discussion pivots to trade dynamics with Mexico and the influence of the U.S. Agriculture Department under its newly appointed head, Brooke Rollins, a Texas A&M Agrilife graduate.
The hosts also critique Canada's temporary GST holiday on groceries, analyzing its limited benefits and unintended consequences for retailers and consumers.
Charlebois voices concerns over the carbon tax's impact on Canada's agri-food competitiveness, referencing his new peer-reviewed study supporting the position.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198224002628
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About Us
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded. Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. Google Scholar ranks him as one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability.
He has authored five books on global food systems, his most recent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has also published over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Lancet, The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.
Dr. Charlebois sits on a few company boards, and supports many organizations as a special advisor, including some publicly traded companies. Charlebois is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Business Scientific Institute, based in Luxemburg. Dr. Charlebois is a member of the Global Food Traceability Centre’s Advisory Board based in Washington DC, and a member of the National Scientific Committee of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Ottawa.
Michael LeBlanc is the president and founder of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc, a senior retail advisor, keynote speaker and now, media entrepreneur. He has been on the front lines of retail industry
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