food_insecurity_rate 18.4%, grocery_price_index_vs_inflation 1.34, crown_grocery_market_share 0%. Government benefit programs recycle money back to the oligopoly. The CCFN is competition policy, not charity — cost-plus-transparent pricing forces private chains to justify their margins or lose market share.

Epoch: 105

Domain: food_security

Fiscal cost estimate (LLM): $2.80B CAD

Structural estimate (RIPPLE): -$95.07B CAD net (v3-bfs-signed depth=2, decay=0.5/hop; diverges)

Top RIPPLE cost paths

• −$71.61B → healthcare_spending (Healthcare Spending) via food_insecurity_rate
• −$20.71B → consumer_spending (Consumer Spending Growth) via healthcare_spending
• −$3.92B → hospital_spending (Hospital Services Spending) via healthcare_spending
• +$1.49B → preventable_chronic_disease_cost (Annual Cost of Preventable Chronic Disease) via healthcare_spending

Variable changes

• food_insecurity_rate: 18.4 → 14.2
• rural_food_access_index: 0.43 → 0.61
• food_affordability_index: 0.58 → 0.67
• crown_grocery_market_share: 0 → 10
• food_system_transparency_index: 0.11 → 0.34
• grocery_price_index_vs_inflation: 1.34 → 1.12

Chamber amendment (round 1): Mandate 20% of CCFN procurement and board seats for Indigenous-led food enterprises and traditional food distribution networks.

Targets crown_grocery_market_share.