Welcome to the The Food Professor podcast episode 18,  I’m Michael LeBlanc, and I’m Sylvain Charlebois!The Food Professor is presented  by omNovos the digital customer engagement solution for grocery and restaurant marketers, helping you solve your customer’s most daunting questions:  what should I eat today? Find out how you can get personal and grow sales with omNovos at www.realcustomerengagement.comAfter four long years of the Trump administrations nationalistic economic agenda, we discuss the economic impacts #46 will have on Canada’s industries. From agriculture to oil and gas, Biden is set to shake up much of America’s economic policies that can have both negative and positive effects on us here at home.“…the fact that Biden is going to is going to commit to the Paris Agreement, it could actually give achance to our own agriculture and get to become more competitive or at least relativelyspeaking to be as competitive as they are as American agriculture. That's so that that could help…”We discuss the some of the most pertinent issues facing the country, and the most important things to look for in the first few months of the Biden presidency.In addition, we look at the ins and outs of the Alimentation Couche-Tard offer to buy France based global powerhouse grocer Carrefour group, Starbucks closing of 300 location and what opening in the wonderful town of Truro in Nova Scotia means, and a glimpse of upcoming research from the Lab.******Thanks again to the folks at omNovos for being our presenting sponsor!If you liked what you heard you can subscribe on Apple iTunes , Spotify or your favourite podcast platform, please rate and review, and be sure and recommend to a friend or colleague in the grocery, foodservice,  or restaurant industry.    I’m Michael LeBlanc, producer and host of The Voice of Retail podcast and a bunch of other stuff, and I’m Sylvain Charlebois!Have a safe week everyone! Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice.   He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience, and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.  Michael is the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts including Canada’s top retail industry podcast,   The Voice of Retail, plus  Global E-Commerce Tech Talks  and     The Food Professor  with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois.  You can learn more about Michael     here  or on     LinkedIn. 
About UsDr. 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,