# Trade Talk on the Prairies, Canada's new U.S. Ambassador & Supply Management and How AI Is Rewiring Foodservice with Deborah Matteliano Simeoni, Global Head of Restaurants at Amazon AWS

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Published: 2026-02-05T08:05:00+00:00
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This episode of The Food Professor Podcast spans food policy, pricing, and restaurant technology. Michael LeBlanc and Sylvain Charlebois unpack Prairie farmer sentiment, Canada–U.S. trade tensions, the potential painful future of CUSMA, and the fiscal cost grocery rebates versus removing GST on food. The hosts also examine earlier comments from Mark Wiseman, Canada’s incoming Ambassador to the United States, and his critical views on supply management. The episode features an in-depth interview with Deborah Matteliano Simeoni, Global Head of Restaurants at Amazon Web Services, on AI, drive-thrus, loyalty, and QSR transformation.

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