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Trudeau’s agenda is failing Canadians as 2 million visit food banks each month
From LifeSiteNews
According to an October report from Food Banks Canada, Canadians made 2,059,636 visits to a food bank in March alone, as overall visits have increased 6% from last year’s record-breaking numbers. But what, if anything, is being done to fix this?
More Canadians than ever are relying on food banks to feed their families, as usage has increased 90% from 2019.
According to an October report from Food Banks Canada, Canadians made 2,059,636 visits to a food bank in March alone, as overall visits have increased 6% from last year’s record-breaking numbers.
“Compared to before the pandemic, there has been a significant increase in two-parent households with children under 18 accessing food banks — from 18.8% in 2019 to nearly 23% in 2024,” reads the report.
“Two-parent families who access food banks are more likely to live in larger urban areas of 100,000 or more, which contributes to the higher usage rates in those areas,” it continued. “This trend is consistent with other research findings that show households with children have been especially hard hit by rapidly rising costs of living.”
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre commented on the situation, saying, ” Food Banks Canada reports more than 2 MILLION food bank visits in ONE MONTH—after the carbon tax sent food prices up 36% faster than in the U.S. This is Canada after 9 years of NDP-Liberals.”
According to the report, families are increasingly forced to rely on food banks, as one-third of the recipients were children, making 700,000 monthly visits this year.
Food Banks Canada attributed the rising reliance on food banks to “rapid inflation, housing costs and insufficient social supports.” According to the report, 18% of food bank recipients are gainfully employed while 70% are in the rental market.
Finding a solution
The report recommended “a groceries and essentials benefit,” by modifying the existing GST quarterly credit given to low-income Canadians.
However, it should be clear that giving struggling Canadians a tax benefit merely treats the symptom, not the problem itself. The disease is not rising food prices, it is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s radical policies that have created a failing economy fueled by inflationary government spending and a punitive carbon tax regime.
Taxing the “carbon” emitted in the production and transportation of Canadians’ food and then returning a fraction of the money not only drives Canadians into poverty, but makes them reliant on handouts.
The Trudeau government needs to reign in its reckless spending and reverse its radical tax policies, returning the economic power to citizens and away from bureaucrats.
Despite the clear need for this, Trudeau’s government appears bent on doing the opposite. As LifeSiteNews previously reported, a 2023 October Parliamentary Budget Officer report found that Trudeau’s carbon tax is costing Canadians hundreds of dollars annually as government rebates remain insufficient to compensate for the increased fuel prices, yet he remains committed to further increasing the tax.
Reports have revealed that a carbon tax of more than $350 per tonne is needed to reach Trudeau’s net-zero goals by 2050. Currently, Canadians living in provinces under the federal carbon pricing scheme pay $80 per tonne, a rate that will be raised to $170 per tonne by 2030.
Directly following a report that Canada’s poverty rate increased for the first time in years due to high inflation spurred by government spending, polls showed that nearly half of Canadians are only $200 from complete financial ruin, and yet the Trudeau government continues down its same path.
Unfortunately for Canadians, if the past nine years show us anything, it seems that regardless of how bleak the data, the Trudeau government has only its ideological agenda in mind.
From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
By Carson Binda
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, B.C. Premier David Eby and Tourism Minister Spencer Chandra Herbert all declined taxpayer-funded tickets from PavCo.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan to pay for his own Taylor Swift tickets instead of sticking taxpayers with the bill.
“If Sajjan wants to take his daughter to a Taylor Swift concert, he should be paying out of pocket, not taking taxpayer-funded tickets,” Carson Binda, B.C. Director for the CTF said. “It’s ridiculously out of touch for a Trudeau minister to Shake it Off at the Eras Tour on the taxpayer dime.”
Sajjan will be attending the sold-out show at B.C. Place with his daughter on Saturday as guests of B.C. PavCo, the Crown corporation that operates the stadium. Tickets in suites, like the ones given to Sajjan and his daughter, would normally cost $18,000 – $23,000 each, according to Global News.
Sajjan has attempted to defend his decision by claiming he made a $1,500 donation to a local food bank in lieu of paying for the tickets.
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, B.C. Premier David Eby and Tourism Minister Spencer Chandra Herbert all declined taxpayer-funded tickets from PavCo.
“Every other politician realized how inappropriate it is to see Taylor Swift on the taxpayer dime,” Binda said. “I understand Sajjan and his daughter want to live out their Wildest Dreams and see Taylor Swift, but they should do so with their own money.”
Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureaux
From LifeSiteNews
“There is something in his past,” Lamoureux said to MPs, adding, “He is hiding something. What is it?”
Without offering evidence to back up his claim, a high-ranking Canadian MP from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party claimed that Russia is bankrolling the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) in a bid to prop it up.
The claim was made by Kevin Lamoureux, a Liberal MP from Winnipeg North riding who recently alleged that Russia is “spending millions” as a type of “foreign influencer.”
Lamoureux, as per Blacklock’s Reporter, told his fellow MPs on November 27 that “Russia” was propping up the “Conservative Party of Canada, if not directly, indirectly.”
“Is it any wonder why maybe they might have actually voted against a Canada-Ukraine trade deal for suspicious reasons? I’m trying to be nice,” he claimed, without offering any evidence.
Lamoureux is no back-benching Liberal but serves as the parliamentary secretary to the Government House Leader. He said that the Canada Elections Act bans “undue influence” as well as contributions made by any “foreign individual or entity” to Canadian federal parties.
His comments come at a time with support for the Trudeau Liberals is at an all-time low, with the most recent polls showing a Conservative government under leader Pierre Poilievre would win a super majority were an election held today.
House Leader Karina Gould did not comment on Lamoureux’s accusations against the CPC. As for Lamoureux, he claimed that Poilievre may be hiding something.
“There is something in his past,” Lamoureux said to MPs, adding, “He is hiding something. What is it?”
Lamoureux made the same accusations earlier, again offering no evidence to support his claims.
Conservatives demand ‘full apology’
CPC MPs, notably those of Ukrainian background, blasted Lamoureux’s comments, demanding a “full apology.”
“It is gutter politics,” Conservative MP James Bezan said.
Pro-life CPC MP Cathay Wagantall demanded Lamoureux offer a “full apology” at once.
“My grandfather came here just before the Holodomor from a Russia that destroyed our people,” she said.
The reality is the CPC under Poilievre has consistently objected to Russia’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine.
However, this has not stopped the Trudeau government from claiming Russia is somehow behind Canada’s freedom movement as well as the Conservative Party.
Trudeau’s cabinet had to earlier admit that it made up claims Russia had bankrolled the 2022 Freedom Convoy, admitting, “There was no evidence foreign state actors or foreign governments were conducting any disinformation campaign against Canada in relation to the convoy.
In 2022, the CBC, Canada’s state-run broadcaster, was rebuked by its overseer after running a story false story claiming Russia was behind the Freedom Convoy protests.
Trudeau recently drew the ire of popular Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, who demanded an apology after the Canadian prime minister accused him of being funded by Russian state media.
Meanwhile, Trudeau has praised China for its “basic dictatorship” and has labeled the authoritarian nation as his favorite country other than his own.
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