—that two-thirds of food costs—the food costs we see today, the highest grocery inflation in the G7—were caused by domestic factors.
Domestic factors include inputs, like your industrial carbon tax, like your Liberal fuel standard, like your food packaging tax. Those things are directly in your and your government's hands, and yet you guys refused, and in fact voted against, our motion when we brought it forward to help lower the cost of food for Canadians.
We see 2.2 million Canadians going to a food bank in a single month—700,000 plus of those are children—and we have the most indebted households in the entire G7 because of your failed policies.
In 2023, you said you would bring down those costs. Why have they not gone down? Just answer: Why are our costs and our food inflation double the U.S.'s?
