Mr. Speaker, the Liberal-NDP carbon tax is fuelling an affordability crisis Canada has not seen in generations. According to Food Banks Canada, a shocking two million Canadians use a food bank in a month.
To be clear, it is not just the unemployed or people with limited income who need to use a food bank; nearly one in five food bank users has a full-time work. This increase in usage is causing havoc for food banks themselves, and nearly 30% are running out of food. People who were donating nine years ago are now the ones standing in line. I have spent most of my life in rural Ontario, and never has food bank usage been this high. Worst of all is that nearly one-third of food bank users are children.
Despite record-high food bank use, the NDP-Liberals continue to increase the cost of groceries by increasing the carbon tax by 23% on their way to quadrupling the tax. Food insecurity is real and many Canadians are desperate.
The Prime Minister must call a carbon tax election. Will he?