Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, life has never been more expensive for Canadians.
This week, Food Banks Canada released its annual hunger report. It found that visits to food banks are up 90% since 2019 and that over two million Canadians used food banks in a single month this year.
Just this week, Karen Shuh, the executive director of the Barrie Food Bank, stated that the food bank is now supporting upwards of 7,000 people per month, 37% of whom are children. Ms. Shuh went on to say, “As demand continues to rise, we face increasing challenges in keeping up, often needing to make difficult choices about which foods to cut in order to stretch our donations further.”
Despite record-smashing food bank use, the NDP-Liberals decided to hike their carbon tax by 23% earlier this spring, as part of their plan to quadruple the carbon tax. The Prime Minister must call a carbon tax election so a common-sense Conservative government can axe the tax on everything for everyone, everywhere, and bring home powerful paycheques and lower prices for all Canadians.