Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure for me to rise to talk about a question I asked a couple of months ago. This was in my original question:
...Canada's fiscal watchdog confirms another broken Liberal promise, this time on the Liberals' tax cut. On the campaign trail, the Prime Minister promised Canadians an $800 income tax cut, but the Parliamentary Budget Officer just confirmed that the average Canadian will save $15 a month, and low-income seniors will save only $10 a month....
That was definitely not the promise on the campaign trail.
We have seen the food bank usage across our country. Four million users were at the food bank in Toronto. I just saw a new report that said that since 2015, since the Liberal government took office, food bank usage in Canada is up by 142%. That is a staggering number.
All I hear time and again from the Liberals is that there is no hidden food tax, which is factually incorrect. There is. There is a tax on fertilizer. There is a tax on food packaging. There is a second carbon tax coming in. There is an industrial carbon tax. Only someone who has their head in the sand would not realize that this is going to increase the cost of food.
I grew up on a farm. A lot of my friends took over their family farms. I know that in Canada, one thing that our farmers are very proud of is that they are producing more with less. They are producing more of what goes into food with fewer acres of land, with less water and with less fuel because they have GPS and have great technologies. If farmers are producing more food with less, if there is no hidden tax and if the government is not putting in policies that make food more expensive, then we would think food bank usage would go down, not up.
I know that my friend from Whitby is going to answer this question, and it is a simple question. If food bank usage has gone up by 142% in the last 10 years, why is he telling Canadians that they have it so good?