Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised lower grocery prices. “Canadians will hold us to account by their experience at the grocery store”, he said.
In my travels to northern communities this summer, this is what I saw: In Tuktoyaktuk, a can of Alpha-getti is $6.79, a jug of milk is $14.79 and a 900-gram jar of Cheez Whiz is $17.29. In Cambridge Bay, a can of baked beans is $9.99, a 1.5-litre bottle of ketchup is $19.88 and a box of soup crackers is $22.99. Lastly, in Iqaluit, a can of mushroom soup is $10.19, a gallon of ice cream is $25 and a can of Tim Hortons, get this folks, is $48.89.
If northerners' experience at the grocery store is the measure of the Prime Minister's success, then he has been an abysmal failure.