Mr. Speaker, Stats Canada confirms what Canadian families already know at the checkout. Food inflation has jumped by 6.2% in the last year. Grocery prices are up 5%, and Canada now has the highest food inflation in the G7. Newfoundland and Labrador has the second-highest food inflation rate in the entire country. Higher transportation costs mean that local families are hit even harder.
Conservatives are ready to fast-track measures to bring food prices down. Will the government eliminate the industrial carbon tax and the 17ยข-a-litre fuel standards tax so that Canadians can afford the basics?