Mr. Speaker, three years ago, the finance minister promised Canadians he would stabilize food prices at his flashy grocery summit. Since then, prices have gone up significantly. Lettuce is up nearly 40%. Coffee is up 33%, and beef is up 27%. That is just to name a few items.
Canada is now leading the G7 in food inflation at 6.2%. It is now twice as high as it was when the Prime Minister took office and twice as high as it is in the United States, and it gets worse. Canadians are now making 2.2 million visits a month to food banks. These visits have doubled under Liberal governments.
Instead of working to reduce food costs, the minister is announcing yet another temporary rebate, giving some about $10 a week against grocery bills that are in the hundreds. The Liberals need to support our Conservative affordability plan, which would eliminate the industrial carbon tax and the Liberals' 17¢-a-litre standard fuel tax. It is time that the Liberals turned their rhetoric into results for Canadians.