Carol Anstey says seniors on fixed incomes, parents juggling grocery lists, and small business owners in our communities are all feeling the pinch every time they visit the grocery store.
Long Range Mountains MP Carol Anstey says real action is needed now to ease the burden on families, not more talking points. In a recent social media post, Anstey highlighted the fact that new Statistics Canada figures show that Newfoundland and Labrador now has the 2nd-highest food inflation rate in the entire country, with prices up 3.6% year-over-year, higher than the national average and above most other provinces. She says for too many families here, this isn’t a statistic; it’s reality. Seniors on fixed incomes, parents juggling grocery lists, and small business owners in our communities are all feeling the pinch every time they visit the grocery store. Anstey says while some provinces saw slightly lower increases, our people are still paying more for essentials like coffee, fruit and ground beef.
Anstey says it’s time to remove baked-in costs and taxes that make food more expensive here than it should be, things like the industrial carbon tax, clean fuels standards tax and packaging costs. She says Canada is being called the food inflation capital of the G7 and the latest stats highlight a frustrating reality. She says practical solutions are needed now so that families here can keep more of what they earn and spend less on the basics.
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