One statistic stuck out in this week’s inflation report from Statistics Canada, and it had to do with food inflation. While Statistics Canada said that overall inflation was cooling and reported that food inflation was down significantly, over the last three years the cost of groceries
has gone up by 21.4%.
That means that the $100 worth of groceries in your cart in April 2021 would have cost you $121.40 last month for the exact same items.
No wonder people are feeling the pinch and don’t believe that food inflation is going down. They are looking at the compounding effect of three years of price increases.
In November 2015, the month the Trudeau Liberals were sworn in and took power, the average price for a litre of gas across the country
was $103.7. The average price last month was $169.8 per litre, meaning we’ve seen a 64% increase in the price of gas over the last 8 1/2 years.
That doesn’t just impact what you pay to get to work, it impacts the price of everything else you buy.
In November 2015, the average price of a home, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association,
was $456,186. Last month, CREA said the average home price was
sitting at $703,446 or a 54% increase since Trudeau took office.
Of course, in November 2015, the average price could get you a two-storey single family home in much of the country, now that average price will get you a town or row house.
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And as for food, since November 2015, food inflation has caused your bill to go up by 32.3%, according to the analysis of StatsCan data by Sylvain Charlebois, the Food Professor.
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While gas has gone up 64%, the cost of an average home 54% and food by at least 32.3%,
StatsCan says average hourly wages have only increased by 29% over that same time period.
Poilievre says Trudeau not worth the cost and the numbers back him up.
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Trudeau likes to talk about delivering for Canadians, but he rarely actually delivers.
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There is also the problem that if Canadians were doing well, if we weren’t battling an ever-increasing cost of living, we wouldn’t need the government to come up with programs to feed every kid at school, or give free dental care to seniors. Instead, we’ve been dealing with inflation, driven up in part by the policies of the Trudeau Liberals, not that the government will accept any blame.
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In response, Trudeau pointed to his new dental program for seniors that has signed up 2 million people and a national school food program. Of course, most dentists aren’t signing up to be part of that dental program, meaning once it gets going there will be long lines for care and the school food program has been talked about an awful lot but hasn’t fed a single meal to a single child.
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Nine years of stagnant growth under Trudeau has continued to leave younger generations behind, facing a poorer future than their parents, we know this because the prime minister and finance minister told us so only last month.
“It used to be that the deal was if you worked hard at a good job, you could afford a home. That doesn’t seem the case anymore. That’s not fair,”
said Trudeau, who — it is worth repeating — has been prime minister for the last nine years.
And where has almost a decade of Liberal policies left us according to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland?
“Today, too many young Canadians feel as if the deck is stacked against them. They can get a good job, they can work hard, but far too often the reward of a secure, prosperous, comfortable middle-class life is out of reach,” she said in April.
In 2015, the prime minister promised to fix all the things he has since made worse
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