Ottawa, ON – After more than a decade of inflationary Liberal credit card budgets, growth-killing regulations and waste, Canadians families are paying the price. Now, as they face the only recession in the G7 and G20, the cost of Liberal failures is becoming too much to bear.
With business investment down for five consecutive quarters, our workers are suffering from the problems Prime Minister Mark Carney has failed to fix.
Now, 22 per cent of Canadians say they have personally experienced poverty, up from 19 per cent just late last year, while 40 per cent lose sleep over how to make their paycheque last.
That is having a real impact at the grocery checkout. Just in Ontario’s Waterloo Region, there are some 26,000 children in food-insecure households, as the Calgary Food Bank reports that seniors are nearly three times more likely than the general population to access their services.
While the government has announced and re-announced food affordability measures multiple times since 2016, grocery prices have continued to rise by nearly 40 per cent since the Liberals took power, and up 3.8 per cent in April alone year-over-year.
No wonder StatsCan found that Canadian household debt outstripped incomes for six consecutive quarters. And after CTV reported earlier this week that carpool lots have become a home for former renters who can’t afford the cost of housing, they found a 87-year-old British Columbian forced to sleep at Tim Hortons after his pension failed to cover rent.
That’s why Conservatives fight every day to end wasteful spending, cut bureaucracy, restore accountability and replace Liberal failures with results for Canadian workers, seniors and families.