Groceries in Trudeau’s Canada are so expensive that they’re driving up the poverty rate
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The seemingly ever rising food prices come amid Trudeau’s ongoing carbon tax, which has been projected to cost farmers $1 billion by 2030.
(LifeSiteNews) — Groceries in Canada have become so expensive that Canada’s poverty rate is expected to rise this spring.
According to a Department of Social Development briefing note published January 11 by Blacklock’s Reporter, the poverty rate in Canada is expected to rise this spring thanks to a 14 percent increase in food prices across the country this year.
“The rising cost of food will be reflected in Canada’s poverty rates,” the note said. “As food prices increase poverty thresholds are likely to follow.”
“This could impact poverty rates in Canada in the coming years,” it warned. “The impact of high inflation will be reflected in poverty statistics for 2022 expected to be released in the spring of 2024.”
While Canada’s tax-free Canada Child Benefit to help struggling families served to lower national poverty rates from 14.5 percent in 2016 to as low as 6.5 percent in 2020, the rising food prices are driving the poverty rate back up to 7.4 percent in 2021.
According to the briefing note, an estimated 13 percent of Canadians have “food insecurity” compared to 11 percent in 2020.
“Marginal food insecurity captures worry about running out of food or limited food selection due to a lack of money,” said the note. “Moderate insecurity captures compromises in the quality or quantity of food due to lack of money; severe food insecurity captures missed meals, reduced food intake and at the most extreme going days without food.”
In a recent report, Statistics Canada revealed that year over year Canadians were paying more for basic groceries. According to their data, prices had increased:
- 6 percent more for potatoes to an average $4.97 per kilogram;
- 7 percent more for stewing beef to $20.48 a kilogram;
- 9 percent more for tea to $4.39 per 20 bags;
- 11 percent more for canned tuna to $1.82 per 170 gram can;
- 12 percent more for carrots to $3.65 per 1.4 kilogram bag;
- 14 percent more for hamburger to $11.72 a kilogram;
- 15 percent more for baby food to $1.64 per 128 millilitre jar;
- 18 percent more for peanut butter to $6.27 per one kilogram jar;
- 19 percent more for orange juice to $4.70 per two litre jug;
- 20 percent more for baby formula to $41.16 per 900 grams;
- 27 percent more for white sugar to $2.92 per two kilogram bag.
However, the news should not be surprising to Canadians considering a December report which estimated that food costs for a family of four in Canada will increase by $700 in 2024 amid the ongoing carbon tax and rising inflation.
At the time, Canadian Taxpayer Federation Director Franco Terrazzano told LifeSiteNews, “The carbon tax makes grocery prices more expensive.”